Whether that’s vital details our main character is conveniently unaware of, or things that go bump in the night, this theme is for all things left in the dark.
Featured fandoms this month are Nevernight, Monstress, and Daughter of the Moon Goddess!
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💛 FEATURED BOOK 💛
Book of Night by Holly Black
Exclusive cover Foiling Endpaper artwork by @rosdottir Sprayed edges Bonus chapter content Bound in author letter with digital signature
‘Far up in the deep blue sky, Great white clouds are floating by; All the world is dressed in green; Many happy birds are seen, Roses bright and sunshine clear Show that lovely June is here.’ ~ F. G. Sanders
‘In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.’ ~ John Steinbeck
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 – Comfort Reads
Comfort reads for me are books I like to reread when I’m in a funk, in a slump or I’ve just been hankering to read them again as something reminded me about the story!
For this post I’ve split into 2, books I’ve reread already and some I haven’t reread but want to!
Books I haven’t reread yet but know I will!
Zodiac Academy The Love Hypothesis Gild Clockwork Prince
Books I’ve reread many times! The Extraordinaires The Rock Chick’s Until the Sun Falls from the Sky Ride Steady Cash’s Fight Reapers Legacy
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?
It’s my birthday tomorrow! 21 yet again!
School has broke up for the week and I have time off work, just what’s needed!
It’s also the Queens Platinum Jubilee this week and my family are having a garden party so am hoping the weather holds out! We have our flags and bunting and are ready to celebrate!
What I’ve Read
A Little Bit Country by Brian D Kennedy 🌟🌟🌟🌟 See my review on release day (7 June)
The Blood Traitor by Lynette Noni 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 See my review on release day (14 June)
🎧 A Destiny of Dragons by TJ Klune 🌟🌟🌟🌟 See my review soon!
🎧 Kingdom of the Cursed by Kerri Maniscalco 🌟🌟🌟.5 See my review soon!
Stealing Infinity by Alyson Noel
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See my review on release day!
Bookish Arrivals
Book of Night by Holly Black (yes, another edition!)
In case you missed it…..
Unboxing – Illumicrate April Review – The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black Mini Review – Forced Bonds by J Bree
They say to keep your friends close but your enemies closer;
What if they’re one and the same?
The stable foundation I thought I’d built in the Sanctuary has been ripped away, and I find myself on the front lines of the war against the Resistance. I might have my Bonds on my side, but there are darker schemes in motion.
Can I prove myself and turn the tide to protect our most vulnerable, or am I nothing more than the monster they’ve always claimed I am?
Will we make it out of this without tragic consequences?
Back with Oli and her Bonded and the war with Silas Davies and the Resistance.
There’s a lot of action, drama and well you know, RH things!!!! There’s also a couple of new characters introduced, one of whom I loved the sound of although we haven’t seen much of her yet!
Out of all the men in this story Sawyer is actually my fave and he’s not even in Oli’s Bonded group!
‘Let’s leave Sawyer to his creeper ways, Bond. I have something I want to show you. We leave together to the sound of Sawyer calling out, Spoiler alert! It’s his dick!’
And that’s why I love him!!!!
I can’t even talk about that ending. That bloomin ending! No way!!!!
Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown’s gates, you can never leave.
One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself.
I have had this on my tbr for an age and I still don’t know why I hadn’t read this sooner. I loved it!
Tana found herself in the middle of a bloodbath and escapes with 2 unlikely companions. Aiden, her ex, who has been bitten by a vamp but not yet transformed and Gavriel, an actual vamp.
She needs to get them to Coldtown, a cornered off piece of the city where vamps can run free. Plus she decides to go in herself with a token of escape.
Gavriel is everything I want in a vamp. A bit crazy, tortured and lovely to look at! I loved him!
‘They’d taken every other piece of him. He would hold on to revenge. It would be his fairy story, his lullaby, sung softly by flayed lips. Off-key and deranged.’
I actually liked Aiden (the ex) and also another secondary character, Jameson. Tana was so strong, you couldn’t help but like her even though she played with death a lot! Another thing I loved was the portrayal of the vamps in this world. The same but different!
I liked the ending, it was a sort of promise of what I want it to become and I’d love to see more stories set in this world.
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.
Whether it’s stealing to survive, to achieve a goal, or to right a grievous wrong…some would still see you as nothing but thieves.
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Portrait of a Thief by Grace D Li
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