When the Elite pack is invited to send a few members to attend the Blood Moon with another pack in the mountains, Max jumps at the chance to spend more time with Jasper, even though Jasper is still pushing him away. The trip makes Max realize he's not as alone as he thought, but things go awry when the Blood Moon legends turn out to be not entirely made...
I think the first update post of the new year is always the most difficult for me to write because the socially acceptable thing to do is to say, "Happy New Year!" and be excited about a new beginning. But, even though that would be easy enough to do, it would feel disingenuous. I have health problems that are getting more imminent and, to summarize it very succinctly, my whole situation is bad....
Jasper is back, but almost as soon as he and Crimson reunite, Crimson gets stuck in spider form, and it's going to become permanent in a few days. They and their friends will have to work together and risk their lives to get what they need and undo the curse in...
I read fewer books this year than I have probably since I started blogging ten years ago, so there's actually not ten books here. That felt like too many, and there were only six books that I rated 4.5 or 5 stars. Two of which are a duology and three of which were rereads (though I do still count rereads because if a book was that great more than once, it deserves recognition more than once). I...
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...
Starting my end of the year posts today with book covers! Believe it or not, this isn't every book I read this year... just most of them 😅 As I always like to say, books can still be amazing with more basic covers, and ultimately the most important thing is what's inside the book, but I still like to appreciate pretty...
Yes, I'm doing my monthly update like two weeks late, on a Thursday. It is what it is! Would've felt weirder to not do one at all. I don't have much to report though. I've just been surviving and, shockingly, taking a break from Baldur's Gate 3 and playing Palia instead. Also shockingly, it turns out Palia doesn't give me motion sickness, so I've actually been able to play it. It is harder on my...
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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...
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Mateo needs money to hire someone who can exorcise the demon in him before it kills him, so he takes a job to break a curse on a rich client. As the curse's body count rises and they discover a potential murder, he ends up in way over his head but also realizes he actually wants to...
I know I don't really talk about the "life" part of "Life and Books" anymore, but, well. Today is not the day I'm going to change that, so let me tell you instead about the games I played (or attempted to play)! Much to no one's surprised, I'm still playing Baldur's Gate 3. I'm currently close to wrapping up an all druids run, which has been very fun. Druids are so strong in combat (in this...
