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: Authors Who Live In My Country
This was really hard for me! I don’t really know what authors live where!!!!
VE Schwab SF Williamson Caroline Peckham Genevieve Cogman Josh Silver
I admit I did have issues knowing what authors I’d read who actually live in England….so I’m reaching with the next ones!
Jane Austin Charles Dickens William Shakespeare Mary Shelley Emily Bronte
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!
So…it has began! I’ve started going through my shelves to unhaul books! I’m donating some to the charity shop and am going to sell some special editions. I just need some more room (for new books!!!!!)
I had a routine eye test this week and they found something (I think) he called metamorphopsia so I’ve got an urgent referral to the hospital and will have to see what they find.
Today we started jet washing the garden, we did the patio today and then we’ll work on the huge driveway in the coming weeks. The patio was filthy!
The Maids Secret by Nita Prose ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Gentleman and His Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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 (but not for my tbr!!!)
FirebirdKnight and Moth What Sleeps Within CoveExecutioners Three Thorns and Fire
Books I Bought Firebird by Juliette Cross Wind Weaver by Julie Johnson
Advanced Reader Copies
The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig The Executioners Three by Susan Dennard What Sleeps Within the Cove by Harper L Woods The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig Thorns and Fire by Helen Scheuerer
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 Colour in the Title
A slight swerve from the actual topic!
Carving Shadows into Gold Feather So Black Crimson Moth Scarlet Alchemist Red Scholars Wake Red, White and Royal BlueRed RisingCourt of Silver Flames
Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum’s windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams.
Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude, heretical, and devilishly handsome, the knight Rodrick has no respect for Sybil’s visions. But when Sybil’s fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one, she has no choice but to seek his help in finding them. For the world outside the cathedral’s cloister is wrought with peril. Only the gods have the answers she is seeking, and as much as she’d rather avoid Rodrick’s dark eyes and sharp tongue, only a heretic can defeat a god.
Listen up Batholomew – if you’re going to read 1 book this year, let it be this one!
A Diviner, a Knight, a King, a gargoyle, Omens and dreams.
A coin, an inkwell, an oar, a chime, and a loom stone.
If you loved One Dark Window then you’re going to LOVE this!
There was banter, there was drama, there was heartache, joy and A LOT of shocking revelations (that I didn’t even guess!) in this fast-paced story.
What an absolute hit this was! How the heck am I going to wait until the next book?!
I’ll leave you with these:
‘Swords and armor are nothing to stone.’
‘Knights are shooting stars, Six. They come and go. But you and me, our sisterhood of Diviners—we’re the moon.’
‘The gargoyle batted his eyes. Oh, Bartholomew. He’s dreamy.’
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!
Back to work and school this week and I am TIRED! Honestly this working malarkey is for the birds!!!!! I was so glad to see the weekend!
I also did a little celebratory dance as I’ve managed to reach 1000 followers on my blog!
The Shadow Bride by Shelby Mahurin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Célie’s life is over. She took her final breath trying to save the people she loves—including the powerful and enigmatic vampire king, Michal, who refused to let her go. When Célie wakes, she cannot walk in the sun; she can hear her friends’ heartbeats and she craves their blood. Michal has cursed her to the eternal existence of a vampire.
But Célie isn’t the only dead roaming the earth. Her sister, Filippa, has returned as a shadow of her former self, and other revenants are rising from their graves intent on revenge. The fragile balance between life and death has broken, awakening an even darker force—and he is coming for Célie, ready to claim her as his Bride. With the fate of their world at stake, Célie and Michal must set aside their searing attraction to mend the veil and right the balance, once and for all.
Back with Celie and Michal after the events of the last book and their dice with death….
Michal, oh Michal, how I love thee! I just love how this character was written….I’m smitten!
This was such a great conclusion to their story, I couldn’t stop reading! The chemistry, tension, drama and schexy scenes were golden!
Suitably vague, I know! But if you loved book 1 then you will fall in love with this one!
There were 2 characters that I simply adored in this book, both hilarious for totally different reasons, Celie’s Mum and the Witch, Mathilde, I’d build her a cottage!
The epilogue! Made my heart swell to epic proportions!
Whilst I was away in Portugal, I realised some stuff, and I actually wrote it down so thought I would share! So this isn’t a bookish post (although I did read 3 books whilst we were away!)
I haven’t been abroad since my son was small, money was tight and then covid hit, but I had saved up some money, so we booked our holiday to Portugal!
The holiday bought time to think, a total slow down from my normal life. I didn’t realise just how rushed my life is!
Gone is the hubbub in my brain, rushing from one thing to the next to get it all done. I’ve had time to sit, think, relax.
It was like a balm for the soul. I actually feel refreshed and ready to go!
I realised it’s not the same, just having time off at home. Here we got to roam, to see new sights, have new adventures, eat at different places, sit on the balcony in the evening and just watch the world go by.
So we’ve decided that we’re going to try and do this every year (if I can save enough!)
I need this boost each year, need it for my brain, my body, my soul!
Do you feel like this? What do you do to get total relaxation?
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