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?
A pretty normal week here apart from a teachers strike for 2 days so my son was home but I still had to work!
I started a readalong with Tandem Collective so that book will be in next weeks update and I reread Fourth Wing because I felt a bit slumpy!!!
What I’ve Read
The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Reread – all the stars!!!!
New arrivals
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson
You might have missed…..
Feature – Best Books of 23 so far Unboxing – Fairyloot Adult: June Review – Painted Devils by Margaret Owen Review – A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
Lesson One of the Scholomance: Learning has never been this deadly.
A Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death (for real) — until one girl, El, begins to unlock its many secrets.
There are no teachers, no holidays, and no friendships, save strategic ones. Survival is more important than any letter grade, for the school won’t allow its students to leave until they graduate… or die! The rules are deceptively simple: Don’t walk the halls alone. And beware of the monsters who lurk everywhere.
El is uniquely prepared for the school’s dangers. She may be without allies, but she possesses a dark power strong enough to level mountains and wipe out millions. It would be easy enough for El to defeat the monsters that prowl the school. The problem? Her powerful dark magic might also kill all the other students.
Wow, the Scholomance is a dark and fun place to be! (Note – it is dark but certainly not fun – but is fun to read about!!)
So we have a school with no teachers where monsters called maleficaria attack everyone at any point, even whilst they sleep!
Galadriel aka El is powerful student and because of her power, she has to limit herself to make it to graduation, and to make sure everyone else makes it too! She basically has no friends until an Enclave student, Orion, inserts himself in her life.
El is grumpy and snarky and, from what I can gather, a genius! But she makes some, how can I put it, tentative friendships!
So basically this is the story of how they survive on a day to day basis as they battle mals trying to get to graduation! There’s action and a revelation I didn’t really see coming!
This was such a creative story but very full of narrative – the audio helped me there! And that last line had me so intrigued!
One question I am left with though is why parents would ever send their kids to this school is absolutely beyond me!
Let’s get one thing straight—Vanja Schmidt wasn’t trying to start a cult.
After taking down a corrupt margrave, breaking a deadly curse, and finding romance with the vexingly scrupulous Junior Prefect Emeric Conrad, Vanja had one great mystery left: her long-lost birth family… and if they would welcome a thief. But in her search for an honest trade, she hit trouble and invented a god, the Scarlet Maiden, to scam her way out. Now, that lie is growing out of control—especially when Emeric arrives to investigate, and the Scarlet Maiden manifests to claim him as a virgin sacrifice.
For his final test to become a prefect, Emeric must determine if Vanja is guilty of serious fraud, or if the Scarlet Maiden—and her claim to him—are genuine. Meanwhile, Vanja is chasing an alternative sacrifice that may be their way out. The hunt leads her not only into the lairs of monsters and the paths of gods, but the ties of her past. And with what should be the simplest way to save Emeric hanging over their heads, he and Vanja must face a more dangerous question: Is there a future for a thief and a prefect, and at what price?
Back with Vanja and Emeric…..
Vanja has got herself in a bit of trouble with one of her schemes, it has sort of back fired so when Emeric turns up they go on another quest!
This book was so fun! It was everything I wanted, I think I loved this book more than book 1!
What we have here:
~ Villains in all shapes and forms, ~ Family and the best of friends, ~ Young love, ~ Banter and humour, ~ Fabulous character growth, ~ A total readable book!
The reveal had my jaw dropping and the ending broke my heart! I need that next book!!
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 In the Colours of My Country’s Flag (It’s the 4th of July in the USA today, so tell us what country you live in and share book covers that match the colors of your country’s flag!)
I am English so my flags colours are red, white and blue!
I love it when a book completely hooks you in, you fall in love with the story, and when you’ve finished, you feel exhilarated!
So I decided to make a list of them! I’ve read 92 books so far this year, and these are the ones I’ve loved (not necessarily released this year, I read then!)
One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig Violet Made of Thorns by Gina Chen Secretly Yours by Tessa Bailey Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Torzs Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros My Killer Vacation by Tessa Bailey Love Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood The Curse of Saints by Kate Dramis
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?
July is here and that means Christmas in July, woohoo!!!! The start of July also means I’m going to the beach in 3 weeks! The countdown is on!
I’ve been on an audiobook storm this week as you can see below and it took me all week to read Sword Catcher (was lucky enough to get a physical arc!)
What I’ve Read
Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 The Serpents Shadow by Rick Riordan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 Paris Hilton: The Memoir ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
New arrivals
📚 Shanghai Immortal by AY Chao 📚 Sing Me to Sleep by Gabi Burton 📚 The Threads That Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou
