Happy World Book Day!
Hi Everyone, it’s me!
I hadn’t planned on this blog post today (nor drafted, if I’m honest), but it’s World Book Day! How could I have not thought to do a quick book blog?
AND! With the WhatsApp groups, internet, Booktok, Instagram, everything I assume, blowing up with the latest SJM news:
ACOTAR 6 AND 7 ARE COMING! …
… And available to Pre-Order here or at your chosen Bookseller. I had to come in today and do a quick reading round-up.
What are you reading right now?
This year, my Fable reading goal is 45 books, and with today’s official SJM news, a large chunk of this needs to be finishing the other two current series!!
The Year so Far
Rebecca Yarros - The Empyrean Series
Onyx Storm 4.75★★★★★
I put this on my 2025 reading wrap up but I didn’t technically finish this until the New Year, and I am as hooked as ever! And now in the same boat as most people who started this series early on and didn’t have all three books to binge. I.e. having to wait - patiently - for book 4!
Love this series so much!
Hiromi Kawakami - Strange Weather in Tokyo 3 ★★★
Something is getting lost in translation for me in the Japanese literature I have read so far. Every time I want to love it … but don’t. Can someone help me?
The Queen - Sarah J Maas
Throne of Glass Series - Crown of Midnight 3.75 ★★★
I’m not stressing at all that I have the rest of TOG and all of Crescent City to finish by October - I’m lucky to be so far behind. Yes, definitely. Lucky.
Penn Cole - The Kindred’s Curse Saga
Spark of the Everflame 4★★★★
Didn’t find me a new book BF, but I can see how we might get there. Also loved that I found the female protagonist utterly insufferable for most of this. Excited for the rest of the series.
Taylor Jenkins Reid - Atmosphere 4.5 ★★★★
My first TJR book and oh jeez! This one just hit different.
I haven’t reviewed much feedback but some mentioned; not a lot happens, the characters don’t change. But my thought is, why do they have to? How much am I really and profoundly changing as a person? Not all that much. Except in becoming a mother.
And as the mother to a boy who dressed up as an astronaut today for world book day, with his cardboard rocket ship and black hole (yep, not a planet, a black hole), I am not letting him go into space!
Ruby Lang - Clean Breaks 2 ★★ (IMO, maybe don’t bother with this one)
Current Read
Ursula K Le Guin - Earthsea Cycle series
The Tombs of Atuan - I am struggling with this series a little, but my husband bought me the first four book compilation and I would never hear the end of it if I don’t read it. And I know he won’t read this so it’s okay for me to say that…
Tasha Suri - The Isle in the Silver Sea 4★★★★
Set in a version of London. Love. Magic system and lore based on Ink and Tales. LOVE. A minor character who stole my heart. ADORE!
Please read this.
I’m lucky enough to know Tasha personally through friends (slight flex I know, but I can’t help it), and she is just the loveliest of people, has offered me advice me when I didn’t have a clue what I was doing or where I was going, and has very cute cats! It is super surreal to read her beautiful writing, experience her amazing world-building, and love her characters. Surreal, but incredible.
Why didn’t I end on my current read? Because of
T. J. Klune - Cerulean Chronicles duology
The House in the Cerulean Sea 5★★★★★★★★★★
I adored EVERYTHING about this.
I laughed. I came close to crying. I felt all the feels and fell in love with pretty much every major character, including the cat.
The perfect break to some of the high fantasy and romantasy I have been reading, with the huge plots and worlds. This one didn’t need it. It was cosy and sweet and fun and I just absolutely adored it! Did I say that alread?
Must read, please.
[Image Source: Goodreads.com]
Once again, Happy World Book day! And happy reading.
I hope you enjoyed this quick little round up and it maybe put some new books on your radar. Please talk books with me.
Until next time!
