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’d like special editions of!

A change of topic for me!

Most special editions, aside from Waterstones, Fairyloot and Illumicrate, are from US companies and that’s really a no-no for me because the postage is normally more than the books…..and I’m not rich!!!!

I did do it once for a fave indie authors trilogy I knew no one else would do. The books roughly cost £40 and I paid £105 which included the books, postage and tax. I could’ve actually cried!

Anyway…here’s some books I’d love a special edition of!

Traumaland by Josh Silver
Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis
Servant of Earth by Sarah Hawley
Blood and Steel by Helen Scheuerer
The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston
Plier by Jane Washington
House of Roots and Ruin by Erin A Craig
Dark Fae by Caroline Peckham
Illuminae Files by Jay Kristoff
Wolfsong by TJ Klune

(an extra one for good luck!!)

 

What would you choose?

Title: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Author: VE Schwab

Release Date: 10th June 2025

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BLURB

Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532.
London, 1837.
Boston, 2019.

Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots.

One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild.

And all of them grow teeth.

‘It is a lie that you only get one story.’

Stunning… 
Masterpiece….

I’m a fantasy reader and vamps are my jam so I wanted to read this book because a) Schwab is like a gem, and b) I wondered what her vamps would be like!

This is going to sound strange but i feel like I’ve grown up, matured like a fine wine, reading this. Will I go be able to go back to my normal fantasy vamps? I hope not, this book is a rereader for sure!

In different places, different times, we have 3 lady vamps and we get to know their stories, their loves, how they survive, their lives and how they are woven together.

To say I’d loved this would be an understatement! Another hit from VE Schwab!

‘Bury my bones in the midnight soil,
Plant them shallow and water them deep.
And in my place will grow a feral rose.
Soft red petals hiding sharp white teeth.’

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Sound like something you’d like?

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!

My apologies, another week where I’ve missed coming to see your posts as work has been crazy and by the end of the day my brain is mush and all I can do is escape into a book! And there is no end in sight, so please forgive me if I’m a bit absent in the next few weeks!

I’m taking part in an audio challenge this month to read books off my tbr and I managed to listen to one solitary book….and it was a short one!

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Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

🎧 The Warbler by Sarah Beth Durst
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Look out for my reviews soon!

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Feature – Stacking the Shelves: May
Umboxing –  Illumicrate: April
Unboxing – Fairyloot Romantasy

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Review – Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab
Feature – New-to-me Authors in 25!
Feature – Books I have my eye on: July 2025

What have you read lately?

Fairyloot Romantasy – May 2025

Whispers of Ruin

A young woman’s quiet life is shattered when a Prince’s lethal guard uncovers the secret behind the silver scars in her eyes. Forced into the deadly service of the King, she must join forces with the man who exposed her and confront a growing passion that could change everything.

Broken Souls and Bones by LJ Andrews

🖤 Redesigned cover @serif.and.somnia
🖤 Colourway variation of trade cover – reverse dust jacket
🖤 Foiled hardcover art @catrina_paints
🖤 Digitally sprayed edges @serif.and.somnia
🖤 Character art endpapers @deerlordhunter
🖤 Author letter bound into book

April 2025
Theme = Rival Realms

There is rivalry between our realms, and danger surrounds us on all sides.

Items inspired by A Court of Thorns and Roses, Faebound, Voyage of the Damned and Trial of the Sun Queen.

💛 City of Starlight Puzzle
Inspired by ACOTAR with artwork by @harkalelinai
💛 Dragons Dawn Tote
Artwork by @niallcgrant inspired by Voyage of the Damned.
💛 Aurora and Aphelion Postcards
Artwork by @rinfishe from Trial of the Sun Queen.
💛 Cosmic Fray Sun Stickers
Designed by @perrycuffdesigns inspired by Faebound

💛 FEATURED BOOK 💛

The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson

✨ An exclusive redesigned cover (by @tomrobertsillustration)
✨ Full colour art and foil on the hardback (by @c.e.illo)
✨ Digitally printed edges (by @chattynora)
✨ Illustrated endpapers (by @zookie_art); different front and back
✨ Signed by the author

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.

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It’s been a good month (but not for my tbr!!!) And also, May was my birthday month, so this post includes my birthday haul!!!

Books I Bought
The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson
Silver Elite by Dani Francis

Advanced Reader Copies
Traumaland by Josh Silver
The Fallen and the Kiss of Dusk by Carissa Broadbent
Warrior Princess Assassin by Brigid Kemmerer
A Steeping of Blood by Hafsah Faizal
Never the Roses by Jennifer K Lambert

Birthday Haul
Foxglove by Adalyn Grace
Leather and Lark by Brynne Weaver
Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
A Shadow in the Ember by Jennifer L Armentrout

I’d better get reading!

 

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: Summer Freebie

I tried to pick books that remind me of Summer…maybe they have a summery cover or they are about summer or have elements of summer things in them!

Maid’s Secret – nice yellow cover!
Great Big Beautiful Life – features a beach
Courting of Bristol Keats – cover reminds me of a summer cottage!
Emily Wildes – beautiful summer flowers
Januaries – lovely red, summer cover
My Killer Vacation – a holiday that goes wrong (or right!)
Beach Read – speaks for itself!
It Happened One Summer – has summer in the title!
Moti on the Water – that cover!
Golden Dynasty – a setting sun coloured cover!

 

What books would you choose?

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!

Happy June! Can you believe it, halfway through the year! Blink and we’ll be putting up our Christmas trees!

I had a week off work this week and it was my birthday! We had a lovely meal and lots of cake!

It was a relaxing week, just what the doctor ordered…..and I topped it off with a series mood read!

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Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac series by Caroline Peckham (mood reread!)

Dark Fae
Savage Fae
Vicious Fae
Broken Fae
Warrior Fae

(mixture of 4 and 5 stars!)

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Review – The Half King by Melissa Landers
Review – A Steep and Savage Path by JJA Harwood

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Feature – Stacking the Shelves: May
Unboxing –  Illumicrate: April
Unboxing – Fairyloot Romantasy

What have you read lately?

‘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

Happy June!

Have a great month!