TMST

 

 

Tell Me Something Tuesday is a weekly discussion post where bloggers discuss a wide range of topics from books and blogging to life in general. Weigh in and join the conversation by adding your thoughts in the comments. If you want to do your own post, grab the question and answer it on your blog. Feel free to leave your links in the comments if you are participating,

12/23/2025 What's a song that always makes you want to dance?

Today I danced to xmas songs, so I would say that some of those to make me want to dance. As for others, honestly anything you can dance to if the mood takes me.

12/30/2025 What are your favorite books/audiobooks that you read in 2025? 

Tell Me Something Tuesday is a weekly discussion post where bloggers discuss a wide range of topics from books and blogging to life in general. Weigh in and join the conversation by adding your thoughts in the comments. If you want to do your own post, grab the question and answer it on your blog. Feel free to leave your links in the comments if you are participating.

If you are interested in participating in TMST or receiving periodic emails that list the upcoming TMST topics and questions,  please fill out this GOOGLE FORM.  Participation is optional and never required.

2026 Romance Reading Bingo Challenge

 

Hosted by: Blodeuedd @ Book Girl of Mur-y-Castell Jen @ That's What I'm Talking About Carole @ Carole Rae's Random Ramblings

We are doing it again in 2026! It's the Romance Reading Bingo Challenge (#RRBC2026), hosted by Carole, Linda, and Jen! The challenge is to read a book and check the boxes.

List of Challenges (Romance books):

• Re-read
• Wedding trope
• Wallflower/Ugly Duckling
• Office romance
• Blind Date/Arranged Marriage
• Number in the title
• Cat/Dog on the cover
• TBR over 2+ years
• Part of a series you meant to go back to
• Published in 2026
• Duke in the title
• Alien/Cyborg romance
• Secret Royal/Billionaire
• Pink Dress on the cover
• Audiobook with 2+ narrators
• MC Works in the Food Industry
• Non-Regency Historical romance
• Small Town romance
• Second Chance
• Sunset/Sunrise on the cover
• Book starts with same letter as your name
• LGBTQ+
• Necktie on the cover
• Travel / Vacation
• Non-Christmas Holiday

Rules:

• It MUST BE a genre romance book (HFN/HEA).
• One box per book. If your book meets more than one box, you have to pick just one.
• No changing the box. Once you put a book in a box, you can't move it.
• Books can be used in other challenges. (examples: Goodreads, Library Love, TBR, Audiobook, etc.)
• The goal is to get at least one BINGO! (see levels below)
• The challenge runs from January 1 to December 31, 2026.
• You may join whenever.

Bingo Levels: 1 or 2 Bingos: Beginner 3 Bingos: You're getting the hang of this! 4 Bings: Expert Level Entire Sheet: Supreme Ruler of Bingo! If you want to add your blog or Goodreads to the list, click on the linky below. NOTE: You do not have to have a blog or URL to sign up!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

So what level will you try in 2026?

I must admit that I did badly this year, I finally got 1 bingo in November. But I got one!! So better luck in 2026

The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig

Series: The Stonewater Kingdom (#1)

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

Published: May 20, 2025 by Orbit Books

Fantasy/own

I am disappointed. I really enjoyed her dualogy and this one just fell flat for me.

Is this one of those romantasy books that makes no sense. Cos there is no romance here. There are a woman and a man who despise each other, and suddenly at the end they like each other and do it once. No chemistry what so ever. She had more chemistry with the other diviners.

Number 6 lacked personality, they all lacked personality. The only one that had any was the gargoyle.

Knight guy was angry for some reason...that is all I know.

The fantasy was lacking, I did not feel or understand this kingdom. It has to be really tiny...but what is next to it? I felt the world made no sense.

It was rather boring too.

Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum's windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams.

Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude, heretical, and devilishly handsome, the knight Rodrick has no respect for Sybil's visions. But when Sybil's fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one, she has no choice but to seek his help in finding them. For the world outside the cathedral's cloister is wrought with peril. Only the gods have the answers she is seeking, and as much as she'd rather avoid Rodrick's dark eyes and sharp tongue, only a heretic can defeat a god

Audio: His captive lady by Anne Gracie

By: Anne Gracie

Narrated by: Nell Stevenson

Series: Devil Riders, Book 2

Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins

Release date: 12-09-25 by Tantor Media

Historical romance/to review

This one had some darker themes. More reality.

