Everything about The City of Dusk spoke to me. The cover is gorgeous, it seemed to be dark and full of surprising characters, and it is written by an author I previously enjoyed (⇒ Scavenge the Stars). So of course, I was over the moon when I got accepted for an ARC. Continue reading to […]
Author: kat @ bookish blades
Liked the Classic? Try the YA Retelling!
By kat @ bookish blades on 20/04/2022Hoohoo, friends of the blade! I love retellings! Especially when it’s retellings of my favourite classics. Seriously, throw all the Pride and Prejudice & Jane Eyre retellings my way, I beg you. Also Count of Monte Cristo. I need all the recs I can get. I tend to like retellings of classics more than the […]
Scavenge the Stars by Tara Sim | Review
By kat @ bookish blades on 16/04/2022I do enjoy a good retelling, especially if it’s a retelling of a story I love. Since The Count of Monte Cristo is one of my favourite classics, I of course had to pick up Scavenge the Stars. Continue reading to find out if it lived up to my expectations. ABOUT SCAVENGE THE STARS When […]
Hoohoo, friends of the blade! I had Chasing Lucky on my shelves ever since it was released. I’m not sure why I haven’t picked it up earlier since I absolutely love Jenn Bennett’s YA contemporaries (more on that in my list of auto-buy authors). But I finally read it within two days and as always, […]
Hoohoo, friends of the blade! Each of us has those authors that make us want to read everything they write. Even shopping lists. So everytime they release a new book, we wait (im)patiently for it, buy it, read it and then fall in love all over with the author’s writing.I love when favourite authors just […]
Hoohoo, friends of the blade. No, I’m not having a full wrap up this month. I had that post almost finished when I managed to delete it all… without back up. Yeah. And I do not want to type that all out again, sorry. I just… don’t want to. So here, have a little life […]