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 I’d Love a New Book From
Oh this is a pathetic effort from me!!!
Nora Sakavic (more from the Foxes!)
Cora Carmack
Kalynn Flanders
Joanna Wylde
Belle Aurora
Who’s on your list?
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.
Hope you’ve had a good week?
I hate to say it, or maybe it’s a good thing, but it’s been a normal week!
They couldn’t fix the air conditioning in my car as they needed to order a part so I’ve been sweltering on the school runs still! Thankfully it’s being fixed tomorrow!
So I have a dilemma……the next book in the Ironside Academy series (which I’m obsessed with) releases on the 27th and I really want to do a reread of the first 3 books but……my tbr….arcs I have to read….the guilt is real!
A Curse of Blood and Wolves by Melissa McTernan
Burning Crowns by Catherine Doyle/Katherine Webber
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Heir of Fire by Sarah J Maas (reread)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Look out for my review soon!
Review – Funny Story by Emily Henry
My Blogiversary!
Feature – June releases
What have you read lately?
Here’s what’s tantalising me that’s releasing in June (that I may have preordered!!)
Four. Four books. So much for cutting back!
Hearts That Cut by Kika Hatzopoulou
Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse
Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood
A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston
Will you be getting any of these?
Happy Blogiversary to me!!
Nine years! Wow! It really only feels like yesterday!
I love seeing your posts, replying to comments and have made some fab online friends! I will admit, however, that I wish I had more time to do more!
Here’s to 9 more years and I am thankful for each and every one of you!
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: Book Quotes
Here are a few of my fave ever book quotes!
Title: Funny Story
Author: Emily Henry
Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.
Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.
Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?
But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex…right?
Prepare for gushing review.
First let me say that I don’t think there is a book by this author that I don’t love!
Daphne has found herself dumped and homeless in a town where she knows no one and finds herself living with her ex’s new flames ex. Comprende?!
~ Friends to lovers
~ Fake dating
~ Roomates
~ Opposites attract
That’s all you need to know apart from my feelings about Miles Miles, oooh Miles. How I love thee! He is EVERYTHING I want in a book boyfriend
If you want a romance where you are so emotionally invested that you want to shout from the rooftops about how much you love the characters….then this is your book!
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.
Hope you’ve had a good week?
Apart from the Bank Holiday we had on Monday, it was an utterly normal week for me….except we had hotter weather and the air conditioning broke in my car and I was sweltering! It’s being fixed on Wednesday so can’t wait!
Some good books read this week!
Nothing, woohoo!
🎧 Funny Story by Tessa Bailey
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Beyond the Veil by Caroline Peckham
⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
🎧 Chalice of the Gods by Rick Riordan
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Look out for my review soon!
Review – A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall
Review – A Feather So Black by Lyra Selene
What have you read lately?
Title: A Feather So Black
Series: Fair Folk #1
Author: Lyra Selene
In a kingdom where magic has been lost, Fia is a rare changeling, left behind by the wicked Fair Folk when they stole the High Queen’s daughter and retreated behind the locked gates of Tír na nÓg.
Most despise Fia’s fae blood. But the queen raises her as a daughter and trains her to be a spy. Meanwhile, the real princess Eala is bound to Tír na nÓg, cursed to become a swan by day and only returning to her true form at night.
When a hidden gate to the realm is discovered, Fia is tasked by the queen to retrieve the princess and break her curse. But she doesn’t go with her is prince Rogan, Fia’s dearest childhood friend—and Eala’s betrothed.
As they journey through the forests of the Folk, where magic winds through the roots of the trees and beauty can be a deadly illusion, Fia’s mission is complicated by her feelings for the prince…and her unexpected attraction to the dark-hearted fae lord holding Eala captive. Irian might be more monster than man, but he seems to understand Fia in a way no one ever has.
Soon, Fia begins to question the truth of her mission. But time is running out to break her sister’s curse. And unraveling the secrets of the past might destroy everything she has come to love.
‘The joy is in the thrill of the fight, not the promise of a kill.’
All the stars!
Fia is a changling, swapped with the Princess by the Fae, bought up by the unloving Queen and shaped into a weapon.
Fia is given a quest by her ‘mother’, venture into the fae world with her childhood friend and ex-lover, Prince Rogan, break the curse and rescue her ‘sister’.
There she meets 12 cursed swans and the Fae Lord, Irian.
I was enthralled by this utterly captivating romantasy, I gorged every word!
It was deliciously dark with exquisite writing and characters you’ll fall in love with.
The stories, the history, the romance…..I just ate it all up!
I need that next book!
Title: A Letter to the Luminous Deep
Series: The Sunken Archive #1
Author: Sylvie Cathrall
A beautiful discovery outside the window of her underwater home prompts the reclusive E. to begin a correspondence with renowned scholar Henerey Clel. The letters they share are filled with passion, at first for their mutual interests, and then, inevitably, for each other.
Together, they uncover a mystery from the unknown depths, destined to transform the underwater world they both equally fear and love. But by no mere coincidence, a seaquake destroys E.’s home, and she and Henerey vanish.
A year later, E.’s sister Sophy, and Henerey’s brother Vyerin, are left to solve the mystery of their siblings’ disappearances with the letters, sketches and field notes left behind. As they uncover the wondrous love their siblings shared, Sophy and Vyerin learn the key to their disappearance – and what it could mean for life as they know it.
E and Henerey, who correspond in letters only, go missing and then their siblings start to correspond using their letters and notes to see if they can solve the mystery of where they have gone.
So there’s good bits and not so good bits for me here….let’s start with the good bits!
~ Stunning cover
~ Unique format
~ Such a creative story
~ Writing is superb
~ Historical, underwater fantasy (love)
~ Gives you that cozy feeling
~ Romance was so cute
Now …..because of the few different points of view, I got lost at who was speaking. A lot. Then I had to go and relisten and also not much happens until the last quarter.
I did enjoy this and will read the next book but will slow my reading pace right down…and that’s my advice…..take time reading this book and take it all in!
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