Harry has bought an estate. He is bastard born, but has contact with his father´s family (long story there too.) He sees a woman in the rain and just can´t forget her.

Helen has had it tough. She is an Earl´s daughter, but her dad has gambled away all the money and sold their house. She was also raped and gave birth to a daughter that was taken from her. She has a lot of trauma to deal with and a daughter to find.

She comes to her old house and he is there.  He is fascinated by her and thinks she is too good for him. She obviously has her trauma and can not see that a good man like him wants her.

I wanted the best for these two. He has his own share of trauma growing up a bastard, and she has her own. But they work through it and get to know each other.

There is also a sidestory that seemed to come out of nowhere where a friend of his has his own lovestory in this book. That is a calmer one that gets a happy ending too.

A good love story with more depth.

I felt this narrator fit the story well. She had her voices and I was always there with them in the story

Harry Morant's tough exterior hides a badly scarred heart. The natural son of an earl, high-born ladies have only one use for him—in the bedchamber. Now, after eight years at war, Harry is breeding racehorses and planning a practical, unemotional marriage. But when he buys a new estate, his careful plans are threatened by an unexpected passion for—of all things—an earl's daughter.

Audiobook Challenge 2026

 

I am going for 50+ :D

Challenge Details

• Runs January 1, 2026–December 31, 2026. You can join at any time.
• The goal is to find a new love for audios or to outdo yourself by listening to more audios in 2026 than you did in 2025.
• Books must be in audio format (CD, MP3, etc.)
• All genres count.
• Re-reads and crossovers from other reading challenges are allowed.
• You do not have to be a book blogger to take part; you can track your progress on Goodreads, Facebook, etc. I recommend creating a shelf on Goodreads titled 2026 Audiobook Challenge. You can keep track of and link to the shelf.
• Grab the button and do a quick post about the challenge to help spread the word. You can post on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, BlueSky, Threads, Mastodon, your blog, etc. about the challenge.
• Updates plus a giveaway will be posted twice during the year. The first update will be July 4, 2026, and the last update will take place on December 26, 2026. You’ll have one week to link up and share your progress and enter giveaway.

Achievement Levels

What level will you choose?

• Newbie (I’ll give it a try) 1-5
• Weekend Warrior (I’m getting the hang of this) 5-10
• Stenographer (can listen while multitasking) 10-15
• Socially Awkward (Don’t talk to me) 15-20
• Binge Listener (Why read when someone can do it for you) 20-30
• My Precious (I had my earbuds surgically implanted) 30+
• Marathoner (Look Ma No Hands) 50+
• Over-Achiever (Power Listener) 75+
• The 100 Club (Audiobook Addict) 100+
• I Can’t Hear You (earbuds always in) 125-150
• Audibly Addicted (listening to all the books 24/7) 150+

JIAM is back!

June is Audiobook Month, and we’ll have a special mini-challenge just for the month. Anyone can sign up. You’ll have chances to win audiobooks for finishing an audio series (3 audiobooks), tackling audiobooks from your TBR pile or listening to 3 audiobooks from your library. Sign-ups will post on April 25, 2026!

Midlife Christmas Vigilante by Eve Langlais

By: Eve Langlais

Narrated by: Anne Robert

Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins

Release date: 12-11-25 by Tantor Media

Paranormal romance

Christmas and short, yes thank you.

Our heroine is rather sad, lonely, but she loved her cat! And then some ahole tortured it! Yes she is angry, and the legal system did nothing. So she ends up rather almost dead after a confrontation. Luckily a handsome vampire walked by and thought she had some spirit in her.

And suddenly she is a vampire at 47 and does not believe it to be true. It does take some time for her to get her head around it and soon she is getting back into shape. As the book starts with her doing vigilante stuff 2 years later. Taking down bad guys the cops can´t take down themselves.

Oh and she does find some romance too, some hot romance.

A bloody xmas paranormal romance. They are vampires after all. I enjoyed it. It worked well in audio too. The narrator was good and it was fun listening to.

