My Top Ten Books of 2022

 

 

Here it is!! Albeit a little late. My Top 10 Books of 2022. These are books that I read in 2022, not books that were published in 2022. Although I believe a couple of them were. If you click on the book cover you will be taken to its GoodReads page. Happy New Year!!

 

1. Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things by Amanda Lovelace

I think this is my favorite collection of hers so far. 

 

2. Home Body by Rupi Kaur

Either this one or Milk and Honey is my favorite from her. 

3. Shine Your Icy Crown by Amanda Lovelace 

4. Unlock Your Storybook Heart by Amanda Lovelace

There is a lot of poetry on this list, but I read a lot of good collections in 2022.

5. Lovely Bad Things by Trisha Wolfe

Trisha is one of my favorite authors. My very favorite indie author. This book was dark, twisted, twisty, haunting, and beautiful. 

6. The Sandman Act II by Neil Gaiman

The audio version with James McAvoy as Dream. It is so good. I have already listened to Act I and it was amazing, as well. This is also the first time I ended up with a bit of a crush on a character just from listening to the audio. And no, I did not realize at first it was James McAvoy voicing Dream. <3 

 

7. The Sandman Act I by Neil Gaiman

Not the audio. I listened to that last year, as I said. But I decided after listening to the first two acts that I loved it so much I had to buy all the graphic novel collections. Or are they comics? Somebody please tell me. I did put the Act II audio just a little above this because of the amazing performances. I want some behind the scenes of that. 

8. Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman

My mom was looking at Neil Gaiman's website and told me about this one. I got interested in Norse Mythology because of Loki in the MCU. Then I read Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology book and got more into it. This sounded interesting and fun. And I loved it. I also listened to the audio of this. 

9. The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman

This list is Neil Gaiman, and poetry heavy. This one came up in my recommendations after finishing Odd and the Frost Giants. I listened to the sample and was intrigued. It was different, atmospheric, kind of morally grey, and I really liked it. Again, listened to the audio. A lot of audiobooks here, too. 

10. Rumpelstiltskin 

This story is actually much older than what we know from the Brothers Grimm. It has always been my second favorite fairy tale, though. After watching Once Upon a Time twice last year I decided I needed to give this one a reread. I still love it. Still a favorite. My first introduction to this was Fairie Tale Theatre with Shelley Duvall and I adored it from that very first watch. 

Cover Reveal | Lovely Violent Things (Hollow's Row Series #2) by Trisha Wolfe

 

 

𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐕𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬, the highly-anticipated second book in the Hollow’s Row trilogy by Trisha Wolfe, is slated to release late February 2023!

Lovely Bad Things (book 1) is available now in KU. Dare to look into the abyss with Professor Kallum Locke and forensic profiler Halen St. James as they return in this contemporary dark romance that is as psychologically thrilling as it is 🔥🔥

Cover designed by the amazing Najla Qamber Designs

🖤 𝐀𝐝𝐝 𝐋𝐕𝐓 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬:

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𝘽𝙡𝙪𝙧𝙗:

𝘏𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯:

The moment I gave in to Kallum Locke, I sold my soul to the devil. Now that devil has returned for me, a daemon siphoning off what soul I have left.

The Harbinger killer has descended on Hollow’s Row amid an active case, where I’ve been hired as a consultant to profile two killers. One offering gruesome sacrifices to obtain an ancient philosophy, and the other a dangerous omen from my past.

A dark truth hovers at the edge of my memories—but is it real, or a trick by the chaos magician himself, meant to trap me in his web of lies and corruption.

Kallum is too consuming, his striking green-and-blue eyes staring into my depths, demanding I feel the frenzy he teased from my soul.

I have to escape him.

𝘒𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘮:

I’ve tasted Halen St. James. My muse of heartbreak. I’ve sank my teeth into her tender flesh, lapped at her tears, marked her as mine…

So I’ll be damned if I let her go now. Not this time—not when I’m so close to revealing our truth. It’s easy to be tricked when you believe your own lies. And, oh, how my little Halen clings to her pretty lies.

Beneath her obsession with naming me the killer, she’s afraid of me—afraid of us—but I’m not the danger she should fear.

