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Blog Tour | ARC Review: Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin

Blog Tour | ARC Review: Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin

Rating: ★★★★★

Date Released: February 18, 2020

Publisher: Wednesday Books

Series: Standalone

First Thoughts: This is the story that would happen if the Heathers put on Macbeth.

Content Warnings: There are major content warnings for this book. It discusses rape,  justice issues pertaining to sexual assault and rape, suicide, murder, and drug use. This is a very emotionally heavy book on top of…

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Fantastic Flying Book Club Tour: "A Treason of Thorns" by Laura E. Weymouth

Fantastic Flying Book Club Tour: "A Treason of Thorns" by @lauraeweymouth @fantasticflyingbookclub #atreasonofthorns #bookblogger #bookreview

Rating: ★★★★✩

Date Released: September 10, 2019

Publisher: HarperTeen

First Thoughts: Weymouth continues her journey in a 

Would I Recommend It?: Yes

Series: Standalone

Synopsis:

Violet Sterling has spent the last seven years in exile, longing to return to Burleigh House. One of the six great houses of England, Burleigh’s magic always kept the countryside well. And as a child, this magic kept…

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ARC Review: Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim

ARC Review: Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim #bookblogger #spinthedawn #bookreview

Rating: ★★★★✩

Release Date: July 9, 2019

Publisher: Knopf BFYR

Series: The Blood of Stars, Book #1

Would I Recommend It?: Yes, especially if you want a light read

First Thoughts: I really should have read the synopsis, because apparently, that was not a plot twist!

Synopsis:

Maia Tamarin dreams of becoming the greatest tailor in the land, but as a girl, the best she can hope for is to marry…

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Mini ARC Review: Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff

Mini ARC Review: Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff #bookblogger #darkdawn #jaykristoff #thenevernightchronicles

Rating: ★★★★★

Date Released: September 3, 2019

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books

First Thoughts: I am still not okay.

Would I Recommend?: A THOUSAND TIMES OVER

Series: The Nevernight Chronicles, Book #3

Spoilers!!! The synopsis has spoilers but my review is spoiler-free!

Synopsis:

The Republic of Itreya is in chaos. Mia Corvere has assassinated Cardinal Duomo and rumors of Consul Scaeva’s death…

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Top Ten Tuesday: Books That I Would Love to Own

Top Ten Tuesday: Books That I Would Love to Own #toptentuedsay #bookblogger

Happy Tuesday!

I own many, many books but that seems to be a bit understandable considering what I do. However, there are always books that I would love to add to my library.

Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno

I read this book last summer and haven’t stopped recommending to everyone! I believe that it is high time for me to finally own it.

All The Ever Afters by Danielle Teller

This was a…

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Waiting on Wednesday: The Silvered Serpents by Roshani Chokshi

Waiting on Wednesday: The Silvered Serpents by @Roshani_Chokshi #waitingonwednesday #thesilveredserpents @WednesdayBooks

Release Date: February 4, 2020

Publisher: Wednesday Books

Series: The Gilded Wolves, Book #2

Warning this is a sequel!!! If you want to check out the first book, you can read my review of The Gilded Wolves.

Synopsis:

Séverin and his team members might have successfully thwarted the Fallen House, but victory came at a terrible cost ― one that still haunts all of them. Desperate to make amends,…

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Happy Tuesday!

I went on a mini-vacation to Baltimore and DC (if you are in the DC area, I highly recommend checking out Queens of Egypt at the Nat Geo Museum!) and I meant to write this last week because I knew that I wasn’t going to do it on Monday night when I got back but you know that didn’t happen. I am so predictable.

So here I am! And now some of my favorite tropes!

Found Family

I can guarantee to you, that if this is in a book I will read it.

Heists

I love a good, totally against the odds heist. Why do I love it? The thrill of the heist.

Ragtag Groups

The group that is only together because it is the only way to get to a common goal. Bonus points if they become a found family.

Competitions

Magical, Bloody, or Social. I enjoy it all.

Lovable Villians

I love villains that you can understand and actually sympathize with.

Trapped

This usually applies to spaceships (a la Girl In Space) but I would also include blizzards and natural disasters. I love seeing how people get creative with the space around them to survive.

Sisterly Friendship

This is the friendship that is between two sisters or two girls that is so deep and meaningful. They can have fights but it would never stop them from loving each other.

Fairytale/Mythology Retellings

This one should be pretty obvious because I am obsessed with all things fairytales, mythology, and legends.

Soft Characters

This one goes with “Sisterly Friendship” but it can be any singular person. This is the character that isn’t afraid to show emotions, show, weakness, or love. They are pure at heart.

Books with Books

Libraries, Characters who own bookstores, characters who just love books. I think this has to do with the fact of seeing myself reflected in them.

