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A Cascade of Horror Books | October!
It’s October! The month of pumpkin spiced everything! The trees are turning gold and red, the temperature is dropping and the days are getting shorter. It’s the perfect season to settle down with a good book and a hot drink, to get cosy and read. I don’t normally do much on the blog to celebrate Halloween and October but this year is different! Welcome to Horror month!!! Everything on the blog will be horror-related, every book I read and review, every picture I post on Instagram, everything. I’m really excited about this month, I’ve got loads of great books lined up to read, and lots of exciting posts planned! If…
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Book Review- Sea Witch
Title: Sea Witch Author: Sarah Henning Published: 31st July 2018 Pages: 368 Genre: YA, Fantasy Rating: 4/5 stars Everyone knows what happens in the end. A mermaid, a prince, a true love’s kiss. But before that young siren’s tale, there were three friends. One feared, one royal, and one already dead.Ever since her best friend, Anna, drowned, Evie has been an outcast in her small fishing town. A freak. A curse. A witch. A girl with an uncanny resemblance to Anna appears offshore and, though the girl denies it, Evie is convinced that her best friend actually survived. That her own magic wasn’t so powerless after all. And, as the two…
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Book Review- Phantom
Title: Phantom Author: Leo Hunt Published: 9th August 2018 Pages: 416 Genre: YA, Sci-Fi, Dystopian Rating: 4/5 stars Sixteen-year-old thief and hacker Nova makes just enough to live on leeching from the corpsmen that live in the spires 400 storeys above the forgotten undercity slums she calls home. So when infamous anti-corp hacker The Moth offers Nova a huge sum to infiltrate and steal something from the biggest corp of all, Bliss Inc. – manufacturer of the neural implants that allow everyone in the spires continuous metanet access – she jumps at the chance. But what is the dark secret Bliss Inc. is hiding and why does The Moth want…
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It’s Monday, What Are You Reading?
This meme is hosted by Kathryn at the Book Date. ~~~ I’ve been working what feels like non-stop recently, so reading time has been fairly infrequent, but I’m hoping to squeeze more in this week! Let me know what you’re currently reading or something you read recently in the comments! What I Read Last Week: Sadly I didn’t finish any books last week, I plan on changing that this week!! What I’m Currently Reading: Up Next: Have you read any of these novels? What are you reading right now? Let me know in the comments!
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Book Review- Ascension
Title: Ascension Author: Victor Dixen Published: 28th June 2018 Pages: 496 Genre: YA, Sci-fi Series: Phobos #1 Rating: 5/5 stars ‘This thrilling space odyssey will keep you turning pages late into the night.’C. J. Daugherty, author of NIGHT SCHOOLSix girls, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the on-board cameras. They are the contenders in the Genesis programme, the world’s craziest speed-dating show ever, aimed at creating the first human colony on Mars.Leonor, an 18 year old orphan, is one of the chosen ones. She has signed up…
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It’s Monday, What Are You Reading?
This meme is hosted by Kathryn at the Book Date. ~~~ I love seeing what everyone is reading, and what they plan to read in the next few days. Let me know your plans, or link you own posts in the comments! What I Read Last Week: When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya MenonI’m a bit late to this novel and all the hype but I really enjoyed it nonetheless! It wasn’t quite as incredible as I had been hoping for, but it is an important YA novel for diverse representation, and it’s a nice romance! What I’m Currently Reading: Up Next: Have you read any of these novels? What are you…