#WrapUp - January 2020

What a long month January was, is it 2021 yet?!

This month for reading has not been the greatest but now been the worst either. This has mainly been due to work commitments & then trying to get my house gutted for decorating which isn't going very well either!

#SixforSunday - Bookish Habits

Happy Sunday my fellow bookworms!

I recently discovered this tag by a post by inkandplasma which can be found here. With the tag being created by alittlebutalot which can be found here.

This weeks theme is bookish habits, which I'm sure we all have & here's my top 6...

The Chalk Man by C J Tudor - Book Review

In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code: little chalk stick figures they leave for one another as messages only they can understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing is ever the same.

In 2016, Eddie is fully grown, and thinks he's put his past behind him. But then he gets a letter in the mail, containing a single chalk stick figure. When it turns out that his friends got the same message, they think it could be a prank . . . until one of them turns up dead.

That's when Eddie realizes that saving himself means finally figuring out what really happened all those years ago.

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Beyond a Darkened Shore by Jessica Leake - Book Review

Pages - 435
Format - Hardback


The ancient land of Éirinn is mired in war. Ciara, Princess of Mide, has never known a time when Éirinn’s kingdoms were not battling for power, or Northmen were not plundering their shores.

The people of Mide have thankfully always been safe because of Ciara’s unearthly ability to control her enemies’ minds and actions. But lately, a mysterious crow has been appearing to Ciara, whispering warnings of an even darker threat. Although her clansmen dismiss her visions as pagan nonsense, Ciara fears this coming evil will destroy not just Éirinn, but the entire world.

Then the crow leads Ciara to Leif, a young Northman leader. Leif should be Ciara’s enemy, but when Ciara discovers that he, too, shares her prophetic visions, she knows he’s something more. Leif is mounting an impressive army, and with Ciara’s strength in battle the two might have a chance to save their world.

With evil rising around them, they’ll do what it takes to defend the land they love…even if it means making the greatest sacrifice of all.

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Series Sunday

Hi fellow bookworms & welcome to another series Sunday!

Today is going to be all about the book series I want to finish this year. I have had many of these on my TBR for years waiting for the series to be complete before reading them. I avoid reading series as they come out for the sheer fact of having to wait on the next book destroys me.

Here's the list of the series & how many books-

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo - Review

Pages - 400
Format - Kindle


From the New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award longlist title The Poet X comes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride, and a drive to feed the soul that keeps her fire burning bright.

Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago’s life has been about making the tough decisions—doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness.

Even though she dreams of working as a chef after she graduates, Emoni knows that it’s not worth her time to pursue the impossible. Yet despite the rules she thinks she has to play by, once Emoni starts cooking, her only choice is to let her talent break free.

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Book Goals 2020 Edition

Hellooo again my fellow bookworms! Hope your year is off to a good start. Mine could have gone better reading wise, have only managed to read just over 100 pages since the new year bells rang. But hoping to turn that around very soon.

Now writing this post to give myself some motivation to achieve all the bookish goals I want to this year & anytime I lose motivation I can look back at this & get my wee bum in gear again.

So without further ado my reading goals for this year are: