We’re back with another Sundays in Bed With… meme! This meme dares to ask you what book has been in your bed this morning and is hosted by Midnight Book Girl. Come share what book you’ve spent your time reading in bed or wish you had time to read today.
I finished my last read yesterday and since then I haven’t been able to decide what I should read next. I picked up these four books to see if any of them stuck and while I liked the few chapters I read of each, I could easily put them down and not immediately pick them back up again. I can’t gauge my mood at the minute!
You may be thinking: another reading challenge, Dini?! Well, I too am shocked, dear readers because who do I think I am partaking in all these challenges? Something in the air in 2025 is telling me to do the challenges, so here I am: doing the challenges! 🤷🏻♀️ As a serial overthinker, I spent about 1.5 months hemming and hawing over whether or not to jump on the bandwagon with the 25 in 25 Reading Challenge. Last night, I finally decided that it was happening!
The Biggest Obstacle
The biggest obstacle was figuring out how to choose the books I would read for this challenge because I have an overwhelming number of unread backlist books on both physical and digital shelves. Then I remembered that random number generators exist and I have a numbered catalogue of my home library et voila! I had my method for choosing my reads. I’ve been wanting to tackle more of my physical books so I filtered my list of unread hardcovers and paperbacks and started generating numbers…
Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme created by Rukky @Eternity Books and co-hosted by Aria @Book Nook Bits and myself! In this discussion meme, participants get to talk about certain topics, share opinions, and spread the love by visiting each other’s posts! Learn more about LTB, past topics and future topics HERE.
Don’t forget to link back to this post so I can add your link to the list of community posts below!
This week’s topic is:
Favourite Romance Tropes & Book Recs for them
Suggested by:Aria @ Book Nook Bits Prompts:Happy Valentine’s Day! What are your favourite romance tropes? What books would you recommend that have those tropes? Are there any books with those tropes on your TBR? Do you have any least favourite romance tropes?
We’re back with another year of Adventures in Aeldia! This year-long reading challenge is part of the Orilium Magical Readathon created and hosted by the supremely talented G @Book Roast! I know we’re already halfway through February but this announcement did come out a bit late. I was originally going to “go with the flow” and not spoil the adventure for myself but I wanted to be a little more organized so… I’ve chosen my path! 😂 Before we get into the details, if you want to learn more about the adventure, check out G’s video below:
Hello, hello and welcome back to another episode of WWW Wednesday, a weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Taking On A World of Words, which means I’ll be answering these questions:
Hi friends, as part of the blog tour hosted by TBR & Beyond Tours I’m excited to share my thoughts on The Forest King’s Daughter by Elly Blake. Thanks to Little, Brown Books for Young Readers for providing a digital ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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The Forest King’s Daughter Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Publication Date: 11 February 2025 Genre: YA Fantasy Romance
Rating: (3 pandas)
📖SYNOPSIS
For fans of Sarah J. Maas and Holly Black, The Forest King’s Daughter is an enemies-to-forbidden-lovers romance from the New York Times bestselling author of Frostblood.
Once upon a time, among the bloodred trees of Thirstwood, a young forest princess became friends with a lonely demon boy. He gifted her an amber ring, a worthless trinket…or so he thought…because no sooner did he slide it onto her finger than the demon queen and forest king declared war.
Years later, Cassia is a crucial force in her father’s army, wielding her ring of light that can blind and disorient hundreds of demons at a time. Then battle-hardened Zeru abducts her, planning to steal the ring back to fix his costly childhood mistake. Exhausted, terrified, and more than a little mistrusting, Cassia is forced to travel with Zeru to a place they both believed only existed in storybooks, one where their childhood friendship slowly rekindles into something much more. But it’s only a matter of time before the war they’ve escaped comes for them, and a hidden threat to forest folk and demons alike grows in the shadows.
From the author of the Frostblood Saga comes the first book in an enchanting, adventure-filled fantasy series about the daughters of the powerful forest king, sure to leave readers breathless and desperate for more.
TL;DR:This was an interesting new YA fantasy and I admit that I was hooked from the prologue. I immediately wanted to know more and see what happened in the years that passed following the giving of the ring and the declaration of war. There were a lot of interesting elements to the story that compelled me to keep reading and I’m glad that this came on my radar; however, on the whole, I admit that I wanted more from this story. This had a lot of potential to be an amazing read had it not been for some missed opportunities when it came to the POV, the world-building and character development. Having said that, I liked The Forest King’s Daughter enough to want to continue the series and see how the hinted-at prophecy unfolds.
We’re back with another Sundays in Bed With… meme! This meme dares to ask you what book has been in your bed this morning and is hosted by Midnight Book Girl. Come share what book you’ve spent your time reading in bed or wish you had time to read today.
I’m not sure what book I’ll spend my Sunday night in bed with as I just finished Unhallowed Halls by Lili Wilkinson, the book I spent my whole Sunday with. I’m actually reading this with Chris and I’m sorry that I sped ahead but after the 50% mark, I needed to know wtf was going on and it snowballed to the end from there. 😂
I’m still trying to figure out my whole thoughts on it but it was a fun romp, that’s for sure!
It’s time to share one of my favourite posts that I make at the end of every month: the community posts! This is a collection of some of the posts that I read from bloggers across the book community over the past month. I know my community posts tend to be quite long but I hope you’ll take the time to visit some of these pages and show them the love they deserve! ✨📖 Happy reading, friends! 📖✨
✨ Welcome back to another week of Let’s Talk Bookish! ✨
Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme created by Rukky @Eternity Books and co-hosted by Aria @Book Nook Bits and myself! In this discussion meme, participants get to talk about certain topics, share opinions, and spread the love by visiting each other’s posts! Learn more about LTB, past topics and future topics HERE.
*Note: I’m still trying to figure out how to add InLinkz to my post so that people can manually add their links and the list will generate and show on my page. For now, please don’t forget to link back to my post so I can add your LTB down below. Thanks for your patience!
This week’s topic is:
Reading Challenges: Do we love them or hate them?
Prompts:What do you think of reading challenges—do they motivate you or do they feel restrictive and end up making reading feel like a chore? Are there any challenges you participate in yearly? What reading challenges are you joining in 2025?
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