The moth is attracted to sweetness—and my little Halen is the sweetest damn thing.

There is no escape. Halen needs her big bad villain to protect her.

𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞! 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧! 🔥🔥

Release Blitz | The Teacher of Nothing by K. Webster

The Teacher of Nothing

by K Webster 

Publication Date: October 18, 2022 

Genre: Forbidden Romance, Standalone 

Tropes: Age-Gap Romance, Taboo Romance, Student/Teacher Romance

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From USA Today Bestselling Author K Webster comes a new steamy age-gap, student-teacher forbidden romance! He’s a grumpy teacher with a chip on his shoulder. She’s his much, much younger student who’s completely off-limits. 

Love broke me when I was a teen. My dad not only slept with my girlfriend, but he knocked her up and made her my stepmom, too. Nearly two decades later and I’m still not over it. How can I be when they’re a daily reminder of what was stolen from me? Being a teacher isn’t necessarily my passion but pissing my dad off is. He thinks teaching is beneath our family and I love watching him squirm. But the joke’s on me. I’m completely obsessed with the quiet, beautiful girl in my class. Always staring at her perfect lips when no one’s looking. She’s so young—too young for me. Something about her, though, is just so sad and I can’t seem to stop thinking about her. I want to comfort her. To hold her. To teach her filthy lessons while in the sanctity of my bedroom. And, yet I can’t. Not only would I lose my job and bring humiliation down on the others in my family who don’t deserve the heat, but I’d be just like him. My father. A sicko chasing some girl he has no business going after. I refuse to let that happen. Until I’m forced to protect her when no one else will, everything changes. I cross a line I’m not sure I can come back from. It turns out, I’m exactly like my father. A selfish man hellbent on ruining everyone’s lives over a teenage girl. 

  ***This is a complete standalone novel with a happily ever after. Characters are of legal age.***

About K. Webster

K Webster is a USA Today Bestselling author. Her titles have claimed many bestseller tags in numerous categories, are translated in multiple languages, and have been adapted into audiobooks. She lives in “Tornado Alley” with her husband, two children, and her baby dog named Blue. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, drinking copious amounts of coffee, and researching aliens.

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Cover Reveal | The Teacher of Nothing by K. Webster

The Teacher of Nothing

by K Webster 

Publication Date: October 18 

Genre: Forbidden Romance, Standalone 

Tropes: Age-Gap Romance, Taboo Romance, Student/Teacher Romance

Preorder: eBook | Paperback

From USA Today Bestselling Author K Webster comes a new steamy age-gap, student-teacher forbidden romance! He’s a grumpy teacher with a chip on his shoulder. She’s his much, much younger student who’s completely off-limits. 

 Love broke me when I was a teen. My dad not only slept with my girlfriend, but he knocked her up and made her my stepmom, too. Nearly two decades later and I’m still not over it. How can I be when they’re a daily reminder of what was stolen from me? Being a teacher isn’t necessarily my passion but pissing my dad off is. He thinks teaching is beneath our family and I love watching him squirm. But the joke’s on me. I’m completely obsessed with the quiet, beautiful girl in my class. Always staring at her perfect lips when no one’s looking. She’s so young—too young for me. Something about her, though, is just so sad and I can’t seem to stop thinking about her. I want to comfort her. To hold her. To teach her filthy lessons while in the sanctity of my bedroom. And, yet I can’t. Not only would I lose my job and bring humiliation down on the others in my family who don’t deserve the heat, but I’d be just like him. My father. A sicko chasing some girl he has no business going after. I refuse to let that happen. Until I’m forced to protect her when no one else will, everything changes. I cross a line I’m not sure I can come back from. It turns out, I’m exactly like my father. A selfish man hellbent on ruining everyone’s lives over a teenage girl. 

***This is a complete standalone novel with a happily ever after. Characters are of legal age.***

About K. Webster

K Webster is a USA Today Bestselling author. Her titles have claimed many bestseller tags in numerous categories, are translated in multiple languages, and have been adapted into audiobooks. She lives in “Tornado Alley” with her husband, two children, and her baby dog named Blue. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, drinking copious amounts of coffee, and researching aliens.

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New Release | Lovely Bad Things by Trisha Wolfe

 

Release Date: May 31

He’s the devil. And she’s his wicked game. 

