Short N’ Sweet Book Review: Where the Road Leads Us by Robin Reul

Welcome to the Short N’ Sweet Book Review! For the almost nine years that I’ve been reviewing books on this blog, I’ve written long, wordy reviews that, let’s be honest, not a lot of people are probably reading. This year I decided to shorten those reviews and get straight to the point – what is this book about, who wrote it, where you can find and a short review on what I loved, liked and maybe thought could be better.

Today’s review features the sophomore novel from Robin Reul, Where the Road Leads Us. Let’s jump right in!

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Short N’ Sweet Book Review: Everything Within and In Between (ARC) by Nikki Barthelmess

Welcome to the Short N’ Sweet Book Review! For the almost nine years that I’ve been reviewing books on this blog, I’ve written long, wordy reviews that, let’s be honest, not a lot of people are probably reading. This year I decided to shorten those reviews and get straight to the point – what is this book about, who wrote it, where you can find and a short review on what I loved, liked and maybe thought could be better.

Today’s review features a review for a book coming out this October, Everything Within and In Between by Nikki Barthelmess!

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Short N’ Sweet Book Review: The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Welcome to the Short N’ Sweet Book Review! For the almost nine years that I’ve been reviewing books on this blog, I’ve written long, wordy reviews that, let’s be honest, not a lot of people are probably reading. This year I decided to shorten those reviews and get straight to the point – what is this book about, who wrote it, where you can find and a short review on what I loved, liked and maybe thought could be better.

Today’s review features a fun rom-com centered around Seattle public radio – The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon!

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Blog Tour Spotlight: Where the Road Leads Us by Robin Reul {Giveaway and Road Trip Playlist!}

“A beautiful, tender and thoughtful meditation on finding your way.”

—Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star

I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited to be a part of this blog tour today, hosted by MTMC Tours. Just two days ago, Where the Road Leads Us by the wonderful Robin Reul released through Sourcebooks Fire and I am SOOOOO excited that it is finally here. Robin and I were debut authors together and she is such a wonderful, amazing person and a fantastic author. I’ve been anxiously awaiting her sophomore novel. The cover is absolutely gorgeous and I know that I’m in for a super fun ride that will also probably absolutely destroy my emotions. Let’s do this –

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Things and Places I Can’t Wait to Do and See Once Covid is (Mostly) Over!

It feels like we’ve been in this pandemic for most of my life, which is saying something because I’m 33 years old and I’ve had a lot of life so far. Last year started off SO great, and right after an epic trip to Seattle, the world shut down and its basically been like that since. I’ve done a few things as we’ve gotten the vaccine out more and opened things up and loosened restrictions but there are still things that I SUPER miss doing right now, either because we still can’t do them OR I just don’t feel comfortable with it yet.

Its been a year and things ARE getting better, painfully, slowly, and I’m vaccinated which gives me a huge sense of relief and it makes me think we are closer than ever to getting back to…well, relatively normal. I haven’t wanted to THINK too much about the things that I’m missing out on right now because it just makes the quarantine depression worse! But now that we have a light at the end of the tunnel…now I want to talk about all the things I missed doing!

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Top Ten Tuesday – Books I’d Gladly Throw in the Ocean (AKA Books I DNF’d OR Just Plain Disliked)

The Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly challenge post previously hosted by The Broke and Bookish and now hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl. You can follow along for each weekly post here. This week’s topic is about books you’d gladly throw in the ocean. I think that tends to be a pretty open ended topic and I took that as books that I either did NOT finish or that I just plain disliked. Here’s the thing – as a blogger of nearly 9 years (omg) and an author myself, I try not to show any negativity too much because I know how hard that authors work on their books and that just because I don’t like it, doesn’t mean its necessarily BAD. However, the books listed below are books that I personally did NOT like, or just couldn’t even finish. Because, you know what? It’s okay to just not like books sometimes…

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