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  • Review | Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart

    Review | Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart

    Title: Genuine Fraud (2017) Author: E. Lockhart Publisher: Hot Key Books Read: 1st – 2nd June 2018 Genre: young-adult; mystery Rating: 5 out of 5 stars “Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat. Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete. An intense friendship. A disappearance. A murder, or maybe…

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  • Marvel-A-Thon | Sign Up & TBR

    Marvel-A-Thon | Sign Up & TBR

    I know what you’re thinking – Emma, didn’t you just post a monthly June TBR? Why yes, astute reader, I did… but then I learnt from Kelly that the Marvel-A-Thon readathon was a Thing that was happening, and pretty much any TBR plans I had were kicked to the kerb because I love the MCU. I decided it would be…

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  • Wrap Up | May 2018

    Wrap Up | May 2018

    Welcome one, welcome all, to my May Wrap Up. As a month, May has been pretty damn great. We’ve had not one but two Bank Holidays (which has meant glorious 3-day weekends), during one of which I went home to visit family and during the other of which me and Liz had a couple of…

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  • June TBR

    June TBR

    As you may have noticed in my May TBR, I am often very ambitious and very fool-hardy when it comes to setting TBRs as I almost never stick to them 100%. If I’m lucky, I stick to them 50%. Not to spoil my May Wrap Up but I’d say this past month has been about 16.66666%,…

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  • Down the TBR Hole #21

    Down the TBR Hole #21

    Welcome folks to the twenty first round of Down the TBR Hole! As I mentioned in my last round of DtTH (nope, that acronym isn’t particularly attractive, is it?), this little project has been a great way of weening down my TBR over the past year so I’ve decided to keep it up and make it…

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  • Review | Royals by Rachel Hawkins

    Review | Royals by Rachel Hawkins

    Title: Royals (2018) Author: Rachel Hawkins Publisher: Scholastic Read: 19th – 20th May 2018 Genre: young-adult; contemporary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars “Meet Daisy Winters. She’s an offbeat sixteen-year-old Floridian with mermaid-red hair; a part time job at a bootleg Walmart, and a perfect older sister who’s nearly engaged to the Crown Prince of Scotland. Daisy…

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  • Review | The Exact Opposite of Okay by Laura Steven

    Review | The Exact Opposite of Okay by Laura Steven

    Title: The Exact Opposite of Okay (2018) Author: Laura Steven Publisher: Electric Monkey Read: 14th – 18th May 2018 Genre: young-adult; contemporary Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars “Izzy O’Neill here! Impoverished orphan, aspiring comedian and Slut Extraordinaire, if the gossip sites are anything to go by… Izzy never expected to be eighteen and internationally reviled. But when…

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  • Tag | The Gilmore Girls Tag

    Tag | The Gilmore Girls Tag

    Welcome back, everyone. Today I bring you a tag! ‘But Emma’, I hear you say, ‘it’s not Thursday, is it?’ Well no, it’s not, it is indeed Monday but I couldn’t resist having a go at this tag when I saw it because it’s all about Gilmore Girls. I first saw this on the lovely Rosie’s blog…

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  • Review | Unconventional by Maggie Harcourt

    Review | Unconventional by Maggie Harcourt

    Title: Unconventional (2017) Author: Maggie Harcourt Publisher: Usborne Read: 13th – 14th May 2018 Genre: young-adult; contemporary Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars “Lexi Angelo is a Convention Kid – she’s got a clipboard and a walkie talkie to prove it. Aidan Green is a messy-haired, annoyingly arrogant author and he’s disrupting her perfect planning. In a…

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  • Down the TBR Hole #20

    Down the TBR Hole #20

    Welcome folks to the twentieth round of Down the TBR Hole! As I mentioned in my last round of DtTH (nope, that acronym isn’t particularly attractive, is it?), this little project has been a great way of weening down my TBR over the past year so I’ve decided to keep it up and make it a…

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