Book Review Basics

Hello and welcome to The Bookie Bits blog! I am your writer, Savannah Boone, and I will be reviewing mainly new adult fantasy romance books. We'll delve into young adult at times and even sub-genres of fantasy such as dark and urban. I know my tastes in books pretty well, but sometimes I like to venture out and explore other genres/sub-genres, especially if they have been recommended to me.

Now! Time to cover the point of this blog post. Here you will find the basics of how my blog operates, from how I decide the genres, my spicy rating scale, and acronyms you may come across. The goal is to create a guide for you, the reader, so you can understand where I am coming from and what I'm talking about at times.

Let's get into it.

Acronyms

YA- Young Adult (Character ages from 12 to 18)

NA- New Adult (Character ages from 19 to 30)

Genres

Sometimes genres can be subjective, however, to negate this I will be pulling the genres of each book from Goodreads.com. This way there is no confusion or fights to be had over what genre/sub-genre the book belongs to. If you do want to fight, you can take it up with Goodreads. (:

Maps

I am a map fanatic when it comes to my fantasy books. I need to know where the characters are (visually) at all times. So, not having a map will always be a con for me unless it takes place in a current-day location. Then I can let it slide and look up my own map.

Spicy Rating

Spicy ratings can be subjective as well depending on the reader. So, to clear things up I made a spicy rating scale for you to refer back to when needed.

Nada-- no kissing, no hand holding, nothing

The Basics-- kissing, hand holding, light touches

The Basics 2.0-- more details but still vague and/or cuts out right before the scene

Foreplay-- more detail, such as kissing and foreplay, and vaguely describes the scene

Hot Mama-- a drastic increase in detail, such as detailing the acts and/or scenes, and occurs less than 3 times throughout the book

Holy Hell!-- a drastic increase in detail, such as detailing the acts and/or scenes with more colorful vocabulary, and occurs more than 3 times throughout the book

Conclusion

Hopefully, this introduction to the basics of my blog helps you as you explore my posts! This post will be updated as needed to make your journey (and to jog my memory) easier. If you have any recommendations on what should be added, please comment down below or shoot me an email! I welcome any and all suggestions.