January TBR

Here we go again

Another TBR, where has December gone so fast, and when did the New Year get here? (really, I'm honestly asking you).

So as you can gather with the start of a new month, it's a new TBR, Aaaaaannnnndddd Resolutions! (yes it is that much of a shock I need to use an exclamation).

I have set a goal of only buying 1-2 books a month this year (if you know me well, such as my husband, you know this is good in theory).

I am also wanting to read the majority of the books on my bookshelves (some booktubers have a TBR shelf, I have bookcases).

So enough of my rambling here we go.

• The Dark Day's Pact (#2) - Alison Goodman
• The Wide Window (#3) - Lemony Snicket
• Charmcaster (#3) - Sebastien de Castell
• Long Dark Dust (#2) - J. P. Smythe
• The ABC Murders - Agatha Christie
• One of Us is Lying - Karen McManus
• Asylum (#1) - Madeleine Roux
• Horrorstӧr - Grady Hendrix
• The Battlemage (#3) - Taran Matharu
• Ruby Red (#1) - Kerstin Gier
• Day Shift (#2) - Charlaine Harris
• The Pirates! In an Adventure with Moby Dick (#2) - Gideon Defoe
• Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham (#8) - M. C. Beaton
• The Paper Magician (#1) - Charlie N. Holmberg
• Mortal Engines (#1) - Philip Reeve
• Three Dark Crowns (#1) - Kendare Blake
• Hidden Huntress (#2) - Danielle L. Jensen
• The Invisible Library (#1) - Genevieve Cogman
• First Man In - Ant Middleton
• Alice (#1) - Christina Henry
• And I Darken (#1) - Kiersten White
• Divergent (#1) - Veronica Roth
• Dumplin' (#1) - Julie Murphy
• Renegades (#1) - Marissa Meyer

Overall, not a bad list of books to read in January

REVIEW: Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone (#1) - J. K. Rowling

Title: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (#1)
Author: J. K. Rowling
Series: Harry Potter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardback
Pages: 332 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Harry Potter's life is miserable. His parents are dead and he's stuck with his heartless relatives, who force him to live in a tiny closet under the stairs. But his fortune changes when he receives a letter that tells him the truth about himself: he's a wizard. A mysterious visitor rescues him from his relatives and takes him to his new home, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

After a lifetime of bottling up his magical powers, Harry finally feels like a normal kid. But even within the Wizarding community, he is special. He is the boy who lived: the only person to have ever survived a killing curse inflicted by the evil Lord Voldemort, who launched a brutal takeover of the Wizarding world, only to vanish after failing to kill Harry.

Though Harry's first year at Hogwarts is the best of his life, not everything is perfect. There is a dangerous secret object hidden within the castle walls, and Harry believes it's his responsibility to prevent it from falling into evil hands. But doing so will bring him into contact with forces more terrifying than he ever could have imagined.

REVIEW: Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe - Melissa de la Cruz

Title: Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe
Author: Melissa de la Cruz
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: E-Book
Pages: 240 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Darcy Fitzwilliam simply doesn't have time to fall in love. But this Christmas, a kiss under the mistletoe will change everything...

As a partner at a major New York hedge fund, Darcy's only serious relationship is with her work cellphone. The truth is, she's too busy being successful and making money to have time for Christmas... let alone to allow romance into her life. 

But this year Darcy is coming home to Pemberley, Ohio, for the holidays. There, she runs into her old neighbour and high-school foe Luke Bennet - the oldest of five wayward brothers. When Darcy's enmity with Luke is re-opened, along with a hefty dollop of sexual chemistry... well, sparks are sure to fly. Can Darcy fall in love - or will her pride, and Luke's prejudice against big-city girls, stand in their way?

REVIEW: A Boy Called Christmas (#1) - Matt Haig

Title: A Boy Called Christmas (#1)
Author: Matt Haig
Series: A Boy Called Christmas
Publisher: Cannongate Books
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Stephen Fry
Time: 4Hrs 26Mins
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

A Boy Called Christmas is a tale of adventure, snow, kidnapping, elves, more snow, and an eleven-year-old boy called Nikolas, who isn't afraid to believe in magic. 

