SYNOPSIS: The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore. The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather’s house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams … Continue reading Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Buying Mania – Books I bought in November 2019
I am part of a community of bookish people. I like to think of myself as a bookdragon instead of a bookworm. As a bookdragon, I declare myself uncapable of containing myself when it comes to books. Especially when it comes to buying them. Maybe you know that feeling of need when you see a … Continue reading Buying Mania – Books I bought in November 2019
TBR goal of December 2019
Previous month I've set a very achievable goal that I've actually managed to complete entirely and I am super proud of myself! Yay me! Completely honest now, Tower of Dawn was my favourite this past month (and I am not even surprised to admit that). I've also enjoyed both Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo and … Continue reading TBR goal of December 2019
WWW Wednesday: 27th of November 2019
WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Wars. The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next? Let's do this! I am currently reading: SYNOPSIS: Follow Chaol on his sweeping journey to a distant empire in this … Continue reading WWW Wednesday: 27th of November 2019
Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) by Leigh Bardugo
SYNOPSIS: The mesmerising adult debut from #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo. Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mum, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. … Continue reading Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) by Leigh Bardugo
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Ruthless Gods by Emily A. Duncan (20/11/2019)
Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine.If anyone wants to take part, you just have to pick up a read not yet released that you … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Ruthless Gods by Emily A. Duncan (20/11/2019)
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: The Silvered Serpents by Roshani Chokshi (13/11/2019)
Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine.If anyone wants to take part, you just have to pick up a read not yet released that you … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: The Silvered Serpents by Roshani Chokshi (13/11/2019)
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments #1) by Cassandra Clare
SYNOPSIS: When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are … Continue reading City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments #1) by Cassandra Clare
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins (6/11/2019)
Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine.If anyone wants to take part, you just have to pick up a read not yet released that you … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins (6/11/2019)
TBR goal of November 2019
I was almost sure I was going to get through with my October goal entirely. But sadly I didn't. And, tbh, this is so me I don't even bother anymore. I've read 2/3 books I've targeted: The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi and The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco. Sadly, I couldn't manage … Continue reading TBR goal of November 2019
The Girl from the Well (The Girl from the Well #1) by Rin Chupeco
SYNOPSIS: You may think me biased, being murdered myself. But my state of being has nothing to do with the curiosity toward my own species, if we can be called such. We do not go gentle, as your poet encourages, into that good night. A dead girl walks the streets. She hunts murderers. Child killers, … Continue reading The Girl from the Well (The Girl from the Well #1) by Rin Chupeco
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (30/10/2019)
Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine.If anyone wants to take part, you just have to pick up a read not yet released that you … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (30/10/2019)
Nocturna (A Forgery of Magic #1) by Maya Motayne
SYNOPSIS: Set in a Latinx-inspired world, a face-changing thief and a risk-taking prince must team up to defeat a powerful evil they accidentally unleashed. To Finn Voy, magic is two things: a knife to hold under the chin of anyone who crosses her…and a disguise she shrugs on as easily as others pull on cloaks. … Continue reading Nocturna (A Forgery of Magic #1) by Maya Motayne
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: The Wives by Tarryn Fisher (23/10/2019)
Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine.If anyone wants to take part, you just have to pick up a read not yet released that you … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: The Wives by Tarryn Fisher (23/10/2019)
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Blood Heir (Blood Heir #1) by Amélie Wen Zhao (16/10/2019)
Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine.If anyone wants to take part, you just have to pick up a read not yet released that you … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Blood Heir (Blood Heir #1) by Amélie Wen Zhao (16/10/2019)
The Gilded Wolves (The Gilded Wolves #1) by Roshani Chokshi
SYNOPSIS: No one believes in them. But soon no one will forget them. It's 1889. The city is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. Here, no one keeps tabs on dark truths better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier … Continue reading The Gilded Wolves (The Gilded Wolves #1) by Roshani Chokshi
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: The Vine Witch (Vine Witch #1) by Luanne G. Smith (9/10/2019)
Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. It’s based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine.If anyone wants to take part, you just have to pick up a read not yet released that you … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: The Vine Witch (Vine Witch #1) by Luanne G. Smith (9/10/2019)
Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass #5) by Sarah J. Maas
SYNOPSIS: Kingdoms will collide. The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius as war looms on the horizon. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves at odds with those who don't. With her heart sworn to the warrior-prince … Continue reading Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass #5) by Sarah J. Maas
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of Orïsha #2) by Tomi Adeyemi (2/10/2019)
Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine.If anyone wants to take part, you just have to pick up a read not yet released that you … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of Orïsha #2) by Tomi Adeyemi (2/10/2019)
TBR goal of October 2019
I'VE TOLD YOU I WAS GOING TO MEET MY GOAL LAST MONTH AND I DID IT! I've managed to finish Empire of Storms! And I've also managed to read The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas! I declare September a good and successful month. Giving the fact that this is October and I don't mess … Continue reading TBR goal of October 2019
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising #1) by Kiersten White (25/9/2019)
Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine.If anyone wants to take part, you just have to pick up a read not yet released that you … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising #1) by Kiersten White (25/9/2019)
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
SYNOPSIS: A three-time winner of Goodreads Choice Awards Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police … Continue reading The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Shadow Frost (Shadow Frost #1) by Coco Ma
Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine.If anyone wants to take part, you just have to pick up a read not yet released that you … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Shadow Frost (Shadow Frost #1) by Coco Ma
Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass #4) by Sarah J. Maas
SYNOPSIS: The Queen has returned. Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she’s at last returned to the empire—for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past… She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she … Continue reading Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass #4) by Sarah J. Maas
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Heart of the Moors: An Original Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Novel by Holly Black
Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine.If anyone wants to take part, you just have to pick up a read not yet released that you … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Heart of the Moors: An Original Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Novel by Holly Black
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine.If anyone wants to take part, you just have to pick up a read not yet released that you … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
TBR goal of September 2019
I am going to start the post with a confession: I haven't finished my August 2019 goal. Even though I only had TWO books to read for the last month and even though I though it was going to be easy-peasy, oh well, I was wrong. I only had Nocturna by Maya Motayne and Queen … Continue reading TBR goal of September 2019
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Aphrodite Made Me Do It by Trista Mateer
Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine.If anyone wants to take part, you just have to pick up a read not yet released that you … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Aphrodite Made Me Do It by Trista Mateer
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
SYNOPSIS: France, 1939 In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France...but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs … Continue reading The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine.If anyone wants to take part, you just have to pick up a read not yet released that you … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
Our Dark Duet (Monsters of Verity #2) by Victoria Schwab
SYNOPSIS: Kate Harker is a girl who hunts monsters. And she's good at it. August Flynn is a monster who can never be human. Nearly six months after Kate and August were first thrown together, the war between the monsters and the humans is a terrifying reality. In Verity, August has become the leader he … Continue reading Our Dark Duet (Monsters of Verity #2) by Victoria Schwab
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: The Institute by Stephen King
Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine.If anyone wants to take part, you just have to pick up a read not yet released that you … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: The Institute by Stephen King
Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass #3) by Sarah J. Maas
SYNOPSIS: She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one. Celaena Sardothien has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak—but at an unspeakable cost. Now she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth...a truth about her heritage that could change her life—and her future—forever. Meanwhile, brutal … Continue reading Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass #3) by Sarah J. Maas
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: I’m Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal
Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine.If anyone wants to take part, you just have to pick up a read not yet released that you … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: I’m Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal
TBR goal of August 2019
Last month I managed to read only 2/3 books I've targeted (mainly because I've read other two books I did not intended to - This Savage Song and Our Dark Duet, both by Victoria Schwab) - Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas and Lock Every Door by Riley Sager. August being a month full … Continue reading TBR goal of August 2019
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: There Will Come a Darkness (Age of Darkness #1) by Katy Rose Pool
Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine.If anyone wants to take part, you just have to pick up a read not yet released that you … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: There Will Come a Darkness (Age of Darkness #1) by Katy Rose Pool
This Savage Song (Monsters of Verity #1) by Victoria Schwab
SYNOPSIS: Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided city, a grisly metropolis where the violence has begun to create real and deadly monsters. All Kate wants is to be as ruthless as her father, who lets monsters roam free and makes the inhabitants pay for his protection. August just wants to … Continue reading This Savage Song (Monsters of Verity #1) by Victoria Schwab
ARC Review: Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
SYNOPSIS: You've been offered a luxury apartment, rent free. The catch: you may not live long enough to enjoy it… No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents. These are the only rules for Jules Larson's new job as apartment sitter for an elusive resident of the Bartholomew, one of … Continue reading ARC Review: Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
SYNOPSIS: EVERYDAY THE SAME Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She’s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. ‘Jess and Jason’, she calls them. Their life – … Continue reading The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
TBR goal of July 2019
Yeah, yeah I know I've skipped June, but I've had a lot of exams to study for and I've barely read twelve pages that month... Now that I'm here, I am about to drop some hot books out of my TBR shelf. And because I couldn't finish my May goal, I'm gonna repeat some of … Continue reading TBR goal of July 2019
The Astonishing Colour of After by Emily X.R. Pan
SYNOPSIS: Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. There, she is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she … Continue reading The Astonishing Colour of After by Emily X.R. Pan
ARC Review: One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1) by Mark Lawrence
SYNOPSIS: In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he’s dying. And it isn’t even the strangest thing to happen to him that week. Nick and his Dungeons & Dragons-playing friends are used to living in their imaginations. But when a new girl, Mia, joins the group and reality becomes weirder than the fantasy world … Continue reading ARC Review: One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1) by Mark Lawrence
Everless (Everless #1) by Sara Holland
SYNOPSIS: In the kingdom of Sempera, time is currency—extracted from blood, bound to iron, and consumed to add time to one’s own lifespan. The rich aristocracy, like the Gerlings, tax the poor to the hilt, extending their own lives by centuries. No one resents the Gerlings more than Jules Ember. A decade ago, she and … Continue reading Everless (Everless #1) by Sara Holland
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass #2) by Sarah J. Maas
SYNOPSIS: "A line that should never be crossed is about to be breached. It puts this entire castle in jeopardy—and the life of your friend." From the throne of glass rules a king with a fist of iron and a soul as black as pitch. Assassin Celaena Sardothien won a brutal contest to become his … Continue reading Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass #2) by Sarah J. Maas
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
SYNOPSIS: milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. It is about the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. It is split into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose, deals with a different pain, heals a different heartache. milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most … Continue reading Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
