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.