Here’s what’s tantalising me that’s releasing in May….
I actually cannot believe there is only 1 book. Who am I?!
The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
Will you be getting this?
May releases I’ve got my eye on!
Author: CJRTB Books
TTT – My Unpopular Bookish Opinions
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: My Unpopular Bookish Opinions
Hope these don’t make me unpopular!!!
~ BookTok is ruining the book community.
~ People are too quick to jump onto the bandwagon – there’s a witch hunt nearly everyday, without the full facts and…bang…here comes the keyboard warriors butting their noses in…..oh and don’t forget running to Goodreads to leave that 1 star review!
~ Duologies are better than standalone or trilogies
~ Love triangles should be banned!
~ Billionaire books should be banned
~ Having SEs with 5 different covers to collect is a money grab
~ There’s too much pearl clutching about dark romance. Sometimes, you just need a dark read. Don’t like it? Don’t read it!
~ Shatter Me is not a good book!
~ People get a whiff of celebrity and write an autobiography.
What would you choose?
ARC Review: Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
Title: Great Big Beautiful Life
Author: Emily Henry
BLURB
Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years–or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century.
When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she’ll choose the person who’ll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice’s head in the game.
One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice—and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over.
Two: She’s ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication
Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition.
But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can’t swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room.
And it’s becoming abundantly clear that their story—just like the tale Margaret’s spinning—could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad…depending on who’s telling it.
‘Yours, mine, and the truth.’
I loved this! It was like a story in a story and I couldn’t put it down!
I must admit, I did look at some reviews (on GR) before I started and I didn’t know if I’d like this from what I saw…..couldn’t have been further from the truth!! I devoured this book in a day because I just couldn’t stop reading!
Alice and Hayden are competing to write a, now reclusive, old money socialites biography. And this is where the story in a story comes to pass.
I LOVED hearing about Margaret’s family, how they came into their money, the familial relationships, the scandal, the drama, Margaret’s love….all of it!
And then there was Alice and Hayden, a bit like a side story, a grumpy/sunshine match….and it was glorious!!!
My jaw. How it dropped. Dropped right down to my chest. I’ll leave it here all cryptic like! Read this!
Sound like something you’d like?
The Sunday Post! Live from Portugal (sort of!)
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.
I hope you had a great week!
I’m typing this sat on my balcony in Portugal with a glass of hot coffee, thinking about how hilly it is here! My legs will have muscles like a bodybuilder by the time I’m back 😂
I’ve read 2 books since I’ve been here and that’s meant I’ve finished a series! Glorious!
We’re headed home on Tuesday, so I will have more to report on the next Sunday Post and hopefully time to catch up with your posts.
Fate and Furies by Helen Scheuerer
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Shadow and Storms by Helen Scheuerer
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Look out for my reviews soon!
Unboxing – Fairyloot Romantasy: March 2025
ARC Review – Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab
What have you read lately?
ARC Review: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab
Title: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Author: VE Schwab
Release Date: 10th June 2025
BLURB
Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532.
London, 1837.
Boston, 2019.
Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots.
One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild.
And all of them grow teeth.
‘It is a lie that you only get one story.’
Stunning…
Masterpiece….
I’m a fantasy reader and vamps are my jam so I wanted to read this book because a) Schwab is like a gem, and b) I wondered what her vamps would be like!
This is going to sound strange but I feel like I’ve grown up, matured like a fine wine, reading this. Will I be able to go back to my normal fantasy vamps? I hope not, this book is a rereader for sure!
In different places, different times, we have 3 lady vamps and we get to know their stories, their loves, how they survive, their lives and how they are woven together.
To say I loved this would be an understatement! Another hit from VE Schwab!
‘Bury my bones in the midnight soil,
Plant them shallow and water them deep.
And in my place will grow a feral rose.
Soft red petals hiding sharp white teeth.’
Sound like something you’d like?
Fairyloot Romantasy: March 2025 – Skyfire
Fairyloot Romantasy – March 2025
Skyfire
A fierce Roman general cursed with a dangerous secret is captivated by a mysterious dancer whose fate is bound to his own. Dragons, war, forbidden love, dangerous paths, loyalty and sacrifice.
Firebird by Juliette Cross
🖤 An EXCLUSIVE REDESIGNED COVER by @jeffbrown_graphics
🖤 A REVERSIBLE DUST JACKET featuring a shade variation of the trade cover
🖤 FOIL ON THE HARDCOVER by @blanca.design
🖤 CHARACTER ART ON THE ENDPAPERS with foil by @carasalexandra (different front and back)
🖤 A DIGITALLY SPRAYED EDGE by @jeffbrown_graphics with solid sprayed top and bottom edges
🖤 AUTHOR LETTER with a digital signature bound into the book.
TTT – Books with Springy Covers
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 with Springy Covers
These covers remind me of Spring!
The Courting of Bristol Keats by Mary E Pearson
A Witches Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
Emily Wildes Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
Januaries by Olivie Blake
The Undermining of Twyla and Frank by Megan Bannen
Check and Mate by Ali Hazelwood
A Power Unbound by Freya Marske
Throne of the Fallen by Kerri Maniscalco
Foxglove by Adalyn Grace
Secretly Yours by Tessa Bailey
What did you choose?
The Sunday Post! I feel more ‘me’!
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.
I hope you had a great week!
A busy work week but I actually feel more human, more me like!
Maybe it’s because we’ve had lovely Spring weather, maybe it’s because we’ve got lighter evenings or maybe it’s because we’re off to Portugal on Tuesday!!!
Two books read this week and they were both fabulous!
Now to choose my holiday reads!
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Vows and Ruins by Helen Scheuerer
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Look out for my review soon!
Calendar – Hello April!
Review – A Tribute of Fire by Sariah Wilson
Calendar – Holiday!
Unboxing – Fairyloot Romantasy: March 25
ARC Review – Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab
What have you read lately?
Holiday……fly me to the moon…or Portugal!!!!
We’re off on holiday on Tuesday!
We haven’t been abroad for years, so we decided we needed a treat, and we booked for Portugal!
This is our hotel (but we are going self-catering thanks to celiac disease!) – can’t wait for a dip in the pool!
I’ve scheduled in some posts but I don’t know if I’ll have the time (or data!) to come on and reply to comments and look at your posts but will try and catch up when I’m back.
Hope you have a great week!
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