Category: 2023 Books

April Wrap-Up – The best reading month of the year so far…

Posted May 2, 2023 by Emma in 2023 Books, Monthly Wrap-Up Post, UKYA, Wrap-Up, YA / 0 Comments

Good evening bookworms. It’s May and finally the sun is shining here in the UK. Are we finally getting our spring weather? I really hope so, makes us feel so much better, I do love the warmer months. So this is my first wrap up of the year… it’s been a unusual start to the year with being quite unwell for half of it, work taking over my life and not really reading at all. But this April I have prioritised my well-being, my mental health and that in turn means I read loads more. Woohoo. May it continue… get […]

Blog Tour – Book Review | Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy – something a little different…

Posted April 28, 2023 by Emma in 2023 Books, Adult Fiction, Book Review, Bookish Post, Mystery, New Author / 0 Comments

Okay so I did a terrble thing, I judged a book by it’s cover and not realising quite was this book has instore. It took me by complete surprise but what’s more is that I haven’t been able to put it down over the weekend either. This book was the perfect welcome disraction, I love mixing up what I read but whilst I am a YA reader, adult mysteries are the perfect in-between books. Scorched Grace is anything but a typical crime thriller. This is a queer Sister Act (who doesn’t love those films) with a unsaintly nun who has […]

NEW! Under the Cover #1 – with A. Connors author of The Girl Who Broke the Sea

Posted April 20, 2023 by Emma in 2023 Books, Adventure, Bookish Post, Interview, Science Fiction, Thriller, UKYA, Under the Cover, YA / 0 Comments

Hello my friends, today I’m SO EXCITED to start a new blog post series called UNDER THE COVER! This will be a new weekly series where I interview some of favourite authors and authors I’ve recently read and discovered. I’m trying to refresh my blog and I love interviewing authors and getting an insight into their storytelling, hence Under the Cover was born. Today I’m excited to interview A.Connors known as Adam Connors debut author of The Girl Who Broke the Sea – my favourite book of the year so far which I reviewed earlier this week. If you haven’t […]

Book Review | The Girl Who Broke the Sea by A. Connors – my favourite book of the year so far…

Posted April 18, 2023 by Emma in 2023 Books, 5 Stars, Book Review, Bookish Post, Thriller, UKYA, YA / 1 Comment

Happy Tuesday my book friends, today I bring you my favourite read of the year so far. This book took me totally by surprise but I absolutely loved it. It needs all the love as more people need to read this. So here is my glowing review… Well this book, again I picked this up at my scholastic book fair knowing I was going on holiday by the sea and I wanted a themed book. This book was IMPOSSIBLE to put down and is my favourite read of the year so far! I hope I justify it in a review […]

Book Review | Murder She Wrote: By The Time You Read This I’ll Be Gone by Stephanie Kuehn

Posted April 8, 2023 by Emma in 2023 Books, Book Review, Bookish Post, Murder, Mystery, YA / 1 Comment

Hello my fellow booklovers, another day, another book review! Being on holiday is really inspiring me and I love it. Today I’m reviewing a book that got my out of my reading slump. To this day I live by thrillers and mystery books being my go to to get back into reading and this book certainly did that. Trigger warnings – anxiety, depression, mention of suicidal attempts/thoughts Did you ever watch Murder She Wrote with Angela Lansbury aka Jessica Fletcher? I grew up with these in my house, my mum and my grandparents would stick them on and whilst they […]

Book Review | Influential by Amara Sage

Posted April 6, 2023 by Emma in 2023 Books, Book Review, Bookish Post, YA / 1 Comment

Hello my fellow readers, long time no post. Before I head on to my review of this brilliant book I just wanted to update you on my MIA from the blog. The last two months I’ve been unwell, one thing after another, flu and such and it’s taken me a while to bounce back to normal. To get back to reading, to blogging to really get my energy back. I think I suffered from massive burn out at work, But I’m typing this with the sea in front of me whilst I’m on holiday, relaxing and just feeling refreshed I […]

My Most Anticipated Reads of 2023

Posted January 31, 2023 by Emma in 2023 Books, Book List, Bookish Post, UKYA, YA / 3 Comments

Evening all, I can’t believe January has gone and now we are in February tomorrow and I still haven’t shared my most anticipated new releases of 2023. So better late than never. Two of them in them have already been released but these were my highly anticipated ones, one of which I’ve nearly finished. My goal is to read each and every one of them. There’s a few familar faces for sure. So lets head straight to it… The Stolen Heir by Holly BlackSince reading for the first time The Folk of the Air series last year, I love that […]

Book Review | The Midnight Game by Cynthia Murphy

Posted January 24, 2023 by Emma in 2023 Books, 5 Stars, Book Review, Bookish Post, UKYA, YA / 2 Comments

My first book review of 2023 and it’s a 5 star read!!! What a way to kick off my reading for this year. The Midnight Game by Cynthia Murphy is everything I needed and more from a gloriously twisty, scary, thrilling horror YA. One of my goals this year is to read as many 2023/ARCs as I can so I started with Cynthia Murphy’s latest release The Midnight Game and it was the best choice I made. I read Last One to Die a few years ago which I loved. Cynthia has a way of writing that you can’t put […]