REVIEW: City of Fallen Angels (#4) - Cassandra Clare

Title: City of Fallen Angels (#4)
Author: Cassandra Clare
Series: The Mortal Instruments
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She’s training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love of her life. Downworlders and Shadowhunters are at peace at last. And—most importantly of all—she can finally call Jace her boyfriend.

But nothing comes without a price.

Someone is murdering Shadowhunters, provoking tensions between Downworlders and Shadowhunters that could lead to a second, bloody war. Clary’s best friend, Simon, can’t help her—his mother just found out that he’s a vampire, and now he’s homeless. When Jace begins to pull away from her without explaining why Clary is forced to delve into the heart of a mystery whose solution reveals her worst nightmare: she herself has set in motion a terrible chain of events that could lead to her losing everything she loves. Even Jace.

REVIEW: Shadowblack (#2) - Sebastian de Castell

Title: Shadowblack (#2)
Author: Sebastien de Castell
Series: Spellslinger
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 340 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

It's a few months since Kellen left his people behind. Now aged sixteen, Kellen is an outlaw, relying on his wits to keep him alive in the land of the Seven Sands. He misses home, he misses family and more than anything, he misses Nephenia, the girl he left behind. 

Then he meets Seneira, a blindfolded girl who isn't blind, and who carries a secret that's all too familiar to Kellen. Kellen and Ferius resolve to help - but the stakes are far higher than they realise. A Shadowblack plague is taking hold - and Kellen can't help but suspect his own people may even be behind it. 

REVIEW: Saga Vol. 5 - Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples

Title: Saga Vol. 5
Author: Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples
Series: Saga
Publisher: Image Comics
Format: Paperback
Pages: 152 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

While Gwendolyn and Lying Cat risk everything to find a cure for The Will, Marko makes an uneasy alliance with Prince Robot IV to find their missing children, who are trapped on a strange world with terrifying new enemies.

REVIEW: Redemption (#6) - Georgia Cates

Title: Redemption (#6)
Author: Georgia Cates
Series: The Sin Series
Publisher: Georgia Cates Books, LLC
Format: E-Book
Pages: 247 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

I was on my way to having everything that I wanted… until I opened that door. That’s when my entire world shattered. In a single second, my happy life was gone. 

She broke my heart. There, I admit it. But a Fellowship man doesn’t mourn the loss of a woman. He moves on to the next one. And the next. But what I quickly discover is that it doesn’t matter how many women I’m with. I’ll never find one who can replace Lorna Frazier. 

I’ve been an arse, doing everything within my power to hurt her. And I’ve been successful at it. But it doesn’t heal the pain of losing the woman that I love. She is my everything, and I’m nothing without her. 

Apart, we’re weak. Together, we’re strong. 
Apart, we’re in hell. Together, we’re in heaven. 
Apart, we’re broken. Together, we’re whole. 

I won’t give up on us. 

REVIEW: A Court of Frost and Starlight (#3.1) - Sarah J. Maas

Title: A Court of Frost and Starlight
Author: Sarah J. Maas
Series: A Court of Thorns and Roses
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

The Winter Solstice. In a week. I was still new enough to being High Lady that I had no idea what my formal role was to be. If we'd have a High Priestess do some odious ceremony, as lanthe had done the year before A year. Gods, nearly a year since Rhys had called in his bargain, desperate to get me away from the poison of the Spring Court to save me from my despair. Had he been only a minute later, the Mother knew what would have happened. Where I'd now be. Snow swirled and eddied in the garden, catching in the brown fibers of the burlap covering the shrubs My mate who had worked so hard and so selflessly, all without hope that I would ever be with him We had both fought for that love, bled for it. Rhys had died for it. 

December 2018 TBR

Again, something different,

I'm doing a TBR list, I have that many books to be read I need to try and read more of them before I buy more to add to the list.

So to keep myself accountable, I am going to post a monthly TBR, every month.

• Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe - Melissa de la Cruz (E-Book)
• A Boy Called Christmas (#1) - Matt Haig (Audiobook)
• Distortion (#2) - Victor Dixen (Paperback)
• Frostblood (#1) - Elly Blake (Paperback)
• The Bear and the Nightingale (#1) - Katherine Arden (Paperback)
• Stealing Snow - Danielle Paige (Paperback)
• Wintersong (#1) - S. Jae-Jones (Paperback)
• The Inquisition (#2) - Taran Matharu (Paperback)
• Stolen Songbird (#1) - Danielle L. Jensen (Paperback)
• The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (#1) - Gideon Defoe (Paperback)
• Inferno (#5) - Julie Kagawa (Paperback)
• Renegades (#1) - Marissa Meyer (Paperback)
• The Hazel Wood (#1) - Melissa Albert (Paperback)
• Hercule Poirot's Christmas - Agatha Christie (Paperback)
• The WItch's Tears (#2) - Katharine & Elizabeth Corr
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (#1) - Roald Dahl (Paperback)
• Twilight (#1) - Stephenie Meyer (Hardback)
• Shiver (#1) - Maggie Stiefvater (Paperback)
• The Sleeping Prince (#2) - Melinda Salisbury (Paperback)

I choose 19 books to read (see above), then I add 5 more from my previous TBR list, so if I am still reading the book, or I haven't started it but still want to, it gives me a second chance.

• Crazy Rich Asians (#1) - Kevin Kwan (Audiobook)
• Goodnight Mister Tom - Michelle Magorian (Paperback)
• Truthwitch (#1) - Susan Dennard (E-Book)
• The Infinite Sea (#2) - Rick Yancey (Paperback)
• A Shiver of Snow and Sky (#1) - Lisa Lueddecke (Paperback)

So overall that is 24 books, wish me luck.

REVIEW: A Discovery of Witches (#1) - Deborah Harkness

Title: A Discovery of Witches (#1)
Author: Deborah Harkness
Series: All Souls Trilogy
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
Pages: 688 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of her parents while she was still a child convinced her that human fear is more potent than any witchcraft. Now Diana has unwittingly exposed herself to a world she's kept at bay for years; one of the powerful witches, creative, destructive daemons and long-lived vampires. Sensing the significance of Diana's discovery, the creatures gather in Oxford, among them the enigmatic Matthew Clairmont, a vampire geneticist. Diana is inexplicably drawn to Matthew and, in a shadowy world of half-truths and old enmities, ties herself to him without fully understanding the ancient line they are crossing. As they begin to unlock the secrets of the manuscript and their feelings for each other deepen, so the fragile balance of peace unravels...

November Wrap-Up

Hi everyone,

Something different for you today, I thought I would try doing a monthly wrap up, I will just write down the books, and their star rating. The books will all be reviewed fully at a later date.

• There's Someone Inside Your House - Stephanie Perkins (⭐⭐⭐)
• Ascension (#1) - Victor Dixen (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
• The Novice (#1) - Taran Matharu (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
• Trapped - Beverley Kendall (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
• A Discovery of Witches (#1) - Deborah Harkness (⭐⭐⭐)
• Shadowblack (#2) - Sebastien de Castell (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
• Hunting Prince Dracula (#2) - Kerri Maniscalco (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
• Way Down Dark (#1) - J. P. Smythe (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
• All About You (#1) - Joanna Mazurkiewicz (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
• All About Me (#2) - Joanna Mazurkiewicz (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
• Mr & Mrs (#1) - Alexa Riley (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
• Blackmailing the Virgin (#2) - Alexa Riley (⭐⭐⭐)
• The Billionaire and His Castaway (#3) - Alexa Riley (⭐⭐⭐)
• The Final Promise (#4) - Alexa Riley (⭐⭐⭐)
• Coach - Alexa Riley (⭐⭐⭐)

I managed to read 8 Books off of my November TBR list, so that isn't too bad, and I read overall 16 books, which is fantastic.

REVIEW: The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas

Title: The Hate U Give
Author: Angie Thomas
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Pages: 464 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.

Soon afterwards, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord trying to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.

But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life. 

