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Moooorrrninggg!! 💪🏽👊🏽 What’s up for debate today for #TopicTuesdays ? 👀 (at Leicester, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQsltlQKK4Y/?utm_medium=tumblr
Topic Tuesday! My Bookish and Blogging New Years resolutions
Topic Tuesday! My Bookish and Blogging New Years resolutions #topictuesday #newyearsresolutions #bookbloggers
Hello fellow Bookworms! And Happy New Year!! With it being the 1st of January (crazy right?) I thought I would start off the year with my Bookish and Blogging related New Years Resolutions. I’m not normally one to make any, knowing that I probably wouldn’t stick to it, however, I felt that writing it down and letting you all see the might me the kick up the bum I need to make sure I follow them.…
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Topic Tuesday! Favourite Christmas Traditions.
Topic Tuesday! Favourite Christmas Traditions. #topictuesday #christmastraditions #christmasday #bookbloggers
Hello fellow bookworms and Merry Christmas! I hope you all got some lovely and bookish gifts off Santa this year. With it being Christmas day I thought I would focus on some of my favourite Christmas traditions that I have taken part in over the years. Christmas is a massive holiday over here in the UK and there are plenty of things to do on the lead up to make it more special. What are some of…
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Hello fellow bookworms! I don’t know about you but I am a sucker for bookish merch. Candles, Bookmarks, t-shirts… just give me it all. Since its nearly Christmas ( I know I’m cutting it a bit close) I thought I might show you some of my favourite shops for Book Merchandise… In case you need any present ideas. Since I’m from the UK I’m going to mainly be focusing on UK based shops, but I’m sure some of them ship internationally if you were interested
Fable and Black
This shop is one of my go to’s for Enamel Pins, but she also sells Bookmarks, Badges, Notebooks, Prints and so much more. They have some gorgeous items and I love their Instagram posts, check them out here. Below are some of their designs, but you really need to visit their shop to see all that they sell.
Tsundoku Chronicles
This shop has some amazing Bookmarks containing quotes from some of my favourite YA series and also some really cute Disney ones. As well as this, they sometimes stock one off’s of sprayed edged books with amazing detail! Great for a unique gift.
Elven Wick Candles
This is my go-to shop for Bookish candles. They all smell so amazing and include some of my all time favourite fandoms, not just from books but movies and TV also. They’re all 8oz candles and burn for such a long time… you definitely get your moneys worth.
Blissfully Bookish
This is the only International shop I’ve included but I just love her Bookish T-shirt designs. I already own some and have asked for another two for Christmas! They also sell great Decals for laptops etc and even baby grows! Shipping is high to the UK but still cheap compared to others and the Items are definitely worth the price.
Topic Tuesday! Favourite Bookish Shops Hello fellow bookworms! I don't know about you but I am a sucker for bookish merch. Candles, Bookmarks, t-shirts...
Hello Fellow Bookworms! Is it just me or does 2019 look to be an amazing year for debut’s. There are soooo many releases out next year that I cannot wait to get my hands on. This post will focus on my top 10, even though I’m sure its going to be hard to narrow it down.
Crown of Feather’s by Nicki Pau Preto
I had a sister, once…
In a world ruled by fierce warrior queens, a grand empire was built upon the backs of Phoenix Riders—legendary heroes who soared through the sky on wings of fire—until a war between two sisters ripped it all apart.
I promised her the throne would not come between us.
Sixteen years later, Veronyka is a war orphan who dreams of becoming a Phoenix Rider from the stories of old. After a shocking betrayal from her controlling sister, Veronyka strikes out alone to find the Riders—even if that means disguising herself as a boy to join their ranks.
But it is a fact of life that one must kill or be killed. Rule or be ruled.
Just as Veronyka finally feels like she belongs, her sister turns up and reveals a tangled web of lies between them that will change everything. And meanwhile, the new empire has learned of the Riders’ return and intends to destroy them once and for all.
Sometimes the title of queen is given. Sometimes it must be taken.
