Genre: Adult Fantasy Publisher: Orbit Release Date: 4th August 2015 Pages: 512 Author Website: N.K. Jemisin’s Website Add on: The StoryGraph – Goodreads Buy From: Book Depository – Amazon – Waterstones This is the way the world ends. Again. Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home… Read More The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin Review
Disclaimer: I did write this at the end of winter but didn’t upload it. I thought about just scrapping this post, but I’ve loved some of the books I talk about here, and am still excited about the ones I haven’t gotten to, so we’re keeping it. Winter is over? When? How? Okay, I’ll believe you just… Read More Winter YA Book Haul
Genre: YA Contemporary Publisher: Hot Key Books Release Date: 7th May 2019 Pages: 400 Author Website: Elizabeth Acevedo’s Website Add on: The Storygraph – Goodreads Buy From: Book Depository – Amazon – Waterstones With her daughter to care for and her abuela to help support, high school senior Emoni Santiago has to make the tough decisions, and do what must… Read More With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo Review
I’m really saying goodbye to my anxiety for the five seconds it takes for me to post this. It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to do that. I’m gonna do it. QUICK-BEFORE-I-LOSE-MY-NERVE-HERE’S-MY-WRAP-UP! Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge I’m pretty sure I learnt more from… Read More June Wrap Up – 7 Incredible Books
Genre: Adult Dystopia Publisher: Simon and Schuster Release Date: 21st June 2012 Pages: 369 On an ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia awakens to discover that something has happened to the rotation of the earth. The days and nights are growing longer and longer; gravity is affected; the birds, the tides, human behavior, and cosmic rhythms are… Read More The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker Review
I can’t remember where I first saw this tag, and unfortunately I couldn’t find the original creator. If you know, leave a comment and I’ll link them! What book has been on your shelf the longest? Probably one of my Stephen King books. I went through a faze of collecting them when I was younger… Read More I Dare You Book Tag
Hello, all! I read seven books in August, and I did enjoy the majority, which is always good! Let’s dive straight into the stats, and then we can move onto my thoughts. So as you can see, from the books I read in August, 5 were from the library 2 I already owned 4… Read More August Wrap Up
Genre: YA Fantasy Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Margaret K. McElderry Books) Release Date: 4th June 2019 Pages: 456 All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper… Read More Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson Review
I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this before on the blog but I am in the process of completing an English Literature and Creative Writing degree with the Open University. I’ve just finished first year and loved my course, but I’m even more excited for this year as it gets a little more specialised. I’ve just been… Read More My 2019/20 Uni Reading List
I love writing my library hauls. They make me feel warm and fluffy. Suicide Club by Rachel Heng In this debut set in near future NYC—where people live for 300 years and the pursuit of immortality is all-consuming—Lea must choose between her estranged father and her chance to live forever. She is drawn into his… Read More Library Haul (July ’19)
In The Shadows of Stories 