The Random Thoughts of a Writer
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
The Pitt: Season 2 Trailer (HD) (Noah Wyle medical drama)
Saturday, December 13, 2025
The Young and the Restless: "Next Week on Y&R" Promo (December 15, 2025 - December 19, 2025)
Here's a promo for next week's episodes of The Young & the Restless (Week of December 15 through December 19). It looks like this is going to be a very interesting week of episodes on The Young & the Restless! 😀
Beyond the Gates: "Next Week on Beyond the Gates" Promo (December 15, 2025 - December 19, 2025)
Here's a promo for next week's episodes of Beyond the Gates (December 15 through December 19). Beyond the Gates is going to be very exciting next week. Based on this promo, I'm especially excited to see what's going to happen next with Nicole's storyline! 😁
Days of Our Lives: "NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS" Promo (Week of December 15, 2025 - December 19, 2025)
Here's a promo for next week's episodes of Days of Our Lives (Week of December 15 through December 19). It looks like Days of Our Lives is going to be absolutely crazy next week! 🤯
Monday, December 8, 2025
Book Review: Heat of the Everflame (Book #3 in The Kindred’s Curse Saga) by Penn Cole (Major Spoilers)
I’d like to start this review by saying that discovering Penn Cole’s Kindred’s Curse Saga and reading the first two books in the series: (Book #1: Spark of the Everflame) and (Book #2: Glow of the Everflame) was honestly one of the biggest highlights of my year, both reading-wise, and my life in general last year. I LOVED Spark of the Everflame so much that I basically dived into reading Glow of the Everflame right away without taking the time to review Spark of the Everflame. I had a lot going on in my life soon after I finished reading Glow of the Everflame, so I never got the chance to write a review for the book while the details were still fresh in my mind. That being said, I’m definitely planning on going back and reading the first two books in the Kindred’s Curse Saga again at some point in the future, so that I can review them. It’s a pretty rare situation where I’ll marathon a series of relatively long fantasy books like the first two books in the Kindred’s Curse Saga right away; however, I just thought that Spark of the Everflame was so good and it sucked me into the point, but at the time, I couldn’t help but read Glow of the Everflame right away. That being said, here are my thoughts on Heat of the Everflame.
One of the first major strengths of both Heat of the Everflame and the Kindred’s Curse Saga series as a whole is, of course, the writing for the characters. Diem is a fantastic protagonist. Luther serves as a great love interest for Diem and a well-written character as a whole. The fact that Luther was a well-written love interest is definitely essential, since this book, and the Kindred’s Curse Saga as a whole, is considered a romantasy. Plus, Diem and Luther have definitely had amazing chemistry with each other right from the beginning of the series.
The political intrigue is another element of Heat of the Everflame that was executed very well by Cole, and it was an aspect of the book that I really enjoyed. It was exciting to see Diem and the other characters work together to have Diem’s coronation as the Queen of Lumnos legitimatized and deal with the obstacles that Diem faced along the way together throughout the course of the book. The part of the book where Diem and the other characters stayed with the queen of Umbros, Yrselle, was definitely one of the parts of the book that stands out as my favorite for a lot of reasons. I loved Queen Yrselle as a character, and I thought that she was very well written, especially since she had a villainous nature to her. Plus, I felt like that was one of the parts of the books that really helped illustrate some of the larger themes of the book, such as the implications of power and duty by having Diem and the other characters being forced to give up their weapons during that portion of the book, and Yrselle questioning Diem about who she would save in a crisis when the group was playing a dinner party discussion game.
Saturday, December 6, 2025
Book Review: Lightlark (Book #1 in The Lightlark Saga) by Alex Aster (Major Spoilers)
Right off the bat, I would like to mention that I’m actually reviewing this book after having read it for the second time. That being said, here are my thoughts on the first book in Alex Aster’s Lightlark Saga, Lightlark.
Reading Lightlark was definitely a very interesting experience for me, as I thoroughly enjoyed the book. Reading it got me excited to read the rest of Aster’s Lightlark Saga, which I would say is a really good thing. At the same time, however, I also can’t deny that Lightlark also has a lot of flaws, too.
Friday, December 5, 2025
The Young and the Restless: "Next Week on Y&R" Promo (December 8, 2025 - December 12, 2025)
Here's a promo for next week's episodes of The Young & the Restless (Week of December 8 through December 12). It looks like this is going to be another exciting week of episodes on The Young & the Restless! 😀