Enchantee by Gita Trelease
When smallpox kills her parents, Camille Durbonne must find a way to provide for her frail, naive sister while managing her volatile brother. Relying on petty magic—la magie ordinaire—Camille painstakingly transforms scraps of metal into money to buy the food and medicine they need. But when the coins won’t hold their shape and her brother disappears with the family’s savings, Camille must pursue a richer, more dangerous mark: the glittering court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
With dark magic forbidden by her mother, Camille transforms herself into the ‘Baroness de la Fontaine’ and is swept up into life at the Palace of Versailles, where aristocrats both fear and hunger for la magie. There, she gambles at cards, desperate to have enough to keep herself and her sister safe. Yet the longer she stays at court, the more difficult it becomes to reconcile her resentment of the nobles with the enchantments of Versailles. And when she returns to Paris, Camille meets a handsome young balloonist—who dares her to hope that love and liberty may both be possible.
But la magie has its costs. And when Camille loses control of her secrets, the game she’s playing turns deadly. Then revolution erupts, and she must choose—love or loyalty, democracy or aristocracy, freedom or magic—before Paris burns…
Dark of the West by Joanna Hathaway Aurelia Isendare is a princess of a small kingdom in the North, raised in privilege but shielded from politics as her brother prepares to step up to the throne. Halfway around the world, Athan Dakar, the youngest son of a ruthless general, is a fighter pilot longing for a life away from the front lines. When Athan’s mother is shot and killed, his father is convinced it’s the work of his old rival, the Queen of Etania—Aurelia’s mother. Determined to avenge his wife’s murder, he devises a plot to overthrow the Queen, a plot which sends Athan undercover to Etania to gain intel from her children.
Athan’s mission becomes complicated when he finds himself falling for the girl he’s been tasked with spying upon. Aurelia feels the same attraction, all the while desperately seeking to stop the war threatening to break between the Southern territory and the old Northern kingdoms that control it—a war in which Athan’s father is determined to play a role. As diplomatic ties manage to just barely hold, the two teens struggle to remain loyal to their families and each other as they learn that war is not as black and white as they’ve been raised to believe.
Descendant of the Crane by Joan He
Princess Hesina of Yan has always been eager to shirk the responsibilities of the crown, but when her beloved father is murdered, she’s thrust into power, suddenly the queen of an unstable kingdom. Determined to find her father’s killer, Hesina does something desperate: she engages the aid of a soothsayer—a treasonous act, punishable by death… because in Yan, magic was outlawed centuries ago.
Using the information illicitly provided by the sooth, and uncertain if she can trust even her family, Hesina turns to Akira—a brilliant and alluring investigator who’s also a convicted criminal with secrets of his own. With the future of her kingdom at stake, can Hesina find justice for her father? Or will the cost be too high?
In this shimmering Chinese-inspired fantasy, debut author Joan He introduces a determined and vulnerable young heroine struggling to do right in a world brimming with deception.
Wicked Saints by Emily A Duncan
A girl who can speak to gods must save her people without destroying herself.
A prince in danger must decide who to trust.
A boy with a monstrous secret waits in the wings.
Together, they must assassinate the king and stop the war.
In a centuries-long war where beauty and brutality meet, their three paths entwine in a shadowy world of spilled blood and mysterious saints, where a forbidden romance threatens to tip the scales between dark and light.
The Tiger at Midnight by Swati Teerdhala
Esha is a legend, but no one knows. It’s only in the shadows that she moonlights as the Viper, the rebels’ highly skilled assassin. She’s devoted her life to avenging what she lost in the royal coup, and now she’s been tasked with her most important mission to date: taking down the ruthless General Hotha.
Kunal has been a soldier since childhood, training morning and night to uphold the power of King Vardaan. His uncle, the general, has ensured that Kunal never strays from the path—even as a part of Kunal longs to join the outside world, which has been growing only more volatile.
Then Esha’s and Kunal’s paths cross—and an unimaginable chain of events unfolds. Both the Viper and the soldier think they’re calling the shots, but they’re not the only players moving the pieces. As the bonds that hold their land in order break down and the sins of the past meet the promise of a new future, both rebel and soldier must make unforgivable choices.
We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal
Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the king. If Zafira was exposed as a girl, all of her achievements would be rejected; if Nasir displayed his compassion, his father would punish him in the most brutal of ways.
Both are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya—but neither wants to be.
