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Book Review | Strike the Zither by Joan He

Book Review | Monsters Born and Made by Tanvi Berwah

Book Review | The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

Book Review | Belladonna by Adalyn Grace

Book Review | The Dragon’s Promise by Elizabeth Lim

Book Review | The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

Book Review | The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones

Book Review | Private Label by Kelly Yang

Book Review | Mindwalker by Kate Dylan

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✨ Personalised Books! ✨ What was the last pe

✨ Personalised Books! ✨

What was the last personalised book you got in the mail, or what book would you love to have signed and personalised? 💖

My personalised copy of The Dragon’s Promise arrived at the start of this month and I love it and all the gorgeous preorder goodies! 💙

I love this duology so much, very happy to have both books signed and personalised, and incredibly grateful to booksofwonder for offering international shipping 🥹💖

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What was the last book you preordered? ✨ If yo

What was the last book you preordered? ✨

If you haven’t preordered Strike the Zither by Joan He yet then I absolutely implore you to if you’re a fan of fantasy in general!

There’s a longer review on my website but in short, if you enjoy wuxia and xianxia in particular, you’ll love this story.

It follows Zephyr, who is absolutely sure that she is better than almost everyone else around her and honestly, if you like confident characters you’ll LOVE her!

I flew through this book and my only regret is how long I’ll have to wait for the sequel 🥹❤️

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‘Neither here nor there, but long ago…’ ✨

‘Neither here nor there, but long ago…’ ✨

Are you a fan of stories within stories? Honestly I love when it’s a theme within a book, and chelsabdullah did it so well with The Stardust Thief! 💜

I can’t wait to see what kind of stories we get in The Ashfire King, and I’m so excited to get back to the world in general! ✨

What’s a sequel you’re highly anticipating right now? 💜

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🌊 Monsters Born and Made 🌊 What was the las

🌊 Monsters Born and Made 🌊

What was the last book you read that had ‘monster’ in the title? If there hasn’t been one, what are you currently reading? 💙

Today’s review is for Monsters Born and Made by Tanvi Berwah! Thank you kindly to ed.pr for the proof copy here, finished, gorgeous copy to the left I bought myself! 🌊

✨ Review ✨

Monsters Born and Made is an intriguing premise from the very beginning, set in a fantasy world with a class-based system and rebellions in play.

An accident with a maristag leads Koral’s brother to being dangerously wounded, and with that maristag having been their last chance to catch one for potentially breeding it means that her and her family are in serious financial trouble due to the costs of her sister’s treatment.

Koral decides to then take matters into her own hands, entering the ‘Glory Race’ that is meant to only be for Landers to take part in. Those in charge of the race seem to think it’s a good idea for her to take part, much to the chagrin of chosen Landers for the race.

There are three parts to the race, and they become more and more dangerous each time. Koral has to win the entire thing for any chance of saving her family, but along the way she has to deal with the differences between herself and the Landers, rebels and worries about who can or cannot be trusted.

There’s also the issue of dangerous animals, such as huge crabs and even the maristags themselves: creatures that are part-deer and part-fish. I loved how the monsters were formed from parts of well-known animals, with one Capricorn even! It made things a lot easier to imagine, especially in cases where the creatures are actually quite frightening.

Ultimately, Tanvi has built a wonderful, unique world with a dystopian feel that will definitely appeal to those who enjoy books with competitions in. This book does end on a bit of a cliffhanger and I hope we have more to come, because I’ll definitely be picking it up!

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What was the last preorder incentive you got in th

What was the last preorder incentive you got in the mail? ✨

For me it was the absolutely beautiful incentives here for A Venom Dark and Sweet by judyilinauthor!! 💖

Sadly, I couldn’t take this photo alongside the book because I’m onto my third order for the book BUT one has finally been dispatched, so hopefully it’ll arrive early next week 🤞🏻 but I did take the photo with my two newest copies of A Magic Steeped in Poison because I have no self restraint for gorgeous books. 😌 and of course book one is finally released in my home country, so I had to grab the Waterstones edition with the beautiful purple edges! 😍💜

(if we get more UK special editions I’ll order them so, plz??)

Related note, there’s a super cute post it message on the other side of my bookplate and I almost cried when I read it, thank you Judy 🥺💖

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Quick little ghost and spredge photo today, this i

Quick little ghost and spredge photo today, this is one of my fave ghosties because he looks like he’s splashed with blood 🩸 the perfect Halloween ghost! 👻

What colours remind you most of Halloween? And do you like to celebrate it?

I celebrated it when I was younger but in recent years, not so much. It’s not really as big of a thing in the UK… though I wish it was! ❤️

Days have been so bleak lately. Barely any sunshine which is urgh at my creativity and chance to take photos 😖 just stacking up all my new books ready for the chance to take photos again, I have two gorgeous Mindwalker books in dire need of being photographed properly 🥹💜💖

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