Booking Ahead/Weekly Wrap Up
23 February 2025
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Tags: Book Review, book-blog, Booking Ahead, Books, Caffeinated Book Reviewer, Fantasy, reading, Sunday Post, Weekly wrap up
Books read this week:
This week has been good in terms of reading – unfortunately, I seem to have caught a cold which is quite unpleasant but hopefully I’ll shake it off soon. I’ve been doing some catching up, visiting all your lovely blogs to see what I’ve missed and also responding to comments. I’ve posted two reviews this week and I probably need to post three more next week. I also need to make a start on reviewing my SPFBO books and I’m hoping to squeeze in one more title before the end of February. In books – I completed Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett. I’ve loved this series and this was a very satisfying conclusion (at least I think it’s the conclusion). I’ll be posting a review next week. I also read, and already reviewed, Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis. This was a lovely romantasy, cosy with low stakes. Check out my review here. I then picked up Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey, this is quite a sad read, or at least that’s how I felt about it. Beautifully written and very atmospheric. Finally, I picked up Greenteeth by Molly O’Neill, which I’m absolutely loving and can’t wait to dive back into.
Finish Greenteeth and then I’d like to try and fit in one more review book and maybe another SPFBO finalist (perhaps one of the shorter books – there are some very chunky finalists this year).
Reviews Posted:
- The Crimson Road by AG Slatter
- Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis
Outstanding Reviews
- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
- The House of Frost and Feathers by Lauren Wiesebron
- SPFBO x 1
- SPFBO x 2
- SPFBO x 3
- SPFBO x 4
- Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey
- Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
That’s it for me this week, what have you been up to, any good books to shout out about. Let me know.
Booking Ahead/Weekly Wrap Up (slightly late!)
10 February 2025
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Tags: Book Review, book-blog, Booking Ahead/Weekly Wrap Up, Books, Caffeinated Book Reviewer, Fantasy, SPFBO, Sunday Post
Books read this week:
Being late seems to be a theme for me at the moment! I’m still reading and catching up but still keeping busy in other news and that’s set to continue for this week. So, hopefully, next week, maybe things will be a bit calmer, I’ll catch up with absolutely everything and live happily ever after – it could happen. I did manage to complete Grave Empire by Richard Swan and in fact already reviewed it. Spoiler alert – I loved it. In an attempt to get ahead a little with my SPFBO books I’ve already read another finalist which I enjoyed and I’m almost through the fourth one I picked up. I need to start writing some reviews for these in the forthcoming week. Once I complete this fourth finalist I’m going to be picking up some February review books. Definitely Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett and The Crimson Road by AG Slatter. I’m really looking forward to both of these and so I have no doubt they’ll be quick reads. Lets see if I can finish my current SPFBO book and the above two. Stranger things have happened.
Hopefully I will have finished my fourth finalist which means I can pick up one of the two books mentioned above. So excited!
Reviews Posted:
Grave Empire by Richard Swan
Outstanding Reviews
- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
- The House of Frost and Feathers by Lauren Wiesebron
- SPFBO x 1
- SPFBO x 2
- SPFBO x 3
That’s it for me this week, what have you been up to, any good books to shout out about. Let me know.
Friday Face Off: Spellbound by Georgia Leighton
7 February 2025
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Tags: Book Review, book-blog, Books, Friday Face off, Georgia Leighton, reading, Spellbound
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 looking forward to reading. Spellbound by George Leighton. Here are the covers:
My favourite this week:
I have to confess that I’m rather fascinated by this cover.
Have you read this book already? What did you think and which is your favourite?
Join me next week in highlighting one of your reads with different covers.
Friday Face Off: The Storm Beneath the World by Michael R Fletcher
31 January 2025
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Tags: Book Review, book-blog, Books, fiction, Friday Face off, Michael R Fletcher, reading, The Storm Beneath the World
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’ve read previously and loved. The Storm Beneath the World by Michael R Fletcher. Here are the covers:
My favourite this week:
Have you read this book already? What did you think and which is your favourite?
Join me next week in highlighting one of your reads with different covers.
Booking Ahead/Weekly Wrap Up
26 January 2025
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Book Review, book-blog, Booking Ahead, Books, Caffeinated Book Reviewer, Fantasy, SPFBO, Sunday Post, Weekly wrap up
Books read this week:
So, you may have noticed a slight absence from me for the past (almost two weeks). Just for the record, I’m not having a reading burn out or ditching my blog. I’ve been really busy personally and then I got the winter stomach bug that totally floored me. On top of that my language courses restarted after Christmas break and so that sucked some of my time (a lot of my time). My reading has been slow, but, I’ve read all my review books for January (thankfully this was a quiet month) and I’m just about to complete my second SPFBO finalist. I need to come visit all you lovely peeps and write a couple of reviews to catch up – easy right – what could possibly go wrong!
Once I complete my second SPFBO finalist (this evening) I’m definitely picking up Grave Empire by Richard Swan.
Hopefully complete Grave Empire and then make a start on Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett.
Reviews Posted:
None.
Outstanding Reviews
- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
- The House of Frost and Feathers by Lauren Wiesebron
- Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
- SPFBO x 1
- SPFBO x 2
That’s it for me this week, what have you been up to, any good books to shout out about. Let me know.
