Fairyloot Adult – September 2022
Small Town Secrets
An atmospheric fantasy featuring a murder mystery that takes place in a small town with a tight knit community.
Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young
Exclusive cover
Digital sprayed edges on all 3 edges
Foil on the hardcover @ekbelsher
Artwork on the endpapers @ekbelsher
Signed bookplate
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Topic: Favourite Words
I love a funny word (not sure if they are funny to everyone though!) and I guess I’m going for mainly old English with these words but I love them!
Unto – archaic term for ‘to’ (archaic 🤣)
Kerfuffle – a commotion or fuss, especially one caused by conflicting views.
Malarkey – meaningless talk; nonsense.
Bibliolater – a person who is passionately enthusiastic about books.
Sumptuous – splendid and expensive-looking.
Fabulous (a word I totally overuse!) – extraordinary.
Yonks – a very long time (it’s been ages).
Mucky (how I like my books!) – mildly pornographic.🤣🤣🤣
Mucker (not to be confused with mucky at all) – term for a friend.
I do have a favourite English swear word too but didn’t want to put it here but that’s my number 10!!
What are your favourite words?
Title: Hook, Line and Sinker
Series: Bellinger Sisters #2
Author: Tessa Bailey
King crab fisherman Fox Thornton has a reputation as a sexy, carefree flirt. Everyone knows he’s a guaranteed good time–in bed and out–and that’s exactly how he prefers it. Until he meets Hannah Bellinger. She’s immune to his charm and looks, but she seems to enjoy his… personality? And wants to be friends? Bizarre. But he likes her too much to risk a fling, so platonic pals it is.
Now, Hannah’s in town for work, crashing in Fox’s spare bedroom. She knows he’s a notorious ladies’ man, but they’re definitely just friends. In fact, she’s nursing a hopeless crush on a colleague and Fox is just the person to help with her lackluster love life. Armed with a few tips from Westport’s resident Casanova, Hannah sets out to catch her coworker’s eye… yet the more time she spends with Fox, the more she wants him instead. As the line between friendship and flirtation begins to blur, Hannah can’t deny she loves everything about Fox, but she refuses to be another notch on his bedpost.
Living with his best friend should have been easy. Except now she’s walking around in a towel, sleeping right across the hall, and Fox is fantasizing about waking up next to her for the rest of his life and… and… man overboard! He’s fallen for her, hook, line, and sinker. Helping her flirt with another guy is pure torture, but maybe if Fox can tackle his inner demons and show Hannah he’s all in, she’ll choose him instead?
Oh I couldn’t wait for this after the utter delight of Piper and Brendan!
Fox and Hannah!
Friends.
Right?!!!
I’ll take a quote from this book to explain how it basically went….’Do friends share lube?’ Heehee!
Omg the tension. The ‘omg realise it’ made me want to scream!
Fox’s internal struggle made my heart clench and Hannah’s level head made my day and that epilogue made me want to cry with happiness!
I don’t really have the words to express how much I loved this so I’ll just say that if you loved It Happened One Summer then you need to 100% read this because it is not to be missed!
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.
Hi everyone, hope you’ve had a good week?
A teen, I have a teen! My son was 13 this week and I lamented where all the years have gone! Of course there was cake and a meal out which was great!
It’s also officially Autumn as I got my jumpers and boots out 🤣🤣🤣
We’ve had quite a busy week of medical appointments again (wish they could be spaced out more!) but I managed to finish an arc and also completed The Cruel Prince readalong!
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
See my review here
Cursed by Marissa Meyer
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
See my review here
The Blood Traitor by Lynette Noni
(Fairyloot edition)
Review – Heartless by Marissa Meyer
Unboxing – Illumicrate: Sept 2022
Unboxing – Fairyloot YA: Sept 2022
Review – Book of Legends by Lenny Henry
Review – Redemptor by Jordan Ifueko
What have you read lately?
Title: Redemptor
Series: Raybearer #2
Author: Jordan Ifueko
For the first time, an Empress Redemptor sits on Aritsar’s throne. To appease the sinister spirits of the dead, Tarisai must now anoint a council of her own, coming into her full power as a Raybearer. She must then descend into the Underworld, a sacrifice to end all future atrocities.
Tarisai is determined to survive. Or at least, that’s what she tells her increasingly distant circle of friends. Months into her shaky reign as empress, child spirits haunt her, demanding that she pay for past sins of the empire.
