Showing posts with label books YA fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books YA fiction. Show all posts
Series Review: Grisha Verse
Come and sit down and talk to me about The Grishaverse. I read the entire trilogy in January and I kind of want to flail around in my own feelings a little bit.
Review: The Smoke Thieves
It continually surprises me, actually, how much of a little
fantasy fan I’ve become. I can remember when I was growing up and my Dad used
to read all these sci-fi and fantasy novels and I was all WHY WOULD I WANT TO
READ BOOKS ABOUT DRAGONS AND MAGIC AND PLACES THAT AREN’T REAL AND THINGS THAT
COULD NEVER EXIST and now I am all grabby hands for all of those things.
Anyhow. In that vein, let us talk today about the first in
Sally Green’s new series The Smoke
Thieves.
Sidenote: you may have heard of Sally from her Half Bad trilogy, and if you haven’t,
well, you should get on that. S’good.
So The Smoke Thieves is
new, and it’s about a princess preparing for a political marriage, the guard
she’s in love with, a servant hungry for
revenge, a boy who isn’t sure what he wants to do with his life and steals
things just because he can, and a thirteen year old girl who spends her life
being bait for a demon hunter.
I KNOW, RIGHT? ALL THE GOOD THINGS.
Quickfire Reviews
Quickfire Reviews is a thing I do very sporadically when
there are books to talk about that I should have reviewed but haven’t.
Sometimes I didn’t like these books enough to want to review them; sometimes I loved them but time got away from me;
and sometimes, less is just more. Also it’s something a bit different which is
what I am all about this year – being more than just review after review.
So here we have it, grab a KitKat and settle down.
Review: A Thousand Perfect Notes
Beck hates his life. He hates his violent mother. He hates his home. Most of all, he hates the piano that his mother forces him to play hour after hour, day after day. He will never play as she did before illness ended her career and left her bitter and broken. But Beck is too scared to stand up to his mother, and tell her his true passion, which is composing his own music - because the least suggestion of rebellion on his part ends in violence.
When Beck meets August, a girl full of life, energy and laughter, love begins to awaken within him and he glimpses a way to escape his painful existence. But dare he reach for it?
Well then.
Here’s the thing and I’m going to be honest about it: I mainly
wanted to read this book because I follow C.G Drews on Instagram and her page
is the prettiest and that led me to her blog which is one of my faves, actually
and that is that - I wanted to read her
book because I enjoy her online presence. That said, I was pretty sure she
would be able to write – you can tell from her blog that she can write, I just didn’t quite
expect…this.
Wow. This is not eloquent. This is why I have not written a book.
Quickfire Reviews
Quickfire Reviews is a thing I do very sporadically when
there are books to talk about that I should have reviewed but haven’t.
Sometimes I didn’t like these books enough to want to review them; sometimes I loved them but time got away from me;
and sometimes, less is just more. Also it’s something a bit different which is
what I am all about this year – being more than just review after review.
So here we have it, grab a KitKat and settle down.
Review: I Am Thunder
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| I am Thunder |
Keep an eye out for this one guys, because I think it maybe possibly might just go places.
Review: The Exact Opposite of Okay
Ok let’s talk about this book I read.
Hahaha. That’s hilarious. This is a book blog; how often is it that I talk
about anything else?
Anyhow. The Exact Opposite of Okay is Laura
Steven’s debut and it’s been getting a lot of attention, for more reasons I
suspect than it’s incredibly lush cover. I mean sure, that’s what caught my eye
but not everybody is as much of a book magpie as I am, I know this. The point
is, this book has been generating a lot of buzz since last year and its not
even published until March and hello this is me we’re talking about here:
obviously I wanted to get right on that bandwagon.
I’m super glad that
I did. For sure.
2018 releases I want to read - Part 1
Wow but I didn’t realise how many books due for publication this year were already
on my radar until I started this post; I tend to just make notes – on my phone,
on my computer etc – and it’s only when I came to actually look at it that I realised
that actually there’s quite a lot that I’m excited about.
I bet these aren't even a tiny percentage of Excellent Books Coming Soon because I never claim to be one of those that is In The Know, these are just the few that have happened to dance across my field of vision. It's a fun thing to blog about though, partly because NEW BOOKS and partly because it will make for another fun post at the end of the year when I come back and see how many I managed to read. Or at least I’m hoping it’s a fun thing to blog about - it's fun for me at least, and that's a good enough starting point I think!
