• Discussion Post,  Media,  Recommendations

    More Literary Adaptations And Why I Love Them

    It may no longer be the season – or trend – for vlog-style retellings of classic novels anymore (though some of my favourites still hold up), but it doesn’t mean webseries adaptations have stopped. Instead, they’ve turned into mini-TV shows in their own rights, and I cannot say I’m displeased by this. This year, two adaptations have come to a close, the story coming to their natural ends, and I’m still in awe at the levels of production they have both put forth. Never let it be said that webseries are not professional forms of media in their own rights. I have read neither of the classics they are based…

  • About Writing,  Creation

    AUTHOR AVENGERS; October Round Up

    It’s my birthday tomorrow, and if you read my last round up, you know I chose the prompt for this month. I was very excited when everyone in the Discord seemed to be enthused to write to it, and I am very excited now to share what has been written!* * This round up post is going up on here before it goes up on Ko-fi (or LinkedIn later next week), and there might be edits made to it if more stories go up before the end of the month. It’s been a Month, what with this year’s treatment starting a couple of weeks ago. Week two will be in…

  • About Writing,  Creation

    AUTHOR AVENGERS; September Round Up

    It is the second month of the Author Avengers approaching the same prompt with our own spins. Life, of course, means not all of us got to the prompt – but those of us that did all had different stories to tell. And man, once again was it interesting to see how we took the same prompt and churned out very different stories. There were less fills this month. Real life seemed to get in the way, but this initiative is very much a no pressure kind of thing which is why we’ve been having so much fun! If you’re a writer and it’s something you think you’ll be interested…

  • Books,  Discussion Post

    What Lilly’s Library Represents To Me

    Growing up as a non-white reader in a non-Western country was interesting to say the least. You don’t realise how many Western cultural things you pick up on until you actually pause and look around you and go, wait, this is nothing like my lived experience. It took a good many years for me to unlearn the way media centralises white stories that I didn’t have to consume only those stories. (I still read and watch them, because a) they are everywhere still even if now we’re getting our voices out as well and b) look, some of them are really good.) I’ve talked about the first time I felt…

  • About Writing,  Creation

    AUTHOR AVENGERS; August Round Up

    If you follow me on my various social media pages, you might have seen me talk about the Author Avengers over the past few months. We’ve been promoting each other’s Ko-fi pages and hyping each other up on Discord, and I like to think the group of us are now bound by the laws of writing as friends. This month, we went from individual author promotions to writing prompts, and boy, has it been interesting to see how each of us looked at the same prompt and came up with something that fit into our style. It’s been a treat and a half for me on a personal level, and…

  • Book Reviews,  Books

    REVIEW; Crown Of Ivy

    Let me start by saying I am in absolute love with the way Victoria writes. There is something so captivating about the turns of phrases she uses, the pictures they paint, the emotions they evoke. Absolutely stunning. I knew very little about the characters of this particular part of the Greek pantheon going in so I will admit I did a Wikipedia search about Ariadne after starting the novella. But nothing could prepare me for the way Victoria wrote her. She was strong and stubborn and real. She cried and feared and bled and fought – her characterisation was full-fleshed and human, and it made her ascension seem so earned.…

  • Book Reviews,  Books

    REVIEW; Sketches & Secrets Of Summer

    Title: Sketches & Secrets Of SummerAuthor: Leenie BrownGenre: Adult, regency romance, retellingType: E-bookPublisher: Leenie B Books Once betrayed, always a bachelor. At least, that was the plan. Stuart Alford never expected to return to Derbyshire. Indeed, he never wanted to return. However, when his brother dies, leaving him both his daughters and the family estate, Stuart must do what he does not want to do. When he arrives to claim his inheritance and take up guardianship of his two wards, he discovers they have befriended a young woman who is visiting her sister and brother-in-law at Pemberley. Mary Bennet is not like any other lady he has ever met. She’s refreshingly candid, and he begins…

  • Book Reviews,  Books

    REVIEW; When Mary Met The Colonel

    Title: When Mary Met The ColonelAuthor: Victoria KincaidGenre: Adult, regency romance, retellingType: E-bookPublisher: Victoria Kincaid Without the beauty and wit of the older Bennet sisters or the liveliness of the younger, Mary is the Bennet sister most often overlooked. She has resigned herself to a life of loneliness, alleviated only by music and the occasional book of military history. Colonel Fitzwilliam finds himself envying his friends who are marrying wonderful women while he only attracts empty-headed flirts. He longs for a caring, well-informed woman who will see the man beneath the uniform. A chance meeting in Longbourn’s garden during Darcy and Elizabeth’s wedding breakfast kindles an attraction between Mary and the Colonel. However, the Colonel…

  • Book Reviews,  Books

    REVIEWS; Sweet Extras

    I have finally gotten my hands on some of Leenie Brown’s Mary Bennet-centric works and am making my way through them slowly. Still unable to get my hands on two, and a few other regionally locked stories. (Amazon, why?) But I am excited, and have already started making my way through these stories. Title: Midnight with MaryAuthor: Leenie BrownGenre: Adult, regency romance, retellingType: E-bookPublisher: Leenie B Books This is classified as a ‘Sweet Extra’ from Leenie Brown’s collection of novellas that add on to the world of her longer novels. And sweet it is! The novella is a quick read, easy to breeze through but giving us a good sense of the characters and their…

  • Book Reviews,  Books

    REVIEW; Off The Deep End

    Title: Off The Deep EndAuthor: R. Jayne Revere Genre: Adult, action, romanceType: E-bookPublisher: Untamed Originals, LLC Was it a chance meeting? Or something more… AN UNUSUAL TRIP Photographer Alex Thomas longs for adventure in her life, so she accepts her brother’s invitation to go to sea on his research ship. A clandestine recovery operation for the military-complete with a scary-serious security team-is way past Alex’s comfort zone, but that’s nothing compared to the strong, enigmatic attraction she feels for team lead Aaron Donovan. A REMARKABLE ADVENTURE While on a critically important assignment, security expert Aaron Donovan is powerfully drawn to Alex, a woman who never should have been there. Then a dark element returns from Aaron’s…