Format: ebookPublished: October 31st, 2023Age: Young AdultGenre: Historical Fantasy Rating: 5/5 Stars I really liked Together We Burn, so I went into this expecting to enjoy it. I wasn’t disappointed. What the River Knows came out last year, but it feels like there’s a trend shifting towards books set in Egypt, pre-1900, grappling with theContinueContinue reading “Book Review: What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez”
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Blogtober Day 25: Let’s Talk Bookish – Halloween Reading
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. We’re nearing the end of Blogtober, and so far I’ve managed to keep up with aContinueContinue reading “Blogtober Day 25: Let’s Talk Bookish – Halloween Reading”
Blogtober Day 13: Audiobook Review – The Tenth Girl by Sara Faring
Format: AudiobookRelease Date: September 24th, 2019Age: Young AdultGenre: Horror – Gothic Rating: 4/5 Stars As part of Blogtober, I’m reposting some of my Divination Hollow reviews from the last year. Usually, I review horror and similar genres over there, but October seems like a great time to highlight some of my favourites! You can readContinueContinue reading “Blogtober Day 13: Audiobook Review – The Tenth Girl by Sara Faring”
Book Review: Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
Format: HardbackPublished: January 1st, 2007Age: Adult Genre: Nonfiction – Historical – Biography Rating: 5/5 Stars I love William Shakespeare. I love that he’s forever a mystery, and a contradiction – we can see his depth and range of emotion in his surviving plays, but we have very little knowledge of his life, how he mightContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Shakespeare by Bill Bryson”
Blogtober Day 4: Book Review – Silent Key by Laurel Hightower
Format: ebookRelease Date: October 10th, 2023Age: AdultGenre: Horror – Thriller Rating: 4/5 Stars As part of Blogtober, I’m reposting some of my Divination Hollow reviews from the last year. Usually, I review horror and similar genres over there, but October seems like a great time to highlight some of my favourites! You can read theContinueContinue reading “Blogtober Day 4: Book Review – Silent Key by Laurel Hightower”
Book Review: Four Eids and a Funeral by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Adiba Jaigirdar
Format: ebookPublished: June 4th, 2024Age: Young AdultGenre: Contemporary Romance Rating: 5/5 Stars This is a really cute YA romance that doesn’t shy away from some more difficult topics, and is perfect for YA readers. Tiwa and Said used to be best friends, until Said moved away for boarding school. Both are determined to pretend theContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Four Eids and a Funeral by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Adiba Jaigirdar”
Audiobook Review: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Narrated By: Santino FontanaPublisher: Scholastic AudioAge: Young AdultGenre: Sci-Fi – DystopiaFormat: AudiobookPublished: May 19th, 2020 Rating: 5/5 Stars Many, many years ago, a friend suggested I check out a book seemingly everyone had been raving about. I trusted their opinion, picked up The Hunger Games, finished it on a train journey home from university and,ContinueContinue reading “Audiobook Review: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins”
Book Review: Keep A’Livin’ by Kathya Alexander
Format: ebookPublished: April 11th, 2024Age: Adult Genre: Literary – Historical Rating: 3/5 Stars I will admit upfront this one just wasn’t for me. I usually quite like novel-in-verse, but I just didn’t gel with this. Maybe a bit too on the literary side? I found a lot was a bit too jumpy for my personalContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Keep A’Livin’ by Kathya Alexander”
Book Review: A Radical Act of Free Magic by H. G. Parry
Format: PaperbackPublished: July 20th, 2021Age: Adult Genre: Historical Fantasy Rating: 5/5 Stars I was really excited to pick up the second book in The Shadow Histories duology, and it truly did not disappoint. Far from it, in fact. Like A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians, A Radical Act of Free Magic is a historicalContinueContinue reading “Book Review: A Radical Act of Free Magic by H. G. Parry”
Book Review: Sapphires and Secrets by Katerina Simms
Format: ebookPublished: April 7th, 2022Age: Adult Genre: Contemporary RomanceGoodreads Rating: 4/5 Stars This was a Stuff Your Kindle gem, and though it’s not the type of romance I usually read, I really enjoyed it. Definitely made me keen to check out the next book in the series, too, which is always the sign of aContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Sapphires and Secrets by Katerina Simms”
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