REVIEW: The Hazel Wood - Melissa Albert*

Title: The Hazel Wood (#1)
Author: Melissa Albert
Series: The Hazel Wood
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 355 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

*E-COPY OF BOOK RECEIVED FROM NETGALLEY FOR AN HONEST REVIEW - PAPERBACK COPY WAS BOUGHT BY MYSELF FROM MY OWN MONEY*

Goodreads Blurb

Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the strange bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate - the Hazel Wood - Alice learns how bad her luck can really get. Her mother is stolen away - by a figure who claims to come from the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother's stories are set. Alice's only lead is the message her mother left behind: STAY AWAY FROM THE HAZEL WOOD.

To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother's tales began . . .

January 2020 Reading Wrap-up

Welcome to another reading wrap-up, and I know you are sick and tired of me writing this, but lordy me where did January go.

That is the first month of 2020 over with, and we have officially completed the first month of the new decade (that is quite scary come to think about it)

REVIEW: Serpent & Dove (#1) - Shelby Mahurin

Title: Serpent & Dove (#1)
Author: Shelby Mahurin
Series: Serpent & Dove
Publisher: HarperTeen
Format: Hardback
Pages: 513 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Bound as one to love, honour, or burn.

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 his life by one principle: thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. His path was never meant to cross with Lou's, but a wicked stunt forces them into an impossible union—holy matrimony.

The war between witches and Church is an ancient one, and Lou's most dangerous enemies bring a fate worse than fire. Unable to ignore her growing feelings, yet powerless to change what she is, a choice must be made.

And love makes fools of us all.

February 2020 TBR

I know I say this every month but where has the month gone, seriously I want to know.

Again as you know I always have 24 books on my TBR (I like that wiggle room to choose, as I am a mood reader at heart).

So let's get on with the books for February.

• Becoming - Michelle Obama (as part of A Year in 52 books, Prompt number 30)
• The School of Good and Evil (#1) -  (as part of A Year in 52 books, Prompt number 16)
• My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier  (as part of A Year in 52 books, Prompt number 11)
• Flying Too High (#2) - Kerry Greenwood (as part of A Year in 52 books, Prompt number 07)
• Scythe (#1) - Neal Schusterman
• Half Bad (#1) - Sally Green
• Nemesis (#1) - Brendan Reichs
• The Slippery Slope (#10) - Lemony Snicket
• Ace of Shades (#1) - Amanda Foody
• The Initiation (#1) - Chris Babu
• Wilder Girls - Rory Wilder
• The Diviners (#1) - Libba Bray
• Beastly Bones (#1) - William Ritter
• Foxglove Summer (#5) - Ben Aaronovitch
• Everland (#1) - Wendy Spinale
• Finale (#3) - Stephanie Garber
• Woven in Moonlight - Isabel Ibanez
• The Sisters Grimm - Menna van Praag
• Infinity Son - Adam Silvera
• A Heart so Fierce and Broken (#2) - Brigid Kemmerer
• Nevertell - Katharine Orton (Middle-Grade Monthly pick for February)
• Lirael (#2) - Garth Nix
• Until I Die (#2) - Amy Plum
• Boy's Don't Cry - Malorie Blackman

So there you have it, my TBR for February, wish me luck.

REVIEW: The Haunting - Alex Bell

Title: The Haunting
Author: Alex Bell
Series: Red Eye Series
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
Format: Paperback
Pages: 340 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Some curses grow stronger with time…
People say that all Cornish inns are haunted, but the Waterwitch’s history is particularly chilling. Built from the salvaged timber of a cursed ship, the guest house’s dark secrets go further back than anyone can remember.
Emma is permanently confined to a wheelchair after an accident at the Waterwitch which took place when she was ten. Seven years later, she decides to return to the place where the awful event occurred. But the ancient inn still has its ghosts, and one particular spirit is more vengeful than ever…

REVIEW: Archenemies (#2) - Marissa Meyer

Title: Archenemies (#2)
Author: Marissa Meyer
Series: Renegades
Publisher: Macmillian Children's Books
Format: Paperback
Pages:  471 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Time is running out.
Together, they can save the world.
But they each other's worst nightmare.

In Renegades, Nova and Adrian (aka Insomnia and Sketch) fought the battle of their lives against the Anarchist known as the Detonator. It was a short-lived victory.

The Anarchists still have a secret weapon, one that Nova believes will protect her. The Renegades also have a strategy for overpowering the Anarchists, but both Nova and Adrian understand that it could mean the end of Gatlon City - and the world - as they know it.

REVIEW: Frostheart (#1) - Jamie Littler

Title: Frostheart (#1)
Author: Jamie Littler
Series: Frostheart
Publisher: Puffin Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 439 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Way out in the furthest part of the known world, a tiny stronghold exists all on its own, cut off from the rest of human-kin by monsters that lurk beneath the Snow Sea.

There, a little boy called Ash waits for the return of his parents, singing a forbidden lullaby to remind him of them... and doing his best to avoid his very, VERY grumpy yeti guardian, Tobu.

But life is about to get a whole lot more crazy-adventurous for Ash.

When a brave rescue attempt reveals he has amazing magical powers, he's whisked aboard the Frostheart, a sleigh packed full of daring explorers who could use his help. But can they help him find his family . . . ?