Just before Christmas my life underwent a major change. And I’m not talking about the fact I hit menopause hard—I mean, we're talking night sweats and hormones gone wild. Nope, it was worse than that. I almost died, and would have actually been six feet under if I'd not been transformed into a vampire.

You heard me right. At the ripe age of forty-seven, I became a blood-guzzling, sunlight-hating, fanged menace with an insatiable appetite. Thankfully, criminals taste delicious.

But the wicked aren't the only people I'm nibbling on this holiday season. When I'm not taking a literal bite out of crime, you will find me unwrapping the handsome vampire who gave me the best present of all.

Love.

TMST

 

 

Tell Me Something Tuesday is a weekly discussion post where bloggers discuss a wide range of topics from books and blogging to life in general. Weigh in and join the conversation by adding your thoughts in the comments. If you want to do your own post, grab the question and answer it on your blog. Feel free to leave your links in the comments if you are participating,

12/16/2025 Have you been disappointed by the end of a series? If so, did you read that author again?

Hm, pretty sure yes, but damn if I remember. If you asked tvshows, then then I could tell you. But yes there must be books too...

Well I was not actually thrilled by the weird epilogue in The Wheel of time series. Everything was just for nothing. And that is the only one I can think of

12/23/2025 What's a song that always makes you want to dance?

12/30/2025 What are your favorite books/audiobooks that you read in 2025? 

Tell Me Something Tuesday is a weekly discussion post where bloggers discuss a wide range of topics from books and blogging to life in general. Weigh in and join the conversation by adding your thoughts in the comments. If you want to do your own post, grab the question and answer it on your blog. Feel free to leave your links in the comments if you are participating.

If you are interested in participating in TMST or receiving periodic emails that list the upcoming TMST topics and questions,  please fill out this GOOGLE FORM.  Participation is optional and never required.

Carole´s Monday: A Lighthouse Cafe Christmas

Author: Jennifer Faye

Title: A Lighthouse Cafe Christmas

Series: Bluestar Island #3

Genre: Contemporary Romance, Novella

Format: ebook

Pages: 184

Published: November 16, 2021

Where I got It: My shelf (Amazon)

Summary: 

As Bluestar Island prepares for a very special Christmas wedding, Santa’s sleigh crashes into The Lighthouse Café, reuniting Bluestar’s beloved waitress with her former fiancé.

In this holiday novella, Darla Evans has carved out a quiet life for herself as a waitress at The Lighthouse Café. Up until this point, she’s conveniently avoided the one man who shattered her heart and her dreams. But when a wedding draws him back to the island, she knows their meetup is unavoidable.

Tech entrepreneur William “Will” Campbell has returned to his childhood home to be the best man in his father’s wedding. But first his father has a very special task for him—to restore a sleigh in time for the wedding. However, there’s not much time until Christmas. He just might need some help.

As snowflakes cover the small town of Bluestar, Will and Darla work together to make it a very special holiday wedding. With the past looming between them, will the magic of the season open their hearts and allow them to find love again?

Review:

Continuing on with the series! I've been excited about this one...mainly because of the cover lol. 

Here we have Darla and Will. Darla has been living a nice and simple and quiet life as a waitress. She has successfully avoided Will since he broke her heart years ago. However, there is a wedding coming and she knows Will will be there. Will is back to be the best man at his father's wedding. His father has tasked him to restore a sleigh for the wedding. There isn't much time, so he will need some help. Will and Darla must work together but their past is looming around them. Will the magic of the season help erase the old hurts and let them try again?

Oh no. I am in the minority here...............

I didn't really like this one. I struggled to like Darla or Will. I struggled to care. I think it would've been better if they just stayed friends. 

I managed to push through because I was curious to see how they would fix everything (sleigh and their broken hearts). I also have liked the series up until now so I was hopeful it would eventually suck me in. 

Sadly......not for me. But I love the cover!

2 stars from me.

 

Audio: Wild country by Anne Bishop

By: Anne Bishop

Narrated by: Alexandra Harris

Series: The World of the Others, Book 2

Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins

Release date: 03-05-19 by Penguin Audio

Fantasy/own

Re.listen Nov 2025

I do love The Others, but I always have some tiny issues with this Bennet book. Because we already know some of the story from previous books. it feels so filler.

