Who doesn’t love a good book subscription box, eh? You get loads of bookish goodies, and when it arrives every month, it feels like your birthday/Christmas and it’s amazing. It’s like a present from you to you.
Anyway, let’s get into the unboxing!
The theme for this month’s Illumicrate was ‘The City is Ours’. …
One of the things that I love about the book community is how many different branches there are of it. You have the book bloggers, the book tubers, the bookstagrammers, the designers, the artists… There are so many talented people out there, and I wanted to share a few of them with you.
Today, I’m going to be sharing some of my favourite bookish artists with you. For me, these are the people who create the beautiful character artwork that we see all over bookstagram, and in book boxes.
Get ready for some beautiful artwork!
One of the things that I wanted to do in 2021 was catch up on some of the amazing books that I had on my TBR. Lately, I’ve been reading A LOT of fantasy novels, and I realised that I had been ignoring all of the brilliant contemporary novels that I had just sitting on my shelves.
I had been wanting to read You Should See Me in a Crown ever since it was released, and in January 2021… I FINALLY got around to it!
Trigger warnings: homophobia, off-page death, outing, bullying
I am so bloody excited to be back in this world. Graceling and Bitterblue are two of my favourite YA fantasy books ever, and even though Fire (the second book), wasn’t my favourite, Winterkeep was still very very high on my TBR list. I was lucky enough to be sent an ARC of Winterkeep, and was asked if I wanted to be part of a blog tour… SO HERE WE ARE!
Disclaimer: 1) this book was sent to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. 2) there may be slight spoilers for the previous three books in this review.
Trigger warnings: kidnapping/containment, slut-shaming, child abuse, death, murder
For the past couple of months, I’ve been binging Leigh Bardugo’s books like there’s no tomorrow. And now that I’ve finally finished King of Scars, I can happily say that I’m now all caught up and I’m ready for Rule of Wolves! BRING IT ON!
*slight spoilers ahead for The Shadow and Bone trilogy. Before you read King of Scars, you definitely need to read the trilogy, and also the Six of Crows duology*
Yes, I’m here again with another Top 10 Tuesday post. I’m trying to get back into taking part in the weekly challenge as I love how it brings the book blogging community together!
This week’s theme is talking about the books that we’re all excited for that are coming out January to June. There’s absolutely loads and having to choose 10 out of a MASSIVE LIST was just so hard. I’ve already uploaded a post outlining all of the 2021 releases that I’m excited for AND all of the January releases I’m excited for if you want to check those out! 🙌🏼
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly bookish list prompt originally hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and currently hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.
The topic for this week is:
Most Anticipated Releases for the First Half of 2021
I kinda figured that since I was already in the Grishaverse after reading Six of Crows, I may as well carry on and read Crooked Kingdom. I really enjoyed Six of Crows, so I had very very high hopes – *cue Panic at the Disco song* – for this one. …
Why am I reading this book 4 AND A HALF YEARS after it was released?😫 I am SO BEHIND on reading Leigh Bardugo’s hyped books that are set in the Grishaverse. It’s only been recently where I’ve read the Shadow and Bone trilogy! Please don’t come at me! I guess I’ve just been scared because they ARE so hyped, so I didn’t want to be disappointed.
So, here we go! After a very long time, I have finally read Six of Crows!
Tricia Levenseller is one of my auto-buy authors. As soon as I hear about a book that she’s got coming out, I will pre-order it immediately. I loved every single one of books such as Daughter of the Pirate King, and The Shadows Between Us. So, when I heard about Warrior of the Wild, I did just that. But because this is me we’re on about, I didn’t get around to reading it until about a year later, because the TBR was crushing me. …
For those who know me, or who are regular readers of my blog, you will know that Kerri Maniscalco became one of my favourite authors of all time after I read the Stalking Jack the Ripper series. There was something about her writing that kept pulling me in, and I loved every single character that she wrote. Even though I was sad about the story of Audrey Rose Wadsworth coming to a close, hearing that Maniscalco had a new series coming out that had to do with witches and Princes of Hell was just *chefs kiss*. …