Welcome to my monthly TBR post for January 2020! I can’t believe 2019 is already over! And I feel as if I felt that way about every month in 2019 actually. Haha. What was your favourite read of 2019? Do you have a Top 10 list? I’m working on mine and hope to post it… Read More Monthly TBR: January 2020
Welcome to my monthly wrap-up post for December 2019! I still haven’t come to terms with how quickly 2019 passed me by. What were your favourite December reads and which books are you looking forward to in 2020? If you missed my past updates/other monthly wrap-up posts, you can find them all here.
Welcome to my Indigo Teen Staff Pick of the Month blog post for December 2019! If you’ve been following my Instagram account, you might have noticed that I’ve been posting about the Indigo Teen Staff Picks since November 2017. I started talking about these picks in January 2018, and have enjoyed discussing them with you all!… Read More Indigo Teen Staff Pick: December 2019
He will be destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne. Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power. Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan’s betrayal. She bides her time determined to reclaim everything he took from her. Opportunity arrives in the form of her deceptive twin sister, Taryn, whose mortal life is in peril… Read More The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black (Review)
I can’t believe it’s time for the last Calendar Girls Books post of the year! (And I’m not even posting it at the beginning of the month like I normally do. It’s, in fact, more than halfway through December and I still can’t believe it’s December!) As some of you may know, my boyfriend and… Read More Calendar Girls (December 2019): Christmahanakwanza (Best Diverse Cast)
A Couple Reads, Brit Reads Books, and I had the opportunity to meet the Queen of Fae, Holly Black, on December 6 and to also get our books signed. The experience was amazing, and we wanted to share at least a fraction of it with our followers (especially those who didn’t have an opportunity to… Read More The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black (Signed Hardcover International Giveaway – 3 Winners!) [CLOSED]
Welcome to my monthly TBR post for December 2019! I decided to keep December deadline-free (regarding review books), and I’m so glad that I did! I fell behind on my reading (as per usual), so December is turning into a bit of a catchup month with the potential of becoming a “dive a bit into… Read More Monthly TBR: December 2019
Welcome to my monthly wrap-up post for November 2019! And where did November go! Seriously. I feel like I spent all month just reading, working, and waiting for my kitten to come home. Sooo somehow 2019 will be over in 31 days. Ummm. But anyway, while I come to terms with that, what were your favourite… Read More Monthly Wrap-Up (November 2019)
Seventeen-year-old Aderyn (“Ryn”) only cares about two things: her family, and her family’s graveyard. And right now, both are in dire straits. Since the death of their parents, Ryn and her siblings have been scraping together a meager existence as gravediggers in the remote village of Colbren, which sits at the foot of a harsh and deadly mountain range that was once home to the fae. The problem with being a gravedigger in Colbren, though, is that the dead don’t always stay dead… Read More The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones (ARC Review)
In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau, New Orleans provides her a refuge after she’s forced to flee her life as a dressmaker in Paris. Taken in by the sisters of the Ursuline convent along with six other girls, Celine quickly becomes enamored with the vibrant city from the music to the food to the soirées and—especially—to the danger. She soon becomes embroiled in the city’s glitzy underworld, known as La Cour des Lions, after catching the eye of the group’s leader, the enigmatic Sébastien Saint Germain. When the body of one of the girls from the convent is found in the lair of La Cour des Lions, Celine battles her attraction to him and suspicions about Sébastien’s guilt along with the shame of her own horrible secret… Read More The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh (ARC Review)