 

Halen:

They say eyes are the windows to the soul—but when he looks at me through hues of slate-green and flaring blue embers, I’m terrified of what’s watching me from behind his clashing gaze, something primal and feverish that threatens to melt me like fire in ice. 

 

I fear falling into Kallum Locke’s pitch-black soul.

 

But after I’m called to a crime scene to investigate the most gruesome act of violence to descend on the legendary town of Hollow’s Row, I have no choice but to turn to Kallum, to the man I had locked away in an asylum for the criminally insane. 

 

He’s the leading expert on all things Nietzsche and occult. And now, to get answers, I’m forced to make a deal with the devil himself. 

 

Kallum: 

Really, eyes are the windows to the soul? Then I wonder what little Halen St. James thinks of all the cryptic eyes watching her in the killing fields… I wonder if the hairs on her delicate nape lifted away, if a thrilling shiver raced over her soft skin. She’s desperate for the answer, and she’ll do anything to uncover it—even make a deal with me, dangling freedom like bait on a hook. 

 

But she’s far more tempting to sink my teeth into than any lure.

 

And the pain will taste twice as sweet. 

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Meet Trisha Wolfe

USA Today bestselling romantic thriller author Trisha Wolfe. From an early age, Trisha Wolfe dreamed up imaginary worlds and characters and was accused of talking to herself. Today, she lives in South Carolina with her family and writes full time, using her imaginary worlds as an excuse to continue talking to herself.

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He’s the devil. And she’s his wicked game. 

 

Halen:

They say eyes are the windows to the soul—but when he looks at me through hues of slate-green and flaring blue embers, I’m terrified of what’s watching me from behind his clashing gaze, something primal and feverish that threatens to melt me like fire in ice. 

 

I fear falling into Kallum Locke’s pitch-black soul.

 

But after I’m called to a crime scene to investigate the most gruesome act of violence to descend on the legendary town of Hollow’s Row, I have no choice but to turn to Kallum, to the man I had locked away in an asylum for the criminally insane. 

 

He’s the leading expert on all things Nietzsche and occult. And now, to get answers, I’m forced to make a deal with the devil himself. 

 

Kallum: 

Really, eyes are the windows to the soul? Then I wonder what little Halen St. James thinks of all the cryptic eyes watching her in the killing fields… I wonder if the hairs on her delicate nape lifted away, if a thrilling shiver raced over her soft skin. She’s desperate for the answer, and she’ll do anything to uncover it—even make a deal with me, dangling freedom like bait on a hook. 

 

But she’s far more tempting to sink my teeth into than any lure.

 

And the pain will taste twice as sweet. 

 

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Cover Reveal | Guided by Moonlight: Poetry and Photography by Amanda Leigh (Musings of a Bibliophile, book four)

 

 

Title: Guided by Moonlight

Subtitle: Poetry and Photography

Author: Amanda Leigh

Series: Musings of a Bibliophile, book four

Release Date: April 26th 

Blurb:

For five years Amanda Leigh has been writing and gathering poems, and now, she finally shares them in her newest poetry collection, Guided by Moonlight. Where she further delves into topics she touched on in her last poetry collection, as well as experiments with the way she writes poetry. A few poems are humorous, some are serious, some are hopeful, but all are heartfelt. Amanda Leigh explores life, love, discrimination, emotional abuse, mental health, sexuality and more with raw emotion, vulnerability, and honesty.

GoodReads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60801799-guided-by-moonlight 

Author Bio: 

Amanda Leigh is the multi-genre author of numerous titles, including the Mature YA Paranormal Romance, the Beauty of the Dark series. She’s made up stories all her life, and written them down since she was eight. In college she got her degree in English and Communications, and worked as the Assistant Managing Editor on the literary magazine. Amanda advocates for mental health, cystinosis/rare disease awareness, and literacy. Strength: Lives Touched by Cystinosis is an anthology to raise awareness and money for cystinosis. She has a cat she adores and loves cooking, music, art, Psychology, Marvel, Harry Potter, and Elvis Presley. Not necessarily in that order. Find her online at www.authoramandaleigh.com and feel free to get in touch with her.

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