Tomorrow I Embark on an Odyssey
OK, not The Odyssey but The Iliad which comes first. Though either they got very, very lost on the way back, or they must have had some sort of odyssey on the way to Troy which Homer didn’t write about. Must have been uneventful and…
Pre-Loved Giveaway
The week’s slightly delayed pre-loved giveaway is for Confessions of a Fallen Angel by Ronan O’Brien. It’s had a few owners so the spine is quite heavily creased but I really recommend reading this one. For more information on these giveaways, click here. Just use…
Winner of The Iron Witch Giveaway
I had to resort to random number generators this week as my #royalreading book choice took longer than expected. Maybe 571 pages was a bit of an ambitious choice to get through in one day and still have time for blogging actitivies. Anyway, without further…
Book Blogger Hop
In the spirit of the Twitter Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and share our love of the written word! This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with…
Feed
At first, Mira Grant’s zombie novel might seem an ironic choice for my Royal Wedding day reading, however it ended up somehow completely relevant. Not that Will and Kate’s big day was interrupted by the flesh-eating undead, more that if you’d popped onto Twitter this…
Working It Out
Working It Out is a self-published novel by Nicola May. In the past, I’ve not had good experience with self-published books but I think this is one of the best I’ve read. When Ruby is made redundant, she realises that she never really loved her…
Good Omens
I’ve decided this is one of those books where the cover has put me off picking it up to read. I mean it’s got a creepy little boy on it and Chris Packham* starring as Aziraphale. *Chris Packham presented The Really Wild Show on BBC…
Top Ten Mean Girls
This week’s Top Ten (hosted by The Broke and the Bookish) is all about means girls! This is a real struggle (do I say that every week?) as I don’t tend to read a lot of books featuring mean girls. I would think they’re more…
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
It’s Monday and I’m not in work, woohoo! So yes, I also got round to making a little IMWAYR graphic that’s more in keeping with my blog design. Feel free to grab it if you also have a darker looking blog. IMWAYR is hosted by…
A is for… Atlas
Atlas, who bore the weight of the heavens on his shoulders, was a Titan who pops up in the tales of the hero, Hercules (or Heracles depending on your language preference). The basic background of the Titans is covered pretty well in the Percy Jackson…
Black Sun
Today he would become a god. His mother had told him so. The opening line may seem like something any mother would tell her son, but in the case of Serapio, his mother truly believes he will become the Crow God reborn. She blinds him,…
Legendborn
The day Bree gets accepted into an early college placement at UNC, is the day her mother dies. The last words they spoke were of anger. Unable to deal with her dad’s grief on top of her own, Bree goes ahead with the placement. Once…
Ninth House
Alex Stern does not belong at Yale. When she awakes as the sole survivor of a multiple homicide, presumed a drug deal gone wrong, she is given an unlikely offer. Come to Yale, join the House of Lethe and oversee the rituals of the other…
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
Just let me dust off this blog thing, I have a review for you! One of my anticipated reads released during lockdown was the follow-up to An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. If you read that, of course will will be dying to know what happened to…