I'm getting a little quicker at getting these unboxings up! Still not as quick as I'd like but ah well. The boxes are always worth the wait and I say it every time but I think this might be my favourite box to date. Every month these boxes get better and better. This month's Fairyloot theme was Broody Banter. Which is also one of the tropes or features…
Firstly, a huge thank you to Rock the Boat for sending over a copy of Once & Future for me to review. This book has every kind of representation you could think of from the LGBTQIAP+ spectrum. Okay, well most areas are represented by a character and are otherwise explicitly discussed. I felt that the representation was incredibly sweet and sensitive though, as I'm not a member of…
Firstly, a huge thank you to Harper Collins and more specifically Ammara for sending me a copy of this book to read and review. Secondly, I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to turn this review into something that resembles sense, or at the very least is coherent. I had massive expectations for this book. Ammara had been raving about it on the Harper Collins twitter, the book…
This was honestly just such a beautiful book. From the characters to the world and the writing in general. The Star-Touched Queen is heavily influenced by the Hades and Persephone myth (one of my favourites) blended with Indian folklore and mythology. Magical doesn't even begin to cover it. Maya, our main character, has been an outsider all her life despite being a Princess. Born with a horoscope that…
This is a super short story in the Sherlock Holmes series and I really enjoyed it. It was one on my Victorian Lit course but by the time it came around to reading it I'd already planned what I was doing for my exam. I did want to read it though, just not under such constrained limits. It didn't take me long to get through this and all…