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 Covers that Give off Fall Vibes
Mine seem to have a theme!
Vow of embers Trial of the Sun Queen Heavenly Tyrant Spellshop After the Forest Unmaking June FarrowIron Flame Destroy the Day DefiantWinter of the Witch
A Vow of Embers by Sariah Wilson Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J Tuli Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst After the Forest by Kell Woods Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros Destroy the Day by Brigid Kemmerer Defiant by Brandon Sanderson Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
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!
This week we went to look at fridge freezers as ours is on the way out! We’ve realised we need to get a cabinet removed before we can buy one so it actually fits…….my son wants to remove it, but I’m not sure he won’t bring down the kitchen 😂
This week is my last week off before I go back to work. Part of me is looking forward to it as I need something to do but the other part of me is already mourning all the ‘me’ time I’ve had!!!
🎧 Broken Souls and Bones by LJ Andrews ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 Nettle and Bone by T Kingfisher ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
See my reviews soon!
Review – What Fury Brings by Tricia Levenseller Challenge – Audiobook Challenge Update
Calendar – Hello October Feature – Stacking the Shelves: September
In my sign up post, I said I was going for 20-30, Binge Listener, but am on the way to My Precious……if I can do it!
So far, I’ve listened to 26 audiobooks! Here’s a few that I’ve listened to in the last 3 months…..
Arcana Academy by Elise Kova Never the Roses by Jennifer K Lambert Tusk Love by Thea Guanzon Warrior Princess Assassin by Brigid Kemmerer Heavenly Bodies by Imani Erriu Damned by Genevieve Cogman
There’s a shortage of men in the kingdom of Amarra. After a failed rebellion against the matriarchy, most noblemen in the country are dead. Now the women of Amarra must obtain their husbands (should they want one) by kidnapping them from other kingdoms.
Olerra, a warrior princess vying for the throne, is determined to prove her worth by kidnapping a husband. And not just any husband. To outmaneuver her treacherous cousin, she needs the best. Fortunately, the second-born prince of their greatest enemy is widely known for both his looks and his sweet, docile temperament. He’s the perfect choice to secure her claim to the throne.
Sanos, heir to the Kingdom of Brutus, has nothing but contempt for the idea of a society run by women. Trained from birth to fight, lead, and follow in his father’s overbearing footsteps, his path has always been set. Until he takes his younger brother’s place in a drunken prank and finds himself kidnapped, carted off to the Amarran Palace, and informed that he is to become the husband of Queen Potential Olerra. Sanos needs to escape before anyone learns his real identity, but the more he gets to know his captor, the less sure he is of what he truly wants.
In Amarra, women are the stronger sex and men are treated how women used to be in that world.
Olerra is vying for the Crown, so she goes and nabs a neighbouring Prince to be her husband. However, she nabs the wrong one….she takes the Crown Prince instead…..
Back home she tries to make him see the type of life he’d have in Amarra with Olerra (she is fair and just compared to some others!) – some parts were hilarious (remember nipple clamps and the exclamation of Sanos at seeing them – it made made me chortle!!!)
The author said this was a story about revenge, and I know some might grasp at their pearls at some of the content in this book, but I took it for what it was, a fictional story. And I enjoyed it! It was unique, fast-paced, full of treachery and secrets and spicy moments!
What a fabulous foray into the adult world, it was delish!
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 on My Fall 2025 to-Read List
I don’t really make reading lists, but I do have a vague idea, so I might read these….but I might not!!!!
What Fury Brings Wild Reverence Katabasis Steeping Blood
A Steeping of Blood by Hafsah Faizal Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross Nightshade by Autumn Woods What Fury Brings by Tricia Levenseller Katabasis by RF Kuang
BlackthornBrigands and Breadknives Burial Witch Empire of the Dawn
A Scar in the Bone by Sophie Jordan The Burial Witch by Cari Thomas Blackthorn by JT Geissinger Empire of the Dawn by Jay Kristoff Brigands and Breadknives by Travis Baldree
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!
Another week gone and the weather has been all over the place…rain, winds and cold temps for a few days, an overcast, cold day and then on Friday we had temps of 23 so the t-shirts came back out!! Then today it was sunny and warm so I cut the lawns!
I’ve got 2 weeks until I go back to work, and I’m a bit worried as I keep getting these awful, debilitating headaches because of the high pressure I have in my eye. I have eye drops, but they don’t seem to be doing much!
2 arcs read/listened to this week!
Cinder House by Freya Marske ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 What Fury Brings by Tricia Levenseller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
See my reviews soon!
Review – The Fallen and the Kiss of Dusk by Carissa Broadbent Feature – October Releases Review – Dire Bound by Sabel Sorensen
Review – What Fury Brings by Tricia Levenseller Challenge – Audiobook Challenge Update
Only the worthy survive the Bonding Trials. She’ll risk her life—and her heart—to be one of them…
Meryn Cooper has never dreamed of being one of the Bonded, the King’s elite warriors who form mental links with massive, vicious direwolves. She’s made peace with her life scraping by in poverty in the shadows of the castle. But then her younger sister Saela is kidnapped, stolen across the border by the immortal monsters her country has spent centuries fighting.
And Meryn’s world falls apart.
Desperate to cross the front and save her sister, Meryn enlists in the army—only to discover that there are Bonding Trials this year, where all soldiers are forced to risk their lives in an attempt to connect with a direwolf. It’s too late to turn back; Meryn is thrown into the deadly competition against her will.
Now, she’ll need to survive the next four months of training at the castle if she wants a chance of finding Saela. Everything here is a test, from the brutal classes where one mistake means death, to the glittering court parties where every smile hides a knife.
To make things worse, Meryn is bound to a feral direwolf who refuses to communicate. The other trainees would love to spill her common blood. And her gorgeous instructor, Stark Therion, is as malicious as the wolves himself.
Everyone is out to get her—everyone but the dangerously handsome crown prince, Killian Valtiere. But if she loses her heart to him, she may also lose her life.
And the castle is hiding dark secrets…
Oh, I loved this!
The commoner, the Prince and the Alpha, are thrown together…..with direwolves, in a kingdom at war with vamps!
Meryn is determined to be put on the battle front so she can rescue her sister, who has been taken by the Nabbers for the Syphons, aka vamps. But she gets more than she bargains for in the shape of a big direwolf called Anassa!
~ The underdog comes through! ~ Direwolves go to war! ~ The dark, cruel Alpha teacher (Stark = swoon) ~ The beautiful, kind Prince….. ~ Tension (oh the tension!) ~ Trials and tribulations…. ~ Steam……and a bit more steam! ~ A whiff of one bed! ~ Found family
I will say that part way through I had the thought that a character was a rotter! And I was right! I love it when I’m right (it’s not often!) And I did want to shake Meryn at some points, she is just so stupid!
But I found this to be a well written romantasy with brilliant world building and fabulous side characters! I cannot believe I have to wait until May 2026 for the next book! 8 long months away!
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: Literary/Bookish Candles I’d Make
(Pick a book and assign it a fragrance or fragrance combo that would make a nice candle.)
So this probably won’t be a surprise to anyone, but even though I own a candle for this character already, I want a collection just for him!
Will Herondale (Shadowhunters)
I love Will with my whole heart. It’s been years since I read The Infernal Devices, but I still think about Will and how he broke my heart just being him and then mended it!
Magic – White florals Soap – fresh laundry Classical literature/books (Tale of Two Cities for sure!) Heavenly – honey Masculine – bergamot, herbs and leather
I don’t know anything about matching scents to make a good candle/s so if someone wants to let me know, please do!!!
CJRTB Books 