The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow | Review

Thank you to Orion for gifting me a copy of The Once and Future Witches for review. Content warnings: death, sexism/misogyny, racism I haven't read The Ten Thousand Doors of January yet, though I have heard amazing things from so many people. So when this book poopped through my door I was definitely intrigued to …

The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh | Review

Thank you to Hodderscape for sending me a copy to review. Content warnings: death/murder and grief, mentions of past sexual harassment/attempted rape, racism towards black people, Indian people and East Asian people Cast your minds back a few months when I spoke about books I need to read because I keep reading first books and …

The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee | Review

Big thank you to Piatkus for sending me a copy of this book so I can write an honest review. Content warnings: racism towards black people and chinese people, violence, horse racing, physical abuse This was one of the books I definitely had my eyes on this year. I love historical novels when I'm in …

The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare | Review

content warnings: bodily scarring and prejudice against it, sex, I accidentally read the sequel to this first, but the good thing with a lot of the romance books that get created is that they can be read in any order. Of course you may get tiny spoilers if you read out of order but it's …

The Governess Game by Tessa Dare | Review #gifted

Thanks to netgalley and for sending me a copy of this book for free in exchange for an honest review. Content warning: sex, mentions of death, panic attacks My first Tessa Dare novel did not disappoint. All the people I follow on twitter who read romance say Dare is one of the best for good …

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Content warnings: domestic abuse, alcoholism, statutory rape, cheating, death, biphobia, homophobia, suicide, racism If you are on my blog you're probably in the bookish community, be it twitter, instagram or youtube. That means you've probably seen this book floating around in the last year. It's had a lot of hype and a lot of amazing …

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by MacKenzi Lee

Right off the bat I'm going to warn you that there is homophobia, biphobia, abuse, suicidal thoughts, racism and ableism. But it's set in the 1700s so it's expected and there is on the page tackling of issues. Monty and Percy are set to go on a wild tour of Europe before Percy goes to …

Iron Cast by Destiny Soria

Thank you to netgalley and Abrams Kids for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This book is set in the 20s during the time of prohibition, but that's not the only thing banned; people who have powers to manipulate people using art are also banned. The biggest part …

Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon

I was again very struck by how well this book has been adapted whilst reading this. As I'd already watched season 2 of the show I knew what to expect and honestly I was really surprised how well it had translated. Especially since this book is so long. Which was my main annoyance with this …

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

So to start off here is a little backstory on why I picked this book up. I hadn't heard of it prior to this happening. I was in London in August seeing The Cursed Child with my best friend Jess and her mum. We were sitting in a nice vegan restaurant just talking about my …