[i received a free advance review copy by HQ via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review]
This is the second book in the Swallowtail Bay series and the story follows Hetty. an event organizer who has usually stuck to managing small parties. She takes on the challenge of transforming her town’s now mundane strawberry festival into a huge food festival lasting the whole of the bank holiday weekend.
I was casually browsing Goodreads this afternoon and got inspired to write this post. I admit, a good average rating is what makes me click on a book. If it’s below 4 then I most probably wouldn’t give it another glance. And if it’s 4+ then this is how it usually goes:
Continue readingToday I discovered that your sites will no longer be providing services (or limiting services) to international readers and I am absolutely devastated.
Contrary to popular belief, America is not the only country in the world.
For those who are unaware of what is happening, Goodreads will, from January 2018, prevent authors from creating giveaways for international readers. Basically, authors will have to pay $119 for a giveaway base package, and $599 for the premium. Previously, all authors had to pay for was shipping. Read more here.
Netgalley, on the other hand, has severely limited the amount…
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Hi guys I miss you so much and I miss blogging and I miss the annoying little shit that is WordPress (I do). I decided to check in today because, well, I’ve got a lot of things to say. Continue reading
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I’ve actually had my eye on this book for a while now. As soon as I read the synopsis, I knew I had to add the book to my TBR. I loved the concept, and I’ll definitely have to get my hands on this book once it’s released. So I thought, why not share this beauty with the world? And so I decided to participate in this Book Blitz! Continue reading
[I received a free advance review copy in exchange for an honest review]
This book is so good I want to cry. I honestly don’t know where to start; I loved the pace, not too slow, not too fast. Just fast enough to make you want to stay up all night reading it, and slow enough to make you want to cherish the overly swoon-worthy scenes between Ian and Bella. I’m totally serious; it’s like so swoon-worthy it makes you want to melt into a puddle of goo. Probably under a rainbow. With unicorns. You get the picture XD.
But what I loved the most is how light and heartwarming the book is. Swoony parts aside, Bella and Ian’s story was so beautiful, sincere, and hopeful. There’s no sugar-coating.
I believe it’s crystal-clear now, how much I love it when couples bicker and tease. And, dammit, Bella and Ian friggin owned it. I laughed so hard at times, it was actually embarrassing.
Both characters are prodigies… Bella’s obsessed with European history (and she’s a bookworm…WHAT UP, GIRL! HIGH FIVE) and Ian is Britain’s second most eligible bachelor…That’s it.
NOPE. That’s totally not it. I’ve never really given much thought to how HOT it is for a guy to be a prodigy AND to be overly handsome. Like you-look-too-hot-for-your-own-good kind of handsome. Wait, did I mention the Scottish accent? Yep, there you go.
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It’s been a while since I’ve written a post that isn’t a book review or a tag. I’ve been having a reviewing slump lately. Which is as terrifying and as frustrating as it sounds. But I’ve been thinking about how annoying my tweeting/blogging/Goodreads-ing habits are. Especially when it comes to my overuse of GIFs and certain words and phrases that I’ve realized are extremely irritating. Continue reading
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Here’s a question I’ve been asking myself ever since I first started blogging -and reading ARCs, is it okay to DNF them? You’ve been asked to submit an honest review, isn’t marking an ARC as did-not-finish a part of giving your honest and truthful opinion on said ARC?
(D.N.F. has literally become a verb to me now. DNF this and DNF that, there’s a present continuous form, too. DNFing; look at that! đŸ˜‚ In my head, it’s become dee-en-ef, which literally has no connection to ‘did-not-finish’ whatsoever. lol. So bear with me!)
I’d be lying if I said that I treat at ARC exactly the way I treat a published book I got from the bookstore. When I find that I’m losing interest in an ARC, I push myself to read more, to try harder, because I feel like I owe it to the publisher/author. But the second I feel like I’m losing interest in a published book I got, I’d toss it across the room (it’s a metaphor, lol) and probably not feel that guilty about abandoning it.
I found myself DNFing a couple of ARCs in June. Out of the 12 ARCs I read, I DNFd 4. That’s 1/3. That’s a pretty scary ratio, isn’t it?
So what about you? How often do you DNF ARCs? Do you feel guilty about it when you do? Do you treat ARCs the same way you do a published book? Let me know!
Hi guys!
June has been a pretty busy month. From ARCs to Official Exams to Orphan Black reruns… I was lucky enough to read 8 books this month, all of which were ARCs. So June was officially my ARCs month đŸ˜‰ Continue reading
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