★★★★ I first heard about Meraki on Bookstagram but I can't remember from which account. Meraki; a syren story is written by Naomi Kelly and independently published. When it came up as a 99p deal on Kindle i rushed to buy it. Meraki is centred on Wren, a syren who has run (or swam) away… Continue reading Meraki review
This week has been fairly busy, being the first full week with children in school. Bit of a shock going from 20 children at most in my bubble before the summer holidays to 120... So I was a bit tired by the end of the week! Currently reading I'm not about half way through Tower… Continue reading Weekly wrap up
So this is a non bookish post but I thought I'd share what I spent the majority of lockdown doing! I started to learn to knit in January this year and then work got busy and stressful so I stopped. Then March happened and i was only going in once every couple of weeks so… Continue reading Knitted Blanket!
I was very lucky that I received a few books for my birthday! Eek, 31… Doesn’t feel that long ago that I was in my early 20s. My housemates know that the majority of my bedroom is books and one, Amy, knows about this blog and Bookstagram account. She got me one that’s been on… Continue reading Birthday Books
★★★★★ I’ve had The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh on my Kindle since a colleague at the first school I worked in (so about 7 years) recommended it to me. I think I’ve just been so distracted by fantasy and dystopian that I haven’t thought to read it until now. However, as I’m in… Continue reading The Language of Flowers
I started playing along with this meme after I saw it on Amanda’s blog Literary Weaponry. I still can’t find the original. Time for part thirteen! The idea is: You go on to your Goodreads want to read shelf.Order the books so the date ascends.Take the first 5 or however many you want books. If… Continue reading Down the TBR Hole #13
★★★★ I was kindly given a copy of an e-book ARC from the author Rebecca Crunden in exchange for an honest review. This is the first book in The Outlands Pentalogy. As soon as Crunden said it was dystopian, I was very keen to read it, dystopian being one of my favourite genres. A Touch… Continue reading A Touch of Death
I started playing along with this meme after I saw it on Amanda’s blog Literary Weaponry. I still can’t find the original. Time for part twelve! The idea is: You go on to your Goodreads want to read shelf.Order the books so the date ascends.Take the first 5 or however many you want books. If… Continue reading Down the TBR Hole #12
★★★★★ I was lucky enough to get a free ARC of this from Book Sirens. This was one that I chose to read as the blurb sounded interesting. I’d never heard of the author, Johan Twiss, before but I’ll be keeping an eye out on his other books! As the title suggests, the main character,… Continue reading Four Years Trapped In My Mind Palace
I started playing along with this meme after I saw it on Amanda’s blog Literary Weaponry. I still can't find the original blog. Time for part eleven! The idea is: You go on to your Goodreads want to read shelf.Order the books so the date ascends.Take the first 5 or however many you want books.… Continue reading Down The TBR Hole #11
The theme for July’s box was Magical Talents! I love any magical themes so I was excited to get this. The book featured was Splinters of Scarlet by Emily Bain Murphy. I haven’t read this yet but it has been all over bookstagram and seems to have a lot of love. Set in 19th Century Denmark,… Continue reading July Book Box Club Unboxing
★★★★★ Empire of Storms is the fifth book in the Throne of Glass series. If you haven’t read the series yet, I’ve reviewed throne of Glass here. Dorian is now free from possession and his father is dead, making him king of Adarlan. Aelin and her court are figuring out how to defeat the Varg… Continue reading Empire of Storms
I started playing along with this meme after I saw it on Amanda’s blog Literary Weaponry. Time for part ten! The idea is: You go on to your Goodreads want to read shelf.Order the books so the date ascends.Take the first 5 or however many you want books. If you’re already doing this you start… Continue reading Down The TBR Hole #10
I haven't done a wrap up for a while so thought it would be interested to start again just to see what my reading habits have been like! Only three books read this month but that’s because it was the end of term and it’s exhausting trying to keep children socially distanced. Also the last… Continue reading July Wrap Up
I started playing along with this meme after I saw it on Amanda’s blog Literary Weaponry. Time for part nine! The idea is: You go on to your Goodreads want to read shelf.Order the books so the date ascends.Take the first 5 or however many you want books. If you’re already doing this you start… Continue reading Down The TBR Hole #9
★★★★★ I received Burn in the May Book Box Club. It took me so long to get round to it just because I was so immersed in the Throne of Glass series but, as the book group with the author Patrick Ness was fast approaching, I decided to have a break from that world and… Continue reading Burn
I started playing along with this meme after I saw it on Amanda’s blog Literary Weaponry. Time for part eight! The idea is: You go on to your Goodreads want to read shelf.Order the books so the date ascends.Take the first 5 or however many you want books. If you’re already doing this you start… Continue reading Down the TBR Hole Part 8
