A Wrinkle in Time
From what I can gather, A Wrinkle in Time is a much beloved children’s classic in America. I personally hadn’t even heard of it before I started reading Book Riot posts. With a few challenge prompts requiring me to read a children’s classic, it was…
British Bookish Subscription Boxes
Have you been thinking about trying our a bookish subscription box? Fortunately there are a load more options in UK than there used to be, meaning shipping costs won’t break the bank. Here are the four I’ve tried so far. Illumicrate Frequency: Quarterly Price: £29.99…
Obsidio
Obsidio is the final instalment in the Illuminae Files trilogy and therefore this review may contain spoilers for the previous books. Well the Illuminae Files have been quite a treat, I don’t know why I took so long to start but I have now devoured…
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Excuse the comparisons for a moment, but I think they might be the only way to describe this book. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is a cross between Quantum Leap and Groundhog Day if they were set during a murder mystery party, only it’s…
Top Ten: Spring TBR
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. I wonder if I went back through all my Top Ten TBR posts, how many of those books I’ve actually got round to reading. I guess that’s a different blog post! These ten books are…
Born a Crime
One of the Read Harder prompts I was most dreading was celebrity memoir. Just because I like someone’s acting or singing, does not mean I want to read their life story. However, I bought Born a Crime last year without realising who Trevor Noah was…
Sal
13-year-old Sal has been planning their escape for a year. Sexually abused by her mother’s boyfriend, she needs to stop the same happening to her younger sister Peppa. After taking care of Robert, Sal and Peppa go on the run, living in the Galloway Forest,…
The Stone Sky
The Stone Sky is the final book in the Broken Earth trilogy and therefore this review may contain spoilers for the previous books. Yet because you are essential, you cannot be permitted to have a choice in the matter. You must be tools – and…
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Read the World: Japan I’m not sure why I picked up The Travelling Cat Chronicles, it’s not my usual thing and I’m not even a cat person, but I have been wanting to read more translated work, so there is that. I found it a…
River of Teeth
When I heard that River of Teeth was a western with hippos, I knew I had to read it. It’s set in an alternate history where hippos were introduced to America as an alternate meat source. Apparently, this was an actual thing that the US…
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…