Format: HardbackRelease Date: October 19th, 2021Age: Children’sGenre: FantasyGoodreads Rating: 1/5 Stars I was left feeling fairly unimpressed with this book. It felt low-effort, and I’m not totally sure what they were trying to say about gender in the way they’ve constructed this. The fairy tales are the Andrew Lang texts, put through an algorithm, withContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Gender Swapped Fairy Tales by Karrie Fransman, Jonathan Plackett”
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Book Review: #Sweets for Love by Elodie Nowodazkij
Format: ebook Release Date: October 6th, 2022Age: AdultGenre: Contemporary RomanceGoodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars This is the second book in the Love in Swans Cove series, and after I read and loved #The Leftover Bride, I was really excited to dig into this, featuring Leftover Bride Sorcha’s sister, Aisling. Running a struggling bakery and trying toContinueContinue reading “Book Review: #Sweets for Love by Elodie Nowodazkij”
Audiobook Review: The Life and Works of Jane Austen by Devoney Looser
Narrated by: Devoney LooserPublisher: Audible AudioGenre: Non-Fiction – LiteratureFormat: AudiobookRelease Date: January 29th, 2021Goodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars I really like The Great Courses series. These lectures are entertaining and informative, and I definitely think I’ll continue to check them out. I especially liked Looser in this one, who had a really clear and interesting deliveryContinueContinue reading “Audiobook Review: The Life and Works of Jane Austen by Devoney Looser”
Book Review: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
Format: ebook Release Date: August 23rd, 2022Age: AdultGenre: Paranormal – Contemporary – RomanceGoodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars Thank you to Hodder & Stoughton for providing me a copy of this book via NetGalley! I’m going to start off by saying I absolutely freaking loved this. It’s described as warm and uplifting, and it really achieves bothContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna”
Graphic Novel Review: Saga, Volume 8
by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples (Illustrator)Publisher: Image ComicsFormat: PaperbackGenre: Sci-FiRelease Date: December 27th, 2017Goodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars I love this series so, so much and the sooner I can get my hands on Volume 9 the better. It’s really hard to talk too much about this without giving away spoilers, but this is…well, it’s Saga, soContinueContinue reading “Graphic Novel Review: Saga, Volume 8”
Book Review: It Started with a Kiss by Clare Lydon
Format: ebook Release Date: June 10th, 2022Age: AdultGenre: Contemporary RomanceGoodreads Rating: 3/5 Stars Skye is not having a good day. Not after the announcement her ex-wife – the head chief at the hotel Skye works at – is getting remarried, at the same hotel. Looking to drown her sorrows, she meets Gemma at a bar,ContinueContinue reading “Book Review: It Started with a Kiss by Clare Lydon”
Graphic Novel Review: Jessica Jones: Alias, Vol. 1
by Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Gaydos (Illustrator)Publisher: MAXFormat: PaperbackGenre: Superhero – CrimeRelease Date: September 1st, 2015Goodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars Jessica Jones used to be a superhero, but she’s hung up her cape in favour of opening her own PI firm, Alias Investigations, specialising in superhuman cases. Like most noir stories, danger comes for Jessica when a womanContinueContinue reading “Graphic Novel Review: Jessica Jones: Alias, Vol. 1”
Graphic Novel Review: Wolverine: Old Man Logan
by Mark Millar, Steve McNiven (Penciler), Dexter Vines (Inker), Mark Morales (Inker), Jay Leisten (Inker), Morry Hollowell (Colorist), Christina Strain (Colorist), Justin Ponsor (Colorist), Jason Keith (Colorist), Nathan Fairbairn (Colorist), Paul Mounts (Colorist) Publisher: MarvelFormat: PaperbackGenre: Superhero – Post-Apocalypse – DystopiaRelease Date: September 22nd, 2010Goodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars This is the second time I’ve read this graphic novel, and it really was a great option for a reread. I first read it back in 2016, andContinueContinue reading “Graphic Novel Review: Wolverine: Old Man Logan”
Book Review: A Breath of Sunlight by Sydney Winward
Format: ebook Release Date: August 17th, 2021Age: AdultGenre: Fantasy RomanceGoodreads Rating: 2/5 Stars This book was a little bit of a let-down. It was okay, and the writing was decent, but overall it felt a bit muddled and didn’t offer anything that made me feel completely invested in the characters or the situations they’re in.ContinueContinue reading “Book Review: A Breath of Sunlight by Sydney Winward”
Audiobook Review: How Not to Fall in Love, Actually by Catherine Bennetto
Narrated by: Rosie JonesPublisher: Simon Schuster Audio UKGenre: Rom-ComFormat: AudiobookRelease Date: January 1st, 2016 Rating: 1/5 Stars This is going to be a bit of a ranty review, I’m afraid. And it might possibly be one of my harshest reviews to date, but if this is a book you’ve been eying up, I’d actually recommendContinueContinue reading “Audiobook Review: How Not to Fall in Love, Actually by Catherine Bennetto”
Unwrapping Words 