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 with a High Page Count
Because I’ve basically stopped reading contemporary romance (and there is no excuse for one of those to be over 350 pages), I’ve chosen either romantasy or SFF books that I’ve read that are chonks!
Sinners Playground by Caroline Peckham- 625 pages Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros – 648 pages Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson – 656 pages Elancer by Jane Washington – 658 pages The Blackbird Oracle by Deborah Harkness – 672 pages Glow by Raven Kennedy – 688 pages
Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff – 721 pages Obsidio by Jay Kristoff – 721 pages Crescent City House of Earth and Blood by SJM – 803 pages Kingdom of Ash by SJM – 980 pages
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!
I’m sort of back! I had my eye operation on 7th August, and let me tell you, it was awful. My eye is absolutely gruesome and I won’t be able to see out of it for a few weeks. I also had an allergic reaction to the antibiotics which landed me back in hospital with a swollen head and neck – the joy!!!!
My son has been an absolute star! He’s been cooking, putting in my drops (6 times a day!!) and just generally making sure I’m ok. What a gem.
Audiobooks have been my best friend! I amassed a stock of them before my op and I needed them. It was so boring doing nothing!
🎧 Never the Roses by Jennifer K Lambert ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
🎧 Tusk Love by Thea Guanzon ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
See my reviews soon!
Feature – September Releases Review – Never the Roses by Jennifer K Lambert
Review – The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley Review – Tusk Love by Thea Guanzon
UNSTOPPABLE WAR. UNSPEAKABLE SINS. IMPOSSIBLE LOVE.
The Dread Sorceress Oneira has retired. She’s exhausted from fighting the endless wars of kings and queens, and has long accepted that her death is near. Alone at last but for a few uninvited companions―a near-mythical wolf, a goddess’s avatar, and a feline that embodies magic itself―Oneira realizes that she’s bored. On a whim, or perhaps at the behest of fate, she makes an unlikely trip to the most extensive library in existence: the home of her most powerful rival, the sorcerer Stearanos.
By recklessly stealing a book from him, Oneira inadvertently initiates a forbidden correspondence. Taunting notes and clever retorts reveal a connection neither has found―nor could ever find―in any other.
But Oneira soon learns that Stearanos, bound to a vile king, is tasked with waging war on the queen she once served. A relationship with him is far too dangerous to pursue despite their mutual desire―and yet, Oneira can’t seem to stay away.
A bond with Stearanos could alight the long-extinct flame of life within her… or it could destroy her entirely.
I listened to the audiobook as I’ve just had an eye op but wanted to leave a review!
Don’t you love a book about books?
Well, this is…..sort of!
‘His library was terribly seductive.’
This book was so cute, 2 older characters, both powerful sorcerers who should be enemies. They find they have lots in common, including that they are used at the whims of the rulers who own them.
Watching Oneira and Stearanos made me feel like a peeper and I loved every minute – they were so cute!
The letters were quite sweet and I find myself wanting to know what the roses and Oneira’s pink beach looks like!
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 Guaranteed to Put an End to Your Book Slump
Some of my faves here!
One Dark Window Sorcery Small Magics Blood and SteelPlier7 Year Slip
One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig Sorcery and Small Magics by Maiga Doocy Blood and Steel by Helen Scheuerer Plier by Jane Washington Seven Year Slip by Ashley Postin
4th Wing9th HouseACOTARRide SteadyGolden Dynasty
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo ACOTAR by Sarah J Maas Ride Steady by Kristen Ashley Golden Dynasty by Kristen Ashley
Fandoms this month: Divine Rivals, The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy, A Dark and Drowning Tide and Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries!
💛 Enchanted Ink Plate Set – designed by @_studio_AO inspired by Divine Rivals 💛 Messenger to the Old Gods Watering Globe – inspired by The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy, designed by @stacey.mcevoy.caunt 💛 Ruhigburg Expedition Water Bottlr Bag – with artwork from @swanbones inspired by A Dark and Drowning Tide 💛 Notes of the Fae Sticky Notes – inspired by Emily Wilde’s, with artwork by @smugcomputer
💛 FEATURED BOOK 💛
The Irresistible Urge to Fall for your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley
✨ An exclusive redesigned cover on an acetate jacket (art by @frostbite.studios; design by @chattynora) ✨ Full colour art on the hardback (art by @frostbite.studios; design by @chattynora) ✨ Digitally printed edges (by @chattynora) ✨ Illustrated endpapers (by @flyora.art); different front and back ✨ Bound-in author letter ✨ Bonus content ✨ Digitally signed by the author
Clara Graysword has survived the underworld of Eclipse City through thievery, luck, and a whole lot of illegal magic. After a job gone awry, Clara is sentenced to a lifetime in prison for inking tarot cards-a rare power reserved for practitioners at the elite Arcana Academy.
Just when it seems her luck has run dry, the academy’s enigmatic headmaster, Prince Kaelis, offers her an escape-for a price. Kaelis believes that Clara is the perfect tool to help him steal a tarot card from the king and use it to re-create an all-powerful card long lost to time.
In order to conceal her identity and keep her close, Kaelis brings Clara to Arcana Academy, introducing her as the newest first-year student and his bride-to-be.
Thrust into a world of arcane magic and royal intrigue, where one misstep will send her back to prison or worse, Clara finds that the prince she swore to hate may not be what he seems. But can she risk giving him power over the world-and her heart? Or will she take it for herself?
Clara Greysword is broken out of prison and is sent to Arcana Academy where she finds herself betrothed the headmaster/Prince, Kaelis. But Kaelis needs her for her power for inking tarot cards and her thievery.
~ The tarot magic system was AMAZING ~ Dark Academia ~ High stakes ~ Dubious Royals ~ A tortured, brooding Prince ~ A cunning heroine ~ Danger round every corner ~ A slow burn romance that kept me on the edge of my seat.
There were a couple of schexy scenes when I realised that Kaelis is an actual God!
I listened to the audiobook and it was such an easy listening experience and, although I found the pacing was quite slow in places, I cannot wait for the next book!
Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks! And audiobooks. Don’t forget audiobooks!
In other words, if you can read it or if it can be read to you – no matter how you got it – it belongs in Stacking the Shelves.
The Stacking the Shelves meme was originally hosted at Team Tynga’s Reviews. It is currently hosted by Reading Reality.
It’s been a good month because it seems I’ve been a little bit more restrained….but I was on holiday for a week!
Brigands and Breadknives Cinder HouseFallen City Crown So Silver Vow of EmbersArcana Academy
Books I Bought A Vow of Embers by Sariah Wilson A Crown So Silver by Lyra Selene Arcana Academy by Elise Kova (Fairyloot)
Advanced Reader Copies Brigands and Breadknives by Travis Baldree 🎧 Arcana Academy by Elise Kova Fallen City by Adrienne Young Cinder House by Freya Marske
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: Genre Freebie!
Fantasy books I still have to read from my tbr
Let’s be honest, I could’ve picked at least 80 books so I’ve added in 10 that I am looking forward to reading!
A Steeping of Blood by Hafsah Faizal Broken Souls and Bones by LJ Andrews A Sorceress Comes to Call by T Kingfisher Carving Shadows into Gold by Brigid Kemmerer Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J Tuli Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan Bone Smith by Nicki Pau Preto A Far Wilder Magic by Allison Saft Defend the Dawn by Brigid Kemmerer
CJRTB Books 