Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrow…
Where, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town.
Now, for a brief time each summer, the sisters return, stealing the bodies of three weak-hearted girls so that they may seek their revenge, luring boys into the harbor and pulling them under.
Like many locals, seventeen-year-old Penny Talbot has accepted the fate of the town. But this year, on the eve of the sisters’ return, a boy named Bo Carter arrives; unaware of the danger he has just stumbled into.
Mistrust and lies spread quickly through the salty, rain-soaked streets. The townspeople turn against one another. Penny and Bo suspect each other of hiding secrets. And death comes swiftly to those who cannot resist the call of the sisters.
But only Penny sees what others cannot. And she will be forced to choose: save Bo, or save herself.
All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power.
Then an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire. Elisabeth’s desperate intervention implicates her in the crime, and she is torn from her home to face justice in the capital. With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn, and his mysterious demonic servant, she finds herself entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy. Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames, but the world along with them.
As her alliance with Nathaniel grows stronger, Elisabeth starts to question everything she’s been taught—about sorcerers, about the libraries she loves, even about herself. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined.
The year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon Hall. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people’s minds. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, she commits treason simply by breathing.
It is raining the day her life changes for ever. Attacked, drugged and kidnapped, Paige is transported to Oxford – a city kept secret for two hundred years, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. Paige is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite with mysterious motives. He is her master. Her trainer. Her natural enemy. But if Paige wants to regain her freedom she must allow herself to be nurtured in this prison where she is meant to die.
The Bone Season introduces a compelling heroine and also introduces an extraordinary young writer, with huge ambition and a teeming imagination. Samantha Shannon has created a bold new reality in this riveting debut.
She's the seduction expert.
Women contact her to take over their love lives. She steps in when they're lost, she's supposed to succeed where they failed. She handles their single status, their relationships, their breakups, and very often their partners' affairs. Her job is a life priority, she spends most of her time at the office or between two flights in business class and the fact of having a sports car that can reach one hundred kilometers in less than six seconds often make her feel like a superheroine in service to women.
Anyway, take her card.
You'll see, it's much better than spending holidays in St Barts.
It all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way Down is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
In his long-awaited return, John Green shares Aza's story with shattering, unflinching clarity.
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?
Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.
Summoned to Evelyn's luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the '80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn's story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique's own in tragic and irreversible ways.
Written with Reid's signature talent for creating "complex, likable characters" (Real Simple), this is a mesmerizing journey through the splendor of old Hollywood into the harsh realities of the present day as two women struggle with what it means—and what it costs—to face the truth.
Broken Throne
Queen Song and Steel Scars -I’ve read these two back in 2018 when I was reading the entire series so I didn’t feel like rereading.
World Behind – a really nice novella, although I don’t know who are these people, I think this one might be my favorite
Iron Heart – wooo Evangeline, she was my favorite character and the only one beside Maven that I liked from the series. I thought this was going to be a novella about her, but it was actually just a lot of political after-war talk.
Fire Light – wait, did someone think I actually care about Mare and Cal anymore? I don’t. I don’t give a single fuck about their will-they-won't-they dramaturgy.
Fare Well – Maven and Cal relationship is something really complex and I really of liked reading this one.
The Ghosts of the Shadow Market
GotSM is another of Clare’s novella collection in the Shadow
World. I’ve read first 7 novellas back in 2018 when they were published so I’m
just gonna shot-review the ones I read now.
The Lost World – ugh when can I get more of Ty and his lynx
uwu I don’t like this part of Livyy being a ghost tho, but there are lots of
things I hated about the ending of QoAaD …
Forever Fallen – what the fuck? I hate this. I hate this
parallel universe shit and bringing characters back and forth like they are the
same person? Or are they. Clare obviously has no idea what the fuck she’s doing
with the parallel universes and this is getting even worse and worse. Like does
she even know how HER magic system works? Are there only two parallel
universes? Or are there infinite more? Yay, that means we have a million more
Jace’s and opportunities to recycle the plot!
From the internationally bestselling authors of THE ILLUMINAE FILES comes an epic new science fiction adventure.
