2022
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Blog Tour | The Gauntlet and the Burning Blade
Hello, welcome to my stop on the blog tour for The Gauntlet and the Burning Blade by Ian Green. Huge thank you to Head of Zeus for having me on the blog tour! This is the second book in the Rotstorm series, following on from the brilliant The Gauntlet and the Blade Beneath. Thank you to Head of Zeus for sending me a finished copy of The Gauntlet and the Burning Blade for the blog tour. I love an epic fantasy novel, and I especially love when there is good female main character. We are blessed with multiple awesome female main characters in this series! The first book The Gauntlet…
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Blog Tour | The Forgery
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for The Forgery by Ave Barrera, translated by Ellen Jones and Robin Myers. Thank you to Charco Press and Midas PR for having me on the tour! Title: The Forgery Author: Ave Barrera Translated: Ellen Jones & Robin Myers Publisher: Charco Press Published: 26th July 2022 Genre: Fiction, Translated fiction Rating: 4/5 stars A failing artist turned forger, an architectural masterpiece hidden behind high walls, an impish vagabond, and some very resourceful, very intimidating twins-Forgery pays homage to greats like Juan Rulfo and Luis Barragan, traversing late 20th Century Guadalajara with the exuberance and eccentricity of an 18th Century picaresque. Thank you…
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Weekly Wrap Up 24/07
Hello, welcome to another Weekly Wrap Up 24/07 post! I had a really good reading week last week, lets chat! Books Read How to be True by Daisy May Johnson I adored this book so much, its a perfect middle grade adventure story, packed with fun characters and delicious food references! Buy from Bookshop.org Buy from Waterstones Babel by R.F. Kuang This is one of my most anticipated reads of 2022, and I was very excited to get access to an e-ARC! I loved this book so much, its a dark academia novel packed full of magic, it’s moving and thought-provoking, highly recommend grabbing it when its released! Pre-order on…
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Blog Tour | How to be True
Hello, welcome to another post on my blog! Today I am very excited to be a part of the blog tour for How to Be True by Daisy May Johnson and hosted by Pushkin Press. Let’s jump right in! Title: How to be True Author: Daisy May Johnson Publisher: Pushkin Press Published: 7th July 2022 Genre: Middle Grade, Contemporary, Adventure Rating: 5/5 stars Edie was born to a family of troublemakers. When her activist parents leave Paris to protest around the globe, her grandmother decides it’s time she became a proper young lady and so sends her to the School of the Good Sisters. But to Edie’s surprise, the nuns…
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Weekly Wrap Up | 17/07
Hello, welcome to another Weekly Wrap Up post (17/07). I had a busy week last week, but I also managed to get plenty reading done! Books Read City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett I have had this book on my TBR pile for ages, and I can’t believe I waited so long to read it! This is an absolutely brilliant first novel in a fantasy series, it reminds me of A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark!! Buy from Bookshop.org Buy from Waterstones Like A Charm by Elle McNicoll Another book that I waited wayyyyy too long to read! This is a brilliant middle grade fantasy novel set…