Top 5| Pink Covers

I did this post a while ago on my other blog/website where I chose my "Top 5" book covers that were pink because of it being a national day of something-- this was a year ago! (A lot has changed.)

One thing that remains the same is that I still fudging hate the colour pink and what is usually meant when pink gets shoved into a colour scheme. ICK.

Anyway, I've reviewed it a bit and here it is (in no particular order!!):

A Darkness Strange and Lovely (Something Strange & Deadly #2)
Susan Dennard

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It's been a while since Susan Dennard has had a mention on this blog.

(Quickly input here but, seriously have you still not read Truthwitch yet. Shame.)

These new covers for her already finished trilogy have been announced ready for print July 2017. And aren't they just gorgeous?

It just fits the beautiful story. Hopefully, ya'll be more inclined to pick up this awesome YA steampunk novel.

Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss #1)

Stephanie Perkins

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Haven't read this one because I have to be in a certain mood in order to enjoy YA romances but, this is a pretty cute cover. Better than that trash bag of a cover they were previously using on the original hardbacks-- *shudders*

Maybe I'll give this one a go-- at some point.

Rebel Belle (Rebel Belle #1)
Rachel Hawkins

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This one is purely for the juxtaposition of feminity and masculinity. Basically the comparison of the sword pinning the necklace of pearls.

Awesome!

I will probably never read this series, though. I heard these are pretty basic books. Hmm.. Let me know if I should check them out?

The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy #1)

Marie Rutkoski

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 I NEED TO READ THIS BOOK SO BADLY!? But, I keep buying other bloody books. This Christmas I swear!

I've seen the new covers... Yeah, you can't be serious?!

They are such blatant rip-offs of Maas' Throne of Glass series. Just NO.

Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass #4)

Sarah J. Mass

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My review: HERE

How could I not include this beautiful American cover of Queen of Shadows. One day I will own all these in pb form.

I am still in love with this book, although I am currently read Empire of Storms and getting rather pissy at some of the choices. Eh.

REVIEW| A Torch Against the Night

A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes #2)
Sabaa Tahir

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

DISCLAIMER: I received this book as an ARC from HarperVoyagerUK in exchange for an honest review.
All views expressed are my own.

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Synopsis:

Elias and Laia are running for their lives. After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire.

Laia is determined to break into Kauf—the Empire’s most secure and dangerous prison—to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars’ survival. And Elias is determined to help Laia succeed, even if it means giving up his last chance at freedom.

But dark forces, human and otherworldly, work against Laia and Elias. The pair must fight every step of the way to outsmart their enemies: the bloodthirsty Emperor Marcus, the merciless Commandant, the sadistic Warden of Kauf, and, most heartbreaking of all, Helene—Elias’s former friend and the Empire’s newest Blood Shrike.

Bound to Marcus’s will, Helene faces a torturous mission of her own—one that might destroy her: find the traitor Elias Veturius and the Scholar slave who helped him escape…and kill them both. 

Review:

The Cover:

COVER CHANGE!

Well for us over here, in the UK, there is. I can here all you OCD book buyers crying your metaphorical river of tears as the steam comes pouring out of your ears. I'm just hoping that they cover doesn't sway and we get a similar format as the UK paperback.

Thank the heavens HarperVoyagerUK sent me an ARC of ATATN otherwise I  would've been reading and reviewing sometime in the summer of next year. 

The Content:

Second-Book-Syndrome is often the case in novels such as this, where there is a MASSIVE fan base and everyone is just really expectant for the greatness of the first novel and so it's incredibly hard to top that. Sabaa Tahir, you, my sweet are a wonder!

A Torch Against the Night starts swiftly after the ending of Ember, Laia and Elias are running through the catacombs trying to escape the Empire. It definitely sets your heart racing. 

Tahir has introduced the POV of Helene in this second novel, which I remember a lot of people feeling sceptical in terms of what she had to bring to the table. I admire Helene, and this was definitely due to the addition of her P.O.V- even if, you didn't like her during An Ember I would get you to give her another shot. Tahir knows the best way to take your heart and make it ache and bleed it out. A slow and steady fangirling mess. 

I remember that one wish that I had with this sequel was that the world would be equally expanded and as it would be fleshed out and it was delivered. I was just intrigued by the multitude of cultures that we were introduced to, that we met only in passing through the first book. Furthermore, this expansion fled into the fantasy sub-genre that this book is slowly growing into. 

These pair of sandals will hopefully fit "him" after book three.


For the whole note:

This Ember has finally caught flames.

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Waiting on Wednesday| And I Darken

Waiting On Wednesday is a book meme set up Breaking the Spine where all those who participate share weekly those book releases we are dying to get our hand on as soon as they are released.

This weeks WoW post is:

And I Darken
Kiersten White

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NO ONE EXPECTS A PRINCESS TO BE BRUTAL. 
And Lada Dragwlya likes it that way. Ever since she and her gentle younger brother, Radu, were wrenched from their homeland of Wallachia and abandoned by their father to be raised in the Ottoman courts, Lada has known that being ruthless is the key to survival. She and Radu are doomed to act as pawns in a vicious game, an unseen sword hovering over their every move. For the lineage that makes them special also makes them targets.
Lada despises the Ottomans and bides her time, planning her vengeance for the day when she can return to Wallachia and claim her birthright. Radu longs only for a place where he feels safe. And when they meet Mehmed, the defiant and lonely son of the sultan, who’s expected to rule a nation, Radu feels that he’s made a true friend—and Lada wonders if she’s finally found someone worthy of her passion.
But Mehmed is heir to the very empire that Lada has sworn to fight against—and that Radu now considers home. Together, Lada, Radu, and Mehmed form a toxic triangle that strains the bonds of love and loyalty to the breaking point.

Basically this book is a historical retelling of Vlad the impaler and I am totally a sucker for anything thing to do with the ruler who influenced one of the biggest Vampire novels in Literature history- Dracula.

Yes I made that "Sucker" pun on purpose... I'm sorry that I'm not sorry.

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