• Top Ten Tuesday

    Top Ten Tuesday: Most Anticipated Releases for the First Half of 2021

    05/01/2021 /

    Hey friends! I decided that this year I would get back into doing Top Ten Tuesday posts. I used to do them a few years ago, and I really want to get back into it. 

    Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. All you have to do is answer the weekly prompt. This week’s prompt is Most Anticipated Releases for the First Half of 2021. Enjoy!
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  • Reviews

    Review: Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare

    20/03/2020 /

    Chain of Gold

    Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare
    Series: The Last Hours #1
    Genre: Fantasy
    Published by: Walker Books
    Pages: 617
    Release date: 03/03/2020
    Rating: ★★★★★
    Summary: Welcome to Edwardian London, a time of electric lights and long shadows, the celebration of artistic beauty and the wild pursuit of pleasure, with demons waiting in the dark. For years there has been peace in the Shadowhunter world. James and Lucie Herondale, children of the famous Will and Tessa, have grown up in an idyll with their loving friends and family, listening to stories of good defeating evil and love conquering all. But everything changes when the Blackthorn and Carstairs families come to London…and so does a remorseless and inescapable plague.

    James Herondale longs for a great love, and thinks he has found it in the beautiful, mysterious Grace Blackthorn. Cordelia Carstairs is desperate to become a hero, save her family from ruin, and keep her secret love for James hidden. When disaster strikes the Shadowhunters, James, Cordelia and their friends are plunged into a wild adventure which will reveal dark and incredible powers, and the true cruel price of being a hero…and falling in love.

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  • Book List

    Favourite Books of 2017

    02/01/2018 /

    Hey guys. I thought I’d share with you my top 10 books that I read this year. These are just books that I read this year. They didn’t necessarily come out this year. Also, these are in no particular order, except for my number one favourite book.

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  • Reviews

    Review: Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare

    30/11/2017 /

    33336580Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare
    Series: The Dark Artifices, book 2
    Genre: Fantasy
    Published by: Simon and Schuster
    Pages: 699
    Format: Paperback
    Rating: ★★★★★
    Where to Find: Goodreads | Book Depository
    Summary: Would you trade your soul mate for your soul?

    A Shadowhunter’s life is bound by duty. Constrained by honor. The word of a Shadowhunter is a solemn pledge, and no vow is more sacred than the vow that binds parabatai, warrior partners—sworn to fight together, die together, but never to fall in love.

    Emma Carstairs has learned that the love she shares with her parabatai, Julian Blackthorn, isn’t just forbidden—it could destroy them both. She knows she should run from Julian. But how can she when the Blackthorns are threatened by enemies on all sides?

    Their only hope is the Black Volume of the Dead, a spell book of terrible power. Everyone wants it. Only the Blackthorns can find it. Spurred on by a dark bargain with the Seelie Queen, Emma; her best friend, Cristina; and Mark and Julian Blackthorn journey into the Courts of Faerie, where glittering revels hide bloody danger and no promise can be trusted. Meanwhile, rising tension between Shadowhunters and Downworlders has produced the Cohort, an extremist group of Shadowhunters dedicated to registering Downworlders and “unsuitable” Nephilim. They’ll do anything in their power to expose Julian’s secrets and take the Los Angeles Institute for their own.

    When Downworlders turn against the Clave, a new threat rises in the form of the Lord of Shadows—the Unseelie King, who sends his greatest warriors to slaughter those with Blackthorn blood and seize the Black Volume. As dangers close in, Julian devises a risky scheme that depends on the cooperation of an unpredictable enemy. But success may come with a price he and Emma cannot even imagine, one that will bring with it a reckoning of blood that could have repercussions for everyone and everything they hold dear.

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