REVIEW: Trapped - Beverley Kendall

Title: Trapped
Author: Beverley Kendall
Publisher: Season Publishing LLC
Format: E-Book
Pages: 360 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

My life has turned out to be such a cliché. And not in a good way. 

It’s not exactly Sixteen and Pregnant, but at eighteen my only advantage is a high school diploma. And if that’s not enough, the father—and I use that term loosely—couldn’t have hightailed it out of my life fast enough. 

I thought I really knew him. Unfortunately, my boyfriend of three years transformed from Dr Jekyll to Mr Hyde once he realized his carefree, childless days would be coming to an end. 

I’m over him now though. The real love of my life is chubby, has more gum than teeth, and stands a little over two feet tall. She may not have been planned, but I’ve never regretted having her. She is the centre of my world. 

A world that's turned upside down when my ex-returns ready to earn the love and trust of the child he abandoned before birth. 

Letting him into my daughter’s life is one thing but letting him back into mine isn't going to happen. Because the biggest mistake of my life has a name, and that name is Mitchell Aaron Kingsley. 

And he's one mistake I don't ever intend to make again. 

REVIEW: Truth (#2) - Julia Karr

Title: Truth (#2)
Author: Julia Karr
Series: XVI
Publisher: Speak
Format: Paperback
Pages: 299 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Nina Oberon's life has changed enormously in the last few months. When her mother was killed, Nina discovered the truth about her father, the leader of the Resistance. And now she sports the same Governing Council-ordered tattoo of XVI on her wrist that all sixteen-year-old girls have. The one that announces to the world that she is easy prey to predators. But Nina won't be anyone's stereotype. And when she joins an organization of girls working within the Resistance, she knows that they can put an end to one of the most terrifying secret programs the GC has ever conceived. Because the truth always comes out . . . and the consequences can be deadly. 

REVIEW: The Novice (#1) - Taran Matharu

Title: The Novice (#1)
Author: Taran Matharu
Series: Summoner
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Paperback
Pages: 390 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

When blacksmith apprentice Fletcher discovers that he has the ability to summon demons from another world, he travels to Adept Military Academy. There the gifted are trained in the art of summoning. Fletcher is put through gruelling training as a battlemage to fight in the Hominum Empire’s war against orcs. He must tread carefully while training alongside children of powerful nobles. The power hungry, those seeking alliances, and the fear of betrayal surround him. Fletcher finds himself caught in the middle of powerful forces, with only his demon Ignatius for help.

As the pieces on the board manoeuvre for supremacy, Fletcher must decide where his loyalties lie. The fate of an empire is in his hands. The Novice is the first in a trilogy about Fletcher, his demon Ignatius, and the war against the Orcs.

REVIEW: Ascension (#1) - Victor Dixen

Title: Ascension (#1)
Author: Victor Dixen
Series: Phobos
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 488 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Six girls, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the onboard cameras. They are the contenders in the Genesis programme, the world's craziest speed-dating show ever, aimed at creating the first human colony on Mars.

Leonor, an 18-year-old orphan, is one of the chosen ones. 
She has signed up for glory.
She has signed up for love.
She has signed up for a one-way ticket.
Even if the dream turns to a nightmare, it is too late for regrets.

REVIEW: There's Someone Inside Your House - Stephanie Perkins

Title: There's Someone Inside Your House
Author: Stephanie Perkins
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Format: Paperback
Pages:  287 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Love hurts...

Makani Young thought she'd left her dark past behind her in Hawaii, settling in with her grandmother in landlocked Nebraska. She's found new friends and has even started to fall for mysterious outsider Ollie Larsson. But her past isn't far behind.

Then, one by one, the students of Osborne Hugh begin to die in a series of gruesome murders, each with increasingly grotesque flair. As the terror grows closer and her feelings for Ollie intensify, Makani is forced to confront her own dark secrets.

REVIEW: A Court of Wings and Ruin (#3) - Sarah J. Maas

Title: A Court of Wings and Ruin (#3)
Author: Sarah J. Maas
Series: A Court of Thorns and Roses
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Pages:  720 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's manoeuvrings and the invading king threatening to bring Prythian to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit – and one slip may spell doom not only for Feyre but for her world as well.

