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Month: April 2017

May 2017 Releases I’m Excited For

May 2017 Releases I’m Excited For

ARGGHHH! MAY IS GOING TO BE SUCH AN AMAZING MONTH FOR BOOK RELEASES! I’ve been fortunate enough to read some of the May releases already, so a big thank you to publishers for sending me ARCs! I think the one I’m most excited for is Lord of Shadows. I’m a massssiiivvveeeeee Shadowhunters fan and I live and breathe the world that Cassandra Clare created.

Disclaimer: all of the release dates that are shown here are the official UK release dates taken off Amazon.co.uk.  …

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Countless by Karen Gregory

Countless by Karen Gregory

It took me quite a while to read this book. Not because it was bad – far from it. It was just a very hard read but was about a subject that is very important to read and learn about. I had heard loads of hype about this book about five months ago and the hype lasted for about a week and then I didn’t hear anything after that. Well, this is me bringing back the hype, because it’s out next week and I think everyone should read this. …

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Windfall by Jennifer E. Smith

Windfall by Jennifer E. Smith

What would you do if you won £140 million? This is the question that kept circling around in my head as I read this book. That’s a lot of money. And me saying that it’s a lot of money is a massive understatement. I’ve never understood why the lottery even exists… Surely, a better way for those jackpot amounts to be spent would be for the government to build a homeless shelter? Or even better yet, to buy homeless people homes and food and clothes? Not to give that money to someone who probably doesn’t need it… Well, that’s what this story is about… …

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The Help by Kathryn Stockett

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

The Help was another book that I had to read for university, alongside The Color Purple. I knew that The Help was a newer book than The Color Purple so I was a bit weary that it wouldn’t be as good (I don’t know why I thought this, but I just thought that Stockett wouldn’t capture the racism of 1962 in Mississippi.  …

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Girlhood by Cat Clarke

Girlhood by Cat Clarke

When reading the blurb of this book, it reminded me of the 2008 film Wild Child, starring Emma Roberts. It was set in a boarding school and there were catty friendships and backstabbing. It all sounded a bit cliché, to be honest. Boarding schools have this tendency to be portrayed in a very bitchy way… But I decided to give the book a shot anyway because I enjoyed reading Cat Clarke’s The Lost and the Found.  …

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Geekerella by Ashley Poston

Geekerella by Ashley Poston

A re-telling of Cinderella and geekiness… What’s not to love about the concept of this book. I am a geek. I am proud of being a geek and if anyone calls me one, I’m like ‘HELL YEAH!’ Cinderella isn’t my favourite Brothers Grimm or Disney story so I didn’t think that I would absolutely love it. But I did… I really did. …

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The ‘We Read Too’ Book App

The ‘We Read Too’ Book App

After scrolling aimlessly through Twitter one day, I came across this article about a girl who had collated a list of around 600 books that were diverse. I’ve been looking for diverse books for a while now and even though I had heard about quite a few already, I was glad that I had finally found an app that told me about most of the diverse books out there in the bookish world …

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