This might be a once in a lifetime post so please make a note in your diary!!!
The months of going rogue may be over (they probably arent!) as I only want 1 book that’s releasing in July.
But what a book it is! This series makes my life and is probably the only series that has made me laugh uncontrollably!!!!
Heat Wave by TJ Klune
What books are you looking forward to?
Title: We Were Liars
Series: We Were Liars #1
Author: E Lockhart
A beautiful and distinguished family.
A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.
A revolution. An accident. A secret.
Lies upon lies.
True love.
The truth.
We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.
Read it.
And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.
I read this book as part of a readalong with Tandem Collective UK and Hot Key Books YA.
Here we have The Sinclair’s, a very well to do, keeping up appearances family from old money and their summers on their private island, Beechwood.
Cady and her cousins are collectively known as The Liars. This book centres around Cady and what The Liars get up to.
Firstly, wow that writing style, coupled with the powerful, tragic, beautiful storyline, it was a hit for me! I knew something was up….but I didn’t know what. Just couldn’t put my finger on it. And then with those last few chapters, it all fell into place in my brain!
I’ve never read a book like this and I really, really enjoyed it!
The explanations of the island and the map in the book were so good, I could see it in my minds eye which made me feel like I was there! I was so invested in the characters, The Liars, I loved them all.
That ending. Talk about emosh! I was so invested that I had a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye!
Title: Drama and Danger
Series: Lizzie and Belle Mysteries
Author: JT Williams
Set in eighteenth-century London, with all the fun and zest of Hamilton, Bridgerton fashion and inspired by real Black British historical figures.
Twelve-year-olds Lizzie Sancho and Dido Belle are from different worlds – Lizzie lives in Westminster in her dad’s tea shop, while Belle is an heiress being brought up by her aunt and uncle at grand Kenwood House – but they both share a love of solving mysteries.
And when their eyes meet in the audience of the Drury Lane theatre one night, both girls are sure they’ve seen something suspicious on stage.
Lizzie and Belle soon find themselves on the trail of a mystery – and becoming best friends. But can they work out what’s going on in time to prevent a murder?
Set in London in the 1700s, Lizzie and Belle become firm friends and investigate a mystery!
Here we have Lizzie, a shop owners daughter and Belle, being raised by her wealthy aunt and uncle and their investigation in to the goings on at the Theatre Royal.
I don’t think I’ve ever read an historical MG read yet one with so many important messages that highlight the struggles and atrocities committed against black people in this time. It had a fabulous plot that will keep you on the edge of your seat!
There was friendship, kinship, messages about womens rights and lots of drama and excitement. I was hooked!
More things I loved about this book were the fact it was split into Acts like a play, the letters between Lizzie and Belle, the newspaper articles, the illustrations and drawings, all nice touches!
Me and my son both read this book and we both 100% recommend!
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Topic: Books I Wish Had An Epilogue
Let me tell you a few things before I plough on…..
1) my memory is rubbish,
2) a lot of the series I’m reading either aren’t complete or I haven’t yet finished,
2) I’m lazy so haven’t checked if they have an epilogue!!!
So I don’t know of these have an epilogue or not but these are books I wish I had more on!
~ Fantasyland series by Kristen Ashley
~ House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J Maas – I know this isn’t complete but I need more immediately!!!!
~ SJTR by Kerri Maniscalco – more Cresswell please!
~ Illuminae Files by Jay Kristoff
~ Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
~ The Three Series by Kristen Ashley
~ Angelfall by Susan Ee
~ Josh and Hazel – Christina Lauren
~ Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas (more on Manon and Dorian please!)
How about you?
Title: The Blood Traitor
Series: Prison Healer #3
Author: Lynette Noni
She’d failed them. All of them. And now she was paying the price.
Kiva thought she knew what she wanted—revenge. But feelings change, people change… everything has changed.
After what happened at the palace, Kiva is desperate to know if her friends and family are safe, and whether those she wronged can ever forgive her. But with the kingdoms closer to the brink of war than they’ve ever been, and Kiva far away from the conflict, more is at stake than her own broken heart.
A fresh start will mean a perilous quest, forcing mortal enemies and uneasy allies together in a race against the clock to save not just Evalon, but all of Wenderall. With her loyalties now set, Kiva can no longer just survive—she must fight for what she believes in. For who she believes in. But with danger coming from every side, and the lives of everyone she loves at risk, does she have what it takes to stand, or will she fall?
Back with Kiva and after the events of The Gilded Cage, I wondered where this book was going to take us……
Firstly, I have to get this off my chest: There was a quest! A quest! An absolutely perfect quest! Now let’s get back to it!
‘She was on her own, just the way it should be. She’d earned that, the suffering, the pain.’
Oh and Kiva did suffer but found a couple of unexpected allies! And I couldn’t be happier!
I can’t really say anything without spoiling so the plot is totally off limits here but know this, you won’t be disappointed!
Kiva, Jaren, Caldon, Tipp and co stole my heart over and over again. Honestly I adored every character in this series (apart from the baddies!) and there’s not many series you can say that about!
This was superb! Just like the first 2 books, this was top notch, there’s not a thing I didn’t enjoy!
It was everything I wanted, action, drama,
shocks, revelations where my jaw dropped, heartbreak, heart warming moments and all tied up in a neat little bow. Fabulous conclusion!
