Book Review + Favourite Quotes (Blog Tour) | Dust & Grim by Chuck Wendig

Publication Date: 5th October 2021 (US) / 28th October 2021 (UK) by Little, Brown

Format: Netgalley ARC

Target Audience: Middle Grade

Genre: Fantasy, Horror   

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Synopsis

Thirteen-year-old Molly doesn’t know how she got the short end of the stick—being raised by her neglectful father—while Dustin, the older brother she’s never met, got their mother and the keys to the family estate. But now the siblings are both orphaned, she’s come home for her inheritance, and if Dustin won’t welcome her into the family business, then she’ll happily take her half in cash. There’s just one problem: the family business is a mortuary for monsters, and Molly’s not sure she’s ready to deal with mysterious doors, talking wolves, a rogue devourer of magic, and a secret cemetery. It’s going to take all of Dustin’s stuffy supernatural knowledge and Molly’s most heroic cosplay (plus a little help from non-human friends) for the siblings to figure it out and save the day...if only they can get along for five minutes.

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Down The TBR Hole #55

Current TBR shelf: 3662

Last week's TBR shelf: 3672

The rules   

1. Go to your goodreads to-read shelf.
2. Order on ascending date added.
3. Take the first 5 (or 10 (or even more!) if you’re feeling adventurous) books. Of course if you do this weekly, you start where you left off the last time.
4. Read the synopses of the books
5. Decide: keep it or should it go?

Top Ten Tuesday | Books On My Fall 2021 TBR

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature that highlights ten books that all relate to a certain topic and is  hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. 

 

This Weeks Topic Is...

A Freebie! So I decided to just go with last weeks prompt as I missed it and I always enjoy planning out what books I want to be reading in the upcoming weeks. I probably won't get to all of these but hey, a girl can dream...

#5OnMyTBR | Epistolary

 

This meme was created by E. @ Local Bee Hunter's Nook and you can find the announcement post here. Also, side note, these aren't necessarily books that I own physically but they're all on my Goodreads TBR and they'll mostly be the five most recently added.  

 

This Week's Prompt is...

Epistolary! I love books written in the form of letters, emails, documents and such. It's possibly up there as my favourite format as I find it so interesting to follow the characters and the plot through these different entries. I have a lot of these on my TBR so I tried to go for a few slightly more obscure books to mix things up. 

 

Down The TBR Hole #54

Current TBR shelf: 3672

Last week's TBR shelf: 3679

The rules   

1. Go to your goodreads to-read shelf.
2. Order on ascending date added.
3. Take the first 5 (or 10 (or even more!) if you’re feeling adventurous) books. Of course if you do this weekly, you start where you left off the last time.
4. Read the synopses of the books
5. Decide: keep it or should it go?

Book Review + Playlist (Blog Tour) | To Break a Covenant by Alison Ames

Publication Date: 21st September 2021 by Page Street Kids

Format: Netgalley ARC

Target Audience: Young Adult

Genre: Mystery, Horror   

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Content warnings: Gore! lots of gore/blood (human and animal), body horror (human and animal),claustrophobia, hallucinations/nightmares, death, animal death, parent death (mentioned), parental conflict (being afraid of a parent), mention of alcohol/drinking, mention of self-harm, mention of divorce, mental illness (perceived/actual), mention of child death/killing, mention of suicide, drowning, paranormal activity. 

Synopsis

Moon Basin has been haunted for as long as anyone can remember. It started when an explosion in the mine killed sixteen people. The disaster made it impossible to live in town, with underground fires spewing ash into the sky. But life in New Basin is just as fraught. The ex-mining town relies on its haunted reputation to bring in tourists, but there’s more truth to the rumours than most are willing to admit, and the mine still has a hold on everyone who lives there. Clem and Nina form a perfect loop—best friends forever, and perhaps something more. Their circle opens up for a strange girl named Lisey with a knack for training crows, and Piper, whose father is fascinated with the mine in a way that’s anything but ordinary. The people of New Basin start experiencing strange phenomena—sleepwalking, night terrors, voices that only they can hear. And no matter how many vans of ghost hunters roll through, nobody can get to the bottom of what’s really going on. Which is why the girls decide to enter the mine themselves.

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Book Review + Favourite Quotes (Blog Tour) | The Wolf's Curse by Jessica Vitalis

Publication Date: 21st September 2021 by Greenwillow Books

Format: Netgalley ARC

Target Audience: Middle Grade

Genre: Fantasy   

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Goodreads • Amazon • Blackwells • Barnes and Noble • Book Depository

Content warnings: Grief, death 

Synopsis

Twelve-year-old Gauge’s life has been cursed since the day he witnessed a Great White Wolf steal his grandpapá's soul, preventing it from reaching the Sea-in-the-Sky and sailing into eternity. When the superstitious residents of Bouge-by-the-Sea accuse the boy of crying wolf, he joins forces with another orphan to prove his innocence. They navigate their shared grief in a journey that ultimately reveals life-changing truths about the wolf––and death. Narrated in a voice reminiscent of The Book Thief and Lemony Snicket, this fast-paced adventure is perfect for fans of literary fiction fantasy such as A Wish in the Dark and The Girl Who Drank the Moon.

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#5OnMyTBR | Magic Schools

 

This meme was created by E. @ Local Bee Hunter's Nook and you can find the announcement post here. Also, side note, these aren't necessarily books that I own physically but they're all on my Goodreads TBR and they'll mostly be the five most recently added.  

 

This Week's Prompt is...

Magic Schools! We won't talk about that series that kicked off this trend but if you're missing that setting in books, here's some recommendations from my TBR.