Category: 5 Stars

Book Review | Something Certain, Maybe by Sara Barnard

Posted August 22, 2022 by Emma in 2022 Books, 5 Stars, Book Review, Bookish Post, Summer Reading, UKYA, University, YA / 0 Comments

Hello my lovely bookworms. Happy Monday and hope you had a lovely weekend. Today I’m bringing you a book review *shock horror*. I know – I mean it’s been a while once again. But I’ve read a lot of books this summer so far which I’m loving and I need to catch up on review desperately. Today’s review is my most recent finished book, Something Certain, Maybe by Sara Barnard. With under half way to go on the book, I picked it up before bed and I finished it at 2 am. So here is a little more about the […]

Series Review | Heartstopper by Alice Oseman

Posted June 23, 2022 by Emma in 2022 Books, 5 Stars, Book Review, Bookish Post, Graphic Novel, LGBTQ+, Series Review, UKYA, YA / 1 Comment

Hello my lovely readers. Happy Thursday evening – I hope everyone is staying cool. I am so very glad it’s the weekend tomorrow! Today I thought I would bring you a series review for a change. The last month or so I have devoured the Heartstopper series both reading them then watching them and then reading them so more. I have absolutely loved it so so much and I can’t believe it’s taken me so long. Most of you would have read Heartstopper I’m sure, I felt like I was the last one in the world that hadn’t read them. […]

Book Review | The Ivory Key by Akshaya Raman

Posted January 24, 2022 by Emma in 2022 Books, 5 Stars, Book Review, Fantasy, Magic, YA / 0 Comments

My first book of 2022 is a five star read! What a way to kick off this new year! I went into this book completely blind and I love when you have no expectations and it blows you away. This particular fantasy book reminded of another by the same publisher Thorn by Intisar Khanai and I would say if you enjoyed that, you’ll love this and vice versa. I had the exact same feels for both books, so that must be saying something. The Ivory Key follows four siblings, Via, Ronak, Rita and Kaleb. Each of the have gone their […]

Twenty Twenty One – My Top 10 Books of the year

Posted January 3, 2022 by Emma in 2021 Books, 5 Stars, Best Books, Blog, Book List, Bookish Post, UKYA, Wrap-Up / 0 Comments

Hello it’s me again, I am on a roll at the moment with blogging and I am loving it. I’m starting as I mean to go on. So today is all about the books I loved during 2021. I have to say the it’s quite varied and I love seeing how my tastes have changed. I can’t wait to see what my reading is like year! So let’s get to the nitty gritty part of the post with my top 10 books of the year! As my reading is drastically lower than normal with life and I haven’t reviewed every […]

Book Review | Every Line of You by Naomi Gibson

Posted August 26, 2021 by Emma in 2021 Books, 5 Stars, Book Review, YA / 1 Comment

Naomi Gibson’s debut is unputtadownable! It pulls at the heart strings, full of tension and leaves you wanting more. All this from Every Line of You a new YA Thriller. Want to know more. Read on for my review. Everything was taken away Lydia when her brother died in a car crash. Then her father left as she reminded him of the son that was taken away in the crash. Grief has consumed Lydia and the only thing she knows what to do, to copy is to code her way through it like her dad taught her. She puts all […]

9 Years of Never Judge a Book by its Cover! | 9 Favourite books I discovered from being book blogger

Posted July 21, 2021 by Emma in 5 Stars, Bookish Post, Discussion Post, Favourite Author, Favourites, UKYA / 7 Comments

TODAY MARKS 9 YEARS of my blog and being a book blogger. Honestly where does the time go!? I feel when I get to the 10 year mark it will certainly be a huge milestone for me and my blog. It’s funny but I started this blog 9 years exactly to the day as I started this blog for my Summer Holidays and today is the last day of term! So it curtly feels like an occasion to celebrate and to definley make the most of my blog during the summer once again. I do have an Update post shortly […]

Blog Tour – Review & Spotlight | The Monstrous Design by Kat Dunn

Posted June 5, 2021 by Emma in 2021 Books, 5 Stars, Blog Tour, Book Review, Bookish Post, YA / 0 Comments

Happy Saturday my wonderful booklovers. The sun is shining and I can’t wait to relax and read in the park this afternoon. Today I’m bring you Part 1 of my post for the blog tour of Monstrous Design by Kat Dunn. My stop will have a Q&A but it’s not quite ready yet, so I thought I would share with you a short review of Dangerous Remedy and why you should put this book on your TBR. Thank you to Zephyr Books for sending me both copies exchange for honest review. My Review First of all can we just appreciate […]

Book Review | The Summer Job by Lizzy Dent

Posted May 5, 2021 by Emma in 2021 Books, 5 Stars, Book Review, Bookish Post / 3 Comments

Happy Wednesday my lovely readers. Today I’m bringing you a review of my favourite book of the year so far! I’m just going to leave it there and get straight onto the review. Warning – there might be a lot of dreamy eyes and fangirling. My Review I had been struggling with reading for a while and this book was a breath of fresh air. I feel like this book came at the right time for me. It’s been a while when you so eager and itching to get back home and read more. I missed that feeling and that’s […]

Book Review | The Switch by Beth O’Leary

Posted February 19, 2021 by Emma in 2021 Books, 5 Stars, Adult Fiction, Book Review / 1 Comment

Well hellooo there, my lovely bookworms. I seem to have neglected my blog for the last couple of weeks. I guess I got a bit burnt from work and just needed a little break. I haven’t been reading much either, been watching a lot of Bones which is a rewatch and it’s definitely what I needed to relax. But today I’m back with one of my first reads of February and so far my favourit reads of 2021. So I will head straight onto my review. My Review Why not start February, the month of love with a romance novel. […]