My review of The Gods of New York by Jonathan Mahler – Understanding New York’s Tumultuous 1980s #booksky #AIDS #AlSharpton #ARCreads #bookreview #DonaldTrump #EdKoch #history #homelessness #NewYorkCity #racerelations #politics #RudyGiuliani #SpikeLee
thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2026/03/27/b...
A book promo graphic (made by the incredible Meg for Clio Evans’ ARC & street teams) featuring the two different book covers for Prickly Pair, one discreet with the title & author with a cute cactus and one with the main characters on the front. The graphic is all blue and teal tones, with “currently reading” and “march 31st” at the top, with hearts and a croissant
Screenshot of IG post from my booksta that reads: Currently Reading (ARC): ✨ Prickly Pair by Clio Evans ✨ (Whynot book 3) The synopsis & teasers of this one grabbed my attention and I applied on a whim. I haven’t read the first two Whynot books (it does say they can be read as a standalone) but I am familiar with Clio’s extra spicy writing style and I love a good #WhyChoose story, so I’m excited to dive into the small-town world of Whynot! I know I can count on Clio to not only bring the heat, but also weave together a beautiful poly situation, and this one promises to be MMMF 😍 There was also promise of a sweet little black cat 🐈⬛♥️ And we all know I’m a sucker for those! 🌱 SnapCracklePoppies #queerreader #bookstagram #currentlyreading #whychooseromance
Currently Reading (ARC edition):
✨ Prickly Pair by Clio Evans ✨
Small-town romance? ✅
Enemies to lovers AND friends to lovers? ✅
MMMF WhyChoose? ✅
Needless to say I jumped to sign up lol
Crosspost: www.instagram.com/p/DWJdrbtDc5V/
#BookSky #WhyChoose #ARCreads
My review of Secrets and Lies by June Francis – The Impact of Secrets in Olive’s Journey #booksky #ARCreads #bookreview #California #England #historicalfiction #Ireland #Liverpool #sliceoflife #womensfiction
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My review of the book The Secret Between Us by Kate Hewitt – Drama and Redemption #booksky #ARCreads #bookreview #bookssetinNewYork #Drama #families #gossip #mentalhealth #NewYork #NewYorkCity #parenting #secrets #womensfiction
thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2026/03/13/b...
My review of The Poison Puzzle by Emily Organ – Secrets and Society in 19th Century London #booksky #ARCreads #bookreview #EmmaLangleyMystery #historicalfiction #misogyny #murder #mystery #secretsocieties #treasurehunt #victorianera #england #london
thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2026/03/11/b...
My review of the book 4.4.68 by Desmond T. Lewis – What If Martin Luther King Jr. Had Lived? #booksky #alternatehistory #alternateuniverse #ARCreads #assassination #bookreview #historicalfiction #history #MartinLutherKingJr #timetravel
thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2026/03/08/b...
My review of the book A Murder on the Mountain by Ellie Alexander – Cozy Mystery’s Newest Detective #booksky #ARCreads #bookreview #cozymystery #murder #murdermystery #mystery #mysterynovels #Oregon
thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2026/03/07/b...
My review of the book Murder at Castle Vyne by Louise Marley – Riveting Murder Mystery with Flaws #booksky #ARCreads #bookreview #crime #murder #murdermystery #mystery #mysterynovels #risingfromthedead #sexualassault #statutoryrape
thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2026/03/03/b...
My reveiw of the book Powerless by Harry Turtledove – Understanding Life Under Tyranny #booksky #alternatehistory #ARCreads #authoritarianism #bookreview #Communism #HarryTurtledove #history #LosAngeles #sciencefiction #tyranny
thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2026/02/27/b...
My review of the book The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain – A Whimsical Date with Fate #booksky #AntoineLaurain #ARCreads #bookreview #bookssetinFrance #bookssetinParis #France #mystery #Paris #romance
thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2026/02/20/b...
