Cupcakes for My Orc Enemy by Honey Phillips

Despite the cute title and cover, Cupcakes For My Orc Enemy by Honey Phillips is such a disappointment. Instead of a sweet and sexy romance that goes enemies to lovers, we get a weird orc that hates women, a woman that just takes it because wow what a big male, and random scenes that are supposed to tie it all together.

The Croning by Laird Barron

I had heard some pretty good things about The Croning by Laird Barron and with such an intriguing cover, I thought okay, let’s give this a shot. I needed something to listen to at work and I liked the narrator’s voice. Turns out, I should’ve dug a little deeper because this was absolutely the most boring and pointless ‘horror’ novel I’ve read in ages.