Title: The Poppy War Author: R. F. Kuang Series: The Poppy War #1 Pages: 544 5 Stars From Goodreads: When Rin aced the Keju, the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies, it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could…
Its time for another top five Wednesday. This week it is what is on our bookish wish lists, this could be anything from bookish merchandise to books themselves. I know that "Santa" has had my list for a while and has hopefully done his shopping so I have gone out of the box on this…
The start of December signifies the time to get festive! The Christmas Markets here in Edinburgh are in full swing, trees are cropping up in windows, their lights twinkling and I am ready to snuggle up with hot chocolate and my book and get in the spirit of the winter season. The Tis the season…
It has been a while since I have actually done a monthly wrap up. Being plagued by reading slumps, busy work weeks and choosing to participate in various readathons I have let monthly wrap ups fall by the wayside. However, I decided to pick it back up this month to give an overview of everything…
Title: Carry On Author: Rainbow Rowell Series: Simon Snow #1 Pages: 517 3 Stars From Goodreads: Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen. That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right. Half the time, Simon can't even make his…
As you have seen before I am a big planner, I have shown pictures of my bullet journal before. Therefore, when a planning based tag popped up in my feed I had to do it. Questions: 1.) Pay day! -A book you would buy right now. Cost doesn’t matter! The re-releses Rivers of London…
This weeks top five Wednesday topic is the five Characters I'd Invite to Friendsgiving. I am from the UK so we don't celebrate Thanksgiving but when I was living in Ohio Thanksgiving was my favourite time of year. All of my friends were so happy to include me, their families welcomed me with open arms…
I received an ARC from Gollancz, via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Title: The Empress of All Seasons Author: Skyward #1 Release date : 8/11/2018 3.5 STARS From Goodreads: In a palace of illusions, nothing is what it seems. Each generation, a competition is held to find the next empress of Honoku. The rules are…
The One Readathon to Rule them all is back with a new creative incarnation. The readathon was created by Don’t have a degree in Reading and is an all fantasy readathon! It Is a two week readathon from 17th November to 1st December which overlaps with Tome Topple meaning there is the opportunity to get those big…
Tome Topple Round is back for round Seven! I am looking forward to tackling some big books and clearing them off my TBR pile. Tome Topple is a readathon created by Sam at Thoughts on Tomes all about conquering those big books that stare at you from the shelves pleading with you to read them and love…
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