"Forget about the past. Forget about the future. Focus on the moment. Focus on the pleasure." RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: DR Jar Silver, skier, scientist, international jet-setter, explosives expert. Working on an avalanche control in Slovenia, Jaq stumbles across a problem with a consignment of explosives. After raising a complaint with the supplier, a multinational chemical … Continue reading The Chemical Detective | Fiona Erskine| Review

“We may be small, and we may be young, but we will shake the world for our beliefs.” "When you hold a weapon you become a faceless ghost. You give nothing away" RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for … Continue reading The Priory of the Orange Tree | Samantha Shannon | Review

Pictured above are my April TBR picks from my TBR Bingo challenge. CHALLENGE ONE: "Read a book over 500 pages" Book: The Ruin of Kings | Jenn Lyons This book was kindly sent to me by Pan Macmillan in the month of March and as soon as I pulled out this challenge I knew I had to … Continue reading TBR BINGO | APRIL 2019 PICKS

BOOKS I HAVE READ THIS MONTH: This month I have managed to read 11 books. Altogether I read 4,746 pages. Vicious | V.E Schwab | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Vengeful | V.E Schwab | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Kill [Redacted] | Anthony Good| ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Darker Shade of Magic |V.E Schwab | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Gathering of Shadows | V.E Schwab | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Conjuring of Light | V.E Schwab | … Continue reading Monthly Wrap Up | March 2019

"Centuries of patriarchy can't be undone in a decade or so. The battle's only just begun" RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: "Miners wife Mandy Walker lives a quiet life. She's hopeless at everything apart from looking after her boys and baking. Life is fine. But she knows it could be better. Her husband's a drinker and best friend … Continue reading Crossing the Line | Laura Wilkinson | Review

"Arthur was the one true king who saved his people from the Dark Ages. He gave a voice to all, righted the wrongs ... made a round table."   RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: I’ve been chased my whole life. As a fugitive refugee in the territory controlled by the tyrannical Mercer corporation, I’ve always had to hide … Continue reading Once & Future | Amy Rose Capetta & Cori McCarthy | Review

"The more we love, the more we have to lose. But the only way to avoid loss is to avoid love. And what a sad world that would be" RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: A Conjuring of Light is the third book in the Shades of Magic series. It follows immediately after the events of A Gathering … Continue reading A Conjuring of Light | V.E. Schwab | Review

"Chaos needs order. Magic needs moderation. It's like a fire. It doesn't have self-control. It feeds off whatever you give it, and if you give it too much, it burns and burns until there's nothing left" RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: A Gathering of Shadows is the second book in the Shades of Magic series and is … Continue reading A Gathering of Shadows | V.E. Schwab | Review

"Magic was a living thing - that, everyone knew but to Kell it felt like more, like a friend, like family. It was, after all, a part of him (much more than it was a part of most) and he couldn't help feeling like it knew what he was saying, what he was feeling, not … Continue reading A Darker Shade of Magic | V.E Schwab | Review

"The last words I said to my wife: Please don't leave. I said to my wife please don't leave, while we were arguing and she said she was going to be late and so she had to leave, and she did and on her journey she was killed by an explosion on the Underground" RATING: … Continue reading Kill [redacted] | Anthony Good | Review