Format: ebookPublished: January 10th, 2023Age: Young AdultGenre: Fantasy – RetellingsGoodreads Rating: 4/5 Stars This book was a whole lot of fun, and Benway has done an excellent job with this prequel to the events of Cinderella. The Wicked Ones really adds some depth to the ‘ugly stepsisters’, and shows how they suffer under their mother’sContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Wicked Ones by Robin Benway”
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Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Favorite Books from Ten Series
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 one was pretty hard. It’s been a while sinceContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Favorite Books from Ten Series”
Let’s Talk Bookish: Swapping Lives With a Fictional Character
Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme that was originally created and hosted by Rukky @ Eternity Books starting in August 2019, and was then cohosted with Dani @ Literary Lion from May 2020 to March 2022. Book Nook Bits has hosted since April 2022. Oh, this is a tricky one, isn’t it? I feel like there’s a lot of worldsContinueContinue reading “Let’s Talk Bookish: Swapping Lives With a Fictional Character”
Book Review: The Lost Girls of Foxfield Hall by Jessica Thorne
Format: ebookPublished: March 26th, 2021Age: AdultGenre: Historical/ContemporaryGoodreads Rating: 3/5 Stars I find it fascinating sometimes which books get marketed as horror and which don’t. Having read a lot of horror, The Lost Girls of Foxfield Hall could fall under Gothic, yet it’s marketed and presented as something completely different. It’s got strong horror elements, evenContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Lost Girls of Foxfield Hall by Jessica Thorne”
Let’s Talk Bookish: Disability Representation in Books
Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme that was originally created and hosted by Rukky @ Eternity Books starting in August 2019, and was then cohosted with Dani @ Literary Lion from May 2020 to March 2022. Book Nook Bits has hosted since April 2022. This is a great topic for this month – very fitting! I want to preface thisContinueContinue reading “Let’s Talk Bookish: Disability Representation in Books”
#5OnMyTBR: Over 400 Pages
#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. So, I keep track of the books I own, but there’s only two ‘groups’ where I have accurate page counts noted down – my physicalContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Over 400 Pages”
Top Ten Tuesday: Most Anticipated Books Releasing During the Second Half of 2024
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. For this, I’m sticking to books I have on NetGalley,ContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Most Anticipated Books Releasing During the Second Half of 2024”
#5OnMyTBR: Authors’ Debuts
#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. I love coming across debut novels – I think it’s so exciting to get an insight into a writer as they’re just starting out. AndContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Authors’ Debuts”
#5OnMyTBR: Beach Read
#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. This was a fun one! I find the term ‘Beach Read’ quite interesting – I don’t think I often pick up books that others wouldContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Beach Read”
#5OnMyTBR: Title Starting With a ‘T’
#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. The hardest part about this was finding books that started with ‘t’ but not ‘the’. I excluded them, because otherwise the whole list would beContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Title Starting With a ‘T’”
Unwrapping Words 