Give yourself 10 points for each of the below you have done and let me know your score in the comments!
My total is 50!
Happy Blogmas!!
It’s that time of year to look forward and pick out those most anticipated books for next year!
I chose 6 last year and I actually read them (apart from 1 that had its release date changed!) so I’m doing 6 again as it seems achievable!!!
📚A Sea of Unspoken Things by Adrienne Young
📚Deep End by Ali Hazelwood
📚The Bones Beneath My Skin by TJ Klune
📚Emily Wildes Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
📚Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab
📚Ragpicker King by Cassandra Clare
What are yours?
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.
Hope you’ve had a good week!
~ My tree now has baubles on!!!
~ I’ve finished my Christmas shopping!
~ Work was crazy!
~ Son completed 3 performances of his Christmas panto!
~ No reviews from me this month, just all the blogmas fun!
Greenteeth by Molly O’Neil
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The Mistletoe Mystery by Nita Prose
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Look out for my reviews soon!
Blogmas – announcement
Blogmas – did I read my 2024 anticipated books
Blogmas – Christmas films!
What have you read lately?
Happy Blogmas!!!!
This isn’t books but something else dear to my heart….Christmas films!!
There is nothing like sitting in the dark just with the glow of tree lights watching a Christmas film!
In my house we tend the watch the same films each year because we love them so much! When my son was younger Muppets Christmas Carol and Polar Express were his faves but now he is getting older his tastes have changed (I however still love Muppets Christmas Carol!!)
We have our list of films which are…….
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Home Alone and Home Alone 2
Elf (Saaaaaaanta!!!)
And more recently we have found these:
Christmas Chronicles 1 and 2!
Jingle Jangle
What are some of your favourite Christmas films?
Happy Blogmas!!
At the end of 2023 I posted my most anticipated books for 2024 so thought it would be good to look back and see if I read them (maybe not good for me!)
You can see my post here!
I only actually picked 6 books and not sure why as I *think* I normally go for 10….or maybe I’m getting confused with Top Ten Tuesday! Christmas brain!!!! But anyway…..I’m pleased to say I read 5 – whoop!
I haven’t read Heavenly Tyrant because the release date changed to 24th December! Maybe I’ll add to next year’s list!
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett ✔️
Crescent City 3 by Sarah J Maas ✔️
Bride by Ali Hazelwood ✔️
The Prisoners Throne by Holly Black✔️
Empire of the Damned by Jay Kristoff✔️
Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao ❌️
Did you set a list of books you want to read this year? Did you read them?
I’ve done Blogmas for 6 years running now and have absolutely loved doing it (and reading other peoples posts) so decided to do it again!
I’m hoping this will be a fun series of posts on the blog starting on 2nd December and ending on Christmas Eve!
I know that’s more than 12 days………..
I’ve seen most bloggers participate in Blogmas and post on consecutive days but I didn’t want to pressure myself that much over the Christmas lead up so I’ll be posting Blogmas posts every other day. I won’t be posting any book reviews (sorry in advance for when I post them all in January!!)
Anyway, the prompts I’ll be using for Blogmas are:
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.
Hope you’ve had a good week!
Happy December!!!! My son had an inset day and I had the day off work on Friday so we couldn’t resist any longer…..we went to a Christmas display and put up our Christmas tree…..sort of! We have a new tree so I ordered new baubles for it and they didn’t arrive so the tree is stood there just with lights and 6 very sad tree chocolates!!!!!
I also went on my first Christmas meal and it was lovely albeit a bit spicy, the dessert was beautiful though!
It was also a great reading week – may it continue!
Blood of Hercules by Jasmine Mas
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Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
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Look out for my reviews soon!
Mini Review – Januaries by Olivie Blake
Calendar – Happy Thanksgiving
Review – A Fire in the Sky by Sophie Jordan
What have you read lately?
I’m on the countdown to Christmas now! Look out for my blogmas posts starting tomorrow!
May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.
‘Mankind is a great, an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.’
– Pope John XXIII
“Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more.”
– How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Dr. Suess
Title: A Fire in the Sky
Series: A Fire in the Sky #1
Author: Sophie Jordan
Dragons are extinct. Witches are outcast. Magic is dying.
But human lust for power is immortal.
Dragon fire no longer blisters the skies over Penterra, but inside the lavish palace, life is still perilous…especially for Tamsyn. Raised in the glittering court alongside the princesses, it’s her duty to be punished for their misdeeds. Treated as part of the royal family but also as the lowliest servant, Tamsyn fits nowhere. Her only friend is Stig, Captain of the Guard…though sometimes she thinks he wants more than friendship.
When Fell, the Beast of the Borderlands, descends on her home, Tamsyn’s world becomes even more dangerous. To save the pampered princesses from a fate worse than death, she is commanded to don a veil and marry the brutal warrior. She agrees to the deception even though it means leaving Stig, and the only life she’s ever known, behind.
The wedding night begins with unexpected passion—and ends in near violence when her trickery is exposed. Rather than start a war, Fell accepts Tamsyn as his bride…but can he accept the dark secrets she harbors—secrets buried so deep even she doesn’t know they exist? For Tamsyn is more than a royal whipping girl, more than the false wife of a man who now sees her as his enemy. And when those secrets emerge, they will ignite a flame bright enough to burn the entire kingdom to the bone.
Magic is not dead…it is only sleeping. And it will take one ordinary girl with an extraordinary destiny to awaken it.
Oh my. I really enjoyed this! It is what a romantasy should be!
~ Politicial marriage
~ Treachery
~ A love triangle I could deal with
~ Dragons and witches
~ Twists (and 1 that made my jaw drop!)
~ Secret secrets!
~ Huge chemistry
~ A sacred mating mark
Tamsyn is the whipping girl for the Princesses and has never really known a life out of the palace until Fell, the Beast of the Borderlands, comes looking for a royal wife…..but gets Tamsyn instead.
The wedding night! Oh my God. It was…I can’t even describe it but I couldn’t look away!!!!! I didn’t know whether to laugh or cringe!
Some parts reminded me of Game of Thrones! Maybe it was the Northern accent of Fell on the audio?
I know this is very vague but I really enjoyed it so if you love all of the above – dive in!
I really need book 2 because I want ANSWERS!
CJRTB Books 