Read The Filled Vessel by CM Nascosta: The story of a wannabe witch in Cambric Creek whose sleep paralysis demon falls in love with her while covering for an incubus. This is so much darker than I’m usually into, and somehow delightful at the same time. And smutty as hell. Plus SUCH an accurate portrayal of sleep paralysis almost hit too close to home. 4/5 stars

Soft DNF. Just have to be in a certain mood for femdomme smut, and I’m not in it right now.

What I read was mostly 3 stars and under. I solidly liked some of it, but the Underworld thing isn’t super my jam, and the ones I skipped just didn’t appeal to me. Shout out to Lost and Found by Allegra Hall as my runaway fave here though.

I hate to DNF this right now, especially as it is the MOST important time to support black authors, but to be entirely honest, the racism and misogyny and injustice were already making me angry (as they were meant to) prior to Tuesday. After Tuesday… I can’t also be that angry at my book right now. On a much smaller (but easier to talk about) note, this was also clearly the wrong Jenkins book to start with. Val is a great FMC, but not knowing the Le Veqs at all, they give a stunning amount of Previous Main Character Energy, without having the context for it. Like… no one talks about how their great-grandparents got together that much. Not even me, & it’s a good story!