For the Shelf Podcast

Kelsey Ramey and Nikki Snyder

Join Hosts Kelsey and Nikki as we attempt to tackle our endless TBRs while bringing you news and reviews on all things bookish. Follow us on our socials to stay up to date on our current reads and things. Kelsey: https://www.tiktok.com/@kelsey.ramey?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc https://www.instagram.com/for_the_love_of_booked Nikki:

  1. Forged in Blood

    02/11/2025

    Forged in Blood

    Join us as we discuss the bookish events happening for the week ending in 2/8 and our thoughts and spoiler and spoiler free review of Forged in Blood by Sadie Kincaid Book description Every few millennia, a child is born. Some say they’re marked with a curse. Others claim they possess the power of the ages. Meet Ophelia Hart. Lover of classic literature and unicorns. An orphan with nobody in her corner—no family, no friends. But it’s her loneliness that fuels her life’s ambition to become a social worker and help the forgotten children just like her. For a foster kid with only slightly above-average grades, it feels like a pipe dream. Except it seems that someone is looking out for Ophelia after all. When an unexpected opportunity to attend Montridge University arises, she thinks her life is finally taking a turn for the better. Too bad she comes to the attention of the three ruthless, arrogant commanders of the Ruby Dragon Society. Three of the most feared and powerful vampires on campus. But Ophelia doesn’t believe in vampires. Or in witches, or magic, or ancient prophecies. Until she has no choice. Little does she know, she’s about to have her whole world turned upside down. Because there is something about Ophelia Hart. Something that captures not only the attention of the Ruby Dragon commanders, but also their powerful, enigmatic sire—Professor Alexandros Drakos. With no idea of the power running through her veins, Ophelia must learn to trust the very men whom all others fear. And she needs to do it fast, for there are darker forces at work than those at Montridge University. Forces that were long ago Forged in Blood.

    1h 1m
  2. Nocticadia

    01/14/2025

    Nocticadia

    Join us as we discuss the bookish events happening for the week ending in 1/11 and our thoughts and spoiler and spoiler free review of Nocticadia by Keri Lake Book description Mortui vivos docent. The dead teach the living. After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness, I promised myself two things. I’d find the cure for what ravaged her. And leave the godforsaken city where she abandoned me. Four years later, I receive an acceptance letter from Dracadia University, one of the oldest, most prestigious schools in the country. Nestled on a secluded island off the coast of Maine, it’s rumored to be haunted by the souls of the mental patients exiled there centuries before. Those whose bones are said to make up the island’s white sandy shores. And restless ghosts aren’t even its most daunting peculiarity. Devryck Bramwell, known on campus as Doctor Death, is a brilliant pathologist in charge of the midnight lab. He’s also my devastatingly handsome professor, who seems to loathe tenacious first-years, like me. Except, his dark and enigmatic gaze tells me all the ways he’d devour me if given the chance, and his stolen kisses burn my lips with forbidden jealousy. I crave his authority. He aches for redemption. Together, we’re toxic. Delicious fodder for the prying eyes hellbent on exhuming the rotted skeletons of our pasts. For the dead have much to teach, and it’s only a matter of time before Dracadia’s most depraved secret is resurrected.

    1h 19m

Ratings & Reviews

3.7
out of 5
3 Ratings

About

Join Hosts Kelsey and Nikki as we attempt to tackle our endless TBRs while bringing you news and reviews on all things bookish. Follow us on our socials to stay up to date on our current reads and things. Kelsey: https://www.tiktok.com/@kelsey.ramey?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc https://www.instagram.com/for_the_love_of_booked Nikki: