Books To The Tea

Top Ten Tuesday was created by  The Broke and the Bookish  in June of 2010 and was moved to  That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This weeks Top Ten:   Villains  (favorite, best, worst, lovable, creepiest, most evil, etc.) I couldn't decide which type of villain I wanted to write about, so that lead me to do subcategories. I feel like such a rebel! Villains I Love To Hate  The Beautiful Pretender I have a review of this book coming soon so I won't say too much, but there is a character I absolutely hate. Most villains have redeeming qualities, but this character had lacked any of those qualities. She loved to hurt others and was completely heartless.  The Falconer The Villain in this book was completely cut throat, heartless, violent, and everything I love to hate. This Villain did things that ripped my heart out, stomped...

This post is probably going to be all over the place, so please excuse the hot mess that will flood this post. The past year I have been chasing a dream that I've always had, and that is writing. I've been writing ever since I can remember, but I've never dedicated myself to the craft. Fun fact about me, when I was in grade school I wrote a poem about fall and I won a creative writing contest with it. That poem is in our small towns historical museum. I truly believe that it was that day that I realized that writing was my passion. That day the writing bug bit me, and the itch to create has never left. Throughout school I wrote and loved every second of it. I won contests and scholarships but I never thought of being an author. In brutal honesty I truly believed that I could never achieve being an author because I live in a small town, and well it's hard to have big dreams in a small town. I don't live in a place where I could find editors, agents, publishers, ...

Stalking Jack the Ripper Series: Stalking Jack the Ripper #1 By: Kerri Maniscalco Pages: 337 Audio: 9 hours & 26 mins Published:  September 20th 2016 Publisher: by Jimmy Patterson My Rating:  “Roses have both petals and thorns, my dark flower. You needn’t believe something weak because it appears delicate. Show the world your bravery.”    The traits of an average seventeen year old girl in the 1800's included: gossiping, crushing over potential husbands, and learning to be a devoted wife. Between Audrey Rose's social parties, training, and dress fittings she just happens to cut open dead bodies. Audrey is a girly girl, but there's one thing she's interested in that most girls in the 1800's aren't. She wants to learn and understand the science behind the human body, and often sneaks away to her uncle's laboratory to study forensic medicine. In the mist of her studies a pattern of  horrifically violent murders start to occur, and ...

  Keeper Series: Keeper Duology #1  Author: Kim Chance  Pages: 409  Published: January 30th 2018  Publisher: Flux books/North Star Editions  Chance writes a contemporary fantasy that is laced with secretes, dark magic, and a family that throughout generations have had the power and courage to be the worlds saving grace.  I have always loved a well crafted witch read, and this contemporary fantasy did not disappoint! We follow Lainey who is a very straight laced student who relays on scientific facts, and sensibility. She has lacer focus on her main priority, acing the SAT. Lainey's life quickly takes a turn when the unordinary starts to happen, and even her beloved science can't explain it away. With the help of her comic obsessed best friend Maggie, and a cocky fighter named Ty, Lainey learns more about who she truly is, and the journey she is about to embark on. Keeper was paced wonderfully and was hard to put down! After lea...

If you're new here let me share that I am a huge baby when it comes to scary things. I do however try to get in the spirit of Halloween, and with Friday the 13th being in October I knew I had to embrace it, and get into reading some creepy reads.  I want to recommend some books that I have read that aren't too scary, but are atmospheric and will get you in the Friday 13th and Halloween mood.  The Body Finder Violet has always had an unusual gift. She can sense out dead bodies, but only bodies that have been murdered. On top of being able to find the bodies she can also feel the echoes they leave behind, and the imprints that come from the killer. When murders start occurring in her small town, Violet starts using her gift to identify the killer. Little does Violet know that while she is trying to discover the killer, the killer is hunting her. This book read like a thriller. It was gripping, creepy, dark, and left me chilled to the bone. I picked this b...

To say I have dry skin is an understatement. My skin has always been dry, and yes even when I drink my body weight in water. It's just something I have come to terms with, but when it starts to get cold, my alligator skin comes out to play.  Today I thought I would share what I have found that seems to calm my sensitive dry skin, and a bonus helps keep my skin clear.  PS: This is not a sponsored post. These are items that I have found throughout the years while trying to battle alligator skin.  Purity Facial Cleanser I use this gentle face wash in the morning. I need a very gentle cleanser for the mornings. This is made to melt away oil, makeup, and dirt. It also has properties in it that lightly tone and hydrate your skin. I think it's the perfect light face wash for the mornings when I just need something to wash away the dirt and oil from the night.  Take a Deep Breath Moisturizer I love this lightweight gel moisturiz...

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by  The Broke and Bookish THIS WEEK:  Ten Books With Fall/Autumn Covers/Themes (If the cover screams fall to you, or the books give off a feeling of being Fallish) I decided to do fall themes!! Witch is When it all Began Jill is hired to find a serial killer, and in the mist of it she finds her her birth mom is dying. When she goes to see her mother on her death bed, her mother yells at her she's a witch. While Jill thinks her mom used her last dying words to insult her, she was actually telling her the truth. This was fun and magical cozy read that I really enjoyed! BONUS: IT'S FREE ON KINDLE  Revelation Eve starts college hoping what everyone does. She hoes to fit in, make friends, do good in her classes, and if she meets someone cute it wouldn't hurt anything. Eve does happen to meet someone cute, dark, and mysterious, but there is more to Gage then Eve realizes. Eve finds herself caught in the middle of an ancient wa...