In Her Sights; Review

🌟🌟🌟 / 5 In Her Sights by John Kimbrey Goodreads Synopsis (from Goodreads) Set at the outbreak of the Great War, the story depicts a young woman from a Gloucestershire village, tired with the constraints of her life in Edwardian Britain. In 1916, her brother, a weak and introverted man is called up for military…

The Girl Who Disappeared; Review

🌟🌟🌟 / 5 The Girl Who Disappeared by James Lingard Goodreads Synopsis (from Goodreads) Britain in the 1930s; a fact based historical novel inspired by real events. Emily falls passionately in love with working class Walter, despite fierce opposition from her class conscious father. She sees marriage as a partnership of equals and resolves to…

Top Ten Tuesday 14.1.20

Top Ten Tuesday was started way back in June 2010 by The Broke and The Bookish because of a love of lists and books. In January 2018 it was taken over by That Artsy Reader Girl. Jana assigns each Tuesday a different topic for discussion, she has a scheduled lists of topics on her blog.…

Spellhacker; Review

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 / 5 Spellhacker by M. K. England Goodreads | Book Depository Synopsis (from Goodreads) In Kyrkarta, magic—known as maz—was once a freely available natural resource. Then an earthquake released a magical plague, killing thousands and opening the door for a greedy corporation to make maz a commodity that’s tightly controlled—and, of course, outrageously expensive.…

#StartOnYourShelfathon Sign Up

Hello! For the first time ever I am joining a year long readathon! In my 2020 goals I mentioned that I would like to dedicate this year to tackling the many, many unread books sitting on my own shelves rather than borrowing ALL the library books. A few days later (through Anniek) I discovered #StartOnYourShelfathon…

A Throne of Swans; Review

🌟🌟🌟🌟 / 5 A Throne of Swans by Katherine and Elizabeth Corr Goodreads | Book Depository Synopsis (from Goodreads) When her father dies just before her birthday, seventeen-year-old Aderyn inherits the role of Protector of Atratys, a dominion in a kingdom where nobles are able to transform at will into the bird that represents their…

Ringing in the New Year Tag

A new year means a new book tag! Paige a.k.a. BookishPaige tagged me to complete Ringing in the New Year tag a couple of days ago, so I thought I'd better give it a go a.s.a.p. or it would soon be February! Here we go; Rules: 》 Link to the person who tagged you! 》…