Month: November 2020

Monthly Round-Up! November 2020

Posted November 30, 2020 by Charlotte in Monthly Round-up! / 0 Comments

Monthly Round-up, linking everything that has happened in the last month, posted on the last day of said month. This Round-up November 2020. So November was a strange month, here in the UK. We were all put back in lockdown. And #lockdown2 started trending. Luckily it is a short sharp lockdown. But as things stand after lockdown we will be back in the tiered system and most of the country will still face tougher restrictions. So a more relaxed lockdown? Being unable to go out, should mean that I am loving reading and working my way through my TBR. But that is not the case. I’m enjoying the book I am currently reading but I just can’t find the enthusiasm to binge it. However I am off today so maybe that will help… Currently reading: Reviews: Blog Tours: Pastime Pleasures: Challenges: As per usual I’m participating in the Goodreads Challenge. So what do you think of my round-up November 2020? What have you read this month? Let me know in the comments below! Subscribe to […]

Review: Starsight by Brandon Sanderson

Posted November 14, 2020 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments

Starsight by Brandon Sanderson Series: Skyward #2 Published by Delacorte Press on November 26, 2019 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 457 Format: Hardback Source: Own Copy Buy on Amazon Goodreads All her life, Spensa’s dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she’s a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumors of his cowardice are true—he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them. Spensa is sure that there’s more to the story. And she’s sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could happen to her. When she made it outside the protective shell of her planet, she heard the stars—and it was terrifying. Everything Spensa has been taught about her world is a lie. But Spensa also discovered a few other things about herself—and she’ll travel to the end of the galaxy to save humankind if she needs to. I have been waiting to read Starsight for so long. […]

Review: Finding Love at the Christmas Market by Jo Thomas

Posted November 12, 2020 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Finding Love at the Christmas Market by Jo Thomas Published by Corgi on October 29, 2020 Genres: Christmas, Fiction, Romance Pages: 352 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Cosy up with the new Christmas book from best-selling author Jo Thomas As a single mum, care-home caterer Connie has thrown herself into online dating – or she had until one dating disaster too many. Now she’s hesitant…hurt in the past and with her son to consider, she won’t rush into anything. Then one of Connie’s elderly patients sets her up on a date at a beautiful German Christmas market – with the promise she’ll take a mini-bus load of pensioners with her… Amongst the twinkling lights and smell of warm gingerbread in the old market square, Connie heads off on her date with a check-list of potential partner must-haves. Baker Henrich ticks all the boxes, proving to be reliable, thoughtful and […]

Review: Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

Posted November 10, 2020 by Charlotte in Reviews / 2 Comments

I received this book for free from Netgalley, Tandam Collective in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron Published by Bloomsbury YA on August 6, 2020 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 389 Format: E-Arc, Paperback Source: Netgalley, Tandam Collective Buy on Amazon Goodreads It’s 200 years since Cinderella found her prince, but the fairytale is over. Sophia knows the story though, off by heart. Because every girl has to recite it daily, from when she’s tiny until the night she’s sent to the royal ball for choosing. And every girl knows that she has only one chance. For the lives of those not chosen by a man at the ball . are forfeit. But Sophia doesn’t want to be chosen – she’s in love with her best friend, Erin, and hates the idea of being traded like cattle. And when Sophia’s night at the ball goes horribly wrong, she must run for her life. Alone and terrified, she finds herself hiding […]

Pastime Pleasures #38 – Game of Throne by George R.R. Martin

Posted November 8, 2020 by Charlotte in Pastime Pleasures / 0 Comments

Welcome to my feature, Pastime Pleasures all about books I have loved and adored and were published over five years. Today is the turn of Game of Throne by George R R Martin. So other than The Lord of The Rings, this is one of my favourite High Fantasy books. And out of this whole series this is probably my favourite book. To be honest I am struggling to describe my feelings on this book. Because I loved everything about it. It is detailed, completed and there is a lot of information to understand. I also loved that the chapters are told from multiple perspectives. After all it is a vast world that we are having to deal with and this is the easiest way to look at it. My favourites are defiantly Arya and Jon Snow. I had to speed through the other chapters just to get to theirs. While this story feels very medieval in telling there is also a hint of fantasy as there are constant mentions of dragon and we even have dragon skulls in the […]

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