As war bears down upon them all, Feyre must decide who to trust amongst the dazzling and lethal High Lords – and hunt for allies in unexpected places. 

REVIEW: Unintended (#5) - Georgia Cates

Title: Unintended (#5)
Author: Georgia Cates
Series: The Sin Series
Publisher: Georgia Cates LLC
Format: Kindle
Pages: 291 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Captor becomes lover…

I’m a marksman. Mobster. Deadly assassin. 
My job is to protect my brotherhood, but that isn’t my only responsibility. 

I’m Kieran Hendry, the up-and-coming leader of The Order, and a new duty calls. I must take a wife. 

A wife I don’t know. 
A wife born into a position at the top of The Fellowship hierarchy.
A wife who will forge a strong alliance between her brotherhood and mine. 
A wife I don’t want.

I knew next to nothing about Westlyn Breckenridge when I abducted her, but I quickly discover that she’s intelligent, strong, defiant, selfless. And beautiful.

One night with her is all it takes for me to see that she is no typical Mafia princess. I’m hopeful this arranged marriage won’t be the miserable union I imagined it to be. But convincing my intended to give us a chance won’t be easy when she sees me as the enemy. The brute who kidnapped her. The vile fiend who threatened to do as he wished with her body.

It’s true. I am all those things. I had cruel intentions. But everything has changed. My affection for her is unexpected. My love, unintended.

REVIEW: Saga Vol. 4 - Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples

Title: Saga Vol. 4
Author: Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples
Series: Saga
Publisher: Image Comics
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

As they visit a strange new world and encounter even more adversaries, baby Hazel finally becomes a toddler, while her star-crossed parents Marko and Alana struggle to stay on their feet.

REVIEW: Specials (#3) - Scott Westerfeld

Title: Specials (#3)
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Series: Uglies
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Format: Paperback
Pages: 372 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

The good, the bad, the pretty and the ugly - Tally's seen it all. But now she's been turned into one of the 'Specials', a superamped fighting machine engineered to keep the Uglies down and the Pretties stupid.

REVIEW: Caraval (#1) - Stephanie Garber

Title: Caraval (#1)
Author: Stephanie Garber
Series: Caraval
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Hardback
Pages:  402 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Scarlett Dragna has never left the tiny island where she and her sister, Tella, live with their powerful, and cruel, father. Now Scarlett’s father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval—the faraway, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show—are over.

But this year, Scarlett’s long-dreamt-of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett away to the show. Only, as soon as they arrive, Tella is kidnapped by Caraval’s mastermind organizer, Legend. It turns out that this season’s Caraval revolves around Tella, and whoever finds her first is the winner.

Scarlett has been told that everything that happens during Caraval is only an elaborate performance. Nevertheless, she becomes enmeshed in a game of love, heartbreak, and magic. And whether Caraval is real or not, Scarlett must find Tella before the five nights of the game are over or a dangerous domino effect of consequences will be set off, and her beloved sister will disappear forever.

Welcome, welcome to Caraval…beware of getting swept too far away.

REVIEW: The Silkworm (#2) - Robert Galbraith

Title: The Silkworm (#2)
Author: Robert Galbraith
Series: Cormoron Strike
Publisher: Hachette Audio UK
Format: Audiobook
Time: 17Hrs 16Mins
Narrator: Robert Glenister
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises.

The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives - so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him. And when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before...

REVIEW: Whiteout - Gabriel Dylan*

Title: Whiteout*
Author: Gabriel Dylan
Series: Red Eye
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
Format: E-Book
Pages: 384 Pages
Release Date: 25th December 2018 (EBOOK)
                       10th January 2019 (PAPERBACK)
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

*RECEIVED FROM NETGALLEY FOR AN HONEST REVIEW*

Goodreads Blurb

‘She sat us all down and told us a story. About things that lived in the woods. Things that only came out at night.’

For Charlie, a school ski trip is a perfect escape from his unhappy home life. Until a storm blows in and the resort town is cut off from the rest of the world. Trapped on the mountain, the students wait for the blizzards to pass, along with mysterious ski guide Hanna. 

