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The Vanishing Deep by Astrid Sholte | Spoiler-Free Book Review

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Hai Beautiful! The Queen of YA stand-alone fantasy strikes again! Astrid has gone and delivered us another wonderful stand-alone fantasy. This time we’re transported to a post-apocalyptic world in which capitalism rules all and two sisters fight everything to keep their family together. Blurb: Seventeen-year-old Tempe was born into a world of water. When the Great Waves destroyed her planet, its people had to learn to survive living on the water, but the ruins of the cities below still called. […]

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Books I’m Reading In The Last Week Of May!

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Hai Beautiful! What an ah-MAY-zing reading month! Since I managed to read three 300-450 page novels in a week for the Because We Can Readathon last week, I have this idea that I can increase my TBR to insane levels and have it still be achievable. I had four books on my BCW Readathon TBR, three of which I read and one, Zenith, which I didn’t get to within the week. For real though, four books in seven days, even if I wasn’t doing […]

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Online Book Launches Happening NEXT WEEK on Instagram Live!

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Hai Bookaholics! Continuing the theme of all posts this week being a day late. This post is thanks to the amazing work of @TheYARoom who have been working so hard to unite the book community online when it has been impossible for us to unite in person. After news of the cancellation of both Astrid Scholte and Katya DeBecerra’s Melbourne book launches being cancelled, a lot of us are disappointed but understand why these events had to be called off. […]

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March TBR, because I finished my Jan TBR!

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Hai Spicy Hoomans! Yes, I said Jan TBR. I’m a slow reader. Since I left for Korea at the end of November 2019, till the end of January 2020 I read a total of 2.2 novels. I DNF’d a novel too (hence the .2) which made it a truly sad two months when it came to reading. Because of this, I didn’t make a TBR for February. Instead, in Feb I completed my January 2020 TBR, which was really just […]

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Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte | Spoiler-Free Book Review

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Heyo Bookaholics! You never really know what’s coming with this novel. I kept thinking about that one quote from the book launch where Astrid, prompted by a Harry Potter loving Amie Kaufman, said that Four Dead Queens is a novel about a “Slytherin dragging a Hufflepuff on an adventure”. Blurb: Seventeen-year-old Keralie Corrington may seem harmless, but in fact, she’s one of Quadara’s most skilled thieves and a liar. Varin, on the other hand, is an honest, upstanding citizen of […]

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Four Dead Queens Melbourne Book Launch!

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Heyo Bookaholics! Not Just Another Melbourne Book Launch! On Thursday (the 28th of March), Astrid Scholte’s first novel, Four Dead Queens, was officially launched at Readings Bookstore in Carlton. The event was hosted by the amazing Amie Kaufman. The Interview As an experienced book event host, Amie has a unique way in which she conducts interviews. She will do all the introductions, and tell the audience to think of questions to ask the author she’s interviewing. Then she does a […]

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