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Six for Sunday | Favourite Authors
Hello everyone, welcome to another Six for Sunday post! Today I am chatting all about my favourite authors, those authors that I will buy from no matter what the book is about! Thanks as always to the lovely Steph for hosting! Patrick Ness I love Patrick Ness, I started with The Knife of Never Letting Go when it first came out, and I have read everything he has written since! I honestly think I have rated everything he’s released as a 4 or 5 star read, and I have enjoyed every single one. He is one of my auto-buy authors, and if he recommends something I will read it hands down! Robin…
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Book Review | The Gilded Ones
Title: Gilded Ones Author: Namina Forna Published: 4th February 2021 Publisher: Usborne Genre: YA, Fantasy Series: Deathless #1 Rating: 3.5/5 stars Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like she belongs. But on the day of the ceremony, her blood runs gold, the color of impurity–and Deka knows she will face a consequence worse than death. Then a mysterious woman comes to her with a choice: stay in the village and submit to her…
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January Book Haul
Hello everyone, welcome to my January Book Haul post! One of my 2021 bookish resolutions is to reduce my physical TBR and one way to do that is to buy fewer books! I am on furlough at the moment, so hopefully not seeing the new books everyday will help with this! Hopefully!!! Anyway here are the books I received and purchased in January! Review Copies I received these three books in a fun wee bundle from Pan Macmillan which they were kind enough to send to my home address!! I am very excited for all of these books, and I am planning to read The Library of the Dead in…
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Six for Sunday | Books With Red Covers
Hello everyone, welcome to another Six for Sunday post! Today we are talking all things books with red covers, here are 6! Thanks as always to the lovely Steph for hosting! Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell I am slightly cheating with my first choice on this post, this is the Waterstones Exclusive edition of this book with the red naked hardcover! The original book is a blue hardback, but I love this cover so much I couldn't not include it! Buy from Waterstones here Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas This is one of my favourite books of 2020, and I couldn't not include it! A YA fantasy, this one has a wonderful sweet…
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Book Review – This Is Not the Jess Show
Title: This Is Not the Jess Show Author: Anna Carey Published: 2nd February 2021 Publisher: Quirk Books Genre: YA, thriller Rating: 4.5/5 stars Black Mirror meets My So-Called Life in this fast-paced, timely YA thriller about separating fact from fiction–and how far we’ll go to create our own version of reality. Like any other teenager, Jess Flynn is just trying to get through her junior year without drama … but drama seems to keep finding her. Between a new crush on her childhood best friend, overprotective parents cramping her social life, and her younger sister’s worsening health, the only constant is change–and her hometown of Swickley, which feels smaller by…