The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the Academy would touch…
A cocky diplomat with a black belt in sarcasm
A sociopath scientist with a fondness for shooting her bunkmates
A smart-ass techwiz with the galaxy’s biggest chip on his shoulder
An alien warrior with anger management issues
A tomboy pilot who’s totally not into him, in case you were wondering
And Ty’s squad isn’t even his biggest problem—that’d be Aurora Jie-Lin O’Malley, the girl he’s just rescued from interdimensional space. Trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries, Auri is a girl out of time and out of her depth. But she could be the catalyst that starts a war millions of years in the making, and Tyler’s squad of losers, discipline-cases and misfits might just be the last hope for the entire galaxy.
They're not the heroes we deserve. They're just the ones we could find. Nobody panic.
A big-hearted romantic comedy in which First Son Alex falls in love with Prince Henry of Wales after an incident of international proportions forces them to pretend to be best friends...
First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep’s genius granddaughter, they’re the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have downsides—namely, when photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations.
The plan for damage control: staging a fake friendship between the First Son and the Prince. Alex is busy enough handling his mother’s bloodthirsty opponents and his own political ambitions without an uptight royal slowing him down. But beneath Henry’s Prince Charming veneer, there’s a soft-hearted eccentric with a dry sense of humor and more than one ghost haunting him.
As President Claremont kicks off her reelection bid, Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret relationship with Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations. And Henry throws everything into question for Alex, an impulsive, charming guy who thought he knew everything: What is worth the sacrifice? How do you do all the good you can do? And, most importantly, how will history remember you?
Hello everyone :)
I too would like to apologize for being so inactive here in the past few months—I was just really busy with school and life in general, and on top of that, I fell into somewhat of a reading/writing slump that I couldn't really get past. Luckily, now that school has ended I have loads of free times on my hands and feel super motivated to both read books and review them, so hopefully I'll be a bit more active in the next few months.
As you probably noticed, I also skipped doing a recap & tbr post last month, so I decided to briefly include my May recap into this post just so I could keep track of what I've read which month more easily.
May Recap
- 3 books (2 novels + 1 novella)
- all fantasy
- average rating: 4.17
>> A Gathering of Shadows - Second installment in Schwab's amazing Shades of Magic trilogy. I enjoyed it immensely, maybe even more than the first book. Kell/Lila were everything and the slow burn relationship between them was exactly what I needed to fall in love with them even more.
>> The Tailor - A short Grishaverse novella showing one of the scenes from Shadow and Bone from Genya's point of view. It was fun reading it, but not much happened.
>> A Conjuring of Light - The epic finale to Shades of Magic. It was a bit longer than the first two installments and took me quite some time to finish, but it was so worth it. I enjoyed literally every second of reading it and fell in love with both these characters and this amazing universe Schwab created time and time again and I'd love to return to it sometime again.
June Recap
- 4 books (3 novels + 1 collection of novellas)
- genres: fantasy (3), thriller (1)
- average rating: 4.75
>> A Reaper at the Gates - The third installment in Tahir's Ember Quartet was everything I've expected it to be and then some more. Loved it! You can read my full review HERE.
>> Ghosts of the Shadow Market - All of GotSM novellas which came out over the course of 2018 were published in this book, along with two brand new novellas. If you want to know what I thought of it, you should definitely check out my review.
>> Ghosts of the Shadow Market - All of GotSM novellas which came out over the course of 2018 were published in this book, along with two brand new novellas. If you want to know what I thought of it, you should definitely check out my review.
>> A Game of Thrones - Once the show ended (and especially with the way it ended), I simply couldn't resist picking this up. It made me fall in love with all the characters and this incredible universe Martin created all over again and I'm beyond excited about reading the rest of this series (or rather, parts of it that have been published)
Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.
Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of what really happened the day her daughter died.
Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents would devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen's feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife's words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue to love her.
Heeey everyone :)
Now that it's finally time for another monthly recap & tbr I would like to apologize for being slightly inactive for the past month or so. I didn't even write recap and tbr last month because I had tons of work for school and my reading was an absolute mess, but now I'm back and I really want to do more and improve the quality of both my reviews and my reading.
Now that it's finally time for another monthly recap & tbr I would like to apologize for being slightly inactive for the past month or so. I didn't even write recap and tbr last month because I had tons of work for school and my reading was an absolute mess, but now I'm back and I really want to do more and improve the quality of both my reviews and my reading.
June recap
- 9 books
- Genres: fiction (8), non-fiction(1), fantasy (4), thriller (2), dystopian --> sci-fi (2)
- average rating: 3,67
July tbr
Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.
Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of what really happened the day her daughter died.
Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents would devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen's feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife's words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue to love her.
A standalone romantic thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover.