#WrapUp - June 2020

Wow this was definitely my reading month with my best ever total of 12 books read! Definitely going to reach my goal of 52 books for the year in July so will probably up it to 100 at some point. How did your reading go this month let me know down in the comments ↓

Mid-year Book Freak Out Tag

Hello fellow bookworms! How are we all? How is it the middle of June already?! Today I have brought you my edition of the Mid-year Book Freak Out Tag as done by pretty much everyone lol.

Mini Reviews Monday - April 2020

Okay new blog post series coming at ya! Along with my monthly wrap up that post on the last day of the month the first monday after that comes Mini Reviews Monday where I share that's right mini reviews of all the book I read the previous month. I thought about posting this weekly but then there's some weeks where I don't finish any books so I thought best make it monthly.

WWW Sunday

This weekly meme is hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words.

The 3 W's are as follows -

What are you currently reading?

What have you recently finished?

What do you think you'll read next?

#WrapUp - March 2020

Hello again took an unplanned hiatus from blogging due to the current global situation & my mental health. But I am back with this months wrap up!

#BookReview - Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

Pages - 292
Format - Kindle
Rating - ✪✪✪✪

It all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way Down is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.

In his long-awaited return, John Green shares Aza's story with shattering, unflinching clarity.

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#BookReview - Circle of Shadows by Evelyn Skye

Series - Circle of Shadows #1
Pages - 454
Format - Hardback
Rating - ✪✪✪


A thrilling new fantasy series full of magic and betrayal—from Evelyn Skye, New York Times bestselling author of the Crown’s Game series.

Sora can move as silently as a ghost and hurl throwing stars with lethal accuracy. Her gemina, Daemon, can win any physical fight blindfolded and with an arm tied around his back. They are apprentice warriors of the Society of Taigas—marked by the gods to be trained in magic and the fighting arts to protect the kingdom of Kichona.

As their graduation approaches, Sora and Daemon look forward to proving themselves worthy of belonging in the elite group—but in a kingdom free of violence since the Blood Rift Rebellion many years ago, it’s been difficult to make their mark.

So when Sora and Daemon encounter a strange camp of mysterious soldiers while on a standard scouting mission, they decide the only thing to do to help their kingdom is to infiltrate the group. Taking this risk will change Sora’s life forever—and lead her on a mission of deception that may fool everyone she’s ever loved.

Love, spies, and adventure abound as Sora and Daemon unravel a complex web of magic and secrets that might tear them—and the entire kingdom—apart forever.


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#WrapUp - February 2020

Another month another wrap up! How quick did February go compared to January? Even with saying that I still feel like I had a better reading month this time round. I mean who even am I? 4 books ahead of my Goodreads goal & I've got no plans of slowing down.

#BookReview - The Storm Crow by Kalyn Josephson

Series - The Storm Crow #1
Number of pages - 350
Format - ARC
Star Rating - ✪✪✪


In the tropical kingdom of Rhodaire, magical, elemental Crows are part of every aspect of life...until the Illucian empire invades, destroying everything.

That terrible night has thrown Princess Anthia into a deep depression. Her sister Caliza is busy running the kingdom after their mother's death, but all Thia can do is think of all she has lost.

But when Caliza is forced to agree to a marriage between Thia and the crown prince of Illucia, Thia is finally spurred into action. And after stumbling upon a hidden Crow egg in the rubble of a rookery, she and her sister devise a dangerous plan to hatch the egg in secret and get back what was taken from them.

(Cover photo & blurb copied from Goodreads)

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#BookReview - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Pages - 383

Format - Kindle

Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive – but not how to live.

Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend.

Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything.

One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself. Now she must learn how to navigate the world that everyone else seems to take for granted – while searching for the courage to face the dark corners she’s avoided all her life.

Change can be good. Change can be bad. But surely any change is better than… fine?

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#BookReview - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Series - Outlander #1
Number of pages: 880
Format: Paperback


What if your future was the past?

1946, and Claire Randall goes to the Scottish Highlands with her husband Frank. It’s a second honeymoon, a chance to learn how war has changed them and to re-establish their loving marriage.
But one afternoon, Claire walks through a circle of standing stones and vanishes into 1743, where the first person she meets is a British army officer - her husband’s six-times great-grandfather.

Unfortunately, Black Jack Randall is not the man his descendant is, and while trying to escape him, Claire falls into the hands of a gang of Scottish outlaws, and finds herself a Sassenach - an outlander - in danger from both Jacobites and Redcoats.

Marooned amid danger, passion and violence, her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives.

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#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!

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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The Selection by Kiera Cass - Review

Thirty-five beautiful girls. Thirty-five beautiful rivals…

It’s the chance of a lifetime and 17-year-old America Singer should feel lucky. She has been chosen for The Selection, a reality TV lottery in which the special few compete for gorgeous Prince Maxon's love.

Swept up in a world of elaborate gowns, glittering jewels and decadent feasts, America is living a new and glamorous life. And the prince takes a special interest in her, much to the outrage of the others.

Rivalry within The Selection is fierce and not all of the girls are prepared to play by the rules. But what they don’t know is that America has a secret – one which could throw the whole competition… and change her life forever.

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December Wrap Up 2019

Hello my fellow bookworms! Hope we all had a good Christmas. All I can say is I am more than ready for the new year. I'm currently cataloguing all my owned books & I honestly never realised I had so many.

Any hoo onto the books I read this month & their ratings...

5 books to banish the hump

Another week gone another hump day upon us!

Whether you need a book to banish those hump day blues or just need your next recommended read look no further than this post.