Booking Ahead/Weekly Wrap Up
4 February 2024
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Tags: Book Review, Booking Ahead, Caffeinated Book Reviewer, Fantasy, Sunday Post, Weekly wrap up
I’m trying to get back into the habit of doing a round-up of the week just completed and also take a look at my plans for the forthcoming week. I rather got out of the habit of doing so but I would like to reinstate this type of post as I feel it keeps me on track. So, I’m linking up to The Sunday Post over at Kimberly’s Caffeinated Reviewer. Without further ado:
Books read this week:
This week I’ve been away for a few days and in fact I’m still away. So, I’ve had a few posts scheduled but not written many reviews or done much blog hopping or chatting with everyone. Next week, hopefully, normal service will be resumed. This week I managed to stay on track. I’ve read Only If You’re Lucky by Stacy Willingham and Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead by Jenny Hollander and enjoyed both of these titles – my only regret is reading one on the back of the other – because they’re both mysteries that flit back and forth between the ‘then’ and the ‘now’.
Next Week’s Reads:
Reviews Posted:
- Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge by Lizzie Pook
Outstanding Reviews
- SPFBO Finalist
- SPFBO Finalist
- SPFBO Finalist
- Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff
- The September House by Carissa Orlando
- What Moves the Dead by T Kingfisher
- Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead by Jenny Hollander
- Only If You’re Lucky by Stacy Willingham
Friday Face Off : Hera by Jennifer Saint
Today I’m returning to the Friday Face Off, originally created by Books by Proxy). I’ve missed these for the past few months and so would like to get back to comparing covers (and hopefully I will be updating this page with a new banner. This is an opportunity to look at a book of your choice and shine the spotlight on the covers. Of course this only works for those books that have alternative covers (although sometimes I use this to look at a series of books to choose a favourite). . So, if you have a book that has alternative covers, highlight them and choose your favourite. If you’re taking part it would be great if you leave a link so I can take a look at what you’ve chosen.
This week I’ve chosen a book that I’m really looking forward to. Hera by Jennifer Saint. I’m loving these reimaginings of Greek mythology and have read this author’s previous three books. I’m so excited for this one. Here are the covers:
This week my favourite is:
I really like the first cover. I think It probably fits the novel better in some respects (although I haven’t read it yet) but it certainly has this whole ‘Greek statue of the Gods’ thing going on. But, I like the vibrancy of the second cover.
Which is your favourite?
Join me next week in highlighting one of your reads with different covers.
Monthly Wrap Up/What’s on my Plate: Jan/Feb
1 February 2024
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Tags: Book Review, Books, Books Bones and Buffy, Fantasy, Month in review, SPFBO, What's on my Plate
I’m trying to post a wrap up for the end of each month, mainly to help me to keep track of my reading and at the same time look at what I’m intending to read during the month ahead (inspired by Books Bones and Buffy’s What’s on My Plate.
I didn’t post a ‘What’s on my Plate’ for January so this will be my first post for 2024.
Here’s what I read during January:
- Miss Austen Investigates, the Hapless Milliner by Jessica Bull
- The City of Stardust by Georgia Summers
- Relight My Fire by CK McDonnell
- The September House by Carissa Orlando
- The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins
- Only If you’re Lucky by Stacy Willingham
- Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge by Lizzie Pook
- 1 x SPFBO Finalist
- What Moves the Dead by T Kingfisher
- 1 x SPFBO Finalist
I managed to read and review all my January books and catch up with some late reviews. For the month of Feburary these are the books that I will be reading (in fact I’ve already made a start, I’ve read two, made a start on a third and reviewed one of the books listed. Hopefully I can complete the remaining books and at least one SPFBO finalist (we’ll see, February is a short month but I’d like to stay on track if possible).
- Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge by Lizzie Pook – read and reviewed
- Only If you’re Lucky by Stacy Willingham – read and awaiting review
- Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead – currently reading
- The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
- The Trials of Empire by Richard Swan
- The Briar Book of the Dead by AG Slatter
- What Feasts at Night by T Kingfisher
- An Education in Malice by ST Gibson
- Empire of the Damned by Jay Kristoff
Can’t Wait Wednesday : Hera by Jennifer Saint
31 January 2024
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Tags: Can't wait Wednesday, Hera, Jennifer Saint, New releases, Wishful Endings
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme that was originally created by Breaking the Spine. Unfortunately Breaking the Spine are no longer hosting so I’m now linking my posts up to Wishful Endings Can’t Wait Wednesday. Don’t forget to stop over, link up and check out what books everyone else is waiting for. If you want to take part, basically, every Wednesday, we highlight a book that we’re really looking forward to. This week my book is : Hera by Jennifer Saint. Here’s the cover and description:
The enthralling tale of a powerful Greek goddess maligned in both myth and ancient history, as told by Sunday Times bestselling author Jennifer Saint.
When Hera, immortal goddess and daughter of the ancient Titan Cronos, helps her brother Zeus to overthrow their tyrannical father, she dreams of ruling at his side.
As they establish their reign on Mount Olympus, Hera suspects that Zeus might be just as ruthless and cruel as the father they betrayed.
She was always born to rule, but must she lose herself in perpetuating this cycle of violence and cruelty? Or can she find a way to forge a better world?
Often portrayed as the jealous wife or the wicked stepmother, this retelling captures the many sides of Hera, vengeful when she needs to be but also compassionate and mostly importantly, an all-powerful queen to the gods.
Expected publication : May 2024
Top Ten Tuesday : New-to-Me Authors Discovered in 2023
30 January 2024
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Tags: Book Reviews, New to me authors, That Artsy Reader Girl, Top Ten Tuesday
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic. Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here. This week’s topic:
New-to-Me Authors Discovered in 2023
- The Other Lives of Miss Emily White by AJ Elwood
- My Murder by Kate Williams
- Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine
- Powerless by Lauren Roberts
- The Hexologists by Josiah Bancroft
- The Pale House Devil by Richard Kadrey
- The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
- What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez
- The September House by Carissa Orlando
- Voyage of the Damned by Frances White
Books and travelling with Lynn 