I bet these aren't even a tiny percentage of Excellent Books Coming Soon because I never claim to be one of those that is In The Know, these are just the few that have happened to dance across my field of vision. It's a fun thing to blog about though, partly because NEW BOOKS and partly because it will make for another fun post at the end of the year when I come back and see how many I managed to read. Or at least I’m hoping it’s a fun thing to blog about - it's fun for me at least, and that's a good enough starting point I think!
Books I am looking forward to for the rest of this year...
...even
though my TBR is already the size of Everest and my bookshelves are full. A
list by me.
Basically guys, I am in a reading slump and it’s making me
sad. Seriously, up until yesterday I think I’d read about ten pages in as many
days and I hate when this happens to
me and I have decided to try and get myself out of it by making a list, thanks
to the notes on my phone, of the books I am excited about for the latter part
of this year. Also because this list is generated from said phone notes me of
which are months old, a couple of these books are OUT NOW GO GET THEM.
Review: One of Us is Lying
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One of Us is Lying |
This is the kind of book you’d binge
watch. I mean seriously, it’s like everything you spend your hangover watching
on a Sunday. If its not adapted then I’ll be the most surprised ever and I
never say this because THE BOOK IS BETTER but this is crying out to be
dramatized and that, it’s a compliment, it really is. I’ve seen it likened to The Breakfast Club and Pretty Little Liars and Riverdale and YES. Also Gossip Girl and maybe a little bit Nancy Drew and Poirot – that’s just me though. Also, considering the The Breakfast Club is well, The Breakfast Club and PLL and Riverdale are both Netflix shows that I binge watched like a pro,
it was probably a given that this book was going to tick all the boxes for me.
It did.
Review: Truth or Dare
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Truth or Dare - Non Pratt |
Sooo in my ILLUMICRATE subscription box (which you should
all go and subscribe to because it’s lush)
there was a book – two books actually but let’s not over complicate – and that
book was Truth or Dare by Non Pratt.
And I won’t lie: I’ve heard of Non, but I hadn’t heard of this book at all. I
liked the cover though (call me fickle, whatever) and after I finished The Hate U Give I thought I’d give it a
go mostly because it was there and I wasn’t in the mood to tackle my usual WHAT
SHALL I READ NEXT dilemma.
Review: The Names They Gave Us
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The Names They Gave Us - Emery Lord |
When it all falls apart, who can you believe
in?
Everything is going right for Lucy Hansson, until her mom’s cancer reappears.
Just like that, Lucy breaks with all the constants in her life: her do-good
boyfriend, her steady faith, even her longtime summer church camp job.
Instead, Lucy lands at a camp for kids who have been through tough times. As a
counselor, Lucy is in over her head and longs to be with her parents across the
lake. But that’s before she gets to know her coworkers, who are as loving and
unafraid as she so desperately wants to be.
It’s not just new friends that Lucy discovers at camp—more than one old secret
is revealed along the way. In fact, maybe there’s much more to her family and
her faith than Lucy ever realized.
I won’t lie: my
expectations weren’t all that high for this book. I read When We Collided recently and was disappointed but The Names They Gave Us, the new book
from Emery Lord, resonated with me, in ways I wasn’t quite prepared for.
It’s
about a girl called Lucy, she’s a Christian, heavily involved in her Church –
her Dad is a pastor – and spends every summer at the Church camp her parents
run. Her faith is a part of her, a deeply ingrained part of who she is and then
her Mum gets diagnosed with cancer and her faith begins to waver and the book,
basically, is an exploration of that: of faith, of the lack of it, of grief and
loss and growing up.
& it’s
good.
Books That You Should Read On The Beach Because Of Reasons
So
I don’t do Top Ten Tuesday every week, mostly because I am so incredibly rubbish
at keeping to any kind of posting schedule ever because I just suck, so it
always gets to Thursday and I realise it was a really good theme this week and I
kick myself.
Not actually, because ouch, but you know, metaphorically.
Anyway, their theme
this week is a summer freebie which is nothing if not fortuitous because last
night I was messaging with The Gals (which is the unique and very inspired name
me and two of my friends have for each other) last night about our forthcoming
weekend away in the sun (HURRY UP JULY) and my pal Hol asked me for holiday
book recs.
Which, OH HELLO LET ME THROW THESE BOOKS IN YOUR FACE.
Which, OH HELLO LET ME THROW THESE BOOKS IN YOUR FACE.
Metaphorically
again, this girl is one of my faves; I would NEVER actually throw a book in her
face.
