Title: You’ll Be the Death of Me Author: Karen M. McManus Pages: 323 Publisher: Penguin Published: 2021 Source: Early e-ARC (With thanks to The Write Reads & Penguin) Ivy, Mateo, and Cal used to be close. Back in middle school they were best friends. So, when Cal pulls into campus late for class, and runs into Ivy and Mateo, it seems like the perfect opportunity to turn a bad day around. They’ll ditch school and go into the city. Just the three of them, like old times. Why did they stop hanging out, anyway? As soon as they pull out of the parking lot Cal knows why. Ivy’s already freaking…
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Blog Tour: First Chapter Feels with Midnight in Everwood by M.A. Kuzniar
Title: Midnight in Everwood Author: M.A. Kuzniar Pages: 384 Publisher: HQ Published: 2021 Source: Early e-ARC (With thanks to HQ) There’s nothing Marietta Stelle loves more than ballet, but after Christmas, her dreams will be over as she is obligated to take her place in Edwardian society. While she is chafing against such suffocating traditions, a mysterious man purchases the neighbouring townhouse. Dr Drosselmeier is a charming but calculating figure who wins over the rest of the Stelle family with his enchanting toys and wondrous mechanisms. When Drosselmeier constructs an elaborate set for Marietta’s final ballet performance, she discovers it carries a magic all of its own. On the stroke…
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Blog Tour: First Chapter Feels on Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder by T. A. Willberg
Title: Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder Author: T. A. Willberg Pages: 416 Publisher: Trapeze Books Published: 2021 Source: Early Copy (With thanks to Trapeze) They were a band of mysterious private detectives who lived beneath the streets of London in a labyrinth of twisted tunnels and ancient hallways, the entrance to which no one had ever found. The Inquirers were something of a myth, a whispered legend that may or may not exist, depending on whom you asked. They were like ghosts, some said, these sleuths who guarded the city… London, 1958: Elaborately disguised and hidden deep beneath the city’s streets lies the world of Miss Brickett’s, a secret detective agency,…
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World Book Day 2021: Diverse Books for Kids and Teens
Happy World Book Day, friends! I hope you’re all celebrating in the only way we bookworms know how, by reading! Sadly for me, the only thing I’ll be reading is my text book ready for an upcoming exam but I am here to provide you with, what I personally think are, some great recommendations! World Book Day has always been an event I loved, mostly because it meant I got to dress up when I was in primary school but now, it’s because I love being able to share my love of books with others and of course it’s nice to have a day to celebrate books and reading! Over…
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Blog Tour: Book Review – Bad Habits by Flynn Meaney
Title: Bad Habits Author: Flynn Meaney Pages: 352 Publisher: Penguin Published: 2020 Source: ARC (Thanks, Penguin and TheWriteReads!) Rating: ★★★ Alex is a rebel with a purple fauxhawk and biker boots. St Mary’s Catholic School is a strict boarding school where she’s currently trapped. Despite trying everything she can to get expelled, she’s still stuck with the nuns, the prudish attitude and the sexism. Fed up with life inside the hallowed halls of St. Mary’s, Alex decides to take matters into her own hands. She’s going to stage the school’s first ever production of The Vagina Monologues. Which may be a challenge, as no one else at St Mary’s can even bear to say the…
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Ding dong, 2020 is Gone! Blog and Reading Goals for 2021
I know I’m a little late posting this, however as it’s the last day of January, I feel like I still have time to post this so here I am. Reading Goals Read 52 books. I really surprised myself in 2020 by reading 80 books but I have more exams coming up this year, plus I’m hoping to move out into a house of my own in the Summer so I know that I won’t be able to read as much this year. I’m going to aim for a steady 52 books so that’s one book a week! Finish some series. There are some series that I have (shamefully) left…
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Five Fairy Tales: Inspired by Tales of the Hinterland by Melissa Albert
Title: Tales of the Hinterland Author: Melissa Albert Pages: 240 Publisher: Penguin Published: 2021 Source: Gifted (Thanks to Penguin) Journey into the Hinterland, where every page tells a wondrously terrible adventure . . . In this brutal and beautiful world a young woman spends a night with Death, brides are wed to a mysterious house in the trees, and an enchantress is killed twice – and still lives. But it’s not safe inside these pages, and once you enter, you may never want to leave . . . Tales of the Hinterland is the companion to The Hazel Wood and is a collection of fairy tales that make up a big part of…
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Blog Tour: First Chapter Feels on Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston
Title: Amari and the Night Brothers Author: B. B. Alston Pages: 416 Publisher: Egmont Published: 2020 Source: ARC (With thanks to The Write Reads & Egmont) Quinton Peters was the golden boy of the Rosewood low-income housing projects, receiving full scholarship offers to two different Ivy League schools. When he mysteriously goes missing, his little sister, 13-year-old Amari Peters, can’t understand why it’s not a bigger deal. Why isn’t his story all over the news? And why do the police automatically assume he was into something illegal? Then Amari discovers a ticking briefcase in her brother’s old closet. A briefcase meant for her eyes only. There was far more to Quinton, it…
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Blog Tour: First Chapter Feels on The Cousins by Karen M. McManus
Title: The Cousins Author: Jenny Oliver Pages: 304 Publisher: Penguin Published: 2020 Source: ARC (With thanks to Penguin Platform) The Storys are the envy of their neighbours: owners of the largest property on their East Coast island, they are rich, beautiful, and close. Until it all falls apart. The four children are suddenly dropped by their mother with a single sentence: You know what you did. They never hear from her again. Years later, when 18-year-old cousins Aubrey, Milly and Jonah Story receive a mysterious invitation to spend the summer at their grandmother’s resort, they have no choice but to follow their curiosity and meet the woman who’s been such an enigma…
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You’re Invited to take part in…End of Yearathon 2020!
Hi friends! Today I’m here to announce the readathon that myself and Amanda host, End of Yearathon! That’s right, we’re back for our third year of End of Yearathon and I’m very excited about it. End of Yearathon was created in 2018 after I wanted to participate in a readathon in the time between Christmas and New Year as I’m usually off work but I couldn’t find much. After some interest on Twitter and with the help of my co-host Amanda (If you’d like to read Amanda’s announcement, you can do so here), End of Yearathon was born. As mentioned, this is our third year running it and I’m really…
