It really is here again, Autumn. Oh it makes me so happy just writing that.
The crisp cool mornings, I truly feel more alive when I am not sweating every time I step outside. The fact that it is the season of long walks in leggings and a sweatshirt is more than enough to have me feeling giddy.
Fall to me is like a hug. My favorite sweatshirts come out, pretty decor goes up, a warm cup of coffee makes you feel all fuzzy inside and my favorite cozy blankets and best of all? My reading gets all the more fun. AND!? Yes, there’s more. Gilmore Girls goes on in the background.
The kids and I were outside this week and I glanced up and noticed our tree’s changing. I know it happens every year but it just takes my breath away every time. Anyone else? Nature truly is beautiful and I am so happy I live in a place where I experience all the season’s.
What are your Fall plans?
I’ve been thinking of mine and I really want to try to make it to all the small festivals around here for the kids and even for myself. Make lots of cozy delicious crock pot recipes. There is also a book event in October that I am extremely looking forward to.
Anything you are excited to read?
I have a lot of romantasy and regular fantasy on my list for the cooler weather, plus some thriller’s as well and of course have to throw in a couple cutesy reads. My big one I think I am going to start though later in the season and attempt to read is the Zodiac Academy series. I am so nervous about it but I think it will be worth it in the end! Has any one read it? Let me know!
I just hope we all have a lovely new season. I know life can be overwhelming at times, but I just hope you know you are never alone and just try to enjoy the little moments as much as you can. When you are walking, look up and enjoy the beauty around you. When you are at home, crack open a book you’ve been wanting to read lately and make yourself a nice warm drink. Enjoy the presence of your loved ones. Enjoy all the joys your kids bring you. Just enjoy it all.
Let me know what you are most looking forward to for the Fall season, I’d love to chat with you! As always, thanks for stopping by and hanging out with me.
I know, I know you see it all over every social media platform and have probably read a million reviews and seen a million reels on this series but you know what? I can’t NOT write a review on these books.
I always wanted to gain the courage to dive into fantasy, I am a true romance junkie and love my smutty scenes and book boyfriends so A Court of Thorns and Roses series was recommended to me to start off with…
I know it’s not full on fantasy but you know what? I AM HOOKED.
My goodness I have never been so sucked into a series before that made real life just seemed so bland. Like I would literally run away to live in Prythian.
So of course I couldn’t resist a mini review on each book because this series really is going to stick with me for a long time. This will be fun because I wrote these right after reading each book and I know it will be fun to watch my thoughts change 😉
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Holy cow, running to read the second book!
I am HOOKED.
So much danger, intensity and 🔥🔥🔥. Particularly Tamlin. Oh how I loved Tamlin.
Feyre was such a strong female character and I found myself gasping at times and rooting for her so so hard. There is nothing like finding a female mc that you just want to see her conquer the whole damn world.
I just loved everything about this, the land, the creatures just the whole world and I am so happy to dive into more of this series and a taste of the fantasy land.
I have seen so much about this and wasn’t sure if the hype would live up but I am only on book one and I have to say Sarah J Maas, you have me trapped in your writing spell!
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First of all, if I could give more than five stars I would. I so would because it deserves so much more than that.
This book has ruined me in the best way possible…I think this will be the biggest book hangover I have ever had even though I can read the next in the series I just know. I KNOW nothing will compare to this. Maybe ever.
I don’t think I will ever love two characters together more than Rhys and Feyre.
I just, I don’t even have words! This book had me in a choke hold.
I am so incredibly happy I finally decided to give in and pick this series up. I can already tell it’s one I am going to re read more than once and that just makes me so happy to have found true treasures.
But this particular book? A Court of Mist and Fury was absolutely intoxicating. I savored it as long as I could.
Lust.
Magic.
Danger.
Friendship.
I LOVED IT. Rhys is like my biggest book crush ever, more like book husband. Defiantly book husband and I honestly cannot wait for more.
Tamlin who!?????
Still caught in your trap of works Sarah J Maas and absolutely loving it.
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These characters, oh my goodness I am just so hooked on all of these characters. ALL OF THEM!
Talk about intense though! I think my heart leapt out of my chest in some parts of A Court of Wings and Ruin and my nails defiantly took the wrath of my nervousness.
I could not put it down once again and I just keep wanting more! More, more, more of everyone’s story because they are all finding a way into my heart, maybe not Nesta….yet?
This world and this writing is really getting me excited to read more fantasy. I find myself thinking of Prythian more than once in my everyday life and that’s just what I love about good books. They suck you in and don’t let go and I am defiantly not ready to let go.
