NOVEMBER WRAP-UP & DECEMBER TBR

Posted December 1, 2018 by Emma in Featured, Monthly Wrap-Up Post, Most Anticipated, TBR / 1 Comment

Hi Everyone, I’ve been MIA lately, late October and all of November has been very busy at work. I’ve started a new position alongside my Librarian role which has taken up a lot of my work at the moment. I’m hoping December will be a different story as Christmas comes to work and it will feel a lot less busy and more festive and relaxed. This month I have been re-reading the Throne of Glass of series in anticipation of the Kingdom of Ash release. I started this series when it first came out and then stopped at Crown of […]

REVIEW – A PLACE CALLED PERFECT by Helena Duggan

Posted October 15, 2018 by Emma in 2017 Books, 5 Stars, Book Review, Fantasy, Featured, Helena Duggan, Middle Grade, Mystery, Usborne Publishing / 0 Comments

A book that will haunt you in the best way possible weeks after you’ve read it. A Place Called Perfect (Perfect #1) by Helena Duggan Publisher – Usborne Children’s Publishing Release Date – August 1st 2017 Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Violet never wanted to move to Perfect. Who wants to live in a town where everyone has to wear glasses to stop them going blind? And who wants to be neat and tidy and perfectly behaved all the time? But Violet quickly discovers there’s something weird going on – she keeps hearing noises in the night, her mum […]

REVIEW – SPELLSLINGER by Sebastien de Castell

Posted October 11, 2018 by Emma in 5 Stars, Book Review, Fantasy, Featured, Hot Key Books, Magic, Sebastien de Castell, Series, Spellslinger / 0 Comments

When one author reads from his latest book to spark me into reading the whole series because of it. Spellslinger (Spellslinger #1)by Sebastien de CastellPublisher – Hot Key BooksRelease Date – May 4th 2017Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Magic is a con game. Kellen is moments away from facing his first mage’s duel and the start of four trials that will make him a spellcaster. There’s just one problem: his magic is gone. As his sixteenth birthday approaches, Kellen falls back on his cunning in a bid to avoid total disgrace. But when a daring stranger arrives in town, […]

SEPTEMBER WRAP-UP & OCTOBER TBR

Posted October 3, 2018 by Emma in Monthly Wrap-Up Post, Random Post, TBR / 2 Comments

Hi Everyone, How has your September been? Mine has been manic and the fact that it’s already October has passed me by completely. Where does the time go? I mean we are counting down to Christmas already in shops…. Oh god that means I need to start thinking about presents. Who leaves it to the last minute? With the start of September came the start of term at work, it’s never been busier, additional roles to my job has been interesting but also exciting. That also comes with hardly no reading. I read a grand total of 1 book and […]

GUEST POST – Chloe Seager talks about making and maintaining friends…

Posted September 17, 2018 by Emma in #Bk2Skool, Chloe Seager, Friendships / 0 Comments

Hi Everyone, I continue my #Bk2Skool September (I finally came up with a cool hashtag name for it.) If this is your first post that you have seen of my blog then here’s a brief catch you up. #Bk2Skool September was created by me as I work in a school, a librarian. I see first hand what it’s like going to school for the first time with a new cohort of Year 7s, but also to those who are going back to school, starting their GCSEs etc. So I’ve asked some of favourite authors that explore school life in their […]

ARC REVIEW – THE CRUEL DESIGN by Emily Suvada

Posted September 12, 2018 by Emma in 5 Stars, Book Review, Emily Suvada, Featured, Post-Apocalyptic, Science Fiction / 1 Comment

This series is like any other… If you think book 1 is brilliant then the sequel is even better. Read my review for The Mortal Coil, the first book in the series here. The Cruel Design (The Mortal Coil #2)by Emily SuvadaPublisher – Penguin Random Children’sRelease Date – November 4th 2018Pre-Order – Amazon | Book Depository Where can you hide when you’re running from yourself? Catarina thought they’d stopped the Hydra virus. She was wrong. After laying everything on the line to decrypt the vaccine, Cat realises that Lachlan’s daemon code is in the panel of every person on the […]

GUEST POST – Tamsin Winter discusses her tips to surviving secondary school…

Posted September 10, 2018 by Emma in Guest Post, School, Tamsin Winter, Usborne Publishing / 0 Comments

Hi Everyone, it’s a new term, a lot of us are returning to work like me as librarian or a teacher and some of you are heading back to school. Some of you are heading back for GCSE year, starting college of Sixth Form, going to University or could you be starting that journey from scratch with your first year in secondary school. There are a lot of books in Teen and YA that really captures a teenagers life, through school, family, friendships, and social media. So this month I’ve got some of my favourite authors that really talk about […]

AUGUST WRAP-UP & SEPTEMBER TBR

Posted September 1, 2018 by Emma in Monthly Wrap-Up Post, TBR / 5 Comments

Hi Everyone, it’s that time of the month for the wrap-up post but that also mean it’s the end of my summer holidays. At the beginning of the holidays I was thinking ‘what am I going to do with myself?’ as I love my job and I missed the library. But now that the time has gone, I’ve had a gorgeous holiday in Cornwall, I’ve been reading quite a lot, (although the TBR hasn’t really gone down) lots of blog tours, celebration of kindness both on the blog and off . I feel that having this time off does lead […]

REVIEW – THE MORTAL COIL by Emily Suvada

Posted August 29, 2018 by Emma in 5 Stars, Book Review, Dystopian, Emily Suvada, Favourite Author, Post-Apocalyptic / 0 Comments

So the question I need to ask you first is – Have you read this book? To be honest it shouldn’t be a question, because you need to read this book – end of story. I can convince you, promise just continue reading this… The Mortal Coil (The Mortal Coil #1) by Emily Suvada Publisher – Penguin Random Children’s UK Release Date – November 2nd 2017 Buy – Amazon | Book Depository When a lone soldier, Cole, arrives with news of Lachlan Agatta’s death, all hope seems lost for Catarina. Her father was the world’s leading geneticist, and humanity’s […]