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Blood Bound by Ellis Hunter: A Romantasy That Puts Female Friendship At Its Fore
🩸 Blood Bound 🩸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘You duel, or you die.’ Astrid has always known she was destined to die. She is a Nachstern witch and a Princess of Arturea. As is written in their law, the heirs to the queendom of Arturea and the kingdom of Vatra must duel. The winning heir will secure the Heart for their country – an infinite source to power. Astrid’s people desperately need the Heart to fight the blight that is scourging their queendom. The problem for Astrid is that her opponent is the fearsome Prince Zryan, the most renowned Vatran dragon rider in…
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Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke: The Tradwife Influencer Book We’ve All Been Craving
🌾 Yesteryear 🌾 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘Life on this ranch feels less like a life and more like a nightmare, a contrived stage performance, a scene that never ends.’ Yesteryear is the book that everyone seems to be talking about right now, and this one has been on my radar for a while – even prior to its release this month. It follows Natalie Mills, a tradwife influencer, who is transported back in time to the era which she has so romanticised – the harsh pioneer 1850s. Her perfect husband, her perfect children, even her charming farmstead… everything is slightly off. It’s…
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Spring TBR: Lots of Romantasy, True Crime Non-Fiction And Finishing A (New Favourite?) Series
Spring is finally (blessedly!) upon us, and that means only one thing. A brand new spring TBR! I managed to complete my winter TBR (who’s proud of me?). Last time I went with five books and since that proved achievable, I’ve done the same again here (although there are a few more that are on my radar this season, as you’ll see if you stick around till the end). Romantasy / Gritty fantasy ‘She has learned the might of silence. It is the prelude to fear. It is the absence of company. It is the moment before the monster takes…
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April Wrap-Up: Memoirs That Made Me Cry, New Favourite Fantasy and Nostalgic Dystopians
I read nine books in the month of April. It was a truly eclectic mix of genres, as usual. I started my month off by revisiting one of my favourite authors from my teen years, which felt very full circle (especially receiving an ARC of it! My teenage self would be screaming). I continued a series that I started in March by finishing the final two books, and I think I can safely say it has become one of my all-time favourite fantasy series. I read the new literary fiction release that has everyone on BookTok talking about it and…
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The Peepshow by Kate Summerscale: Tabloid Frenzy, Miscarriages of Justice and Morality in True Crime
🔸The Peepshow 🔸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘Everything in life is but a peepshow.’ This is a true crime novel that revisits the infamous 1953 murders at Rillington Place. In 1950, Timothy Evans of Rillington Place was hung for the murder of his wife Beryl and their daughter Geraldine. But when the bodies of women are discovered in the walls of Rillington Place, lining the floorboards and buried in the garden, each killed in a similar manner to Beryl and Geraldine three years prior, the question of Timothy Evans’s innocence cannot be ignored. And a new suspect emerges; John Reginald Halliday Christie. A…
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Seek the Traitor’s Son by Veronica Roth: The Queen of Dystopia Makes A Triumphant Return
💜🌍 Seek the Traitor’s Son 🌍💜 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘The human heart isn’t a drinking glass, with only so much room for love at any given time. That it’s more like the void of space, infinitely expanding and endlessly strange.’ Elegy Ahn is the youngest child of the Sword of Cedre, an epic warrior tasked with defending Cedre from the constant threat of invasion by their neighbours, the Talusar. Centuries ago, the nation of Talusar was infected by a Fever, a virus that kills approximately half of its victims. The other surviving half, however, are gifted with supernatural powers. The rarest of…
