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2022 Wrap-Up

Book Review | Song of Silver, Flame Like Night by Amélie Wen Zhao

Book Review | The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard

Hodderscape Winter Ball 2022

Book Review | Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

Book Review | A Venom Dark and Sweet by Judy I. Lin

Book Review | A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson

Book Review | Heart of the Sun Warrior by Sue Lynn Tan

Book Review | Strike the Zither by Joan He

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🦋 If I Have To Be Haunted by Miranda Sun 🦋

🦋 If I Have To Be Haunted by Miranda Sun 🦋

QOTD: Have you read any books featuring ghosts? 👻

If I Have To Be Haunted was a story I’d been looking forward to reading since it was first announced, and I’m glad to say that it didn’t disappoint!

The main character, Cara, is trying desperately hard to hide her magic as a ghost speaker, someone who can see and talk to the dead. Simultaneously, she’s finding herself at odds with a boy from her school, called Zach.

Without giving too much away, Cara and Zach end up on an adventure where the situation is life or death, but to go on such a ride she has to defy her mother (who wants her to ignore her ability entirely).

Throughout the story we get glimpses into her relationship with her mother, and we see how strained it is. It added another element and I couldn’t help but wish that the two would be able to settle their differences.

In terms of screen time though, the main romance definitely took the limelight. It’s a sweet, slow-burn, hate-to-love romance, with a wild adventure behind it throughout.

Overall there was a lot of emotion packed into this story, and I’m looking forward to anything else Miranda writes! 🦋

“But not everyone who deserved to die did, and not everyone who died deserved it. And you couldn’t undo death.”

Still so in love with the end-papers on this Fairyloot edition 😍 traded for the physical proof because I was enjoying the book, so I got to get both signed at YALC last month 💖

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#ifihavetobehaunted #mirandasun #fairyloot #fairylootunboxing #fairylootseptember2023 #ghostbook #yafantasy #yafantasybooks #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks #booksbooksandmorebooks #bookstagrammer #ukbookstagram #harpervoyager

Hey loves! How’s everyone doing? 💕 Something

Hey loves! How’s everyone doing? 💕

Something a bit different today, but he’s too cute not to share and today is perfect because it’s Jin’s birthday: Wootteo 🛸💜

I’ve been hunting down merch from The Astronaut launch for a couple of months now 😂 it’s not the easiest and I keep kicking myself for not listening to BTS enough before this year, but it’s making for a little fun thing to do before they return at least 🥺

Book-related, I’m getting a couple of reviews together this evening! One for If I have to be Haunted by Miranda Sun and then Sound the Gong by Joan He, I loved them both 💕

And currently reading The Scarlet Alchemist by Kylie Lee Baker and fangirling over any Fullmetal Alchemist likeness 🥹

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Does anyone else collect merch that’s music-related? 🎵

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#bts #wootteo #btsjin #theastronaut #jinday #kimseokjin #kpopcollection #kpopcollector #borahae #jinastronaut #jinbts

Final YALC-related post! (For now, there is a cert

Final YALC-related post! (For now, there is a certain book on the way to me I’m psyched for 👀) - ARCs! 💜

I won most of these through chance, with The Principle of Moments being a code phrase you had to say 😍 excited for these and hoping I can get to them ASAP! They are:
✨ Voyage of the Damned by Frances White
💫 Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíke-Íyímide
✨ The Love Interest by Helen Comerford
💫 The Principle of Moments by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson (signed YALC exclusive proof 😍)

I also won a copy of ASAP by Axie Oh after the event 🥺 so I’ve been running to the door whenever the postie shows up 😂

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P.s. Sorry I’ve been a bit quiet! Having been feeling the best (maybe in part it’s post-YALC blues?) but holiday rest and reset is coming up soon so 🤞🏻 hopefully I’ll be less rubbish at being active on here soon!

