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!
Again, this week, time has been my enemy. For the first time ever, I didn’t post on Bookstagram for a few days and didn’t have a chance to go and see people’s posts until yesterday.
It was my Uncle’s funeral on Wednesday so has been a weird week.
I have listened to an audiobook and I’ve read half of a 540 page book so all is not lost!
🎧Rebel Witch by Kristen Ciccarelli ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Look out for my review soon!
Review – Dagger and Flame by Catherine Doyle Feature – April Releases Review – A Language of Dragons by SF Williamson
London, 1923. Dragons soar through the skies and protests erupt on the streets, but Vivian Featherswallow isn’t worried. She’s going to follow the rules, get an internship studying dragon languages, and make sure her little sister never has to risk growing up Third Class. By midnight, Viv has started a civil war.
With her parents arrested and her sister missing, all the safety Viv has worked for is collapsing around her. So when a lifeline is offered in the form of a mysterious ‘job’, she grabs it. Arriving at Bletchley Park, Viv discovers that she has been recruited as a codebreaker helping the war effort – if she succeeds, she and her family can all go home again. If she doesn’t, they’ll all die.
At first Viv believes that her challenge, of discovering the secrets of a hidden dragon language, is doable. But the more she learns, the more she realises that the bubble she’s grown up in isn’t as safe as she thought, and eventually Viv must What war is she really fighting?
I absolutely loved this book!
When her parents are arrested for being rebels, Vivian and her cousin, Marquis, take matters into their own hands, release a imprisoned dragon, create havoc and are caught….and sent to Bletchley Park to help crack a code….oh and Vivian can speak various dragon languages! There she meets someone she has betrayed in the past and Atlas (he’s Bristolian – hooray!!!!)
You’ll find: ~ Dark Academia world ~ Historical setting ~ Dragons! ~ Forbidden romance ~ Morally grey characters ~ Secret languages ~ Corruption ~ A rebel group ~ Twists, turns and shocks ~ Betrayals ~ Heartbreak (it was mine!!!!)
That cannot be the end? I’m really hoping that this is a series. There simply must be more!
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 Include/Feature…..
Fantasy and Romance….
5 Romantasy’s I’ve read
Blood of HerculesIron and EmbersOne Dark WindowNever KeepSongbird and Heart of Stone
5 Romantasy’s I need to read
Echo FortCaptain of FatesLanguage of DragonsQuicksilverTrials of the Sun Queen
Book 2, The Rebel and the Rose will be out in December 2025!
BLURB
In Fantome, a kingdom of cobbled streets, flickering lamplight, beautiful buildings, and secret catacombs, Shade-magic is a scarce and deadly commodity controlled by two enemy the Cloaks and the Daggers – the thieves and the assassins. On the night of her mother’s murder, 17-year-old Seraphine runs for her life. Seeking sanctuary with the Cloaks, Sera’s heart is set on revenge. But are her secret abilities a match for the dark-haired boy whose quicksilver eyes follow her around the city?
Nothing can prepare Sera for the moment she finally comes face-to-face with Ransom, heir to the Order of Daggers. And Ransom is shocked to discover that this unassuming farmgirl wields a strange and blazing magic he has never seen before… Among rumours of monsters stalking the streets and the rival guilds grappling for control of Fantome’s underworld, Sera and Ransom are drawn together by something more than just magic and must face a deadly choice – forgiveness or vengeance? Kiss or kill? Dagger or Flame?
‘Ransom more like handsome’ 🤣
Seraphine runs after finding her mother murdered by a gang in Fantome, the Daggers. But she runs to a rival gang, the Cloaks, and then she falls for the person sent to off her!
This enemies to lovers, off-limits romance was delish and done absolutely right!
There was a twist and, I tell you, my jaw dropped because I didn’t see if coming at all. Not in a million miles.
Ransom made me swoon and is one of the best main characters I’ve read for a while!Maybe it’s because the male narrator was Freddy Carter!
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!
It was Pancake Day aka Shrove Tuesday here this week so, of course, we made lots of pancakes – maple syrup for my son and lemon and sugar for me!
Work is still absolutely crazy but I did manage to read 1 book, and it was FABULOUS!
Blood and Steel by Helen Scheuerer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Look out for my review soon!
Review – The Ragpicker King by Cassandra Clare Feature – Five Star Friday
Review – Dagger and Flame by Catherine Doyle Feature – April Releases Review – A Language of Dragons by SF Williamson
I was thinking about what new post ideas I could do and thought of 5 Star Friday – basically, I’ll showcase a book I rated 5 stars so hopefully, people will see it and give it a whirl!
This was an arc I read in July 2023 – a huge 5 stars (and book 2, Dead Happy was also 5 stars!!!)
Happyhead by Josh Silver
We are in an epidemic. An epidemic of unhappiness.
Friends, here is the good news: HappyHead has the answer.
When Seb is offered a place on a radical retreat designed to solve the national crisis of teenage unhappiness, he is determined to change how people see him and make his parents proud. But as he finds himself drawn to the enigmatic Finn, Seb starts to question the true nature of the challenges they must undergo. The deeper into the programme the boys get, the more disturbing the assessments become, until it’s clear there may be no escape.
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: Things Characters Have Said
I didn’t really know what to do here…book quotes?! Anyway, here’s some I dragged up!
CJRTB Books 