Category Archives: Books in 2026

The Better Mother by Jennifer van der Kleut | Book Review

Up until a few years ago, I truly believed that the world was inherently a good place. I thought that no matter what, the good in people always wins over. But over the past few years, I’ve been thoroughly disabused of the notion. It doesn’t mean that I believe that the world is all bad, but that the bad parts are more powerful than the good. I’ve turned into a full blown cynic and I don’t see myself moving out of this position anytime soon. Yet, I’m utterly shocked and enraged every time someone does something bad, especially when they believe they are right. I don’t know what that says about me and that it happened again in The Better Mother by Jennifer van der Kleut.

5 Romance Books I’ve Read So Far This Year | 2026 Book Reviews

Every year in February, I read romance books and make Booktube videos about them. Be they reading vlogs or recommendation videos, I take the opportunity at Valentine’s Day and share my romance reads with my subscribers. But this year, my physical and mental health weren’t conducive to video-making, leave alone reading 14 books in 14 days. I was already on my last leg, so it wasn’t long into February that I decided I would take a break from making longform videos on YouTube. And that meant no romance books vlog was coming, even though I had read 5 of them by then.
So even though I haven’t been able to talk about them on YouTube, I knew I wanted to yell about some of them somewhere on the Internet, because that’s what I do. And since I knew I wanted to start posting here again…you know where I’m going with this.