With the lives of her loved ones on the line, assassination attempts from unknown quarters, and a handsome new stranger she can’t quite trust . . . Tarisai fears the pressure may consume her. But in this finale to the Raybearer duology, Tarisai must learn whether to die for justice . . . or to live for it.
Wow this started off with a bang!
I absolutely loved Raybearer and when I got the chance to read this, I grabbed it with both hands!
Firstly I’m going to gush about the cover! I thought Raybearer was a great cover but this was stunning!
I’m not going to really say anything about the plot because there such greatness in here, I don’t know if I could sum it up!
Tarisai defo went through it in this book and I felt for her but there were a few places she got on my nerves a bit!!!
A highlight for me was Sanjeet! Honestly every time he called her Sunshine Girl I was (inner) shouting, kiss him!!!! He wasn’t really in this book a lot and I was sad but I guess the story needed it!
My one critism here was that there were a lot of characters here, old and new, and I admit I did struggle to keep up with them all. I do wonder if reading instead of listening to the audio may have made this clearer for me. However this is not a reflection on the narrator, she was absolutely fabulous!
I loved this fast paced conclusion and can’t wait to see what this author writes next.
Title: The Book of Legends
Author: Lenny Henry
Two ordinary kids are about to go on one extraordinary adventure!
Bran and Fran love living with their mum, who is the storyteller at the Once Upon a Wow bookstore in their small Midlands town. But when mum goes missing and her stories turn out to be a portal to another world, they’re going to have a huge, magical adventure on their hands.
Luckily, they have Wilma, the Wizard’s Wife, and Zack, the wisecracking Zebracorn, to help them on their journey. And they’re going to need help because there are evil princes, mud monsters and Viking armies all standing in their way. . .
A collection of stories in a story inspired by legends following twins Bran and Fran.
Bran and Fran’s parents have disappeared, feared dead but are they?!!
The twins get pulled into the Nine Dominions and are guided by their Mum’s book of stories.
Set partly in England, this story features murder fairies, a very funny zebracorn called Zachary and viking warriors and has very important messages contained.
Not quite sure if I was the right target audience but I really liked it so kids 100% will!
September YA theme – FAREWELL MY LOVE!
September is leaning into the unearthly and the box is dedicated to characters that have either been on the brink of death themselves… or have loved and lost. But goodbye doesn’t always have to mean forever, does it?
Items inspired by The Folk of the Air, Six Crimson Cranes, the featured book of the month and a fandom neutral item.
🖤 Botanic Coasters designed by @stellabookishart
🖤 Cardan Trinket Tray designed by @arz28
🖤 Belladonna Tea Tin designed by @chattynora
🖤 Blanket with art by @afterblossom.art inspired by Six Crimson Cranes
🖤 Tarot Cards – Signa and Death from Belladonna
BOOK OF THE MONTH
Belladonna by Adalyn Grace
Exclusive cover
Stencilled edges
Artwork on hardcover by @taratjah
Endpaper art by @monolimeart
Signed
September theme – Book Devourers
We’re all book lovers here, and we all know that feeling of absolutely devouring a book we’re obsessed with. But what if we meant this….literally?
This month is a fandom neutral box!
💛 Great Libraries Book Pot designed by @chattynora
💛 Books Are My Weakness Organiser designed by @rosdottir
💛 Eat Your Words Snack Plates designed by @_studio_ao
💛 Choose Your (Bookish) Destiny Reading Prompt Card Set designed by @coverdungeonrabbit
The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
Exclusive cover
Full colour printing on hardback by @rosiethorn88
Exclusive endpapers
Digitally printed edges
Signed
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 I Read On Vacation
So I was lucky enough to have 2 holidays away this year but only read 3 books on them so I have also added the books I wanted to read but just didn’t have the time!
Which leads me on to a question – do you guys actually read much on holiday? I really don’t.
If we’re on the beach or by the pool, I’m in the water or we’re exploring the new place taking in the sights or we are off out in the evening doing stuff so I don’t really have the time!
Paignton, Devon, England
A Restless Truth by Freya Marske (arc)
Weymouth, Dorset, England
Golden Dynasty by Kristen Ashley (reread)
Zodiac Academy 4 by Caroline Peckham (reread)
Books I wanted to read but didn’t get to:
~ Beach Read by Emily Henry
~ You and Me on Vacation by Emily Henry
~ Book Lovers by Emily Henry (reread)
~ It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey (I have read now!!!!)
What books did you read on holiday?
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