If you have not read this series yet, DO IT!!!!
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I thought this was such a nice refresh from all the intensity you were left with after reading A Court of Wings and Ruin. I loveeeeee me some Rhys and Feyre so I was happy to get more of just them being a couple, I am a total hopeless romantic at heart.
Rhys is just so 🔥🔥🔥
Also I loved the other POV’s coming into focus, I think that was my favorite!
But I am ready to jump into Nesta’s story, bring it on!
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I can’t lie about being nervous going into A Court of Silver and Flames because Nesta… if you know, you know.
Talk about a character transformation and I was here for it. Nesta’s defensiveness is frustrating for sure and there were times I wanted to jump into this book and shake her and say “WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?” but overall I finally understood her and understood why she was the way she was and I couldn’t help but do a fist bump once we finally clicked and I was rooting for her!
Let’s talk about something though…..the 🔥🔥🔥 in this book was unreal, I was not expecting it even though I knew the spice had to be good because It’s Cassian and you can just tell. I was here for it though and I loveddddd every spicy part!
Also, the bat boys have for sure nestled their way into my heart.
I was so satisfied with every aspect of A Court of Silver and Flames but again it just leaves me wanting more. I read this so slowly because I was truly not ready to say goodbye to these characters, they are so special and I really hope we get more because I just need another book!
Fun little tid bit about me, I am a total book worm. Before having my kids, any free time I had usually consisted of writing and reading. My favorite hobbies by far and every chance I get, my nose is in a book.
Tell me if you can relate but I feel like whenever you finish a really good book, sometimes you are just at a loss. You connect so well with the characters, you go through their journey with them and then just like that, it’s all over and you feel like you just lost a friend.
Books to me are so powerful, I love all the emotions you can get just from reading one book. You can laugh with the characters, you can cry with them and feel their pain and their heartbreak. There’s nothing better to me than an emotional book, I am a sucker for them. Books to me are like my safe haven. Ever since I was little if I just wanted to get away or just clear my mind from whatever was going on, my first instinct was to grab my favorite book and curl up and get lost in it. I love the connection it gives you, it takes your mind right to where the author decided you should be.
“When reading, we don’t fall in love with the characters appearance. We fall in love with their words, their thoughts, and their hearts. We fall in love with their souls.”
Another confession, I’ve always wished I had the talent and creativity to create a story that the reading world would love, to connect your readers to the characters you have fallen so in love with as you’ve created them and come to know them. That has to be the best reward as an author, to listen to your readers feedback. To find out who their favorite characters were, or what book boyfriend they love the most (we all have one!) I love when I find a book and find out the author actually cried while writing it, just the emotional bond we all find with books is amazing to me.
“We lose ourselves in books, we find ourselves there too.”
We book lovers feel emotions like no other, in the way we interpret words, in the way that our hearts and mind follow whatever story we are into. I love finding characters who relate to what i’m feeling, just like when you hear a song that just tells your story, some characters just tell our own stories so well in their own words. Let’s keep connecting and keep feeling every chance we get, I will always find my safe haven in a good ol’ book.
I really hope my kids find a love for books. Right now they really love them and learning new things from each book they have which as a mom and as a bookworm, makes me so happy!
There is just so much to love about Fall. There’s cozy sweaters, the start of sweatpants weather.
Movies watched under your favorite blanket and candles smelling up your house.
The leaves are changing and the air is getting colder and you know what makes it so much better?
Snuggling up with a book that keeps you hooked from page one!
I absolutely love reading, especially during Fall and Winter. So I thought I would share with you the books that have kept me hooked from the start in hopes that you will love them too!
Plus my little one-year-old already loves flipping through books, so read until the end to see the Fall books I picked up for bub this season! I can’t wait to snuggle up with him and read them 🙂
Let’s get started with my Fall reading list for both you and the kiddo’s!
A 5-Star read for me! By far my favorite thriller of 2020.
Marin had the perfect life. Married to her college sweetheart, she owns a chain of upscale hair salons, and Derek runs his own company. They’re admired in their community and are a loving family. Up until the day Sebastian is taken.
A year later, Marin is a shadow of herself. The FBI search has gone cold. The publicity has faded. She and her husband rarely speak. The only thing keeping her going is the unlikely chance that one day Sebastian reappears. She hires a P.I. to pick up where the police left off, but instead of finding him, she discovers that Derek is having an affair with a younger woman.
