Namesake by Adrienne Young

 Trader. Fighter. Survivor.

With the Marigold ship free of her father, Fable and its crew were set to start over. That freedom is short-lived when she becomes a pawn in a notorious thug’s scheme. In order to get to her intended destination she must help him to secure a partnership with Holland, a powerful gem trader who is more than she seems.

As Fable descends deeper into a world of betrayal and deception she learns that her mother was keeping secrets, and those secrets are now putting the people Fable cares about in danger. If Fable is going to save them then she must risk everything, including the boy she loves and the home she has finally found.

Filled with action, emotion, and lyrical writing, New York Times bestselling author Adrienne Young returns with Namesake, the final book in the captivating Fable duology

MY REVIEW: 5 Stars ⭐️ 

Omg!!



Fable is back and still bad @ss in the sequel to the duology. I love these characters so much!! Fable is my spirit animal. She’s tough and doesn’t take any crap from anyone. She does have an inner soft side, I promise she does 😉



All I can say is if you loved the first book, you will love this one even more. It’s total swashbuckling peeps! 😘

We were salt and sand and sea and storm.

We were made in the Narrows.

*Thank you to Netgalley and Wednesday books for a digital copy of this book!

Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾

October Owlcrate Unboxing

 It's here, the October Owlcrate box! I do love some of the goodies inside and I hope you enjoy the pictures! 

First we have a beautiful bowlcozy! This awesome fabric was inspired by Spin The Dawn! And I've added the pin of the month in the picture, which is awesome too. It was inspired by the coin used within Legendborn's secret society. 

 

 

Next we have a beautiful Woven in Moonlight inspired windchime. I love this so much! 

 

Next is a soap bar (which y'all know I don't keep that stuff), a nail file inspired by Girls Of Paper And Fire, a free audio download of Raybearer from Libro (which I don't use) 

 

 

Next is a bamboo phone stand inspired by The Star-Touched Queen 

 

 And last but not least, we have the BOTM ~ Legendborn and there is artwork under the dustjacket, signed book and letter from the author. 

 

 

 

Happy Reading! 

Mel ♥

To Sleep In A Sea Of Stars by Christopher Paolini

 

"To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is a brand new epic novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Paolini. 

Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds.

Now she's awakened a nightmare.

During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move.

As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. 

While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation. Now, Kira might be humanity's greatest and final hope . . ."

MY REVIEW: ALL THE STARS ⭐️ 

Just some little name drops that remind me of Alien and Alien VS Predator: Weyland, Hendriksen, Bishop. And I’m okay with it 😉

Horror welled up inside Kira. 
She clawed at her forearms in a desperate attempt to rip off the alien organism. Even with their hard veneer, her nails couldn’t cut or break the fibers.

I love this book so much!! 😫



I can’t say enough how much I love this book! 



I love sooo many characters: 
Kira
the Soft Blade
Falconi 
Trig
Sparrow
Gregorovich 
Nielsen 
Hwa-jung 
Itari 

and so many others. 

"Hey, headcase," she said. "You in one piece?"
After a brief pause, Gregorovich answered. Even with a synthesized voice, the ship mind sounded sluggish, groggy: "I was in fractures before. I am in fractures now. But the pieces still form the same broken picture."
Kira grunted. "Yeah, you’re fine."

This book brought me sad and many many happy tears. 

And so she sailed on, content to hold and wait and there to sleep, to sleep in a sea of stars.

Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾

 

PS ~ I hate the new blogger so I won't be blogging as much anymore after the first of the year!

The Girl Who Wasn’t There by Penny Joelson

 

I know what I saw.

Nothing ever happens on Kasia's street. And Kasia would know. Her illness keeps her home for days at a time, with little to do but watch the world from her bedroom window. So when she witnesses what looks like a kidnapping, she's not sure she can believe her own eyes...

So she sets out to find the only other witness. The girl in the window across the street. The girl who was also watching when things went down.

But what Kasia discovers shocks her more than the kidnapping itself.

There is no girl.

MY REVIEW: 4 Stars ⭐️ 

 

Today I looked out of the window—even though I know that I should—not and I was shocked. I saw the ghost of myself—looking back at me. A girl in the window opposite. She peered out, just as I did, her shadowy shape a mirror-image of mine, though her hair was light, her face pale. Is she a ghost, just as I am? Is this whole street maybe full of ghosts like me, and we know nothing of each other’s plight, or why we can neither live nor our souls rest in peace?

This was a nice little mystery wrapped inside of a girl with a chronic illness. Kasia has chronic fatigue syndrome (one of the many things I have as well) She has really bad side effects from her illness. I thought I was going to have a panic attack reading the book.

