The Sunday Post is a blog news meme hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer  It’s a chance to share news, a post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received.

Hope you’ve had a good week!

Back from Italy and back to reality….a mountain of washing and back to work!

We are having our 3rd heatwave and it is so horrible with no ac! Yesterday I was sat in my lounge and my glass fire exploded. Luckily I wasn’t hit but there was glass everywhere. I think it was because of the heat but who knows because it wasn’t even plugged in!

I didn’t read a word on holiday but this week I got stuck in to an arc…and it was so good!

I’m hoping that this is the end of my book slump. I’m also taking drastic action and uninstalling Tik Tok so I don’t doomscroll all the time!

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🎧 Ravenous by Kresley Cole
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

See my review soon!

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Feature – Stacking the Shelves – June
Tag – Mid-Year Book Freak Out

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Feature – August Book Releases
Holiday – Italy

What have you read lately?

I haven’t done this tag for a few years so that coupled with the fact that it’s the middle of the year, I thought I’d do the Mid-Year Book Freak-Out Tag. It was created by Chami and Ely Jayne.

I’ve read 30 books so far this year so have a few to choose from!

BEST BOOK I’VE READ SO FAR

Empire of the Dawn

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BEST SEQUEL I’VE READ SO FAR

Princess of Blood by Sarah Hawley

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NEW RELEASE I HAVEN’T READ YET BUT WANT TO

Rites of the Starling by Devney Perry

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MOST ANTICIPATED RELEASE FOR THE SECOND HALF OF THE YEAR

Captive Traitor King by Brigid Kemmerer

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BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT

Bonds of Hercules by Jasmine Mas

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BIGGEST SURPRISE

Your Knife My Heart by KM Moronova

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FAVOURITE NEW AUTHOR

Tessonja Odette (The Lies That Summon the Night)

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NEWEST FAVORITE CHARACTER

Chasin (One Small Echo – Jane Washington)

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BOOK THAT MADE ME HAPPY

We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune

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What have been yours?

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Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks! And audiobooks. Don’t forget audiobooks!

In other words, if you can read it or if it can be read to you – no matter how you got it – it belongs in Stacking the Shelves.

The Stacking the Shelves meme was originally hosted at Team Tynga’s Reviews. It is currently hosted by Reading Reality.

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I’m actually quite impressed (of myself!) Only 3 books! Who am I?!

Books I Bought

Daggermouth by HM Wolfe
Rune Breaker by Mila Finch 

Advanced Reader Copies

Fields of Asphodel by Callie Rowland

I’d better get reading!

 

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 Titles That Include the Word ‘And’

The Knave and the Moon
The Fallen and the Kiss of Dusk
Brigands and Breadknives
Broken Souls and Bones
The Gentleman and His Vowsmith
Thorns and Fire
A Steep and Savage Path
Dagger and the Flame
House of Roots and Ruin
Compass and Blade

What word did you choose?

I always keep track of my books read in the year but, for 2026, I decided to keep track of my monthly reading stats as they help me understand my reading habits and to try and help me stay motivated.

Absolute rubbish!

I can’t even blame my holiday for the small amount of reading because I went on the 27th!

I know what it is….its the incessant doomscrolling on Tik Tok. So….I have a plan! I’m going to try and find my password for TT and then I’m going to uninstall it so I don’t look at it to see if that helps.

Anyway….

A measly 3 books read
1393 pages
All romantasy
My first 2 star of the year 😫

Lets see what I can do in July!


How many books did you read in June?

I’m in England and we don’t have Independence Day here but wanted to wish all my American friends a happy day.

I hear you celebrate with fireworks, food, and family and I can’t think of anything better!

Have a great day!

Title: Nightshade

Series: Sorrowsong University #1

Author: Autumn Woods

Genre: Dark Academia

Year of publication: 2025

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BLURB

MYSTERY. MURDER. REVENGE. WELCOME TO SORROWSONG UNIVERSITY . . .

He’d burn the world down for her . . . but she plans to burn his to the ground.

Isolated in the Scottish Highlands, Sorrowsong University only welcomes students from the most powerful families. Ophelia Winters doesn’t belong, but a rare scholarship grants her the perfect opportunity to investigate her parents’ ‘accidental’ death near the castle grounds.

Things get off to a rocky start when she runs afoul of the mysterious Alex Corbeau-Green – son of her prime suspect. As far as she’s concerned, he is just a younger version of his billionaire father. A monster hiding beneath a beautiful façade.

When an unknown tormentor begins to stalk Ophelia, she realizes she may not be able to survive Sorrowsong on her own. Alex becomes her unexpected ally – and alibi for murder. And as she begins to fall for the soft heart that hides beneath his hard exterior, her hunger for revenge wavers for the first time.

Can she really bring herself to destroy everything he’s ever known?

I must admit this was a slow starter for me, I wasn’t sure I was going to gel with it and then….BANG….was hooked!

And it was all the doing of that dark, brooding, swoony, Alex Corbeau-Green! The fact that he falls first and so hard was exquisite and the pursuit he gave…..bravo!

Ophelia actually got right on my wick a few times but the fact that she was on a revenge mission did give her more points in my book!

The tension and the chemistry was just soooo good, I ate it all up!

So nothing about the plot here but I will say, I totally get the hype, you must read it and the ending will half destroy you!

This book had the best side characters of Vincenzo and Belladonna so if I don’t hear lots more about them in the next book, I’m going to be very angry! Or ill settle for a whole book for each of them!

⭐ Rating: 4.5 out of 5

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Sound like something you’d like?

Happy July!!!

Just a short post to wish you a great month and leave you with a couple of quotes!

“If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed.” – Unknown

“July: Just take me to the Ocean.” – Unknown

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: Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the Second Half of 2026

The list on my countdown app has a lot of books on it but I’ve picked these 10 (and it hurt me to only pick 10!)

Spellcast by Sophie Jordan
The Lion and Deathless Dark by Carissa Broadbent
Sea of Charms by Sarah Beth Durst
The Knave and the Moon by Rachel Gillig
Dead Beat by Leigh Bardugo

Last King of Faerie by Cassandra Clare
ACOTAR 6 by SJM
Captive Traitor King by Brigid Kemmerer
Murmuration by TJ Klune
Warrior of the Shards by Sarah Hawley

What are yours?