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.

Hi everyone, hope you’ve had a good week?

This week has been a week! I was under the weather again with a 2 day migraine and I also slumped so hard, I couldn’t seem to read a physical book but later on in the week I managed to listen to 2 audios! Also spent yesterday morning at urgent care with my son who had a very swollen ear – an inner and outer ear infection so now has some antibiotics!

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What I’ve Read

🎧 The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas
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🎧 The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan
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New arrivals

Nothing this week! I’ve been so good!

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You might have missed…..

Unboxing – Illumicrate April 2023
Review – The Flat Share by Beth O’Leary
Review – A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting by Sophie Irwin
Review – The Stolen Throne by Abigail Owen
Review – House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

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What have you read lately?

Title: House of Hollow

Author: Krystal Sutherland

Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can’t quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at the base of their throats.

Iris has spent most of her teenage years trying to avoid the weirdness that sticks to her like tar. But when her eldest sister, Grey, goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Iris learns just how weird her life can get: horned men start shadowing her, a corpse falls out of her sister’s ceiling, and ugly, impossible memories start to twist their way to the forefront of her mind.

As Iris retraces Grey’s last known footsteps and follows the increasingly bizarre trail of breadcrumbs she left behind, it becomes apparent that the only way to save her sister is to decipher the mystery of what happened to them as children.

The closer Iris gets to the truth, the closer she comes to understanding that the answer is dark and dangerous – and that Grey has been keeping a terrible secret from her for years.

I wasn’t sure this was going to be for me as I’m a big baby….but it really was!

Iris, Grey and Vivi Hollow disappeared as youngsters but then appeared a month after each of them remembering nothing, but each bearing a scar on their necks. Years after, Grey goes missing again so the sisters unravel clues trying to find her.

It had a gothic feel, was spooky, very well written and actually quite weird! But I loved it!

This was my first book by this author and won’t be my last.

Title: The Stolen Throne

Series: Dominions #2

Author: Abigail Owen

My twin sister is the true queen of Aryd. She survives, hiding and clinging to life in the desert, while I reign as the false queen alongside the monstrous King Eidolon. There’s only one escape from this gilded prison: Reven. My Shadowraith. My heart. Only the shadows that he struggles to control are growing more sinister, more powerful.

It’s just a matter of time before they turn on him…and on me.

Even escape doesn’t mean true freedom, though, when we’re still on the run from Eidolon’s unstoppable armies. And when we discover there’s a traitor among us, I have no choice…I must become the queen I was never meant to be.

Because as one evil hunts me, the other loves me more than himself.

And my fate lies with both.

To say I am in love with this series so far is an understatement!

Last time we saw Meren she had been caught by
Eidolon and now we’re back with Meren, Reven and the gang and what followed was explosive!

Here we have new friends, old foes, quests and heartfelt, emotional moments in this high stakes, fast paced, intense plot! I loved every minute!

Also I have a statement to make….MEREN AND REVEN MAKE MY LIFE!!!

‘Forever. In this life and every life hereafter.’

This was a solid second book. That ending  though. Next book please!

Title: A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting

Series: A Lady’s Guide #1

Author: Sophie Irwin

Follows the adventures of an entirely unconventional heroine who throws herself into the London Season to find a wealthy husband. But the last thing she expects is to find love…

Kitty Talbot needs a fortune. Or rather, she needs a husband who has a fortune. Left with her father’s massive debts, she has only twelve weeks to save her family from ruin.

Kitty has never been one to back down from a challenge, so she leaves home and heads toward the most dangerous battleground in all of England: the London season.

Kitty may be neither accomplished nor especially genteel—but she is utterly single-minded; imbued with cunning and ingenuity, she knows that risk is just part of the game.

The only thing she doesn’t anticipate is Lord Radcliffe. The worldly Radcliffe sees Kitty for the mercenary fortune-hunter that she really is and is determined to scotch her plans at all costs, until their parrying takes a completely different turn…

This is a frothy pleasure, full of brilliant repartee and enticing wit—one that readers will find an irresistible delight.

After the death of her parents and a broken engagement, Kitty sets off to London with her sister, Cecily, to find a husband to support her siblings.

I do absolutely adore a historical romance and this was so good! There was gossip, drama, trying to fit in, lies, deception and all the pomp of the Ton. Oh and also a slow burn romance that was delish!

I loved Radcliffe, he was tortured and delish!

