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I thought I’d start doing a couple of posts on what I’m currently reading! Although I will add these to my Sunday Post and also post my review, I thought this might be more up to date!
So… I’m listening to an audiobook and reading an earc:
I am lucky that I got an earc! I’m nearly halfway through….and I am hooked!
From Rachel Gillig, comes the next big romantasy phenomenon: a gothic, mist-cloaked tale of a prophetess who is forced beyond the safety of her cloister on an impossible quest to defeat the gods with the one knight whose future is beyond her sight.
Back with Molly the Maid! I’m only a third of the way through and I am loving it!
When a daring art heist takes place at the Regency Grand, Molly’s life is threatened. The question is who’s out to get her, and why? Long-buried secrets will be revealed in this intriguing and heartwarming novel.
WHAT ARE YOU 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: Books that Surprised Me
Lately – in a good way!
Not so lately – in a good way!
What did 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 and Happy Easter!
Back to normal life for us!
We flew back into England on Tuesday night, I had Wednesday off to recuperate (and do all the washing!) and back to work on Thursday!
All I did in work was read the mountain of emails that I got whilst away, checked my projects were where they were meant to be and then had Friday off as it was Good Friday!
Tomorrow is Easter Monday, so another day off, and then it’s back to work for me and back to school for my son after the Easter break!
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ironside Academy by Jane Washington
Plier, Tourner, Sauter, Relever (rereads)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Look out for my reviews soon!
ARC Review – Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
Feature – May Releases
Review – Legends of Thezmarr by Helen Scheuerer
Calendar – Happy Easter!
Review – The Shadow Bride by Shelby Mahurin
Review – What Sleeps Within the Cove by Harper L Woods
What have you read lately?
Happy Easter! 🐰🐣
‘Easter egg hunts are proof that children can find things when they really want.’ – unknown
‘Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.” — S.D. Gordon
‘Easter is the only time when it’s perfectly safe to put all of your eggs in one basket.’ – Evan Esar
Recently, I’ve become obsessed with a romantasy book series, and because I’ve been so obsessed, I haven’t really written proper reviews for them, just garbled love notes to the series and lots of quotes! Do you do that too?!
So I present my garbled nonsense in a series review…..
The Legends of Thezmarr by Helen Scheuerer
#1 Blood and Steel
#2 Fate and Furies
#3 Shadow and Storms
Aaaah a brilliant romantasy series that I literally couldn’t put down and binged one after another!
So here’s some of my favourite quotes!
‘Then know this… If you seek power in a world of men and monsters, there is nothing more powerful than knowledge and the ability to wield it.’
‘I told myself that it was enough,’ he murmured into her hair, his voice hoarse. ‘That I should be grateful for the time we had. It was more love than most people get in a lifetime. But the truth is, Thea… A thousand lifetimes with you wouldn’t be enough.’
‘We are all daughters of darkness, Thea. We were born into a world of it, a place that would dictate the way in which we defend ourselves, the way we live our lives. No more. That world is no longer. And the next one will be what we make it.’
Here’s what’s tantalising me that’s releasing in May….
I actually cannot believe there is only 1 book. Who am I?!
The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
Will you be getting this?
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: My Unpopular Bookish Opinions
Hope these don’t make me unpopular!!!
~ BookTok is ruining the book community.
~ People are too quick to jump onto the bandwagon – there’s a witch hunt nearly everyday, without the full facts and…bang…here comes the keyboard warriors butting their noses in…..oh and don’t forget running to Goodreads to leave that 1 star review!
~ Duologies are better than standalone or trilogies
~ Love triangles should be banned!
~ Billionaire books should be banned
~ Having SEs with 5 different covers to collect is a money grab
~ There’s too much pearl clutching about dark romance. Sometimes, you just need a dark read. Don’t like it? Don’t read it!
~ Shatter Me is not a good book!
~ People get a whiff of celebrity and write an autobiography.
What would you choose?
Title: Great Big Beautiful Life
Author: Emily Henry
Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years–or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century.
When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she’ll choose the person who’ll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice’s head in the game.
One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice—and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over.
Two: She’s ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication
Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition.
But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can’t swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room.
And it’s becoming abundantly clear that their story—just like the tale Margaret’s spinning—could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad…depending on who’s telling it.
‘Yours, mine, and the truth.’
I loved this! It was like a story in a story and I couldn’t put it down!
I must admit, I did look at some reviews (on GR) before I started and I didn’t know if I’d like this from what I saw…..couldn’t have been further from the truth!! I devoured this book in a day because I just couldn’t stop reading!
Alice and Hayden are competing to write a, now reclusive, old money socialites biography. And this is where the story in a story comes to pass.
I LOVED hearing about Margaret’s family, how they came into their money, the familial relationships, the scandal, the drama, Margaret’s love….all of it!
And then there was Alice and Hayden, a bit like a side story, a grumpy/sunshine match….and it was glorious!!!
My jaw. How it dropped. Dropped right down to my chest. I’ll leave it here all cryptic like! Read this!
Sound like something you’d like?
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