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Continue reading →: [Book Tour] NO GODS, ONLY MONSTERS by Steve McHugh
Big thank you to Escapist Book Tours & Steve McHugh for the ARC copy to review and letting me be apart of the blog tour! Book Blurb: Diana, the Roman Goddess of the hunt, lives alone on the far edge of the Roman Empire. When an old friend arrives looking…
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Continue reading →: [Mini Review] The First 21 – How I Became Nikki Sixx by Nikki Sixx
I read The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx on Audible alongside the hardcover so I could check out all the cool photographs from Nikki’s childhood and early life. I definitely recommend this method as Nikki Sixx has a wonderful voice and a real knack for storytelling. Pages: 224Publisher:…
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Continue reading →: [Review] Gallant by V.E. Schwab
Firstly, a huge thank you to Titan Books for sending me an ARC to review! Pages: 310Publisher: Titan BooksGenre: Fantasy, Paranormal, Young Adult ⭐⭐⭐ “Sixteen-year old Olivia Prior is missing three things: a mother, a father and a voice. Her mother vanished all at once, her father by degrees, and…
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Continue reading →: A Quick Reading Update
Turns out I’ve never actually done any reading updates on my blog. They’re some of my favourite posts to read but for some reason I’ve never done one before, hmm. 🤔 I finished Gallant by V.E. Schwab yesterday and unfortunately, I didn’t love it. I gave it 3 stars and…
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Continue reading →: April TBR | Over-caffeinated Nerd
Well, its been a while since I’ve made a TBR. I want to get back into doing monthly TBR and wrap up blog posts in an attempt to be more consistent with reading and being accountable for when I’m being super lazy and don’t read anything! I have quite a…
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Continue reading →: The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie 🗡
Holy hell, did I love The Blade Itself! This was my first time reading a Joe Abercrombie book and I should not have waited so long to do so. Whenever I picked it up I couldn’t help devouring a huge chunk of it. I love the writing, the voice, the…
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Continue reading →: [Book Tour] THE IRON CROWN by L.L. MACRAE
So turns out I got my days mixed up and am posting my leg of the tour a day late! My work and personal life has been rather eventful lately so I’ve gone into full scatter brain mode. 😩 Book Blurb: Fenn’s first and only memory is finding himself in…
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Continue reading →: Mid-month check in | January 2022
It’s the middle of the month already and I haven’t finished a single book yet! I’m currently reading a few though, so my attention has been spread out across several books. This week I started one of the important training courses I need to complete at work so I’ve been…
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Continue reading →: TBR | January 2022 📚
Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb The First 21 by Nikki Sixx Breach of Peace by Daniel B. Greene Monstress Volume 1: Awakening by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda Vicious by V.E. Schwab The Butchering Art by Dr Lindsey Fitzharris
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Continue reading →: 2022 Bookish Goals
Happy New Year Book Dragons! 2021 was just awful, wasn’t it? I really hope 2022 will be a lot better. This year I’m setting my Goodreads Reading Challenge to 52 books. It’s a little ambitious for me but it’s always good to dream, right? I’ve got a few other personal…
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Continue reading →: New Goodreads account 📚
The other day I was messing around with the settings on my Goodreads account and ended up deleting the whole thing… Don’t ask me how I did it. It was 4am and I was very tired. 😅 I’ve made a new account with the same name as here so feel…
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Continue reading →: I haven’t finished a book since June… A mental health chat
Well this is a little embarrassing for a book dragon to admit but like the title suggests I’ve really been struggling to read anything for the past few months. My mental health has been in the toilet this year, especially since August/September and I had a bit of a ‘wobble’…
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Continue reading →: Read-a-long announcement: Vicious by V.E. Schwab
This month I’m doing a read-a-long with one of my bookstagram friends! @thebatcavehasalibrary and I will be reading Vicious by V.E. Schwab over the next two weeks. V.E. Schwab is one of my favourite authors and Vicious is my favourite book of all time, I think I’ve read it cover…
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Continue reading →: [Currently Reading] 20/09 🧛⚰️
I haven’t done a reading update in a while, mostly because I haven’t been reading very much recently. Now I’m back at work and have a schedule again I should be able to maintain my reading habits. As far as I’m concerned as soon as it hits September 1st Halloween…
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Continue reading →: [Review] BEASTARS Volume 2 by Paru Itagaki
I couldn’t stop myself from jumping straight into Volume 2 and I loved it! In this volume we had more Drama club ✨drama✨ The chapters are definitely a faster pace than the anime but that works well here as Itagaki’s art style is so good at showing the reader the…
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Continue reading →: [Review] BEASTARS Volume 1 by Paru Itagaki
BEASTARS might be one of my new favourite series! I watched the anime earlier this year and really enjoyed it so I decided to pick up the manga. Volume 1 was great. I love Itagaki’s unique art style, it’s very different to a lot of other manga I’ve read. It’s…
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Continue reading →: [Review] Raven Volume 1: Nemisis by Mathieu Lauffray
(Thank you to NetGalley and Europe Comics for sending me an eARC to review). Raven is a swashbuckling adventure comic, perfect for fans of Pirates of the Caribbean. The reader is immediately through into the middle of an epic ship v ship battle at sea before being introduced to our…
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Continue reading →: [Review] Dracula by Bram Stoker
As far as I’m concerned Halloween starts September 1st! I decided to kick off this year’s spooky season by reading several classic vampire novels, starting with Dracula! From Count Dracula crawling down castle walls to climbing the 199 steps up to Whitby Abbey, Dracula is a dark and terrifying story…
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