Format: PaperbackRelease Date: February 4th, 2021Age: AdultGenre: ContemporaryGoodreads Rating: 2/5 Stars I didn’t enjoy this as much as I thought I would. If I’m honest, parts of it were downright messy, and it couldn’t seem to decide what genre it wanted to slot into it. I’m all for blending genres, but it’s done in suchContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Everything Is Beautiful by Eleanor Ray”
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Audiobook Review: Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo and Melania-Luisa MarteGenre: ContemporaryAge: YAPublisher: Hot Key BooksFormat: AudiobookRelease Date: May 5th, 2020 Rating: 5/5 Stars This book is beautiful, a novel-in-verse that was absolutely great to listen to as an audiobook. The two narrators here bounce off each other really well, and the characters of Camino and Yahaira shine throughContinueContinue reading “Audiobook Review: Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo”
Blogmas Day 28: The Sh!te Before Christmas by Serena Terry
Publisher: HarperCollinsFormat: ebookRelease Date: November 10th, 2022Genre: Contemporary- HumourGoodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars I received this book from HarperCollins via NetGalley – views remain my own. I hadn’t heard of Serena Terry, Mammy Banter, or The Secret Life of an Uncool Mum before picking up The Sh!te Before Christmas, and I actually knew very little aboutContinueContinue reading “Blogmas Day 28: The Sh!te Before Christmas by Serena Terry”
BBNYA Spotlight: The Darlings by Angela Jackson
This year, the Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) is celebrating the 50 books that made it into Round Two with a mini spotlight blitz tour for each title. BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 10ContinueContinue reading “BBNYA Spotlight: The Darlings by Angela Jackson”
Top Ten Tuesday: School 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. This week’s prompt is school freebie, a topic to tieContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: School Freebie”
Book Review: Fight Night by Miriam Toews
Publisher: Faber and FaberFormat: ebookRelease Date: March 8th, 2022Goodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars I haven’t read anything by Toews until Fight Night, but this book has definitely made me more interested in reading more from her. Swiv, nine-years-old and living in Toronto, is tasked by her grandmother to write to Swiv’s absent father. In Swiv’s voice,ContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Fight Night by Miriam Toews”
Book Review: #TheLeftoverBride by Elodie Nowodazkij
Format: DigitalRelease Date: September 14th, 2021 Rating: 5/5 Stars Wedding dress designed Sorcha O’Conner didn’t expect to go viral, but thanks to her fiancé stranding her at the altar, she’s become #TheLeftoverBride. That and a series of other unfortunate events have convinced the public her dresses are cursed. To focus on something else, she createsContinueContinue reading “Book Review: #TheLeftoverBride by Elodie Nowodazkij”
Book Review: The Lost Language of Crazy – Pamela L. Laskin
Publisher: Atmosphere PressFormat: MOBIRelease Date: November 2nd, 2021 Rating: 2/5 Stars Thank you to Atmosphere Press for providing me with a copy of this book via NetGalley. All views remain my own. I was really keen to check this book out, especially after seeing the premise. There are a lot of themes just mentioned inContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Lost Language of Crazy – Pamela L. Laskin”
Book Review: The Poet X – Elizabeth Acevedo
Publisher: Egmont BooksFormat: MOBIRelease Date: May 3rd, 2018 Rating: 5/5 Stars I read this book in 24 hours. I absolutely devoured this, and that’s not something I would normally do. This book is all about voice, and Xiomara’s voice is truly and utterly, fully bought to life here in a really unique way. I’m justContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Poet X – Elizabeth Acevedo”
WriteReads Blog Tour: Instructions for Dancing – Nicola Yoon
Blurb #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun is Also a Star Nicola Yoon is back with a new and utterly unique romance.Evie is disillusioned about love ever since her dad left her mum for another woman – she’s even throwing out her beloved romance novel collection.When she’s given a copy of a book called Instructions forContinueContinue reading “WriteReads Blog Tour: Instructions for Dancing – Nicola Yoon”
Unwrapping Words 