Mandy

Mandy

Co-Host - The Incoherent Fangirl

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Mandy grew up with her nose pressed between the pages of books and her heart in faraway places. She currently lives under a pile of four rotten dogs with her husband, Josh, and could not be happier about it. She is a Loki lover, her current fictional boyfriend is Aaron Warner (but trust us, you'll know if that changes), and she would move to Terrasen right now if she could. When she's not podcasting with Karin, reading, or working on her debut novel, Mandy can be found in her library whispering to her beloved books, chattering away to the BookTok community on TikTok, or spending time with an endless array of dogs, nieces, and nephews.

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April 11, 2024

Funny Story...About How I Started Fake Dating My Ex Fiance's New Fiancee's Ex

"I'm fake dating my ex fiancé's new fiancée's ex" is a mouthful to wrap your mind around...and is exactly the premise of FUNN...

April 08, 2024

A Teenager (With a Crush's) Dream Come True

Neither Ian nor Delilah are in the best place right now. Ian's returning to Boston after a several years' stint playing professional hock...

February 06, 2024

Truly, Madly, Deeply Love This Book

Fun fact: I have no rhythm at all, and I couldn't carry a tune in a bucket.  HOW TO DANCE, Jason B. Dutton's fantastically witty deb...

January 19, 2024

High Stakes and Secret Alchemy

Ash Woods has waited all his life to be an alchemist, but when he's rejected by the prestigious Lancaster Mage's College, he's forced to pr...

January 14, 2024

It's About HER, Y'all

You know the story: she's an incredibly talented songwriter and singer, mega-famous, taking the entire world by storm, and that same world ...

January 03, 2024

A Blast From My Millennial Past

You know those books that you know you're going to read by the cover alone? Yeah, ONE IN A MILLENNIAL: ON FRIENDSHIPS, FEELINGS, FANGIRLS, ...

December 13, 2023

A River of Praise

If you've been on BookTok for more than 35 seconds, you've heard of AK Mulford. They're the author of the wildly popular HIGH MOUNTAIN COUR...

October 21, 2023

RUTHLESS VOWS LIVES UP TO DIVINE RIVALS HYPE by AMANDA E. PURVIS

[The following review was typed for the Inkridden Tribune using the Third Alouette by War Correspondent Amanda E. Purvis and sent in via wa...

October 11, 2023

The Unmaking of my Heart

Pretty often, I hear "uh where is your Southern accent?" when I tell people that I was born and raised in the South. (To that I usually res...

September 19, 2023

Bassists, Backlight, and Nightmares

It'll come as no surprise that I was an early-2000s YA girlie. Twilight ,  The Hunger Games ,  Divergent ...I couldn't get enough...

September 14, 2023

Not Me Furiously Reading The Fury

My mom has been hounding me for  months to read  The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. All of the other readers in my family ha...

September 10, 2023

Stars (and Hearts. and Tears.) in Your (My) Eyes

A few months ago and by some miracle, I became part of the Libro.fm Influencer Program, which gives me access to early copies of audiobooks...

August 24, 2023

A Witch and a Scarecrow Walk Into a Deal

Unless you're still a child, you probably remember what it was like to be an eighteen year old. Talk about a confusing time, am I right? ...

August 21, 2023

BRB, Making Starling House My Entire Personality

We love a good-looking love interest in a book, right? I've made it no secret that my go-tos in the movies that play in my head as I read...

August 21, 2023

Less Charm, More Harm

I ventured into the world of Thistle Grove recently, by way of Lana Harper's  Witches of Thistle Grove series. I started with  Pa...

August 14, 2023

This Book Review is Moist

(I'm sorry for the blog title. It's relevant, I promise.) I was a little late to the  Legends and Lattes bandwagon, but I am fully o...

August 13, 2023

There's Nothing Fake About This Mate

We've made no secrets about the fact that we here at The Incoherent Fangirl are major Lana Ferguson fangirls, so it should come as no surpr...

August 09, 2023

23 Going on 30 (Overnight)

Two blog posts in a day?! Who even am I?! I was fortunate enough to receive an advanced audio copy of  New Adult by Timothy Janovsky...

August 09, 2023

Lord, Beer Me the Strength (to Survive That Cliffhanger!)

Did you know that Entangled Publishing and Red Tower Books are the coolest? Obviously, they're the masterminds who plucked up  Fourth ...

