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: New-to-Me Authors Every Book Lover Should Read
Finding new authors is one of the most exciting parts of being a reader. And the feeling you get when you fall in love with the story is even better!
Last year, I stumbled across several new-to-me authors whose writing left a lasting impression…..some good, some bad!!!! But here are some of the good ones!
Forged in BloodMetal Slinger BlackthornBroken Souls BonesLanguage of dragons
Sadie Kincaid Rachel Schneider JT Geissinger LJ Andrews SF Williamson
Dire bound Gentleman and Vowsmith Tribute of FireIrresistible Urge Sorcery and Small Magics
Sable Sorensen Brigit Knightley Maiga Doocy Rebecca Ide Sariah Wilson
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!
This week saw a trip to Costco, a hospital appointment for my son…..and then work, work and more work!
I’ve started sorting through my shelves and selling special editions I don’t want anymore—15 sold already this week! The rest of my physical copies will either go to World of Books or my local charity shop.
I also continued my ACOTAR reread and am on A Court of Silver Flames….so nearly done!
🎧 The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
See my review soon!
Unboxing – Fairyloot Romantasy: December Review – The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow
Book Review – Empire of the Dawn by Jay Kristoff Book Review – A Scar in the Bone by Sophie Jordan
A moving and genre-defying quest about the lady-knight whose legend built a nation, and the cowardly historian sent back through time to make sure she plays her part–even if it breaks his heart.
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Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children’s books and recruiting posters―but her life as it truly happened has been forgotten.
Centuries later, Owen Mallory―failed soldier, struggling scholar―falls in love with the tale of Una Everlasting. Her story takes him to war, to the archives―and then into the past itself. Una and Owen are tangled together in time, bound to retell the same story over and over again, no matter what it costs.
But that story always ends the same way. If they want to rewrite Una’s legend―if they want to tell a different story–they’ll have to rewrite history itself.
‘It begins where it ends: beneath the yew tree.’
This book was fabulous and made me feel totally emosh, the kind of story that sneaks up on you and refuses to let go.
Owen Mallory, a scholar, finds himself travelling back in time to write, and rewrite, the story of the legendary Knight, Una Everlasting.
Una is fierce and courageous and Owen is a self-titled coward! But they find something in each other and they fall.
A tale as old as time. And it was beautiful.
I’m not usually a gushy person, but this story broke through all my defenses. It’s so beautiful and I know I’ll be thinking about for a long time. Honestly, I could gush about it for ages.
Perfect for readers that love: 🩸 Vampires ⚔️ High-Stakes Competitions ❤️🔥 Slow Burn Romance
We Who Will Die
We Who Will Die by Stacia Stark
🖤 An exclusive redesigned cover with artwork by @dariabobrova.art and design by @aeadraws 🖤 A reversible dust jacket featuring a colourway variation of the trade cover 🖤 Full colour artwork on the hardcover with foil by @stellabookishart and design by @aeadraws (front, back & spine) 🖤 Character artwork on the endpapers by @petit_kitsune with foil by @blanca.design (different front & back) 🖤 Digitally sprayed edges on all three edges by @dariabobrova.art and @aeadraws 🖤 Author letter with a digital signature bound into the book.
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Life in the perilous Thorn district is a constant battle for Arvelle and her younger brothers. And the vampire standing on her doorstep is about to turn their world upside down.
Faced with an unthinkable choice, Arvelle makes a magically binding vow to do the impossible: kill the emperor, an ancient vampire created by the god Umbros. But first, she must enter the Sundering—an arena where only the fastest, strongest, and deadliest survive long enough to be selected for the emperor’s elite guard.
She quickly draws the ire of the Primus, the powerful figure charged with protecting the emperor. But the vampire under the armor is the last person Arvelle expects to encounter in the emperor’s court.
With her brothers’ lives in the balance, Arvelle has no choice but to ally with the man who once shattered her heart… and with the emperor’s sadistic son, Rorrik—two vampires whose motives are impossible to pin down. Rorrik holds the key to understanding the powers Arvelle is developing—abilities that would put a price on her head if discovered by the emperor.
To survive the arena and complete her mission, Arvelle must get to the bottom of a conspiracy that will change everything she thought she knew about herself—and the two vampires who are deeply entwined with her destiny…
Sound like something you’d like? I cant wait to read it!
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: Popular Books On My TBR That I Haven’t Read
A swerve from the picked topic as I did my 2026 goals for blogmas! I thought I’d shame myself and post popular books that are on my tbr (because I can’t resist the fomo!) that I still haven’t read. I wonder if 2026 will be my year for them!!!
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!
Not much to report this week really. I’ve been stuck in a bit of a reading funk, and instead of picking up one of the ARCs I have, I reread ACOTAR!!!!!
I did also listen to an audiobook from my TBR, so I haven’t abandoned it completely!!!
I’m still really bummed about losing my Bookstagram account. Years of effort and love just… gone. It’s been hard to wrap my head around, and I definitely still feel the sting!!!
In March 2025, I posted about StoryGraph rolling out monthly reading stats… and then forgot all about it 🙃.
As I’ve been thinking about new ways to jazz up my blog for 2026, I realised I don’t actually post a monthly reading update. I track my stats, I obsess over them and then nothing ever makes it onto my blog!!!!
So I thought that, alongside my Sunday Post updates, I’d post my stats.
Reading slumps, end-of-year exhaustion, and festive stuffs made my December reading…..well…dismal!
1,715 pages. Four books. All fiction — fantasy-heavy 50/50 split evenly between eBooks and physical reads.
For January I made it a goal to read some of my arc’s so will see how I do in my next update!
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 First Half of 2026
For the first time in a lot of years, I haven’t noted down what books are releasing that I want so I had to go and find lists!
It looks as though 2026 is shaping up to be a phenomenal year for book lovers – lucky us!
These are the upcoming book releases in early 2026 that I am most anticipating!
Agnes AubertEnchanting the Fae QueenErase MeInnamorata Heir of Twisted Lies
Enchanting the Fae Queen by Stephanie Burgis – 29 January Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett – 17 February Erase Me Josh Silver – 10 March Innamorata by Ava Reid – 17 March Heir of Twisted Lies by LJ Andrews – 26 March
How to Fake it in SocietyTricky Business of Faerie BargainsWe Burned so BrightFury BoundBlood Bound
The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains by Reena McCarty – 7 April We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune – 30 April How to Fake it in Society by KJ Charles – 30 April Fury Bound by Sable Sorensen – 5 May Blood Bound by Ellis Hunter – 7 May
CJRTB Books 