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no spoilers! … The Wicked King picks up five months after the end of The Cruel Prince, with Cardan on the throne of Faerie and Jude outwardly posing as his most trusted advisor, while secretly ruling the kingdom from the shadows. It’s not even halfway through the allotted time that Cardan is pledged to obey […]
Read More Review: The Wicked King by Holly BlackTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly post created by The Broke and the Bookish in 2010 and since 2018, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Henry James One of the most famous novelists in the English language, I’ve only read a few of his short stories but was struck by how meta they were, containing some interesting […]
Read More Top Ten Tuesday: New-to-Me Authors I Read In 2018I feel like I’m stuck in a writing rut. I don’t know why, but over the past few months I’ve found it difficult to write for this blog; namely to write book reviews. The issue isn’t that I haven’t been reading, because I have, and have tried on several occasions to write a review but […]
Read More a bit of a jamTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly post created by The Broke and the Bookish in 2010 and since 2018, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. The Wicked King by Holly Black 8 January The Cruel Prince was one of my favourite books of last year, and I’m looking forward to seeing if the sequel lives up to expectations. […]
Read More Top Ten Tuesday: Most Anticipated Releases for the First Half of 2019I’m tired of seeing All those pamphlets in bookshops. You know the ones: Pieces of paper stapled together With a block colour cover and fancy lettering. Give me a doorstopper A brick that will weigh down my bag And crush my packed lunch crisp packet. Paperback, not hardback though I’m not completely insane by […]
Read More Long books are the bestTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly post created by The Broke and the Bookish in 2010 and since 2018, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. I’ll be honest: I’ve got so many free books in the past few months (courtesy of my new job) that for the first time in my life, I didn’t ask for books for […]
Read More Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Hope I Find Under My Christmas Tree This MorningTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly post created by The Broke and the Bookish in 2010 and since 2018, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It’s a freebie this week, and I thought I’d list some books in a genre which I only recently got into: crime. 1.The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie (Tommy and Tuppence #1) […]
Read More Top Ten Tuesday: Crime Fiction