Status Updates From Beta Read

“Is there anything else I can get you? A new personality?” LAUGHED OUT LOUD AT THAT

Grimalka by Emily Marie!

Kurono, I hope you get eaten by a dragon. Please perish expeditiously. It would be a great boon for society.

Grimalka by Emily Marie!

I need to force myself to stop, or I'm not going to get any writing done today.

Emily does an AMAZING job of incorporating exposition and action. I'm so hooked, but it's never an info dump or too much worldbuilding at once. I'm very impressed. Also, her POV differentiation is SPECTACULAR, especially for both first-person POVs.

Grimalka by Emile Marie!

Literally captivated within the first 2 pages. The worldbuilding is actually insane, and I'm already so attached to the characters. There are so many things teased too!

And dragons. I haven't read a good fantasy novel with dragons in forever, and I know this is going to be LIT. Calliope's POV is FIRE.

Revival by Keira Mueller—

Stopping at chapter 7 for the night! I’m LOVING this so far!

Debating whether to mark this as computer pages or how it would be if printed in a book? On the computer, I’m on page 10, but in a book it would be page 20 since every computer page equals two book pages.

I really like the fact that Avalanche is older! She’s 20, which I appreciate in a world of books focused around 16/17 year olds

Beta reading Revival by the amazing wonderful Keira!!!!! I’ve been so excited for this book!!

Beta reading GRIMALKA for bestie Emily Marie!

So treasured that you trusted me with this, Emily, and I'm SO fritzing excited!!! Definitely going to be one of my favorite reads of 2026.

MWAHAHAHHA. @Shades, @Katniss, Fallon is MINE! 😈

At…a loss…for words…that WAS AMAZING
Like girl that had better character work than any other novel I’ve ever read

Too more chapters 😭 Gosh this is so fritzing good

what do you mean I only have four chapters left 😭

What. The. Fossil. Fuels. Was. That. Plot. Twist?!

I can see so many people having thought-provoking discussions with this book 🙂‍↕️ Keira, have you ever thought about doing a discussion guide or no?

KEIRA I GOT TO CHAPTER 25! Is that the one you’ve been eager for me to get to????? (or was it chapter 29, I can't for the life of me remember)

Shadows beyong the gaslamps

Finally past the halfway point! Keira this is SO GOOD!

Onto chapter ten! Ah this is so good! I can’t wait to meet Zander 😍

A friend’s yet-to-be-published manuscript… say less! Let’s go!

Already madly in love with this story and I’m only on chapter one 😍

Beta reading for bestie Keira Mueller! Ah so excited!