Kenzie Li is an artist and grad student—Instagram famous—and up to her eyeballs in debt. She knows Derek is married. She also knows he’s rich, and dating him comes with perks: help with bills, trips away, expensive gifts. He isn’t her first rich boyfriend, but she finds herself hoping he’ll be the last. She’s falling for him—and that was never part of the plan.
Discovery of the affair sparks Marin back to life. She’s lost her son; she’s not about to lose her husband, too. Kenzie is an enemy with a face, which means this is a problem Marin can fix. But as she sets a plan in motion, another revelation surfaces. Derek’s lover might know what happened to their son. And so might Derek.
If you haven’t read a Ruth Ware book yet then you need to, especially during the chilly months!
When she stumbles across the ad, she’s looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss—a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten—by the luxurious “smart” home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family.
What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare—one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder.
Writing to her lawyer from prison, she struggles to explain the unravelling events that led to her incarceration. It wasn’t just the constant surveillance from the cameras installed around the house, or the malfunctioning technology that woke the household with booming music, or turned the lights off at the worst possible time. It wasn’t just the girls, who turned out to be a far cry from the immaculately behaved model children she met at her interview. It wasn’t even the way she was left alone for weeks at a time, with no adults around apart from the enigmatic handyman, Jack Grant.
It was everything.
She knows she’s made mistakes. She admits that she lied to obtain the post, and that her behavior toward the children wasn’t always ideal. She’s not innocent, by any means. But, she maintains, she’s not guilty—at least not of murder. Which means someone else is.
Bravo Megan Goldin! Another 5-Star read for me this year!
After the first season of her true crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall is now a household name―and the last hope for thousands of people seeking justice. But she’s used to being recognized for her voice, not her face. Which makes it all the more unsettling when she finds a note on her car windshield, addressed to her, begging for help.
The small town of Neapolis is being torn apart by a devastating rape trial. The town’s golden boy, a swimmer destined for Olympic greatness, has been accused of raping a high school student, the beloved granddaughter of the police chief. Under pressure to make Season Three a success, Rachel throws herself into interviewing and investigating―but the mysterious letters keep showing up in unexpected places. Someone is following her, and she won’t stop until Rachel finds out what happened to her sister twenty-five years ago. Officially, Jenny Stills tragically drowned, but the letters insists she was murdered―and when Rachel starts asking questions, nobody seems to want to answer. The past and present start to collide as Rachel uncovers startling connections between the two cases that will change the course of the trial and the lives of everyone involved.
I love reading Lisa Jewell books in the Fall, she always comes out with a great Thriller!
Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am.
She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London’s fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby’s life is about to change. But what she can’t possibly know is that others have been waiting for this day as well—and she is on a collision course to meet them.
Twenty-five years ago, police were called to 16 Cheyne Walk with reports of a baby crying. When they arrived, they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib in the bedroom. Downstairs in the kitchen lay three dead bodies, all dressed in black, next to a hastily scrawled note. And the four other children reported to live at Cheyne Walk were gone.
It’s autumn in the Big City! Little Elliot and Mouse love the hustle and bustle of the city streets. But sometimes it feels like there are too many people, too many noises–just too much! The best friends decide to get out of town for a vacation in the countryside. There, they’ll discover the sights and smells of autumn in the country. Everything is more fun when shared with a friend!
Beep! Beep! It’s Halloween! Little Blue Truck is picking up his animal friends for a costume party. Lift the flaps in this large, sturdy board book to find out who’s dressed up in each costume! Will Blue wear a costume too? With the delightful rhymes and signature illustration style that made Little Blue Truck a household name, Blue’s new adventure is full of festive costumes, fall colors, and plenty of Halloween fun!
This die-cut board book features adorable art and combines the popular bedtime theme with holiday placement.
Sleepy little Milo, in his oversized pumpkin costume, is making the rounds at the harvest party with his friends. It’s time to go home, but he wants to enjoy every game at the fall fair before the night is over! Crunching leaves, crisp breezes, mountains of sweets―celebrate the abundance of the harvest season through this bedtime book for children. Charming illustrations and a sweet story are perfect for young hearts.
Just writing this post has me so excited to cuddle up with a new book! Do any of the books above interest you? Have you read any of them yet!?
Plus, which book would you choose for your little?
Oh my goodness, look at what Target has out this year! If you get excited about making gingerbread houses like I do every Christmas then wait until you see these haunted house cookie decorating Target has this year for $10.00 and under!
You can find them here. Seriously though, I am obsessed! Which one will you be making this Fall? I am defiantly getting the haunted mansion!
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