#NonFicNov Wrap-Up
I’ve not really kept up with my Non-Fiction November this year but I did read four non-fiction books and I wrote two reviews. I promise the rest of them will be up next month when I have more time. This week’s prompt is hosted by…
Vita Nostra
Read The World: Ukraine Sasha Samokhina is a straight A student looking forward to going to university. When on holiday with her single mother a strange man starts to follow her. He sets her a challenge to repeat every day, to go swimming naked the…
The Mortal Word
The Mortal Word is the fifth book in the Invisible Library series therefore this review may contain spoilers for the previous books. The dragons and the fae are considering a peace treaty, but the talks are disrupted by the murder of one of the diplomats….
Tamed: Ten Species That Changed Our World
I often wonder how humans someone how managed to invent things, like cheese or bread, was it all a big accident? In Tamed, Alice Roberts takes ten species and looks at how they became domesticated into what we know today. The book is ordered in…
East of Croydon
Since it’s Nonfiction November I should probably share some non-fiction reviews! East of Croydon follows Sue Perkins on her travels around Asia whilst filming documentaries for the BBC. It also covers her father’s terminal cancer and coming to terms with death of a loved one….
Popsugar Reading Challenge 2019
The Popsugar Reading Challenge for next year has been released. There are 40 regular and 10 advanced prompts to interpret as you wish and a fantastic Goodreads group to keep you motivated. The list has been out for a week now so I’ve had time…
Not Just for Christmas
It’s that time of year everything turns festive and today saw a swathe of Christmas themed chick lit released. I do like to read one or two of these during the holiday season to help get me in the mood, and one about dogs seemed…
Planetfall
It all started with a seed. Planetfall reminded me in some ways of Annihilation, but less weird and more human. Ren is a 3D-printer engineer on a colony at the base of a mysterious alien structure called God’s City. Twenty-two year’s prior, Lee Suh-Mi led…
Empire of Sand
Mehr is the daughter of two cultures, half noble Ambhan, half heathen Amrithi. She lives with her father, a governor, her step-mother and her little sister. For her’s sister’s sake, she tried to follow the wishes of her father but she can’t turn her back…
Around the Year in 52 Books Challenge
I had such fun (and success!) doing the Popsugar Reading Challenge this year. I’ve decided to add the Around the Year in 52 Books (AtY) to my schedule for 2019. The challenge is hosted on Goodreads and the list has been compiled through a series…
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…