Still that scene with Kane gets me every time, and the end in the jail cell. Breaks my heart. I am all for eating all the bad guys. Bad humans!

There are ghost towns in the world—places where the humans were annihilated in retaliation for the slaughter of the shape-shifting Others.

One of those places is Bennett, a town at the northern end of the Elder Hills—a town surrounded by the wild country. Now efforts are being made to resettle Bennett as a community where humans and Others live and work together. A young female police officer has been hired as the deputy to a Wolfgard sheriff. A deadly type of Other wants to run a human-style saloon. And a couple with four foster children—one of whom is a blood prophet—hope to find acceptance.

But as they reopen the stores and the professional offices and start to make lives for themselves, the town of Bennett attracts the attention of other humans looking for profit. And the arrival of the Blackstone Clan, outlaws and gamblers all, will uncover secrets…or bury them.

Audio: Roots of my fears

Narrated by Manish Dongardive, Mieko Gavia, Mela Lee, Alejandro Ruiz

Publication date Dec 2, 2025 by Tantor Media

Running time 9 hrs

Horror/to review

Lamb had a Little Mary by Elena Sichrovsky

It started with a weird one, about a Lamb who had a little Mary. Mary who was clearly human, but what was lamb?

The House that Gabriel Built by Nuzo Onoh

This is the only one of these that I truly remember because the beginning is really really disturbing. Like ewwwww.

And then we get to the freaky house...

The Faces at Pine Dunes by Ramsey Campbell

A young man thinks his parents are strange...they do seem to be

In Silence, In Dying, In Dark by Caleb Weinhardt

One of Those Girls by Premee Mohamed

A girl finds out she is pregnant and does not want to be

Juracan by Gabino Iglesias

A hurrican is coming, and something is coming with it...

The Saint in the Mountain by Nadia El-Fassi

A girl gets her period and is taking to the mountains. Where something creepy lives...

Crepuscular by Hailey Piper

Laal Andhi by Usman T. Malik

The Woods by Erica T. Wurth

A stop at a strange hotel

Unsewn by Ai Jiang

A woman is trying for a son as she has been told to get, but she births only daughters. Sad how the world can be

To Forget and Be Forgotten by Adam Nevill

A security guards learns some secrets about creepy old people

The Veteran by V. Castro

End of the world, alcoholic veteran finds a purpose. Interesting world.

Chalk Bones by Sarah Deacon

Creepy end, ohhh. Nicely done there. This might be my favorite.

Lots of horror, fold legends and strangeness going on. Some I remember more, some less.  I am always bad with remembering names too, so some stories did not get written about. All the creepiness sort of bled into each other.

More creepy than horror. All those tales of old, what could be out there. Not very xmassy of me reading this one right now. A bit of freaky stuff in December for me.

It had several narrators and they did a good job with their stories. They own had their own accents and gave it a real good experience.

It's a bedtime story, ancient family lore, a secret passed down from generation to generation. Stories that have deep dark roots, ever-growing, ever-creeping.

This anthology explores stories of heritage and horror. The tales we grew up on, hometown rumors and legends.

The things we pass down through our bloodlines

Audio: A theory of dreaming

Release date: 07-29-25

Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins

Publisher: HarperCollins

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Gary Furlong

Fantasy/from spotify

To be honest, my mind managed to drift a lot while listening...like a lot.

It just felt like nothing ever happened. Effy and Preston are at Uni. She finally studies Lit but no one wants her there. She suffers from PTSD and sleeps a lot, but that is the thing this is not her book.

This is Preston´s book, and I was not that interested in when he started dreaming he was some underwater King. I honestly had no idea what was happening. I had to look at book 1 and it seems I was confused there too. But there it worked because I really liked the book and the confusion there was was things real or not. While here I mostly wondered if the country they are at war with is fake France or Scotland.

The narration, I do like Saskia, she is amazing! And her voice fits the story so well. The guy was good too. But not even they could save this story as nothing happens

All stories come to an end.

