Friday, 30 March 2018

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Review: The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw (#Ad)

The Wicked Deep by Shea ErnshawThe Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw (eProof)

I received this eProof for free from Simon & Schuster Children's Books via NetGalley for the purposes of providing an honest review.

Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrow…

Two centuries ago, in the small, isolated town, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town. Now, for a brief time each summer, the sisters return from the depths, stealing the bodies of three weak-hearted girls so that they may seek their revenge, luring boys into the harbor and pulling them down to their watery deaths.

Like many locals, seventeen-year-old Penny Talbot has accepted the fate of the town. But this year, on the eve of the sisters’ return, a boy named Bo Carter arrives; unaware of the danger he has just stumbled into or the fact that his arrival will change everything...

Mistrust and lies spread quickly through the salty, rain-soaked streets. The townspeople turn against one another. Penny and Bo suspect each other of hiding secrets. And death comes swiftly to those who cannot resist the call of the sisters.

But only Penny sees what others cannot. And she will be forced to choose: save Bo, or save herself.
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Sunday, 11 March 2018

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Review: By a Charm and a Curse by Jaime Questell

By a Charm and a Curse by Jaime QuestellNetGalleyBy a Charm and a Curse by Jaime Questell (eProof) - Le Grand’s Carnival Fantastic isn’t like other traveling circuses. It’s bound by a charm, held together by a centuries-old curse, that protects its members from ever growing older or getting hurt. Emmaline King is drawn to the circus like a moth to a flame…and unwittingly recruited into its folds by a mysterious teen boy whose kiss is as cold as ice.

Forced to travel through Texas as the new Girl in the Box, Emmaline is completely trapped. Breaking the curse seems like her only chance at freedom, but with no curse, there’s no charm, either—dooming everyone who calls the Carnival Fantastic home. Including the boy she’s afraid she’s falling for.

Everything—including his life—could end with just one kiss.
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I received this eProof for free from Entangled: Teen via NetGalley for the purposes of providing an honest review.

Trigger Warning: This book features accidental death, animal death and violence.
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Monday, 5 March 2018

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London's The Like A Woman Pop-Up Bookshop

The Like A Woman Bookshop Banner

This week, to celebrate International Women's Day, Penguin Random House have opened a pop up bookshop in Shoreditch, in partnership with Waterstones, The Like A Woman Bookshop, in which they sell only books by women authors. Today is it's opening day, and so I decided to pop down to show my support.

Photo of The Like A Woman Bookshop from the outside
The Like A Woman Bookshop.
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Thursday, 1 March 2018

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Review: The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan

The Gracekeepers by Kirsty LoganThe Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan (review copy) - A flooded world.
A floating circus.
Two women in search of a home.

North lives on a circus boat with her beloved bear, keeping a secret that could capsize her life.

Callanish lives alone in her house in the middle of the ocean, tending the graves of those who die at sea. As penance for a terrible mistake, she has become a gracekeeper.

A chance meeting between the two draws them magnetically to one another - and to the promise of a new life.

But the waters are treacherous, and the tide is against them.
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I was sent this ARC for freeby Vintage Books for the purposes of providing an honest review.

Trigger Warning: This book features an attempted forced marriage (though not a cultural one), and sexual assault.
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