Welcome to the next stop on the Enemies to Lovers tour!

I’m highlighting Cardan and Jude from The Folk of the Air trilogy by Holly Black. #Enemies2Lovers

Stick around to the end of the post for a $25 Amazon giftcard giveaway!

This tour is hosted by Amy at Foxy Blogs, Angelica at Collector of Book Boyfriends and Sophie at Beware of the Reader

The tour line up can be found here.

Cardan Greenbriar and Jude Duarte have been it all! Enemies, friends, romantically involved, spouse. Yes, all of those. And their journey was just delish to read!

Cardan is the sixth and youngest child of the High King Eldred, and becomes the King of Elfhame and husband to Jude Duarte.

Jude is a human raised by Madoc, a Redcap and the General of the then King of Elfhame, with the Folk. She became a member of the Court of Shadows and is now High Queen of Elfhame.

Cardans contempt and disgust with Jude just existing is what I lived for! Obviously these feelings were just a cover for the blossoming feelings he had for her. Their romantic dance continued throughout the trilogy. Let me explain in quotes…..

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Title: Vampires Never Get Old

Eleven fresh vampire stories from young adult fiction’s leading voices!

In this delicious new collection, you’ll find stories about lurking vampires of social media, rebellious vampires hungry for more than just blood, eager vampires coming out―and going out for their first kill―and other bold, breathtaking, dangerous, dreamy, eerie, iconic, powerful creatures of the night.

Welcome to the evolution of the vampire―and a revolution on the page.

Vampires Never Get Old includes stories by authors both bestselling and acclaimed, including Samira Ahmed, Dhonielle Clayton, Zoraida Córdova and Natalie C. Parker, Tessa Gratton, Heidi Heilig, Julie Murphy, Mark Oshiro, Rebecca Roanhorse, Laura Ruby, Victoria “V. E.” Schwab, and Kayla Whaley.

‘Vampires are creatures of imagination. Of myth and moonlight. Of terror and adoration.’

Halloween on the way…..

The day of witches, ghosts, spectres and…..VAMPIRES!

So I was so up for this read!

I don’t know if there will be more in regards to these stories from these authors….but I really hope there is!

The House of Black Sapphires – Dhonielle Clayton

Let me say i loved Bea…..wanting to find eternal love. And then we are introduced to JB……

Also let me just say I haven’t read this author until now…..but now I know 100% that I need to remedy this!

First Kill – VE Schwab

Calliope and Jules….to all the firsts and the thrill of the chase! I really need the rest of this story. Is that coming? ‘Let the hunt begin.’

Fairyloot – September 2020

Theme = UNDER THE SEA!

‘Hoist your sails and take a deep breath because this month we are going underwater! Land isn’t safe, but it isn’t safe down here either — you never know what monsters may lurk below the surface!’

Items inspired by To Kill A Kingdom, The Little Mermaid, The Sea Witch and Atlantis.

Included was:

🖤 To Kill a Kingdom Mug designed by @gabriellagusi

🖤 Unfortunate Souls Keyring designed by @loveyoumorestudio

🖤 Hair Brush illustrated by @taratjah

🖤 Metal Straws with beachy quotes

🖤 Pencil Case designed by Ink and Wonder

🖤 Postcard from Atlantis illustrated by @taratjah

🖤 Tarot cards (Nevernight by Jay Kristoff)

BOOK OF THE MONTH

Fable by Adrienne Young

REDESIGNED COVER ✔

SPRAYED EDGES ✔

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ✔

Title: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Author: VE Schwab

A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.

France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.

Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.

But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.

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.

Theme – Books with Autumn colours

These are books that I’ve read that have covers that remind me of Autumn

The Bird and the Sword by Amy Harmon

The Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J Maas

The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna

Beyond the Shadowed Earth by Joanna Ruth Meyer

King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

The Golden Dynasty by Kristen Ashley

Souls Unfractured by Tillie Cole

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

Transcendence by Shay Savage

What books would be on your list?

Title: Legendborn

Series: Legendborn #1

Author: Tracy Deonn

Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn’s YA contemporary fantasy Legendborn offers the dark allure of City of Bones with a modern-day twist on a classic legend and a lot of Southern Black Girl Magic.

After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus.

A flying demon feeding on human energies.

A secret society of so called “Legendborn” students that hunt the creatures down.

And a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a “Merlin” and who attempts—and fails—to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw.

The mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there’s more to her mother’s death than what’s on the police report, she’ll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates.

She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society’s secrets—and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down—or join the fight.

‘But when your entire world is shattering, a little bit of magic is . . . nothing.’

Oh but it is Bree!

This story is just utterly fab. I’m trying to write the words to justify it but my brain is just blank because I’m not sure I could conjure up the words! (See what I did there, conjure!!)

This was an Arthurian legend retold but with a powerful message, well more than one really. It was fascinating and totally gripped me. You know when you sit there and all these theories run through your head and then you dismiss them by the next paragraph? That was me!

That ending though. I thought my heart was going to rip through my chest, it was beating so fast!

Utterly, utterly brilliant.

I totally pinched this idea from Destiny at Howling Libraries! Go check her out here.

The idea of this post is to look at your haul from the same month but from last year to see how many of those books you have actually read.

I thought, more to keep myself accountable, that this would be great!

So here we go. I may cry!

Here is my post from my September 2019 haul.

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🎧 The Near Witch by VE Schwab – DNF

📚 The Girl the Sea Gave Back by Adrienne Young – STILL ON TBR

🎧 Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff ✔

📚 Serpent and Dove by Shelby Mahurin ✔

📚 The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell – STILL ON TBR

📚 A Treason of Thorns by Laura Weymouth – STILL ON TBR

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Out of 6, I have read only 2 and dnf 1.

So half.

From a year ago.

It doesn’t seem like a year ago I bought these.

Seems a little sad that I haven’t read the rest of these considering I remember how excited I was to buy them!

How do you think you would do if you looked back at your hauls?

I did this in September and I really enjoyed it, it really made me think of why I bought that book and why I haven’t read it yet (these posts might be dangerous for my reading lists however!!!)

So…. ‘On my shelf’ tag.

You count the number of books on your shelf, say 50 and then ask people to give you a random number between 1 and 50.

Then once the number is chosen, count along until you get to that number and write about the book. Why did you buy it? Does it mean anything to you?

So here we go……..

I have 70 books on my Goodreads tbr shelf.

PLEASE ADD IN COMMENTS A NUMBER BETWEEN 1 AND 70 AND NEXT WEEK I WILL POST ALL ABOUT THAT BOOK!

International Coffee Day in the UK is 1st October…..so today!

‘It’s an occasion that is used to promote and celebrate coffee as a beverage, with events now occurring in places across the world. The first official date was 1 October 2015, as agreed by the International Coffee Organization and was launched in Milan.’

Source – Wikipedia

• I love coffee.
• I cannot function without a coffee in the morning.
• And whats better with a coffee?
• Books!

I have a few coffee cups in work but as we haven’t been allowed in the office for months now I cannot add them here….but here is a selection of my bookish coffee mugs!

And my most treasured coffee mug…..