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 […]
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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, […]
*Note I received a copy of Scorpica for free in exchange for an honest review* ABOUT SCORPICA Five hundred years of peace between queendoms shatters when girls inexplicably stop being born. As the Drought of Girls stretches across a generation, it sets off a cascade of political and personal consequences across all five queendoms of […]
Twice Shy sounded like a good rivals to lovers, a quick and easy read, perfect for when you don’t have much time to read. Or so I expected. It was all that but also so much more. Maybell Parish has always been a dreamer and a hopeless romantic. But living in her own world has […]
An Escape to Provence | Sophie Claire | ARC-Review
By kat @ bookish blades on 22/03/2022*NOTE: AD / WERBUNG I received a copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley for free in exchange for an honest review. Where there’s a will, can love find a way? When cynical divorce lawyer Daisy Jackson unexpectedly inherits a ramshackle farmhouse in Provence, she sets off for the French countryside to oversee […]