Effy learned that when she defeated the Fairy King. Even though she may never know exactly what happened at Hiraeth, she is free of her nightmares and is able to pen a thesis with Preston on the beloved national fairy tale Angharad. She has finally earned a spot at the literature college, making her the first woman in history to enroll.

But some dreams are dangerous, especially when they come true. The entire university—and soon the entire nation—is waiting for her to fail. With the Fairy King defeated and Myrddin’s legacy exposed, Effy can no longer escape into fantasy. Who is she without her stories?

With Effy under threat, Preston is surprised to discover a rage simmering inside him, ringing in his ears like bells. He begins to dream of a palace under the sea, a world where he is king—visions that start to follow him even in waking.

As the war between Llyr and Argant explodes, Effy and Preston find themselves caught in the crossfire: Effy losing her dreams and Preston losing himself in his.

Are dreams ever truly just dreams?

TMST

 

 

Tell Me Something Tuesday is a weekly discussion post where bloggers discuss a wide range of topics from books and blogging to life in general. Weigh in and join the conversation by adding your thoughts in the comments. If you want to do your own post, grab the question and answer it on your blog. Feel free to leave your links in the comments if you are participating.

12/9/2025 Which superpower do you wish you had?

Oh this is hard. Time travel would be so cool!!! Maybe some healing powers so I could cure people...ok I am staying with that. Sure it would be fun to visit places, to have money to buy tons of books. But healing powers would be amazing and would benefit others too. I must be getting old.

12/16/2025 Have you been disappointed by the end of a series? If so, did you read that author again?

12/23/2025 What's a song that always makes you want to dance?

12/30/2025 What are your favorite books/audiobooks that you read in 2025? 

Tell Me Something Tuesday is a weekly discussion post where bloggers discuss a wide range of topics from books and blogging to life in general. Weigh in and join the conversation by adding your thoughts in the comments. If you want to do your own post, grab the question and answer it on your blog. Feel free to leave your links in the comments if you are participating.

If you are interested in participating in TMST or receiving periodic emails that list the upcoming TMST topics and questions,  please fill out this GOOGLE FORM.  Participation is optional and never required.

Carole´s Monday: A Christmas Truce

Author: Emma Bennet

Narrator: Stephanie Racine
Title: A Christmas Truce

Genre: Chick Lit, Contemporary Romance
Format: Audiobook
Published: October 20, 2023
Where I Got It: Audible

Summary: 

Photographer Libby just got fired. Again . Then she gets home early to find her boyfriend in bed with another woman. And just like that, her dreams of a Christmas Day proposal are shattered.

Libby lands a new job as a personal assistant to enigmatic businessman Seth Coleman. He’s terse and demanding — it’s no wonder Libby keeps messing up.

Then one day an adorable Golden Retriever puppy is delivered to the house. As Libby helps Seth train Barney, she realizes that there’s a surprisingly sweet side to this CEO . . .

But everything goes wrong when Libby finds out that Seth’s company just bought the community centre where they’ve been training Barney. It’s not only puppy classes, it’s a lifeline for the whole village. Libby is devastated when Seth says it’s ‘just business’. So she packs her bags.

Until disaster strikes and Libby is forced to spend her favourite time of the year with a man who doesn’t even own tinsel. It’s up to Libby to bring some much-needed Christmas spirit. Starting with a truce, since they’re going to be stuck together whether they like it or not.

But Libby might just find magic under the mistletoe after all if she can encourage Seth to open his heart to Christmas . . .

Review:

Randomly stumbled upon this little number, and it was short and Christmas-y...so why not?

Here, we follow Libby, who simply can't catch a break. She has just been fired...again...and found out her boyfriend has been cheating on her. Christmas is around the corner! What can she do? She is in luck...she lands a nice assistant job to a famous businessman, Seth. Catch is she has to live onsite and deal with his grumpy and particular ways. One day, he buys a dog without a warning to Libby. She teams up with Seth to train this dog. Could this dog change the overly serious and grumpy Seth? Maybe, just maybe, there will be a Christmas miracle.

This was very sweet. Seth is for sure a grump, but he has a heart of gold. He donates a lot of money and does a lot for his staff. I loved Seth, and I got his mindset about buying the community center. It was up for sale, so why not?

