Hi everyone! Today I’ll be reviewing what I read, what I reviewed, and other IRL things that’s been going on! I think this month I finally slowly got out of my blogging and reading slump, so I’m super excited to get back into the hang of things.
Month: March 2017
TBR & Playlist | Spring 2017
Spring is already here, so I wanted to share with you my TBR and playlist for this season. This feature will occur every season, and I’ll talk about my very tentative TBR as well as the music I’ll probably be listening to the whole season.
ARC Review: A Crown of Wishes by Roshani Chokshi
A Crown of Wishes by Roshani Chokshi
Series: The Star Touched Queen #2
Series: The Star Touched Queen #2
Genre: YA Fantasy, Mythology, Romance
Publication: March 28th 2017 by St. Martin’s Griffin
Length: 352 pages
Length: 352 pages
Format: ARC
Gauri, the princess of Bharata, has been taken as a prisoner of war by her kingdom’s enemies. Faced with a future of exile and scorn, Gauri has nothing left to lose. Hope unexpectedly comes in the form of Vikram, the cunning prince of a neighboring land and her sworn enemy kingdom. Unsatisfied with becoming a mere puppet king, Vikram offers Gauri a chance to win back her kingdom in exchange for her battle prowess. Together, they’ll have to set aside their differences and team up to win the Tournament of Wishes—a competition held in a mythical city where the Lord of Wealth promises a wish to the victor.
Reaching the tournament is just the beginning. Once they arrive, danger takes on new shapes: poisonous courtesans and mischievous story birds, a feast of fears and twisted fairy revels.
Every which way they turn new trials will test their wit and strength. But what Gauri and Vikram will soon discover is that there’s nothing more dangerous than what they most desire.
March Uppercase Unboxing & Review!
Hi everyone! I’m super duper excited to share with you my review & unboxing of the March 2017 Uppercase! Let’s get started!
A Very Arc-Ish Readathon: Signup & TBR
Since I’m a complete mess when it comes with ARCs—I always request too many, I read relatively slowly, I always have so many ARCs on my TBR—I decided to join the A Very Arc-Ish Readathon, hosted by the lovely Aimal @ Bookshelves and Paperbacks.
ARC Review: Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
Series: Strange the Dreamer #1
Series: Strange the Dreamer #1
Genre: YA Fantasy
Publication: March 28th 2017 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Length: 544 pages
Length: 544 pages
Format: ARC from publisher (thank you!)
A new epic fantasy by National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Laini Taylor of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy.
The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around— and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he’s been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the person of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance to lose his dream forever.
What happened in Weep two hundred years ago to cut it off from the rest of the world? What exactly did the Godslayer slay that went by the name of god? And what is the mysterious problem he now seeks help in solving?
The answers await in Weep, but so do more mysteries—including the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo’s dreams. How did he dream her before he knew she existed? and if all the gods are dead, why does she seem so real?
In this sweeping and breathtaking new novel by National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor, author of the New York Times bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, the shadow of the past is as real as the ghosts who haunt the citadel of murdered gods. Fall into a mythical world of dread and wonder, moths and nightmares, love and carnage.
Welcome to Weep.
March 2017 New Release Giveaway Hop!
Welcome to the March New Release Giveaway Hop hosted by It Starts at Midnight!
There are so many fantastic books coming out in March, including STRANGE THE DREAMER and A CROWN OF WISHES! I am going to be giving away a March new release of the winner’s choice.
Mini ARC Reviews: The Bone Witch & We Are Okay
It’s been quite a while since I posted some mini-reviews, so here are my shorter reviews that I was frankly too lazy to write full-length ones for. These books recently came out, so here’s what I thought of them!
Review: Confessions of a High School Disaster by Emma Chastain
Confessions of a High School Disaster: Chloe Snow’s Diary by Emma Chastain
Series: n/a
Series: n/a
Genre: YA Contemporary
Publication: March 7th 2017 by Simon Pulse
Length: 352 pages
Length: 352 pages
Format: HC from publisher (Thank you!)
In the tradition of Bridget Jones’s Diary, a lovably flawed high school student chronicles her life as she navigates the highs and lows of family, friendship, school, and love in a diary that sparkles with humor and warmth.
ARC Review: Traitor to the Throne by Alwyn Hamilton
Traitor to the Throne by Alwyn Hamilton
Series: Rebel of the Sands #2
Series: Rebel of the Sands #2
Genre: YA Fantasy
Publication: March 7th 2017 by Viking Books for Young Readers
Length: 528 pages
Length: 528 pages
Format: eARC from publisher (Thank you!)
The sizzling, un-put-downable sequel to the bestselling Rebel of the Sands!
Mere months ago, gunslinger Amani al’Hiza fled her dead-end hometown on the back of a mythical horse with the mysterious foreigner Jin, seeking only her own freedom. Now she’s fighting to liberate the entire desert nation of Miraji from a bloodthirsty sultan who slew his own father to capture the throne.
When Amani finds herself thrust into the epicenter of the regime—the Sultan’s palace—she’s determined to bring the tyrant down. Desperate to uncover the Sultan’s secrets by spying on his court, she tries to forget that Jin disappeared just as she was getting closest to him, and that she’s a prisoner of the enemy. But the longer she remains, the more she questions whether the Sultan is really the villain she’s been told he is, and who’s the real traitor to her sun-bleached, magic-filled homeland.
Forget everything you thought you knew about Miraji, about the rebellion, about djinni and Jin and the Blue-Eyed Bandit. In Traitor to the Throne, the only certainty is that everything will change.
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