Friday 24 February 2017

February 2017 Haul

Hello, once more i am saving up this time for some extra money when i go to Harry Potter Studio Tours, so i once more didn't buy many books this month... 

Like A Memory - Abbi Glines
i had this book pre ordered on my Kindle but on the Sunday before it was released i saw that the Paperback had been released and i could get it the next day so i did so i now have it in Paperback. 


Riveted - Jay Crownover
I love this series and cannot believe it is almost over, I will be buying it in paperback once it is released. But the Kindle edition will have to do for now.


The Cosy Tea Shop in The Castle - Caroline Roberts
It was 99p in the Valentines Day romance sale, and i have yet to read it, but i will because it is the sort of book i read on a rainy day and i want a fluffy romance to perk up my mood.


Blind Tiger - Rachel Vincent 
This is the second book in the Wildcats series, i loved the first so i cannot wait to dive on into this one. 


That is all the books i brought this month, 

Until Next Time
Happy Reading

Victoria - Daisy Goodwin

Title - Victoria
Author - Daisy Goodwin
ISBN - 9781250045461
My Copy - Purchased
Format - Paperback
Genre - Historical Fiction
Where You Can Find It - Goodreads - Waterstones - Barnes & Noble - Indigo - Book Depository - Amazon UK - Amazon US
In 1837, less than a month after her eighteenth birthday, Alexandrina Victoria – sheltered, small in stature, and female – became Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. Many thought it was preposterous: Alexandrina — Drina to her family — had always been tightly controlled by her mother and her household, and was surely too unprepossessing to hold the throne. Yet from the moment William IV died, the young Queen startled everyone: abandoning her hated first name in favor of Victoria; insisting, for the first time in her life, on sleeping in a room apart from her mother; resolute about meeting with her ministers alone.


One of those ministers, Lord Melbourne, became Victoria’s private secretary. Perhaps he might have become more than that, except everyone argued she was destined to marry her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. But Victoria had met Albert as a child and found him stiff and critical: surely the last man she would want for a husband….
So even if this review is technically spoiler free it is a book based off of a TV show and so i am going to try to talk about the actual storyline as little as possible. 

I loved the TV show and pre ordered this book but then i didn't read it right away, i read it about three months later, i did that for a specific reason and that was to actually distance myself from the TV show and read it as a book alone, but that was pretty much impossible even after the three months so i would say if you have seen the show then you are going to feel like you have deja vu a lot. I do however recommend reading the book before watching the show just because then you are not anticipating everything that is going to happen. 

Historically, there isn't much stock in most of the 'love' storyline and that was brought up vehemently among Historical fanatic's and that puts me on the back foot because i personally didn't like that 'Love' story when i saw it played out on screen because for me Albert and Victoria's marriage and happiness and he was not a second choice.  

There is a lot more detail in the book, but it ends before the series does, so that annoyed me and it was the main reason i gave it 4 instead of 5, i feel like it ends so prematurely. It just needed some more to finish it off properly.   

On the other hand Goodwin's writing was truly brilliant, and i do want to read more from her in the future just nothing based off of a real person.

** This should have gone up on Wednesday, but i was ill so it is going up now along with another post. 

Until Next Time
Happy Reading

Monday 20 February 2017

He Said/She Said - Erin Kelly

Title - He Said/She Said
Author - Erin Kelly
ISBN 9781444797152
My Copy - E-Arc
Format - Kindle
Release Date - UK/ 20th April 2017 -- US/ 6th June 2017
Genre - Adult >Mystery > Thriller
Where You Can Find It - Goodreads - Waterstones - Barnes & Noble - Indigo - Book Depository - Amazon UK - Amazon US
Who do you believe? 
In the hushed aftermath of a total eclipse, Laura witnesses a brutal attack.
She and her boyfriend Kit call the police, and in that moment, it is not only the victim's life that is changed forever.
Fifteen years on, Laura and Kit live in fear. 
And while Laura knows she was right to speak out, the events that follow have taught her that you can never see the whole picture: something - and someone - is always in the dark...

Even though i requested this i wasn't sure i was going to enjoy this book since i have never read anything like it before but once i started i couldn't stop reading it had me hooked and i honestly didn't see anything coming. 

There are two Narrators in this book Kit and Laura and we go from the past to the present, Kit and Laura are Totality people they go around the world watching Eclipses and on one fateful trip in Cornwall they stumble on a crime. But that is the only thing we know for certain because like the blurb says someone is always in the dark. 

