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The Song of Achillies by Madeline Miller | Spoiler-Free Book Review

May 4, 2021May 4, 2021

Hai Beautiful! A novel that is worth all the hype! For the second month of The Bookish Travellers book club, we chose to read The Song Of Achilles by Madeline Miller! ~ The Bookish Travellers ~ a monthly book club run by Lily @readingchateau, Emily @emreviewsbooksfilms, Mackenzie@lupinslibrary_, Charlotte @charlottereadsx and myself @thebookishbree! This book, along with Madeline Miller’s other novel Circe, has been constantly recommended to me by my friends for ages now and I am literally in love with this story! Goodreads […]

The Lost Book Of The White by Cassandra Clare & Wesley Chu | Spoiler-Free Book Chat!

March 6, 2021

Hai Beautiful! ✨ All the feels!!! ✨ I don’t think I can even begin to explain how much love I have for Magnus Bane and literally how willing I am to read anything about him. Like at all. Give me Magnus Bane folding laundry and I’ll eat that shit up! Goodreads Summary Life is good for Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood. They’re living together in a fabulous loft, their warlock son, Max, has started learning to walk, and the streets […]

TrueLife By Jay Kristoff | Spoiler Book Review

December 8, 2020

Hai Beautiful! Why did I choose this book to read during NaNoWriMo? TrueLife was everything I expected (and more) from the last book in a very action-packed, heart-shattering series! Goodreads Summary Best friends have become enemies. Lovers have become strangers. And deciding whose side you’re on could be the difference between life and death. For Eve and Lemon, discovering the truth about themselves–and each other–was too much for their friendship to take. But with the country on the brink of […]

The Mermaid, The Witch & The Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall | Spoiler Free Book Review

November 11, 2020

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Hai Beautiful! My new favourite read of 2020!! If you are looking for a queer novel about scary pirates, a runaway princess, rebellion against the government, a powerful entity and beautiful mermaids; then this is the novel for you! Goodreads Summary A desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial daughter find a connection on the high seas in a world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic. Aboard the pirate ship Dove, Flora the girl takes on the identity of Florian […]

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo | Spoiler-Free Book Review

September 15, 2020

Hai Beautiful! Mysteriously delightful. As someone who has never read a Leigh Bardugo book, I will be the first to say that I now know what I have been missing out on and I am very disappointed that I hadn’t picked up one of her books sooner. Goodreads Summary Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world […]

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert | Semi-Spoiler Free Book Review

August 4, 2020

Hai Beautiful! This one was special! I was sent this book by Sara (@scientificstars/ scientificstars.com) when we did an annotated book swap a while back and I have finally gotten around to reading it. Because of this, I filmed an entire reading vlog for this novel which will be posted on Saturday Aug. 8th! Blurb Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when […]

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman | Spoiler-ish Book Review

July 16, 2020July 16, 2020

Hai Beautiful! ♡♡♡ If there is anything I’ve gathered from reading every Alice Oseman novel to date, it is that she writes from a point of passion. Her novels are always about saving someone and rarely about romantic love. That’s what makes them perfect. Blurb: What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong? Frances has been a study machine with one goal. Nothing will stand in her way; not friends, not a guilty secret – not even […]

SWORD IN THE STARS by Amy Rose Capetta & Cory McCarthy | Spoiler-Free Book Review

May 13, 2020

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Hai Beautiful! The stunning sequel to my favourite book of all-time! Aghfkdgildh!!! I don’t know what to say. The equal that I have waited almost an entire year for has finally reached me and it is the best thing to ever have been created. I may say things like this occasionally about some books but this one. This one is the best in every single way it can be, but most importantly, it retold a classic story the right way and ended […]

Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff | Spoilery Book Review

September 30, 2019October 2, 2019

Heyo Bookaholics! I still can’t believe I’ve finished this book… I don’t know how to review this. Godsgrave is such a novel that you have to just devour and take in with everything you have. Anything Jay Kristoff writes is beautiful, dangerous and so utterly addictive. Blurb: Assassin Mia Corvere has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church ministry think she’s far from earned it. Plying her bloody trade […]

Heartstopper Volumes 1 & 2 by Alice Oseman | Comic Book Review

September 23, 2019September 24, 2019

Heyo Bookaholics! Absolutely perfect and positive! Aghjsidsl!!!! Heartstopper is everything my heart wants, needs and yearns for. This comic series is so very queer, positive Blurb Charlie, a highly-strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. Friendship blooms quickly, but could there be something more…? Charlie Spring is in Year 10 at Truham Grammar School for Boys. The past year hasn’t been too great, but at least he’s not being […]