Kate’s 2020 Reading Challenge – Update 3

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Hello Beautiful – anyone else ever just look at a book and talk to it like this?

House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City #1) by Sarah J. Maas –

PLEASE NOTE THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS!

If the rest of the books that I read so far this year were the warm up act, this is the main event! At 799 number of pages long this is a big meaty book which I wished I purchased on kindle as well as carrying this in my bag and reading in public was not easy to do. After concluding her Throne of Glass series over a year ago this is Maas next trilogy, and her first adult one at that, Crescent City House of Earth and Blood. Now I am a HUGE Maas fan, and if Corona hadn’t happened, would have been in Birmingham to see her on tour a few weeks back, so it pains me a little to say that so far – this book didn’t quite do it for me.

For starters, it was too long. I love big books – but this was overly long for the amount of story that happened in it. I get that Maas is building a new world here and she’s trying to get back story, personal history and political alliances in but oh lordy sometimes I was reading it and felt as though the story hadn’t actually developed.

Kate’s 2020 Reading Challenge – Update 2

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Hey Everyone, Happy Monday or is it Tuesday…. Thursday??

Whatever day it is today I hope you and your loved ones are all safe and sound at home, eating chocolate and finally reading that book you have always meant to.

Or making a start on the to be read pile.

Or ignoring the book you always meant to read and the TBR pile and are reading an old favourite for the hundredth time.

Kate’s 2020 Reading Challenge – Update 1

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Hey, Hi, How are you?

It’s the lesser spotted Kate here.

I think my last book review was this one My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan or Kate’s Love Letter to Oxford., which a friend of mine lovingly referred to as me being on drugs and then on the come down, I love that feedback. I mean, how am I supposed to top that?Read More »

2019 A to Z Reading Challenge

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To celebrate our first New Year as bloggers, we have chosen a reading challenge. The one we’ve chosen is the A to Z reading challenge, being hosted by gingermomreads.com.

The rules are simple, just pick a different book, for each letter of the alphabet and give it a read!

The Beautiful Book Break

Two Best Friends sharing their love of books with some home baking and beauty tips thrown in.

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Kate’s 2020 Reading Challenge – Update 2

Kate’s 2020 Reading Challenge – Update 1

2019 A to Z Reading Challenge