Booking Ahead/Weekly Wrap Up
24 August 2025
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Book Reviews, Booking Ahead, Books, Caffeinated Book Reviewer, Fantasy, reading, Sunday Post, Weekly wrap up
Books read this week:
Well, the weather has cooled down this week which has made sleeping a lot easier. I’ve had a good reading week and also managed to post three reviews. I read Play Nice by Rachel Harrison and The Hexologists: A Tangle of Time by Josiah Bancroft and really enjoyed both. Play Nice has had it’s date pushed back I think so I might hold onto my post a little while for that one – we’ll see. I’ve also been listening to This Monster of Mine by Shalini Abeysekara and in fact I should complete that later today with just one hour of listening left.
Next Week’s Reads:
I’ll continue with my September review books so looking at picking up No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes, or The Ghosts of Merry Hall by Heather Davey, or maybe I’ll be overcome with longing and pick up The Faerie Morgana by Louisa Morgan.
Reviews Posted:
- Forget Me Not by Stacy Willingham
- This Vicious Hunger by Francesca May
- Damned by Genevieve Cogman
Outstanding Reviews
- Shield of Sparrows by Devney Perry
- Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
- The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
- The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw – DNF
- Play Nice by Rachel Harrison
- The Hexologists: A Tangle of Time by Josiah Bancroft
- This Monster of Mine by Shalini Abeysekara
That’s it for me this week, what have you been up to? Any good books to shout out about. Let me know.
Books and travelling with Lynn 
The weather was cooler here too, and I was soooo happy!! 🥰 And it seems like you had a good reading week! I’ve read This Monster of Mine and I enjoyed it quite a lot, even if I had a lot of problems with the female MC! Are you enjoying it?
I can’t wait to start Play Nice! I think it’s still on track in the US to come out in early September, so I should read it soon.
Hello Lynn, I am pleased to hear you had a good reading and reviewing week, and that you have slept better now the weather has cooled. Similarly, temperatures have been more pleasant here in the UK, thank God, because I am very much over this humid summer! 🥵 I have just finished reading the beautiful The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa 😻
Blessings, Jessica 💌
I just nabbed an audiobook review copy of Play Nice and even though there’s still time until release I don’t think I want to wait to dive in!