Here’s what’s tantalising me that’s releasing in June….
It’s going to be a good month!
Princess of Blood by Sarah Hawley
Elancer by Jane Washington
Echo Fort by Caroline Peckham
Will you be getting these?
June releases I’ve got my eye on!
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Mini Review: The Maid’s Secret by Nita Prose
Title: The Maid’s Secret
Series: Molly the Maid #3
Author: Nita Prose
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A wedding. A heist. A secret.
Molly Gray’s life is about to change in ways she could never have imagined. As the esteemed Head Maid and recently promoted Special Events Manager of the Regency Grand Hotel, good things are just around the corner, including her marriage to her beloved fiancé, Juan Manuel, only two months away.
But Molly’s entire existence is upended when a film crew descends upon the hotel to shoot the hit reality TV show Hidden Treasures, starring popular art appraisers Brown and Beagle. On a whim, Molly brings in a shoebox containing a few of her gran’s old things for appraisal, and much to everyone’s surprise, one item turns out to be a rare and priceless treasure. Instantly, Molly is both a multi-millionaire and a media sensation—the world’s rags-to-riches darling—until the priceless piece vanishes from the hotel in the boldest, brashest antiquities heist in recent memory.
The key to the mystery lies in the past, in a long-forgotten diary written by Molly’s gran. For the first time ever, Molly learns about Gran’s true-to-life fairytale, a young girl to the manor born, the only child of a wealthy magnate. But when Gran falls head over heels in love with a young man her parents deem below her station, her life is thrown into turmoil. As fate would have it, the greatest love of Gran’s life is someone Molly knows quite well….
Together with her friends, Molly combs the past and the present to catch the thief before looming threats against her become real.
Back with Molly the Maid….and she’s had a shock!
And part of her shock leads us to Gran’s story. Then I was shocked!
I can’t believe I’m actually saying this but the younger Gran was VILE, I really disliked her! I can’t put the lovely lady, Flora, with this woman…..but this was Gran’s story and it led us to Molly.
I will literally read anything with Molly in it and this story was polished to perfection!
I do wonder if we’ll get more Mol!
Sound like something you’d like?
Review: Traumaland by Josh Silver
Title: Traumaland
Author: Josh Silver
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Seventeen-year-old Eli has been in a near-fatal car crash. As the anniversary looms, his therapist and family struggle to help him deal with the fall out. The accident has left him emotionally numb, with no memory of the months following the crash.
Desperate to feel something again, Eli winds up at an underground club called Traumaland. But this is no ordinary nightclub. Here he joins crowds of other emotionally numb people, all seeking to experience a new thrill by entering virtual reality simulations of nightmarish scenarios through the points of view of various characters.
When he enters the story of a boy called Jack, he discovers a darker truth to the club. A truth that sets Eli on a dangerous journey to find the source of his own trauma.
Oh wow, what a story!
This author has the knack of taking these seemingly broken characters and making them who they are and taking a story and making the twists so jaw dropping that I had to buy one of those chin lift mask things off TT to keep my mouth closed as I kept thinking about that ending for ages after (100% not for snoring!!!)
I don’t even know where to begin with proclaiming my love for EVERYTHING about this book. So I’m just going to say…..read it. READ IT and fall in love with Eli.
Fantastic, excellent, marvellous – and any adjective for superb! That is what this book is.
Sound like something you’d like?
TTT – Authors Who Live In My Country
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: Authors Who Live In My Country
This was really hard for me! I don’t really know what authors live where!!!!
VE Schwab
SF Williamson
Caroline Peckham
Genevieve Cogman
Josh Silver
I admit I did have issues knowing what authors I’d read who actually live in England….so I’m reaching with the next ones!
Jane Austin
Charles Dickens
William Shakespeare
Mary Shelley
Emily Bronte
What would you choose?
The Sunday Post! Getting the garden ready!
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!
So…it has began! I’ve started going through my shelves to unhaul books! I’m donating some to the charity shop and am going to sell some special editions. I just need some more room (for new books!!!!!)
I had a routine eye test this week and they found something (I think) he called metamorphopsia so I’ve got an urgent referral to the hospital and will have to see what they find.
Today we started jet washing the garden, we did the patio today and then we’ll work on the huge driveway in the coming weeks. The patio was filthy!
The Maids Secret by Nita Prose
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Gentleman and His Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Look out for my reviews soon!
ARC Review – The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
Calendar – Hello May
Feature – Stacking the Shelves
Review – The Maid’s Secret by Nita Prose
Feature – June releases
What have you read lately?
Stacking the Shelves – April 2025!
Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks! And audiobooks. Don’t forget audiobooks!
In other words, if you can read it or if it can be read to you – no matter how you got it – it belongs in Stacking the Shelves.
The Stacking the Shelves meme was originally hosted at Team Tynga’s Reviews. It is currently hosted by Reading Reality.
It’s been a good month (but not for my tbr!!!)
Books I Bought
Firebird by Juliette Cross
Wind Weaver by Julie Johnson
Advanced Reader Copies
The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
The Executioners Three by Susan Dennard
What Sleeps Within the Cove by Harper L Woods
The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
Thorns and Fire by Helen Scheuerer
I’d better get reading!
Hello May!
Happy May!
‘May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive.’ ~ Fennel Hudson
‘You are as welcome as the flowers in May.’ ~ Charles Macklin
TTT – Books with a Colour in the Title
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 a Colour in the Title
A slight swerve from the actual topic!
And only 8!!!!!
ARC Review: The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
Title: The Knight and the Moth
Series: Stonewater Kingdom #1
Author: Rachel Gillig
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Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum’s windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams.
Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude, heretical, and devilishly handsome, the knight Rodrick has no respect for Sybil’s visions. But when Sybil’s fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one, she has no choice but to seek his help in finding them. For the world outside the cathedral’s cloister is wrought with peril. Only the gods have the answers she is seeking, and as much as she’d rather avoid Rodrick’s dark eyes and sharp tongue, only a heretic can defeat a god.
Listen up Batholomew – if you’re going to read 1 book this year, let it be this one!
A Diviner, a Knight, a King, a gargoyle, Omens and dreams.
A coin, an inkwell, an oar, a chime, and a loom stone.
If you loved One Dark Window then you’re going to LOVE this!
There was banter, there was drama, there was heartache, joy and A LOT of shocking revelations (that I didn’t even guess!) in this fast-paced story.
What an absolute hit this was! How the heck am I going to wait until the next book?!
I’ll leave you with these:
‘Swords and armor are nothing to stone.’
‘Knights are shooting stars, Six. They come and go. But you and me, our sisterhood of Diviners—we’re the moon.’
‘The gargoyle batted his eyes. Oh, Bartholomew. He’s dreamy.’
Sound like something you’d like?
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