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Please note this day down in your diary because……

THERE IS ONLY 1 BOOK I WANT IN APRIL!!!!!

As I targeted myself to only buy 3 books a month this means I can get 2 from my Wishlist!

Disclaimer – I haven’t actually read the other books in this series, they are on my tbr but it would be rude not to jump on this when it comes out…gotta have the complete series!

The Serpents Curse by Lisa Maxwell

 

What books do you want that are releasing in April (please don’t tempt me to want more!!)

Top 5 Tuesday is brought to you by Shanah at the Bionic Bookworm, see her original post here.

Theme = Authors from A to Z

This week = F to J

This weeks authors were easy to think of compared to last week!

Anyway, these are my well loved authors, F to J.

 

F = Chantal Fernando

This is one of the best MC series reads out there in my opinion.  I loved her previous books but this one blew me away.

 

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G = Stephanie Garber

Well what can I say that I haven’t already said about this series?!!  Legend made my life!

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H = Helena Hunting

Waaaah, this series has bought me so much joy……and of course gave me Randy Balls!!!!

 

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I = Mick Inkpen

The Kipper the dog guy! Yes this is a bit of a cop out! My son loved Kipper so we had many hours of reading and watching so I’m thankful to the author for those memories!

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J = Amo Jones

This is the first book I read by this author and immediately fell in love!

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That’s my of well loved authors, what’s yours?

Title: The Rich Boy

Author: Kylie Scott

‘This is not your everyday rags-to-riches, knight-in-shining armor whisking the poor girl off her feet kind of story. No, this is much messier.’

I read that and was like, oh yes please!

Then the opening scene. OH.MY.GOD. Yes please x 2!

Beck. Just him. Yes please x 3!

Alice. She is my spirit animal

“I think staying up past my bedtime to finish a book is a perilous and exciting adventure.” so that is another yes please from me (that’s 4!!)

So much humour and lots of family drama!

Question. Did I love it?

Answer. After so many yes please’s you could say that this book got a total affirmative, aye, oui and si from me!

Fairyloot Unboxing – February 2020

Theme = Rulebreakers

📚 Bookish Lip Balm by Little Heart Gifts

Inspired by Wicked Saints by Emily A Duncan

Omg this smells delish! Strawberry Prosecco flavour!!!

 

📚 Serpent and Dove Mug artwork from @merwildandco and @taratjah

Hit with me! I live for Lou and Reed and the mug has a sketch inside too!

 

📚 We Hunt The Flame Art Print by @noverantale

 

📚 Mordor Luggage Tag designed by @bookmarkd.tattoos and @loveyoumorestudio

Fab. Just fab. And it’s right, one does not simply walk into Mordor! Its going on my case!

 

📚 Foil Bookmarks and Sticker designed by @noverantale

Inspired by Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

These bookmarks are just amazing. I want more!!!!

 

📚 Foiled Scarf designed by @taratjah

Inspired by Sorcery of Thorns

Scarves arent my thing at all but I cannot deny that this is absolutely beautiful so I need to find another use for it.

 

BOOK OF THE MONTH

The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller

Exclusive purple cover ✔

Artwork on the dust jacket ✔

Embossing on the hardcover ✔

Signed ✔

**If anyone is interested, the readalong with Fairyloot starts on 16th March**

I thought I would use World Book Day to share the series that made me fall back in love with reading….

My son has gone to school as Harry Potter for the 6th year running (!) but I realised I use the Harry Potter series a lot in my posts so I wanted to veer away from that….and that got me thinking…

When I was young I loved reading, always had my head in a book but when I hit teenage years that stopped…that was until my boss lent me a book to read for my holiday……I loved it and I ate the series up and, voila, my love for reading was back!

No groans please…….Twilight!

(Yes that is my son’s voice changer but it passes for vampire teeth yes?!!!)

Title: The Wrong/Right Man

Author: Aurora Rose Reynolds

Waking up to a text asking why you stood up your blind date is not the best way to start the day especially when the man in question is lying in bed next to you.

Maybe Dakota Newton shouldn’t have assumed that the gorgeous man with a devastating smile, standing out side of the coffee shop was her date.

She probably… Okay, she definitely shouldn’t have slept with him, regardless of how hot the chemistry between them was. But, how could she know that Mr. Right was actually Mr. Wrong.

Brax Adam’s has been called a few things in his life, but a liar was never one of them. That all changes when he’s standing outside a coffee shop and approached by a beautiful woman who thinks he’s there to meet her for a blind date.

