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: Movies That Would Have Made Amazing Books
I’m not even sure that some of these don’t have books but these are the films that popped in my mind!
The Lost Boys
Stand By Me
The Santa Clause
The Shawshank Redemption
Edward Scissorhands
The Craft
Hot Fuzz
Napoleon Dynamite
Pacific Rim
The Day After Tomorrow
What’s on your list?
2024 Audiobook Challenge!!
Hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer and That’s What I’m Talking About. It’s not too late to sign up – do that here!
For 2024 I lowered my goal because I can’t listen to audio at work anymore since I got my new job so set it at:
My Precious (I had my earbuds surgically implanted) 30+
But I’m actually not doing too bad. At my next check in I will probably need to up my goal but shall see!
So for the first quarter of 2024 I’ve listened to 22 books, here are a few!
Did you join in? How are you getting on?
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?
Just a run of the mill week here really apart from that I had to have my dressings changed twice at the doctors for my burns. The nurse said that I should expect some scarring as I’m so pale which I really didn’t want to hear!
Quite a good book week too with 3 books read, well audiobooks!
Fathomfolk by Eliza Chen
🎧 Bride by Ali Hazelwood
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 The Prisoners Throne by Holly Black
⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
🎧 My Mother and I by Ingrid Seward
⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
Look out for my reviews soon!
Review – A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
Review – The Prisoners Throne by Holly Black
What have you read lately?
Title: A Study in Drowning
Author: Ava Reid
Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood, she’s had no choice. Her tattered copy of Angharad—Emrys Myrddin’s epic about a mortal girl who falls in love with the Fairy King, then destroys him—is the only thing keeping her afloat. So when Myrddin’s family announces a contest to redesign the late author’s estate, Effy feels certain it’s her destiny.
But musty, decrepit Hiraeth Manor is an impossible task, and its residents are far from welcoming. Including Preston Héloury, a stodgy young literature scholar determined to expose Myrddin as a fraud. As the two rivals piece together clues about Myrddin’s legacy, dark forces, both mortal and magical, conspire against them—and the truth may bring them both to ruin.
This was the book I didn’t know I needed!
A creepy, decaying, gothic house?
A creepy tale about a Fairy King?
Creepy old photos of a half nakey chick?
A dark academia, paranormal romance?
Yes please!
Architecture student, Effy, is invited to redesign her deceased fave authors manor. Before his death, author Emrys Myrddin wrote a book that Effy is a bit obsessed with!
Emry doesn’t appear that stable, she’s had visions of the Fairy King since childhood (and pops those pink pills like there’s no tomorrow!) so Hiraeth Manor is probably not the best place for her to go!!! There she meets Preston and it all kicks off!
This book had such an atmospheric, haunting feel, I was turning the pages like a mad woman!
The romance was really cute and that last sentence…..do I detect more?!
Title: The Prisoners Throne
Series: Elfhame #5
Author: Holly Black
An imprisoned prince. A vengeful queen. And a battle that will determine the future of Elfhame.
Prince Oak is paying for his betrayal. Imprisoned in the icy north and bound to the will of a monstrous new queen, he must rely on charm and calculation to survive. With High King Cardan and High Queen Jude willing to use any means necessary to retrieve their stolen heir, Oak will have to decide whether to attempt regaining the trust of the girl he’s always loved or to remain loyal to Elfhame and hand over the means to end her reign—even if it means ending Wren, too.
With a new war looming on the horizon and treachery lurking in every corner, neither Oak’s guile nor his wit will be enough to keep everyone he loves alive. It’s just a question of whom he will doom.
Back with Oak and Wren…..but Oak is Wren’s prisoner.
I was really looking forward to this read, love being in Elfhame!
I must admit that I enjoyed the second half more than the first and also I wasn’t sure I liked Wren in this book.
In the first book it was mainly her pov, I guess that endeared me to her but in this book it’s Oaks and I fell in love with him!
~ I loved that Oak was totally in love with Wren,
~ Oak’s inner monologue made me smile,
~ I loved Tiernan and Hyacinthe and their love,
~ Maddoc – is that actual regret?!
~ Taryn – still not sure about her.
But….Cardan and Jude, I will literally read anything with them in!
‘You’re not sick, Jude tells him, you’re recovering from being stabbed – or rather, throwing yourself on a knife.
You would have done the same for me, he says airily.
I would not, Jude snaps.
Liar, Cardan says fondly.
But what about Ghost? Please tell me there’s more there?!
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 on my Spring 2024 TBR
These are hard posts for me because I’m mostly a mood reader so I’ve added 3 arcs that I need to read and also soke books I really want to read…..but no promises!
Evocation by ST Gibson
The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
Funny Story by Emily Henry
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
The Last Bloodcarver by Vanessa Le
Compass and Blade by Rachel Greenlaw
Chalice of the Gods by Rick Riordan
Check and Mate by Ali Hazelwood
Fangirl Down by Tessa Bailey
What’s on your list?
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?
Well I’ve had a hell of a week! A 2 day migraine to start off and then I had a fight with a hot water bottle and lost, dramatically!
I have second degree burns all over my chest, had to have the blisters drained and am now in dressings for 3 weeks which have to be changed every 3 days!! To look at all the burns you’d think they’d be really painful but they don’t hurt at all which is weird!
To top that off, my son was ill again, the same as he had 2 weeks ago, a fever and a sore throat but he was worse this time.
Glad to see the back of this week!!!!
Nothing this week!
🎧 The Crimson Moth by Kristen Ciccarelli
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Look out for my reviews soon!
Review – The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
Feature – April Releases
Review – The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen
What have you read lately?
Here’s what’s tantalising me that’s releasing in April (that I’ll probably buy!!)
Will there ever be a month where I don’t want any books?!
I did have a few more but it looks like they have been pushed out to the end of the year – gives me time to save for them though, silver lining!
Avenging Angel by Kristen Ashley
Wrath of the Talon by Sophie Kim
Funny Story by Emily Henry
Sound the Gong by Joan He
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
Will you be getting any of these?
Title: The Warm Hands of Ghosts
Author: Katherine Arden
January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in Halifax, Canada, she receives word of Freddie’s death in combat, along with his personal effects—but something doesn’t make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital. Soon after arriving, she hears whispers about haunted trenches, and a strange hotelier whose wine gives soldiers the gift of oblivion. Could Freddie have escaped the battlefield, only to fall prey to something—or someone—else?
November 1917. Freddie Iven awakens after an explosion to find himself trapped in an overturned pillbox with a wounded enemy soldier, a German by the name of Hans Winter. Against all odds, the two men form an alliance and succeed in clawing their way out. Unable to bear the thought of returning to the killing fields, especially on opposite sides, they take refuge with a mysterious man who seems to have the power to make the hellscape of the trenches disappear.
As shells rain down on Flanders, and ghosts move among those yet living, Laura’s and Freddie’s deepest traumas are reawakened. Now they must decide whether their world is worth salvaging—or better left behind entirely.
I was so happy to grab this, Bear and the Nightingale is one of my fave trilogies ever!
January 1918, Laura is back home in Canada and her brother, Freddie is still on the front, fighting. Their parents are both gone so all they have is each other. When Laura gets her brothers effects, she goes off to Belgium to find him as she feels in her bones that he isn’t gone.
Meanwhile Freddie comes to in a strange place with a companion, a German soldier called Winter….
You’ll need to read the rest but this is where our story begins….
I can tell you that the writing was beautiful, it made me feel all the emotions.
This story was also beautiful and it was dark and haunting, I could not stop reading it! Would totally recommend.
CJRTB Books 