WERBUNG/ADVERTISEMENT *I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review* What is it about? Ximena is the decoy Condesa, a stand-in for the last remaining Illustrian royal. Her people lost everything when the usurper, Atoc, used an ancient relic to summon ghosts and drive the Illustrians from La Ciudad. Now Ximena’s […]
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REVENGE REVENGE REVENGE | Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin | ARC-Review
By Kat @ Bookish Blades on 07/01/2020WERBUNG/AD *I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review* What is it about? Jade Khanjara and her three best friends rule their glittering LA circle. They decide how the party ends – every night but one. The night four boys spike Jade’s drink, lock her in a room and brutally […]
WERBUNG/ADVERTISEMENT *I got this copy in exchange for an honest review* What is it about? When eighteen-year-old Ever Wong’s parents send her from Ohio to Taiwan to study Mandarin for the summer, she finds herself thrust among the very over-achieving kids her parents have always wanted her to be, including Rick Woo, the Yale-bound prodigy […]
What is it about? Two years ago, Louise le Blanc fled her coven and took shelter in the city of Cesarine, forsaking all magic and living off whatever she could steal. There, witches like Lou are hunted. They are feared. And they are burned. Sworn to the Church as a Chasseur, Reid Diggory has lived […]
MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER by OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE | book review
By Kat @ Bookish Blades on 27/10/2019What is it about? When Korede’s dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what’s expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This’ll be the third boyfriend Ayoola’s dispatched in, quote, self-defence and the third mess that her lethal little sibling has […]
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon | damn, it’s dragons [Review]
By Kat @ Bookish Blades on 28/09/2019What is it about? The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction—but assassins are getting closer to her door. Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she […]