“The bodyguard is a traitor. The princess is her one true love. And the revolution is almost here. Elsenna Hazen left spaceport security and ended up a royal bodyguard. She should have known better than to fall in love with a princess. It’s been two years since one ill-advised kiss in the garden pulled them … Continue reading ARC Review: ‘Glorious Day’ by Skye Kilaen
“Myles and Beckett Fowl are twins but the two boys are wildly different. Beckett is blonde, messy and sulks whenever he has to wear clothes. Myles is impeccably neat, has an IQ of 170, and 3D prints a fresh suit every day – just like his older brother, Artemis Fowl. A week after their eleventh birthday the twins are … Continue reading Book Review: ‘The Fowl Twins’ by Eoin Colfer
“In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than 100 years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.... From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes a story of four new customers … Continue reading ARC Review: ‘Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café’ by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
“Olive is many things. Independent. Driven. Loyal. And a little bit adrift. She's okay with still figuring it all out, navigating her world without a compass. But life comes with expectations and big choices to be made. So when her best friends' lives branch away towards marriage and motherhood, leaving the path they've always followed together, she … Continue reading ARC Review: ‘Olive’ by Emma Gannon
“A close, easygoing friendship can all change with just one kiss. Seventeen-year-old Remi Beaufort learns this the hard way when she plays a blindfolded kissing game at a party. She thinks she’s kissing Jeremy, the totally hot basketball player she’s been crushing on. And the kiss…it’s amazing. It makes her forget about her overbearing mother, the … Continue reading Book Review: ‘What Are Friends For?’ by Sarah Sutton
“Nobody knows that Zafira is the Hunter. Forced to disguise herself as a man, she braves the cursed forest to feed her people. If she is exposed as a girl, all of her achievements will be rejected. Nasir is the infamous Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the sultan. … Continue reading Book Review: ‘We Hunt the Flame’ by Hafsah Faizal
Pride month may be over, but that doesn’t mean issues related are of any less importance. It hurts that even now, in the 21st century, somebody’s sexuality or identification is a problem for many. Topics surrounding LGBT+ has taken a pivotal place in the current political debate in Poland in light of presidential elections, making … Continue reading My Rainbow TBR
I have read 15 books in June, mostly fiction, with one wonderful exception, Dear Reader by Cathy Rentzenbrink, which stole my heart. It may seem that I have read less in June, but some of the novels I have picked up were quite lengthily. Not to mention that June has generally been a weird month … Continue reading What I Read in June
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