Best of the Year...BC Awards

Welcome to the BC Awards!!! We will be showcasing our favorites from the year!

Best Movie:

Blodeuedd's pick......KPop Demon Hunters (2025)

Carole's pick.......Nuremberg (2025)

Top 3 Binged TV Shows (no order):

Carole's pick............The Daily Show, Ghosts, & Downton Abbey

Blodeuedd's pick............The Lady's Companion, Ghosts, & High Potential

Best Book Re-Read:

Blodeuedd's pick.....Written in Red, Murder of Crows, & Vision in Silver

Carole's pick......Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Best Book Cover:

Carole's pick......

Blodeuedd's pick.....

Best Audiobook:

Blodeuedd's pick...........A Rip Through Time by Kelley Armstrong

Carole's pick.......Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez

Best Physical Book (ebook, paperback, hardcover): 

Carole's pick.....Heart of Obsidian by Nalini Singh

Blodeuedd's pick........A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett

Notable Mentions: 

Blodeuedd's pick......Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries, One Dark Window, & The Housemaid

Carole's pick......A Rip Through Time & The Collected Regrets of Clover

And that is the end of the BC Awards. We are pumped to see what 2026 has in store for us!!

Bests of October

Here are the best of the bests for October!!!! 

Best Book of the Month:

Blodeuedd - A Rip Through Time by Kelley Armstrong

"Best book of the month. A thrilling mystery"

Carole -  Heart of Obsidian by Nalini Singh

"Lots of really good ones this month, but this was just a smidge better. ;)"

Best Movie of the Month:

Carole -  We Have a Ghost (2023)

"Fresh and fun. Humor and feels."

Blodeuedd - The Blackening (2022)

"I wanted something scary for Halloween, but not too scary, so humour and social commentary, perfect."

Best TV show of the Month:

Blodeuedd - Wednesday (s2) & Elsbeth

"I finally watched s2 of Wednesday. Elsbeth was a fun series too."

Carole - The Osbournes (s1-4)

"Revisited this show because...why not? I forgot how much I loved this family!"

Best Cover of the Month:

Carole's pick. 

Blodeuedd's pick

Honorable Mention(s):

Carole's pick(s):

"The last two of this series is just so good and you can't stop reading. When can I re-read the series ;)"

 

Book Review: Heart of Obsidian by Nalini Singh

Author: Nalini Singh

Title: Heart of Obsidian

Series: Psy-Changeling #12

Genre: PNR, UF, SciFi

Format: ebook

Pages: 368

Published: June 4, 2013

Where I got It: Borrowed from library

Summary: 

A dangerous, volatile rebel, hands stained blood red.

A woman whose very existence has been erased.

A love story so dark, it may shatter the world itself.

A deadly price that must be paid.

The day of reckoning is here.

Review:

I am making some headway in this series! Yayy!

We follow Kaleb and Sahara. Sahara has been locked up and tortured for years. On the other side, Kaleb has been looking all over the world for her. Can she even be saved? Can he bring back Sahara and untangle her mind? 

This was pretty darn dark at times. Poor Sahara. She went through SO much. Also, poor Kaleb. He has a lot going on. 

Can they save each other? Eeee I had no idea what was going to happen the entire time. I was anxious for them both and honestly...for the whole world of the Psy. Things are changing and breaking. 

I'm so glad I took a mini break from the series. I was struggling, but they rekindled my love of the series. Yayy! Sometimes a break and a good story can fix all the doubt. 

But yes, a LOT happening in this one and lots and lots of spoilers. Trying to stay as vague as possible. 

The ending has me itching for the next book. 

5 stars. 

Favorite Character(s): Kaleb

Least Favorite Character(s): The Council

 Challenge(s):

- Library Love #28

- TBR #10 (Here Be Monsters)

Best of June

Here are our bests of June! 

Best Movie of the Month:

Blodeuedd - "Movies...dunno what I watched as always."

Carole - Death on the Nile (2022)

"So good. Def recommend if you love a good whodunit."

Best Book of the Month:

Carole - Storm Cursed by Patricia Briggs

"Storm Cursed was great."

Blodeuedd - Heart of Obsidian by Nalini Singh

"Best book goes to Heart of Obsidian by Nalini Singh. But it was a slooow month, my groove is not back"

Best TV show of the Month:

Blodeuedd - Never Have I Ever (s4) & Will Trent

"This month I watched Never have I ever. Great as always. And Will Trent. I really liked that show"

Carole - Modern Family & The Rookie (s4)

"Been binge-watching Modern Family! Literally so funny! And The Rookie is funny but also can make you sob. So good."

Best Cover of the Month:

Blodeuedd - "Fav cover cos hot guy."

Carole's - "Cute cover!!!"

Blodeuedd's Monday Review: Heart of Obsidian by Nalini Singh

By: Nalini Singh

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Series: Psy-Changeling, Book 12

Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins

Release date: 06-01-17 by Tantor Audio

Paranormal romance / from nexttory

I still have my audiobook streaming? site, oh damn, did I forget to cancel it by the way?! Anyway so I went for Singh. I read them randomly through the years. Then I started the new ones and devoured them. I did realise that I never actually finished the previous ones.

Well this got dark fast. Sahara has been a prisoner for 7 years and tortured. Kaleb was tortured all his life. He has trying to find her for 7 years to save her. Her mind is all messed up.

Damn. Dark. Their previous relationship is balancing on the edge for me. I mean hmmmm.

They are together again. He is darkness but wants her safe. She is falling for me. 

I should have written this at once. It was really good. Had me on the edge. He moves the earth for her, literally.

Angela Dawe is an amazing narrator and I have loved her Psy books so it was fun to try the earlier ones.

A dangerous, volatile rebel, hands stained blood red. A woman whose very existence has been erased. A love story so dark it may shatter the world itself. A deadly price that must be paid. The day of reckoning is here.