***Content warnings for war, death, gore, murder, rape (off and on page), PTSD, child abuse, homophobia, sexual abuse, substance and alcohol abuse, plague, death of a parent, mentions of torture and animal abuse*** So ya know when you’re reading a series that really goes places you know are going to be dark, twisty and highly questionable?…
April Wrap Up
How was everyone’s April? Weird? Busy? Chaotic? Or was that just mine? This was somehow the month where I read the most books but also put down the busiest work/social month so far as well. I don’t know how but I am still blinking in confusion. I went to my first hen night too! That…
Tolkien going into my Thirties: Rereading Middle Earth
Follow me on TikTok and Instagram and you’ll see that me and the Tolkien thing has been going on a while. So earlier this year, in a fit of just needing a boost, my partner suggested we watch all of the extended Lord of the Rings films over the week. Just to cheer ourselves up….
Review: Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
I wonder if someone professional took a look over the years I came out of academia and examined my mental state via my reading taste, what they might say. I solely read horror and non fiction for the year after my degree and slowly went back to SFF so it always feels like a step…
Quarterly Reading Check
So quarter one is down and I have no idea how. I feel like 2022 started off with me waking up from a long snooze and April is me just waking up properly. Nothing too drastic but very much a wake up moment. I started doing these quarterly posts last year during the endless 5…
Review: Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett
Welcome back to the Discworld Project! I did not mean to take a pause from this for the first quarter of 2022? Here’s the thing though, spoken about me being a mood reader before. I also will not pick up my favourite series unless I am absolutely in the mood for it. Discworld is at…
On the Shelves: Involving fan art, true crime and other nonsense
Remember when I launched this segment a few weeks back and said it would be semi weekly? Didn’t mean it to be this semi. But I am back so welcome back to On the Shelves, my weekly slot of chaos and ranting about all the media at you people who choose to read it! Anyway,…
Review: Gallant by V.E Schwab
A new Victoria Schwab book always gives me a little giddy boost. Her work although hit and miss for me is still always enjoyable. Granted I have yet to actually finish the Shades of Magic trilogy but I’ll still automatically buy anything she releases. So when this one was promised to be Crimson Peak vibes,…
March Wrap Up
Well that was a month. I would be happy to not put down as wonky a March like that again! Not all bad, got to see The Batman, see some pals and do some fun things. Just a bit of a longer feeling month than usual. And in among all that madness, I did actually…
Review: The Justice of Kings by Richard Swan
**CWs: violence, death, poverty, war, sexual assault, mentions of child abuse, death of a child and a spouse and torture** There’s this very strange part of my brain that routinely likes to bamboozle me. It’s the same part that makes me such a mood reader. I will often thrive on a book that is “vibes”…
Hedwig's World 