Books

Blog Tour: Heavenward

December 11, 2018

Today I’m bringing you a special post – my first ever review for a blog tour. I was asked by the lovely Melanie, from Fraser’s Fun House, whether I would like to take part in this blog tour for Heavenward by Olga Gibbs. As soon as I read the synopsis I just knew I had to – celestial beings, conflict, and the fate of humanity resting in the hands of one girl who has been thrown into a completely new world. YES PLEASE! Synopsis: With the power to end the world, would ...

ARC, Book Reviews, Books, Children's

Schmuck the Buck

December 1, 2018

Happy 1st December! It’s practically Christmas already! Hands up who else is excited? Aside from the food (is there anything better than Christmas food?), my favourite thing about Christmas is picking something special for someone I love and care about and seeing their face light up when they unwrap it. If you’re looking for a gorgeous Christmas-themed book for that little person in your life then look no further! Schmuck the Buck is a heartwarming tale of an unconventional ...

Book Reviews, Books, Science Fiction, YA

This Mortal Coil

November 26, 2018

Synopsis: When a lone soldier, Cole, arrives with news of Lachlan Agatta’s death, all hope seems lost for Catarina. Her father was the world’s leading geneticist, and humanity’s best hope of beating a devastating virus. Then, hidden beneath Cole’s genehacked enhancements, she finds a message of hope: Lachlan created a vaccine. But only if she can find and decrypt it… if she can unravel the clues he left for her. The closer she gets, the more she finds herself ...

Book Reviews, Books, Fantasy, YA

Siege and Storm (Grisha Trilogy #2)

November 20, 2018

Synopsis: Darkness never dies. Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a new life with Mal in an unfamiliar land. She finds starting new is not easy while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret. She can’t outrun her past or her destiny for long. The Darkling has emerged from the Shadow Fold with a terrifying new power and a dangerous plan that will test the very boundaries of the natural world. With the help of a ...

Book Tag, Books

Trick or Treat: Book Tag

October 31, 2018

At the beginning of the month, I was tagged by the lovely Bookish Pisces to do the Trick or Treat tag – an original tag as created by Bookish Pisces as part of Blogtober. If you’re not following her blog then you’re seriously missing out! So what is the Trick or Treat tag? You know those books that you’ve been so excited to read and were disappointed because they never lived up to the hype? Those are books that will be labelled as ‘Trick’. And those books ...

Book Reviews, Books, Fantasy, Fiction, YA

Children of Blood and Bone

October 12, 2018

Synopsis: Zélie remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. When different clans ruled – Burners igniting flames, Tiders beckoning waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoning forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, anyone with powers was targeted and killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope. Only a few people remain with the power to use magic, and they must remain hidden. Zélie is ...

Book Reviews, Books, Fantasy, YA

Scythe

October 7, 2018

Synopsis: In a world where disease, war and crime have been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed (‘gleaned’) by professional scythes. Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythe apprentices, and despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation, they must learn the art of killing and understand the necessity of what they do. Only one of them will be chosen as a scythe’s apprentice and as Citra and Rowan come up against a terrifyingly ...

Books, TBR, Wrap Up

September Wrap-Up and October Goals

October 3, 2018

It doesn’t feel like an entire month has gone since I posted my September TBR… but it has. September was a bad month, like a really bad month for reading. I managed to read two books. Yes, TWO!

ARC, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Suspense

House on Fire

October 1, 2018

Synopsis: Divorce lawyer Leigh Huyett knows all too well that most second marriages are doomed to fail. But five years in, she and Pete Conley have a perfectly blended family of her children and his. To celebrate their anniversary, they grab some precious moments of alone time and leave Pete’s son Kip, a high school senior, in charge of Leigh’s fourteen-year-old daughter, Chrissy, at their home. Driving back on a rainy Friday night, their cell phones start ringing. After a ...

Book Reviews, Books, Contemporary Fiction, Romance, YA

To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before

September 8, 2018

Synopsis: What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them… all at once? Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret ...

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