As a businessman, Brax knows to trust his gut and never let an opportunity pass him by so he pretends to be someone he’s not.
Maybe he shouldn’t have lied, maybe he should have come clean, but in the end it doesn’t matter because now he has to prove that he’s not the wrong man but the right one.

So what if he’s not the man she’s expecting, she’s the one he’s been waiting for.

Starting over is hard. But you know what they say, a change is as good as the rest!

Dakota finds herself in an awkward situation but a situation that benefits her greatly….from all angles!

This is a sweet, drama filled story with sizzling hot chemistry…..and that Labyrinth reference made my day!

Top 5 Tuesday is brought to you by Shanah at the Bionic Bookworm, see her original post here.

Theme = Authors from A to Z

This week = A to E

There are many authors that are well loved by me but I did find this on the hard side. I think it’s due to the fact that I remember book titles not author names!!!

Anyway, these are my well loved authors, A to E:

 

A = Kristen Ashley

Now where do I start with this lovely lady? Her most favourite series of mine are the Fantasyland series and also Chaos (I couldn’t just pick one!!!)

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B = Holly Black

I was going to pick Leigh Bardugo but then I remembered how upset she made me with Mathias and I couldn’t relive the pain again so here we have Holly Black!

I loved the Modern Tale of Faerie series and then came The Folk of the Air series which I was obsessed with!

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C = Tillie Cole

From the Hangmen series to the Sweet Home series to Scarred Souls to A Thousand Boy Kisses that made me blub like a baby…..gawd I love her writing!

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D = Penelope Douglas

Oh Damon you are just delish! If you haven’t checked out the Devil’s Night series and you like your romance dark, you need this in your life!

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E = Shea Ernshaw

The Wicked Deep was a fab read and I have Winterwood in my tbr….I’ll get to it soon!!!

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That’s my A to E of well loved authors, what’s yours?

Title: Lifel1k3

Series: Lifelike #1

Author: Jay Kristoff

On a floating junkyard beneath a radiation sky, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap.

Eve isn’t looking for secrets—she’s too busy looking over her shoulder. The robot gladiator she’s just spent six months building has been reduced to a smoking wreck, and the only thing keeping her Grandpa from the grave was the fistful of credits she just lost to the bookies. To top it off, she’s discovered she can destroy electronics with the power of her mind, and the puritanical Brotherhood are building a coffin her size. If she’s ever had a worse day, Eve can’t remember it.

But when Eve discovers the ruins of an android boy named Ezekiel in the scrap pile she calls home, her entire world comes crashing down. With her best friend Lemon Fresh and her robotic conscience, Cricket, in tow, she and Ezekiel will trek across deserts of irradiated glass, infiltrate towering megacities and scour the graveyard of humanity’s greatest folly to save the ones Eve loves, and learn the dark secrets of her past.

Even if those secrets were better off staying buried.

Prepare yourselves for a ramble of delight. I’m not even sure I can call this a review! I am absolutely giddy!

This is the book to get me out of my near 3 month slump. Yes, 3 long months.

I could actually squeal in delight (yes like a piggy!)

I was hooked.

I was excited

I had the feels, all the feels.

I wanted more and more.

I was in book heaven.

The flashbacks made my life. I couldn’t get enough.

Eva and Ezekiel, oh my heart. MY HEART!

Lemon Fresh (what a name!) – she is my utter fave!

I flew through it, the story, the world, the characters, just everything grabbed me.

So in short, I loved it. Now cue the moment that made me go all squidgy inside…

‘I used to wonder sometimes why they made us, if there could ever be a reason for something like me to exist. But now I know.

I was made for you. All I am. All I do, I do for you.’

Welcome to Closing the Chapter! I hope you had a great reading month?

In my personal life, things have been hectic to say the least! My son has been diagnosed with yet another condition so I have been trying to get him through that and on top of that my job has been so busy so I’m sorry if I haven’t been reading and commenting on posts as much as I normally do.

My reading mojo was jolted back into life around the middle of the month (thank the book lords!) so I feel more like me again!!

This is what I read:

A Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer – see my review here.

The Rich Boy by Kylie Scott – ARC read, look out for my review on release day

The Wrong/Right Man by Aurora Rose Reynolds – ARC read, look out for my review on release day.

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Re-reads (they count right?!)

Ride Steady by Kristen Ashley

Reapers Legacy by Joanna Wylde

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Audio Listens

 

Beyond the Shadowed Earth by Joanna Ruth Meyer – see my review here.

Lifelike by Jay Kristoff – see my review here.

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DNF

A Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern – Please don’t shoot me! I just couldn’t get into it and I was confused! Maybe audio isn’t the way to go with this book….

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What did you read in February?