Review of Nightmares #36 | Storm Front (The Dresden Files #1) by Jim Butcher

Book info:
Storm Front (The Dresden Files #1) by Jim Butcher | 322 pages/8.5 hours | Published April 2000 by Penguin ROC | Urban fantasy, adult, mystery, paranormal, magic

Summary:
Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment.

Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he's the only at what he does. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal creativity or capability, they come to him for answers. For the "everyday" world is actually full of strange and magical things—and most don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in. Takes a wizard to catch a—well, whatever. There's just one problem. Business, to put it mildly, stinks.

So when the police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with black magic, Harry's seeing dollar signs. But where there's black magic, there's a black mage behind it. And now that mage knows Harry's name. And that's when things start to get interesting.

Magic - it can get a guy killed.
My thoughts:
Read July 30-August 2, 2017 | 4 stars

RBD Review #11 | The Coldest Girl in Cold Town by Holly Black

Book info:
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black | 422 pages | Published 2013 | Teen, Fantasy, Paranormal, Vampires, Horror

Summary:
Coldtown was dangerous, Tana knew. A glamorous cage, a prison for the damned and anyone who wanted to party with them.
Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. And once you pass through Coldtown's gates, you can never leave.
One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself (Goodreads).

My thoughts:
Read March 29-31, 2016 | 4.5 stars (5 on GR)

First Official Blog: HOW DO I DO THIS?!

Hi, everyone! This is my first ever legit blog post. I mainly use tumblr and I finally decided I needed to buckle down and start to review in a "real" blog. For the first few weeks, I'm going to be transferring all of my book reviews to here. Not just links, but whole posts, along with updating the reviews in the process. 

I have no clue what I'm supposed to blog about, so I'm just going to wing it.I guess we should start with some introductions.  I'm Allie. I'm 26, a Hufflepuff, library employee, and fiercely (but somewhat quietly) feminist. I love YA fiction, Urban Fantasy, Literary Fiction, Memoirs and Biographies, and most of all, Horror.

I started low-key book-blogging on tumblr in February this year as a way to keep up on critical writing and thinking until I go back to school, but it turns out I kinda like it. I've been working on keeping my tumblr busy, but I'm very bad at posting original content, mostly because I don't know where to start. I thought it was high time I gave real blogging a chance. 

I'll mostly be posting book reviews, but I'm going to work on some recommendation posts and updating the progress on the teen displays I do at my library. I do them monthly but work on them for a long time before it's time to put them up.

Since I started in the booklr community, I stumbled upon a Discord server that's focused on books and reading. I lurked for a few days, and finally introduced myself. Now I've got a whole host of book-loving friends! If you're interested in joining or would like to learn more, please check out my friend Lauren's post over at Booksandtea about our chat, and come say hi! Someone is always around and we have tons of read-a-longs and read-a-thons, and even traveling book projects going on all the time. Honestly, this server is one of the best things to happen to me this year. 

I think I'm going to schedule to post twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays starting today, with the first book review I ever wrote. Keep in mind, I'll be updating them a little while I make the transition from tumblr to here, so don't be upset with my if they're late or off schedule in the beginning. While I'm moving all the old reviews here, I'll also be writing and scheduling new reviews and posts (moving all the old posts here is just to give me time to come up with content XD). 

If you have any suggestions for things you'd like to see, please let me know, I'm very very open to suggestions!

Feel free to check me out at the usual places!!
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Thanks for reading,
-A