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!
IlluminaeRaybearerIron ravenIron widowKingdom Flesh fireCapturing the devilHeat waveHedge witchTread of angelsGodkiller
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
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
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.
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 Fear meRide steadyRock chicksCashs FightInfernal Devices Three Series ExtraordinariesGreen CreekAll for the game
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
🖤 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!
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. . .
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
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
I was thinking about what new post ideas I could do and thought of 5 Star Friday – basically, I’ll showcase a book I rated 5 stars so hopefully, people will see it and give it a whirl!
A massive 5 stars!
Feather So Black by Lyra Selene
A Feather So Black
Set in a world of perilous magic and moonlit forests, this seductive romantic fantasy tells the story of a defiant changeling, her cursed sister, and the dangerous fae lord she must defeat to save her family.
In a kingdom where magic has been lost, Fia is a rare changeling, left behind by the wicked Fair Folk when they stole the High Queen’s daughter and retreated behind the locked gates of Tír na nÓg.
Most despise Fia’s fae blood. But the queen raises her as a daughter and trains her to be a spy. Meanwhile, the real princess Eala is bound to Tír na nÓg, cursed to become a swan by day and only returning to her true form at night.
When a hidden gate to the realm is discovered, Fia is tasked by the queen to retrieve the princess and break her curse. But she doesn’t go with her is prince Rogan, Fia’s dearest childhood friend—and Eala’s betrothed.
As they journey through the forests of the Folk, where magic winds through the roots of the trees and beauty can be a deadly illusion, Fia’s mission is complicated by her feelings for the prince…and her unexpected attraction to the dark-hearted fae lord holding Eala captive. Irian might be more monster than man, but he seems to understand Fia in a way no one ever has.
Soon, Fia begins to question the truth of her mission. But time is running out to break her sister’s curse. And unraveling the secrets of the past might destroy everything she has come to love.
