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TBR :: April :: Shiny Covers
We all know I’m a sucker for a foil-detailed cover, and it just happens that there are soooo many beautiful ones out at the moment – and quite a few on my TBR stack – so I thought I might pull together a mini stack of some of my favourite shiny covers to read from in April. Gingerbread :: Helen OyeyemiI have read – and loved – a couple of books by Helen Oyeyemi, and I am really excited to read this one, her brand new novel. Thanks to Macmillan Australia for sending me this copy! The Beast’s Heart :: Leife ShallcrossI bought this Beauty and the Beast retelling about…
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Sunday book stack :: Blue #loveozya
This week Cath Crowley’s “Words in Deep Blue” was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards in the Young Adult category. Since it’s sitting on my #loveozya TBR shelf, I thought it would be fun to pull out all the books with blue covers from the same shelf…. Well, I had no idea there were so many blue-covered books on my shelf! This must be about two thirds of the books from that shelf. So, now I’m curious, do I have an unconscious blue cover bias when I’m book buying? Or does the industry love blue covers? Xo Bron
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Review :: Daughter of the Burning City :: Amanda Foody
** I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own**Sixteen-year-old Sorina has spent most of her life within the smoldering borders of the Gomorrah Festival. Yet even among the many unusual members of the traveling circus-city, Sorina stands apart as the only illusion-worker born in hundreds of years. This rare talent allows her to create illusions that others can see, feel and touch, with personalities all their own. Her creations are her family, and together they make up the cast of the Festival’s Freak Show… Magic, and murder, and curses, and a travelling circus? Like many of the review…
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Review :: Gather the Daughters :: Jennie Melamed
**I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.** GATHER THE DAUGHTERS tells the story of an end-of-the-world cult founded years ago when ten men colonised an island. It’s a society in which men reign supreme, breeding is controlled, and knowledge of the outside world is kept to a minimum. Girls are wives-in-training: at the first sign of puberty, they must marry and have children. But until that point, every summer, island tradition dictates that the children live wildly: running free, making camps, sleeping on the beach. And it is at the end of one such summer that one of…
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More library books
We all know library holds have a habit of coming in packs, and since my July library loan post I’ve added three more to the stack! What these three have in common, aside from being from the library, is that they all have such beautiful covers – some of my favourite’s on books I’ve read so far this year! I’ve almost finished The Bear and the Nightingale, and am loving it! Have you read any of these? And do you have a favourite cover this year? Tell me about it in the comments! Xo Bron
