Best of 2020
My blog may have been a barren wasteland for much of the year but I still read 117 books with an average rating of 3.8. That’s not too shabby. So as we turn our backs on this rubbish year, I share with you my top…
My festive reading… a weekly check-in
Things are getting a bit more active on my blog, there’s a five star review of Legendborn if you missed it and I rounded up a selection of 2021 releases for the first of my Popsugar Reading Challenge inspired posts. Next week, afrofuturism! I’ve been…
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…
2021 Releases for your Popsugar Reading Challenge
No, not two-thousand and twenty-one books to choose from, though it sometimes feels that way when you look through new book announcements. As well as reading a book for each Popsugar prompt, I’m going to be using them to inspire blog posts. So for starters…
Getting into the Christmas spirit… a weekly check-in
Got our Christmas tree at the weekend, watched a Christmas film (Last Christmas with Emilia Clarke, which was cute and not as predictable as I’d thought it would be), listened to Christmas music, set my Teams background to A Muppet Christmas Carol and ate some…
The Dark Archive
Let me introduce you to the Invisible Library. Thousands of worlds exist in a delicate balance between chaos and order, their links to the library kept alive by books unique to each world. To secure those links, librarians such as Irene must steal the books…
Leave the World Behind
Amanda and Clay are on holiday with their two teenage children, a secluded house away from the hustle and bustle of modern life. Their quiet retreat is interrupted when an elderly black couple turn up at their door. They say they are the owners, they…
Still plodding along… a weekly check-in
Two weeks have passed since my last update, work has been quite hectic and I’ve not been sleeping great, so not much mental capacity for blogging by the end of the day. But I finished all my challenges, and the new Popsugar Reading Challenge list…
Cold war dragons and leaky wellies… a weekly check-in
I finished the Popsugar Reading Challenge this week! Just one left on ATY and I’m freeee! Which is a silly thing to say because I choose to do these challenges, but it’s been a year. I’m looking forward to catching up with some of my…
Let snoozing dogs snooze… a weekly check-in
Not much going on this week but I did write a blog post about boarding school stories. I read and loved The Year After You by Nina de Pass at the weekend and it made me think of how many boarding school stories I’d read…
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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…