Moonlit Books

This was a dreadful book. I appreciate what Renée was trying to do, but it just fell really really flat for me. Unlike 'Flame In The Mist', which despite all it's flaws was a quick and enjoyable read, this unfortunately still had all the flaws but none of the fun reading! In this book Mariko is still a dry and unbuttered piece of toast - tasteless. She's so exceptionally dumb and she doesn't really do much in this book - not that I can remember anyway. At the end of the last book she decides to go with her lover to the capitol to help save him and their whole crew by working from the inside or something - honestly my memory is a little rusty because I've tried to block that book from my mind. But really, she's fucking useless again . She does absolutely nothing that furthers the plot which is weird for the main protagonist? And I feel like all she does is wallow in her own misery and then be outsmarted by everyone again, no matter that she's meant...

This review is gonna be a bit of a mess, but my god am I having some internal struggles over just what I think of this book. I flew through this book in a day and whilst reading I noticed a few things, I should point at before this begins it was enjoyable, but in a trashy kind of way. However, the issue with this is when I read a book that fast it means it can be amazing, but more often that not it means it really isn't very good. Funnily enough, after I put it down some things just didn't sit right and that's real concerning to me.  Firstly we have the main character Mariko, who is supposed to be based off of/inspired by Disney's Mulan, which amazing because who doesn't love Mulan? And I really wanted to love Mariko! And I did at the start, the first chapter made me think we were going to have a smart, competent YA female lead, but I'm not sure we did get that. Mariko is established as a competent and inventive girl in the narrative, but we're unfor...

Do you ever read a book that you push yourself through because it's kinda boring but you expected it to be good, so you keep reading in the desperate hope it may get a little bit better? 'Why We Broke Up' was that book for me. It was only after finishing this book did I learn that David Handler occasionally writes under the pen name Lemony Snicket, as in the author that partially ruled my childhood along with other great authors like Rowling. At first, I didn't believe it; I couldn't believe Lemony Snicket had written something I found so dull and I'm just so disappointed. The story of 'Why We Broke Up' is centred around a young girl named Min, as she writes a letter to her ex-boyfriend Ed, with each chapter being based on a separate item she saved during their relationship. Within each chapter she talks about where the item came from, and this is nicely accompanied by an illustration of said item. It's a fairly sweet premise and you woul...

Rating: 4/5 stars Hey! So I finished To Kill A Kingdom earlier this month, and I wanted to sit on it a little bit before I wrote a review, because I wasn't sure if it was as good as I thought it was - but it's certainly held up. This book is tons of fun, and the characters are by far the best thing about this. I do have some problems with the book which keep it from a five stars from me, but overall I really enjoyed so it's earnt four stars. Lyra is our female protagonist, she is a ruthless siren known as the 'Prince's Bane', and is infamous for killing only princes as she lures them off their ships. She's also the heir to her mother's throne under the waves, and her ambition to take the throne is made very clear from early on. But, she's thrust into the world of Elian by her own mother as a punishment, a prince whose taken up being a pirate in his pastime to avoid the crow, and has a particular delight in murdering sirens - his dream, to kil...

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...

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...

Rating: 5/5 *I received an ebook copy in exchange for an honest review* Warning: this book is completely honest and deals with very heavy topics within mental health, therefore it may be triggering to some. If you are having a rough time currently or you feel you can't deal with these kind of ideas do not read this review, and please don't pick up this memoir. This memoir focuses on Michelle's struggles with depression and social anxiety throughout her life. The book moves from the first signs of these, to coming to struggle with them seriously, to discovering what they are and how this impacts her life, and finally to how one can recover. It's a difficult story to read at times, but ultimately it's a story of fighting, determination, and hope. I would like to start off with saying I am floored by the complete honesty and transparency Michelle has shown in sharing her own story and experiences with mental illness, this memoir is incredible raw and it real...

Rating: 4/5 I'm going to start this off with saying I haven't read 'Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda' which maybe I should have before I read this, because it seems to contain spoilers for that book as it's set in the same universe. So, if you're like me and haven't read 'Simon vs Homo Sapiens Agenda' yet read that first, you don't have to it'll just avoid spoilers for you. This book was really sweet and cute and so easy to read, I read the ebook form of this in one day on my phone when my family and I were stuck in a holiday cottage with no wifi and signal for a weekend - which was a nightmare by the way, a living nightmare. Anyway, I'm glad I had this book to keep me company, because it's just the sort of book I was in the mood for and I would highly recommend it as a cutesy romantic read; however, this also incorporated elements of conversations we need to have sometimes - especially seen with Molly and Cassie's grandmot...

