October Wrap Up

Hey guys!! So, I’m coming to you with this wrap up post a little late – but better late than never!! I had a bit of a slower month this month because of the alternating illnesses between me and my son!! So, hopefully November will pick up again!

Read:

The Girl with all the Gifts by M. Carey – 4/5 stars

Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas – 5/5 stars

Everlasting Flame by Katelyn Anderson – Review copy received from the author, 4/5 stars

Water’s Wrath by Elise Kova – 4/5 stars

Crystal Crowned by Elise Kova – 4/5 stars – full review still to come!

These Great Affects by Andrew Toy – 4.5/5 stars (there is no goodreads page for this book! Also, the full review is to come!), ARC copy received from the author

Acquired:

A Bond of Venom and Magic by Karen Tomlinson – Physical Copy gifted to me by the author

Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake – My pre order copy decided to show up a month later

Non Heir by Rachel E. Carter – This is not available for purchase anywhere, you must sign up for the authors newsletter if you would like a copy!

The Crown’s Dog by Elise Kova (ARC) – I received an ARC of this from Elise, and I am currently reading it!

The Sin Eater’s Daughter by Melinda Salisbury – I bought a copy of this from Amazon 😀

Rebel Spring by Morgan Rhodes – Again, I bought myself a copy from Amazon

Special Posts:

A Bond of Venom and Magic by Karen Tomlinson – Release Day

Fall Activities Book Tag

That’s it for me!! Like I mentioned earlier, it was a bit of a slower month, so I’m hoping that November picks up for me! Especially because I don’t have long left to complete my Goodreads Goal!!

I also ordered the October box from Meraki Candles, however they had some issues with postal service, so I am hoping it arrives soon!! As soon as it does, I will be posting my very first unboxing! 😀

How did October go for you guys?

Fall Activities Book Tag

Hey guys! So I was tagged by Kat @ Life and Other Disasters and, like her, I really should complete this tag before the end of Autumn! So, Without Further Ado…

Apple Picking – A book on your TBR that looks so great, you can’t wait to get into it!

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

So, I have all three books and I love all of the covers – I just need to get around to reading them!

Corn Maze – A book to get lost in

A Bond of Venom and Magic by Karen Tomlinson

From the very first page, this book had me hooked and I found myself lost in it!

Haunted Houses – A book that Scared you

The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich

This book had me up at one in the morning, refusing to go to bed, with all the lights on in the house and my husband on the phone asking when he is going to be back!

Pumpkin Patch – The latest book you picked up/putchased

The Sin Eater’s Daughter by Melinda Salisbury

This was my very recent purchase from Amazon and I cannot wait to get into it!

Scenic Drives – a book that is lyrically beautiful

Vault of Dreams by Luke Taylor

This book is so lyrical, I found myself lost in it really quickly!! I loved it!

Pumpkin Carving – A book you didn’t like and wouldn’t mind cutting up

Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

Insert unpopular opinion here. I really detested this book…

Drinking Apple Cider – A sweet book to curl up with

Futhermore by Tahereh Mafi

This is a great book to curl up with and to just follow the adventures of the MC 😀

Jumping in a Leaf Pile – A book that reminds you of your childhood

Harry Potter series

I think it goes without saying that this is my all time childhood book memory. *Joins the masses*

Scary Movie Night – Your favourite spooky read

Only Ever Yours by Louise O’Neill

This isn’t spooky in the traditional sense of spooky… but it is definitely a book that will leave you tingling and creeped out by the end!

Costume Party – A book with an eclectic cast of characters

Everlasting Flame by Katelyn Anderson

This book has a great mix of characters!

Nominations:

Jamie @ Watch Game Read

Beth @ Reading Every Night

Sam @ Sam’s Little Corner

And everyone else who wants to do this tag is welcome!

The Blog Most Likely To…

Hey guys! I was tagged to do this by Beth @ Reading Every Night. This tag was originally created to promote the release of The Boy Most Likely To – which was released a while back! Apparently Beth took a while to actually do the tag herself, so I am doing it late too! Plus, I haven’t actually read this book yet! It is on my TBR and I keep meaning to read it… but I just haven’t gotten around to it yet! Here is the book that inspired the tag:

The Boy Most Likely To by Huntley Fitzpatrick

Published August 18th 2015 by Dial Books

Tim Mason was The Boy Most Likely To find the liquor cabinet blindfolded, need a liver transplant, and drive his car into a house

Alice Garrett was The Girl Most Likely To . . . well, not date her little brother’s baggage-burdened best friend, for starters.