My review of the book The President’s Hay by Antoine Laurain – How a Lost Hat Changes Lives in Antoine Laurain’s Novel #booksky #1980s #AntoineLaurain #ARCreads #bookreview #France #FrancoisMitterand #historicalfiction #humor #novella #Paris #whimsical
thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2026/02/18/b...
My review of the book French Windows by Antoine Laurain – A Unique Psychological Thriller #booksky #AntoineLaurain #ARCreads #bookreview #bookssetinParis #France #mystery #mysterynovels #novella #Paris #suspense #suspensenovels #thriller
thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2026/02/17/b...
My review of the book Raising the Tudors: Motherhood in the Sixteenth Century by Stephanie Kline – Family, Women, and Society in the 1500s #booksky #16thcenturylife #ARCreads #bookreview #nonfiction #history #Tudorera #Tudorperiod
thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2026/02/16/b...
My review of the book The Whyte Python World Tour by Travis Kennedy – A Hilarious Dive into 1980s Rock #booksky #80smusic #ARCreads #BerlinWall #bookreview #ColdWar #Communism #HairBands #hairmetal #heavymetal #historicalfiction #humor #thriller
thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2026/02/07/b...
My review of the book Agents of Change: The Women Who Transformed the CIA by Christina Hillsberg – The Untold Stories of Women in Intelligence #booksky #ARCreads #bookreview #CIA #espionage #history #intelligence #nonfiction #politics #sexualbias
thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2026/02/03/b...
My review of the book A Body at the Book Fair by Ellie Alexander – Cozy Mystery Good for Summer Reading #booksky #ARCreads #bookreview #California #cozymystery #EllieAlexander #murder #murdermystery #mystery #SummerReading
thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2026/01/31/b...
My review of Free Ride by Noraly Schoenmaker – A Journey of Healing Through Adventure #booksky #adventure #ARCreads #bookreview #India #Iran #Malaysia #memoir #motorcycletravel #Myanmar #Thailand #Travel
thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2026/01/27/b...
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Final Edit (Lights, Camera, Love! Book 1) by @em.denning
Jan 29th
#arcreading #emdenning #comingsoon #arcreads #mmromancereader #mmbooklover #mmromance
My review of the book The German Next Door by Gosia Nealon – The Enemy on the Doorstep #booksky #ARCreads #bookreview #femaleleadcharacters #Germanoccupation #historicalfiction #Holocaust #Nazis #Poland #strongfemalecharacters #WorldWarIIfiction
thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2026/01/19/b...
My review of the book Murder at the English Manor by Helena Dixon – Unraveling Murder and Class in 1930s England #booksky #ARCreads #bookreview #cozymystery #England #HelenaDixon #historicalmystery #murder #murdermystery #mystery #mysterynovels
thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2026/01/18/b...
My review of The Rebel of Seventh Avenue by Annabelle Marx – Strong Women in Historical Fashion Fiction #booksky #ARCreads #bookreview #fashionindustry #femaleleadcharacters #historicalfiction #NewYorkCity #racism #society #strongfemalecharacters
thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2026/01/17/b...
My review of the book Winter’s End by Barbara Pronin – Empowered Women in WWII #booksky #ARCreads #bookreview #femaleleadcharacters #historicalfiction #Nazis #Netherlands #strongfemalecharacters #womeninhistory #WorldWarII #WorldWarIIfiction
thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2026/01/16/b...
My review of the book Baseball’s First Superstar: The Lost Life Story of Christy Mathewson by Alan D. Gaff – The Gentleman of Baseball’s Golden Era #booksky #ARCreads #baseball #baseballbooks #baseballhistory #bookreview #ChristyMathewson #tuberculosis
thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2026/01/15/b...
My review of the book Skin and Bones and Other Mike Bowditch Short Stories by Paul Doiron – Short Stories That Delve Deeper #booksky #ARCreads #bookreview #crime #Maine #MaineGameWardens #MikeBowditchseries #mystery #PaulDoiron #shortstorycollection
thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2026/01/13/b...
