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Book Review | Among the Beasts & Briars by Ashley Poston

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✨ What was the last retelling you read? ✨ Fo

✨ What was the last retelling you read? ✨

For me the last one was #LittleThieves by @what_eats_owls, and it’s my stop on the blog/Insta tour for it through @tbrbeyondtours today! 💖

Okay so, to sum up my review on my site basically this was a 5-star read for me. I loved the way it was written as a fairytale itself and there was one particular character, Ragne, who seriously stood out to me as ADORABLE. ❤️

There’s a full review on my website at www.luchiahoughton.com, make sure to check out the rest of the stops from there too! 💎

#margaretowen #tbrbeyondtours

✨ Are you a fan of fairytale retellings? ✨ I

✨ Are you a fan of fairytale retellings? ✨

If you are, then 100% go out and grab this beautiful book!! I actually took this photo for a blog/Insta tour I’m on tomorrow but my gorgeous finished copy arrived today so I’m using that for it instead 😌

I’ll say more on the book tomorrow but for now happy happy release day to @what_eats_owls with Little Thieves and thank you very much to @readeatretreat @hodderscape for the eARC!! 💙 this was such a treat and I think it needs to be on everyone’s radar, as a short summary of what I thought 🥰 (also, Ragne is bae) ❤️

✨ What was the last preorder incentive you recei

✨ What was the last preorder incentive you received? ✨

The last incentives I got were for @cylapanin’s Stalking Shadows, I wasn’t expecting the bookplate to be personalised so it was such a lovely surprise 🥺❤️

If you’ve missed recent posts I’ve put about this book then… it’s definitely one to check out if you like gothic stories, and retellings! It’s a really interesting take on a Beauty and the Beast story but with some twists.

✨ Synopsis ✨

A gothic YA fantasy debut about a young woman striving to break her sister’s curse and stop the killing in her small French town

Seventeen-year-old Marie mixes perfumes to sell on market day in her small eighteenth-century French town. She wants to make enough to save a dowry for her sister, Ama, in hopes of Ama marrying well and Marie living in the level of freedom afforded only to spinster aunts. But her perfumes are more than sweet scents in cheap, cut-glass bottles: A certain few are laced with death. Marie laces the perfume delicately—not with poison but with a hint of honeysuckle she’s trained her sister to respond to. Marie marks her victim, and Ama attacks. But she doesn’t attack as a girl. She kills as a beast.

Marking Ama’s victims controls the damage to keep suspicion at bay. But when a young boy turns up dead one morning, Marie is forced to acknowledge she might be losing control of Ama. And if she can’t control her, she’ll have to cure her. Marie knows the only place she’ll find the cure is in the mansion where Ama was cursed in the first place, home of Lord Sebastien LeClaire. But once she gets into the mansion, she discovers dark secrets hidden away—secrets of the curse, of Lord Sebastien . . . and of herself.

✨ What’s the most recent finished copy you bou

✨ What’s the most recent finished copy you bought after loving the proof? If you don’t review books, what’s the last book you bought! ✨

I had to grab a finished copy of White Smoke by @writeinbk after reading it thanks to @harper360ya, because I loved the anxiety rep in it! I really appreciated how spooky it was too. Also, the cover is just gorgeous?! I’m not usually a fan of having characters on covers but with the purple smoke as well… it’s just stunning. 💜

I try to preorder as many of the ARCs I read as I can though, or at least I’ll have them on wishlists for birthdays/Christmas! At the minute my preorders include, but are not limited to: The Keeper of Night by Kylie Lee Baker, Only a Monster by Vanessa Len, Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan, Little Thieves by Margaret Owen, and um… several copies of Jade Fire Gold by June CL Tan. With the current printing situation I’d say preordering is a must right now! 💜

✨ What’s been your favourite cover of 2021 so

✨ What’s been your favourite cover of 2021 so far? ✨

There have been a few I’ve really loved tbh but hands down Six Crimson Cranes has my whole heart in terms of this pastel design, @afterblossom_art, @hodderscape and @lydiablagden did SUCH a fantastic job and I’ve been in love with it since the first time I saw it. And then the exclusive for FairyLoot as well with the dusk colour palette?! I fell in love.

Take this as another reminder to read Six Crimson Cranes if you haven’t yet too please because it’s just so great and THAT ending and the adorable Kiki… 🥺🥺

“Find the light that makes your lantern shine.” 💖

‘He is an eternal, terrible creature. And he is

‘He is an eternal, terrible creature. And he is connected to me.’ - LAKESEDGE by #LyndallClipstone ✨

Hello and welcome to my stop on the Titan Instagram tour for #LAKESEDGE, which came out in the UK this Tuesday 12th with @titanbooks! 🥰

I’ve shared my review previously (really enjoyed this read!) so today I’m sharing a Q&A with @lkclipstone 🖤

Q: The setting of Lakesedge is traditionally gothic, but it also sets itself apart by featuring a warm climate rather than the dreary rain-soaked setting of most gothic novels. What prompted you to tweak the ‘standard’ gothic setting in this way?

A: I’m from somewhere that has very brutal summers (Adelaide, South Australia), where it is very hot and very dry. Our winters are so mild that summer is definitely more of an impactful season on day to day life – so I thought it would be an interesting challenge to set a spooky story during that time of year. I think there’s a lot of gothic-esque atmosphere in the long, airless nights and oppressively warm weather. Also, a fun fact is the world of Lakesedge is in the southern hemisphere, so their year begins and ends in summer.

✨ Synopsis ✨

Violeta Graceling has spent her life trying to protect herself and her brother Arien from their adoptive mother’s twisted cruelty; a cruelty driven by the mysterious shadows that spill from Arien’s unwitting hands, and speak of dark magic. To escape, they take a position at the estate owned by Rowan Sylvanan—the so-called “Monster of Lakesedge”—who comes seeking Arien’s power.

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