Rating: 3/5 To be honest I was continually a little bit conflicted with this book, there were parts which I thought were fantastic, and other parts that felt a bit off the mark to me. However, I do think this is probably the best Stephanie Meyer book I've read and it far exceeds the Twilight Saga in terms of quality and I enjoyed it a far bit. To start off with I've got to say, even after all these years I still enjoy Stephanie's style of writing, it's very easy to read and it usually flows well; and whilst it may not critically be the best I don't have a bone to pick with it. Although, I do have a bone to pick with the structure/time sequencing of this book. I felt we just had massive time gaps in places and I was kinda left floundering and trying to make sense of it, the most obvious one of these was at the beginning of the book between chapter 3 to 4 and I don't know if I missed something, but there was no indication that months had literally passed by ...

Hey! So as you can probably seem my blog looks completely different and yay! I love it! I hope you like it too. So a big thanks to my friend who helped me to do this, and by helped I mean he wrote all the code for me because I'm useless with computers, if you guys have any advice on how to improve it or if you just love it let me know. When I picked up this book it was something like £2.50 on amazon, so to be honest I just noticed the mention of witches/the supernatural and the price I just immediately bought it and jumped in without knowing anything; due to this I had no idea this was based off true events which makes this book slightly better. 'It’s senior year at St. Joan’s Academy, and school is a pressure cooker. College applications, the battle for valedictorian, deciphering boys’ texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends are expected to keep it together. Until they can’t. First it’s the school’s queen bee, Clara Rutherford, who suddenly falls into uncon...

This was one of the few (well, it was more like many) books I stole from my parent's bookshelf and it was the first I read f rom that selection. This was one my mum personally recommended as she was throwing books away, and I now trust her with book recommendations more after reading this. 'It is 1970 in a small town in California. “Bean” Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen when their artistic mother, Charlotte, takes off to find herself, leaving her girls enough money to last a month or two. When Bean returns from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz decide to take the bus to Virginia, where their widowed Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that’s been in Charlotte’s family for generations.   An impetuous optimist, Bean soon discovers who her father was, and hears stories about why their mother left Virginia in the first place. Money is tight, and the sisters start babysitting and doing office work for Jerry Maddox, fo...

This book is great - BUT I STILL DON'T KNOW HOW TO PRONOUNCE ANYONE'S NAMES. Sarah J. Maas you are fantastic, but please publish something that tells me how to pronounce these names - I feel so bad that I can't. I've heard everyone pronounce them in different ways and I'm just very confused. Besides that, this book was amazing, I genuinely have no words for how amazing it was with all it's little twists and turns and ugh - I need the next one right now. This book was so long that I can't talk about everything though, so I'm just going to mention a few points, ' Feyre survived Amarantha's clutches to return to the Spring Court—but at a steep cost. Though she now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, and it can't forget the terrible deeds she performed to save Tamlin's people. Nor has Feyre forgotten her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court. As Feyre navigates its dark web of politics, passion, and ...

So during my holiday I read the short ebook Zenith; Part 1 of The Androma Saga, and enjoyed it more than I thought I would despite it being so very, very short. Sasha (abookutopia) has been one of my favourite booktubers for a very long time, and I was so excited to finally read some of her work, and for her first writing piece I don't feel like it's half bad - especially with everything else she does on the side. Lindsay Cummings on the other hand I don't know very well, but I've heard about The Murder Complex and the premise always intrigued me, so I'm excited I was able to get a chance to read some of her stuff. 'Most know her as the Bloody Baroness, the captain of a fearsome glass starship called The Marauder. Androma and her crew strike terror in the hearts of those who cross them amongst the many corners of the Mirabel Galaxy.  When a routine mission goes rogue, the all-female crew is captured by a bounty hunter from Andi’s past and forced into a job ...

Hey! I know it's been a while since I last posted on here, and I'm sorry about that. My mum has been in hospital recently so everything has been a little hectic (she's okay now by the way), and I've had lots of mocks to revise for at the same time, so that's why I haven't posted in ages (so apologies for that). So a while ago, whilst that was all going on I just about had time to finish The Paper Magician series, and guys, Ceony gets even more stupid in this one. Throughout her studies, Ceony has kept a dangerous secret from the rest of the magic world including her mentor and partner, Emery Thane, that could change the magic world. She's discovered how to break magic bonds with her chosen material, and how to make new ones with others - something that is still seen as impossible. During the last months of her apprenticeship Ceony is sent to away from Emery and to a new Folder following rumours, and suspicions of favouritism. Sirij, a power-hungry crimina...