Human rights activist Park, who fled North Korea with her mother in 2007 at age 13 and eventually made it to South Korea two years later after a harrowing ordeal, recognized that in order to be “completely free,” she had to confront the truth of her past. It is an ugly, shameful story of … More In Order To Live by Yeonmi Park
Hi All! Exciting stuff but my fellow melbourne blogger Sarah from Written Word Worlds asked me to join in on a collab, First ever collab yay! So go check out her post which is the exact same as this but you know, prettier because her graphics are amazing. Anyhow we talked about all of our cringe worthy … More Cringe Worthy Crushes – Discussion
TOP TEN TUESDAY you beautiful blogging motivational tag XD This is a feature created and run by The Broke and the Bookish. This weeks topic is: Cover Theme Freebie: So I being the person who screams over covers every second of my life am going to do something different and scream in terror, some of these books are … More Top Ten Creepy Covers – Top Ten Tuesday
Henry Page has never been in love. He fancies himself a hopeless romantic, but the slo-mo, heart palpitating, can’t-eat-can’t-sleep kind of love that he’s been hoping for just hasn’t been in the cards for him—at least not yet. Instead, he’s been happy to focus on his grades, on getting into a semi-decent college and finally becoming … More Our Chemical Hearts by Crystal Sutherland
Then, things were looking up for Tessa. Her mum was finally getting her life back on track. Tessa had started seeing Nick. She was making new friends. She’d even begun to paint again. Now, Tessa and Nick are trapped in the car after a corner taken too fast. Injured, stranded in the wilderness, at … More A Shadow’s Breath by Nicole Hayes
After an explosion destroys his ship, the world believes Prince Merik, Windwitch, is dead. Scarred yet alive, Merik is determined to prove his sister’s treachery. Upon reaching the royal capital, crowded with refugees, he haunts the streets, fighting for the weak—which leads to whispers of a disfigured demigod, the Fury, who brings justice to the … More Windwitch by Susan Dennard
Another Top Ten Tuesday! Two weeks in a row, this is some sort of personal best XD I’m hoping I can keep doing this feature because it’s a heap of fun and I love seeing everyone elses answers. This is a feature created and run by The Broke and the Bookish. This weeks topic is: Top Ten … More Things that will make me instantly buy a book – Top Ten Tuesday
Around the world, black hand prints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grows dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught … More Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Ebony Marshall is in her final year of high school. Five months, two weeks and four days . . . She can’t wait to leave the town where she’s known only as ‘Black’. Because of her name, of course. But for another reason, too. Everyone says Black Marshall is cursed. Three of her best friends … More BLACK by Fleur Ferris
Hi, hey, hello… so I know you’re supposed to get books for your birthday and not give them but giving books is so much fun and I need an excuse to shove these books in everyone’s face constantly until they’ve read it already. So to continue my birthday month blogging theme thing here are books … More Books I want to give as gifts – which really means books I want to throw at people until they hurry up and read it already
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