Category: Featured

NEW BLOG SERIES – A Booklover Tells All…Do you miss the Dark Romance section in Waterstones?

Posted May 22, 2019 by Emma in A Booklover Tells All, Blog, Bookish Post, Discussion Post, Feature, Featured / 5 Comments

Hello Booklovers. The last couple of months I’ve been thinking about doing a blog series of discussion posts, but wasn’t sure what to do. So let me introduce ‘A Booklover Tells all…’ a blog series with some personal book stories, memories or things I’ve come across in the bookish world. These posts maybe completely random topics, topics of meaning and any topics you want me to talk about. This combines my love of books as a reader, book blogger and as a librarian so it’s perfect. So I hope you enjoy today’s post. Do you remember this? Twilight for me […]

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 […]

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. […]

A Novice to Bullet Journaling! (A bookish one)

Posted January 7, 2019 by Emma in Bullet Journaling, Featured, Personal, Random Post / 9 Comments

TWENTY NINETEEN – Most Anticipated Reads and Reading Goals

Posted January 3, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, Featured, Happy New Year, Most Anticipated, Random Post / 17 Comments

This is always my favourite post of the year, anticipation all the brand new books and what’s to come of my blog. But since writing this post there has been one massive change – I’VE MOVED TO WORDPRESS. It hasn’t been the easiest of migration, but I am nearly there I think. So please bare with me, but I hope you continue to read my blog and it ventures into 2019.2018 was a great year of books, I read such a variety of books which I never knew I would really enjoy and I certainly surprised myself. I love this […]

BLOG AVALANCHE: REVIEW – PAPER AVALANCHE by Lisa Williamson

Posted December 30, 2018 by Emma in 2018 Books, 2019 Books, 5 Stars, Blog Tour, Book Review, Contemporary, Featured, Lisa Williamson / 1 Comment

I am so excited to be part of this celebration of the new and upcoming novel, Paper Avalanche by Lisa Williamson. My review was meant to go up way before Christmas but due to end of term I was unable to read it time. So I read this book in two days over Christmas and it was the highlight of my reading that week. Rather than posting it quickly straight after reading it, I want this review and this book to have maximum coverage, because it needs to be heard and praised for how brilliant this book is. So I […]

MINI REVIEWS – SHADOWBLACK by Sebastien de Castell & BOOKSHOP GIRL by Chloe Coles

Posted December 6, 2018 by Emma in Blog, Chloe Coles, Fantasy, Featured, Hot Key Books, Magic, Mini-Review, Sebastien de Castell / 1 Comment

Some amazing reads I’ve read lately both totally different but brilliant in their own way. Shadowblack (Spellslinger #2) by Sebastien de Castell It’s a few months since Kellen left his people behind. Now aged sixteen, Kellen is an outlaw, relying on his wits to keep him alive in the land of the Seven Sands. He misses home, he misses family and more than anything, he misses Nephenia, the girl he left behind. Then he meets Seneira, a blindfolded girl who isn’t blind, and who carries a secret that’s all too familiar to Kellen. Kellen and Ferius resolve to help – […]

BLOG TOUR – ROSIE LOVES JACK: IMPORTANT JOURNEYS

Posted December 3, 2018 by Emma in Blog Tour, Featured, Important Journeys, Mel Darbon, Rosie Loves Jack, Usborne Publishing / 0 Comments

Today I’m so happy to be part of this blog tour celebrating important journeys. I’ll be honest I wasn’t sure what to write at first and then it hit me… and this feels like one the most honest and best piece of writing I’ve written about myself on here. So I really hope you enjoy. A LIBRARY HOLDS MILLIONS OF JOURNEYS… but all you need to do is find just one – MY JOURNEY. Every one has a life journey, we all embark on that special journey we know will stay with us forever. I was going to start this […]

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 […]