Category: Best Books

Best YA Books of 2024

Posted December 29, 2024 by Emma in 2024 Books, 5 Stars, Best Books, Book List, Bookish Post, YA / 1 Comment

Hello, my lovely readers! As 2024 is drawing to a close, it’s time for me to recap my year of reading and select my top ten books of 2024. This year, choosing my favorites was surprisingly easy. I’ve discovered incredible new writers, stumbled upon underrated YA gems that deserve much more attention, and found books that were not only unforgettable but ones I’ll recommend forever. Best of all they are all 5 star + reads! I couldn’t keep it to 10 unfortunately, it was too hard. I feel incredibly fortunate to have met some of these authors throughout the year […]

My Top Ten Books of 2022 – The Best Reading Year so far…

Posted December 30, 2022 by Emma in 2022 Books, Best Books, Book List, Bookish Post, YA / 0 Comments

Hello my wonderful readers. With 2023 fast approaching in the next couple of days I think it’s about time I reflected on my year of reading and select my top 10 books. I feel this year not only have I read more than last year but I also completed by Goodreads Reading challenge for the first time in ages. I have also read more diversly this year and read books that have been on my TBR in forever. I feel this year has been the best reading year in a very long time. So choosing my top 10 was really […]

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 […]

Top 5 Red Books to commemorate Remembrance Day

Posted November 11, 2020 by Emma in 5 Stars, Best Books, Book List, Booked-In, Bookish Post, Favourites, UKYA, YA / 1 Comment

Hello my lovely readers. I abandoned you again. Back to work and more tired again. Ha. But I’m hoping to kick my ass into gear and actually get myself organised again. Stay tuned for the relaunch of the blog series Booked-In that I started during the original lockdown. So today I wanted to commemorate Remembrance Day/Armistice Day and all those that fought and died in the armed forces in the line of duty. I decided to recommend by books that are red which is obviously the colour of the Poppy. Each of these books are read and I absolutely loved […]

Review – What Magic is This? by Holly Bourne – A spellbinding novella!

Posted July 25, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, Best Books, Book Review, Favourite Author, Featured, Friendship, Holly Bourne, Magic / 2 Comments

Once again, Holly has done it again! As soon a s I started reading it I had a huge smile on my face, it’s that familiarity of her writing style that just makes you feel very excited and warm inside because you know everything is right in the world with Holly Bourne writing her books. What Magic is This? is no exception to that. She never fails to amaze me on writing a story half the size of all of her other books and yet it still packs a punch. Three friends all believe that after one night they have magical […]

ARC REVIEW – The Paper and Hearts Society by Lucy Powrie – A book of pure joy and literary perfection!

Posted May 16, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, 5 Stars, Best Books, Blog, Book Review, Contemporary, Favourite Author, Featured, Friendships, Literary Adventures, UKYA / 7 Comments

A couple of weeks ago I took literary journey of pure bookish joy, written by someone I can call my friend which makes it all the more special. The Paper and Hearts Society is a book that every will have heard of as Lucy is a literacy and book ambassador of all things, she has stormed social media with UKYA chats and now she has written a book that will readers will say ‘She gets it!’ Readers are uniting to read this book and together we would have found our people! Tabby Brown has moved to stay with her Gran […]

TWENTY EIGHTEEN – A YEAR OF BOOKS

Posted January 1, 2019 by Emma in 2018 Books, Best Books / 6 Comments

I can’t believe it’s that time of the year again. This is honestly always the hardest post of the year, but this year I’ve read so many but I got a cracking top list of books, such a variety as well which I love. I’ve done something slightly different with my end of years posts by doing my best books of 2018 today and then my reading goals and most anticipated books of 2019 in the next few days. So without further ado here are my favourite books of 2018… The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw This is a story […]