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Top Ten Tuesday #19

Top Ten Tuesday #19 Top Ten Finished Series I Need To Finish And Has Not Finished Yet.
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish and consists of them picking a topic each week for us bloggers to list our Top Ten.

Ok, ok, ok I am soo late with this post like over half a week late but I just really wanted to do this topic, so I'm doing it now! :P

1. The Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo
I have only read the first book in this series :'( and I really loved it!! It h...

Wishlist Wednesday #6

Wishlist Wednesday #6
Wishlist Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted over at Pen to Paper. This meme is where you showcase one book that is on your wishlist and that you can't wait to get off your wishlist and into your hands.

On my Wishlist Wednesday today is....


Winter by Marissa Meyer
SPOILERS!! 
Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Qu...

Top Ten Tuesday #18

Top Ten Tuesday #18 Top Ten Characters I Just Didn't Click With .
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish and consists of them picking a topic each week for us bloggers to list our Top Ten.
I know some of these characters are just extremely popular but honestly they just didn't click with me for reasons that I'm not really sure myself sometimes so I'm just going to write the names and what books they are from and leave it as that really. These are by no mea...

August 2015

August 2015 Book Haul / Wrap Up August is now over! And my little brother is off to school now on the first of September. Summer is practically over and well.... what can ya do?? Winter is coming!! :P
August 2015 Book HaulHere I was, expecting to not have a book haul this month, I was so delighted with myself but then August 27th happened and August 28th and well, guess what... I got books!

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The Dead House by Dawn KurtagichThe Rest Of Us Just Live Here by Patrick NessOne by Sarah CrossanSo...

Book Review - Conversion by Katherine Howe

ConversionAuthor: Katherine HoweGenres: Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Witches. Published: 2015Pages: 402 pages (Paperback Edition) (Rock The Boat)Read: August 2015Rating: 5 Stars 

It’s senior year at St. Joan’s Academy, and school is a pressure cooker. College applications, the battle for valedictorian, deciphering boys’ texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends are expected to keep it together. Until they can’t.

First it...

Best of the Bunch #3 - August 2015

Best of the Bunch #3 - August 2015


Best of the Bunch is a monthly meme hosted over at A Cocoon of Books. What it is is that you give the Best of the Bunch award to one book which you have read in that month.
This is going to be so, so hard! I read so many good books this month! So many!! I read a total of 6 books this month, 4 of them received 5 stars, 1 received 4 stars and 1 received 1 star! So youp! I have to pick from 4 absolutely amazing books....
Just to let you know the four books we...

Book Review - Extraordinary Means by Robyn Schneider

Extraordinary MeansAuthor: Robyn SchneiderGenres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Romance. Published: June 4 2015Pages: 336 pages (Paperback Edition) (Simon & Schuster Children's Books)Read: August 2015Rating: 4 Stars

When he's sent to Latham House, a boarding school for sick teens, Lane thinks his life may as well be over.
But when he meets Sadie and her friends - a group of eccentric troublemakers - he realises that maybe getting...

Book Review - The Gates by John Connolly

The Gates(Samuel Johnson vs. The Devil #1)Author: John ConnollyGenres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Humour. Published: 2009Pages: 264 pages (Paperback Edition) (Hodder & Stoughton)Read: August 2015Rating: 1 Stars (DNF)

Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Hallowe’en. Which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue.

The Abernathys don’t mean an...

Owlcrate Unboxing

Owlcrate UnboxingDun, dun, dun, I decided to buy an Owlcrate box!!!! I was waiting on the waiting list and then one day an email arrived saying it was my turn to subscribe and I did! I did a one month subscription so that I could get August's Mystery themed Owlcrate.
So ever since the 20th of August, I was impatiently waiting for my Owlcrate box to arrive. I knew it would take a while cause I lived in Ireland but that did not mean that I wasn't constantly checking the tracking number given to...

Wishlist Wednesday #5

Wishlist Wednesday #5
Wishlist Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted over at Pen to Paper. This meme is where you showcase one book that is on your wishlist and that you can't wait to get off your wishlist and into your hands.

On my Wishlist Wednesday today is....


The Appearance of Annie van Sinderen by Katherine Howe
It’s summertime in New York City, and aspiring filmmaker Wes Auckerman has just arrived to start his summer term at NYU. While shooting a séance at a psychic’s in the East Village,...