Feb 2020
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February Reflection and Wrap-Up
Well, February went by in a blur! This month I’ve celebrated my birthday, my blog and bookstagram 1 year anniversary, been in the process of buying my first house *eek*, stuffed my face with so many pancakes for Pancake Day, and hidden from the storms that have battered the UK almost every weekend. The storms… Continue reading
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REVIEW | Prince of Thorns – Mark Lawrence
“Tell me, tutor,’ I said. ‘Is revenge a science, or an art?” I finished my reread of Prince of Thorns a few days ago – and I loved it just as much as the first time I read it, about 8 years ago, and started my love affair with Marks writing. Why on earth have… Continue reading
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REVIEW | Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon – Jane Austen
Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sandtion is a compilation of some smaller and unfinished works by Jane Austen from early in her life and from right at the very end. Lady Susan “There is exquisite pleasure in subduing an insolent spirit, in making a person pre-determined to dislike, acknowledge one’s superiority.” I really enjoyed Lady Susan… Continue reading
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Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood – Sarah J Maas | Excerpt Mini Review
1 week people!!! I’m so excited! I can’t wait to see what the masterful Sarah J Maas does in her first foray into writing adult fantasy. I adore the Throne of Glass series so far (I haven’t finished the last two yet) and the A Court of Thorns and Roses series is one of my… Continue reading
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REVIEW | Verity – Colleen Hoover
“What you read will taste so bad at times, you’ll want to spit it out, but you’ll swallow these words and they will become part of you, part of your gut, and you will hurt because of them.” This book! I haven’t read any Colleen Hoover before, and I understand this is different to her… Continue reading
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MINI REVIEW | Wilder Girls – Rory Power
We don’t get to choose what hurts us. ★★★☆☆ I breezed through this book. It didn’t wow me, and quite frankly it super creeped me out and made me feel a bit ill at times – crazy squeamish Hannah did not like some of these descriptions. But I grew to love these half-feral girls. And… Continue reading
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REVIEW | My Year of Rest and Relaxation – Ottessa Moshfegh
“Oh, sleep. Nothing else could ever bring me such pleasure, such freedom, the power to feel and move and think and imagine, safe from the miseries of my waking consciousness.” I wanted to try something different with this book, it’s unlike a lot (if not all) the books I’ve read before. I’m not sure it… Continue reading
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REVIEW | In A Dark Dark Wood – Ruth Ware
𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒇 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒑 𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆, 𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒉𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒌𝒚. The last 100 pages or so are the only reason for this rating. I think it would be lower if not for the end.… Continue reading
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REVIEW | A Heart So Fierce and Broken – Brigid Kemmerer
“Choices are never easy. There are good and bad options, but the most dangerous is to not make any choice at all.” I’d heard mixed reviews about this book – I’m not sure if I just lowered my expectations, but I loved this continuation of the story. We do move on to newer characters, and… Continue reading
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February TBR
January, the longest month of the year, is over! What are you reading this month? I’m taking part in a couple of readalongs and bookclubs over on Instagram. I think this is the first time in a while I’ve had a TBR that’s a bit more set in stone, and more than one or two… Continue reading
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Books and food enthusiast. I discovered a love for reading in my late teens, so you’ll see me catching up on older series quite often. I also love to travel around the UK, where I live, and picking up some crafty hobbies – I hope to share snippets of this amongst all the book content. Other interests include gaming, podcasts, drinking too much tea, and trying to personify autumn.
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