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The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill by Rowenna Miller

Published on October 27, 2025October 23, 2025 by Celeste8 Comments

Today’s book review is about THE FAIRY BARGAINS OF PROSPECT HILL by Rowenna Miller. This historical fantasy set in the early 1900s tackles themes of family, self-discovery, and unhealthy domestic relationships.

Author: Rowenna Miller
Series: None
Age Category: Adult
Publisher: Redhook
Publish Date: March 28, 2023
Print Length: 416

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First Lines Fridays: April 14, 2023

Published on April 14, 2023April 14, 2023 by Celeste2 Comments

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The rules are as follows:

Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
Finally… reveal the book!

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April 2023 TBR List

Published on April 5, 2023April 4, 2023 by Celeste7 Comments

I’ve already read two of the three advanced review copies (ARCs) I received for April releases. But I still have plenty left to read, as we all do! My April 2023 TBR list is a combination of April and May ARCs along with a library and backlist book.

As always, I’m sure I’ll throw other books into this list on a whim, too. Lately I tend to have a nonfiction book as a backburner audiobook for when I do mundane household activities. I also have a novella and graphic novel checked out of the library at the moment.

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March 2023 TBR List

Published on March 4, 2023February 26, 2023 by Celeste11 Comments

With the Trope-ical Readathon going on this month, it was fairly easy for me to construct a March 2023 TBR list. I drew all of my TBR below from the various books I selected for the Trope-ical Readathon. However, there’s no way I’ll be able to read well over a dozen books in a month. So my primary focus will be on some ARCs.

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