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?
We’re going on holiday tomorrow! The beach, swimming pools, lots of good food and relaxation, hopefully with a few good books!
Work has been so stressful lately that my reading mojo has left the building so am hoping a reset on holiday will make it come back!
New Arrivals
Nothing this week!
What I’ve Read
The Blackbird Oracle by Deborah Harkness ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Look out for my review soon!
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Review – Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood Review – A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston
A professor of literature finds herself caught up in a work of fiction… literally.
Eileen Merriweather loves to get lost in a good happily-ever-after. The fictional kind, anyway. Because at least imaginary men don’t leave you at the altar. She feels safe in a book. At home. Which might be why she’s so set on going to her annual book club retreat this year—she needs good friends, cheap wine, and grand romantic gestures—no matter what.
But when her car unexpectedly breaks down on the way, she finds herself stranded in a quaint town that feels like it’s right out of a novel…
Because it is.
This place can’t be real, and yet… she’s here, in Eloraton, the town of her favorite romance series, where the candy store’s honey taffy is always sweet, the local bar’s burgers are always a little burnt, and rain always comes in the afternoon. It feels like home. It’s perfect—and perfectly frozen, trapped in the late author’s last unfinished story.
Elsy is sure that’s why she must be here: to help bring the town to its storybook ending.
Except there is a character in Eloraton that she can’t place—a grumpy bookstore owner with mint-green eyes, an irritatingly sexy mouth and impeccable taste in novels. And he does not want her finishing this book.
Which is a problem because Elsy is beginning to think the town’s happily-ever-after might just be intertwined with her own.
How amazing would it be to find yourself in your fave fictional world?
Well that’s exactly what happens to Eileen aka Elsy when her car breaks down and she nearly knocks someone over!
Eloraton was the place of dreams! The descriptions, the characters, the meddling, the gossip, the love stories…..just everything, it was all fab!
And so was Anders! I’ll say no more as you need to go visit Eloraton yourself!
This author has fast become a firm favourite for me, everything she’s written has got me right in the feels!
A forbidden, secret affair proves that all’s fair in love and science.
Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down.
Eli Killgore and his business partners want Kline, period. Eli has his own reasons for pushing this deal through – and he’s a man who gets what he wants. With one burning exception: Rue. The woman he can’t stop thinking about. The woman who’s off-limits to him.
Torn between loyalty and an undeniable attraction, Rue and Eli throw caution out the lab and the boardroom windows. Their affair is secret, no-strings-attached, and has a built-in deadline: the day one of their companies will prevail. But the heart is risky business – one that plays for keeps.
A scientist and a financier walk into a hotel lobby….
No this isn’t the start of a joke ala the 80s, it’s the 2 main characters from Ali Hazelwood’s new book!
Rue and Eli, both with past issues that bleed into present, meet. They should be enemies as Eli is part of the hostile takeover on the company Rue works for…..or is there something we (and Rue) don’t know?!
I really liked Eli. He actually was very sweet and he was obsessed with Rue from the get go and I loved that!
‘I would do this a million more times. I would spend a million more hours like this. With you.’
It was Rue I didn’t gel with. I didn’t dislike her, she was just meh. And let me tell you my opinion got me hate in my book group!
I found this book darker and a bit more saucier than her others and I was totally here for that!
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: Ten Things I Loved About The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare!
I could reread this series over and over….and I have!
Anyway, here’s my 10 things!
1) Will Herondale 2) Victorian era setting 3) Machines that come to life 4) London setting 5) Will Herondale 6) Parabatai 7) Demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves 8) Found family 9) Will Herondale 10) The only love triangle I will accept!
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?
Had some good news this week, I got the project manager job I applied for (have been doing it for 10 months though!)
I got my hair cut, booked my dental check up and had a letter to book a smear test (sorry!!)
Another slow reading week for me but I did buddy read The Spellshop which got me back into the swing of things!
New Arrivals
Nothing this week!
What I’ve Read
🎧 The Sky on Fire by Jenn Lyons ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Look out for my review soon!
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Review – Twelth Knight by Alexene Farol Follmuth Unboxing – Fairyloot YA June 2024
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Her painstakingly crafted tabletop game campaign was shot down, her best friend is suggesting she try being more “likable,” and school running back Jack Orsino is the most lackadaisical Student Body President she’s ever seen, which makes her job as VP that much harder. Vi’s favorite escape from the world is the MMORPG Twelfth Knight, but online spaces aren’t exactly kind to girls like her―girls who are extremely competent and have the swagger to prove it. So Vi creates a masculine alter ego, choosing to play as a knight named Cesario to create a safe haven for herself.
But when a football injury leads Jack Orsino to the world of Twelfth Knight, Vi is alarmed to discover their online alter egos―Cesario and Duke Orsino―are surprisingly well-matched.
As the long nights of game-play turn into discussions about life and love, Vi and Jack soon realise they’ve become more than just weapon-wielding characters in an online game. But Vi has been concealing her true identity from Jack, and Jack might just be falling for her offline…
Jack gets injured playing football and then his gf dumps him so he’s not having the best time! He’s also bored so his friend gets him into a role playing game called Twelfth Knight.
A player he teams up with is actually his arch nemesis, Viola, but he thinks it’s Viola’s brother he’s playing with…..and it all goes from there!
I would say this book is perfect apart from Viola. She got on my nerves with her attitude but then I realised she is actually more like me than I care to admit!!
A few bits I need to mention:
~ Jack is AMAZING! ~ That injury was brutal, I hope karma gets that boy ~ I love the gaming element ~ Grumpy sunshine reversed ~ THE best side characters, Bash and Olivia
This was a great read (the audio was fab too!) And would defo recommend it!
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: Throwback Freebie: Books I could reread forever
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black Thorn by Intisar Khanani Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Zodiac Academy by Caroline Peckham
The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic The Extraordinaires by TJ Klune With Everything I Am by Kristen Ashley Rock Chicks by Kristen Ashley Ride Steady by Kristen Ashley
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 July! It feels like this year has flown by already!
Such a busy week, am tired! Work was busy, busier than ever and my Dad fell ill so have been helping my Mum look after him as well.
I think, because of the above, I’m a bit slumpy. I’ve listened to 2 audiobooks this week but can’t seem to bring myself to pick up a physical or ebook!
New Arrivals
Nothing this week!
What I’ve Read
🎧Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm by Ash Bond ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75
CJRTB Books 