REVIEW: The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender - Leslye Walton

Title: The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Author: Leslye Walton
Series: None
Publisher: Walker Books
Source: Review Copy
Publication Date: 27th March, 2014

Foolish love appears to be a Roux family birthright. And for Ava Lavender, a girl born with the wings of a bird, it is an ominous thing to inherit. In her quest to understand her peculiar disposition and a growing desire to join her peers, sixteen-year-old Ava ventures into the wider world. But it is a dangerous world for a naive girl...

Harry Potter #95

This is a meme hosted by me here at my blog :).The aim of this meme is to share with fellow bloggers a character, spell, chapter, object or quote from the books/ films/ J. K. Rowling herself or anything Potter related! I will be picking a topic within HP for us to focus on each week and then if anyone wants to take part feel free! All I ask is to link back here, to my blog :). There is now a full list of the topics to come in the Harry Potter section of my blog here.

REVIEW: The Bone Season - Samantha Shannon

Title: The Bone Season
Author: Samantha Shannon
Series: The Bone Season #1
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Source: Bought
Publication Date: 20th August, 2013

It is the year 2059. Several major world cities are under the control of a security force called Scion. Paige Mahoney works in the criminal underworld of Scion London, part of a secret cell known as the Seven Seals. The work she does is unusual: scouting for information by breaking into others’ minds. Paige is a dreamwalker, a rare kind of clairvoyant, and in this world, the voyants commit treason simply by breathing.
But when Paige is captured and arrested, she encounters a power more sinister even than Scion. The voyant prison is a separate city—Oxford, erased from the map two centuries ago and now controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. These creatures, the Rephaim, value the voyants highly—as soldiers in their army.
Paige is assigned to a Rephaite keeper, Warden, who will be in charge of her care and training. He is her master. Her natural enemy. But if she wants to regain her freedom, Paige will have to learn something of his mind and his own mysterious motives.

BLOGTOUR: Summertime by Vanessa Lafaye

Today I have the lovely Vanessa Lafaye on the blog as part of her Summertime blog tour.

Top 10 Books Which Put the Place on the Map 

Vanessa Lafaye, debut author of SUMMERTIME (Orion, Jan 15th) reveals her top 10 books which put their settings on the map.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
Sleepy Savannah, Georgia experienced a flood of visitors following the ‘Midnight Trail’, and I’d so love to go.

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernières
The lush descriptions of Cephalonia produced a surge in tourism to the Greek island

Harry Potter #94

This is a meme hosted by me here at my blog :).The aim of this meme is to share with fellow bloggers a character, spell, chapter, object or quote from the books/ films/ J. K. Rowling herself or anything Potter related! I will be picking a topic within HP for us to focus on each week and then if anyone wants to take part feel free! All I ask is to link back here, to my blog :). There is now a full list of the topics to come in the Harry Potter section of my blog here.

BLOG TOUR & GIVEAWAY: The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon

Hi guys and welcome to another stop of The Mime Order's blog tour! I'm delighted to share a post with you today, my review and offer up an ARC of The Mime Order for a giveaway. Rules will be below. I hope you enjoy!

Title: The Mime Order
Author: Samantha Shannon
Series: The Bone Season #2
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Source: Review Copy
Publication Date: 27th January 2015

Paige Mahoney has escaped the brutal penal colony of Sheol I, but her problems have only just begun: many of the fugitives are still missing and she is the most wanted person in London.
As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on Paige, the mime-lords and mime-queens of the city’s gangs are invited to a rare meeting of the Unnatural Assembly. Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare to take center stage, but there are bitter fault lines running through the clairvoyant community and dark secrets around every corner.
Then the Rephaim begin crawling out from the shadows. But where is Warden? Paige must keep moving, from Seven Dials to Grub Street to the secret catacombs of Camden, until the fate of the underworld can be decided. Will Paige know who to trust? The hunt for the dreamwalker is on.

Harry Potter #93

This is a meme hosted by me here at my blog :).The aim of this meme is to share with fellow bloggers a character, spell, chapter, object or quote from the books/ films/ J. K. Rowling herself or anything Potter related! I will be picking a topic within HP for us to focus on each week and then if anyone wants to take part feel free! All I ask is to link back here, to my blog :). There is now a full list of the topics to come in the Harry Potter section of my blog here.

REVIEW: The Map to Everywhere - Carrie Ryan, John Parke Davis

Title: The Map to Everywhere
Author: Carrie Ryan & John Parke Davis
Series: Pirate Stream #1
Publisher: Orion
Source: Review Copy
Publication Date: 4th November, 2014

'It is said the Bintheyr Map to Everywhere will take its possessor wherever he or she needs to go...'
Master thief, Fin, is unusual - when he's out of sight, everyone forgets he exists! He needs to find his mother - the one person who might remember him.
Schoolgirl, Marrill, boards a pirate ship in a car park and is carried off to another world. She needs to find her way home.
Fin and Marrill are on a wild adventure to find the Map to Everywhere, but can they escape the Oracle - a dark and powerful wizard who seeks the map to fulfil a terrifying prophecy?
The first in an epic new adventure series from husband-and-wife team, John Parke Davis and NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author, Carrie Ryan. Beautifully illustrated by Todd Harris.

2015 Debut Author Reading Challenge: January Link-Up

Hey everyone! Welcome to the first month of Uncorked Thought's 2015 Debut Author Reading Challenge. I really hope you enjoy it. I've pasted the rules below along with a link to my Goodreads shelf compiled with debut author books if you're stuck for ideas! I'm going for Gold, so reading 20-29 debut author books! :) 

The Rules

1. This challenge will run from January 1st 2015 to December 31st 2015

2. The books have to be the debut book of an author, preferably 2014+ 

3. There will be a linky at the beginning of every month to post up your reviews/ posts on the books

4. Please link up your sign-up posts in the linky below and grab the badge for your blog! 

5. You can read as many or as little books as you like - that choice is yours

6. You must have reviewed a debut author at least once to enter the Debut Author Challenge Giveaway

Levels

1 - 9 - Bronze Reader

10 - 19 - Silver Reader

20 - 29 - Gold Reader

30+ - Platinum Pro-Reader

The Sign-Up post with all information about the challenge.

Check out my Goodreads Shelf for debut author ideas!

Harry Potter #92

This is a meme hosted by me here at my blog :).The aim of this meme is to share with fellow bloggers a character, spell, chapter, object or quote from the books/ films/ J. K. Rowling herself or anything Potter related! I will be picking a topic within HP for us to focus on each week and then if anyone wants to take part feel free! All I ask is to link back here, to my blog :). There is now a full list of the topics to come in the Harry Potter section of my blog here.

Goodreads Reading Challenge 2015

Last year was a struggle to meet the 130 books so I've dropped it by 10 for this year! So here we go :).

The Books: 13/120
Alderson, Sarah - Conspiracy Girl
Antony, Steve - Mr Panda
Bannan, Sarah - Weightless
Black, Holly - The Darkest Part of the Forest
Hawkins, Paula - Girl on the Train
Kessler, Liz - Read Me Like a Book
Lafaye, Vanessa - Summertime 
Maas, Sarah J. - A Court of Thorns and Roses
Mandel, Emily St. John - Station Eleven
Shannon, Samantha - The Bone Season
Shannon, Samantha - The Mime Order
Warga, Jasmine - My Heart and Other Black Holes
West, Kasie - On the Fence