Category: YA

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

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

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 […]

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

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

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 […]

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

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

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Book Review | Influential by Amara Sage

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

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 […]

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My Most Anticipated Reads of 2023

Posted January 31, 2023 by Emma in 2023 Books, Book List, Bookish Post, UKYA, YA / 3 Comments
My Most Anticipated Reads of 2023

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 […]

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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
Book Review | The Midnight Game by Cynthia Murphy

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 […]

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

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 […]

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Blog Tour | Over My Dead Body – Interview with Sweeney Boo

Blog Tour | Over My Dead Body – Interview with Sweeney Boo

Happy Friday my lovely readers and do I have a treat for you today. I gidderly excited about this post and especially as I’m kicking off the tour for Over My Dead Body. Which is OUT TODAY! SO HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY! It’s the perfect autumnal graphic novel by Sweeney Boo. So today I’m interviewing Sweeney Boo, and after reading Over My Dead Body (review to follow next week) I did some reserach as I’ve never interviewed a comic book artist before. When I was looking at her previous work, I was completely starstruck and flabberghasted because she drew the characters […]

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