Libby is super judgey and not reliable. She seems like a nice girl, but damn she is ready to quit after EVERYTHING. Like, dude. Nothing is perfect...grow up. She really needed to grow up seriously. I'm obviously not Team Libby.

BUT I did like that Libby and Seth are super flawed, and they seem to balance each other out really well. It was lovely seeing them find a balance professionally and then personally. Their Christmas hangout was sweet.

BARNEY was the true star of the show. Loved that lil puppers.

The narrator was alright. All the girl voices sounded the same, and all the guy voices sounded the same, so you have to really pay attention.

In the end, I did enjoy this. Some moments made me roll my eyes, but it was a nice holiday read. I'll give this 4 stars.

 Challenge(s):

- Audiobook #60

Audio: Lake Silence

Narrated by: Alexandra Harris

Series: The Others (Bishop), Book 6, The World of the Others, Book 1

Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins

Release date: 03-06-18 by Penguin Audio

Fantasy/own

Relisten November 2025

I LOVE this spin off too. Vicky is the best. I still just want to hug her. i love the good men in her life, and I loathe her ex.

If you haven´t yet, then do start these books

Human laws do not apply in the territory controlled by the Others--vampires, shapeshifters, and paranormal beings even more deadly. And this is a fact that humans should never, ever forget . . .

After her divorce, Vicki DeVine took over a rustic resort near Lake Silence--in a human town that is not human controlled. Towns like Vicki's have no distance from the Others, the dominant predators that rule most of the land and all of the water throughout the world. And when a place has no boundaries, you never really know what's out there watching you.

Vicki was hoping to find a new career and a new life. But when her lodger, Aggie Crowe--one of the shapeshifting Others--discovers a dead body, Vicki finds trouble instead. The detectives want to pin the man's death on her, despite the evidence that nothing human could have killed the victim. As Vicki and her friends search for answers, things get dangerous--and it'll take everything they have to stay alive.

Emily Wilde´s Map of the Otherworld

Series: Emily Wilde (#2)

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Published: January 9, 2024 by Orbit

Fantasy/own

I liked book 1 more, that one was cozy and just had the right feel. This one, it felt a little book 2 syndrome for me. I just could not get lost in it like I did with book 1. It was still good, but lacked some magic.

Emily goes to Austria to find a door to Wendell´s fairy kingdom. Her new romantic interest. Who happens to be Fae, and whose kingdom was stolen from him.

In a small Alpine village they encounter dangerous fairies, meet friendly locals and search for two missing professors.

It was good, fun, but some sort of magic from book 1 was lost for me. i hope I find it again in book 3.

When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wilde must uncover their secrets before it’s too late in this heartwarming, enchanting second installment of the Emily Wilde series.

 

Emily Wilde is a genius scholar of faerie folklore—she just wrote the world’s first comprehensive of encylopaedia of faeries. She’s learned many of the secrets of the Hidden Folk on her adventures . . . and also from her fellow scholar and former rival, Wendell Bambleby.

 

Because Bambleby is more than infuriatingly charming. He’s an exiled faerie king on the run from his murderous mother, and in search of a door back to his realm. So despite Emily’s feelings for Bambleby, she’s not ready to accept his proposal of Loving one of the Fair Folk comes with secrets and danger.

 

And she also has a new project to focus a map of the realms of faerie. While she is preparing her research, Bambleby lands her in trouble yet again, when assassins sent by Bambleby’s mother invade Cambridge. Now Bambleby and Emily are on another adventure, this time to the picturesque Austrian Alps, where Emily believes they may find the door to Bambley’s realm, and the key to freeing him from his family’s dark plans.

 

But with new relationships for the prickly Emily to navigate and dangerous Folk lurking in every forest and hollow, Emily must unravel the mysterious workings of faerie doors, and of her own heart.

Best of November

 

Here are the best of the bests for November!!!! 

Best Book of the Month:

Blodeuedd - Lake Silence by Anne Bishop

"You know, yes I will choose my re-listen! Best book!"

Carole -  A Rip Through Time by Kelley Armstrong

"This was so unexpectedly good. I loved it! Def the best book!"

Best Movie of the Month:

Carole -  Nuremberg (2025)

"Blew my mind. So good."

