March 2019 TBR

Welcome to another TBR, again where are these months going, the year just seems to be disappearing so quickly.

• Sapphire Blue (#2) - Kerstin Gier
• Predator's Gold (#2) - Philip Reeve
• The Austere Academy (#5) - Lemony Snicket
• The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists (#3) - Gideon Defoe
• Nevernight (#1) - Jay Kristoff
• Slayer (#1) - Kiersten White
• Magonia (#1) - Maria Dahvana Headley
• The Sun is also a Star - Nicola Yoon
• The Extinction Trials (#1) - S. M. Wilson
• Knife Edge (#2) - Malorie Blackman
• Warrior Witch (#3) - Danielle L. Jensen
• Wonder Woman: Warbringer - Leigh Bardugo
• Blue Lily, Lily Blue (#3) - Maggie Stiefvater
• Daughter of Smoke and Bone (#1) - Laini Taylor
• Leviathan (#1) - Scott Westerfeld
• The Infinite Sea (#2) - Rick Yancey
• Flying Too High (#2) - Kerry Greenwood
• The Ask and the Answer (#2) - Patrick Ness
• The Loneliness of Distant Beings (#1) - Kate Ling

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• Dumplin' (#1) - Julie Murphy
• Long Dark Dust (#2) - J. P. Smythe
• Alice (#1) - Christina Henry
• Three Dark Crowns (#1) - Kendare Blake
• The Invisible Library (#1) - Genevieve Cogman

Wish me luck in March with this TBR

REVIEW: Final Promise - Alexa Riley

Title: Final Promise (#4)
Author: Alexa Riley
Series: Promises
Publisher: Unknown
Format: E-Book
Pages: 117 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Liberty has spent years watching her mom work as a maid for the powerful Spade family. It’s hard for her to see everyone around her have money, but it’s even worse when she falls for one of those rich men. Devlin is someone she can never have and all her desires for him are wrong. Maybe taking a job as his secretary was a mistake? 

Devlin Spade was born and bred to be a certain man, have a certain job, and live a certain life. But when he meets Liberty everything changes. He’s willing to give it all up if it means having her, but she won’t stop pushing him away. He can’t let her go, even if she tries to run. 

REVIEW: All About Me (#2) - Joanna Mazurkiewicz

Title: All About Me (#2)
Author: Joanna Mazurkiewicz
Series: Love & Hate
Publisher: Unknown
Format: E-Book
Pages: 222 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

I’m the monster, a bloody human incapable of emotion

I soon realise that my revenge didn’t make me feel any fucking better about myself, instead, it pissed me off to realise that I’m in love with her.

Two days later the letter addressed to me arrives in the post and the ground moves beneath my feet, because the whole truth about India is out in the open and the pain punches me so hard that I can’t breathe, darkness crawls through me, sparking all the insecurities and fears about my dead brother back to ugly reality.

Then off I go with my apology, trying to fix this fucked up situation but she doesn’t want to listen. Every time I do something the guilt is burning my gut, pushing her further and further away from me. 

She even goes an extra mile making me feel like a prick and she gets involved with someone else just to get back at me. She pretends that the event in the restaurant didn’t mean anything to her like she is immune to my actions. 

India’s pain is raw, deep and whenever I lay my eyes on her I remember the cruel things I’ve done.

The next couple of months I focus on getting her back. This is the only thing that matters to me now. I must redeem myself; forget about anger, other birds and parties. 

India is the only person that I want, I love her and only her but the problem is that she hates my guts, so I’m the last person that she wants.

I must prove to India that I’m worthy of her love.

REVIEW: The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (#1) - Gideon Defoe

Title: The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (#1)
Author: Gideon Defoe
Series: The Pirates!
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Format: Paperback
Pages: 197 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Worried that his pirates are growing bored with a life of winking at pretty native ladies and trying to stick enough jellyfish together to make a bouncy castle, the Pirate Captain decides it's high time to spearhead an adventure.

While searching for some major pirate booty, he mistakenly attacks the young Charles Darwin's Beagle and then leads his ragtag crew from the exotic Galapagos Islands to the fog-filled streets of Victorian London. There they encounter grisly murder, vanishing ladies, radioactive elephants, and the Holy Ghost himself. And that's not even the half of it. 

