Alexis:
I hope you all had a great New Year’s Eve! I made Earl Grey hot chocolate and watched While You Were Sleeping, so it was a nice and cozy way to ring in the new year.
I read 60 books and 24,365 pages in 2025. While I rated more books 5 stars than just the ones listed below, here are my top 10 reads of 2025 (in no particular order). If you’re interested in learning more, I’ve written reviews for most of them! Here’s to a great 2026, and I hope you all read some great books!
- Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross
- The Summers Between Us Noreen Nanja
- The Floating World by Axie Oh
- The Demon and the Light by Axie Oh
- Skipshock by Caroline O’Donoghue
- Dark Heir by C.S. Pacat
- Red City by Marie Lu
- Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
- First-Time Caller by B.K. Borison
- Harvest of Hearts by Andrea Eames
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Hello! We're Anna and Alexis, twins from the Richmond, Virginia area. We both studied English and creative writing in college.
Anna spent a year after college working in book publishing in New York City. After living outside of D.C., she moved back to the Richmond area. She works in marketing. Her favorite genre to read is literary fiction, especially by female authors, and she also enjoys dystopian novels.
Alexis works in marketing and writes novels on the side. She recently finished grad school, where she received her MFA in creative writing. She loves reading fantasy, especially YA, magical realism, and the occasional lyrical fiction and romance.
We’ve been reading and writing together as long as we can remember, and we’re excited to share our bookish thoughts with you! Check us out on Instagram @takestwotobookreview.
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