Author: Emma

BLOG TOUR: REVIEW & GUEST POST – KICK THE MOON by Muhammad Khan

Posted February 3, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, 5 Stars, Blog, Blog Tour, Book Review, Comtemporary, Family, Favourites, Friendship, Macmillan Children's Books, Muhammad Khan, MyKindaBook / 0 Comments

Kick the Moon by Muhammad Khan Publisher – Macmillan Children’s Books Release Date – January 24th 2019 Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Fifteen-year-old Ilyas is under pressure from everyone: GCSE’s are looming and his teachers just won’t let up, his dad wants him to join the family business and his mates don’t care about any of it. There’s no space in Ilyas’ life to just be a teenager. Serving detention one day, Ilyas finds a kindred spirit in Kelly Matthews, who is fed up with being pigeonholed as the good girl, and their friendship blows the social strata of […]

JANUARY WRAP-UP AND FEBRUARY PLANS

Posted February 1, 2019 by Emma in Blog, Monthly Wrap-Up Post, TBR, UKYA, Wrap-Up / 6 Comments

My first wrap-up post of 2019!!!! I hope your start to 2019 has been great. It’s been crazy busy for me, both personally and at work. I have to say I love the start of a new year, with more new books, it’s feels like you’re starting another reading journey. It’s also my first month on WordPress and I can’t believe how much of a difference it has made. I feel like my blogging is growing in a new way and I intend to be a bit more creative with my post but continue what I love to write on […]

MY FIRST TOP TEN TUESDAY – The Ten Most Recent Additions to My To-Read List

Posted January 29, 2019 by Emma in Blog, Discussion Post, Most Anticipated, TBR, Top Ten Tuesday / 31 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the lovely ladies at The Artsy Reader Girl! Each week, a new topic is put into place and bloggers share their top ten accordingly. This is my first Top Ten Tuesday, I’m not sure why I haven’t done this before, but I thought it might be something different for my blog and I always love talking to other people. The Ten Most Recent Additions to My To-Read List So the beauty of this week’s one is that I’ve recently updated my Goodreads but also I’ve been gifted/received lots of new books […]

INTERVIEW with my favourite author of 2018… Emily Suvada

Posted January 24, 2019 by Emma in Blog / 4 Comments

A book that I couldn’t put down. A book that I wish I discovered as soon as it came out, a book that is honestly in a league of its own. The THIS ( I keep doing that) Mortal Coil series by the wonderful Emily Suvada. As soon as I finished The THIS Cruel Design I really wanted to have Emily on my blog and well here she is… But before that here are my reviews for book 1 and book 2 if you want to have a look and here is a little bit more about This Mortal Coil. Catarina Agatta is […]

EARLY REVIEW – ONE SHOT by Tanya Landman

Posted January 21, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, 5 Stars, Barrington Stoke, Blog, Book Review, Historical, Tanya Landman / 7 Comments

One Shot by Tanya Landman Publisher – Barrington Stoke Release Date – 15th March 2019 Buy – Amazon | Book Depository A powerful and deeply moving coming-of-age drama, inspired by the life of infamous sharpshooter Annie Oakley. After the death of her beloved father, Maggie and her family are thrown into a life of destitution. With little income and no way to live off their poor land, Maggie tries to provide for her family the way her father always had – with his hunting rifle and whatever animals the forest would provide. But when her mother is confronted with her […]

BLOG TOUR: REVIEW & GUEST POST – SLAY ON TOUR by Kim Curran

Posted January 17, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, 5 Stars, Blog, Blog Tour, Book Review, Guest Post, Kim Curran, Slay, Usborne Publishing / 3 Comments

What a way to kick off 2019!! I’m so excited to be part of the SLAY On Tour blog tour. The excitement when this book came in the post a couple of days before Christmas felt like Christmas had came early for me. This was my first book of 2019 and what a way to start it. SLAY on Tour (SLAY #2) by Kim Curran Publisher – Usborne Publishing Release Date – OUT NOW! Buy – Amazon | Book Depository SLAY are BACK…and this time they’re headed to Tokyo to track down another hell-raising demon. When they’re invited on tour […]

Jason Reynolds talks about the inspiration behind BLACK ENOUGH… and GIVEAWAY

Posted January 9, 2019 by Emma in Blog, Blog Tour, Guest Post, HarperCollins / 2 Comments

A Novice to Bullet Journaling! (A bookish one)

Posted January 7, 2019 by Emma in Bullet Journaling, Featured, Personal, Random Post / 9 Comments

TWENTY NINETEEN – Most Anticipated Reads and Reading Goals

Posted January 3, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, Featured, Happy New Year, Most Anticipated, Random Post / 17 Comments

This is always my favourite post of the year, anticipation all the brand new books and what’s to come of my blog. But since writing this post there has been one massive change – I’VE MOVED TO WORDPRESS. It hasn’t been the easiest of migration, but I am nearly there I think. So please bare with me, but I hope you continue to read my blog and it ventures into 2019.2018 was a great year of books, I read such a variety of books which I never knew I would really enjoy and I certainly surprised myself. I love this […]