Holiday Reads | My Five Choices

One thing I love about Holidays is the 7 days I get to just read. I catch up on so much from my TBR -mainly from my kindle. They're so handy to take on holiday. So today is a post where I recommend 5 books I think you should be taking away with you the next holiday you have and enjoying a nice light(ish) read while you're led by the pool relaxing. Not thinking about work or any form of blogging/writing you need to be doing. 

Book Review | Fire & Flood by Victoria Scott

Sometimes I pick up books just because I love the covers. I'm very much see it like it read it buy it in my book ways. This cover for me is so simplistic it is beautiful and so I picked it up and read the back and needless to say it was the perfect blurb to capture my attention.

Blog Tour | Book Review | The Riviera* by Karen Aldous

Another day, another blog tour. I received this free ebook copy of The Riviera through NetGalley as I signed up to the blog tour with Jenny In Neverland. If you want to check out her blog I suggest you do so, and if you're an author wanting to promote your book she has a website for that too!

The Disney Book Tag

After seeing this on Jenny In Neverlands blog, it took me approximately two seconds to decide I wanted to give this ago too. Just like Jenny I am a book nerd but also a HUGE disney fan. I'm still trying to convince my boyfriend to take a trip to florida, so naturally this TAG would have definitely appealed to me. 

Like Disney and Books too? Why not do the tag yourself? Let me know if you do! 

This post does contain book spoilers - read at your own risk. 

Book Review | The Blast by Sarah Perlmutter

The only dystopian novels I have ever read are The Hunger Games and Divergent trilogies. I thought about writing my own once but I wasn't sure how that would work out so that idea went on the back burner and then through the brilliance of Twitter I found Sarah Perlmutter. 

Book Review | Just The Way You Are by Lynsey James

Social Media is a wonderful tool. One minute you'll be reading about a horrible tragedy, the next your bombarded with beautiful book covers. That is how I found this book. Plus the review on Jenny In Neverlands Blog, it was hard not to want to snap this up immediately. Which is what I inevitably did.

Book Review | Unmarked by Kami Garcia

Being an avid reader it doesnt take a lot for me to become hooked with a series, as long as I like it. With Kami's books although it took me a while to get around to reading, finding time after starting a new job with more hours is more difficult than you think, I have fallen for Kennedy and she is the reason I keep coming back. Good characters, story, cover and description and you have me wanting another sequel all the time. 

Book Review | Jinxed By Donna Augustine

I love a good book series so when Karma finished and there was still more of the story to go I was so happy that Jinxed was out. While I like standalone books, sometimes you need a series so you don't have to let go of the characters just yet - HP feels anyone?

Blog Tour | Undone by His Kiss by Anabelle Bryant

So as I am doing a lot of blog tours I thought I would mix it up a bit. Today I have an excerpt from Anabelle Bryants new book Undone By His Kiss and I have to say this is amazing! While normally you'd get one long section this time you have two small ones and it's definitely the way to whet your appetite for this book!

Here's a little bit to make you want to read more:

Blurb: A most delicious challenge… 

 Experience has taught Emily Shaw that men are best avoided, so she’s determined to take her place in society alone and unrestrained by marriage. Renting a room in the heart of London, she establishes a Women’s League to promote equality between the sexes and teach women to be independent. 

 Jasper St David isn’t looking for distractions, but he’s fascinated by beautiful, fiercely opinionated Emily when she moves into the office above his. And when he learns of her determination never to succumb to male charms, he can’t help but see it as a challenge! After all, Jasper’s always found nothing more tantalising than the thrill of the chase…

Book Review | The Infernal Devices 1: Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare

I had been out of the reading game for a few years before I was lured back into it by the book bloggers and book tubers. The Mortal Instruments were some of the first books I started to read after my three year stint of not reading at all. Now I have a kindle bursting with books and a book shelf with no space on it. 

Blog Tour | Swords Around The Throne by Ian Ross Q&A

Again I have the amazing opportunity to take part in another Blog Tour hosted by the lovely Jenny In Neverland. I tried to read the book but unfortunately I was working non-stop and didn't have time to read the book so I decided to ask some questions as getting inside the mind of an author is always interesting to me. 

I was going through a bit of a writers block phase (sensing a theme lately?) and only thought up four questions but with the in depth answers I think you'll all be completely satisfied with the answers. I know I was!

Book Review | The Charismatics by Ashley R Carlson

I first learned about this book through twitter. I was following someone who mentioned Ashley and that she was writing, so me being a novice writer myself decided to give her a follow. Then I found out she was publishing her first novel, read her post on Better Novel Project and then decided while I was on holiday I would read it. Not only to support someone I follow on twitter but because the blurb makes it sound like THE best story ever. 

Book Review | Unbreakable by Kami Garcia

If there was one thing I never thought I would read it's a novel about ghosts. Ghosts have never interested me but mix it with secret and legion and clearly I am all in. 

Book Review | The Accident Season* by Moira Fowley-Doyle

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for a review of the book. It's a book I've had my eye on for a while and have been so excited to read. It's such an original idea and that makes me want to read it all the more!

No Spoilers. 

5 Things Bloggers Think When Going Through Bloggers Block

Sometimes you just have no ides what words to put onto paper which others will want to read. Or that you want to read yourself. This could last for one day, one week, one month but no matter what length of time it is you soon find the same 5 thoughts going round in your mind.

Book Review | Karma by Donna Augustine

If you're looking for something different to read and haven't read anything about Karma before then I definitely suggest this. Another one of Amazon's famous enablers led me to buy this book and I have to say I enjoyed it enough to buy the second one. 

Book Review | Return to Bluebell Hill by Rebecca Pugh

My jealousy of new authors coming out of the woodwork is at an all time high after I met a few people who are writing novels, two of which have recently had their first ones published. While I sit here and throw away 63K words and wallow in my self pity.

However, I actually like the people who have written the books and Becca is no exception. With this little number under her belt, a heartwarming love story, I cannot wait to read more of her work and I am proud of her - even though we haven't met. 

Book Review | Star Thief by Jamie Grey

Sometimes Amazon is an enabler and makes me buy books. This was one of them, and it was fantastic! From the exciting first pages to the tension filled ending this sci-fi book was such a good pick up and I implore you to go and buy it if you are looking for something knew like I was. 

Book Haul | 9 Books

Since starting my new job there hasn't really been much time to do anything. I get up at 5:40, I leave by 7 and I work from 7:30 till 5:30, then depending on the day I either get home around 7 or 8:30, it's a long day for me. When I get home, I shower, cook, sit down and talk with either my parents or boyfriend (depending on who's house I'm staying at) and then if it's Monday or Wednesday I watch TV (Hello GoT and PLL!!). 

Blogging | Internet Friends I'd Like To Meet

Since I started blogging, and openly speaking about the book I've been writing for 3 years I've met a few people on Twitter and honestly they're a pretty cool bunch of people, and sometimes we have conversations that just make me think - Hey, these people are awesome and I'd like to meet them to see if we'd be exactly the same IRL as on Twitter/E-mail.