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Happy Friday bookish people! I hope you are all doing well.
Seeing as it is the month of Halloween, I thought it might be fun to share a book for each genre that I can think of that has the spooky vibes we all look for during this time of the year.
Just a note – I say one for every genre but by that I mean a couple of genres which were the only ones that I could think of.
Happy Monday bookish people! How are you all feeling today? I hope you are all good. Today I am bringing you my book review for The Devil Makes Three by Tori Bovalino.
Blurb/Synopsis:
Tess Matheson only wants three things: time to practice her cello, for her sister to be happy, and for everyone else to leave her alone.
Instead, Tess finds herself working all summer at her boarding school library, shelving books and dealing with the intolerable patrons. The worst of them is Eliot Birch: snide, privileged, and constantly requesting forbidden grimoires. After a bargain with Eliot leads to the discovery of an ancient book in the library’s grimoire collection, the pair accidentally unleash a book-bound demon.
The demon will stop at nothing to stay free, manipulating ink to threaten those Tess loves and dismantling Eliot’s strange magic. Tess is plagued by terrible dreams of the devil and haunting memories of a boy who wears Eliot’s face. All she knows is to stay free, the demon needs her… and he’ll have her, dead or alive.
My Review:
In The Devil Makes Three we are following two main characters. The first is Tess Matheson, a music prodigy who has upended her own life to make sure her sister Nat gets the best chance she can. Tess works in the Library with a woman who I believe was her Aunt but I’m not 100% certain on that and while working in the Library she ends up meeting Elliott Birch, who is the second main character we follow.
Elliott and Tess start off on the wrong foot but they end up having to work together when they find a hidden passage under the library where a grimoire is hidden.
I can’t say a lot about this book without giving spoilers away but I can tell you that for the first half of the book I enjoyed getting to know the characters but I felt that Elliott was being used to further Tess’s character rather than defining him as a 3D character himself. This did get better in the second half of the book though and I liked that you could see the flaws in the characters.
The other main thought that I had on this book was that it was very creepy, much too creepy for me even though I read it through to the end, which is good because that is what the author intended so it is very well written but for me that creepiness was off-putting. I liked the characters and I liked the setting although it felt like a YA book to me and I am reading more adult books than YA now. I don’t think I will keep my copy of the book but I am glad I gave it a go.
Have you read this book? What did you think of it?
Rating:
Happy Monday bookish people! I hope you’re all having a good day today. It is nearly halfway through the year and June is coming to an end.
What a month it has been! I have spent most of my time buried under edits of my novel, I have been working on it almost non-stop this month and I have just sent off a query to an agent, so fingers crossed for that. Because of that the month has gone by very quickly, and I have got some reading done which has been nice, no stand out reads, they were all average and one DNF which was a surprise, I thought that book was going to be a five star.
How has your reading been this month? Did you read any books you would recommend?
My Wrap up:
Outside of my TBR I also read the second in the Dog Sitter Detective series. So, overall I read three books (four if I get to Love on the Brain), and I DNF’d one book which is quite a productive reading month foe me. I can only hope July will be just as good or even better.
Happy Friday bookish people! I hope you’re all doing well. We are getting into the summer months, the warm weather and longer days make it the perfect time for enjoying escaping into the worlds in our books so today I am sharing with you my June TBR!
What are you all reading this month?
Happy Friday bookish people! I hope you are all having a lovely day today, I am bringing you a book tag – the Medieval Queens Book Tag! I found this tag on onebookmore.com
Happy Friday bookish people! I hope you are all having a good day today. I thought it might be fun today to share what some books I have, that I have signed, are.
I would just like to say that I am not trying to brag about the books that I have I just thought it might be fun to share which books and where I may have gotten some of them.
I got this book as a wonderful signed edition from my monthly Illumicrate boxes
I also got this book in a book box!
I also got this one in an Illumicrate box, I read it and loved it and now I own the second one in the series.
My friend ordered me this book from online because they had found a hardback copy and then when it arrived it was a great surprise to find out it was also signed
I got this amazing book in my Illumicrate box too.
I managed to grab a signed edition of this book from my local waterstones
I found this book in a charity shop and it turned out to be a signed hardback and it was an amazing bargain
I got this from a company called Forbidden Planet, I was just scrolling through their website and I ended up ordering a lot of books (oops!) and I managed to get a signed copy of this book from there.
