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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 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 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 Monday bookish people! It is the first of November and that means it is time to share with you my wrap up for the month of October.
October was once again a really busy month for me, I officially started my PhD course and I have had to sort lots of things out in preparation for my Masters graduation while also dealing with some issues with my health. It has been a long feeling month that is for sure, but we are now in November and I am feeling great about reading and the books I have chosen (my November TBR post will be going up later today!).
So, in October I was planning on reading lots of spooky books and mysteries and… well, I didn’t do as well with my TBR as I’d hoped. I wasn’t feeling the books I had on my TBR when it came time to read them and then now – the first day of November I am really in the mood to read them. That is very annoying.
Anyway, let’s get into what I did and didn’t read in the month of October!
So, out of my TBR I read five of the books which isn’t great but it isn’t awful either. Outside of my TBR I also read the first three books in the Araminta Spook series by Angie sage which takes my October total to eight books. Considering everything that has happened this month I’m pretty happy with that total. Although I definitely plan to read more in November so we will see how that goes.
That’s it for my October wrap-up I hope you all enjoyed it! Let me know how you all did with your October reading.
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