Books and Shit

Book Review: Red Rising by Pierce Brown

4/5 

I have listened to this on Audiobook and absolutely loved it. I would personally describe it as the Hunger Games but for adults, with all the actual gore and violence. But, his is not kid friendly. I wouldn’t call it YA either. I think it covers certain topics that many teens/young adults could find too much for them. There is a lot of swearing, abuse, murder, violence and rape. These are…

Book Review: Holy Sister by Mark Lawrence (Book of the Ancestor 3) (+GIVEAWAY!)

Well… Mark Lawrence did it again didn’t he.

I was lucky enough to be #gifted a review copy by Mark Lawrence. My review is still my honest opinion. 

You can pre-order it for yourself here

*This review is SPOILER FREE but is also for the final book in a trilogy so may contain spoilers for the previous books* (I might make a spoilery filled one but only after the publication date, I am not a monster)

Book Review: The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

3/5

I didn’t love this book. I thought it was good and okay and I managed to read through it. However, I just didn’t get the hype. I feel like from other reviews and what other people have said on twitter that I should have absolutely loved this book… but I just didn’t… I have read other reviews that also share my opinion so at least I know that it isn’t just me that had these issues.

I am going…

My Favourite Audiobooks (so far)

For the past 2 years (ish) I have been listening to audiobooks. I used to be one of those people. You know the ones who say “audiobooks aren’t really reading”. O how wrong I was. I honestly don’t know what I would do without them in my life. My drive from home to uni is 5 hours long, so audiobooks really help with the boredom. I listen to them when I am driving, walking, cleaning and sometimes…

The Northern YA Literacy Festival

On Saturday I made the 3 hour trek to Preston for The Northern YA Literacy Festival. This was my second time at this event and I had just as much fun as the first time. There were several amazing panels, publisher stalls and authors. I also got the chance to meet up and see other bloggers that I have known from twitter and tumblr which is always great.

They had several publisher stalls all with…

Book Review: Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

I have absolutely loved where this series is going so far. I have managed to avoid as many spoilers as possible to the point that I had no idea this was where the series was going… but I am not complaining.

Like I said I have really enjoyed where the story is going. Especially because part of this book takes place on a ship and with Pirates. I f*cking love Pirates so much like you don’t even…

February was such a good reading month for me until the last week when I got sick and then slumped really bad. I mean not even Holy Sister was keeping me reading, which if you follow my twitter, is a very big deal. I am back on my reading and blogging thing now. I took a week off everything for myself so sorry to my 1 follower that actually cares about my posts xoxox

I finished 6 books this…

My Most Underrated Books of 2018

So I have talked about a lot of the books that I loved and also my most disappointing books of 2018. Now I am going to tell you about a couple of the books that I feel deserved more attention than they got. Ones where I think that everybody should have on their TBR list and should read as soon as possible.

1. Witchsign by Den Patrick

This book makes it onto most of my lists because I loved it so…

Is this post going up a day after Valentine’s Day? Yes. Do I care? Not really.

This is going to be a post about romance… on my blog?!I am also shocked. So although I am not a big romance fan I do still have quite a few characters that I would love to be my Valentine. I hope that everybody spent Valentine’s Day however they wanted to. I personally spilled coffee all over myself in public, went to…

Haul Shaming 2: September 2014

I dug deep back through my tumblr archives and found another Book Haul post that I had made. If you haven’t seen my first Haul Shaming post you can read it here! Once again top notch camera phone quality picture we have. Its so grainy I can’t believe that I looked and edited this and thought ‘hmm yea this will bang on my booklr’. (Shock it didn’t).

Ruple and Evelyn by Laurence Beveridge – I…

Book Review: Spark by Alice Broadway

*This review is for book 2 of this trilogy so may contain spoilers for book 1* 

(You can read mt review for Ink here)

So Spark was the first book that I read in 2019! I feel like I really started my reading year of strong. I really enjoyed this book and how things have developed and the new characters that we got to meet.

I still enjoy our main character Leora. Mainly because she isn’t perfect…

Looking Back At The Books I Wanted To Finish By The End Of The Year

Last year I made a post about the book that I wanted to finish by the end of 2018. Since I am terrible at reading books when I say I am going to I thought it would be funny to see how badly I actually did. You can go back and read the post here!

I wrote this post back on October 22nd so that gave me a good 2 months and a week to try and read these books. This is how I did:

Spark by Alice Broadway

Review: Monsters by Sharon Dogar

*I was #gifted this advance reader copy in exchange for an honest review*

So this book is about Mary Shelley, or really it is more about how she became Mary Shelley.

Synopsis: 

1814: Mary Godwin, the sixteen-year-old daughter of radical socialist and feminist writers, runs away with a dangerously charming young poet – Percy Bysshe Shelley. From there, the two young lovers travel a Europe in the…

My February Bullet Journal Spread

Ummm so I have a bullet journal now… I used it throughout January but I was just testing the waters so I didn’t wanna post it. But one month on and apparently I am ready to share with the world!

Here is what my Bullet Journal actually looks like:

I just ordered it from amazon because it was pretty. It is actually really good quality too and wasn’t that expensive.

My like title page looks like…

Okay so lets pretend that this post isn’t going up a day late and that I have already messed up my schedule 1 month into the year…

January was a very busy month for me I had a mini dissertation to write and an exam to revise for as well as just everyday life getting in the way. So I only actually read 2 books this month which is getting off to a very slow start… definitely not how I wish to…

Predicting my Fave Books of 2019

These won’t all be books that will come out in 2019 but some of them will be. Others are backlist books that have been on my shelves for a long time but I will hopefully finally get round to them this year.

1. Holy Sister by Mark Lawrence

I am predicting that this will actually be my No. 1 spot for 2019. I think an amazing book would have to come along or Mark Lawrence would really have to screw…

So term 2 of my second year has started. Going to be a busy one as I have exam an exam and a lot of assignments to do. Does this mean that I have brought less books to uni with me? Absolutely not. Does this mean I haven’t ordered as many books in the sales? Absolutely not. I have however already finished one book so go me!

Here is my TBR for the next 10 weeks or so. Yes they are between to vodka…