The Oathbreaker’s Shadow
In the land of Darhan, making an oath binds you for life. Their promises are bound up in knots and carried with honour. Shouls an oath be broken, the knot will burn and brand them a traitor. And that’s not all oathbreakers have to fear;…
Incoming!
AKA Showcase Sunday I’ve had a bit of blogging apathy the past two weeks so I couldn’t be bothered doing an incoming post last Sunday. Which actually makes my little book buying binge less obvious! My slump was starting to interfere with reading too but…
The Best Book in the World
Is it possible to write a book that hits the bestseller charts in every category? That’s the idea washed up author Titus Jensen and radical poet Eddie X come up with whilst more than a little drunk. In the cold light of day, Titus takes…
Q+A with Peter Stjernström
The Best Book in the World Blog Tour Following phenomenal success with The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, Hesperus Press is delighted to be publishing a wacky and witty new Swedish novel from undiscovered author Peter Stjernström. The Best Book…
Dead Jealous
Poppy’s only at the John Barleycorn festival for her mother’s handfasting. Oh, and that it’s a good excuse not to go to Julia’s party, her best friend’s girlfriend. Telling Michael how she feels would be a disaster so it’s better in her mind to stay…
The Edge of Never
Twenty-year-old Camryn has been through a lot in her short life. She lost her first love in a car accident, her brother is in jail and her parents divorced. She wants more from her life but she just feels…nothing. When she has a huge break…
All is Fair
All is Fair is the third book in the Split Worlds series and therefore this review may contain spoilers for the previous books, Between Two Thorns and Any Other Name. Cathy’s just starting to settle into her life with William and now she’s Duchess of…
Top Ten Autumn TBR
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. These are ten books that I hope will while away the miserable autumn evenings (it hasn’t stopped raining today). They’re either already on my actual TBR or I will be pouncing on them come…
Incoming!
AKA Showcase Sunday It was the launch of the Books Are My Bag campaign yesterday so I was peer pressured into buying some books. There wasn’t anywhere round here taking part (I at least had already picked up a bag at LBF) but I bought…
Introducing Weekly Facebook Giveaways
Part experiment, part TBR clearing and part giving you some goodies, now that Facebook has made it easier to run promotions on pages, I thought I’d run some weekly giveaways. Each week I will post a photo of a selection of unread books and you…
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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…