September 2025
Theme = KNIGHTCORE!

A true knight can fight everything . . . except their feelings.

Items inspired by Legendborn, Gideon the Ninth, Song of the Lioness, and The Knight and the Moth.

💛 Excalibur Replica inspired by Legendborn with artwork by @staceymcevoy.caunt
💛 Lioness Rampant Cosmetic Bag – artwork by @vellumoth and inspired by Song of the Lioness
💛 Nine for the Tomb Bookmark Set featuring character from Gideon the Ninth – artwork by @ merwildandco
💛 Sixth Omen Bunting – artwork by @swanbones inspired by Knight and the Moth

💛 FEATURED BOOK 💛

The Second Death of Locke by VL Bovalino

✨ An exclusive redesigned cover (art by @teradiamart; design by @chattynora)
✨ Full colour art and foil on the hardback (art by @dominikmayerart; design by @chattynora)
✨ Digitally printed edges (by @chattynora)
✨ Illustrated endpapers (by @emmagilletteart); different front and back
✨ Bound-in author letter
✨ Bonus content
✨ Digitally signed by the author (on the author letter)

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BLURB

Love. Loyalty. Sacrifice.

Grey Flynn has dedicated her life to her mage, Kier.

She will be his blade on the battlefield, his healer and protector. The deep well of raw power inside her is Kier’s to use. Grey would do anything for Kier – be anything for him – if he would only ask.

When a quest to protect the child of an enemy kingdom pulls them into the dangerous heart of their nation’s war, Grey and Kier will need to decide what they are willing to sacrifice to protect their secret.

For Grey is no ordinary magical well, but heir to the lost island of Locke – the root of all power. If she dies, all magic dies with her.

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.

I hope you had a great week!

Back to work for me tomorrow!

This week, before I go back to the rush of work, I decided to get caught up on everything that was outstanding, I cleaned, cleared, I had a pedicure and my son had his last school pictures ever (sob)!!!

I’ve only finished one book this week but am halfway through an audiobook and also halfway through a reread of Throne of Glass!

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🎧 A Steeping of Blood by Hafsah Faizal
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

See my review soon!

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Calendar – Hello October
Feature – Stacking the Shelves: September

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Review – Cinder House by Freya Marske
Unboxing – Fairyloot Romantasy: September

What have you read lately?

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.

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Well…..I think I’ve been quite good!

Books I Bought

Silvercloak by LK Steven
Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross
Metal Singer by Rachel Schneider


Advanced Reader Copies

Silver and Smoke by Helen Scheuerer

I’d better get reading!

 

Happy October! Have a great month!

“I wish that every day was Saturday and every month was October.”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.” – Alexander Smith

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: Book Covers that Give off Fall Vibes

Mine seem to have a theme!

A Vow of Embers by Sariah Wilson
Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J Tuli
Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao
The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
After the Forest by Kell Woods
Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
Destroy the Day by Brigid Kemmerer
Defiant by Brandon Sanderson
Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden

Have you read any of these?

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.

I hope you had a great week!

This week we went to look at fridge freezers as ours is on the way out! We’ve realised we need to get a cabinet removed before we can buy one so it actually fits…….my son wants to remove it, but I’m not sure he won’t bring down the kitchen 😂

This week is my last week off before I go back to work. Part of me is looking forward to it as I need something to do but the other part of me is already mourning all the ‘me’ time I’ve had!!!

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🎧 Broken Souls and Bones by LJ Andrews
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

🎧 Nettle and Bone by T Kingfisher
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

See my reviews soon!

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Review – What Fury Brings by Tricia Levenseller
Challenge – Audiobook Challenge Update

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Calendar – Hello October
Feature – Stacking the Shelves: September

What have you read lately?

The 2025 Audiobook Challenge is hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer and That’s What I’m Talking About.

We were told to grab our earbuds, decide on goals, and sign up to the page! #2025AudiobookChallenge

You can find out all the details on my post here.

In my sign up post, I said I was going for 20-30, Binge Listener, but am on the way to My Precious……if I can do it!

So far, I’ve listened to 26 audiobooks! Here’s a few that I’ve listened to in the last 3 months…..

Arcana Academy by Elise Kova
Never the Roses by Jennifer K Lambert
Tusk Love by Thea Guanzon
Warrior Princess Assassin by Brigid Kemmerer
Heavenly Bodies by Imani Erriu
Damned by Genevieve Cogman

Did you join?
How are you getting on?

Title: What Fury Brings

Author: Tricia Levenseller

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BLURB

There’s a shortage of men in the kingdom of Amarra. After a failed rebellion against the matriarchy, most noblemen in the country are dead. Now the women of Amarra must obtain their husbands (should they want one) by kidnapping them from other kingdoms.

Olerra, a warrior princess vying for the throne, is determined to prove her worth by kidnapping a husband. And not just any husband. To outmaneuver her treacherous cousin, she needs the best. Fortunately, the second-born prince of their greatest enemy is widely known for both his looks and his sweet, docile temperament. He’s the perfect choice to secure her claim to the throne.

Sanos, heir to the Kingdom of Brutus, has nothing but contempt for the idea of a society run by women. Trained from birth to fight, lead, and follow in his father’s overbearing footsteps, his path has always been set. Until he takes his younger brother’s place in a drunken prank and finds himself kidnapped, carted off to the Amarran Palace, and informed that he is to become the husband of Queen Potential Olerra. Sanos needs to escape before anyone learns his real identity, but the more he gets to know his captor, the less sure he is of what he truly wants.

In Amarra, women are the stronger sex and men are treated how women used to be in that world.

Olerra is vying for the Crown, so she goes and nabs a neighbouring Prince to be her husband. However, she nabs the wrong one….she takes the Crown Prince instead…..

Back home she tries to make him see the type of life he’d have in Amarra with Olerra (she is fair and just compared to some others!) – some parts were hilarious (remember nipple clamps and the exclamation of Sanos at seeing them – it made made me chortle!!!)

The author said this was a story about revenge, and I know some might grasp at their pearls at some of the content in this book, but I took it for what it was, a fictional story. And I enjoyed it! It was unique, fast-paced, full of treachery and secrets and spicy moments!

What a fabulous foray into the adult world, it was delish!

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Sound like something you’d like?

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 Fall 2025 to-Read List

I don’t really make reading lists, but I do have a vague idea, so I might read these….but I might not!!!!

A Steeping of Blood by Hafsah Faizal
Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross
Nightshade by Autumn Woods
What Fury Brings by Tricia Levenseller
Katabasis by RF Kuang

A Scar in the Bone by Sophie Jordan
The Burial Witch by Cari Thomas
Blackthorn by JT Geissinger
Empire of the Dawn by Jay Kristoff
Brigands and Breadknives by Travis Baldree

 

Have you read any of these?