Booking Through Thursday 30/06/2016 'Marginalia'

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme hosted byBooking Through Thursday and a different question is posted every week.

Do you write in your books? Highlight? In all books or just things like college textbooks?

I don't write in my books.  It's the equivalent of dog-earring pages.

I did while I while I was studying for my A-level in English Language and Literature.  But I bought copies especially for annotating.  I wouldn't ever write in my normal books, if I wanted to annotate something, I would use sticky tabs.

Waiting On Wednesday 29/06/16 'Poor Unfortunate Soul'

Waiting on Wednesday is all about sharing the books that I'm eagerly waiting to be released.

This week the book that I'm waiting to be released is Poor Unfortunate Soul: A Tale of the Sea Witch by Serena Valentino.  The Third book in the Disney Villains series.

Released 26th July.

The third novel in Serena Valentino's (Fairest of All, Beast Within) "VILLAINS" trilogy, featuring the story of the Little Mermaid from the perspective of the sea witch Ursula.

W...W...W...Wednesday 29/06/2016

To play along, just answer the following 3 questions:

What are you currently reading?

What did you recently finish reading?

What do you think you’ll read next?

My current read is Easy Kisses by Kristen Proby

I recently finished reading A Measure of Love by Sophie Jackson

I think my next will be One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Weekend Vlog 25-26.06.16 Tattoos, Pizza & Abject Misery

#FridayReads 24.06.16 'A Measure of Love'

Waiting On Wednesday 22/06/2016 'Deep Redemption'

Waiting on Wednesday is all about sharing the books that I'm eagerly waiting to be released.

This week the book that I'm waiting on is Deep Redemption by Tillie Cole, the 4th book in the Hades Hangmen series and OMG I'M SO FREAKING EXCITED FOR THIS BOOK TO BE RELEASED....I NEED IT NOW!!!!!  I love this series, and Tillie Cole in general, but the Hades Hangmen will always have a special place in my heart.

Released 12th July 2016.

ONLY THROUGH BLOOD CAN THE DEEPEST REDEMPTION BE FOUND…

He was born to ascend.
He was destined to lead.
He was never meant to fail.

Prophet Cain lies broken and defeated on the floor of his cell. A cell he has been thrown into by the one person who was supposed to stand by his side until the end. His flesh and blood, his only companion. His beloved twin brother.

Cain has sacrificed everything for his people. He left the safety and security of his life of study to infiltrate the infamous Hades Hangmen. He lived with them, rode with them, and then betrayed them. All in the name of a faith he can now feel slipping away from him. Like everything else he once held dear…

But then his isolation is broken. Another prisoner is brought to the cell next to his. A woman fighting her own demons and fears. A woman who Cain understands needs him, as he needs her.

As the connection between them grows, so does Cain’s resolve. He will right the wrongs he has done. He will atone for the evil acts carried out in his name. He will save the one he loves…

… Even if the battle takes him to the gates of hell itself.

Contemporary Dark Romance. Contains explicit sexual situations, violence, sensitive and taboo subjects, offensive language, and mature topics. Recommended for age 18 years and up.

W...W...W...Wednesday 21/06/2016

To play along, just answer the following 3 questions:

What are you currently reading?

What did you recently finish reading?

What do you think you’ll read next?

My current read is Tampa by Alissa Nutting

I recently finished reading Billy and Me by Giovanna Fletcher

I think my next read will be Jaws by Peter Benchley

Me Before You [MOVIE THOUGHTS]

June 2016 Book Haul | In My Mailbox

W...W...W...Wednesday 15/06/2016

To play along, just answer the following 3 questions:

What are you currently reading?

What did you recently finish reading?

What do you think you’ll read next?

I'm currently reading Billy and Me by Giovanna Fletcher

I recently finished reading How To Entice an Enchantress

I think my next read will be Silver Bay by Jojo Moyes

May 2016 Favourites

W...W...W...Wednesday 08/06/2016

To play along, just answer the following 3 questions:

What are you currently reading?

What did you recently finish reading?

What do you think you’ll read next?

My current read is How To Entice an Enchantess by Karen Hawkins

I recently finished reading Dark Lover by J.R. Ward

I think my next read will be Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen by Alison Weir

How To Capture a Countess (The Duchess Diaries #1) by Karen Hawkins

• Format: Kindle Edition
• Print Length: 388 pages
• Publisher: Headline Eternal (7 May 2015)
• ASIN: B00S53JFC8

The Duchess Diaries are sure to delight: a dazzlingly romantic, sexy, and Scottish spin on fairytales.

At seventeen, Rose Balfour fell wildly in love with Lord Alton Sinclair, nicknamed 'Lord Sin' for his notoriously wicked ways. When an illicit kiss led to Rose humiliating the rake in front of his laughing peers, she was forced to escape to the obscurity of the Scottish countryside.

Six years later, Sin is intent on revenge. Convincing his aunt, the Duchess of Roxburghe, to invite Rose to her annual ball, he plans on making her the laughing stock of high society. But he didn't expect Rose to have bloomed into an alluring woman with the power to turn his nefarious plans upside down.

As Sin and Rose enter a fiery battle of the sexes, it becomes more heated and passionate at every turn. Eventually, one will have to surrender ... but to vengeance, or love's deepest passion?

Cover: A pretty standard Regency Romance romance cover, that I neither love or hate.

I love Regency romance.  It's a big guilty pleasure of mine.  

And I really enjoyed The Oxenburg Princes series, that I've started.  That was the first books of hers I read, and she instantly became a new favourite author.

So I had to delve into another one of her series.  The Duchess Diaries.

And this was such a cute read.  Rose meets Sin when she was just 16.  New to being out in Society, but she has a little crush on Sin.  She meets him at a ball and wants to keep him interested in talking to her, and Sin doesn't realise her age, thinking she's a much more sophisticated and experienced than she really is.

So when he kisses her, she panics and ends up pushing Sin into a fountain.  Leading to humiliation for Sin.  When he tries to track her down- she's disappeared.  He thinks he did it on purpose.  So when they're reunited at his Aunts house party, he plans to seduce and ruin her for revenge.

I love Rose and Sin.  They were perfect together.  

A super sweet regency novel and a great start to the series.  I look forward to delving into more of this series.

5/5 stars

Read from May 19 to 21, 2016

May 2016 Reading Wrap Up

Waiting On Wednesday 01/06/2016 'An Author's Odyssey'

Waiting on Wednesday is all about sharing the books that I'm eagerly waiting to be released.

This week the book that I'm waiting on is The Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey, the fifth book in the series.

Released 12th July.

No synopsis as yet.

W...W...W...Wednesday 01/06/2016

To play along, just answer the following 3 questions:

What are you currently reading?

What did you recently finish reading?

What do you think you’ll read next?

I'm currently readin The Gargole by Andrew Davidson and Reader, I married Him edited by Tracy Chevalier

I recently finished reading Princess in Disguise by Karen Hawkins

I think my next read will be rereading Dark Lover by J.R. Ward