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 Loved So Much I Had to Get a Copy for My Personal Library

Absolutely love this topic! Honestly my list could go on and on!

My book buying MO is this:
📚 Am interested in a book
📚 Read on kindle
📚 If I love = physical copy MUST be mine!!!!

All for the Game Trilogy by Nora Sakavic
Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
Angelfall by Susan Ee
The Extraordinaires by TJ Klune

Zodiac Academy by Caroline Peckham
For the Throne by Hannah Whitten
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
Anything Shadowhunters

What’s your book buying MO?!

Title: The Atlas Six

Series: The Atlas #1

Author: Olivie Blake

The Alexandrian Society is a secret society of magical academicians, the best in the world. Their members are caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity. And those who earn a place among their number will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams. Each decade, the world’s six most uniquely talented magicians are selected for initiation – and here are the chosen few…

– Libby Rhodes and Nicolás Ferrer de Varona: inseparable enemies, cosmologists who can control matter with their minds.
– Reina Mori: a naturalist who can speak the language of life itself.
– Parisa Kamali: a mind reader whose powers of seduction are unmatched.
– Tristan Caine: the son of a crime kingpin who can see the secrets of the universe.
– Callum Nova: an insanely rich pretty boy who could bring about the end of the world. He need only ask.

When the candidates are recruited by the mysterious Atlas Blakely, they are told they must spend one year together to qualify for initiation. During this time, they will be permitted access to the Society’s archives and judged on their contributions to arcane areas of knowledge. Five, they are told, will be initiated. One will be eliminated. If they can prove themselves to be the best, they will survive. Most of them.

I listened to the audio and can confirm that it was fab!

Six people recruited into the Alexandrian Society because of their gifts, they each have to compete for a place and one has to be eliminated.

This is the only dark academia book that I’ve actually enjoyed!

Told in different points of view, we get a glimpse of each characters personality, gift and morals. Although it was a bit slow in places, I really enjoyed the plot, I love a book with a competition and there was only one character I didn’t like….Callum!

~ That little twist at the end!
~ Libby and Nico must happen!
~ Now I’m excited for the next 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.

Hi everyone, hope you’ve had a good week?

September has arrived and I’m half thankful as it means summer is coming to an end! I’m half not thankful as my son is back to school Tuesday so rushing about madly in the morning begins!!!!

I’ve read 3 books this week, well 2 and a bit really as I didn’t quite finish Zodiac Academy 4 for my last update!

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What I’ve Read

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Zodiac Academy 4 by Caroline Peckham (reread)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
See my review here


Zodiac Academy 5 by Caroline Peckham (reread)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
See my review here


🎧 Sabriel by Garth Nix
⭐️⭐️⭐️.75
See my review here

New arrivals

My Fairyloot adult book arrived but don’t want to put it here as some might not have received but will do an unboxing soon!

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You might have missed…..

Review – Reckless by Aurora Rose Reynolds
Challenge – 20 Books of Summer: close
Review – The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Feature – New-to-me authors: August 22

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What have you read lately?

I grabbed this idea from Lucy (with permission!) from Bookworm Blogger! Go check out her blog!

I always hope that I read new-to-me authors every month and getting book box subscriptions, access to library borrows, Netgalley and also KU really helps with that so thought it would be nice to look back and see what new authors I’d read this month.

By the end of July I’d read 29 new-to-me authors and now I’ve read 34 so far this year!

Alek L Cristea – Cornucopia
Kate Dylan – Mindwalker 
Jessica Thorne – Water Witch
Sophie Kim – Last of the Talons
Olivie Blake – The Atlas Six

Have you read any new to you authors this month?

Title: The Midnight Library

Author: Matt Haig

Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?

Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?

I didn’t read the blurb for this before I started so when it did start I thought ooh what a cheery book!!!!!!

But although it was a bit morbid, I actually really enjoyed this!

The narrator reminded me of Emma Thompson so much and I had to look it up to see if it was her (it wasn’t!!!)

Nora is depressed, unhappy and her life is falling apart so she does what she thinks is the right thing to do.

Inbetween life and death the midnight library exists and has portals to lives Nora could have lived, an opportunity to see what could have been and she tries a lot of them and comes to a realisation.

I won’t say anymore than this as you probably need to experience it for yourself!

