ARC Book Review | Thorn by Intisar Khanini

Posted March 16, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, 5 Stars, Book Review, Fantasy, Favourites, YA / 0 Comments

So shall I start this review by saying it’s THE BEST YA FANTASY BOOK I’VE READ THIS YEAR! That’s on hell of a line to start off with but it’s true. I wasn’t expecting it, I admit, a complete surprise by Intisar’s debut novel is just phenomenal! It has everything and more in a fantasy and I honestly can’t wait to talk about it more. My Review Princess Alyrra is a pawn in her own future, she is known as for her brutal honesty and her mother hates it. The cruelty between her brother and her mother, she doesn’t stand […]

February Monthly Wrap-Up

Posted March 11, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Monthly Wrap-Up Post, Wrap-Up, YA / 0 Comments

Hello dear readers, we are in the second week into March and my wrap-up of February has been a bit slow, so apologies for that. I guess I got about it with all of the blog tours last week and then thinking ‘should I still do one’ but my twitter response was Yes! So here it is. I wanted to do one as last month I did my Fantasy February and I really enjoyed it. I did some different and new posts, a review or two and loads of author guest posts with my new author series, In the Mind […]

Self-Care for Bookworms – Read in a Coffee Shop

Posted March 9, 2020 by Emma in Bookish Post, Discussion Post, Self-Care for Bookworms / 11 Comments

Hello my bookish friends. How are you? Hope you had a great weekend. Mine was really busy in the end so didn’t do as much self-care or reading than I usually do. I’ve started reading The Flat Share and I’m really enjoying it. But today I’m really excited by this post, after the success of my first Self-Care for Bookworms post, I thought I would continue it with more tips from one bookworm to another. My first Self-care tip was Taking a break, today’s tip is all about… Self-Care Tip #2 Go out and take your book with you – […]

BLOG TOUR | DEVIL DARLING SPY by Matt Killeen

Posted March 5, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Blog Tour, Extract, Historical, Matt Kileen / 0 Comments

Hello my bookish friends and first off before I get on with the my blog tour piece… HAPPY WORLD BOOK DAY!!!!!!! It’s my favourite day of the year being a school librarian. I’m dressing up today as Wonder Woman which is perfect for International Women’s Day on Sunday. As a blogger though its World Book Day every day for us. So have fun, share stories, read books – especially the sequel to Orphan Monster Spy, which is Devil Darling Spy which is out today! Did you like how I did that!!? Ha. Happy Release Day to it and to celebrate […]

BLOG TOUR | REVIEW – Harley in the Sky by Akemi Dawn Bowman

Posted March 3, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, 5 Stars, Blog Tour, Book Review, Contemporary, Family, Favourites, Ink Road / 2 Comments

Happy Tuesday my bookish friends. Today I’m really excited to be part of the blog tour for Harley in the Sky. It’s one of my most anticipated reads this year. I discovered Akemi last year and she’s on my auto-buy/read list ever since. The only book I haven’t read is Starfish which I think will do sooner rather than later. My post is a review but before that here is a little bit more about the book. (Just on a side note, I haven’t totally finished the book yet due to work craziness last week with Ofsted so my reading […]

IN THE MIND OF AN AUTHOR | With Kate and Liz Corr – authors’ of A Throne of Swans

Posted February 28, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Bookish Post, Fantasy, Fantasy Feb, In the Mind of an Author, Katherine and Elizabeth Corr, UKYA, YA / 0 Comments

Happy Friday my bookish friends! This week has been a really really long one so I’m ready for the end of today and the weekend as well. But with the weekend comes the end of February and the end of Fantasy Feb too. Today is the last feature post before my wrap up of the month and it’s with two of my favourite authors. I’ve met them and they are just so lovely and their books are amazing too. Today’s post is another one from my new author series called ‘In the Mind of an Author’ where I feature authors […]

Top 5 Adult Fantasy Books I’ve Love

Posted February 26, 2020 by Emma in 5 Stars, Adult Fiction, Bookish Post, Fantasy, Fantasy Feb, Favourites / 4 Comments

Hello my bookish friends, we are half way throughout the week! Yay, we are nearly at the weekend but that also means we are near the end of February already. I really hate how time flies. But anyways I digress. I still have a few more Fantasy themed posts to post. Today’s one is chosen by you via Twitter. Now when I wrote the title I actually thought I’ve read 5 Adult Fantasy books, in a way I have but I’ve read the rest of the series to ones I’ve chosen. So one of the books will be from the […]

NEW! IN THE MIND OF AN AUTHOR | With Bex Hogan – author of Viper

Posted February 24, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Bex Hogan, Fantasy, Fantasy Feb, Guest Post, In the Mind of an Author, Team Bkmrk, UKYA, YA / 0 Comments

Happy Monday my bookish friends. Today I’m back at work, back to reality, urgh. But to start off my week on a happier note, today I bring to you a new author series that I technically launched as part of a blog tour last week but I want to officially dedicate a post to it. In the Mind of an Author …is a new author series, where I bring some of my favourite authors talking about their journey being a writer, what goes through their mind when they are writing their book, the places they write and much more. It […]

BOOK REVIEW | The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith

Posted February 21, 2020 by Emma in Book Review, Fantasy Feb, Librarian / 5 Comments

Happy Friday, my bookish friends. It’s been a while since I reviewed a book hasn’t it?! I’m sorry, I finally finished my first book for February and it was amazing, despite it taking me over 2 weeks to read it, (I blame work for that.) I don’t want my slow reading to takeaway the fact that it was a brilliant read. This will probably be the only review for Fantasy Feb – boo! But it’s a cracking book that you should all read. My Review When I got the email about The Library of the Unwritten, I knew it was […]