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?

A week of great sadness for us here with the passing of our Queen, Elizabeth, on Thursday. The only monarch I’ve known. I feel absolutely so sad. I’m not an emosh person but I shed some tears. What a great lady. And now we have a King, King Charles III. It feels so surreal.

It was back to school for my son this week and us getting back into the same routine, it was tiring!

As well as the below reads I’ve started listening to Babel but it’s huge so no way I would’ve got it finished this week, hopefully next week!

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What I’ve Read

Heartless by Marissa Meyer
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
See my review here.

🎧 Lightlark by Alex Aster
Unfortunately a DNF at 40% for me.

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New arrivals

Nothing this week! Look how good I’m being!

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You might have missed…..

Review – The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
Unboxing – Fairyloot YA: August 22
Unboxing – Ember Stag: Join the Foxes
Review – It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
Feature – Books I want releasing in October

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What have you read lately?

Part of me loves doing these posts because then I can try and stick to buying just these but then another part of me thinks I should be posting more books that are releasing to appeal to more people.

What do you think? Just post what books I am looking forward to….or more?

I’ll look at your comments and go from there!

These are 2 books that are releasing in October that I want!

Strike the Zither by Joan He
The Whispering Dark by Kelly Andrew

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What books are you looking forward to?

Title: It Happened One Summer

Series: Bellinger Sisters #1

Author: Tessa Bailey

Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father’s dive bar… in Washington.

Piper hasn’t even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won’t last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So what if Piper can’t do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. How bad could it really be? She’s determined to show her stepfather—and the hot, grumpy local—that she’s more than a pretty face.

Except it’s a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into Brendan. The fun-loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but there’s an undeniable attraction simmering between them. Piper doesn’t want any distractions, especially feelings for a man who sails off into the sunset for weeks at a time. Yet as she reconnects with her past and begins to feel at home in Westport, Piper starts to wonder if the cold, glamorous life she knew is what she truly wants. LA is calling her name, but Brendan—and this town full of memories—may have already caught her heart. 

It’s not often I get this hooked into a book and devour it but I did with this book!

Oh I absolutely loved this!!!!!

After making a monumental mistake, Piper’s stepdad sends her off to her deceased dad’s fisherman town and bar to sort herself out and her sister, Hannah, tags along too.

There she finds a dilapidated bar and apartment and bumps into fisherman, Brendan, who has lived in small town, Westport forever.

Piper is so sweet, I loved her and Brendan is a man I want to know!!!!!!

How their relationshop developed, their chemistry, the tension, their quiet banter made my heart bloom!

I can’t wait to read the next book now and I know that IHOS will be a book I reread over and over again! 5 wheelhouse stars!

So you know I have an addiction to bookish candles….well I’ve been at it again and grabbed the Join the Foxes Limited edition candle box from Ember Stag Candles!

It’s based on the All for the Game Trilogy (Foxhole Court) by Nora Sakavic, a series I am obsessed with!

🕯The Foxhole Court candle
🕯Edgar Allen Ravens
🕯Cracker Dust candle

🫕You are a pipe dream melts
🥛Minyard and Josten mason jar (with straw!)
🎒Palmetto State Foxes tote bag
🧦Orange and white team socks
🔑Fox Tower key ring



I love all of this and the candles will have pride of place in my shelf!

August Young Adult theme – TELL ME LIES!

There are so many different lies: lies of omission, denial, fabrication and exaggeration. But what about the white lies that are told on a daily basis, whether to our selves or to others?

Items inspired by Gilded, Romeo and Juliet, an item inspired by a mix of fandoms and a fandom neutral item.

🖤 Bookshelf Tote designed by @chattynora
🖤 List Pad featuring a quote from Romeo and Juliet, designed by @catarinabookdesigns
🖤 Celestial Jewelry Box designed by @Jezhawk
🖤 Gilded Pin (Marissa Meyer) designed by @no0nedesigns
🖤 Mythology Bookmarks – Anansi and Apate with art by @gracezhuart
🖤 Tarot Cards illustrated by @arz28 with characters from Only a Monster

BOOK OF THE MONTH

Violet Made of Thorns by Gina Chen

Exclusive cover
Ombre sprayed edges
Artwork on hardcover by @_saintdri
Endpaper art by @_saintdri
Signed bookplate

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?