Format: ebookPublished: January 9th, 2024Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – True Crime – Social JusticeGoodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars This book is fantastic, infuriating, upsetting, and inspiring in equal measure. It’s not radical to say we live in a patriarchal world, or to point out women face injustices every single day, while expected to smile and get onContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Furies: Women, Vengeance and Justice by Elizabeth Flock”
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Book Review: Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor
Format: ebookPublished: May 7th, 2024Age: AdultGenre: Historical – LiteraryGoodreads Rating: 3/5 Stars This wasn’t a bad book, but it’s much more introspective, character and atmosphere driven than I usually like. I found it to be quite meandering; although it’s relatively short it felt like it took a long while to get anywhere, and the endingContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor”
Book Review: Blitz Spirit: Voices of Britain Living Through Crisis, 1939 – 1945 by Becky Brown
Format: ebookPublished: October 8th, 2020Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – HistoryGoodreads Rating: 4/5 Stars In Blitz Spirit, Becky Brown has assembled a series of extracts from the Mass Observation project, which tasked ordinary people with writing dairies immediately prior to and during the war years. It’s worth noting that Brown’s bibliography at the end shows there’s aContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Blitz Spirit: Voices of Britain Living Through Crisis, 1939 – 1945 by Becky Brown”
Book Review: The Valkyrie by Kate Heartfield
Format: ebookPublished: March 30th, 2023Age: AdultGenre: Historical FantasyGoodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars The Valkyrie is the story of Brynhild, Gudrun and Sigurd, a fantasy retelling from Norse mythology that reveals another side to the Valkyrie, princess, and hero. Going into this, I’m not overly familiar with Norse mythology and the sagas, so I can’t compare thisContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Valkyrie by Kate Heartfield”
Book Review: Meet the Georgians by Robert Peal
Format: PaperbackPublished: July 8th, 2021Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – HistoryGoodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars This was a great book to finish 2023 on! Meet the Georgians contains a range of short biographies on various historical figures from 1714 to the 1830s, including Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft, Olaudah Eqiano, the Ladies of Llangollen, and many more. Peal keeps theContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Meet the Georgians by Robert Peal”
Book Review: The Supreme Lie by Geraldine McCaughrean
Format: ebookRelease Date: April 15th, 2021Age: Young AdultGenre: Fantasy – DystopiaGoodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars Thank you to Usborne Publishing for providing a copy of this book via NetGalley – views remain my own. This book was excellent, and I think it’s a really great example of Young Adult that doesn’t talk down to its targetContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Supreme Lie by Geraldine McCaughrean”
Blogmas Day 21: Book Review – This Christmas by Emma Heatherington
Format: ebookPublished: Age: AdultGenre: Contemporary RomanceGoodreads Rating: 4/5 Stars Blogmas 2023: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 20 This book was adorable! WeContinueContinue reading “Blogmas Day 21: Book Review – This Christmas by Emma Heatherington”
Blogmas Day 17: Book Review – ‘Tis the Damn Season by Kimi Freeman
Format: ebookRelease Date: October 24th, 2023Age: New AdultGenre: Contemporary RomanceGoodreads Rating: 1/5 Stars Blogmas 2023: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16 I need to preface this with something: the authorContinueContinue reading “Blogmas Day 17: Book Review – ‘Tis the Damn Season by Kimi Freeman”
Blogmas Day 14: Book Review – The Christmas Swap by Talia Samuels
Format: ebookPublished: January 1st, 2023Age: AdultGenre: Contemporary RomanceGoodreads Rating: 4/5 Stars Blogmas 2023: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 Well, this one was a festive joy. With nowhere else to go after a recent breakup, MargotContinueContinue reading “Blogmas Day 14: Book Review – The Christmas Swap by Talia Samuels”
Blogmas Day 10: Book Review – Once Upon a Christmas Eve by Elodie Nowodazkij
Format: ebookRelease Date: August 7th, 2023Age: AdultGenre: RomanceGoodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars Blogmas 2023: Day 1 / Day 2 / Day 3 / Day 4 / Day 5 / Day 6 / Day 7 / Day 8 / Day 9 Oh, this was fun. How fun, you might ask? So fun that as soon as IContinueContinue reading “Blogmas Day 10: Book Review – Once Upon a Christmas Eve by Elodie Nowodazkij”
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