Blodeuedd - Various Xmas movies

"No time for any other movies than Hallmark Xmas movies. It is the season. So these are not the ones I have watched. I just watch them all"

Best TV show of the Month:

Blodeuedd - Haunted Hotel (s1)

"I watched this one...I am sure there is another one I am forgetting too."

Carole - The Rookie (s7)

"I honestly forgot about this gem. We got back into s7. Nearly done...just a couple episodes left but it was the best of the month."

Best Cover of the Month:

Blodeuedd's pick

 

Carole's pick

TMST

 

 

Tell Me Something Tuesday is a weekly discussion post where bloggers discuss a wide range of topics from books and blogging to life in general. Weigh in and join the conversation by adding your thoughts in the comments. If you want to do your own post, grab the question and answer it on your blog. Feel free to leave your links in the comments if you are participating.

12/2/2025 What underrated books or authors would you recommend?

I have no idea. Sometimes when people ask this others recommend books that I think are famous. But underrated.....

Is Elly Griffiths underrated? Because her mystery books are amazing!

Also when I look at ratings, well Heartstrikers does not have as many as others, so maybe those since they are aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawesome.

12/9/2025 Which superpower do you wish you had?

12/16/2025 Have you been disappointed by the end of a series? If so, did you read that author again?

12/23/2025 What's a song that always makes you want to dance?

12/30/2025 What are your favorite books/audiobooks that you read in 2025? 

Tell Me Something Tuesday is a weekly discussion post where bloggers discuss a wide range of topics from books and blogging to life in general. Weigh in and join the conversation by adding your thoughts in the comments. If you want to do your own post, grab the question and answer it on your blog. Feel free to leave your links in the comments if you are participating.

If you are interested in participating in TMST or receiving periodic emails that list the upcoming TMST topics and questions,  please fill out this GOOGLE FORM.  Participation is optional and never required.

Carole´s Monday: Dime store Magic

Author: Kelley Armstrong

Title: Dime Store Magic

Series: Otherworld #3

Genre: Paranormal Romance, UF, Fantasy

Format: ebook

Pages: 448

Published: February 10, 2004

Where I got It: Library

Summary: 

Paige Winterbourne was always either too young or too rebellious to succeed her mother as leader of one of the world's most powerful elite organizations- the American Coven of Witches. Now that she is twenty-three and her mother is dead, the Elders can no longer deny her. But even Paige's wildest antics can't hold a candle to those of her new charge- an orphan who is all too willing to use her budding powers for evil... and evil is all too willing to claim her. For this girl is being pursued by a dark faction of the supernatural underworld. They are a vicious group who will do anything to woo the young, malleable, and extremely powerful neophyte, including commit murder- and frame Paige for the crime. It's an initiation into adulthood, womanhood, and the brutal side of magic that Paige will have to do everything within her power to make sure they both survive.

Review:

I put this series on hold yeeeaaaaaarrrrsss ago. I can't remember the precise reason, but I do remember being cautious because the series switched from our clan of werewolves to this witch lady. I get nervous when series do that. 

But yes, we are back in the Otherworld. We follow Paige who no one thinks is good enough to replace her mother one day as the leader of the American Coven of Witches. That one day has arrived and the Elders can no longer deny her. However, things will take a nose-dive when her new charge is presented. This orphan is all too willing to use her budding powers for evil and she is being pursued by a dark faction. Will Paige be able to save her charge and bring her back to the light? Or will darkness consume her. 

Overall, I did enjoy this for what it was. It was nice coming back to this world but I didn't recognize any from the first two books. I mean...it has been years and maybe there was an old face I didn't recall. But I missed our wolves. Witches are fun, but I do prefer wolves and vamps. 

Paige was kinda meh to me. Boring and predictable. I've seen her kind a million times. By the end I was amused with her, but still....meh. 

Savannah was annoying. I get it. She had a tough life and the darkness seems like an easy way. I wanted to smack her. 

Cortez was meh. Boring as well. I couldn't even remember his name. I had to look at another review to remind myself. 

The drama and fights were fun....I will say that. 

In the end, this was just okay. Not my favorite group of heroes. I miss the old crew. 3 stars. 

 Challenge(s):

- Library Love #31