I also loved Kitty. She was so devious but it was all for very good reasons!

Just to finish off, I was so happy to see Cheapside mentioned. It was where my employers offices first started off in 1810 so it brought back memories! Not that I was there of course!!!!

Title: The Flat Share

Series: Flat Share #1

Author: Beth O’Leary

Tiffy and Leon share a flat
Tiffy and Leon share a bed
Tiffy and Leon have never met…

Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. Their friends think they’re crazy, but it’s the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy’s at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time.

But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly imprisoned brothers and, of course, the fact that they still haven’t met yet, they’re about to discover that if you want the perfect home you need to throw the rulebook out the window…

A strange bed arrangement but not what you think! A different take on the one bed trope!

Like ships that pass in the night, Leon and Tiffy share a bed but never meet…..until they do.

What this book has got:
Notes that will make your heart sing,
How scarves really started it all,
Complex characters,
A found family friend group,
A stalkery, deranged ex,
Prison drama, well sort of,
A heartwarming tale of finding someone to love.

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 I Recommend to Others the Most

One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
Emily Thiede Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
What Hunts Inside The Shadows by Harper L Woods
Mysteries of Thorn Manor by Margaret Rogerson
A Dowry of Blood by ST Gibson

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young
Thorn by Intisar Khanani
The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas
The Extraordinaires by TJ Klune

What would you have picked?

April theme – Be My Enemy

This is what it’s come down to – are you with me, or are you against me? Will you be my friend, or will you be my enemy?

Items inspired by Iron Widow, Throne of Glass, The Poppy War and Robin Hobb.

💛 Sword of Truth Replica – designed by @stacey.mcevoy.caunt : Damaris from ToG
💛 Farseer Pin Banner – designed by @niallcgrant inspired by Realm of the Elderings Robin Hobb
💛 Blaze of Desire papercraft designed by @rosiethorns88 : Rin from Poppy War
💛 Vermillion Bird Tumbler (Iron Widow), designed by @forensicsandflowers

💛 FEATURED BOOK 💛

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

Exclusive hardback
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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.

Hi everyone, hope you’ve had a good week?

It was Coronation Day yesterday for King Charles and the celebrations are continuing all weekend and into Monday! No street parties here but we had a corrie tea complete with scones, jam and clotted cream!

I was also still ill from my jab going into Tuesday, 4 days of feeling rough! But on Thursday I attended a Tandem Collective online event and added lots more books to my wishlist!!!

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What I’ve Read

Slaying the Vampire Conqueror by Carissa Broadbent
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Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
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🎧 The Stolen Throne by Abigail Owen
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🎧 The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
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New arrivals

I went mad on Netgalley 😶

The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman
Painted Devils by Margaret Owen
Ravensong by TJ Klune
The Lightstruck by Sunya Mara
Never a Hero by Vanessa Len
Her Radiant Curse by Elizabeth Lim
Mindbreaker by Kate Dylan
Chasm by Stacey Mcewan

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You might have missed…..

Review – Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Review – Scorched Roses by Carissa Broadbent
Review – Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden

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What have you read lately?

Title: Six Scorched Roses

Series: Crowns of Nyaxia #1.5

Author: Carissa Broadbent

Six roses. Six vials of blood. Six visits to a vampire who could be her salvation… or her damnation.

Lilith has been dying since the day she was born. But while she long ago came to terms with her own imminent death, the deaths of everyone she loves is an entirely different matter. As her town slowly withers in the clutches of a mysterious god-cursed illness, she takes matters into her own hands.

Desperate to find a cure, Lilith strikes a bargain with the only thing the gods hate even more than her village: a vampire, Vale. She offers him six roses in exchange for six vials of vampire blood–the one hope for her town’s salvation.

But when what begins as a simple transaction gradually becomes something more, Lilith is faced with a terrifying realization: It’s dangerous to wander into the clutches of a vampire… and in a place already suffering a god’s wrath, more dangerous still to fall in love with one.

Desperation made Lilith visit vampire, Vale, because she was determined to be the saviour of her dying people, her dying land, forsaken by the God of her people.

A tenuous friendship strikes up……and then more!

Even though this was short, I loved the letters between Lilith and Vale:

‘One day, he ended his letter with a drawing of a nightbane flower, and a tiny note beside it: sweet with a bitter bite.’

I wonder if these 2 will make an appearance in book 2 of the series, I can’t remember them from book 1 but I can’t wait to continue on in this world!