I loved Laura's character she was strong and,even if she didn't always do the right thing she did it for the right reasons apart from maybe one thing that i cannot talk about. 
Kit annoyed me at times, because who leave their pregnant with twins wife alone, and run off to some island to watch an Eclipse that is just one of many reason i personally didn't take to Kit but again there are a lot more because nothing is ever as it seems. 

There are two other characters Beth and Jamie, the two people who the Crime involves. I have never read a consent/rape topic book where it made me question what really happened normally it is cut and dry in these types of books but it the truth seemed to be covered in layers and we only really know the real story by accident. 

I really don't want to say much about the story, for i think if you read this you should go into it blind because i did and it was the most enjoyable/ draining way to read it. 

I am not going to lie this was a huge mind f**k and i feel exhausted after reading it but at the same time i would read it again and again. 

Until Next Time
Happy Reading

Friday 17 February 2017

Harry Potter Tag

Hello, so i was stuck on what today's post was going to be because i don't want every post to be a review so if the other two posts that week are reviews chances are the third post will be a Tag or something random... So i first saw this on Dreamland Book Blog and she explains everything in her post about who created what because she has mixed two tags together so go onto her post and have a look at that, all tag images are from the blog post as well.... Lets Get Started.....


The White Princess - Philippa Gregory

I am normally the first person to jump on anyone who complains about historical fiction having inaccuracies because i think it is up to the author but what i don't like is that this author has so much prestige that people take her word as bible and i loved the book it was just the historical inaccuracies i would love to rewrite.

Obsidian - Jennifer L Armentrout

I honestly thought this was going to be one of those over-hyped books that didn't match up but it was better than the hype and it had me hooked from the first page.


Chain of Thorns - Cassandra Clare

I have been needing to get back to this world since 2012 and don't get me wrong i love the American shadow-hunters but there is just something about the London ones i am guessing it is because i am a Londoner myself that i love it so much.

Honestly i cannot think of anything for this one at all i am going to have to skip it.🙁

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North

 To this day i am still confused i had no idea what was going on and it hasn't got better with time.

Geek Girl - Holly Smale 

I am not a model, but i resonate with the geeky and socially awkward aspects of this book and of the main character Harriet.

Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn

Still having nightmares about dollhouses. 

The Story of Tracy Beaker - Jacqueline Wilson

This book and many others by Jacqueline Wilson bring back so many happy memories and i will forever love them for that.


Fallen Too Far - Abbi Glines

At this point i hadn't read that many New Adult Romance books and i was taken by surprise at how well this was written and by how much i loved it.

Like a Memory - Abbi Glines

It was released yesterday and i read it twice.


Mrs Brown's Family Handbook - Brendan O'Carroll/Agnes Brown

This is a funny non fiction based off of the tv Character Agnes Brown from Mrs Browns Boys look up scenes on Youtube it is hilarious.


On The Other Side - Carrie Hope Fletcher

I loved this book and the beautiful message it sent out, i want more people to read and love it as well.


 Harry Potter - J K Rowling

I didnt read Harry Potter until the Deathly Hallows movies were coming out so i wish i had read all the book before seeing the movies.

An Inspector Calls - John Boynton Priestley

Oddly enough i actually enjoyed this book it was either going to be this one or Much Ado About Nothing but in the end i enjoyed this one ten times more,

Allegiant - Veronica Roth

I don't need to say why this book was painful pretty much everyone knows but it still kills me even now.

Until Next Time
Happy Reading

Wednesday 15 February 2017

Riveted - Jay Crownover

Title - Riveted
Author - Jay Crownover
Series - Saints of Denver #3
ISBN - 9780062386014
Genre - Adult > Romance
My Copy - Purchased
Format - Kindle
Where You Can Find It - Goodreads - Waterstones - Barnes & Noble - Indigo - Book Depository - Amazon UK - Amazon US
Everyone else in Dixie Carmichael’s life has made falling in love look easy, and now she’s ready for her own chance at happy ever after. Which means no more pining for Dash Churchill, the moody, silent former soldier who she works with. She’s going hunting for Mr Right and a pesky little crush isn’t going to stop her…

Denver has always been just a pit stop for Church on his way home. It was supposed to be simple, uneventful, but nothing could have prepared him for the bubbly, bouncy Dixie, determined to break down his walls. Now he knows it’s time to get out of Denver, fast.

But while falling in love is easy, loving takes a whole lot more work… especially when Mr Right thinks he’s all wrong for you.


