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Dawn of Eden (Book 0.5) - Julie Kagawa

Dawn of Eden (Book 0.5) – Julie Kagawa

Title – Dawn of Eden Author – Julie Kagawa Series: Blood of Eden Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥

If you follow my blog (maybe), you’ll know that I LOVE Julie Kagawa’s Blood of Eden series. I gobbled that bad boy up in days and when I finished The Forever Song, I cried because the emotional whirlwind of plague, friendship and general badass-ery was over.

Until.

UNTIL I FOUND OUT ABOUT DAWN OF EDEN!…

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A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness

A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness

Title – A Monster Calls Author – Patrick Ness Series: N/A Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥

I am so late to the party with this one. It’s a book that has been sitting on my bookcase for a long time and I’ve just never gotten time to read (especially now with a baby). But in this crazy world I managed to find an afternoon to do my own thing and I picked up this book.

It was beautiful. It was unexpected. It was…

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Top Ten Tuesday - Favourite Book Adaptations

Top Ten Tuesday – Favourite Book Adaptations

Hey guys,

For our Top Ten Tuesday this week I’ve decided to share my favourite book to movie/show adaptations.

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This Cruel Design (Book 2) - Emily Suvada

This Cruel Design (Book 2) – Emily Suvada

Title – This Cruel Design Author – Emily Suvada Series: This Mortal Coil Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥

Here we are for the stunning second in the series. I LOVED this book. Definitely strap yourself in for this roller coaster of plot twists and betrayals. You can read my take on book 1 here. (more…)

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These Precious Scars - Emily Suvada

These Precious Scars – Emily Suvada

Title – These Precious Scars

Author – Emily Suvada

Series: This Mortal Coil

Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥

I love a short story, especially one that gives us more insight to a world we have grown to love. Here is the prequel story in This Mortal Coil Series, set before book 1 when the Knockout Kids were still just kids.

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This Mortal Coil (Book 1) -- Emily Suvada

This Mortal Coil (Book 1) — Emily Suvada

Title: This Mortal Coil

Author: Emily Suvada

Series: This Mortal Coil

Rating: ♥♥♥♥

This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada was a series that took me by storm. Another gem I found while browsing my local Waterstones bookstore, it fit my need for dystopian YA Sci-Fi after Blood of Eden by Julie Kagawaleft me in a little bit of a slump. After reading Blood of Eden I found I needed two more things in my…

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Top 10 Tuesdays - Favourite Quotes (So far)

Top 10 Tuesdays – Favourite Quotes (So far)

This marks the beginning of my Tuesday Top Ten posts.

This week I’ve gone for Top Ten Favourite Quotes do far because I’m sure the list will change with time as I enjoy more books.

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Summer Blog Challenge - Day 30

Summer Blog Challenge – Day 30

Day 30 – A Book That Was Banned at Some Point

For this prompt I’ve actually picked three books and they are all children’s books.

I can’t actually believe these books were banned at any point but apparently we live in a very cautious and suspicious world.

Three books that were banned at some point are The Lorax by Dr. Suess, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and James and the Giant…

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Summer Blog Challenge - Day 29

Summer Blog Challenge – Day 29

Day 29 – Most Anticipated Read for Next Month

Next month, I have decided I’m going to to be focusing on fairytale retellings so I’ve picked out a list of books that I hope to get through and review for the month.

That means I know in advance what I’m going to be reading which could either work really well or really badly. I’m hoping it goes well.

I’m probably being a bit optimistic with this one…

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Summer Blog Challenge - Day 28

Summer Blog Challenge – Day 28

Day 28 – The Best Book You’ve Read this Month

So I’m getting myself sorted to start reviewing some fairytale retellings in August after having read A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer. I honestly thought that was going to be my favourite read for this month but I’ve been pleasantly surprised by another so that one has definitely stolen the spot.

The best book I’ve read this month is Th…

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Summer Blog Challenge - Day 27

Summer Blog Challenge – Day 27

Day 27 – A Book That You Both Love and Hate

First of all, sorry for the absence. I’m running a day late with my challenge but unfortunately my daughter has been having a bit of an episode and has made doing things the past two days incredibly difficult. But I suppose we’ll get there.

Anyway.

We’re getting on with the challenge and for this prompt I choose a book that both pulled me in and pushed…

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Summer Blog Challenge - Day 26

Summer Blog Challenge – Day 26

Day 26 – A Book Turned Movie and Completely Desecrated

I knew as soon as I saw this prompt what I was going to choose for this prompt.

Usually I enjoy adaptations. I mean, the book is usually still better but it’s aways nice to see your favourite works of fiction take flesh, so long as the creators actually follow the book.

The movie I had in mind, the book turned movie that was completely…

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Summer Blog Challenge - Day 25

Summer Blog Challenge – Day 25

Day 25 – A Book That Frightened You

I don’t read scary stories because I’m way too scared for that kind of thing. I want to like reading horror stories but I then get scared of things jumping out from dark places and I really don’t need that kind of anxiety in my life.

There is only really one book I can think of here and I’m not sure it’s even that great of a scary book.

A book that frightened…

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Summer Blog Challenge - Day 24

Summer Blog Challenge – Day 24

Day 24 – A Book You’ve Wanted to Read for a Long Time But Haven’t

My TBR pile is the length of my arm. Longer. No, really it’s now just turned into a TBR bookcase. It’s getting ridiculous. I’ve actually set myself a resolution for this year of not buying books that I’m not going to read immediately. It’s been going somewhat successfully (kind of).

But one that I’ve wanted to read for a long time…

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Summer Blog Challenge - Day 23

Summer Blog Challenge – Day 23

Day 23 – Your Favourite Quote from Your Favourite Book

This is tough because I don’t know what my favourite book is. It could be A Court of Mist and Fury or it could be The Great Gatsby or it could be The Lord of the Rings.

I really had to mull this one over. But I got there. Eventually.

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Summer Blog Challenge - Day 22

Summer Blog Challenge – Day 22

Day 22 – A Book That Reminds You of Home

Books invoke emotions in us. They invoke feelings and thoughts and imagination. That’s part of what we love about them, right? Because they allow us to be someplace we’re not and feel things we might otherwise not have felt.

They can make you think of home without even meaning to.

A book that makes me think of home is The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet,…

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Summer Blog Challenge - Day 21

Summer Blog Challenge – Day 21

Day 21 – A Book You Started But Didn’t Finish

I hate not finishing books. In fact it really takes a lot for me to DNF a book but I’ve done it just a few times.

A book J started but couldn’t finish was The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, book one of Chaos Walking.

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