REVIEW: Blackmailing the Virgin (#2) - Alexa Riley

Title: Blackmailing the Virgin (#2)
Author: Alexa Riley
Series: Promises
Publisher: Unknown
Format: E-Book
Pages: 95 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

When Calder Cox sees Felicity for the first time, he has to have her. There’s nothing that will hold him back…until he finds out she’s his lawyer’s daughter. 

Felicity Chandler is graduating college soon but has no idea what she wants to do. While playing her violin one night, she sees Calder and feels instantly drawn to him. But when he tries to keep his distance, she doesn’t know what to do with all of her feelings. 

Calder can’t be held off much longer, and when his control snaps, there are consequences. Felicity might be trying to run, but he’ll make sure she stays…even if he has to blackmail her to do it. 

REVIEW: You (#1) - Caroline Kepnes

Title: You (#1)
Author: Caroline Kepnes
Series: You
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Format: E-Book
Pages: 433 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

When a beautiful, aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card.

There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling Joe everything he needs to know: she is simply Beck to her friends, she went to Brown University, she lives on Bank Street, and she’ll be at a bar in Brooklyn tonight—the perfect place for a “chance” meeting.

As Joe invisibly and obsessively takes control of Beck’s life, he orchestrates a series of events to ensure Beck finds herself in his waiting arms. Moving from stalker to boyfriend, Joe transforms himself into Beck’s perfect man, all while quietly removing the obstacles that stand in their way—even if it means murder.

REVIEW: The Inquisition (#2) - Taran Matharu

Title: The Inquisition (#2)
Author: Taran Matharu
Series: Summoner Series
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Paperback
Pages: 407 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

A year has passed since the Tournament.

Fletcher and Ignatius have been locked away in Pelt’s dungeons, but now they must face a trial at the hands of the Inquisition, a powerful institution controlled by those who would delight in Fletcher’s downfall.

The trial is haunted by ghosts from the past with shocking revelations about Fletcher’s origins, but he has little time to dwell on them; the graduating students of Vocans are to be sent deep into the orc jungles to complete a dangerous mission for the king and his council. If they fail, the orcish armies will rise to power beyond anything the Empire has ever seen.

With loyal friends Othello and Sylva by his side, Fletcher must battle his way to the heart of Orcdom and save Hominum from destruction…or die trying.

REVIEW: Mr & Mrs (#1) - Alexa Riley

Title: Mr & Mrs (#1)
Author: Alexa Riley
Series: Promises
Publisher: Unknown
Format: E-Book
Pages: 106 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Phillip has been married to Molly for a year. He’s beyond obsessed with his new wife, to the point that he has to hold his true feelings back. If she knew how crazy he is for her, she might push him away.

Molly is feeling distance growing between them, and she’s worried she’s not enough. One night she walks in on Phillip, and it changes everything.

When Phillip discovers Molly was in an accident and now has amnesia, he’s going to do all he can to make her fall in love with him again. Holding nothing back this time.

REVIEW: Crazy Rich Asians (#1) - Kevin Kwan

Title: Crazy Rich Asians (#1)
Author: Kevin Kwan
Series: Crazy Rich Asians
Publisher: Audible Studios
Format: Audiobook
Time: 13HRS 53MINS
Narrator: Lynn Chen
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home, long drives to explore the island, and quality time with the man she might one day marry. What she doesn't know is that Nick's family home happens to look like a palace, that she'll ride in more private planes than cars, and that with one of Asia's most eligible bachelors on her arm, Rachel might as well have a target on her back. 

Initiated into a world of dynastic splendor beyond imagination, Rachel meets Astrid, the It Girl of Singapore society; Eddie, whose family practically lives in the pages of the Hong Kong socialite magazines; and Eleanor, Nick's formidable mother, a woman who has very strong feelings about who her son should--and should not--marry.

REVIEW: Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death (#1) - M. C. Beaton

Title: Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death (#1)
Author: M. C. Beaton
Series: Agatha Raisin
Publisher: C & R Crime
Format: E-Book
Pages: 196 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Agatha Raisin decides to leave her PR job in London to enjoy the delights of an early retirement in a quiet village in the Cotswolds, where she soon gets bored but is eager to fit in. Showing off her "talent" in the parish cooking competition should make her popular -only if her quiche didn't kill the judge. Thus, Agatha must reveal the bitter truth: she bought the fatal quiche from a caterer. To clear herself, she has only one solution: identify the murderer.

