What are your plans for Halloween?

Decorating your house? 👻
Halloween party? 🎃
Going trick or treating? 🍬

Top Ten Tuesday is featured by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

Topic: Halloween Freebie!

I didn’t really know what to do so what you’ve got is…….

What’s Your Ghost Name?!

1st letter of your forename
A to I = Raven
J to R = Gloomy
S to Z = Twilight

Birth month
Jan to April = the Dark
May to August = the Whispering
Sept to Dec = the Cruel

1st letter of your surname
A to I = of Gloomy Grove
J to R =  of Chillington
S to Z = of Spirit Swamp

Mine is Raven, the Whispering, of Chillington!

Let me know in the comments what yours is!

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Top Ten Tuesday is featured by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

Topic: Things That Make Up My Perfect Day

I’m a simple person at heart!!

~ A lie in, nothing like waking up naturally
~ A coffee…..or 2….or 3….
~ Watching Katie Van Slyke on TT and Snapchat
~ A 5 min morning shower!
~ A trip to Costco with my son and my Mum (one of my fave places, but not for my bank account!)
~ Going to Zizzi’s with my son for a gluten free pizza (they are the best!)
~ Going for a walk with my son looking at people’s houses and saying what we like and don’t!
~ Having a long, relaxing bath
~ Reading my book for an hour or so
~ A deep restful sleep

What would your perfect day look like?

Top Ten Tuesday is featured by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

Topic: Book Covers Featuring Autumnal Colours

Well this is awkward! I did some Autumn covers a couple of weeks ago….so I’m doing to again but hopefully picking different covers!

Illuminae by Jay Kristoff
Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
The Iron Raven by Julie Kagawa
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
Kingdom of Flesh and Fire by JLA
Capturing the Devil by Kerri Maniscalco
Heat Wave by TJ Klune
The Hedge Witch by Cari Thomas
Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse
Godkiller by Hannah Kaner

What are yours?

September 2026
Theme = Study of Death

For fans of:
🫂 Multi-POV and ensemble casts
🔍 Magical medicine and murder
📺 The Pitt meets The Raven Scholar

💛 Legendary tales from Daevabad Book Vase – artwork by @kroovv
💛 Dalliance with Death Task Journal – inspired by Belladonna with artwork from @lichen_and_limestone
💛 Mourning Blooms Bookshelf Bunting – artwork by @swanbones
💛 Academia e-reader Charms with artwork from @lanylevendula

💛 FEATURED BOOK 💛

Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske

✨ An exclusive redesigned cover (art by @c.e.illo, design by @_anniearnold)
✨ Reverse jacket featuring an exclusive trade variant (from the publisher)
✨ Full colour art and foil on the hardback (art by @c.e.illo, design by @_anniearnold)
✨ Digitally printed edges on all three sides (by @ameliarosetattoo | @ameliarose.jpg)
✨ Illustrated endpapers with foil; different front and back (by @ameliarosetattoo | @ameliarose.jpg)
✨ Bonus content
✨ Bound-in author letter with a digital signature

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BLURB

At the Academie of the Grand Duchy of Sieuxerr, every mage with the healing gift has five years to master their power and to prepare for the infamous Grand Exam – a five-day trial whose results will determine their entire future.

The list of exam rules includes:
• You will perform five practical cases.
• Your exam group is chosen at random.
• You pass together, or fail together.

It does not include:
• On the first day, your exam group will find Ysabel Caudotte – the undisputed genius of your cohort – dead in the exam hall.

From Clement, the grieving best friend hiding a dark secret, to Estienne, the arrogant son of the Head Healer set to inherit Ysabel’s top rank, this particular group all have something to hide . . . and all have a connection to the dead girl.

Five scholars. Five secrets. Five days in which to solve a murder, pass the most important exam of their lives and uncover a secret larger than all of their own combined. One with the potential to change the world.

Are you ready?

Let’s begin.

Top Ten Tuesday is featured by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

Topic: Books that Bring Me Happy Memories

One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
Fear Me by BB Reid
Ride Steady by Kristen Ashley
Rock Chicks by Kristen Ashley
Cash’s Fight by Jamie Begley
Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare
The Three Series by Kristen Ashley
The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune
Green Creek by TJ Klune
All For the Game by Nora Sakavic

What are yours?

Fairyloot Romantasy – September 2026

Piper’s Promise

Perfect for readers that love:

🧚‍♀️ Fae worlds
🥀 Forced proximity
💫 Dark magic

The Sweetest Fiend by Raven Kennedy

🖤 Redesigned cover with artwork by @david_gardias_designs
🖤 Colourway variation of the trade cover by @gabriella.bujdoso
🖤 Endpaper artwork by @gabriella.bujdoso
🖤 Digitally sprayed edges by @blanca.design
🖤 Author letter and exclusive bonus content!

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BLURB

It’s time to pay the Piper.

Our world cracked open like an egg. Power burst out, and with it, nine monstrous Banes ready to destroy everything. The powerful Core fae finally slayed them all, but each Bane left a Plague to punish us.

But that’s not the only thing they left behind.

I’m half Bane, half fae, and wholly hated. Survival means enduring every vicious glare and cursed outbreak. Until one day, a Plague descends upon my city that means certain death.

Then he comes. The Pied Piper.

He rids my city of the Plague, but it comes at a cost. One hundred and thirty people are taken as payment. Including me.

I don’t know what he’s going to do to us, but I know I have to get home. My family’s lives depend on it. But the Piper won’t let me go, and something wicked stirs between us. The sweet scent in my veins beckons him, while the seductive lure of his magic sinks under my skin.

I have to escape before it’s too late. Because if I don’t, it’s not just my heart at risk. . .

But the entire world.

Sound like something you’d like?

Happy October! Have a great month!

“I wish that every day was Saturday and every month was October.”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.” – Alexander Smith

Top Ten Tuesday is featured by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

Topic: Fall-Themed Freebie

I’ve chosen ‘cozy reads’

These are my fave cozy reads…..

There’s a theme here!!
The Faraway Inn by Sarah Beth Durst
The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst
The Spell Shop by Sarah Beth Durst
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
The Bones Beneath My Skin by TJ Klune

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These are books on my tbr with Autumny covers!

The Bookbinder by Helen Scheuerer
Fields of Asphodel by Callie Rowland
A Sorceress Comes to Call by T Kingfisher
Rebel Witch by Kristen Ciccarelli
Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J Tuli

What are your fave Autumn covers?