Books, More Books And Random Rantings!

Jack Valentine is having a bad year. Between murder plots and bad romances, she could do with some time to sit back and reevaluate her life. Unfortunately, she has work to do. With the Seekers officially disbanded, the only investigators left in Oxford are the Solis Invicti. Jack hates them on principle for stealing her best friend Cam, and it doesn’t help that she’s managed to embroil herself…

Fantasy with friends is run by Briana and Krysta and Pages Unbound, and seeing as I’ve been looking at including more ‘discussion’ style posts on my blog, I thought this would be a great place to start! I feel like tropes are being thrown around everywhere nowadays, and they’re such a divisive topic. But love them or hate them, when used effectively they can absolutely transform a story. So what…

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page. Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to…

Anne of Brittany was a child when her realm was invaded, her home besieged, and her royal father driven to his death. Now her treasury is empty, her land occupied by her enemies, and she is ordered, under threat of renewed war, to become queen of her conquerors and marry the King of France. This marriage means her country’s annexation. But Anne promised her father that Brittany would never be…

Hello, hello! Wow, this was a hard list to narrow down. I have so many authors I would class as ‘favourites’ now that I really had to try and narrow this one down, so… the below are some of my favourite authors, but more importantly they are the authors I keep coming back to. The one’s whose first book instantly left me wanting more so I dove into whatever backlist I could find and made sure to…

Gertie Bickerstaff writes happily-ever-afters for a living. . . . Or she did, until her own love life fell apart. Now her ex is thriving, her deadline is looming, and she can’t write a single word. The last thing Gertie needs is more drama—like waking up to find a confused and rugged cowboy on her sofa. And not just any cowboy, but River Oakley, the villain from her unfinished novel. Somehow…

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page. Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to…

Rae is a fantasy reader who’s been transported to her favourite fictional world of swords and sorcery, castles and monsters. Playing the villainess, she thought she could change the narrative, but this version of the plot is far much more deadly than the one she knew. Her friends are on the run: the Cobra shelters in an eerie manor haunted by dark secrets, while Emer and Lia stoke a revolution…

Hello, hello! As you all know I already have a post for my most anticipated fantasy reads for the year, you can find Part 1 here, and part 2 will be out in June, so I’m going to use this post to spotlight all the non-fantasy books I’m excited for (I also did a version of this for the first half of the year you can find here). The below are a mix of genres, some by new to me authors, other’s by…

Fantasy with friends is run by Briana and Krysta and Pages Unbound, and seeing as I’ve been looking at including more ‘discussion’ style posts on my blog, I thought this would be a great place to start! I’m a sucker for a re-telling. They make up some of my favourite fantasy books, and as I was going through the list to make this post I realised that what makes a good re-telling in my opinion is…

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page. Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to…

Amina al-Sirafi thinks she’s struck gold. Tasked with hunting down magical artifacts for the council of immortal peris, she can savour the occasional adventure on the high seas with her cherished criminal companions while still returning home to raise her beloved daughter. But when Raksh, the spirit of discord with whom she is reluctantly wed, provokes the council’s wrath, Amina is charged with…

“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme that first originated at Breaking the Spine but has since linked up with “Can’t Wait Wednesday” at Wishful Endings now that the original creator is unable to host it anymore. Either way, this fun feature is a chance to showcase the upcoming releases that we can’t wait to get our hands on! Hello, hello! I hope you’re all having a great week so far. I’m…