TTT – Comfort Reads

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 – Comfort Reads

Comfort reads for me are books I like to reread when I’m in a funk, in a slump or I’ve just been hankering to read them again as something reminded me about the story!

For this post I’ve split into 2, books I’ve reread already and some I haven’t reread but want to!

Books I haven’t reread yet but know I will!

Zodiac Academy
The Love Hypothesis
Gild
Clockwork Prince

Books I’ve reread many times!
The Extraordinaires
The Rock Chick’s
Until the Sun Falls from the Sky
Ride Steady
Cash’s Fight
Reapers Legacy

How about you? What books are your comfort reads?

Fairyloot Adult: May 2022 – Into the Shadows

Fairyloot Adult – May 2022

Into the Shadows

The featured book is the first book in a duology that follows a girl with a shrivelled cherry pit for a heart in a world where shadows can be stolen.

BOOK OF NIGHT BY HOLLY BLACK

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The Sunday Post – 29th May 2022

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?

It’s my birthday tomorrow! 21 yet again!

School has broke up for the week and I have time off work, just what’s needed!

It’s also the Queens Platinum Jubilee this week and my family are having a garden party so am hoping the weather holds out! We have our flags and bunting and are ready to celebrate!

What I’ve Read

A Little Bit Country by Brian D Kennedy
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See my review on release day (7 June)


The Blood Traitor by Lynette Noni
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See my review on release day (14 June)


🎧 A Destiny of Dragons by TJ Klune
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See my review soon!


🎧 Kingdom of the Cursed by Kerri Maniscalco
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See my review soon!

Stealing Infinity by Alyson Noel

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See my review on release day!



Bookish Arrivals

Book of Night by Holly Black
(yes, another edition!)



In case you missed it…..

Unboxing – Illumicrate April
Review – The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
Mini Review – Forced Bonds by J Bree



What have you read lately?

Mini Review: Forced Bonds by J Bree

Title: Forced Bonds

Series: The Bonds That Tie #4

Author: J Bree

They say to keep your friends close but your enemies closer;

What if they’re one and the same?

The stable foundation I thought I’d built in the Sanctuary has been ripped away, and I find myself on the front lines of the war against the Resistance. I might have my Bonds on my side, but there are darker schemes in motion.

Can I prove myself and turn the tide to protect our most vulnerable, or am I nothing more than the monster they’ve always claimed I am?

Will we make it out of this without tragic consequences?

Back with Oli and her Bonded and the war with Silas Davies and the Resistance.

There’s a lot of action, drama and well you know, RH things!!!! There’s also a couple of new characters introduced, one of whom I loved the sound of although we haven’t seen much of her yet!

Out of all the men in this story Sawyer is actually my fave and he’s not even in Oli’s Bonded group!

‘Let’s leave Sawyer to his creeper ways, Bond. I have something I want to show you. We leave together to the sound of Sawyer calling out, Spoiler alert! It’s his dick!’

And that’s why I love him!!!!

I can’t even talk about that ending. That bloomin ending! No way!!!!

Review: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

Title: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Author: Holly Black

Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown’s gates, you can never leave.

One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself.

I have had this on my tbr for an age and I still don’t know why I hadn’t read this sooner. I loved it!

Tana found herself in the middle of a bloodbath and escapes with 2 unlikely companions. Aiden, her ex, who has been bitten by a vamp but not yet transformed and Gavriel, an actual vamp.

She needs to get them to Coldtown, a cornered off piece of the city where vamps can run free.  Plus she decides to go in herself with a token of escape.

Gavriel is everything I want in a vamp. A bit crazy, tortured and lovely to look at! I loved him!

‘They’d taken every other piece of him. He would hold on to revenge. It would be his fairy story, his lullaby, sung softly by flayed lips. Off-key and deranged.’

I actually liked Aiden (the ex) and also another secondary character, Jameson. Tana was so strong, you couldn’t help but like her even though she played with death a lot! Another thing I loved was the portrayal of the vamps in this world. The same but different!

I liked the ending, it was a sort of promise of what I want it to become and I’d love to see more stories set in this world.

Illumicrate Unboxing – April 22: Nothing But Thieves!

April 2022 theme is: Nothing But Thieves

Whether it’s stealing to survive, to achieve a goal, or to right a grievous wrong…some would still see you as nothing but thieves.

💛 Art History Book Pot designed by @chattynora
💛 Papercraft Kit inspired by City of Brass, designed by @rosiethorns88
💛 To Be Remembered Print Album designed by @rosdottir inspired by Addie LaRue
💛 Gilded Wolves Bookmark Set designed by @gabriella.bujdoso



💛 FEATURED BOOK 💛

Portrait of a Thief by Grace D Li

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The Sunday Post – 22nd May 2022

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?

It was a fairly normal week for us but my room is finally finished! New floorboards, ceiling plastered, walls painted, the carpet is down and my new book shelves are up!

I spent a rather large amount of time arranging my books on them, I was really excited!!!! This is probably why I’ve only read 2 books this week (or maybe I’m going back to a normal amount of reading? Who knows!)

I’m also behind on looking at your lovely posts – will try and catch up today! Time! I need more!

What I’ve Read

For the Throne by Hannah Whitten
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See my review on release day!


🎧 The Lightning-Struck Heart by TJ Klune
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See my review soon!



Bookish Arrivals

Book of Night by Holly Black
Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic



In case you missed it…..

Celebration – Blogaversary 7 years!
Challenge – 20 Books of Summer
Unboxing – Fairyloot YA: April 2022
Review – Gossamer in the Darkness by Kristen Ashley



What have you read lately?

Review: Gossamer in the Darkness by Kristen Ashley

Title: Gossamer in the Darkness

Series: Fantasyland #5.5

Author: Kristen Ashley

Their engagement was set when they were children. Loren Copeland, the rich and handsome Marquess of Remington, would marry Maxine Dawes, the stunning daughter of the Count of Derryman. It’s a power match. The perfect alliance for each house.

However, the Count has been keeping secret a childhood injury that means Maxine can never marry. He’s done this as he searches for a miracle so this marriage can take place. He needs the influence such an alliance would give him, and he’ll stop at nothing to have it.

The time has come. There could be no more excuses. No more delays. The marriage has to happen, or the contract will be broken.

When all seems lost, the Count finds his miracle: There’s a parallel universe where his daughter has a twin. He must find her, bring her to his world and force her to make the Marquess fall in love with her.

And this, he does.

Back in my fave world ever!!!!!!

Maxine and her Mum are spirited to a parallel universe nefariously and have parts to play. She needs to marry Loren as her Dad-not-Dad has her Mum held captive.

But Maxine is not going to take this lying down (so to speak!) and a plot hatches!

The originals are back too and I could’ve cuddled them! My Circe and Lahn!

My stomach was in a knot reading this book! But it’s the Fantasyland goodness I love!

I never want to leave this world, I want KA to write these forever. And ever. Amen.

‘Don’t let me go.’