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.
Can’t Wait Wednesday: We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough
29 January 2025
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Tags: Book Review, Books, Cant Wait Wednesday, Fantasy, fiction, reading, Sarah Pinborough, We Live Here Now, 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: 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
Booking Ahead/Weekly Wrap Up
12 January 2025
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Tags: Book Reviews, book-blog, Booking Ahead, Books, Caffeinated Book Reviewer, reading, Sunday Post, Weekly wrap up

Books read this week:
I’m starting to pick up my reading a little bit but, I would say that I’m still not up to my usual weekly reading just yet. Probably just too many things going on. I’ve pressed on reading two SPFBO books, still early days but I’m making progress. And I read and enjoyed Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney. I’ve now picked up and am almost half way through The House of Frost and Feathers by Lauren Wiesebron and I’m enjoying it. It isn’t a particularly fast or explosive read but I’m enjoying the writing.
Once I complete The House of Frost and Feathers – Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix is my last review book for January so I’m hoping to complete both SPFBO books, read a Backlist book and maybe pick up one or two of my February review books – but that does sound a bit ambitious so we’ll see.
Reviews Posted:
- Daughter of Chaos by A S Webb
- Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
Outstanding Reviews
- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
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: The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister
3 January 2025
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Tags: Book Reviews, book-blog, Books, Kay Chronister, reading, The Bog Wife, The Friday Face Off

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 read in 2024. The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister:
My favourite this week:
To be honest I really like both covers for this book so it’s difficult to choose a favourite. I really like the ominous feel of the woman emerging from the bog – but then this cover is equally curious and ominous – with a woman seemingly being buried?
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.


















