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Book Review | Mindwalker by Kate Dylan

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Okay so… no surprise but I really enjoyed Godkil

Okay so… no surprise but I really enjoyed Godkiller by @hanfrankan 😂

Left to right here we have:
🍂 Signed, stamped and dated copy from Goldsboro (signed by Hannah Kaner and the cover/endpapers illustrator @tomrobertsillustration)
🍁 Trade edition (gifted by @harpervoyager_uk, thank you again!)
🍂 The Broken Binding signed and numbered special edition (gorgeous map endpapers and brown sprayed edges)
🍁 Signed Waterstones edition (hello pretty digital edges!)

Oh and I get a couple of UK book boxes so I suppose there’ll be one more soon maybe or maybe not, who knows 👀

Anyway, if you haven’t picked up a copy yet make sure you do soon if you love fantasy books 😌

QOTD: What was the last book you bought more than one copy of? Or what was your last book mail? 📚

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If anyone’s wondering how the Move™ is going, I packed about 50 books tonight alone and still have piles more 💀 *insert this is fine gif*

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#godkiller #hannahkaner #harpervoyager #bookstagram #bookstagramuk #ukbookstagram #bookish #booksbooksbooks #fantasybooks #2023debuts #booksbooksandmorebooks #booksbooksbooks #2023fantasy #fantasybook #bookstagrammer #bookrecommendations

Hey loves! Been a while since I’ve done one of t

Hey loves! Been a while since I’ve done one of these but figured now was a pretty good time for a cover artist appreciation post, feat cover art by @kuri_huang, which also means showing off four of my favourite books! 🥰

I think the first of these covers I ever saw was Daughter of the Moon Goddess, and I fell in love with both the cover and synopsis pretty much instantly. The most recent was @illumicrate’s Girls of Paper and Fire set, which is absolutely gorgeous and still in stock! (I’ll share more pics of it at a later date)

Kuri’s style is so distinct and it just works so well for all of these books 🥹

Swipe to see the four books, they are:
✨ Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
✨ Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan, Illumicrate edition (I had happy tears when I saw this announcement!)
✨ Strike the Zither by Joan He
✨ The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh

Each one of these books is beautiful inside and out 🥹💕

QOTD: What’s a book you’d love to have a special edition of? One of mine is Strike the Zither. The cover is stunning already of course but with digital edges and foil on the hardcover too? It’d be 🔥

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#kurihuang #daughterofthemoongoddess #girlsofpaperandfire #strikethezither #thegirlwhofellbeneaththesea #suelynntan #natashangan #joanhe #axieoh #booksbooksbooks #booksbooksandmorebooks #bookstagram #illumicrate #illumicrateunboxing #bookstagrammer #beautifulbooks #fantasybooks #fantasybookstagram #fantasybookrecommendations #bookrecommendations

Hey loves, Happy Lunar New Year to anyone celebrat

Hey loves, Happy Lunar New Year to anyone celebrating! 🧧✨

Today I’m showing off my personalised copy of Song of Silver, Flame like Night by @ameliewenzhao, because it’s simply too gorgeous not to! And the preorder incentives are perfect too, swipe for close ups! 🥹💙

I’m a sucker for a pretty map in a book, and I love how this one has the beasts on the corners and the level of detail on the whole is ridiculous 😍

Little shout out too to @booksofwonder, because of their shop I’ve been able to get a couple of favourites like this one personalised and I really appreciate them for that! 💙

I shared my review for this last month if you’re interested, if you’re not interested in checking it out then the short story is I absolutely loved this book! UK release is soon too, on February 2nd! Very excited to see those orange Waterstones edges and, idk, maybe another colour of edges 👀

QOTD: If you like to get books personalised, what was the last you had personalised? If not, what are you currently reading? 💙

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#songofsilverflamelikenight #améliewenzhao #delacortepress #2023releases #xianxia #2023fantasybooks #fantasybooks #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks #booksbooksandmorebooks #yafantasy #bookstagramuk #bookstagram

I’ve spent most of today packing up books and fo

I’ve spent most of today packing up books and following about 10 boxes I still have hundreds left to pack, sigh.

Packing this box up I wondered something… so buying whole series before reading them is kind of normal, right?

…anyone like me and take it a step forward by collecting genres you haven’t actually read any of yet?

Please say it’s not just me.

Anyway, pretty sure I’ll like these! But I’ll find out at some point after moving 😂

QOTD: Feel free to either answer the above or tell me something you’re proud of!

(I’m proud of all the books I’ve packed, even if it hasn’t made much of a dent yet 🥲)

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What was the last book you read that had you cryin

What was the last book you read that had you crying with happy tears? 💚

Say hello to mine! Fake Dates and Mooncakes by @sherleeauthor was unbelievably adorable.

Fake Dates and Mooncakes is a beautiful YA rom-com that introduces us to Dylan, who we have a first person perspective from throughout, and Theo.

Dylan spends as much of his spare time as he can helping in his aunt’s Singaporean Chinese takeaway, whilst Theo gets invited to things like events with celebrities.

So, very different upbringings but they have amazing chemistry together from the beginning! (And if you like a great pun, you’re in for a treat.)

“Our worlds are as far apart as the sun and the moon.”
“They align every now and then… Eclipses are pretty memorable.”

There’s a longer review on my website but basically I loved all the characters, including Clover the corgi of course, the romance and yearning was ridiculously swoon worthy, the food descriptions made me hungry and the way that Dylan and Theo bond so much over Theo learning about his Chinese heritage from Dylan?

Excuse the pun, but this story was *chef’s kiss* 🥹💚

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The biggest thank you to Sher for letting me be a part of the street team and for the chance to read and fall in love with this early!

Preorder your copies for May 16th 🥮💚

(Image is photoshopped, I read an eARC)

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#FakeDatesAndMooncakes #FDAMstreetteam #sherleeauthor #cutereads #lgbtqreads #bookstagram #coverreveal #readdiversebooks #booksbooksbooks #queerbooks #bookrecommendations #lgbtqbooks

Just a lil appreciation post for Mindwalker by @th

Just a lil appreciation post for Mindwalker by @thekatedylan 🥹💕

Of all the emails I was thinking I might receive on Christmas Day, being told I’d won a copy of one of my fave books annotated by the author themself was not one of the them, but alas then Kate emailed me to say I’d won this book here and I was ecstatic! (This is also my… fourth finished copy, and yes I’m keeping them all 😌💖)

The little notes are just so cute and I’ve chuckled at so many! Planning on a proper reread just before I can read Mindbreaker (EXCITED 💙)

(And if you didn’t imagine Paul Bettany’s voice for Jarvis, it’s definitely a rule that you need to go back and reread Mindwalker like that right now)

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The biggest of thank yous to Kate for such an awesome prize! 💕

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QOTD: What’s the coolest book mail you’ve had?

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#mindwalker #katedylan #hodderandstoughton #hodderscape #yascifi #scifi #scifibooks #yascifibooks #bookstagram #ukya #ukyabooks #bookstagramuk #bookstagrammer #booksbooksbooks #bookreview #bookrecommendations #bookrecommendation #bookreviewer #bookreviews #donotsurrendercontrol

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