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!
What a week! Work was absolutely crazy and to top it off, my son went back to school, so it was rush, rush rush!
The weather was so changeable as well, Monday and Tuesday were really warm, and then Thursday and Friday poured down and was cold!
I finished 1 book this week and am part way through an audiobook!
What I’ve Read
The Songbird and the Heart of Stone by Carissa Broadbent ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Look out for my reviews soon!
You might have missed…..
Feature – Stacking the Shelves Unboxing – Illumicrate- August 2024 Review – Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas Review – This Cursed Light by Emily Thiede
When the gods make the rules, the players must choose: Sacrifice their love to save the world, or choose love and let it burn?
Six months after saving their island from destruction and almost losing Dante, Alessa is ready to live happily ever after with her former bodyguard. But Dante can’t rest, haunted by a conviction that the gods aren’t finished with them yet. And without his powers, the next kiss from Alessa could kill him.
Desperate for answers, Dante enlists Alessa and their friends to find the exiled ghiotte in hopes of restoring his powers and combining forces with them to create the only army powerful enough to save them all. But Alessa is hiding a deadly consequence of their last fight–a growing darkness that’s consuming her mind–and their destination holds more dangers than anyone bargained for. In the mysterious city of the banished, Dante will uncover secrets, lies, and ghosts from his past that force him to ask himself: Which side is he on?
When the gods reveal their final test, Dante and Alessa will be the world’s last defense. But if they are the keys to saving the world, will their love be the price of victory?
‘What would you sacrifice for love?’
I absolutely loved This Vicious Grace so grabbed This Cursed Light with grabby hands! If you haven’t read it, you need to!
We’re back with Alessa, Dante and the rest of the gang off on an adventure to find the ghiotte, yo get Dante back his powers and keep the Gods at bay.
Dante and Alessa are so cute together but they have their trials and tribulations. This book is filled with secrets and I love that Dante found out more about his roots.
What I absolutely loved though were the side characters and I would love to see more from them!
Teo never thought he could be a Hero. Now, he doesn’t have a choice.
The sun is gone, the Obsidian gods have been released from their prison, and now chaos and destruction are wreaking havoc on Reino del Sol. All because Teo refused to sacrifice a fellow semidiose during the Sunbearer Trials.
With the world plunged into perpetual night, Teo, Aurelio and Niya must journey to the dark wilderness of Los Restos, battling vicious monsters while dealing with guilt, trauma, and a (very distracting) burgeoning romance between Teo and Aurelio. Once more racing against the clock, the trio are determined to rescue the captured semidioses and retrieve the Sol Stone. With it, Sol and their protective light can return and order can be restored.
Now the future of the whole world is in their hands.
Back with Teo and the other semidioses right where we left off in book 1 with the Sol Stone taken.
So much action! My heart was in my throat because those horrible Obsidians were evil….and let’s not talk about Xio!
As in book 1, the descriptions in this book were so vivid it was almost like I was there. The tree houses are something I’d love to see in person. IYKYK!!!
I don’t want to say anything about the plot but what I will say is that Aurelio and Teo make my heart sing!
There was a couple of lines in this book that I couldn’t resist adding here:
Teo is so right: ‘It doesn’t make any sense to pay money to sleep outside without a real toilet and cook your food over an open fire!’
And this one got me right in the feels: ‘It may not be real in fact, but it’s real in feeling.’
And that ending that I never saw coming in million years, but what a corker!
Push too hard and push too far, and watch what you’ll make me do.
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Mistress of Lies by KM Enright
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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 Involving Food
This was hard and I am totally reaching here!!!!
The Spellshop – jam The Honey Witch – honey (but haven’t read!!!) A Tempest of Tea – tea A Lesson in Chemistry – food show (!) It Happened One Summer – fish (!) A Ballad of Never After – apple (!) Serpent and Dove – sticky buns Rock Chicks – coffee Legends and Lattes – baked goods!
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 was coerced into buying 2 books this week – totally not my fault 🤣
Mistress of Lies by KM Enright Quicksilver by Callie Hart Trials of the Sun Queen by Nisha J Tuli
So 2 ebooks and 1 physical! I haven’t got any library holds this week or bought anything on Audible! So restrained!
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 September – we’ve made it to the ‘ber’ months, my favourite time of year!
My week off work was so relaxing and chill….but went oh so fast!
We went for a walk around a wooded area just outside the town totting up 17k steps (my poor feet!), we had a lovely pizza out and we generally just had a good time!
My reading has picked up too so that’s good!
What I’ve Read
A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 A Wizards Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
🎧 Catherine, Princess of Wales by Robert Jobson ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
I looked back and found this was my 7th year joining in!
I said I’d read 20 books but wasn’t going to name them!
So did I do it?!
I DID!!!!!!
I just managed to scrape in with 20 books even though summer has been a washout for reading but the amount of books I read in June saved me!!!!
Here are my 20!
1) Zodiac Academy 9 by Caroline Peckham 2) A Temptation of Magic by Megan Scott 3) Dead Happy by Josh Silver 4) Caged Wolf by Caroline Peckham 5) Alpha Wolf by Caroline Peckham 6) Feral Wolf by Caroline Peckham 7) City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare 8) Queen of Shadows by SJM 9) Twelfth Knight by Alexene Farol Follmuth 10) Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm by Ash Bond 11) Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood 12) A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston 13) The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst 14) The Blackbird Oracle by Deborah Harkness 15) Bonded by Thorns by Elizabeth Helen 16) The Hunters Gambit by Ciel Pierlot 17) Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune 18) Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas 19) Voyage of the Damned by Frances White 20) Wild Wolf by Caroline Peckham