I got this one in my Waterstones, it didn’t say it was signed and I was very happy when I got home and saw it was signed
I got this book and Once and Future Witches by the same author in my monthly book boxes
I got this one in my local Waterstones
I found a signed copy of this one in my Whsmiths and I was really excited to find this one
I got this book in a recent Illumicrate box
I managed to preorder a signed copy of this book from waterstones
I got this book in my Illumicrate box too
I got this beautiful book in my Illumicrate box
I got these books signed when I met Karen M McManus at YALC in 2019 which was amazing!
I also got this in my Illumicrate box
My local waterstones luckily had a signed copy of this book
I also got this one in my Illumicrate box
I was looking everywhere for a signed copy of this book and I finally found one in Whsmiths
I bought the special Illumicrate box for this book and along with some other items it got me a signed copy of this book
That’s it for this blog post, I hope you all enjoyed it! Do you have any signed books?
Happy Friday bookish people! I can’t believe it is March already! I thought it might be fun to share with you all some of the books I own that I think have beautiful covers.
That’s it for this post, I hope you enjoyed it. What are some of your most beautiful books?
Happy Friday bookish people! I hope you’re all having a good day and week. My week has been very upsetting and stressful, my partner and I ended up breaking up and I had to gather the things I needed and move to my sister’s house for a few days. Then I will be moving back in with my parents so it’s been really difficult and I’m not doing too great but things will get better soon I’m sure.
Anyway, today I am bringing you my TBR for February which is my TBR for the Chopped Readathon which I am co-hosting in February with @PlaidReader on Twitter. Here is a link to the sign up form if you would like to join us: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfV_nRT7DJaLaJhGOLYLMsm5Jc3fZvPUroMVjj3jZrBDRxGHw/viewform
and here is a link to my post where I explain what the readathon is going to be about: https://theblindscribe.com/2022/01/21/chopped-romantic-dinner-readathon/
Onto the TBR!
All I had to know about this book is that there’s a library and demons coming out of books so of course I want to read it.
I don’t know much about this book but I saw a few people mention that if you like the book fangirl by rainbow rowell then you might like this one so that’s why I picked it up and I am intrigued.
I am so excited to read this book! And this cover definitely fits the prompt of looking fancy.
I love anything Garth Nix so I am very excited to read this.
I started this book about a year ago and I read the first 100 pages and then I can’t remember the reason why I put it down but I did and I hadn’t gotten around to picking it up again yet.
I know it doesn’t look very red here but I was very lucky to be sent a proof copy of this book and that one has a red cover, so I am going to count it.
That’s it for my February TBR, I hope you all enjoyed seeing what I plan to read. Let me know in the comments if you plan to join us with the readathon – there are prizes! – and what you plan to read for it.
Happy Monday bookish people! It is getting to the end of November and it is time to share my November wrap-up with you all. This month has gone by so quickly because I’ve had so much to do. This month has been for getting everything ready for Christmas and at last it is all done, prepared, ready. I’ve also been making all my posts for December because as I announced last week I will be trying to post every day in December, it has been fun but a lot of work. I haven’t finished them yet but I’ve done most and I am attempting to finish them today. On top of that I’ve been unwell for at least half of November and that has left very little time to read.
So, let’s talk about what I did and didn’t read and what I thought of the books!
So I ended up reading five books off my TBR and I am in the middle of a sixth book from my TBR, outside of my TBR I read You’ll Be The Death of Me by Karen M McManus for a book tour so that makes my overall total for the month 7 books which I’m pretty pleased with.
I hope you enjoyed reading my November Wrap-up!
Happy Tuesday bookish people! I was meant to be putting this post up yesterday but I ran out of time because my partner and I were visiting his parents. So I’m putting it up today instead!
This month I have used the prompts for Believathon round 4: Escape from the Jungle – hosted by Gavin from How To Train Your Gavin on YouTube, but I am twisting the rules just a little bit…
The premise of the Readathon is to read middle grade books that fit the prompts – there are thirty prompts in total. I don’t own that many middle grade books so I am just going to use any books I have to fit the prompts and get some of the middle grade I own in there as well.
Onto my TBR for November!
That’s it for my October TBR I hope you enjoyed it and let me know in the comments if you have read any of these and what you thought of them!
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