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme by The Broke and The Bookish and is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.

Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Tropes (And none of them have to do with romance!) #toptentuesday #bookblogger Happy Tuesday! I went on a mini-vacation to Baltimore and DC (if you are in the DC area, I highly recommend checking out Queens of Egypt at the Nat Geo Museum!) and I meant to write this last week because I knew that I wasn't going to do it on Monday night when I got back but you know that didn't happen.

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Mini Graphic Anathology Review: Through the Woods by Emily Carrol

Mini Graphic Anathology Review: Through the Woods by Emily Carrol #bookblogger #graphicnovel #bookreview #throughthewoods

Rating: ★★★✩✩

Would I Recommend It?: Yes

Series: Standalone

Synopsis:

‘It came from the woods. Most strange things do.’

Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow journeys into (and out of?) the eerie abyss.

These chilling tales spring from the macabre imagination of acclaimed and award-winning comic creator Emily Carroll.

Come take a walk in the woods and see what awaits you there…

My…

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Rant Review: Starfight by Melissa Landers

Rant Review: Starfight by Melissa Landers #bookblogger #bookreview #starflight

Rating: ★★✩✩✩

Dates Read: August 2 – August 7, 2019

Series: Starflight, Book #1

Would I Recommend It?: No

Synopsis:

Life in the outer realm is a lawless, dirty, hard existence, and Solara Brooks is hungry for it. Just out of the orphanage, she needs a fresh start in a place where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. She’s so…

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ARC Review: Gumiho Wicked Fox by Kat Cho Is it just me or is this cover gorgeous! I want a print of it. Rating: ★★★✯✩

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Mini Book Review: Vicious bt V.E. Schwab

Mini Book Review: Vicious bt V.E. Schwab #bookreview #bookblogger #vicious

Rating: ★★★

Series: Villians, Book #1

Synopsis:

Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could…

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Top Ten Tuesday: Should I Read This?

Top Ten Tuesday: Should I Read This? #toptentuesday #bookblogger

Happy Tuesday!

Today’s topic is a freebie so I am excited to read all of your unique posts! My theme for today is “Should I Read This?”. I have over 1,200 books on my GoodReads TBR and lets be real here, I am probably not even going to read half of them because of my changing tastes, the constant releases of new books, and the neverending march of time. So I figured why not ask you guys if these…

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Waiting on Wednesday: The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones

Waiting on Wednesday: The Bone Houses by @em_llojo #waitingonwednesday #theboneshouses @theNOVL

Release Date: September 24, 2019

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Series: Standalone

Synopsis:

Seventeen-year-old Aderyn (“Ryn”) only cares about two things: her family, and her family’s graveyard. And right now, both are in dire straits. Since the death of their parents, Ryn and her siblings have been scraping together a meager existence as gravediggers in the remote village of…

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Top Ten Tuesday: Snubbed Settings

Top Ten Tuesday: Snubbed Settings #toptentuesday #bookblogging

Happy Tuesday!

Sorry it is going to be a short one today.

Ancient Egypt (or just Egypt in general)

I love Ancient Egypt and it is sorely snubbed compared to Ancient Greece and Rome.

Mesopotamia

Speaking of snubbed ancient cities, I don’t think that I have ever heard of a book that was set here.

North America pre-Europeans

As I have learned more and more about history, I have to come to learn of…

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Waiting on Wednesday: Aphrodite Made Me Do It by @tristamateer #waitingonwednesday #aphroditemademedoit Release Date: October 1, 2019 Publisher: Central Avenue Publishing Series: Standalone Synopsis: Bestselling and award-winning author Trista Mateer takes an imaginative approach to self-care in this new poetry and prose collection, …

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Top Ten Tuesday: Auto-Buy Authors

Top Ten Tuesday: Auto-Buy Authors #toptentuesday #autobuyauthors

Happy Tuesday!

I am glad that this prompt is a short one because I have been finding it hard to blog lately. I am not exactly sure why. I have always enjoyed talking about books. So gentlefriends, I ask of you how do you get out of a blogging slump? 

And now the regularly scheduled programming!

Marie Lu

I have loved her books since Legend came out and I will buy all of them!

V. E. Schwab

I…

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ARC Review: Wilder Girls by Rory Power | I am so disappointed

ARC Review: Wilder Girls by Rory Power | I am so disappointed #bookreview #wildergirls #bookblogger #rantreview

Rating: ★★★✩✩

Dates Read: July 1 – July 9, 2019

First Thoughts: Why did I scum to the hype?

Release Date: July 9, 2019

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Series: Standalone

Would I Recommend It?: No

Synopsis:

It’s been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty’s life out from under her.

It started slow. First the teachers died one by…