But as night falls and the town’s long-buried secrets begin to surface, the storm is the least of their problems….

REVIEW: Jackaby (#1) - William Ritter

Title: Jackaby (#1)
Author: William Ritter
Series: Jackaby
Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Paperback
Pages: 299 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Newly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1892, and in need of a job, Abigail Rook meets R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with a keen eye for the extraordinary--including the ability to see supernatural beings. Abigail has a gift for noticing ordinary but important details, which makes her perfect for the position of Jackaby’s assistant. On her first day, Abigail finds herself in the midst of a thrilling case: A serial killer is on the loose. The police are convinced it’s an ordinary villain, but Jackaby is certain it’s a nonhuman creature, whose existence the police--with the exception of a handsome young detective named Charlie Cane--deny.

REVIEW: Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel - A. W. Jantha

Title: Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel
Author: A. W. Jantha
Publisher: Freeform Books
Format: Hardback
Pages: 521 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Shortly after moving from California to Salem, Massachusetts, Max Dennison finds himself in hot water when he accidentally releases a coven of witches, the Sanderson sisters, from the afterlife. Max, his sister, and his new friends (human and otherwise) must find a way to stop the witches from carrying out their evil plan and remaining on earth to torment Salem for all eternity.

Twenty-five years later, Max and Allison's seventeen-year-old daughter, Poppy, finds herself face-to-face with the Sanderson sisters in all their sinister glory. When Halloween celebrations don't quite go as planned, it's a race against time as Poppy and her friends fight to save her family and all of Salem from the witches' latest death-defying scheme.

REVIEW: Legion (#4) - Julie Kagawa

Title: Legion (#4)
Author: Julie Kagawa
Series: Talon Series
Publisher: MIRA Ink
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Dragon hatchling Ember Hill was never prepared to find love at all--dragons do not suffer human emotions--let alone the love of a human and a former dragonslayer, at that. With ex-soldier Garret dying at her feet after sacrificing his freedom and his life to expose the deepest of betrayals, Ember knows only that nothing she was taught by dragon organization Talon is true. About humans, about rogue dragons, about herself and what she's capable of doing and feeling.

In the face of great loss, Ember vows to stand with rogue dragon Riley against the dragon-slaying Order of St. George and her own twin brother Dante--the heir apparent to all of Talon, and the boy who will soon unleash the greatest threat and terror dragonkind has ever known.

Talon is poised to take over the world, and the abominations they have created will soon take to the skies, darkening the world with the promise of blood and death to those who refuse to yield.

REVIEW: The Game of Love and Death - Martha Brockenbrough

Title: The Game of Love and Death
Author: Martha Brockenbrough
Publisher: Scholastic
Format: Paperback
Pages: 329 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Love is more than a game. 

Love and Death choose their players in an eternal game. Death has never lost and Love will do anything to win. 

Henry and Flora find each other, not knowing they are the players. Can their love be enough to keep them both alive?

REVIEW: Endurance (#4) - Georgia Cates

Title: Endurance (#4)
Author: Georgia Cates
Series: Sin Series
Publisher: Georgia Cates Books LLC
Format: E-Book
Pages: 228 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

I'm a doctor. Mobster. Killer.
My hands are covered in filth. I don't have the right to touch anything as clean and pure as Ellison MacAllister.

I distance myself ... always remaining obscure, composed, restrained.
Careful to never allow my eyes to linger too long.
Careful to hide my interest.
Careful to keep my burning desire buried beneath the surface.

I do it for her--suffer in silence--because it's what is best for the woman I love.
And she has no idea.

She'll be initiated as a Fellowship member soon. One of my mafia brothers will go through endurance so he'll earn the right to claim her.
Make her his wife.
Kill. Me. Slowly.

I'm running out of time. Only a month remains before she's beyond my reach forever.
I want to taste her. Share sleepless nights. Ride out her storm.
I want to give her the kind of nights she will still feel between her legs the next morning.
I want us to share the kind of passion that forms on our skin and drips down to saturate the sheets.
Between the sweat and the moans and the messy hair, I want her to know how hard she's been loved.

