May Wrap Up

My month has been a bit hectic. At the start I had the last couple of sessions with my tuition students before their exam and was doing them every night after work. I'm currently house hunting so I've been going to a lot of viewings after work and dealing with that stress whilst also trying …

Turning Genre On It’s Head | The Kingdom by Jess Rothenberg | Blog Tour

Welcome to my stop on the Blog Tour for The Kingdom. Which I have read and really enjoyed. I have a guest post from the lovely author herself. It's a really interesting post that Jess has written and I'm delighted to share it with you. Summary Welcome to the Kingdom... where 'Happily Ever After' isn't …

Fly With Me by Hudson Lin | Review

Content warnings: sexual harassment, mentions of cancer, panic attack Thank you to the author for sending me a copy to review honestly. Now if you've followed me for awhile you know I love romance novels, but especially diverse romance novels. So when Hudson dropped me an email pitching me a book with 2 Chinese Canadian …

Noteworthy by Riley Redgate | Review

Content warnings: "gender swapping", fat shaming, racism, homophobia, poverty, sexism, outing This has been on my list for a while after reading and loving Final Draft last year, and I'm happy to say I loved it. Jordan Sun has a very low singing voice for a girl, which makes it hard for her to get …

I Haven’t Read the Sequel

One of the things that I find hardest as a book blogger is the constant stream of new books; I'm sure we all struggle with this. I find too often that I read the first book in a series and then never have time for the rest of the books that follow because I'm too …

Rend by Roan Parrish | Review

Content warnings: Dubious consent (sex is started when one of them is asleep, they consent once awake but still), mentions of child abuse, fostering and the horrors of the system, depression, paranoia, addiction Thanks to netgalley and Loveswept for sending me a copy in exchange for an honest review. Matt Argento grew up in the …

Ruin & Rising By Leigh Bardugo | Review

Warning: this will contain spoilers for the first 2 books in the series. Content warnings: explosions/tunnels collapsing, murder/death, sacrifice The Darkling has captured Ravka and Alina Starkov knows that to stop him she needs to find the third amplifier. The problem is Alina and the remaining Grisha are stuck in an underground tunnel network controlled …

Top 5 Female Best Friends in Sci-Fi/Fantasy

I love friendships in SFF, they're like super important when your lead is going through some nonsense. I especially love female friendships, so my top 5 will focus on female friendships. Inej and Nina - Six of Crows These two are so wonderful and who I immediately thought of when I thought about female best …

King of Fools by Amanda Foody | Blog Tour | Extract

Hi everyone, welcome to my stop of the King of Fools blog tour! I'm really excited to read this one and based on the extract I'm posting it sounds like a super intense ride! Summary Indulge your vices in the City of Sin, where a sinister street war is brewing and fame is the deadliest …

Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole | Review

Thanks to Avon Impulse and Edelweiss for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This was a short and sweet novella in a series of books that I love! Likotsi met Fabiola on a dating app last time she was in NYC for an extended period of time and they had …