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Summer TBR: Pirate-maxxing, Whimsy and Epic Adventure Quests
Whenever summer rolls around, I always begin to crave adventurous, quest fantasy novels (I mean, who am I kidding? I crave them year-round) But particularly in the summer, there’s nothing better than tearing through fun fantasies on a picnic blanket in the sun. I’m talking deserts, enchanted forests, unicorns and pirates. I really think this might be the most banging seasonal TBR I’ve ever put together. So for all that… keep reading. “I wanted to travel the world and sail every sea. I wanted to have adventures, to be a hero, to have my tales told in courtyards and street…
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Tell Your Friends by Lauren Wilson: Tackling the Dark Side of Family Online Vlogging
💓📷 Tell Your Friends 📷💓 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘It should have been her…’ For Crystal, university is her chance to get out from under the thumb of her controlling parents and begin living a life off camera. When she meets Alyssa, another student with a suspiciously murky past and a habit of alienating everyone she grows close to, the two form a friendship and Crystal recruits Alyssa’s help in exposing the truth behind her family’s picture-perfect online persona. Unbeknownst to Crystal, Alyssa is an avid watcher of At Home with the Shaws, and vows to thwart her expose at every turn. But…
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May Wrap-Up: Steadily Making My Way Through ARCs, Literary Retellings, and A Touch of Horror
I read eight books in the month of May – it was a bit of a random selection, due to the fact that a lot of them were ARCs! We have Blood Bound and Deathbringer, both of which were released this month, and were also picks for the Fairyloot Adult and Illumicrate subscriptions and I’m super happy with my gorgeous editions. I also read a sapphic thriller that’s pitched as Thelma and Louise meets the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (if you’re intrigued by that, I guess you’ll just have to read on…). As well as ARCs, we have a…
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Deathbringer by Sonia Tagliareni: Necromancy, Serpents and Magical Academies
🐍 Deathbringer 🐍 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘The last words of the dead are sacred.’ Standing over her Nan’s casket, the dead speaks to Viola for the first time. Immediately, she knows her fate may as well be a death sentence – after all, this magic was responsible for her father’s demise. But when Viola’s sister Olivia leaps at the chance to take Viola’s place at the magical academy, Gorhail, Viola feels a grim sense of relief. When, twelve years later, Olivia is brutally murdered, it’s up to Viola to finally venture into the walls of the place she’s spent her life avoiding.…
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Dogs, Boys and Other Things I’ve Cried About by Isabel Klee: A Heartwarming Memoir For All Dog Lovers
🐾 Dogs, Boys and Other Things I’ve Cried About 🐾 ‘That’s the magic of dogs: The simple, unrelenting magic is that they don’t even have to try. They heal just by existing, reminding us to live every moment to the fullest. Because what is life other than taking long walks, eating good food, and spending time with the people you love most?’ This is a memoir by Isabel Klee, a content creator and dog fosterer. If you haven’t already, I do urge you to go check out her adorable dog @SimonSits. This memoir follows Isabel and Simon throughout her twenties.…
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Better Than Revenge by Bea Fitzgerald: Hollywood Actresses’ Infamous Feud Turns Deadly
🎬💋 Better Than Revenge 💋🎬 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘”Harper Moore and Nadine Heywood? It was always going to end like this: with a body buried six feet under.”‘ ‘Thelma and Louise meets the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, a book about two actresses whose infamous rivalry has a body count.’ That’s Bea Fitzgerald’s own pitch for this book, and if that didn’t immediately intrigue you as it did me… we clearly don’t have the same taste in thrillers. Because that sounds EXPLOSIVE. I love a thriller (or any book really) that centres around an elite sport or industry – for instance, I…
