Bookish Musings: Top Ten Characters from Books I Read & Games I Played in 2025

Bookish Musings: Top Ten Characters from Books I Read & Games I Played in 2025

Next up on my end of the year lists: characters from the books I've read and games I've played! I also sneaked one podcast in here, but the title stays because it's not worth the work of changing the graphic. I also sneaked more than ten characters in here, technically, but that's ok. And I may have talked too much about some of them when these are supposed to be quick descriptions, but I...
 
Book Review: My Roommate from Hell by Cale Dietrich [Audiobook]

Book Review: My Roommate from Hell by Cale Dietrich [Audiobook]

Owen just wants to make friends and do well in school so he can get a good job, but on his first day of college, he finds out he has a roommate from Hell, figuratively and literally. With an internship and human-demon relations on the line, the two end up in a fake relationship, Owen starts to realize having Zarmenus as a roommate and a friend isn't so bad after...
 
Book Review: The Good Vampire’s Guide to Blood & Boyfriends by Jamie D’Amato [Audiobook]

Book Review: The Good Vampire’s Guide to Blood & Boyfriends by Jamie D’Amato [Audiobook]

College student Brennan has recently been turned into a vampire and gets caught stealing and drinking blood from a blood drive one night by the cute library aide. Cole agrees to keep his secret and they become close, but Brennan struggles to balance his vampire life with his human one, especially when another vampire starts plotting...
 
Book Review: Thirsty by Lucy Lehane [Audiobook]

Book Review: Thirsty by Lucy Lehane [Audiobook]

Charlie is an advice columnist with an increasing number of questions about supernaturals, so when he runs into an old vampire acquaintance, he makes a deal to learn more, under the pretense that it's for his thesis. Lorenzo only agrees because he sees an opportunity for revenge on Charlie for ruining his past relationship. But as they spend more time together, they start falling for each...
 
Book Review Update: The Alpha’s Son by Penny Jessup

Book Review Update: The Alpha’s Son by Penny Jessup

I reread this book recently, and also read the next two books, and I decided to rewrite my review. I'll be honest, it's a lot less work for me to use the same post that already has all the tags and whatnot than to make an entire new post 😅 But I'm enjoying the series! They're interesting queer YA shifter books. I wanted to talk about this one again before posting my reviews for the next two....
 
Book Recs: 10 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Books with Nonbinary Characters

Book Recs: 10 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Books with Nonbinary Characters

I promised this post a few months ago, and here I am, finally delivering! Honestly, it's just a list of books I've enjoyed that happen to have nonbinary characters. In some of these, it's really discussed and a big part of things, in others it's very casual and maybe just mentioned offhandedly or implied. (In real life, they/them pronouns do not automatically mean someone is nonbinary, but for...