REVIEW: Saga Vol. 7 - Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

Title: Saga Vol. 7
Author: Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples
Series: Saga
Publisher: Image Comics
Format: Paperback
Pages: 152 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Finally reunited with her ever-expanding family, Hazel travels to a war-torn comet that Wreath and Landfall have been battling over for ages. New friendships are forged and others are lost forever in this action-packed volume about families, combat and the refugee experience.

REVIEW: All About You (#1) - Joanna Mazurkiewicz

Title: All About You (#1)
Author: Joanna Mazurkiewicz
Series: Love & Hate
Publisher: Unknown
Format: E-Book
Pages: 298 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

I start hating Oliver just after his older brother Christian’s death. I drag him down a road of humiliation and pain to try to cope with what his brother did to me. 

A few months after Christian’s passing, Oliver leaves town, and for the next two years, he is absent from my life. The demons claw their way back in, and I must learn to live with the secret that has destroyed me. 

Now I’m starting a new life, away from Gargle and away from my past, but everything crashes when I see Oliver the first day at university. It’s clear that many things have changed since we’ve been apart. Now he is captain of the rugby team and the most popular bloke on campus. 

Then he makes a bet and gives me an ultimatum: I leave Braxton forever and start somewhere else, or I stay and play his game… because he’s never forgotten that it was me who ruined his life two years ago.

JANUARY 2019 Wrap Up

Where has January gone, seriously I want to know it seems to have flown by. Well moving on welcome to another Wrap Up.

I managed to read 15 books overall, I also joined in with the 24in48 readathon where I managed to complete 3 books (I'm quite impressed with that)

I read:

1. Truthwitch (#1) - Susan Dennard (⭐⭐)
2. Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham (#8) - M. C. Beaton (⭐⭐⭐)
3. The Wide Window (#3) - Lemony Snicket (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
4. The Dark Day's Pact (#2) - Alison Goodman (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
5. You (#1) - Caroline Kepnes (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
6. Ringing in the New Year - Alexa Riley (⭐⭐)
7. The Secret Lives of Superhero Wives - Joynell Shultz (⭐⭐⭐)
8. First Man In: Leading from the Front - Ant Middleton (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
9. Hidden Huntress (#2) - Danielle L. Jensen (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
10. Day Shift (#2) - Charlaine Harris (⭐⭐⭐)
11. Mortal Engines (#1) - Philip Reeve (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
12. Horrorstӧr - Grady Hendrix (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
13. Ruby Red (#1) - Kerstin Gier (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
14. Renegades (#1) - Marissa Meyer (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
15. Demon Dentist - David Walliams (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

I'm quite impressed with myself that I managed to read 15 books. Here's to another good month in February.

FEBRUARY 2019 TBR

Welcome to another February TBR, again I will have 24 books on my TBR, but this month I have added quite a lot of books from last month as I still want to read them.

• The Miserable Mill (#4) - Lemony Snicket
• Hidden Bodies (#2) - Caroline Kepnes
• The Battlemage (#3) - Taran Matharu
• Asylum (#1) - Madeleine Roux
• The Invisible Library (#1) - Genevieve Cogman
• One of Us is Lying (#1) - Karen M. McManus
• Charmcaster (#3) - Sebastien de Castell
• Long Dark Dust (#2) - J. P. Smythe
• The Pirates! In an Adventure with Moby Dick (#2) - Gideon Defoe
• Alice (#1) - Christina Henry
• Three Dark Crowns (#1) - Kendare Blake
• And I Darken (#1) - Kiersten White
• Crooked House - Agatha Christie
• The Next Together (#1) - Lauren James
• Noughts & Crosses (#1) - Malorie Blackman
• Geekerella - Ashley Poston
• Shaken (#3) - Joss Stirling
• Dumplin' (#1) - Julie Murphy
• Free (#7) - Kristen Ashley
• The Secret Runners of New York - Matthew Reilly*
• Unearthed (#1) - Amie Kaufman & Megan Spooner
• The Paper Magician (#1) - Charlie N. Holmberg
• Poor Unfortunate Soul - Serena Valentino
• Until I Die (#2) - Amy Plum

I'm currently reading Dumplin', Hidden Bodies, Unearthed, and The Paper Magician.