News So I accidentally took a little hiatus at the end of December, but who can blame me? I’ve been so crazy busy with work and my private life, including three sick kitties just before Christmas, that once I went on holidays from my day job I didn’t even turn my computer on! Blogging just […]
Month: December 2018
Stacking the Shelves (186)
Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews and Reading Reality. It’s all about sharing the books we’ve picked up for the week, whether they are bought, borrowed, gifted, galleys, physical or virtual. Share your shelves and remember to visit Tynga’s Reviews where it all started to find more great books! For Review […]
The Diviners by Libba Bray
The Diviners is a beautifully written tale of 1920s New York and the mysterious gifted people, the Diviners, who inhabit it, when, unknowingly, they stumble across a serial killer leaving behind clues that link the killing spree to the Occult. Evie O’Neill, from Ohio, is an attention-seeking, hard-drinking, party-loving flapper who is shipped off to […]
Waiting on The Priory of the Orange Tree
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking The Spine. It’s all about spotlighting upcoming releases we’re eagerly anticipating. Share your books and remember to visit Breaking The Spine for more great books! This week I’m eagerly waiting on: The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon Expected publication: 26 February 2019 […]
Top Ten ‘Winter’ 2018 TBR Books
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It’s all about bookish lists! Share your lists and remember to stop by That Artsy Reader Girl to add your link and The Broke and the Bookish to see where it all began. Top […]
Stacking the Shelves (185)
Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews and Reading Reality. It’s all about sharing the books we’ve picked up for the week, whether they are bought, borrowed, gifted, galleys, physical or virtual. Share your shelves and remember to visit Tynga’s Reviews where it all started to find more great books! Borrowed Onyx […]
Navigating the Stars by Maria V Snyder
Although I prefer to read fantasy these days, sci-fi was actually my first love (please don’t tell my fantasy books). I’ve read and loved almost all of Snyder’s books, including her original sci-fi Inside Out, so I was pretty keen to dive into this one, especially since it was starting with a younger, mouthier heroine […]
Waiting on The Last of Her Name
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking The Spine. It’s all about spotlighting upcoming releases we’re eagerly anticipating. Share your books and remember to visit Breaking The Spine for more great books! This week I’m eagerly waiting on: The Last of Her Name by Jessica Khoury Expected publication: 26 February 2019 Publisher: […]
Top Ten Books Series I Intend to Finish
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It’s all about bookish lists! Share your lists and remember to stop by That Artsy Reader Girl to add your link and The Broke and the Bookish to see where it all began. Top […]
The Great Hunt by Wendy Higgins
I actually had a hard time believing this was published in 2016 since it seems to be a direct response to Twilight in the brooding boy/star-crossed girl romance. I was sure it had been published in 2008 or so, as a direct response to the emotionally abusive Twilight relationship. Paxton is just so damn rude […]