Just a little post to wish you a happy September!

“Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.” ―Mary Berry

“By all these lovely tokens
September days are here,
With summer’s best of weather
And autumn’s best of cheer.”
― Helen Hunt Jackson

Well that’s it, summer is nearly over (thank god!) and so is the 20 Books of Summer reading challenge!

You can read all about the challenge here at Cathy746 Books

I’m a terrible mood reader so I said I wanted to read 20 books for the challenge but only 9 from a named list and the rest mood reads……and……

I did it! Well sort of!

I read 34 books over summer so well over the 20 but I didn’t read 1 of my named books (mood reader brain couldn’t cope!!)

So I guess I’ll take that as a win!

📚Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi ✔️
📚Stealing Infinity by Alyson Noel ✔️
📚Belladonna by Adalyn Grace ✔️
📚Dragons Promise by Elizabeth Lim ✔️
📚The Merciless Ones by Namina Forna ✔️
📚Book of Night by Holly Black ✔️
📚The Wolf and Woodsman by Ava Reid✔️
📚Glow by Raven Kennedy ❌️
📚Heat Wave by TJ Klune ✔️

1 Tall Dark and Evil by Alexi Blake
2 The Never King by Nikki St Crowe
3 Lizzie and Belle Mysteries by JT Williams
4 This Vicious Grace by Emily Thiede
5 Krie Captivity by Kora Knight
6 A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab
7 The Darkening by Sunya Mara
8 Longshadow by Olivia Atwater
9 By Virtue I Fall by Cora Reilly
10 Longshadow by Olivia Atwater
11 Air Awakens by Elise Kova
12 Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
13 The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
14 Tragic Bonds by J Bree
15 What Lies Beyond the Veil by Harper L Woods
16 Her Majesties Royal Coven by Juno Dawson
17 Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
18 Indecent Demands by Marlee Wray
19 Midnight Library by Matt Haig
20 By Virtue I Fall by Cora Reilly
21 A Restless Truth by Freya Marske
22 Ten Thousand Stitches by Olivia Atwater
23 Cornucopia by Alek L Cristea
24 Mindwalker by Kate Dylan
25 Last of the Talons by Sophie Kim
26 The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas

I did also reread the first 4 books of Zodiac Academy and Golden Dynasty by Kristen Ashley but haven’t included them here as they were rereads!

Did you do 20 Books of Summer? How did you get on?

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: School Freebie – books set in a school/education.

📚 Crave by Tracy Wolff – Katmere Academy
📚 Harry Potter – Hogwarts
📚 Zodiac Academy by Caroline Peckham- same name!
📚 Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac by Caroline Peckham – Aurora Academy
📚 Stealing Infinity by Alyson Noel – Gray Wolf Academy
📚 Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead -St Vladimirs

📚 Percy Jackson – Camp Half Blood
📚 The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic – Palmetto State University
📚 Black Witch Chronicles by Laurie Foster – Verpax University
📚 Amari and the Night Brothers by BB Alston – Bureau of Supernatural Affairs

What books would you have picked?

Title: Reckless

Series: Adventures in Love #3

Author: Aurora Rose Reynolds

Jade has always been the reckless type. But after her relationship implodes and her business goes under, she realizes it might be time to change her ways. She decides on a fresh start in a new place: Montana.

But shortly after her arrival in Big Sky Country, she meets headstrong wilderness retreat owner Maverick, whose name, fittingly, means “dissenter.” Jade tries to convince herself he’s not the type of man she needs in her life. The problem is, she wants him in her life. She wants him more than anything.

For Maverick, his attraction to this out-of-towner is undeniable. But he’s sworn off relationships—until he gets to know the fiery-haired, fiery-tempered Jade. He can’t help but wonder if it’s worth opening himself up to her. It’s a gamble, sure. But is it reckless?

Or is love a high-stakes game of risk and reward that just might pay off in the end?

This was such a sweet read, a trademark of how great this author is at writing feel good romances.

Jade moves to town to start over and be close to her bestie, Cybil . There she meets Maverick again and the attraction is really instant. But there are bumps in the road!

Maverick was my fave (whenever is a hot man not my fave?!!)

Loved the name of their shop, loved the house, loved the writing and the story so, in short, loved it all!

I haven’t read the others in this series and now I really want to!