This weeks reads roundup. 

Poison Study by Maria V Snyder  amazing, couldn’t put it down loved every minute. I know it’s not really similar to Ted Dekker’s Lost Books of History series but it had the same kind of awesome suspense vibe, brilliantly and beautifully written and described, you can really get emerged in this world. Looking forward to reading Magic Study followed by Fire Study, hope Amazon sorts out the problems reported in Fire Study by the time I get around to downloading it! (review coming)

The First Night by M S Fowle this was actually a really interesting dystopian read. I thought it would be fairly predictable but even though it was in parts, it still kept me interested which when you know me and how I feel about YA Vampire books, is saying a lot. I wasn’t expected to like it, even with the 5 star review on Amazon, but I thought as it was 77p I wasn’t losing much. Turned out to really enjoy it and I’m sure I’ll get around to reading the sequel The First Blood sometime soon. (review coming)

Friend or Foe by Michael Morpurgo pretty much anything that Michael Morpurgo writes, I like. This was very similar to The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips which is one of my favourite short stories ever. This time instead of following the journey of a girl, living in Devon during wwII and having townies come to her, this story is about two boys from London coming to live on a Devon farm after being evacuated and saving a German pilot so it’s a different side to the story. (review coming)

Dragon Stones by Kristian Alva I’ve always loved Dragons, and medieval mythology, arthurian legend etc.. I’m right in there, so anything with Dragons in the title is pretty much a no brainer when it comes to buying it or not. A little way in I was a bit put off because the King is fearful of Dragons, Magic and the Old Religion, so I was crying out NOO don’t kill the dragons!!! but they’re ok.. they survive, undercover! this is book one of the series so hopefully can pick up the rest of the story soon. (review coming)

Final book for this week, which I’ve started and about half way through is The Infernal Devices book 1: Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare and I am really, really, loving steampunk right now. I didn’t really know about it till this past week and of course, then realised that I have read steampunk before in one of my favourite series of all time. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. I have Book 2 on standby because I just know when I’m finished with this I’ll want to read the next instalment! Also.. on Audible.co.uk the awesome Jennifer Ehle (Elizabeth Bennet from BBC Pride & Prejudice 1995) narrating it. I might have to use my free credit to get it, even though I’m reading the Kindle version. 

What did you read last week and what are you planning to read over the Jubilee weekend and into next week?  

This weeks reads roundup!

Switched First dive into a Troll book and wasn’t overly impressed, will try again with this author some other time. (review up)

How To Say Goodbye in Robot What a cool read, I love Ghost Boy and Robot Girl, it’s dark but not too dark, it’s sad but not to sad. It just grabs you for the ride. Listened to the audio book which was annoying after a while with an American narrator, waiting for it to be available as a Kindle book then it will be even better. (review coming)

Poison Study Loved it, haven’t loved a book quite this much since The Night Circus or Ted Dekker’s Circle and Lost Books of History series, great suspense, action, adventure with strong female characters, can’t wait to read Magic Study and Fire Study. (review coming)

What have you read this week and what are you planning to read next week?
 

A weekly read roundup on a Sunday but for this week, it’s on a Thursday because this is what I read last week, but moved my blog this week so after posting it on the right day on my old blog, it’s on the wrong day here! This weeks read will be up on Sunday! 
 

1. Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
2. That’s Another Story by Julie Walters
3. Flashback by Kyla LoPresti
4. Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
5. Lunatic by Ted Dekker

I haven’t finished Beautiful Disaster and I don’t plan to, so there will not be a review of that coming up, I just couldn’t get into it, wasn’t my kind of book, ya romance isn’t my thing and after the disappointing Sisters Red just before it I guess I just wasn’t in the right mood. It’s back on the shelf for another go sometime.

That’s Another Story by Julie Walters was brilliant! It was my first biography for years, the last biography I read was Memoirs of A Geisha way back in like 2008 or something. I’m a big fan of her’s anyway so her voice just totally lifted of the page, it was funny and sad, dark even in some places but very enjoyable, I’d even go as far as to say it was unputdownable!

Flashback, book 1 of the Flashback Series was new to me and so was the author, 12 year old Kyla LoPresti, somehow she popped up on my Twitter and I found her book on Amazon, it was a bit pricy for 300- page debut but it suckered me in with it’s interesting premise, of Isabelle/Katherine who is reincarnated and reunited with her beau Erik but it could all repeat itself if they don’t find her killer before he finds her. It was a bit slushy/wishy-washy but I wasn’t expecting a great deal, I’m sure it will appeal to a younger audience, it’s a real tween twilight.

Wintergirls was a hard emotional book as I knew it would be, it was one of those that had been sitting on my shelf for awhile, taken off and put back on, it deals with some gritty stuff so if you are easily triggered I wouldn’t risk it. I thought it was incredibly powerful for both understanding and recovery. Although I finished this book I will not be reviewing it on here.

Half way through Lunatic, and loving it. I love anything Ted Dekker touches, contemplating whether to do individual reviews for all 5 books in the series, or just do a big round up review after the last one. Let me know what you think you’d prefer to read.

Two books arrived in the post today, one of which I started this afternoon so I have 3 books lined up for this week already!

sidenote: Because I’ve already read about 9 books this month I’ve decided to postpone the last 2 books from May’s Reads to next month, so I can enjoy other books I desperately want to read now and that I can’t wait till I’ve read the designated ones I’ve set myself.
For the monthly reads I try and pick ones from the genre’s I don’t usually go to otherwise all my reviews would be either fey or dystopian! so I always have a stack of my ‘fixes’ waiting patiently while I work my way through.

What did you read this week and what do you want to read next?