ADVERTISEMENT This book was given to me by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review *note: This review will contain spoilers for book 1 & 2 in the Daevabad trilogy! What is it about? Daevabad has fallen. After a brutal conquest stripped the city of its magic, Nahid leader Banu Manizheh and […]
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The Manifesto On How To Be Interesting | Holly Bourne | Review
By Kat @ Bookish Blades on 02/05/2020What is it about? Bree is by no means popular. Most of the time, she hates her life, her school, her never-there-parents. So she writes. But when Bree is told she needs to stop shutting the world out and start living a life worth writing about, The Manifesto on How to Be Interesting is born. […]
WERBUNG/ADVERTISEMENT *I got this copy from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review* What is it about? When Nishat comes out to her parents, they say she can be anyone she wants—as long as she isn’t herself. Because Muslim girls aren’t lesbians. Nishat doesn’t want to hide who she is, but she […]
WERBUNG/ADVERTISEMENT – REVIEW COPY *I received this copy in exchange for an honest review* What is it about? Jamie has been dreaming of this summer forever: of road trips and intensive art camps, of meeting cute boys with her best friend Jazz. What she didn’t count on was the car accident. Exiled away from her […]
swords, feminism, and the love of family | The Life and (Medieval) Times of Kit Sweetly | ARC-Review
By Kat @ Bookish Blades on 13/04/2020What is it about? Working as a wench―i.e. waitress―at a cheesy medieval-themed restaurant in the Chicago suburbs, Kit Sweetly dreams of being a knight like her brother. She has the moves, is capable on a horse, and desperately needs the raise that comes with knighthood, so she can help her mom pay the mortgage and […]
all my favourite tropes | THE UNHONEYMOONERS | Review
By Kat @ Bookish Blades on 30/03/2020What is it about? Olive is always unlucky: in her career, in love, in…well, everything. Her identical twin sister Ami, on the other hand, is probably the luckiest person in the world. Her meet-cute with her fiancé is something out of a romantic comedy (gag) and she’s managed to finance her entire wedding by winning […]