In my Book Spotlight piece I will be bringing you an upcoming release and/or cover reveal. These books are ones I am excited about whether they are from a new or an established author. This week we have a book that was recently part of a bit of controversy.
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Review | The Raven’s Tale by Cat Winters (ARC)
Title: The Raven’s Tale by Cat Winters
Publisher: Amulet Books
Published: April 16th, 2019
Read as: ARC
My rating: 4
Continue readingFirst Lines Fridays | April 26
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
- Finally… reveal the book
ABC Book Challenge – C
In the ABC Book Challenge, you take a letter of the alphabet and share books on your TBR or that you’ve read starting with that letter. Sounds pretty simple, right? This is a fun way to showcase books that have caught your attention or that you’ve read in the past.
Continue readingWWW Wednesday | April 24
WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words and was formerly hosted by A Daily Rhythm. It is open for anyone to participate, even without a blog you can comment on Sam’s post with your own answers. It is a great way to share what you’ve been reading! All you have to do is answer three questions and share a link to your blog in the comments section of Sam’s blog.
Continue readingFirst Impression Friday | Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte
Welcome to First Impression Friday! This meme is created by Joe at JW Martin – Storeys of Stories. The rules are:
• Based on this sampling of your current read, give a few impressions and predict what you’ll think by the end.
• Did you think you’d love and ended up hating it? Or did you think you’d hate it and wound up loving it? Or were you exactly right?
• Link back to Storeys of Stories so everyone can enjoy reading all the First Impression Fridays out there!
Top Ten Tuesday | Books I Have DNFed
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week they provide a topic and you are free to use that topic and/or variations of that topic to make your top ten list. You don’t have to do all ten. Instead you can do three, five, fifteen, whatever you want. A full list of the weekly themes can be found here.
Continue readingReview | Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy
Title: Once & Future (Once & Future #1) by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy
Published: March 26, 2019
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Read as: US hardcover
Average Goodreads rating: 3.68
My rating: 5
Continue readingFirst Lines Fridays | April 5
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
- Finally… reveal the book
Review | The Gilded Wolves (The Gilded Wolves #1) by Roshani Chokshi
Title: The Gilded Wolves (The Gilded Wolves #1) by Roshani Chokshi
Published: January 15, 2019
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Read as: US Hardcover, OwlCrate edition
Average Goodreads rating: 3.75
My rating: 4
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Literary Weaponry 