Category: Blog

BUMPER EDITION – April Wrap-Up and May TBR & New Design!

Posted May 6, 2019 by Emma in Blog, Bookish Post, Monthly Wrap-Up Post, Most Anticipated, TBR / 0 Comments

Hi Everyone! I’m finally getting round to doing my Wrap-up of April and we are well and truly into May now. It was this time last month when I was looking forward to my holiday and now it’s over. However, now we are starting to plan our next adventure. Easter holidays are over and I’m back to work in the last term. Crazy! April has been a very successful month for me both on the blog and reading. It was a month that I really enjoyed every single book. I also found TWO favourite books of the year too! I’m […]

Blog Tour: Witchy Bookshops – Queen of Sea and Stars by Anna McKerrow

Posted April 30, 2019 by Emma in Blog, Blog Tour, Extract, Fantasy, Guest Post, Magic, YA / 0 Comments

Hi Everyone, Today I’m really excited to be part of Queen of Sea and Stars blog tour. Isn’t the cover gorgeous?! Anna describes it as: Faye Morgan, a hereditary witch, moves away from her tiny coastal village in Scotland to London to be with her new boyfriend, Rav. But though she hopes she can live a normal life in a new city, her blood bond to the realms of faerie can’t be denied. With a faerie war brewing, can Faye realise her destiny and discover who she really is? A tale of faery magic, desire and modern witchcraft. Queen of […]

Blog Tour Review – LOVE and Other Things to Live For by Louise Leverett

Posted April 27, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, 3.5 Stars, Blog, Blog Tour, Book Review, Contemporary, Debut Author, Friendships, New Adult, Romance / 0 Comments

Hi Everyone, Happy Saturday and I very rarely post at the weekend so this is most certainly a change as well as the book that I’m on tour and sharing my review. On to the blog tour, Today I’m sharing my review of Love and Other Things to Live For by Louise Leverett. But before that here is a little more about the book… Jessica Wood is an aspiring photographer living in London. She’s had her heart broken, and her friends have pieced it back together again. But across the neon lights of Soho, in the smell of alcohol and […]

Let’s Talk YA #3 – True Friendship, Love, & Hope

Posted April 26, 2019 by Emma in Blog, Bookish Post, Contemporary, Feature, Friendship, Growing Up, Let's Talk Books, Love, Non Pratt, Reality, Teenage Life, UKYA, Walker Books, YA / 0 Comments

Emily from A Short Book Lover and I have created a weekly feature called Let’s Talk YA. – a weekly feature simply to just share and talk about the books you love. So our posts will all be centered around amazing UKYA authors. You can see the pattern here that a lot of the author and books I’m picking are the ones that really left an impression on me and are likely to be their first book, their debut that set them on that journey. This week’s author is Non Pratt and her book Trouble. I was reminded by this book […]

Guest Post: The Twelve Isles of Viper Inspiration by Bex Hogan

Posted April 25, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, Bex Hogan, Blog, Fantasy, Favourite Author, Guest Post, Pirates, Team Bkmrk, UKYA, YA / 0 Comments

Hi Everyone, Today I have a very special guest post from the lovely Bex Hogan, author of the best fantasy of the year – Viper, Isles of Storm and Sorrow Book 1. If you missed my review – find it here. From my countless tweets and fangirling review of this amazing book, you can tell I love it. One the most important and impressionable things when it comes to Fantasy is the world-building and I fell in love with Bex’s. So today Bex had dropped the anchor on this blog to tell you all about the Inspiration of the Twelves […]

Let’s Talk YA #2

Posted April 19, 2019 by Emma in Blog, Bookish Post, Contemporary, Electric Monkey, Feature, Friendship, Growing Up, Let's Talk Books, Lisa Heathfield, Reality, UKYA, YA / 1 Comment

Emily from A Short Book Lover and I have created a weekly feature called Let’s Talk YA. – a weekly feature simply to just share and talk about the books you love. So our posts will all be centered around amazing UKYA authors. So continuing with our feature, this week’s author is Lisa Heathfield and the first book I absolutely loved emotionally was Paper Butterflies. I picked this book today because I’m currently reading something of the same genre, and it reminded me of when I first really discovered such emotional and harrowing stories. I read this book at the beginning […]

Review – Viper by Bex Hogan aka The best fantasy book of the year!

Posted April 16, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, 5 Stars, Bex Hogan, Blog, Fantasy, Favourite Author, Favourites, Featured, Girl Power, Hatchette Children's Group, Love, Most Anticipated, Pirates, Team Bkmrk, UKYA, YA / 6 Comments

Viper (Isles of Storm and Sorrow #1) by Bex Hogan Release Date – April 18th 2018 Publisher – Orion Children’s Books Buy – Amazon| Book Depository Marianne has been training to be the Viper for her entire life – to serve and protect the King and the citizens of The Twelve Isles – but to become the Viper and protect the islands she loves she must find the strength to defeat her father. A new fantasy trilogy perfect for fans of Sarah J Maas. He will make me a killer. Or he will have me killed. That is my destiny. […]

Blog Tour: Review – Mera: Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige

Posted April 14, 2019 by Emma in Blog, Blog Tour, Book Review, DC, Graphic Novel, Superheros, YA / 3 Comments

I’m reading on the train down to Wales, this is kind of perfect considering it’s set under the sea and the sea is where I’m heading too. Anyways I digress. This graphic novel comes at the perfect time considering that Aquaman has just come out on Blu-Ray and I can’t wait to finally watch it and now we have Mera: Tidebreaker and how her origin story began. Before I get to my review, here is a little bit more about the graphic novel. Mera: Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige Artist – Stephen Byrne Publisher – DC Ink Release Date – 2 […]

New Feature – Let’s Talk YA…

Posted April 12, 2019 by Emma in Blog, Bookish Post, Discussion Post, Holly Bourne, Let's Talk Books, UKYA / 15 Comments

So ages ago I posted a tweet about my current read which was Enchantée at the time and this particular post created such a conversation I loved it. Then I did a poll on Twitter on how we react to some of our posts on our blogs or twitter whether we just Like/RT or Comment and the majority was the first. Which I think is good but there’s something about a conversation about your book, talking about it shares so much within the bookish community. So Emily from A Short Book Lover and I were talking so we thought we might […]