Over and over again I tell my friends ‘next month will be quieter’, and it never is. Life feels like it’s barreling by right now, no rest for the wicked and all that… The weather has been perfect for lots of beachfront cycles recently. In the summer months you aren’t allowed to cycle on the…
June has been a slow but steady reading month, I feel like I’ve spent a lot of time reading but haven’t *actually* read all that much. Still, what I have read has been EXCELLENT, so let’s crack on shall we. Stargazer by Laurie Petrou Gifted by publishers. I’ve already done a full review on this one so I’ll…
I love books like this! My go to, not fantasy, summer recs are always character heavy books about slightly unhinged 20-something women. Stargazer was pitched to me as a dark and twisty coming of age story where two girls blur the line between friendship and obsession as their relationship becomes more and more toxic. This…
May has been SUCH a fun reading month. I’m definitely a mood reader at the best of times, but I’ve really followed my heart this month, and read whatever strikes my fancy. It’s been a good month! Links are affiliate. When Women Were Dragons – Kelly Barnhill* I worked with the publishers of this book to create…
It feels like most of the YA Fantasy genre these days is sweeping three novel arcs, where you either have to wait a year plus between each book, or wait until they’re all out to binge them in a week. It’s fun, but sometimes you want to dip in and out of a world, a…
For The Wolf was one of my favourite 2021 reads, if you haven’t read it yet where have you been?! Now’s the time to get to it though, as the sequel For The Throne hits bookshelves June 9th. I was lucky enough to read an early copy, and you know I loved it just as…
The everyday joys.
Diversify your bookshelves.
You’d think since I spent most of April in bed with Covid, I’d have racked up a fair few reads, but alas, Covid brain is definitely a real thing. My reading speed PLUMMETED and I went a full two weeks in the height of it where I didn’t read a thing. That said, there are…