Harry Potter Covers From Around the World: Brazil

I saw some really pretty covers on google, so I have decided to share some pretty covers with you. Unfortunately I could not find this set individually.

Here’s a collector’s set from Brazil, pretty simple but elegant. Anyone from Brazil? Can you confirm or deny these covers exist?

What do you think of these covers?

I am hoping to show a new set of covers every few days.

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30 Day Challenge: Day 6 and Day 7

Day 6: A book that makes me sad. It’s not something that books really make me often, I tend to avoid the ones that could but Angela’s Ashes really did make me sad.

Day 7 – An underrated book. There are many I feel could fit into this category. But a series I love and wish more people would read and love is, The Eden Series by Nicole Williams. Especially for Twilight fans. I think it gets a little bit of a bad rep, but I have read it twice and really want to read it again.

Which book makes you sad? Which book is underrated in your opinion?

First Lines: Tangled Webs

“Lord Huntington made his way through the crowded ballroom with the poise and elegance of an over-fattened Christmas goose.”

London, 1725. Everybody has a secret. Lady A will keep yours—for a price. This sumptuous, scandalous YA novel is wickedly addictive.

Lady A is the most notorious blackmailer in the city. With just a mask and a gown to disguise her, she sweeps into lavish balls and exclusive events collecting the most valuable currency in 1725 London—secrets.

But leading a double life isn’t easy. By day Lady A is just a sixteen-year-old girl named Arista who lives in fear of her abusive master, Bones, and passes herself off as a boy to move safely through the squalor of London’s slums. When Bones attempts to dispose of his pawn forever, Arista is rescued by the last person she expects: Jonathan Wild, the infamous Thief Taker General who moves seamlessly between the city’s criminal underworld and its most elite upper circles. Arista partners with Wild on her own terms in the hopes of saving enough money to buy passage out of London.

Everything changes when she meets Graeden Sinclair, the son of a wealthy merchant. Grae has traveled the world, has seen the exotic lands Arista has longed to escape to her whole life, and he loves Arista for who she is—not for what she can do for him. Being with Grae gives something Arista something precious that she swore off long ago: hope. He has promised to help Arista escape the life of crime that has claimed her since she was a child. But can you ever truly escape the past?

I normally don’t do books I am currently reading, I just do ones I have read a while ago, but I had to share this one. It made me smile from the off.

Would you read this book based on the first line, cover or blurb? Have you read the book did you enjoy it?

Happy Reading

Emma

30 Day Challenge: Days 4 and 5

I was too busy to post yesterday so I am doing two days today. Day 4’s topic is my favoutite book from my favourite series. Yesterday I said my favourite series is The Study Series by Maria V Snyder. My favourite book from that series has to be the first one Poison Study.

Day 5 – A book that makes you happy. Well any good book makes me happy. But one of the books I turn to when I am feeling a little low, to cheer myself up is Healing Wars (or the Shifter in USA) by Janice Hardy.

It’s an amazing series, a little predictable at times, but very well written and full of amazing world building.

What book makes you happy?

30 Day Challenge: Day 3

Day 3- Your favourite series. This is a great question, there are so many series that I love. I have to choose one that I keep going back to and comparing other books to (as much as I try not to).

It’s an amazing series and I am very much looking forward to the next ones. It has two follow on series that are set in the same setting but either a different main character or later on. If you have not tried this one I highly recommend it.

What’s your favourite series?

 

30 day Challenge: Day 2

Day 2’s topic is a book I have read more than 3 times. I can only think of a few books that fit into this category and since I am trying my best not to mention Harry Potter (because it would be an answer for just about everything. Also trying not to use duplicate answers.

So I have settled on Graceling.

It’s been a few years since I have read it, but I remember it being amazing and full of adventure.

Which books have you read more than 3 times?

30 Day Reading Challenge – Day 1

I saw this on CK Reads, I am not sure where it originated but thought I would give it a try since it looks like fun.

So day one’s post is about the best book you have read this year. I have already read some really good books, so it was a difficult choice. But I would have to go with Akarnae. It was everything I look for in a book.

What’s the best book you have read so far this year?

