New Releases – May 2021

Another month and another round of really exciting books! Anyone else's pre-order list getting out of control or is it just mine? I've picked 5 books from May that I'm really looking forward to reading and seeing peoples thoughts on. It's a bit of a mixed bag as always so let's see what we've got …

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas

Genre: Fantasy Romance Page Count: 416 Rating: 5/5 Feyre hunts so that her family can survive. The lands are cold and food is precious so when she sees a wolf chasing a deer Feyre knows she must act for her own preservation and she kills the wolf in order to have the deer for herself.  …

Mystery Blogger Award

Hello folks, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas? I'm really enjoying a few days off I must admit and I even stayed away from my computer for a couple of days which was a rare treat! Still, back at it now and I'm working on my 'best books of the year' post so …

Christmas Book Tree

I hope you've all had a lovely weekend whatever you've been up to! A quick one from me today, I was scrolling through bookstagram and I saw quite a few posts of people making a physical 'tree' out of books and I thought, wouldn't that be fun to attempt. I am sadly too lazy to …

Treating Yo’ Shelf – Christmas Edition

Christmas Edition Shmishon, what I want to talk about today is something that should apply all year round however we may all be a little more guilt free around Christmas time so we’ll roll with it. What I’m talking about is treating yourself! Buying those books you desperately want to add to your shelves even …

The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas by Syd Moore : Review

A compendium of twelve spooky ghost stories and bizarre mysteries all set around or linked to Christmas in some small way. It’s designed to be a short companion book to Syd Moore’s Essex Witch Museum Mystery series, of which I haven’t read any, but I was able to enjoy it just as it was without …

Books I’m Glad I Read This Year

Hello lovelies, sorry I disappeared for a couple of days there! Note to self next blogmas, write and schedule your posts in advance as you might get sick. Learning curves right ? So onto the books, I was thinking about my reading year and how quite frankly amazing it's been for me. I've found a …

5 Books To Make You Feel Cosy

So just a quick post from me today as things are starting to get a little hectic around here (we've passed Wednesday now folks, the weekend is in sight!) but I wanted to follow on from my earlier Cosy Reading post and share some of the books that I turn to for those cosy feels. …

The Twelve Reads of Christmas

On the first day of christmas my true love gave to me, a christmassy themed book tag. Or something. I've seen a few takes on using the Twelve Days of Christmas as a base for some themed questions so I thought it might be fun to come up with my own prompts as a way …

Books I Wish I’d Had Time For in 2020

So while I'm busy looking back at all the books I've read this year I've seen a few people around also mention the books that they wish they'd managed to get to this year. So in the spirit of honesty I went and took a quick peek at my owned TBR and have rounded up …