Cat with a towering TBR pile of books
It’s #Caturday, and my cat, armed with a glare and a paw of authority, has decreed I finish this #TBR pile before the 2026 ball drops. Failure means I’ll spend New Year’s Eve curled in shame beneath a blanket of unread guilt and judgmental purrs.
#ARCReads #CatApprovedReads #EndOfYearReadingSprint
My review of the book Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen – My Favorite Book of 2025 #booksky #ARCreads #bookreview #bookssetinFlorida #CarlHiaasen #DonaldTrump #Florida #humor #MAGA #politicalsatire #politics #satire #whitesupremacy
thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2025/12/23/b...
My review of the book The Spirits of ’76 by T.W. Fitzhugh – Historical Fiction Meets Paranormal #booksky #AmericanRevolution #ARCreads #bookreview #historicalfiction #history #paranormal #paranormalbooks #RevolutionaryWar #YoungAdultbooks
thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2025/12/21/b...
Applications for my ✨ 2026 ARC Team✨ are officially open!
Sign Up Here: form.jotform.com/253354198954...?
#arcteam #2026 #lydiamichaelsbooks #arcreaders #arcreads #books #bookrecs #romancebooks #romancebookstagram
Jaeyun does not trust the gods. Regarded as a curse and left for dead on the streets of Masu as a child, his resentment toward Dayan and Dayir—the weavers of fate—roots deeper than any crop he’s ever cared for. Motivated by the prospect of wealth and a better life for himself and his adoptive father, he enlists as a palace gardener, despite his distaste for the gods’ divinely appointed rulers. But it isn’t long before he’s twisted into a dangerous and confusing relationship with Satesaru’s crown prince. To earn the salary he was promised, and keep his head attached to his shoulders, he has no choice but to become a character of the prince’s design.
Yuzeharu must trust the gods. As the First Prince of Satesaru, he has always understood his purpose in life; to serve the interests of the crown and the divinities it relies on, by whatever means necessary. However, after a childhood injury leaves him permanently ailing and isolated from the rest of his family, he begins to wonder if there’s a chance he could ever escape his royal cage. Desperate to flee from his responsibilities and racing against the dwindling sands in the twin gods’ hourglass, Yuzeharu implicates the mysterious gardener taking care of his estate in a risky scheme to outrun his destiny.
Before them unwinds a treacherous path of deception, romance, and tragedy as they work together to take control of Yuzeharu’s future. As the line between their act and reality begins to blur, Yuzeharu fights to keep his true feelings concealed, and Jaeyun finds himself inexplicably yet increasingly driven to protect the prince. Must the two bow to their preordained fate, or can their love be enough to defy the will of the gods for good?
The cover of BEFORE THE LOTUS BLOOMS is surrounded by small text boxes that indicate present tropes in the book. All text boxes are as follows: Prince x peasant, he fell first but he fell harder, unwanted engagement, scars (emotional and physical), size/height gap, overthinker x one track mind, false pretenses, first love, love and loss, life and death, fickle gods, survival, hidden enemies, newfound family, fate and destiny, star crossed lovers, sacrificial love, political plots, contractual relationship, and aggressive caretaker.
Sign-ups forARCs for my spring novel, BEFORE THE LOTUS BLOOMS, are open now until January 15th!
The sign-up form is available through the linktree in my bio, or by visiting my website www.harumibooks.com.
Full blurb and trope map in the images below!
#booksky #arcreads #bookreviewers
My review of the book I Love Disney’s Magic Kingdom by Danielle Kelly – Fun Facts and Insights to the Happiest Place on Earth #booksky #ARCreads #bookreview #DisneyWorld #MagicKingdom #nonfiction #nonfictionbooks #Travel #travelbook #WaltDisneyWorld
thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2025/12/16/b...
