Monday Moods: Santa

Monday Moods is a weekly bookish meme created and hosted by Unwrapping Words (aka, me!). The premise is simple: every week, there’s a new ‘mood’, ranging from tropes to genres or actual moods (happy, sad, etc). On a Monday, feel free to post about books on your TBR, books you’d recommend, or a mix – whatever youContinueContinue reading “Monday Moods: Santa”

Book Review: Make the Season Bright by Ashley Herring Blake

Format: ebookPublished: October 1st, 2024Age: AdultGenre: Romance – Contemporary Rating: 2/5 Stars I really wanted to like this one so much more than I did. Sapphic Christmas romances are few and far between (though it feels like it’s getting better year on year!) so I was really excited to read this, but unfortunately the mainContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Make the Season Bright by Ashley Herring Blake”

Blogmas Day 23: #5OnMyTBR – Winter Celebrations

#5OnMyTBR is a bookish meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter’s Nook  and you can learn more about it here. It occurs every Monday when we post about 5 books on our TBR. Well, it’s almost time for the big day – are you ready? Got all the prep done (if you celebrate Christmas!)? Hopefully you’re able toContinueContinue reading “Blogmas Day 23: #5OnMyTBR – Winter Celebrations”

Blogmas Day 16: #5OnMyTBR – Title Starting with a ‘C’

#5OnMyTBR is a bookish meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter’s Nook  and you can learn more about it here. It occurs every Monday when we post about 5 books on our TBR. Diving straight back into Blogmas because…I really did think I’d find 5 festive books beginning with the letter C on my TBR, but I didn’t,ContinueContinue reading “Blogmas Day 16: #5OnMyTBR – Title Starting with a ‘C’”

Blogmas Day 5: Book Review – Christmas Ever After by Jaimie Admans

Format: ebookPublished: September 2nd, 2024Age: AdultGenre: Contemporary Romance Rating: 5/5 Stars Ever After Street is a special place, with fairy tale themed shops and a community looking out for each other. And just off Ever After is Christmas Ever After, where it’s Christmas year-round, and where Franca Andrews sells her nutcrackers. But with Christmas approaching,ContinueContinue reading “Blogmas Day 5: Book Review – Christmas Ever After by Jaimie Admans”

Blogtober Day 3: Top Ten Tuesday – Freebie

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. As this is a Freebie for today, I thought I’dContinueContinue reading “Blogtober Day 3: Top Ten Tuesday – Freebie”

Book Review: Flying Home for Christmas by Helen Whitaker

Format: ebookPublished: October 12th, 2023 Age: AdultGenre: Contemporary RomanceGoodreads Rating: 3/5 Stars Thank you to Hodder & Stoughton for providing a copy of this book via NetGalley – views remain my own. This was my last festive read for 2023. I have to admit, although the book was enjoyable I found myself a little disappointed overallContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Flying Home for Christmas by Helen Whitaker”

Book Review: # Most Eligible Scrooge by Elodie Nowodazkij

Format: ebookRelease Date: November 24th, 2023Age: AdultGenre: Contemporary RomanceGoodreads Rating: 4/5 Stars I feel lucky with the crop of Christmas books I’ve read this year! Usually after this amount, I’d starting to feel the itch for something different, but I’m still keen to pick up more festive books right now. # Most Eligible Scrooge byContinueContinue reading “Book Review: # Most Eligible Scrooge by Elodie Nowodazkij”

Blogmas Day 18: #5OnMyTBR – Winter Celebrations

#5OnMyTBR is a bookish meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter’s Nook  and you can learn more about it here. It occurs every Monday when we post about 5 books on our TBR. As you can probably guess by now, I have quite a few festive themed books on my TBR. The majority of these are, admittedly, ChristmasContinueContinue reading “Blogmas Day 18: #5OnMyTBR – Winter Celebrations”

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”