Title: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Author: VE Schwab

A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.

France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.

Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.

But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.

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Theme – Books with Autumn colours

These are books that I’ve read that have covers that remind me of Autumn

The Bird and the Sword by Amy Harmon

The Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J Maas

The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna

Beyond the Shadowed Earth by Joanna Ruth Meyer

King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

The Golden Dynasty by Kristen Ashley

Souls Unfractured by Tillie Cole

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

Transcendence by Shay Savage

What books would be on your list?

Title: Legendborn

Series: Legendborn #1

Author: Tracy Deonn

Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn’s YA contemporary fantasy Legendborn offers the dark allure of City of Bones with a modern-day twist on a classic legend and a lot of Southern Black Girl Magic.

After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus.

A flying demon feeding on human energies.

A secret society of so called “Legendborn” students that hunt the creatures down.

And a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a “Merlin” and who attempts—and fails—to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw.

The mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there’s more to her mother’s death than what’s on the police report, she’ll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates.

She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society’s secrets—and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down—or join the fight.

‘But when your entire world is shattering, a little bit of magic is . . . nothing.’

Oh but it is Bree!

This story is just utterly fab. I’m trying to write the words to justify it but my brain is just blank because I’m not sure I could conjure up the words! (See what I did there, conjure!!)

This was an Arthurian legend retold but with a powerful message, well more than one really. It was fascinating and totally gripped me. You know when you sit there and all these theories run through your head and then you dismiss them by the next paragraph? That was me!

That ending though. I thought my heart was going to rip through my chest, it was beating so fast!

Utterly, utterly brilliant.

I totally pinched this idea from Destiny at Howling Libraries! Go check her out here.

The idea of this post is to look at your haul from the same month but from last year to see how many of those books you have actually read.

I thought, more to keep myself accountable, that this would be great!

So here we go. I may cry!

Here is my post from my September 2019 haul.

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🎧 The Near Witch by VE Schwab – DNF

📚 The Girl the Sea Gave Back by Adrienne Young – STILL ON TBR

🎧 Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff ✔

📚 Serpent and Dove by Shelby Mahurin ✔

📚 The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell – STILL ON TBR

📚 A Treason of Thorns by Laura Weymouth – STILL ON TBR

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Out of 6, I have read only 2 and dnf 1.

So half.

From a year ago.

It doesn’t seem like a year ago I bought these.

Seems a little sad that I haven’t read the rest of these considering I remember how excited I was to buy them!

How do you think you would do if you looked back at your hauls?

I did this in September and I really enjoyed it, it really made me think of why I bought that book and why I haven’t read it yet (these posts might be dangerous for my reading lists however!!!)

So…. ‘On my shelf’ tag.

You count the number of books on your shelf, say 50 and then ask people to give you a random number between 1 and 50.

Then once the number is chosen, count along until you get to that number and write about the book. Why did you buy it? Does it mean anything to you?

So here we go……..

I have 70 books on my Goodreads tbr shelf.

PLEASE ADD IN COMMENTS A NUMBER BETWEEN 1 AND 70 AND NEXT WEEK I WILL POST ALL ABOUT THAT BOOK!

International Coffee Day in the UK is 1st October…..so today!

‘It’s an occasion that is used to promote and celebrate coffee as a beverage, with events now occurring in places across the world. The first official date was 1 October 2015, as agreed by the International Coffee Organization and was launched in Milan.’

Source – Wikipedia

• I love coffee.
• I cannot function without a coffee in the morning.
• And whats better with a coffee?
• Books!

I have a few coffee cups in work but as we haven’t been allowed in the office for months now I cannot add them here….but here is a selection of my bookish coffee mugs!

And my most treasured coffee mug…..

 

Welcome to Closing the Chapter! I hope you had a great reading month?

Here we are, at the end of the first ‘ber’ month!

In my personal life, my son went back to school and loved it for the first 3 days and is now back to being ‘meh’ about it and I’m still working from home and loving it!

Our COVID numbers are going up and up. It worries me that our government is saying schools will be the last thing to close so I think I’ll get to a certain point, new infections wise, and pull my son out and they can fine me if they want!

Anyway…..books!

I made a reading list again this month as it really worked in August and it did the trick but did find my enthusiasm did dwindle!!!! Honestly you just can please some people (some people = me!) Still, 7 books read which is pretty good for me!

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Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

See my review here.

The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V Schwab

See my review on publication day (as requested by publisher)

Wild Fire by Kristen Ashley

See my review here.

Playing with Fire by LJ Shen

See my review here.

Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar

See my review here.

Fragile Longing by Cora Reilly

See my review here.

Legendborn by Tracey Deonn

Look out for my review soon!

Of the Blood by Cameo Renae was sadly was a DNF for me.

What did you read in September

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.

Theme: Favourite Book Quotes

Omg. So many. So many. But I’ve narrowed it down. But, and I don’t know how this happened, I’ve only got 8! I had about 20 originals and lost 2 along the way. Hey ho!

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

‘You’re better than waffles, Matthias Helvar.

A small smile curled the Fjerdan’s lips.

Let’s not say things we don’t mean, my love.’

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Caraval by Stephanie Garber

‘She imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet utterly beautiful when the stars came out.’

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Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

‘I appear to have misplaced the fucks I give for what you think.’

😂😂 Mia!

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The Beginning of Everything by Kristen Ashley

‘And she’d taught me much, including the fact that we had two eyes, two ears and only one mouth for a reason. Watch. Listen. And then make your decisions or carry forth your acts.’

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A Secret for a Secret by Helena Hunting

‘I’ve been warned about Waters’s wife. We all have. By Waters.’

(Lovers of this series know about Violet. I love Violet!)

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And I’m sure a lot of people will include these….but I had to!

Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas

‘You could rattle the stars, You could do anything, if you only dared. And deep down, you know it, too.’

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A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas

‘To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.’

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The Prisoner of Azkaban

‘You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?’

Title: Fragile Longing

Author: Cora Reilly

Sofia knows how it feels to be the consolation prize.
Too young.
Not blond.
And definitely not an ice princess.
Her sister is—was all those things. Perfection. Until she wasn’t. Until she ran off to be with the enemy and left her fiancé behind.
Now Sofia is given to Danilo in her sister’s stead, knowing she’ll never be more than second best. Yet, she can’t stop longing for the love of the man she’s been crushing on even when he was still her sister’s.

Danilo is a man who’s used to getting what he wants.
Power.
Respect.
The sought-after ice princess.
Until another man steals his bride-to-be. Danilo knows that for a man in his position losing his woman can lead to a loss of face.
Wounded pride.
Thirst for revenge.
A dangerous combination—one Danilo can’t leave behind, not even when a girl just as precious takes her sister’s place to placate him. Yet, she’s got one flaw: she’s not her sister.
Unable to forget what he’s lost, Danilo might lose what he’s been given.

Hooked.
Line and sinker.

If you have been following this storyline you will be hooked too!

‘But she was the consolation prize. We all knew it.’

Basically Sofia is the spare, a replacement. At first I wanted to cuddle Sofia so badly and punch Danilo right in the mush! But girl got claws!

But then Danilo surprised me too. He was beautiful!!

‘Where I was prideful , Sofia was humble. Where I was vengeful, she was forgiving. Where I was short-tempered, she was patient.’

I do need to add that I know this book was about Sofia but Anna really shone here. I need her story!