Introducing Me

Hello, so I have been so inactive on this blog for such a long time and I am very sorry about that, but in that time I have changed my name to my original name so I am no longer going through a pseudonym of Peyton Fox I am using my real name which is Jade O'Brien nothing else about me was a lie I am in my early twenties and I am from London so my name was the only thing I changed about myself and at the end of my posts from now on I will have my name instead of Peyton. 

Why did I use a pseudonym?

To be honest, I started this blog when I was 18 but I wasn't confident in myself and I wanted to hide behind my blog so I used a name that I loved from a old favourite TV show called One Tree Hill and the last name was just one that was quite common.

Why stop using it?

I am now 23 and much more confident in myself and I just didn't want to hide behind Peyton anymore she wasn't really any different from myself but behind her I felt like I could be true to myself without feeling awkward about reviewing books. 

What's going to change? 

Nothing except my name at the bottom of the posts and I am going to make a schedule and I am going to stick to it. I will start uploading again, because I really missed this blog so much and since I started writing this I didn't realise how much.

So Until Next Time 

Happy Reading 

Jade O'Brien

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BBC History Weekend Book Haul

Hello, so i went to the BBC History weekend in Winchester on the 7th - 8th October, and it was wonderful, and i obviously brought too many books that my shoulder's were aching for the past few days, so lets get straight onto to Haul, 

Arthur & The Kings of Britain - Miles Russell

The Templar's - Dan Jones

King John - Marc Morris

She Wolves - Helen Castor 

The Private Lives of The Saints - Janina Ramirez 

Henry VI - James Ross 

(Penguin Monarch's Edition) 

House's of Power - Simon Thurley 

Elizabeth's Women - Tracy Borman 

Richard III - Chris Skidmore 

To Catch A King - Charles Spencer

Henry VIII - John Guy 

(Penguin Monarch's Edition) 

(This wasn't a talk i just really want to collect all of this beautiful series.) 

OK so that is all the books i brought and had signed, if you ever get the chance to go to this event i highly recommend it, for it is an experience. 

Until Next Time

Happy Reading

9 Books About British Royalty

Hello, so in honer of Queen Elizabeth II turning 90 Years Old Today (21st April 2016) i decided to do a list of some of my favourite books about the British Royal Family both Fiction and Non Fiction.... 

1 - Stormbird - Conn Iggulden - Fiction

This is the first book in a series called The Wars of The Roses series and it tells the tale of the Civil War that Plagued England in the 13th Century. This is a fiction book and it is such a good one each book is better than the last in this series and i am really sad to see it ending in May 2016. 

2. Philip and Elizabeth - The Portrait of A Marriage - Gyles Brandreth - Non Fiction

I haven't read this book in full it is one of those books i love to flip through and reads bits and pieces of. This tells the tale of a marriage that has lasted 60 + years and i personally love it. 

3. The Confession of Catherine Howard - Suzannah Dunn - Fiction

This is probably the first ever Adult Historical Fiction book i read and even around 6 years on i still love it and still remember a lot of what happened in that book.

4. The Lady Elizabeth - Alison Weir - Fiction

This was the first Elizabeth book i read from when Elizabeth was young, in the past i had read books from her reign but never from her childhood and this was so insightful. And told of possible scenarios of why she ended up the way she did. 

5. Charles & Camilla: Portrait of A Love Affair - Gyles Brandreth - Non Fiction

Much like Philip and Elizabeth by the same Author, i just love flicking through this and reading passages and bits of modern history and how it came to be since when all of this was playing out i was only about 2 years old so i didn't really know much about it until i started looking it up.

6. The Virgin Widow - Anne O'Brien - Fiction

This book is about a Queen who we know very little of in this time the 1480 there are two Queens who have fallen into obscurity and this is about Richard III's Wife Anne Neville who some would say was behind the plot to put her husband on the throne and take the crown from his nephew.

7. Plantagenet Princess, Tudor Queen - Samantha Wilcoxson - Fiction

And here is other other obscure Queen of the 1480's and she is Elizabeth of York and this is the best book i have found for her be it fiction or non fiction, it is one of the best.

8. The Plantagenet's - Dan Jones - Non Fiction 

Again i haven't read the whole thing but i have read passages and i really don't know much about this era, i am more Tudors than anything and this is before the Tudors and it really is fascinating when people say the Tudors were violent they really have nothing on The Plantagenet's. 

9. The Other Queen - Philippa Gregory - Fiction

I had to include this book since it is about British royalty and i have only included English so far, but this book is about Mary Queen of Scots and it is one of the best in the series and i enjoyed it and again i really don't know much about Scottish Royalty only that pretty much all of then were called Mary or James, so it is fun for me when i read books so i can learn more (but don't do that with Gregory's books because they are more fiction than fact.)

Until Next Time

Happy Reading

Top 5 Wednesday - Favourite Series Endings - 29th April 2015

So this weeks was hard but not in the way it normally is, it was hard because I had so many choices to choose from but I managed to narrow it down after changing my mind about a 100 times so let's get started. 
 (There is going to be spoilers so if you haven't read that book just scroll over it)

5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K Rowling 

A lot of people don't like the ending to this series but I loved it and that last line " all was well" it still makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. It gave me what I hoped for, for Harry and the rest of the characters the happy ending they deserved.

