Let’s talk about the books we all read together in April!

Unfortunately April was a big bust for me. I DNFd our fantasy pick and didn’t love our thriller pick so let’s discuss…

Fantasy: The Book of Fallen Leaves

This was one of my most highly anticipated new releases for 2026. This was pitched as Game of Thrones meets Shogun which are two of some of my favorite shows of all time (I haven’t read the books). I honestly went in pretty blind other than knowing that pitch. I don’t DNF books this early on EVER but I only got 50pages in and knew this book wasn’t going to be for me. I have since seen very many mixed reviews. The book is very slow and dense and within those 50 pages, I had no idea what was happening and where the story was going. If anyone has finished this book please let me know if you enjoyed it and if it’s worth revisiting!

Thriller: If You Lie

I listened to this book on audio and there wasn’t anything necessarily wrong or bad about this book. I think I went in with too high of expectations first of all because I loved You’ll Never Know by the same author. That book was so fast paced from beginning to end I literally could not put it down! But I found If You Lie to be very slow. It’s not a bad book by any means, however, I haven’t thought about it at all since we finished it and there wasn’t much for me to actually discuss with this one.

Let me know your guys thoughts and make sure to join the discord to discuss!! No worries if you didn’t get to these books in April. You can always message in the dedicated chats for these books in the future if you ever decide to read them.

Happy May everyone! I am SOOO excited for this months fantasy and thriller picks!

For fantasy we will be reading The Bone Ships!! I am genuinly so excited to get into this series, it has been sitting on my shelf for awhile

For thriller, we had a tie so guess we will read both!! So we will be reading Strange Pictures and The Maidens! I will be listening to the maidens on audio :)

Make sure to join the discord that’s linked on my page so we can all discuss! Happy reading 🩷

Hi everyone it is that time to vote for which books we will be reading in May! As always we have 3 fantasy and 3 thriller books to choose from! Voting will end on 4/30

Everyone will have two votes so that you can vote for both genres if you would like

Make sure to join the discord so that we can discuss all our reads!

Happy April everyone!! And since I HATE April fools pranks we are going to skip that and just announce our April reads! I am extra excited for the books that won the polls!

For our fantasy pick we will be reading The Book of Fallen Leaves by A.S. Tamaki

Our thriller pick of the month is If You Lie by Caleb Stephens

Make sure to join my discord so that we can all discuss!

It’s that time of the month to vote for next months book club reads! April is my birthday month, so I always like to read books that I’m anticipating will be new all time favorites!

Each person gets two votes if you wish to vote for both categories. We will have 3 fantasy and 3 thriller books to choose from. Voting will end 3/31!

Happy March everyone!! time to announce the DYSTOPIAN and thriller book we will be reading in March!

Dystopian: DAGGERMOUTH

Thriller: THE MAD WIFE

I am genuinely so excited for both of these reads. Please join my discord so we can hold discussions! I think we will particularly like discussing the newest Internet sensation, Daggermouth.

I will be listening to the Mad Wife on audio!

Time to vote for our March book picks! I unintentionally selected 3 dystopian books instead of fantasy so hopefully everyone will still be interested in these titles! We also have 3 thriller/horror to choose from! Voting will end on 2/28

I read 9 books in January, let’s talk about them! Starting with our bookclub picks

Thriller book picks:

1. Twenty Years Later by Charlie Donlea: 3⭐️ I have been absolutely loving Charlie Donlea lately and they have quickly become one of my new favorite thriller authors. This book is the most popular one of his and honesty I was quite disappointed! Not sure if it was the expectations going into it were too high? It had an interesting premise but I felt it to be a little long and dragged out. And I haven’t thought about this book a single time since I finished. Can’t remember any details honestly. I think there are far stronger books by this author. Let me know if you want a list and breakdown of which books I would recommend!

2. The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens: 4⭐️ another solid thriller read! This one actually really stood out to me and will be a thriller I recommend to many people in the future. I also listened to this one on audio and was very well done. It’s very rare I actually CARE about characters in suspense thrillers/horror books. But I loved the representation in this and how much love the brothers had for eachother. I was absolutely hooked from the very beginning and loved how it ended. It can be predictable but it’s still enjoyable nonetheless!

Fantasy pick: The Devils by Joe Abercrombie

Well… this is a SOFTTTTT dnf for me… so I heard the audiobook was amazing so I tried this on audio. Got to like 30% and realized I didn’t know what was happening what’s so ever 🤪I can see why people love the audiobook narrator. I can FEEL the passion and love the voice actor has for his job but I think for me it was too goofy?????? I can’t exactly pin point it because a part of me was having fun with it but the I realized I wasn’t following AT ALL!! So I think this is one I need to read physically. And I was planning on picking it up right away but then I got accepted to read an ARC on NetGalley that I’m VERY EXCITED ABOUT so I got a little distracted and started that instead. Oops. But I will be trying this out soon!!!

Other non book club reads

1. The Last Word by Taylor Adams: 3.5 ⭐️

2. Ruin by John Gwynne 4.75 ⭐️

3. Wrath by John Gwynne 4.75 ⭐️

4. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 4⭐️

5. It’s Not Her by Mary Kubica 3.5 ⭐️

6. The Surrogate Mother by Freida McFadden 3⭐️

7. Dear Debbie by Freida McFadden 3.5 ⭐️

Happy February everyone!! Here is the fantasy and thriller picks that won the polls! Be sure to join the discord if you want to be involved in discussions

Fantasy: Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent book 1 in the war of lost hearts trilogy (available on Kindle Unlimited)!

Thriller/horror: The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon (I will be listening to this one on audio!