hello! I'm tiffany (tiff, tiffy) and I will be using this space to share my thoughts on the books I read. you can find more on my about page. latest book re...
I finally read this book!!! I put it off for so long because I'm so picky about contemporary romance – but this was a delight, doubly so because I read the book alongside the audio and the narrator adjoa andoh is just fabulous. get a life, chloe brown is the first in talia hibberts' brown sisters series. this one follows eldest sister chloe as she attempts to, as the title of the book would…
hemlock & silver by t. kingfisher was my march read (because I guess I am on that one book a month pipeline). it is a loose retelling – or maybe it's just loosely inspired by(?) snow white, except it follows a different main character, an ordinary healer named anja (well, "ordinary" but for her special interest in poison). in this book, snow – no last name, but presumably "white"? – is unwell, but…
"But why would you buy a horse stable for that?" Viv didn't answer for a moment, but then she stared hard at him. "Things don't have to stay as what they started out as." She folded the deed and tucked it into her satchel. I finally read legends & lattes ! I bought this book for a dollar from word up books like two or three years ago, and it has sat on my bookshelf ever since. I actually did start…
Coward, I said to myself. Why didn't you go while you could? You want to go home, don't you? Then why not grab the opportunity? Fool. But under these words, there was a strange sort of calm, the feeling that comes when you step into the unknown, when everything has changed and you are waiting to make sense of it. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed reading son of the shadows ! in this second…
dungeon crawler carl is one of those books that is wildly popular yet kinda niche. it's part of the litRPG genre, which is basically... an RPG-style video game played out in book form. there are characters with levels and skills and HP and quests to complete and rewards to receive upon completion. it is perfectly brutal and absurd, the ideal semi-mindless book to read in times like these, when the…
Revenge is a terrible dish to consume. It eats one from the inside out, no matter what they say about it being best served cold. As the Chinese saying goes, "When a gentleman takes his vengeance, ten years is not too late." But you and I know that chilled food inevitably leads to an upset stomach. I was delighted to read the fox wife by yangsze choo. I read it in bits and pieces over the…
I kind of feel like a proper book review of gods of jade and shadow might somehow diminish my experience of the book... so I think I might pop in a couple thoughts here and there, but mostly I'll use this as a catalog of some favorite quotes. gods of jade and shadow was my first book by silvia moreno-garcia, and it was just so enjoyable. my brain was on while reading it, of course, but my…
n.b. it's actually march 2026. hello from the future! since my last post in november, I've read eight books and finished reviewing none of them. while part of me wants to leave things as they are, the completionist in me is like, "eight posts though...?" also there's a book I'd like to read on netgalley and I feel like an active blog with consistent posting is better than an inactive blog with…
what the fuck was this book? the first chapter was all good and well, but chapter 2 threw me off a cliff and from there I was just baffled yet entertained (like watching an oncoming car crash) until the very end. reading midsummer moon was a very strange experience. it contained many elements I hate (rape, dubious consent, coercion, manipulation). I loathed and loved every person in this book, and…
this weekend I finished rose daughter (robin mckinley's SECOND beauty & the beast retelling). I think I liked it? I read this directly after beauty , which I had worried might be too much, but actually turned out okay, mostly because I think I just love beauty & the beast fanfic. rose daughter was written something like 20 years after beauty . they share many of the same plot beats... but where…