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!
Well, it’s been a week. Getting over my flu (or whatever it was) and then on Wednesday, my Uncle died. It wasn’t expected so was a bit of a shock. He was one of my son’s favourite people so breaking the news to him wasn’t easy 😕
Iron and Embers by Helen Scheuerer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Look out for my review soon!
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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!
And here’s my first! A massive 5 stars!
One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
Elspeth needs a monster. The monster might be her.
Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom of Blunder—she needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient, mercurial spirit trapped in her head. He protects her. He keeps her secrets.
But nothing comes for free, especially magic.
When Elspeth meets a mysterious highwayman on the forest road, her life takes a drastic turn. Thrust into a world of shadow and deception, she joins a dangerous quest to cure Blunder from the dark magic infecting it. And the highwayman? He just so happens to be the King’s nephew, Captain of the most dangerous men in Blunder…and guilty of high treason.
Together they must gather twelve Providence Cards—the keys to the cure. But as the stakes heighten and their undeniable attraction intensifies, Elspeth is forced to face her darkest secret yet: the Nightmare is slowly taking over her mind. And she might not be able to stop him.
Aurelia Schwartz has spent twenty-three years maintaining the equilibrium between her carefully curated human life and the magical one that she endures in secret. With a devoted best friend and top marks at a prestigious university, she has everything one could possibly want neatly within her grasp.
Except, her gift of green magic has begun to fade, and if that wasn’t enough to upset the balance of her life, a fateful run-in with another power-hungry witch with a penchant for stolen magic has threatened to bring it all to ruin.
Cast into an unexpected alliance with her dreadfully arrogant classmate, Aurelia goes into hiding among a peculiar family of witches, where she discovers that the secret to their safety requires breaking rules she has followed all her life: Make no promises, Tell no one what you are, and Never stay the night.
Teddy is life!
I won’t just leave it at that, I’d better explain myself, well I’ll try!
Aureila is a witch hiding in plain sight and, when one of her closest witchy friends gets offed, she is taken in and helped by her arch nemesis, Theodore Ingram.
And this is where our story starts. ~ Academic Rivals ~ Rivals to lovers ~ Character driven plot ~ Flawed characters ~ Cozy, unearthly, atmospheric setting.
It felt like it took a long time to get to the ending, maybe too long?
I must admit, I’m not a slow burn type of gal but this slow burn was DELISH (yes, capitals to really emphasise!!)
And now…..Theodore Ingram aka Teddy – my actual heart!
‘You’d be surprised by all the things that scare me. Like what? You. You terrify me. And torture me a bit too.’
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: New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2024
Jane Washington (Ironside Academy) T Kingfisher (Wizards Guide to Defensive Baking) Ciel Pierlot (Hunters Gambit) Sarah Beth Durst (The Spellshop) Lyra Selene (A Feather So Black) Lana Ferguson (The Fake Mate) Kaydence Snow (Variant Lost) Allison Saft (Dark and Drowning Tide) Jasmine Mas (Blood of Hercules) Sophie Jordan (Fire in the Sky)
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!
I have been the most unwell this week that I’ve been for years! I think I’ve had the flu or maybe a flu like virus and it put me in bed for 3 days. I still feel a bit rubbish but nothing like it was!
I finished 1 book (before I got ill) and it was a great one!
I’ve also updated my ‘Sunday Post’ template a bit – let me know what you think!
The Bones Beneath My Skin
The Bones Beneath My Skin by TJ Klune ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Look out for my review soon!
Feature – Stacking the Shelves Unboxing – Fairyloot Romantasy: November 2024
Review – Modern Divination by Isabel Agajanian Feature – Five Star Friday
Cruel is the LightWater Moon
Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao Cruel is the Light by Sophie Clark
🌹Arranged marriage 🐉Dragons and Witches 🏛Political intrigue
Fire in the Sky by Sophie Jordan
🖤 An EXCLUSIVE REDESIGNED COVER by @bluelyboo 🖤 A REVERSIBLE DUST JACKET featuring a colour variation of the trade cover 🖤 A FULL COLOUR DESIGN on the hardback with foil by @bluelyboo 🖤 FOILED CHARACTER ART ON THE ENDPAPERS by @lulybot (different front and back) 🖤 A DIGITALLY SPRAYED EDGE by @bluelyboo with a solid top and bottom edge 🖤 SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with a bound in author letter.
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.
I haven’t done a STS for 2 months but I did a Top Ten Tuesday post this week that I wrote and scheduled in a couple of weeks ago about recent tbr additions but the books below are what I’ve received since – all arcs though!
The Ragpicker KingWooing the Witch Queen Witch Who Trades with Death
Tea You at the Altar by Rebecca Thorne Ragpicker King by Cassandra Clare Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis The Witch Who Trades with Death by CM Alongi
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: The Ten Most Recent Additions to My Book Collection
I only had 1 book for Christmas so these are the books I got in December/early January!
Fire in the Sky by Sophie Jordan The Teller of Small Magics by Maiga Doocy Blood of Hercules by Jasmine Mas The Courting of Bristol Keats by Mary E Pearson A Language of Dragons by SF Williamson Belladonna by Adalyn Grace Iron and Embers by Helen Scheuerer The Bones Beneath My Skin by TJ Klune The Gentleman and His Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide How to Become a Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler
CJRTB Books 