Booking Ahead/Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday Post

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:

  1. The Crimson Road by AG Slatter
  2. Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis

Outstanding Reviews

Booking Ahead/Weekly Wrap Up (slightly late!)

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

Friday Face Off: Spellbound by Georgia Leighton

FFO

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

FFO

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.

Can’t Wait Wednesday: We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough

CWW

“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: We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough.  Well, colour me happy.  A new book by Sarah Pinborough is always cause for celebration.   Check out the cover and description below (and,yes, this is described as ‘gothic’ so, double cause for that celebration).  

Award-winning author of New York Times bestselling breakout novel (and hit Netflix show) Behind Her Eyes returns with a haunting Gothic novel about a house—and a marriage—gone terribly wrong.

After an accident that nearly kills her, Emily and her husband, Freddie, move from London to a beautiful Dartmoor country house called Larkin Lodge. The house is gorgeous, striking—and to Emily, something about it feels deeply wrong.

Old boards creak at night, fires go out, and books fall from the shelves, and all of it stems from the terrible presence she feels in the third-floor room. But these things happen only wWhen Emily’s alone, so are they happening at all? She’s still medically fragile; her postsepsis condition can cause hallucinatory side effects, which means she can’t fully trust her own senses. Freddie doesn’t notice anything odd and is happy with their chance at a fresh start.

Emily, however, starts to believe that the house is being haunted by someone who was murdered in it, though she can find no evidence of a wrongful death. As bizarre events pile up and her marriage starts to crumble, Emily becomes obsessed with discovering the truth about Larkin Lodge.

But if the house has secrets, so do Emily and her husband.

And they live here now.

Expected publication: May 2025

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