To have her is to taint her.
I should stay away. But I won't. I can't.
I'm a selfish bastard.
A selfish bastard in love.

REVIEW: Always and Forever, Lara Jean (#3) - Jenny Han

Title: Always and Forever, Lara Jean (#3)
Author: Jenny Han
Series: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Publisher: Scholastic
Format: Paperback
Pages: 326 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Lara Jean is having the best senior year ever! She's head over heels in love with her boyfriend, her dad's getting remarried and Margot's coming home for the summer. But change is looming on the horizon. While Lara Jean is having fun, she can't ignore the big life decisions she has to make. Will she have to leave the boy she loves behind?

REVIEW: One Last Sin (#3) - Georgia Cates

Title: One Last Sin (#3)
Author: Georgia Cates
Series: The Sin Trilogy
Publisher: Georgia Cates Books LLC
Format: EBook
Pages: 228 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Bleu MacAllister’s fate lies in the hands of the enemy. Complicated circumstances have rendered her helpless to escape their clutches so she must await rescue by her less than lily-white knight. All is right again when she’s back in the arms of the man she loves until long-buried secrets are unearthed. With them, Bleu finally discovers her mother’s killer along with far more than she could possibly imagine. Can she find happiness with a husband who will go to any length to keep her safe, even if it means denying her of the one thing she believes she wants most in this world?

REVIEW: Evolution (#3) - Teri Terry

Title: Evolution (#3)
Author: Teri Terry
Series: Dark Matter
Publisher: Orchard Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 461 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Shay has followed Xander and joined his mysterious scientific cult at their remote Scottish compound. She's desperately searching for Callie, who went missing before the start of the epidemic that kills 95% of cases and leaves a tiny number of survivors with astonishing new powers.

Can Shay uncover the truth about the origins of the epidemic, find Callie and perhaps even rekindle her relationship with Kai? Or will Xander's grand plans destroy them all forever?

REVIEW: The Next Sin (#2) - Georgia Cates

Title: The Next Sin (#2)
Author: Georgia Cates
Series: The Sin Series
Publisher: Georgia Cates Books LLC
Format: Ebook
Pages: 226 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

I’ve watched her from afar for weeks. And she has no idea.

Bleu MacAllister ran from me three months ago. She thought she could disappear from my life. My beloved believed I’d let her go.

Wrong.

Bleu says I won’t find her; she changes like a chameleon. Wrong, again. Some things remain unaltered. She’s still beautiful. Sexy as hell. And I want her more than my next breath.

The circumstances bringing us together have changed. It’s a precarious situation because my bonny lass is a hunted traitor. But I’ll do whatever it takes to keep her safe.

She will be my wife.

I am Sinclair Breckenridge. And I’m coming for her.

REVIEW: Blame It on Bianca Del Rio - Bianca Del Rio

Title: Blame it on Bianca Del Rio
Author: Bianca Del Rio
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Bianca del Rio
Time: 4HRS 45Mins
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Audible Blurb

Not today, Satan.

The cheeky, larger-than-life drag queen and outrageous comic - 'The Joan Rivers of the Drag World' (New York Times) - who isn't afraid to shock or offend, shares her trademark acerbic wit and sharp commentary in this uproarious collection of advice.

When it comes to insulting comics, Bianca Del Rio is in a class by herself. Fierce, funny, and fabulous - a would-be love child sired by John Waters and birthed by Joan Rivers - Bianca sandblasted her name in the annals of pop culture on RuPaul's Drag Race. Thanks to her snarky frankness, impeccable comedic timing, and politically incorrect humour, she became the show's breakout star, winning its sixth season.

In Blame It on Bianca Del Rio, Bianca shares her opinions loudly and proudly, offering raucous, hilarious, no-holds-barred commentary on the everyday annoyances, big and small, that colour her world, and make it a living, albeit amusing, hell for anyone who inhabits it. A collection of biting advice, Blame It on Bianca Del Rio will shock you and keep you laughing. But be warned: it is not for the faint of heart!