4. Clockwork Princess - Cassandra Clare 

I will admit first time around I hated the ending it broke my heart but the second time I read it, it was after I read CoHF. Then I realised that showing Wills death was the way to show how that relationship ended it. It ended with Will and Tessa growing old and Will dying an old man surrounded by his family. It was just perfect.

3. Until the end - Abbi Glines 

Until the end was perfect because it had epilogues from all the couple's the sea breeze series has followed. Then I didn't realise at the time how significant it was until I re-read it after reading the rosemary beach series also by Abbi Glines because the last two words in until the end offer Hope for your favourite character's from both series will cross paths and I cannot wait for more.

2. United we spy - Ally Carter 

There is a chapter that is five pages long and that chapter made this book the best in the series, it was Liz's valedictorian speech and I the last line of that speech "What is a Gallagher Girl?" Liz asked one final time. "She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy. And now we are at the end of our time at school, and the one thing I know for certain is this: a Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be."  That quote just made the whole book perfect.

1. The Ruby Circle - Rochelle Mead 

Don't get me wrong I'm glad everything worked out for Sydney and Adrian but book was amazing because I got the answers I been craving since the vampire academy series like who Dimitri's dad is, if Rose and Dimitri could ever have children and if they ever got engaged. I got my answers to all of these question and it still makes me smile when i think of this ending it was perfection. 

Top 5 Wednesday was created by GingerReadsLainey 

Here is the goodreads page 

Here is the full list of participants - Wednesday-Ers 

Until Next Time 

Happy Reading 

Peyton

All That Glitters - Holly Smale Book Review

Title - All That Glitters 
Author - Holly Smale 
Series - Geek Girl
My Copy - E-ARC from NetGalley 
ISBN - 0007574584 (ISBN13: 9780007574582)
My Rating - 4.5/5 stars
Goodreads - All That Glitters

Synopsis 

"My name is Harriet Manners, and I am still a geek." The fourth book in the award-winning GEEK GIRL series. Harriet Manners has high hopes for the new school year: she's a Sixth Former now, and things are going to be different. But with Nat busy falling in love at college and Toby preoccupied with a Top Secret project, Harriet soon discovers that's not necessarily a good thing...

OK so for the non- spoiler section there isn't much i can say but to give you a quick over view, Harriet and her family have just got back from New York and Harriet is trying to make some good first impressions on her first day of Sixth-Form (16-18 yr olds) and trying to get over her break up with gorgeous boyfriend Nick who has gone back to Australia to spend more time with his Family. But after a disastrous first day when every one thinks shes a show off know it all, her modelling career gets exposed when a campaign she did goes up every where, this book was full of laughs and tears. Holly Smale knows how to write characters that are real and relatable and i suggest you read this book and this series because it is a brilliant YA Contemporary book. 

  

OK so if you haven't read this book stop reading NOW SPOILERS AHEAD 

So we come back and we are back in England, and we start of like in the previous books with Harriet stating what she believes to be fact for example Geek girls first line was "My name is Harriet Manners, and i am a Geek" and in all that glitters its "My name is Harriet Manners, and i am a genius" i love these first lines i don't know why they are just very quirky and British.

So lets talk about Harriet's friendships in this book, so since Nat and Toby were avoiding Harriet and then her Modelling Career was exposed a lot of people started pretending to be her friends and i will admit as soon as it happened i knew it wasn't going to end well, and it was all revealed at the party that they were only there because they thought people she modelled with would be there, but i was shocked that India was actually nice and that she wasn't part of the bad crowd and i was annoyed with Nat & Toby at first but when there motivations were revealed i was really happy that they were only doing that so that Harriet could make some new friends. 

Next topic has to be Nick, this book was full of surprises when she was writing the letters saying she missed him and it had me in tears i really felt her pain it was extremely real, and when nick was doing his interview and he says that she broke his heart it didn't register till it was revealed that he had written to her and said that he would come and stay in London and go back to modelling that broke my heart i was sobbing at that. On the other hand completely understand why she didn't reply was because if she said yes and he went back to modelling after some time, he would probably end up resenting her and if they did a long distance relationship it probably wouldn't have worked and she did the only real option and that was to let him go no matter how much she loved him and that is true love. 

There was not a lot of modelling in this book it was mainly about her personal relationships, so there isn't much to say about that but the past picture from book 2 make an appearances everywhere from bus stops to shop windows and i loved the title of this book and the way it went with the story 

Overall this book made me laugh out loud, and sob tears of sadness but i wouldn't change a thing 

I cannot wait for the next book in this series because its a brilliant series that should be so much more popular 

Happy Reading

The Christmas Cracker Tag

Hello and Merry Christmas, 
So this tag was created by lucythereader

And lets get started...

QUESTIONS:



                          1. Pick a book with a wintry cover.

A Breath of Frost - Alyxandra Harvey 

                 2. Pick a book you're likely to buy as a present.

Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen 

                              3. Pick a festive themed book.

My True Love Gave To Me - Stephanie Perkins 

               4. Pick a book you can curl up with by the fireplace.

Harry Potter & The Philosophers Stone - J. K. Rowling

           5. Pick a book you you want to read over the festive period.

Christmas Cookie Club - Ann Pearlman

                6. Pick a book that's so good it gives you the chills.

Silver Shadows - Richelle Mead

                7. Pick a book going on your Christmas wish list.

Jane Austen Barnes & Noble Leather Bound Edition 

                      Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year 

                                                 Peyton