For Tim, it wouldn’t be smart to fall for Alice. For Alice, nothing could be scarier than falling for Tim. But Tim has never been known for making the smart choice, and Alice is starting to wonder if the “smart” choice is always the right one. When these two crash into each other, they crash hard.

Told in Tim’s and Alice’s distinctive, disarming, entirely compelling voices, this novel is for readers of The Spectacular Now, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, and Paper Towns.

So, Pageturner is the blog most likely to fizzle out for a little bit and then return all guns blazing! There are times when my blogging becomes extremely sporadic or sometimes even non existent. It could take me ages to write a review or a different post for TTT and sometimes I just won’t write anything for seemingly long periods of time. Whenever I hit a reading slump, I always tend to go and bingewatch a tv show instead. You know what thats like! You get into a tv show and then you want to know everything that has happened or is going to happen and you just can’t let it go!

Another reason for my Fizzling out is that sometimes I am literally so busy, I just do not have time to write my blog posts! At all!! I have started writing blog posts days in advanced and scheduling them to go out later on – which I am about to do with tomorrows STS and a release day post on Sunday… and I have to write my wrap up post sometime as well! I don’t have time to do any of these posts at the weekend because it is my hubby’s birthday on Sunday and we are doing stuff all through the weekend!

Apparently we’re supposed to offer examples of the point that we made, but I think going back through my blog for a significant period of time, you will all see when I have fizzled out and when I have come back and the differences between the two periods!

I am not going to tag anyone, I am just going to say that if you want to do this tag, feel free to! All I ask is that you link me up so that I can see your answers!

Book Fangirling Blog Award

Depending on what it is, I have been known to fangirl. Just ask anyone poor should who has to put up with me. I was nominated for this award by Beth at Reading Every Night – So thanks for that!

Rules:

• Create a post to accept your award
• Answer the questions I have at the end
• Nominate between 5-10 book bloggers who you also think deserve this award.
• come up with 5 questions of your own for your nominees

The three main character from the last three books you read are your partners in the zombie apocalypse. Who are they and do you think you would survive the outbreak?

So, I have Victoria from Unnatural Deeds by Cyn Balog, Lana from Valley of the Moon by Bronwyn Archer and Flynn from Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig. Whilst Flynn is pretty nifty when he wants to be, I am pretty sure I wouldn’t survive. Time to cut the losses!

If you could take one thing, be it a place, an event, a character, an object, out of any book and make it real, what would you pick?

Probably Harry’s invisibility cloak! I would be able to go anywhere and do anywhere and do anything and no one would be the wiser!

The world is ending and you have just enough time to read one book, what would you read and why? 

Probably HP and the Goblet of Fire. It is my favourite of the HP books and, of course, Harry Potter is my childhood – so I would want to revisit that before the world ends!

What is the one thing you wish there was more of in the world?

More time to do everything you need to do and still have time to read as much as you want!

If you could have any superpower, what would you choose and what would be your origin story?

Every time I am asked this question, the superpower tends to change depending on what I am feeling at the time and what I am reading etc. At the moment, I would probably say Telekinesis based purely on the fact that my son is at that age where he crawls around and throws everything everywhere and then waddles off and throws something else. I would love to be able to put everything where it is supposed to be with my mind instead of having to run around the house without him! Origin Story… I am not creative enough to write an origin story!!

My questions:

What is your guilty pleasure read? 

Every bookworm has some bad habits when it comes to books and reading – what would you say is your worst habit?

Who is your all time favourite villain and why?

If you could change one aspect, be it a character, event etc from any book, what would it be and why? 

If you could choose one character to spend a day with, who would it be and why?

I nominate:

Jamie @ Watch Game Read

Olivia @ Heir of Glitter

Chrissi @ Chrissi Reads

Joey @ Thoughts and Afterthoughts

CW @ Read, Think, Ponder