July 05, 2023

The Unfortunate Side Effects of Making Me Hungry

Can you think of a book idea better than, "it's Gilmore Girls meets Practical Magic "? Because I certainly cannot. I stumbled upon Breann...

June 26, 2023

Night of the German Fairytales, Religious Zealots, and Witch Hunts

Do you know that feeling when you see a book cover and it just grabs you in such a way that you don't even care what the book is about, you...

June 08, 2023

Grief, Love, and Gods in the Great War

You may remember that Karin and I got to chat with our beautiful friend Logan of  Once Upon a Book Club recently. During that episode,...

May 31, 2023

Another Book Hangover Courtesy of Shelby Mahurin

I didn't believe NetGalley when they sent me the email that I'd been approved for an ARC of  The Scarlet Veil by Shelby Mahurin. I tho...

May 24, 2023

3 Tablespoons of Human Remains, a Southern B&B, and a Nude (Allowed) Beach

Mrs. Nash is dead. I mean, at least, you'd hope Mrs. Nash is dead when you read  Mrs. Nash's Ashes by Sarah Adler; otherwise, it'd b...

May 18, 2023

My First DNF of 2023

You know the feeling of a highly anticipated book? Where you hear all the buzz, and see all the bookish boxes advertising their special edi...

May 11, 2023

Second Chances, Floral Architecture, and the WRONG Kind of Gatorade

Once upon a time, many many moons ago, I was a wedding videographer. My husband and I owned a company and spent every weekend filming fairy...

May 04, 2023

Forget Everything You Thought You Knew About Cinderella

A few months back, I got a DM from an author asking me if I'd be willing to read their upcoming novel, a Cinderella retelling from the step...

May 03, 2023

A Financier and a Lawyer Walk into a Bar...

Since we are chatting with Lisa Lin on the podcast soon, I wanted to make sure I read  The Rachel Experiment so that I could properly ...

April 27, 2023

I can't come up with anything witty because this was the best book I've ever read and I'm reeling

I didn't know when I was handed the ARC of Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. I thought it had a cool cover, sure. But I didn't know what was c...

April 24, 2023

Emily Henry Books are my Happy Place

If Emily Henry writes it, I will read it. If Emily Henry writes it, I will love it. I don't know what it is about her, other than the w...

April 24, 2023

Not So Unfortunately Yours

I don't know how I've ended up with the luck I've had lately, but landing not one, but  two Tessa Bailey ARCs via NetGalley feels like...

April 05, 2023

Hexes, Fake Dating, and Spiiiiice

I've made it no secret that when I picture 90% of the male leads in the books I read, they're either Adam Driver or Tom Hiddleston. I don't...

March 30, 2023

Book Hangovers and OTPs featuring The Evergreen Heir

"How did the hipster burn their tongue?" "They drank their coffee before it was cool." Look, I'm not here to brag (okay, I'm totally he...

March 05, 2023

A Love Letter to Fangirls and Aunties (and Preferably Fangirl Aunties)

The squeal I squelt when I got the NetGalley email that I'd been approved for an advanced copy of Christina Lauren's highly anticipated new...

February 13, 2023

Fake Dates and Making My Stomach Growl

If life has taught me anything lately, it's that I should never read without a snack. Just ate dinner? Doesn't matter . Feeling full? Ha, t...

February 06, 2023

Watery Lemonade with a Side of Scandal in the Ton

If you've listened to the podcast for more than, I don't know, thirty-five seconds, you know that I live for period pieces. Give me all of ...

February 03, 2023

Murder at Urban Promise Prep, featuring Promise Boys

I've been looking forward to reading Promise Boys since I got a digital ARC at YALLFest last year, but I've been struggling to pick up non-...

January 25, 2023

The Coziest Book I've Ever Read in my Entire Life

One thing about me: if Amber D. Lewis recommends a book, I'm going to want to read it. Since she's the author of one of my favorite series,...

January 17, 2023

Weyward Women

You know those books you read that are heavy, at times difficult reads, but are incredibly moving and worth the pain? Weyward by Emilia Har...

January 16, 2023

Subtitle: A Guide We All Know They Won't Follow

It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you mention Harry Styles' dimples in the first chapter of your book, there's a 99.9998% chan...

January 09, 2023

Gentle Reminder That You're Perfect, featuring Hungry Ghost

Content warning : the following blog post contains a review of a graphic novel that includes depictions of disordered eating.  I'll ...

