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Harry Potter Spell Book Tag!

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Hi All! So I am completely out of any post ideas at the moment - and the ones I do have I can't post yet because I haven't read enough this month (I know I cry too). So today I was looking through goodreads and I stumbled across a link to a Harry Potter Spell Book Tag! It seems to be open to everyone (I wasn't tagged because I have no friends - I cry again), so I thought I would give it a go for today's post! Here is the original blog post this featured and thank you to the blogger who created it! ACCIO - AN UPCOMING RELEASE YOU WISHED YOU COULD GET YOUR HANDS ON I just wrote a whole post about exciting spring release so this is really tough for me, I have too many to choose from. If I picked from outside that list I've got to say On The Come Up by Angie Thomas - I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS. I can't explain my love for The Hate U Give and now I just want to read everything Angie writes.  ALOHOMORA - FAVOURITE SERIES STARTER I know not e

Recent TV Show Binges #1

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1. The End of The F****** World on Netflix SO PRECIOUS LOVE THIS. Oh my god guys this is the perfect tv show for anyone with British or just generally quite dark humour. I loved the character introduced to us - they're not your ordinary teen TV show characters, and they both the protagonists - Alyssa and James have such great character arcs and I love it. Neither are them are your cookie-cutter characters and the way in which we get to see them unravel and how the show peels back their layers is genius. The actors themselves are incredible, and they are definitely two I will be watching from now on because they had brilliant performances in this. The ending as well is something else, and I have had arguments with people about what actually happened, it's open in a way that's not frustrating and that's really great. Also, the great thing about this is that you can binge this so quickly - the episodes are short and there is only eight of them 2. Salvation on Netf

Exciting Spring 2018 YA Releases

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Goodreads 1. Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles Release Date: 20th March 2018 Genres:  Contemporary, YA  Blurb: ' When Marvin Johnson's twin, Tyler, goes to a party, Marvin decides to tag along to keep an eye on his brother. But what starts as harmless fun turns into a shooting, followed by a police raid. The next day, Tyler has gone missing, and it's up to Marvin to find him. But when Tyler is found dead, a video leaked online tells an even more chilling story: Tyler has been shot and killed by a police officer. Terrified as his mother unravels and mourning a brother who is now a hashtag, Marvin must learn what justice and freedom really mean.' Why I want to read it: After reading 'The Hate U Give' by Angie Thomas last year I realised how little I knew about the relationship between the police and the black community within America, furthermore it opened up my eyes to the fact I need to start making a conscience effort to start picking up more

The Thousandth Floor by Katherine McGee Review

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Rating: 1/5 To be honest, I was so disappointed by this book. I was hoping for so much more from this premise - it could have been amazing, but it just fell flat on so many levels. It's a little bit like making a cup of tea, and you're so excited for it and you've left the teabag in just for the right amount of time AND THEN you pour the milk in and you pour in too much and now it's just a pale, bland, cold mess. This is this book. It could have been such a good cup of tea... As you can tell I lost a cup of tea today, I'm still mourning. I couldn't quite get into Katherine McGee's writing and I'm not sure why, maybe it's because I didn't enjoy all the perspectives offered to us. Whatever the reason was something felt a little off to me. Unfortunately, an issue I had with this book was the amount of perspective offered to us, this often left my confused when we returned to a character after a while, and there was so many characters in this

The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed Review

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Rating: 5/5 Trigger Warning : Rape, Sexual Assault, Sexual Harrasment Happy International Women's Day everybody! In honour of today I thought I would post my review for The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed. Now, I'm going to be honest and say the only reason why I bought this book was because it was really cheap on Amazon, and I thought that it couldn't be that bad, but this book was amazing and I have no idea why I've never heard of it before even though it has an average rating of 4.44 on Goodreads. This book dealt with some pretty heavy topics really well and it had great characters, and a brilliant story to top it all off. This book is a bit weird to start as you kinda get info dumps within the first few chapters that slow down the pacing of this book, and to begin with I was really disheartened to see it as I thought all the writing would be like that. It wasn't, it was almost as if the writing got better the more the book went on and I think once the book fou

February 2018 Wrap Up!

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I had such good month of reading - I finished 6 books! 6 books in 28 days! Can you believe that? I can't. It's probably because I was without wifi and signal for over 48 hours and my family were all ill so had nothing else to do but still, it's not bad. Not every book I read this month I loved - and there is one book here that hate with a passion but other than that, it was good. 1. The Host by Stephanie Meyer Alright, so I've written a review on this that feels to me kinda messy and conflicted, but to be honest that's how I feel about this book - I still haven't quite decided how I feel about this. I enjoyed reading The Host, and it's definitely the best Stephanie Meyer's book I've ever read and could easily be a great trilogy. I really enjoyed some of the characters and the world building in this is phenomenal. However, if I could just erase Jared from this book I'd be happy, I just don't like this guy. He's cruel and malicious, he