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 Springy Covers
These covers remind me of Spring!
The Courting of Bristol Keats by Mary E Pearson A Witches Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna Emily Wildes Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett Januaries by Olivie Blake The Undermining of Twyla and Frank by Megan Bannen
Check and Mate by Ali Hazelwood A Power Unbound by Freya Marske Throne of the Fallen by Kerri Maniscalco Foxglove by Adalyn Grace Secretly Yours by Tessa Bailey
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!
A busy work week but I actually feel more human, more me like!
Maybe it’s because we’ve had lovely Spring weather, maybe it’s because we’ve got lighter evenings or maybe it’s because we’re off to Portugal on Tuesday!!!
Two books read this week and they were both fabulous!
Now to choose my holiday reads!
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
We haven’t been abroad for years, so we decided we needed a treat, and we booked for Portugal!
This is our hotel (but we are going self-catering thanks to celiac disease!) – can’t wait for a dip in the pool!
I’ve scheduled in some posts but I don’t know if I’ll have the time (or data!) to come on and reply to comments and look at your posts but will try and catch up when I’m back.
Lia is the princess of Locris, a dying desert nation cursed centuries ago by an earth goddess—one still worshipped by the thriving and adversarial nation of Ilion. Every year, Ilion offers the goddess a sacrifice: two Locrian maidens forced to compete in a life-and-death race to reach her temple. In a millennium, no maiden has made it out of Ilion alive. This year, Lia is one of the hunted.
An education in battle gives her a fighting chance, but the challenges are greater than she feared: Lia’s beloved but untrained sister Quynh has been put in the path of danger. The winding streets of Ilion itself have been transformed into a labyrinthine maze of countless choices and dead ends. And if the risks weren’t significant enough, Lia is reluctantly drawn to the commandingly attractive Jason, an Ilionian sailor she loathes to trust and desires like no man before.
The tribute game is on. It’s up to Lia to lift the goddess’s curse, restore Locris to its former glory, and change the fate of every young woman destined to follow in her path.
‘And as soon as I saw his face, my heart whispered, Oh there you are, I’ve been waiting for you.’
Obsessed. I was actually obsessed with this book! I was doing a readaong with set chapters each day, but that went out the window, and I gorged it!!!!
Lia is a Princess of a dying land and to save it, her parents have betrothed her to a Prince from another Kingdom….but Lia gives herself a mission to find a God relic and save her land herself instead (girl power!)
Before she leaves to face the enemy, she meets Jason, who is 1st mate on the ship she’ll be travelling on, and he becomes an intricate part of the story!
This book held so much: Sisterhood (by blood and found) Fierce, determined women Fabulous chemistry A lot of kissing. A lot! Brilliant world building And a scene featuring a goose that made me laugh out loud!
I had 2 theories reading this…one has come to pass, and the other I’m wondering if it will come out in the next book. I need that next book, so I’m off to preorder!
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 You’d be a Fool Not to Read
Here are some of my all time favourite books ever!
One Dark Window Throne of GlassIronside Academy HappyheadFourth Wing ACOTARShadowhuntersAll for the GameChaos SeriesThe Three Series
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 Mothers Day and not-so-happy clocks going forward – I miss my hours sleep already!
I didn’t do a Sunday Post last week because, although I was in the middle of 4 books, I hadn’t finished not one! And now I’ve only finished 1 of them!!! My reading is absolutely shocking this year!
I did do a readalong this week with Tandem Collective and I really enjoyed it! Was completely obsessed!
A Tribute of Fire by Sariah Wilson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Look out for my review soon!
Review – Blood and Steel by Helen Scheuerer Review – Rebel Witch by Kristen Ciccarelli Unboxing – Fairyloot YA: February 2025
You can still join in – see the new BTB site here.
The challenge runs from 1st January and ends on 31st December, and you can only count a book as applicable if it was published before 1st January 2024.
I didn’t set a goal but said I had 87 books on my tbr….let’s see how I did in quarter 1 – did I show my tbr who’s boss?!
Not quite 😂 but I haven’t done too badly – 5 books read off my tbr!
#BeatTheBacklist
1) When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A Parker 2) The Shadows Rule All by Abigail Owen 3)The Dagger and the Flame by Catherine Doyle 4) Blood and Steel by Helen Scheuerer 5) Heir by Sabaa Tahir
In my sign up post, I said I was going for 20-30, Binge Listener, but (secretly) hoping to increase to My Precious!
I wanted to get at least 7 audiobooks off my total….lets see how I started off!!
I DID IT, JUST!
1) When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A Parker 2) The Shadows Rule All by Abigail Owen 3) The Bones Beneath My Skin by TJ Klune 4) The Dagger and the Flame by Catherine Doyle 5) A Language of Dragons by SF Williamson 6) Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis 7) Rebel Witch by Kristen Ciccarelli 8) Heir by Sabaa Tahir
CJRTB Books 