2024

I accept paperback copies or epub files.

I review for free, so that being said, my reviews will always be honest.  

I get many requests, so if you have a specific deadline that I cannot promise to meet, I may or may not accept your request which I believe is fair and important. Please communicate as there is always a possibility.

**The books I receive from the review teams I am on will always take precedence, so there is a possibility I will set a book aside and then return to it as soon as I am able to. Books will be read in the order that I was asked.

I am not able to accept every request for review but I will do my best to get to the ones I do accept in a timely manner. (Please take into consideration that life is busy and sometimes things happen that prevents reading time, which can set reviewers behind.)

Should I choose to review your book, the review will most likely be posted on my Blog, Goodreads, Bookbub, StoryGraph, and Instagram

Acceptance of your book does not always guarantee a review. If I'm not enjoying it, I most likely will not finish reading it; therefore, I will not review it.

I will not review unsolicited books. Please, do not send me a book without asking.

Asking me to purchase your book and review it is also not a good way to get me to read and review for you. (This is not the way to promote yourself.)

Respectfully, 

Karla Kay

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“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something. That there is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien

“For some, autumn comes early, stays late through life where October follows September and November touches October and then instead of December and Christ's birth, there is no Bethlehem Star, no rejoicing, but September comes again and old OCtober and so on down the years, with no winter, spring, or revivifying summer. For these beings, fall is the ever normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth. In gusts they beetle-scurry, creep, thread, filter, motion, make all moons sullen, and surely cloud all clear-run waters. THe spider-web hears them, trembles--breaks. Such are the autumn people. Beware of them.”

― Ray Bradbury

“It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”

― Patrick Rothfuss

“This story is for all the slightly broken people out there. I am one of you.

 You are not alone. You are all beautiful to me.”

― Patrick Rothfuss