⭕️🏨 Circle of Liars 🏨⭕️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️ YA thrillers proving again and again why they are one of my favourite genres! Seven teenagers arrive at a remote motel in the Californian desert for a school residential. At first, the dilapidated motel looks like nothing more than a prank, but soon, it spirals into something far more […]

🖤🥀 All the Devils 🥀🖤 ⭐️⭐️.5 This had SO much promise. It’s everything I love in a book – dark academia, secret societies, an integral mystery at the heart of the story. The opening scene is explosive. We see Andromeda ‘Andy’ Emerson, standing over her elder sister Violet’s open coffin, when she notices something amiss. […]

♠️♦️ Arcana Academy♦️♠️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In a world with a magic system born out of wielding tarot cards, Arcana Academy is the place where all Arcanists go to learn the ancient art of tarot. Shrouded in mystery, the inner workings of Arcana Academy are not widely known. Arcanists are prohibited to practice magic outside of the […]

🪻🖋️ Nightshade 🖋️🪻 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I was so lucky to take part in BookBreak’s readalong this week, and it’s been so fun to chat with everyone on StoryGraph as we progressed! Nightshade follows Ophelia Winters, a scholarship student who has been accepted into the prestigious Sorrowsong University. Located in the isolated Scottish highlands, it’s where the […]

🖤🤍🦢 A Treachery Of Swans 🦢🤍🖤 -A.B. Poranek ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Treachery of Swans is a sapphic retelling of Swan Lake, set in 17th Century France. Odile, the adoptive daughter of the theatre master Regnault, has spent years preparing for this mission. She will impersonate the future princess Marie d’Odette, infiltrating the royal palace. She will […]

🌆🌳 Private Revolutions 🌳🌆 I was so kindly sent this by Bloomsbury Creator Circle. It’s not the type of book I’d immediately gravitate towards in a bookstore, but one of my goals at the beginning of this year was to read more non-fiction. Penned by a Chinese-born British MP, Private Revolutions is the story of […]