[ARC Review] The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski

Title: The Midnight LieAuthor: Marie RutkoskiPublisher: Hodder & StoughtonRelease Date: 3rd March 2020 (UK)My Rating: 4 ⭐️ "Where Nirrim lives, crime abounds, a harsh tribunal rules, and society’s pleasures are reserved for the High Kith. Life in the Ward is grim and punishing. People of her low status are forbidden from sampling sweets or wearing …

[Review] Two Can Keep A Secret by Karen M. McManus

Title: Two Can Keep a Secret Author: Karen M. McManus Publisher: Penguin Release Date: 10th January 2019 (UK) My Rating: 3 ⭐️ Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the …

[Review] Wranglestone by Darren Charlton

Title: Wranglestone Author: Darren Charlton Publisher: Stripes Release Date:  (UK) My Rating: 3 ⭐️ "Winter was the only season every Lake-Lander feared... In a post-apocalyptic America, a community survives in a national park, surrounded by water that keeps the Dead at bay. But when winter comes, there's nothing to stop them from crossing the ice. …

[ARC Review] A Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer

Title: A Heart So Fierce and Broken Author: Brigid Kemmerer Series: Cursebreakers #2 Publisher: Bloomsbury Release Date: 7th January 2020 (UK) My Rating: 4.5 ⭐️ "Find the heir, win the crown. The curse is finally broken, but Prince Rhen of Emberfall faces darker troubles still. Rumors circulate that he is not the true heir and …

[Review] Viper by Bex Hogan

Title: Viper Author: Bex Hogan Series: Isles of Storm and Sorrow #1 Publisher: Orion Release Date: 18th April 2019 (UK) My Rating: 4 ⭐️ Seventeen-year-old Marianne is fated to one day become the Viper, defender of the Twelve Isles. But the reigning Viper stands in her way. Corrupt and merciless, he prowls the seas in …

[Blog Tour] Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

Title: Good Girl, Bad Blood Author: Holly Jackson Series: A Good Girl's Guide To Murder #2 Publisher: Electric Monkey Release Date: 30th April 2020 (UK) My Rating: 5⭐️ Pip Fitz-Amobi is not a detective any more. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last …

[ARC Review] Bone Crier’s Moon by Kathryn Purdie

Title: Bone Crier's Moon Author: Kathryn Purdie Series: Bone Grace Duology #1 Publisher: Harper360YA/Katherine Tegen Books Release Date: 3rd March 2020 (US), 30th April 2020 (UK) My Rating: 3 ⭐️ Bone Criers are the last descendants of an ancient famille charged with using the magic they draw from animal bones to shepherd the dead into …

[ARC Review] All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban

Title: All Your Twisted Secrets Author: Diana Urban Publisher: HarperTeen Release Date: 17th March 2020 (US), 18th May 2020 (UK) My Rating: 4 ⭐️ "“Welcome to dinner, and again, congratulations on being selected. Now you must do the selecting.” What do the queen bee, star athlete, valedictorian, stoner, loner, and music geek all have in …

February 2020 Wrap Up!

Another month gone, apparently we're whizzing through 2020! Despite this being the shortest month of the year, I still hit my goal of reading 8 books a month which should keep me on track to hit 100 books this year - though I'd definitely like to try and increase this! I have to say that …

[World Book Day] The Books That Shaped My Childhood Years

This year in celebration of World Book Day, I am joining up with lots of other bloggers to chat about the books that shaped our childhoods! I've been trying to think back to books that impacted me or that I loved at all stages of growing up, and here are 10 of the most memorable …