★★★★★ Queen of Shadows is the fourth book in the Throne of Glass series. If you haven’t read them, I reviewed the first, Throne of Glass, here. This one starts with Aelin (formally Celaena) return from Wendlyn back to Rifthold to find that everything has changed since she left. Dorian has been possessed by a… Continue reading Queen of Shadows
I started playing along with this meme after I saw it on Amanda’s blog Literary Weaponry. Time for part seven! The idea is: You go on to your Goodreads want to read shelf.Order the books so the date ascends.Take the first 5 or however many you want books. If you’re already doing this you start… Continue reading Down The TBR Hole Part 7
The theme for June’s Book Box Club was very appropriate for current times and is what all people should strive to be: Courageous and Kind. The Short Knife by Elen Caldecott Taken from the spoiler card: In the chaos of the Dark Ages, Mai and her sister Haf are forced out of their family home… Continue reading June Book Box Unboxing
I started playing along with this meme after I saw it on Amanda’s blog Literary Weaponry. Time for part six! The idea is: You go on to your Goodreads want to read shelf.Order the books so the date ascends.Take the first 5 or however many you want books. If you’re already doing this you start… Continue reading Down the TBR Hole #6
Through bookstagram, you suddenly become aware of all these small companies offering amazing bookish subscriptions. One of these is Spearcraft. Unfortunately, I would never subscribe to the monthly box just because I can’t afford it (damn my rubbish wage!) However, when I saw that they were offering a one off Lord of the Rings box… Continue reading Spearcraft Lord Of The Rings Unboxing
I started playing along with this meme after I saw it on Amanda’s blog Literary Weaponry. Time for part five! The idea is: You go on to your Goodreads want to read shelf.Order the books so the date ascends.Take the first 5 or however many you want books. If you’re already doing this you start… Continue reading Down The TBR Hold #5
★★★★★ (This was four stars at first but the end took it up to five!) I think this is more of a ramble than a review but there we go. I’m not the best at proper reviews! Heir of Fire is the third book in the Throne of Glass series. This is the first time… Continue reading Heir Of Fire
I started playing along with this meme after I saw it on Amanda’s blog Literary Weaponry. Time for part four! The idea is: You go on to your Goodreads want to read shelf.Order the books so the date ascends.Take the first 5 or however many you want books. If you’re already doing this you start… Continue reading Down the TBR Hole #4
★★★★ This is the first book from Marie Mackay, born in England but now living in Canada. The author sent me a free ARC of A World Through Sapphire Eyes in return for an honest review. I’ve kept this as spoiler free as I can! A World through Sapphire Eyes revolves mainly around Vason… Continue reading A World Through Sapphire Eyes Review
I started playing along with this meme after I saw it on Amanda’s blog Literary Weaponry. The idea is: You go on to your Goodreads want to read shelf.Order the books so the date ascends.Take the first 5 or however many you want books. If you’re already doing this you start where you left off… Continue reading Down The TBR Hole #3
I was looking forward to this box all month as the theme was Dangers and Dragons! Anything fantasy related I love. The featured book was Burn by Patrick Ness. I’d seen this around bookstagram so was happy to receive it in this box. The blurb says On a family farm in1950s America, Sarah discovers her… Continue reading May Book Box Club Unboxing
I started playing along with this meme after I saw it on Amanda’s blog Literary Weaponry. I really enjoyed doing my first one so have decided to keep it up and have a purge of my tbr! The idea is: You go on to your Goodreads want to read shelf.Order the books so the date… Continue reading Down the TBR hole #2
★★★★★ I didn’t know when to read this one as prequels tend to come out after a series has finished. I read the first two books in the Throne of Glass series then decided to go back and read The Assassin’s Blade. There are five novellas included in this book, in which some events are… Continue reading The Assassin’s Blade
I first saw this meme on Amanda’s blog Literary Weaponry. “WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words and was formerly hosted by A Daily Rhythm. It is open for anyone to participate, even without a blog you can comment on Sam’s post with your own answers. It is a… Continue reading WWW Wednesday
I first saw this meme on Amanda’s blog Literary Weaponry but the original is on Lost in a Story blog (can't find it to link to though.) The idea is: You go on to your Goodreads want to read shelf.order the books so the date ascendsTake the first five or however many you want. If… Continue reading Down The TBR Hole
★★★★★ After finishing the buddy read of Wolf Hall, I quickly came back to the Throne of Glass series. I don’t know whether to read a different book between each one just to make it last longer! I don’t want it to end! Crown of Midnight leads on from after Celaena has been crowned the… Continue reading Crown of Midnight
I’ve seen this around on a few bookstagrammer’s shelves and thought it was such a good idea. I normally end up staring at my shelves for what feels like hours (probably only a couple of minutes) trying to decide what to read. Some other bookstagrammers plan what they’re going to read each month but I… Continue reading TBR jar