Anyway, Kasia witnessed a woman being taken away in a car. She tries to help by calling the police but nothing ever came from it. Come to find out, this book is about finding yourself, finding answers to a mystery, finding new friends and saving lives.

I thought it was a sweet little book for the most part.

*Thank you to Netgalley and Sourcebooks for a digital copy of this book.  

Mel ❤

The Camelot Betrayal by Kiersten White

 

The second book in a new fantasy trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White, exploring the nature of self, the inevitable cost of progress, and, of course, magic and romance and betrayal so epic Queen Guinevere remains the most famous queen who never lived.

EVERYTHING IS AS IT SHOULD BE IN CAMELOT: King Arthur is expanding his kingdom’s influence with Queen Guinevere at his side. Yet every night, dreams of darkness and unknowable power plague her.

Guinevere might have accepted her role, but she still cannot find a place for herself in all of it. The closer she gets to Brangien, pining for her lost love Isolde, Lancelot, fighting to prove her worth as Queen’s knight, and Arthur, everything to everyone and thus never quite enough for Guinevere–the more she realizes how empty she is. She has no sense of who she truly was before she was Guinevere. The more she tries to claim herself as queen, the more she wonders if Mordred was right: she doesn’t belong. She never will.

When a rescue goes awry and results in the death of something precious, a devastated Guinevere returns to Camelot to find the greatest threat yet has arrived. Not in the form of the Dark Queen or an invading army, but in the form of the real Guinevere’s younger sister. Is her deception at an end? And who is she really deceiving–Camelot, or herself?

 MY REVIEW: 3.5 STARS  

 3.5 Stars

I love Guinevere and her knight, Sir Lancelot’s, relationship. They have such a strong friendship and I have to keep telling myself Lancelot is a woman as we all know Lancelot was a man. I think this made the friendship even stronger.

I have love/hate feeling about Guinevere and Author’s relationship. I love them both as people of course, but there are just ...things. I happen to like Mordred unless he does something bad in the next book.

I feel that Guinevere is slowly growing into herself in this book. We shall see where the next book takes us. I mean that ending!!!!

Oh, and that cover!!! Gah!! I need an art book full of all the beautiful book covers!!

*Thank you to Netgalley and Random House for a digital copy of this book

Happy Reading!
Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾

The Haunting Of Brynn Wilder by Wendy Webb

After a devastating loss, Brynn Wilder escapes to Wharton, a tourist town on Lake Superior, to reset. Checking into a quaint boardinghouse for the summer, she hopes to put her life into perspective. In her fellow lodgers, she finds a friendly company of strangers: the frail Alice, cared for by a married couple with a heartbreaking story of their own; LuAnn, the eccentric and lovable owner of the inn; and Dominic, an unsettlingly handsome man inked from head to toe in mesmerizing tattoos.

But in this inviting refuge, where a century of souls has passed, a mystery begins to swirl. Alice knows things about Brynn, about all of them, that she shouldn’t. Bad dreams and night whispers lure Brynn to a shuttered room at the end of the hall, a room still heavy with a recent death. And now she’s become irresistibly drawn to Dominic—even in the shadow of rumors that wherever he goes, suspicious death follows.

In this chilling season of love, transformation, and fear, something is calling for Brynn. To settle her past, she may have no choice but to answer. 

MY REVIEW: 4 Stars ⭐️ 

Kindle First - October

Everyone is haunted by something. A road not taken. A hurt, carried deep inside. Harsh words that echo long after the sting of them is carried away on the wind.

Some of us are haunted more literally. We’ve seen and felt and heard what simply cannot be, but is. A low moan coming from the corner of a darkened room. A glimpse of an ethereal shape. A tangible encounter with... something. A passer-through.





As I sit alone with my thoughts in this empty house, in the dark, a fire crackling in the fireplace and snow falling outside, it all comes back to me. And I’ll let it come. God help me, I will let it come.

Omg! First off, this book isn’t scary, it has some creepy parts but I’ll leave it at that. I enjoyed the characters a lot! I thought I had some ideas of what was going on but it was bigger than I thought. I had a tear slide down my face at the end. But, that’s me, I cry at things. 

Anyway, I really enjoyed the book!



Happy Reading! 
Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾

September FairyLoot Unboxing

We received a beautiful edition of a book I read from Netgalley & wanted to buy. As I do love the FairyLoot design & sprayed edges, I now have to buy the original as I loved it more. I’m also missing tarot cards but they will fix it 😊

We have a To Kill A Kingdom mug with quote inside. A super cute Unfortunate Souls Keychain. A gorgeous Pencil Case inspired by the Sea Witch. A detangling brush. Metal straws. Pretty artwork and a postcard from Atlantis. The book is Fable by Adrienne Young. 

Mel 😘