REVIEW: The Towering Sky (#3) - Katharine McGee*

Title: The Towering Sky (#3)
Author: Katharine McGee
Series: The Thousandth Floor
Publisher: HarperCollins
Format: EBook
Pages: 464 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

*RECEIVED FROM NETGALLEY FOR AN HONEST REVIEW*

Goodreads Blurb

Welcome back to New York, 2119. A skyscraper city, fueled by impossible dreams, where the lives of five teenagers have become intertwined in ways that no one could have imagined.

Leda just wants to move on from what happened in Dubai. Until a new investigation forces her to seek help—from the person she’s spent all year trying to forget.

Rylin is back in her old life, reunited with an old flame. But when she starts seeing Cord again, she finds herself torn: between two worlds and two very different boys.

Calliope feels trapped, playing a long con that costs more than she bargained for. What happens when all her lies catch up with her?

Watt is still desperately in love with Leda. He’ll do anything to win her back—even dig up secrets that are better left buried.

And now that Avery is home from England—with a new boyfriend, Max—her life seems more picture-perfect than ever. So why does she feel like she would rather be anything but perfect?

REVIEW: P.S. I Still Love You (#2) - Jenny Han

Title: P.S. I Love You (#2)
Author: Jenny Han
Series: To All The Boys I've Loved Before
Publisher: Scholastic
Format: Paperback
Pages: 337 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Lara Jean didn’t expect to really fall for Peter.
She and Peter were just pretending. Except suddenly they weren’t. Now Lara Jean is more confused than ever.
When another boy from her past returns to her life, Lara Jean’s feelings for him return too. Can a girl be in love with two boys at once?

REVIEW: A Necessary Sin (#1) - Georgia Cates

Title: A Necessary Sin (#1)
Author: Georgia Cates
Series: The Sin Series
Publisher: Georgia Cates Books LLC
Format: EBook
Pages: 226 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Bleu MacAllister is consumed. A horrific childhood incident has caused every decision in her life to revolve around bringing a monster to justice. With years spent studying The Fellowship, an organized crime brotherhood of liars, thieves, and killers, Bleu will rely on her skills as a special agent to cut Thane Breckenridge off at the knees. But walking hand in hand with retribution means risking collateral damage, in the form of Breckenridge’s son Sinclair—until Sin becomes so much more than Bleu bargained for. She’s always known this undertaking would place her life in danger—she never imagined her heart would be as well.

REVIEW: Sleeping Giants (#1) - Sylvain Neuvel

Title: Sleeping Giants (#1)
Author: Sylvain Neuvel
Series: The THEMIS Files
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Format: Audiobook
Time: 8Hrs 27Mins
Narrators:  Andy Secombe, Christopher Ragland, Charlie Anson, Laurel Lefkow, Eric Meyers, Liza Ross
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Deadwood, USA. A girl sneaks out just before dark to ride her new bike. Suddenly the ground disappears beneath her. Waking up at the bottom of a deep pit, she sees an emergency rescue team above her. The people looking down see something far stranger...

We always look forward. We never look back.

That girl grows up to be Dr Rose Franklin, a brilliant scientist and the leading world expert on what she discovered. An enormous, ornate handmade of an exceptionally rare metal which predates all human civilisation on the continent.

But this thing...it's different. It challenges us. It rewrites history.

An object whose origins and purpose are perhaps the greatest mystery humanity has ever faced. Solving the secret of where it came from - and how many more parts may be out there - could change life as we know it.

It dares us to question what we know about ourselves.

But what if we were meant to find it? And what happens when this vast, global puzzle is complete...

About everything.

REVIEW: Fallen (#1) - Lauren Kate

Title: Fallen (#1)
Author: Lauren Kate
Series: Fallen
Publisher: Random House
Format: Paperback
Pages: 408 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

17-year-old Lucinda falls in love with a gorgeous, intelligent boy, Daniel, at her new school, the grim, foreboding Sword & Cross . . . only to find out that Daniel is a fallen angel, and that they have spent lifetimes finding and losing one another as good & evil forces plot to keep them apart.