I first saw this meme on Amanda’s blog Literary Weaponry “WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words and was formerly hosted by A Daily Rhythm. It is open for anyone to participate, even without a blog you can comment on Sam’s post with your own answers. It is a… Continue reading WWW Wednesday
So I’m not going to do a proper review, I’m just going to say some of my thoughts on it. It’s way too complicated to write a proper review! I’d been seeing this everywhere on bookstagram, especially with the release of the final book, The Mirror & the Light. I love historical fiction, especially those… Continue reading Wolf Hall
So it looks like I’ll probably be going back to work on the 8th of June after schools finished in the middle of March for lockdown. I have been in a few times but I have been mainly at home! So I thought I would share what I have been doing! Reading All the books. Since… Continue reading Life in lockdown
I’m not going to lie, I’ve done the Pottermore sorting a few times before and each time I’ve come out as a different house. So far I’ve been Hufflepuff, Gryffindor and Slytherin. It’s been a few years so I thought I would try it again! I made a new account and went to the sorting… Continue reading Pottermore sorting
I love seeing how other people organise their bookcases. As much as I love seeing rainbow and pastel bookcases on bookstagram, mine just don’t work like that. For one, I don’t have enough colours, all mine seem to be black. I think that might be a dystopian/fantasy thing. And for two, it stresses me out… Continue reading Bookcase tour
The theme for April’s box was Cursed Kingdoms! The books: Thorn by Intisar Khananai Princess Alyrra is grateful to escape her own kingdom when she is sough as the bride for a powerful prince. But when she arrives at the new palace she finds herself transformed and trapped inside the body of a cruel maid.… Continue reading April Book Box Club unboxing
★★★★★ Sarah J. Mass is the author of the Throne of Glass series, A Court of Thorns and Roses series and most recently the adult series, Crescent City. She wrote the first draft of Throne of Glass when she was just sixteen. This is actually the first book I’ve read of hers but I can’t… Continue reading Throne of Glass review
I think partly helped by lockdown, I’ve read more books this month than I had in total for January, February and March put together! Eight books read in total (although that's now nine as I finished Throne of Glass on the very last day of April!) and one I DNF. The books I finished were:… Continue reading April wrap up
★★★★★ Hold Back The Tide is written by Melinda Salisbury. She also wrote The Sin Eater’s Daughter series which was nominated for many awards including the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Award 2015. I haven’t read anything by her before but I’ll be sure to look out for her other books! Hold Back The Tide is about… Continue reading Hold Back The Tide review
★★★★ Elizabeth Is Missing is written by Emma Healey and this is in fact her first novel. It also won the Costa Book Awards in 2014. She has also written Whistle In The Dark which focuses on teenage depression which I would be quite interested to read. Elizabeth Is Missing is about an elderly woman… Continue reading Elizabeth Is Missing review
The theme of this box was Mythical Monsters which may possibly be my favourite theme, although May’s sounds pretty awesome! Being a fan of all things fantasy, I love anything featuring dragons, mermaids, krakens, unicorns etc. The featured book is Hold back The Tide by Melinda Salisbury. The blurb for this one is: Alva is… Continue reading Book Box Club March Unboxing
★★★★ Oops. Well it has definitely been more than a week since my last post. You'd think I'd be writing more now we're in lockdown not less. But I have been doing a lot more reading, playing Northgard on the Switch and getting better at knitting! Let me start by saying that I don’t normally… Continue reading Then She Was Gone review
Roses are red I’ve been a member of the Book Box Club for about two years on and off now and (even though I should be saving money for boring adult things) I can’t see myself stopping any time soon. The theme of the February box was Roses are Red. I must admit I wasn’t… Continue reading February Book Box unboxing
Scythe by Neil Shusterman After seeing this series everywhere on Bookstagram, I decided to treat myself to a purchase from The Book Depository. Since reading The Hunger Games about 8 or 9 years ago I love anything dystopian! I’d never read anything by this author before but I know lots of people love his novels… Continue reading Scythe Review
Follow my blog with Bloglovin My very lovely housemate gifted me Circe by Madeline Miller as a Christmas present. She knows me well! I had seen it a few times on Instagram and, as I love historical fiction, knew I wanted to read it so was thrilled when I unwrapped it! I hadn’t actually heard… Continue reading Circe review
By Joseph Elliott I seem to be on a streak with my five star reads at the moment! This book has everything I could want; a map in the front, Vikingesque characters, author’s knowledge on SEN, and a great plot! So the story focuses on two main characters, Agatha and Jamie. The clan view Agatha… Continue reading The Good Hawk review
