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Wishlist Wednesday
A Dress for the Wicked by Autumn Krause When is it released: August 6th What is it about?: Nothing much happens in the sleepy town of Shy in Avon-upon-Kynt. And for eighteen years, Emmaline Watkins has feared that her future held just that: nothing. But when the head of the most admired fashion house in the country opens her prestigious design competition to girls from outside the stylish capital city, Emmy’s dreams seem closer than they ever have before. As the first “country girl” to compete, Emmy knows she’ll encounter extra hurdles on her way to the top. But as she navigates the twisted world of high fashion she starts…
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Nexus Book Review
Nexus by Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings From Goodreads: Her ship is gone, her crew is captured and notorious mercenary Androma Racella is no longer the powerful Bloody Baroness, but a fugitive ruthlessly hunted across the Mirabel Galaxy. The bloodthirsty Queen Nor now rules most of the galaxy through a mind-control toxin and she’ll stop at nothing to destroy her most hated adversary. Andi will risk anything, even her precious freedom, to find a cure. Stranded with her unlikely ally, Dex, on the unforgiving ice planet of Solera, their plan to infiltrate a black-market city proves dangerously irresistible. Back in Arcardius, Nor’s actions have opened Mirabel to invasion. As Andi’s crew…
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Wishlist Wednesday
Queen of Nothing by Holly Black When is it released: November 19th What is it about?: 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. Jude must risk venturing…
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Sunday Chart
Another Sunday, another book chart 😀 Each week, I rank some of my favourite recent reads. Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff Call It What You Want by Brigid Kemmerer A Girl Called Shameless by Laura Steven The Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson Nexus by Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings Stolen Time by Danielle Rollins King of Fools by Amanda Foody Lady Smoke by Laura Sebastian The Storm Crow by Kalyn Josephson Romanov by Nadine Brandes Do you agree with this list? Feel free to leave comments in the comments section below. Until next time, everyone ❤
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Call It What You Want Book Review
Call It What You Want by Brigid Kemmerer TRIGGER WARNING: Book includes mentions and gives description of attempted suicide. From Goodreads: When his dad is caught embezzling funds from half the town, Rob goes from popular lacrosse player to social pariah. Even worse, his father’s failed suicide attempt leaves Rob and his mother responsible for his care. Everyone thinks of Maegan as a typical overachiever, but she has a secret of her own after the pressure got to her last year. And when her sister comes home from college pregnant, keeping it from her parents might be more than she can handle. When Rob and Maegan are paired together for a…
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Let’s Talk About… ARC Etiquette
Hi everyone, I’m not usually one to post something like this, and hopefully it will be a one-off type of post, but there’s been a LOT of drama in the book and author community surrounding ARCs recently, and I wanted to put my thoughts to paper a bit. It’s not meant to be an attack on anyone in our community, or anything like that, just a (very one-sided) conversation about ARC etiquette. What are ARCs? ARCs are Advanced Reader Copies. They are early versions of the eventual published book, released into the world a little early. Sometimes, they are a bit different to the final published version– they might have…
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Wishlist Wednesday
Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater When is it released: November 5th What is it about?: The dreamers walk among us . . . and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming – they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives – they will sleep forever if their dreamers die. And then there are those who are drawn to the dreamers. To use them. To trap them. To kill them before their dreams destroy us all. Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality. Jordan…
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A Girl Called Shameless Book Review
A Girl Called Shameless by Laura Steven From Goodreads: It’s been two months since a leaked explicit photo got Izzy involved in a political sex scandal – and the aftershock is far from over. The Bitches Bite Back movement is gathering momentum as a forum for teenage feminists, and when a girl at another school has a sex tape shared online, once again Izzy leads the charge against the slut-shamer. This time she wants to change the state law on revenge porn. Izzy and her best friend Ajita are as hilarious as ever, using comedy to fight back against whatever the world throws at them, but Izzy is still reeling from…
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Sky in the Deep Book Review
Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young From Goodreads: Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient rivalry against the Riki clan. Her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield—her brother, fighting with the enemy—the brother she watched die five years ago. Faced with her brother’s betrayal, she must survive the winter in the mountains with the Riki, in a village where every neighbor is an enemy, every battle scar possibly one she delivered. But when the Riki village is raided by a ruthless clan thought to be a legend, Eelyn is even…
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Sunday Chart
Another Sunday, another book chart 😀 Each week, I rank some of my favourite recent reads. Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff A Girl Called Shameless by Laura Steven Stolen Time by Danielle Rollins King of Fools by Amanda Foody Lady Smoke by Laura Sebastian The Storm Crow by Kalyn Josephson Archenemies by Marissa Meyer Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young Song of Sorrow by Melinda Salisbury Do you agree with this list? Feel free to leave comments in the comments section below. Until next time, everyone ❤
