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: Things Getting in the Way of Reading
First of all, I was thinking ‘Oh there’s nothing that stops me reading’, then I thought, hang on, there are lots of things!!!!!
Cleaning, Cooking, Shopping, Book slumps, Changing the beds, Helping my son with homework, Work, All the social media I lose hours on, The ‘latest’ TV show, In short……adulting!
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.
Hi everyone, hope you’ve had a good week?
This week has been a week! I was under the weather again with a 2 day migraine and I also slumped so hard, I couldn’t seem to read a physical book but later on in the week I managed to listen to 2 audios! Also spent yesterday morning at urgent care with my son who had a very swollen ear – an inner and outer ear infection so now has some antibiotics!
What I’ve Read
🎧 The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
New arrivals
Nothing this week! I’ve been so good!
You might have missed…..
Unboxing – Illumicrate April 2023 Review – The Flat Share by Beth O’Leary Review – A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting by Sophie Irwin Review – The Stolen Throne by Abigail Owen Review – House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can’t quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at the base of their throats.
Iris has spent most of her teenage years trying to avoid the weirdness that sticks to her like tar. But when her eldest sister, Grey, goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Iris learns just how weird her life can get: horned men start shadowing her, a corpse falls out of her sister’s ceiling, and ugly, impossible memories start to twist their way to the forefront of her mind.
As Iris retraces Grey’s last known footsteps and follows the increasingly bizarre trail of breadcrumbs she left behind, it becomes apparent that the only way to save her sister is to decipher the mystery of what happened to them as children.
The closer Iris gets to the truth, the closer she comes to understanding that the answer is dark and dangerous – and that Grey has been keeping a terrible secret from her for years.
I wasn’t sure this was going to be for me as I’m a big baby….but it really was!
Iris, Grey and Vivi Hollow disappeared as youngsters but then appeared a month after each of them remembering nothing, but each bearing a scar on their necks. Years after, Grey goes missing again so the sisters unravel clues trying to find her.
It had a gothic feel, was spooky, very well written and actually quite weird! But I loved it!
This was my first book by this author and won’t be my last.
My twin sister is the true queen of Aryd. She survives, hiding and clinging to life in the desert, while I reign as the false queen alongside the monstrous King Eidolon. There’s only one escape from this gilded prison: Reven. My Shadowraith. My heart. Only the shadows that he struggles to control are growing more sinister, more powerful.
It’s just a matter of time before they turn on him…and on me.
Even escape doesn’t mean true freedom, though, when we’re still on the run from Eidolon’s unstoppable armies. And when we discover there’s a traitor among us, I have no choice…I must become the queen I was never meant to be.
Because as one evil hunts me, the other loves me more than himself.
And my fate lies with both.
To say I am in love with this series so far is an understatement!
Last time we saw Meren she had been caught by Eidolon and now we’re back with Meren, Reven and the gang and what followed was explosive!
Here we have new friends, old foes, quests and heartfelt, emotional moments in this high stakes, fast paced, intense plot! I loved every minute!
Also I have a statement to make….MEREN AND REVEN MAKE MY LIFE!!!
‘Forever. In this life and every life hereafter.’
This was a solid second book. That ending though. Next book please!
Follows the adventures of an entirely unconventional heroine who throws herself into the London Season to find a wealthy husband. But the last thing she expects is to find love…
Kitty Talbot needs a fortune. Or rather, she needs a husband who has a fortune. Left with her father’s massive debts, she has only twelve weeks to save her family from ruin.
Kitty has never been one to back down from a challenge, so she leaves home and heads toward the most dangerous battleground in all of England: the London season.
Kitty may be neither accomplished nor especially genteel—but she is utterly single-minded; imbued with cunning and ingenuity, she knows that risk is just part of the game.
The only thing she doesn’t anticipate is Lord Radcliffe. The worldly Radcliffe sees Kitty for the mercenary fortune-hunter that she really is and is determined to scotch her plans at all costs, until their parrying takes a completely different turn…
This is a frothy pleasure, full of brilliant repartee and enticing wit—one that readers will find an irresistible delight.
After the death of her parents and a broken engagement, Kitty sets off to London with her sister, Cecily, to find a husband to support her siblings.
I do absolutely adore a historical romance and this was so good! There was gossip, drama, trying to fit in, lies, deception and all the pomp of the Ton. Oh and also a slow burn romance that was delish!
I loved Radcliffe, he was tortured and delish!
I also loved Kitty. She was so devious but it was all for very good reasons!
Just to finish off, I was so happy to see Cheapside mentioned. It was where my employers offices first started off in 1810 so it brought back memories! Not that I was there of course!!!!
Tiffy and Leon share a flat Tiffy and Leon share a bed Tiffy and Leon have never met…
Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. Their friends think they’re crazy, but it’s the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy’s at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time.
But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly imprisoned brothers and, of course, the fact that they still haven’t met yet, they’re about to discover that if you want the perfect home you need to throw the rulebook out the window…
A strange bed arrangement but not what you think! A different take on the one bed trope!
Like ships that pass in the night, Leon and Tiffy share a bed but never meet…..until they do.
What this book has got: Notes that will make your heart sing, How scarves really started it all, Complex characters, A found family friend group, A stalkery, deranged ex, Prison drama, well sort of, A heartwarming tale of finding someone to love.
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 I Recommend to Others the Most
One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig Emily Thiede Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett What Hunts Inside The Shadows by Harper L Woods Mysteries of Thorn Manor by Margaret Rogerson A Dowry of Blood by ST Gibson
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young Thorn by Intisar Khanani The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas The Extraordinaires by TJ Klune
CJRTB Books 