January 03, 2023

September 19, But Make It (Seemingly) Never End

The psychology of time loops is not something I thought I’d be genuinely curious about going into 2023. I also didn’t expect fo...

December 31, 2022

Communicating With Spirits Circa 1873

What do you get when you take a podcaster and live-in aunt and give her a podcast winter break and send her live-in nieces back to their da...

December 05, 2022

The Stardust in the Ashes (and the tears in my eyes)

You know the drill by now, because I've talked about this series on probably 95% of our podcast episodes so far. If you haven't read the Fi...

December 05, 2022

Gold Spun: a duology that made me question all my preferences!

I'm just going to dive right in here and say something extremely controversial. I just read a duology, that contained no shortage of Fae ch...

December 05, 2022

Chaos and...my freaking heart!

I'm sure when we come back from our break, I'll have a few stories to share about my first YALLFest experience. Suffice it to say, it was t...

November 10, 2022

HELP…My Boss Has Seen My 🍒🍑

Um…my boss subscribed to my OnlyFans… I’m definitely not jealous of Cassie in this scenario! I was over the moon wh...

November 09, 2022

Reliving Snowpocalypse 2014 with Whiteout

Picture it: January 2014. The state of Georgia has a grand total of three snowplows (probably). And we're hit with record snow. Just under ...

November 03, 2022

Small Towns, Banned Books, and Secret Parties (Oh My!)

All I needed to see was the title to know that I wanted to read  The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks by Shauna Robinson. A banned. boo...

October 16, 2022

Incoherent Screaming Courtesy of Olivie Blake, Macmillan Audio, and NetGalley

I'm not sure how I did it. I contained it. THE scream. The one that tried to wrench itself from my body on that fateful Tuesday when I, stu...

October 11, 2022

A Rom-Com in Which the Grinch Meets Schitt's Creek

I'm sure if you've listened to the podcast for more than 5 minutes, you've gleaned that I am a Christmas person. Two of my three favorite m...

September 17, 2022

Twitter Sensation Turned Contemporary Fantasy

When I started  The Luminaries by Susan Dennard, I had no idea how this story idea began. In fact, I didn't know that it had been a Tw...

September 13, 2022

A Novella So Good My Niece Stole It

Look, I've made no secrets that I'm obsessed with everything Amber D. Lewis writes. The woman is magic, okay? Like the TikTok trend says: "...

September 13, 2022

A Very Irregular Not-So-Secret Review of a Book

I finished another ARC! If you've been listening to the podcast recently, you know that Karin and I got a little ambitious with ARCs late...

September 09, 2022

Kisses, Curses, and a Talking Cat

I have a confession to make. I would sacrifice fall for it to be summer forever. There, I said it. I love the coziness that fall brin...

September 01, 2022

Appendix-less Me and The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy

I've seen and heard tons of buzz about  The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen, so when I was approved for an ARC via NetGa...

August 30, 2022

Bookish People...like us

All it took was the title.  Bookish People . I saw it on NetGalley and had to read it. That may be kind of sad, but I just knew that...

August 23, 2022

Historical Fantasy and the DC Race War of 1919

Chills.  Chills .  That’s what I felt at the end of my latest audiobook ARC,  The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelop...

August 20, 2022

Two for One on Broken Hearts

Look, my week was going just fine, okay? Then, NetGalley let me know that I'd been approved for an audiobook ARC of  The Ballad of Nev...

August 18, 2022

A Peruvian Australian Whirlwind

Continuing our trend of ARCs lately, I was given the chance to read  Under the Influence by Karina May.  Karina is an Aussie au...

August 10, 2022

The Wild Wild West...and Greek gods?!

So, I have a confession to make: I was raised in the Episcopal church, and my mom would let me steal away to the Parish Hall's library ever...

July 30, 2022

The Villa (ARC)

Rachel Hawkins' The Villa follows best friends Emily and Chess--both authors--on a summer abroad. Emily is healing both from a mysterious p...

July 28, 2022

Encanto (but for grown ups)

You know that beloved Disney movie about the family with the grandmother that (let’s be clear) runs the show, leading her family to t...

July 19, 2022

Spells for Lost Things

Mandy here! I was fortunate enough to receive an ARC of Spells for Lost Things by Jenna Evans Welch, which presented the perfect opportunit...