Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Penguin English Library
3/5
I thought I’d read Little Women many, many years ago but when I pulled out my copy to re-read for a reading challenge prompt I realised that it was only part one. I’d never read part two.
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The Hod King
Josiah Bancroft
The Books of Babel #3
Orbit
567 pages
4.5/5
Oh, another superb cover to look at. They all just look so aesthetically pleasing on my bookshelf. I love them a lot.
The book is also very good too.
Crooked Kingdom
Leigh Bardugo
Six of Crows #2
Indigo
536 pages
4/5
Yeah, I still don’t buy that any of these characters are teenagers. Bardugo can reiterate it as often as she wants in the book but they’re still at least 30 in my head.
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
Vintage
502 pages
2/5
The blurb for this book makes it sound exciting. “A fierce competition” it says. “Only one left standing” it tells you. “A remarkable battle” to entice you to read this book.
The blurb, much like magic, is an illusion.
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Age of Legend
Michael J. Sullivan
Legends of the First Empire #4
Riyria Enterprises
480 pages (381 pages ebook)
5/5
Dear Persephone,
How could you not immediately see that that was a trap? You’re usually more intelligent than that.
Sincerely,
Everyone.
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I have another couple of recent fantasy reads that I can’t really think of anything to write for a full review so here’s another mini review post. Today it’s Magician’s Gambit by David Eddings, the third book in the Belgariad series and The Hyena and the Hawk by Adrian Tchaikovsky, the final book in the Echoes of the Fall trilogy.
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I was wondering what to post today and then I saw The End of Year Book Tag on Youtube so I decided to give it a go myself.
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
Steve Brusatte
Pan Macmillan
404 pages (ebook 365)
4/5
Fun and useless fact of the day: Brachiosaurus is my favourite dinosaur.
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Music Monday is a meme created by Drew from The Tattooed Book Geek where you pick a song you like and share it on a Monday.
This weeks pick was made by me going on to my Spotify playlist and choosing the first song that same up on random: Long Long Long by the Beatles.
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A Veil of Spears
Bradley Beaulieu
Song of the Shattered Sands #3
Gollancz
584 pages
4/5
For some reason, I always get it into my head that this series is going to be difficult to read. I have no idea why because I’m now onto the third book so I should know what to expect but I still put off reading this for months because I thought it was going to be a chore.
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