‘Now, we dream.’
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Hi everyone, hope you’ve had a good week?
Back to work and school after time off is the worst isn’t it! But I’m paid and my son is being educated so there’s that, silver lining!!!
My reading seems to have slowed down now which is always the case when the weather gets hotter. I appear to be a seasonal reader!
Belladonna by Adalyn Grace
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See my review on release day.
Krie Captivity by Kora Knight
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See my review here
🎧 This Vicious Grace by Emily Thiede
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See my review on release day!
For the Throne by Hannah Whitten
Review – Forging Silver into Stars by Brigid Kemmerer
Review – For the Throne by Hannah Whitten
Review – A Little Bit Country by Brian D Kennedy
ARC Review – The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones
Review – Crave by Tracy Wolff
What have you read lately?
Title: Crave
Series: Crave #1
Author: Tracy Wolff
My whole world changed when I stepped inside the academy. Nothing is right about this place or the other students in it. Here I am, a mere mortal among gods…or monsters. I still can’t decide which of these warring factions I belong to, if I belong at all. I only know the one thing that unites them is their hatred of me.
Then there’s Jaxon Vega. A vampire with deadly secrets who hasn’t felt anything for a hundred years. But there’s something about him that calls to me, something broken in him that somehow fits with what’s broken in me.
Which could spell death for us all.
Because Jaxon walled himself off for a reason. And now someone wants to wake a sleeping monster, and I’m wondering if I was brought here intentionally—as the bait.
Why I left this so long, I don’t know.
So girl comes to an academy and finds out mythical creatures are real!
I loved it! It was actually delish and so addictive! The excitement and pull of a new relationship!
There seemed a lot of similarities with Twilight but I’m here for that!!!
I’m totally going to wimp out and just say all the things I loved:
Loved Katmere academy,
Loved The Order,
Loved Macy,
Loved what Grace is,
Loved Jaxon and Grace together,
Especially loved Jaxon!!!!
Title: The Drowned Woods
Author: Emily Lloyd-Jones
Once upon a time, the kingdoms of Wales were rife with magic and conflict, and eighteen-year-old Mererid “Mer” is well-acquainted with both. She is the last living water diviner and has spent years running from the prince who bound her into his service. Under the prince’s orders, she located the wells of his enemies, and he poisoned them without her knowledge, causing hundreds of deaths. After discovering what he had done, Mer went to great lengths to disappear from his reach. Then Mer’s old handler returns with a proposition: use her powers to bring down the very prince that abused them both.
The best way to do that is to destroy the magical well that keeps the prince’s lands safe. With a motley crew of allies, including a fae-cursed young man, the lady of thieves, and a corgi that may or may not be a spy, Mer may finally be able to steal precious freedom and peace for herself. After all, a person with a knife is one thing…but a person with a cause can topple kingdoms.
Mer, sold by her family at a young age has a coveted gift and Prince Garanhir takes an interest in her for ill gains. Trained by a spymaster, Renfrew, she escapes and so does he….and they team up for a heist with some company including Fane and the lovely Trefor.
The characters were likable but Fane was the one I connected to but him and Mer were alike in many ways.
Mer – ‘The nobility called such people diviners.’
Renfrew – ‘He was whisper and steel, poison and shadow.’
Fane – ‘Fane was death itself.’
I really enjoyed this story full of Welsh folklore and I ached to read more about it and searched up some terms!
The writing was utterly beautiful, there was lots of action, drama and a few bombshells dropped!
The end made my heart sing a little. Overall a brilliant standalone!
Title: A Little Bit Country
Author: Brian D Kennedy
Emmett Maguire wants to be country music’s biggest gay superstar – a far reach when you’re seventeen and living in Illinois. But for now, he’s happy to do the next best thing: Stay with his aunt in Jackson Hollow, Tennessee, for the summer and perform at the amusement park owned by his idol, country legend Wanda Jean Stubbs.
Luke Barnes hates country music. As the grandson of Verna Rose, the disgraced singer who had a famous falling out with Wanda Jean, Luke knows how much pain country music has brought his family. But when his mom’s medical bills start piling up, he takes a job at the last place he wants: a restaurant at Wanda World.
Neither boy is looking for romance, but sparks fly when they meet – and soon they’re inseparable. Until a long-lost secret about Verna and Wanda comes to light, threatening to unravel everything.
Will Emmett and Luke be able get past the truths they discover…or will their relationship go down in history as just another Sad Country Love Song?
Emmett and Luke both find themselves working at Wanda World for the summer, one a budding country star and the other a budding cook. But their reality is far from their dreams!
It was a beautiful tale about falling in love, it made my heart sing! Watching them navigate their relationships, their inner struggles was heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time!
So, Emmett, I loved him!
‘I like who I am.
And I like who I like.’
He is his own person, he likes what he likes and that’s it. All teenagers should be like that instead of the typical mold they are all shoved into these days. But anyway, I digress.
Luke, I so felt for him. He has a lot on his shoulders and doesn’t think he can be who he is but then he meets Emmett.
‘I may not be big on theme parks. But I’d buy an endless number of tickets to stay on this ride.’
Cute, real, beautiful. Absolutely loved it!
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