Recent Blog Posts

Can’t-Wait Wednesday

16 September

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released.
This week’s Can’t-Wait offering: Pride, Prejudice and Peril by Jessica Bull
Release date for the ebook – 17th September, 2026
   Read More...   

Review of NETGALLEY arc Kitty & Mary by Julia Gray and Imogen Russell Williams

15 September

I’m a huge fan of any Jane Austen retelling – and the notion of reading what has happened to both Kitty and Mary from Pride and Prejudice had me excited. Would this one live up to my expectations?
   Read More...   

Castellan the Black and his Wise Draconic Tips on Life

12 September

If you threaten to take the matter up into the sky with flame and claw, be prepared to do so. Your reputation will plummet faster than stone wings if you get a name for backing down under pressure.
   Read More...   

Review of NETGALLEY arc Disenchanted – Book 1 of the Rewitched series by Lucy Jane Wood

11 September

I’ve enjoyed the audiobook edition of Rewitched and the ebook edition of Uncharmed – see my review – so I was keen to get hold of the third book in this series.
   Read More...   

Can’t-Wait Wednesday

9 September

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released.
This week’s Can’t-Wait offering: The Green Man’s Debt – Book 9 of The Green Man series by Juliet E. McKenna
Release date for the ebook – 10th September, 2026
   Read More...   

Review of NETGALLEY arc Hawk & Sparrow by Ayana Gray

9 September

I’ve been enjoying historical fantasy adventures over the last couple of years and I liked the sound of this one.
   Read More...  

SUNDAY POST

6 September

This is part of the weekly, or fortnightly meme over at the Caffeinated Reviewer, where book bloggers can share the books they’ve read and share what they have got up to during the last week.
It’s been a tough fortnight. It has been Himself’s annual leave and we spent it decluttering the loft and then the house. We ordered a skip, which we’re now waiting to be taken away which we’ve filled. And in the meantime have waded through all sorts of things. I got rid of sixteen files of English and Maths lessons. There are now five boxes of recycled paper I can use to print out manuscripts and twice as much had to be recycled. And that was just a fraction of what we went through. A lot of it was emotionally difficult – we’ve had a lot go wrong over the last two decades and the reminders of those events were painful. We’ve delivered bags and bags to charity shops and the best toys are going to Stanley. On the plus side – it is lovely to get rid of all that unwanted baggage and have the house so much tidier and easier to keep that way.
   Read More...