ARC Review: Whisper

It’s Halle Henry’s first year at Lakeview Academy . . .
On a snowy January night, just days after a fire that nearly destroyed the school’s library, Elsie Stewart, daughter of the headmaster and founder of Lakeview Academy, dies slipping beneath the ice of frozen Clearwater Lake. Unable to right the wrongs she committed before her tragic death, Elsie’s spirit walks the halls of her father’s school, waiting for someone who can.
One hundred years later, while joining her sister’s friend Leigh to help clean out the school’s administration building before the big remodel, Halle stumbles upon Elsie’s hidden journal.
Obsessed with what she finds, Halle searches the school for clues that may lead to solving a century-old mystery. The only problem is that Halle also talks Calum Stewart, Leigh’s worst nightmare, into helping them.
Once Leigh and Calum are forced to work together, sparks fly and no one around them, alive or dead, is left unaffected.

I received a free copy of this book via netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I liked the first book in the series but this one was much better. It took me a little time to adjust to the new characters, there wasn’t one familiar face really. Lots of mention of the characters in the last book but when the new characters were never mentioned (except for Halle) it got a little jarring.

The story was a little slow to start but after a while I found I was really enjoying it and stayed up until 3am last night just to finish it. I liked how there was multiple POV’s but sometimes the transition between them was not clear and it was a little confusing.

Although this is the second in a series, it’s a series of the setting rather than the characters and would work perfectly fine as a stand alone book.

I really liked Calum, yes he was a little stand-offish at first but he had a right. It was interesting seeing into his thoughts and how much Leigh annoyed him.

Elsie’s story was interesting as was the way it was told. I wanted to see more of her.

Overall this was an exciting and well written story, which I look forward to continuing in the next book.

4 out of 5 stars.

What Rating?

I have been thinking lately, about how much effort people go to before choosing to buy a book these days. Yes we can buy a book with a click of a button without even leaving our chair and start reading withing minutes. But with so many books these days we have to choose carefully, especially with self-published books, yes some are amazing but some are down right horrendous.

Do you look at ratings of books on goodreads or Amazon? What rating is the lowest you will buy a book? I have seen people say that unless it has a rating of 4 or more stars they will not read it.

I choose 3 stars. As long as it has a few 5 star review. It also all depends on how many reviews there are. With only a few it becomes that much harder to tell, but then there’s a part of me that wants to read it to help the author out.

So what rating is the lowest star rating you will buy a book on? Do you even check or do you just buy?

ARC Review: Arrow of Mist

Award-Winning Middle Grade Fantasy; YA Fantasy
Terror strikes the Celtic inspired kingdom of Nemetona when barbed roots breach the veil of a forbidden land and poison woodsmen, including 15-year-old Lia’s beloved father. Lia and three others embark on a quest to the forbidden land of Brume to gather ingredients for the cure. But after her elder kinsman is attacked and poisoned, she and her cousin, Wynn, are forced to finish the quest on their own.

Lia relies on her powerful herbal wisdom and the memorized pages of her late grandmother’s Grimoire for guidance through a land of soul-hungry shades, trickster creatures, and uncovered truths about the origin of Brume and her family’s unexpected ties to it. The deeper they trek into the land, the stronger Lia’s untapped gift as a tree mage unfolds. When she discovers the enchanted root’s maker, it forces her to question everything about who she is and what is her destiny. Ultimately she must make a terrible choice: keep fighting to save her father and the people of the lands or join with the power behind the deadly roots to help nature start anew.

I received a free copy of this book via netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I read this a few months ago and was sure I reviewed it but I was wrong. So I am sorry if I cannot remember everything properly.

The beginning of this book was awesome, it was full of wonder, magic and intrigue. I loved the idea that there was a mist around their town. I enjoyed the journey and the setting was beautiful and enchanting.

Magic and herbology are at the centre of this unique tale and they make it really interesting. The lore was exciting and very interesting. It was not too in depth, just the perfect amount to satisfy but not bore.

I would recommend this to anyone who likes fantasy, especially ones set in a pretty world. I am looking forward to the next book in the series.

4 out of 5 stars