Riveted was an extremely quick read for me, i read it in a few hours and i could not put it down, Jay Crownover writes books and series that make you constantly want more.

I am going to start off by saying this was very different than most of the other books in the series because it wasn't set in Denver. We mainly see Mississippi but that isn't that bad. The consequence of leaving Denver means we don't see too much of the other characters we know and love but that is fine. Mainly because we get introduced to some new characters, Church's family and the people in his town. 

Like 80% of Crownover's books this has a suspenseful and a mystery element that was well written because it makes you think this is happening for a certain reason then it is something different. 

The Characters in Riveted are as usual phenomenally well written and they are deep the characters deal with grief on many levels and abandonment. Then they also deal with unrequited love, and the horrors of war. I don't want to say too much because i don't want to spoil this book, but if you have read any other of Crownover's books you know what to expect from her characters by now.

The story was beautiful and action packed something i am coming to associate with Crownover, and i loved every minute of it. 

Until Next Time
Happy Reading

Tuesday 14 February 2017

Like A Memory - Abbi Glines Spoiler Free Review

Title - Like A Memory
Author - Abbi Glines
Series - Untitled #1
ISBN - 9780988301351
My Copy - Purchased
Format - Paperback
Genre - New Adult > Romance
Where You Can Find It - Goodreads - Amazon UK - Amazon US - Barnes & Noble - IBooks 

One memory. 
One special summer. 
The one thing Bliss had lost herself in when the fear and sickness were too much, moments never to be damaged by the harsh reality that followed… until now. 
Bliss York didn’t live a normal teenage life. She didn’t go to Friday night football games, walk the halls with her friends every day, go to her prom or even walk to receive her diploma. It had all been taken from her the fall that she was fifteen years old and she was given the diagnosis no one ever wants to hear. 
She had leukemia. 
Seven years after spending a summer with a girl who he knew would always be his first love and the one who got away, Nate Finlay returns to Sea Breeze to help his fiancé open her new boutique clothing store. When the new employee walks in Nate is taken back seven years to the girl he thought he’d love forever. The one who never answered his calls or returned his text. The one who shut him out completely with not even a goodbye and broke his heart. 
They’ve each become someone different. No longer the young teens with stars in their eyes. But does that matter when your heart still says that’s the one.


This was probably one of my most anticipated books of this year, i have been waiting for this book since i read the last two words of Until The End in November 2014, it was finally here and it didn't disappoint.

If you haven't read it yet i will not be spoiling you here i will wait a few weeks until i do a spoiler's review, but it would be difficult to talk about their parents and the people around them without spoiling some from the Rosemary Beach/Sea Breeze Series so fair warning if you haven't read those and intend to.

First off i want to go back to my theories post, from a few weeks ago, and for the most part i was right just for the wrong reasoning, i will get more into it in the spoiler review. 

Reading this book, as someone who has read and loved the Rosemary Beach and Sea Breeze series' it was like coming home. I feel even though it can be read without reading those series, but you aren't invested as much, you don't know the struggle Eva went through when her father was diagnosed. You don't know why Nate's grandpop would say 'when you meet a girl you still love when shes a woman then you don't give that up.' I feel like you don't get the entire story but at the same time the way it is written if you are a new reader to this world then you wont be confused because there are no secret jokes or anything like that. 

Bliss, was strong and that is one of the main reason i love Glines' books is that even though most of her characters go through the ringer but they always come out the other side stronger and i like that this book reflected that when Nate looked at her. 
Nate on the other hand was a lot like all the other men in Glines' series' he is afraid of love, even though he admits he loved Bliss when he was younger but tries to convince himself it was lust. We see Nate go through unimaginable pain and still he fights on. 

There were so many characters in this series i cannot talk about them all, but the ones to look out for in the future that i think are going to be so much fun are Micah, Jude, Saffron, Holland, Lila Kate, Larissa, Cruz York, Cruz Kerrington, Cord, And Clay. There were so many more and i want books for every one but i think the next book will wither be Lila Kate's or Cruz York's since they were both sort of set up in this one. 

The story, albeit short was packed full of goodness, there are some scenes that have been missed out that i would of liked to see but maybe we will get to see them from other characters POV's in the coming books.

Abbi Glines has done it again this is a truly wonderful book and it was heartbreaking and beautiful and funny all rolled into one beautiful package. I am truly grateful that this series exists.

Until Next Time
Happy Reading