War is brewing in Arawiya, and the Arz sweeps closer with each passing day, engulfing the land in shadow. When Zafira embarks on a quest to uncover a lost artifact that can restore magic to her suffering world and stop the Arz, Nasir is sent by the king on a similar mission: retrieve the artifact and kill the Hunter. But an ancient evil stirs as their journey unfolds—and the prize they seek may pose a threat greater than either can imagine.
The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman
On the edge of town a beast haunts the woods, trapped in the Gray, its bonds loosening…
Uprooted from the city, Violet Saunders doesn’t have much hope of fitting in at her new school in Four Paths, a town almost buried in the woodlands of rural New York. The fact that she’s descended from one of the town’s founders doesn’t help much, either—her new neighbours treat her with distant respect, and something very like fear. When she meets Justin, May, Isaac, and Harper, all children of founder families, and sees the otherworldly destruction they can wreak, she starts to wonder if the townsfolk are right to be afraid.
When bodies start to appear in the woods, the locals become downright hostile. Can the teenagers solve the mystery of Four Paths, and their own part in it, before another calamity strikes?
The Girl King by Mimi Yu
Sisters Lu and Min have always understood their places as princesses of the Empire. Lu knows she is destined to become the dynasty’s first female ruler, while Min is resigned to a life in her shadow. Then their father declares their male cousin Set the heir instead—a betrayal that sends the sisters down two very different paths.
Determined to reclaim her birthright, Lu goes on the run. She needs an ally—and an army—if she is to succeed. Her quest leads her to Nokhai, the last surviving wolf shapeshifter. Nok wants to keep his identity secret, but finds himself forced into an uneasy alliance with the girl whose family killed everyone he ever loved…
Alone in the volatile court, Min’s hidden power awakens—a forbidden, deadly magic that could secure Set’s reign…or allow Min to claim the throne herself. But there can only be one Emperor, and the sisters’ greatest enemy could turn out to be each other.
An Affair of Poisons by Addie Thorley
After unwittingly helping her mother poison King Louis XIV, seventeen-year-old alchemist Mirabelle Monvoisin is forced to see her mother’s Shadow Society in a horrifying new light: they’re not heroes of the people, as they’ve always claimed to be, but murderers. Herself included. Mira tries to ease her guilt by brewing helpful curatives, but her hunger tonics and headache remedies cannot right past wrongs or save the dissenters her mother vows to purge.
Royal bastard Josse de Bourbon is more kitchen boy than fils de France. But when the Shadow Society assassinates the Sun King and half the royal court, he must become the prince he was never meant to be in order to save his injured sisters and the petulant Dauphin. Forced to hide in the derelict sewers beneath the city, any hope of reclaiming Paris seems impossible—until Josse’s path collides with Mirabelle’s, and he finds a surprising ally in his sworn enemy.
She’s a deadly poisoner. He’s a bastard prince. Together, they form a tenuous pact to unite the commoners and former nobility against the Shadow Society. But can a rebellion built on mistrust ever hope to succeed?
Topic Tuesday! Debut Novels I’m Looking Forward To In 2019 Hello Fellow Bookworms! Is it just me or does 2019 look to be an amazing year for debut's.
Topic Tuesday! Most Intimidating Books
Topic Tuesday! Most Intimidating Books
Hello there fellow bookworms! Are there any books out there that you just look at and think… there is no way that I could read that, or are there books that you’ve picked up multiple times but never been able to finish. This post will focus on the books that I find the most daunting or that I’ve just never been able to finish.
The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
I’ve picked up this book too…
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Topic Tuesday! Best books to curl up with this Winter
Topic Tuesday! Best books to curl up with this Winter
Hello fellow bookworms! Its getting to that time of year again, the leaves are falling, there’s a chill in the air and in some places they’ve already had snow. There’s nothing better to warm you up at winter than curling up in your favourite chair under a blanket with a good book. These are my recommendations for my favourite winter themed novels. Let me know if you would add any books to my list…
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Topic Tuesday! Top 5 literary worlds I want to visit.
Topic Tuesday! Top 5 literary worlds I want to visit.
Hello fellow bookworms! There is literally nothing better than reading a book where the world is described so vividly you feel like you are there, or that you could hop on a plane and visit it. This post will focus on the top 5 literary worlds that I would love to be able to visit. Let me know some of your faves and if you agree with any of mine!
Middle Earth
Between The Shire, Rivendell, Rohan…
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