Big love to you all and hope everyone’s doing well 🫶🏻💜

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QOTD: What’s something you’re looking forward to in December? 💜

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#voyageofthedamned #wheresleepinggirlslie #theloveinterest #theprincipalofmoments #yalc2023 #michaeljosephbooks #usbornebooks #bloomsburybooks #gollancz #upcomingbooks #ukbookstagram #ukbookstagrammer #booksbooksbooks #booksbooksandmorebooks #bookstagram #bookblogger

Part three of the YALC posts, purchases! 🛍️

Part three of the YALC posts, purchases! 🛍️

I was pretty reserved buying books due to space issues, but I had my eye on a few these way before YALC so had to pick them up! We have:
✨ A Multitude of Dreams by Mara Rutherford (signed bookplate)
💫 The Name Drop by Susan Lee (signed bookplate plus adorable prints!!! 🥹)
✨ If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang
💫 This Time It’s Real by Ann Liang
✨ An Echo in the City by K. X. Song (signed)

I’ve read and absolutely adored The Name Drop by Susan Lee already, so you can see posts on that further down!

A Multitude of Dreams is one I’ve had my eye on since seeing @kala__reads talk about it so much! ❤️

I bought the plushies because they were too cute to resist. Cat Bus has a pull tab and vibrates 🥹 I grabbed a Sanrio plush too but that’s with most of my other Sanrio at my mum’s.

QOTD: What was the last thing you bought that you were excited for? I guess this is highly appropriate with Black Friday being yesterday 😂 I still need to place a Waterstones preorder for maximum points 😍

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#amultitudeofdreams #thenamedrop #ifyoucouldseethesun #thistimeitsreal #anechointhecity #mararutherford #susanlee #annliang #kxsong #harper360ya #harper360uk #rocktheboat #scholastic #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booksbooksbooks #booksbooksandmorebooks

✨ YALC Part Two: Signed Books! ✨ One of my fa

✨ YALC Part Two: Signed Books! ✨

One of my favourite things about @yalc_uk is being able to get my fave books signed, it’s basically the main reason I go when I can!

I took four favourite books that I’d HIGHLY recommend, and now they’re all personalised and I love it 🥺 (I know I already had personalised copies of two but hey gotta collect personalised copies of all faves, right? 🥰) anyhow books are (left to right):
🐉 Shanghai Immortal by A.Y. Chao
👻 If I Have to be Haunted by Miranda Sun (I’ll try get my review for this up at the weekend but ahh it was so fun! Such an adventure and that ending 🥺 can’t wait for book 2!)
⚔️ The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon (swipe to the end to see a close up of a fabulous sticker from Thea 🥹)
👾 Mindwalker by Kate Dylan

QOTD: Have you ever attended a book convention, and if so what was your fave part of it? 🥰

(I wrote a whole longer comment out and Insta decided to crash and delete it all, sigh)

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#shanghaiimmortal #ifihavetobehaunted #thehurricanewars #mindwalker #aychao #mirandasun #theaguanzon #katedylan #hodderscape #harpervoyager #yalc #yalc2023 #signedbooks #bookevents #fantasybooks #booksbooksbooks #booksbooksandmorebooks #ukbookstagram

Hey loves! How’s everyone doing? 💕 Last wee

Hey loves! How’s everyone doing? 💕

Last weekend I took a trip down to London for YALC, I could only attend for the Saturday but it was so fun! 💜

I’ll be posting about it over the next week (purchases, ARCs and signed books 💕💕💕) but I’m starting with this:

1. I got to meet @utopia.state.of.mind who is an absolutely lovely person
2. Lili traded me these US ARCs of the Celestial Kingdom duology 😭😭❤️

I’m so grateful, the book community as a whole has some of the loveliest people in it 💜

QOTD: What have you been grateful for recently? 💕

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#bookstagrammer #fantasybookstagram #fantasybook #bookblogger #bookstagram #readmorebooks #fantasybooks #bookbloggeruk #bookstagramuk #booksofinstagram #beautifulbooks #bookaholic #fantasybooklover #yafantasy #yafantasybooks #diversereads #daughterofthemoongoddess #suelynntan #harpervoyager #heartofthesunwarrior #thecelestialkingdom #thecelestialkingdomduology

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