Celestine North lives a perfect life. She's a model daughter and sister, she's well-liked by her classmates and teachers, and she's dating the impossibly charming Art Crevan. But then Celestine encounters a situation where she makes an instinctive decision. She breaks a rule. And now faces life-changing repercussions. She could be imprisoned. She could be branded. She could be found Flawed.  (Synopsis from Goodreads)

Click to add on Goodreads! "Reader, I murdered him." A Gothic retelling of Jane Eyre. Like the heroine of the novel she adores, Jane Steele suffers cruelly at the hands of her aunt and schoolmaster. And like Jane Eyre, they call her wicked - but in her case, she fears the accusation is true. When she flees, she leaves behind the corpses of her tormentors. (Synopsis from Goodreads)

Hi guys! I'm starting to resurface from under the mountains of uni work I've been stuck with. What better way to do that than to write some book spine poetry (in honour of World Poetry Day)? This is a challenge related to Rachel's Get Up Offa That Slump Blogging Extravaganza.
Check the details and the introductory post over at

Beauty and the Bookshelf!

The secret in the night garden Shadow and bone entwined The versions of us: starborn, stardust

My book spine poetry has this tendency of resembling haiku. I tried not to succumb to my first instinct of a super short poem but... it didn't exactly work out for me. 

I spent some time yesterday trying to come up with poems, but in addition to shaking her head and repeating "you are so strange," my bestie also said that my poetry didn't make sense. I think this one does! 

But I will resign myself to wait for your verdict - does what I wrote count as a poem? Does it make any sense? Let me know in the comments ;)

Follow

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme for sharing our news, hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. Please go visit her blog - it's really lovely!

Hello lovelies! I've had a horridly busy week but it's okay now because:

✦ Term is over - no more lectures. Ever. Easter Break, here I come!

✦ I made a trip down south (11 hours to get there on a bus - and then the same thing again the next day!) to see my friends perform in the Wedding Singer. They were so amazing that I cried.

✦ My bestie is visiting me! We haven't seen each other since July!

✦ I've started reading a bunch of really cool ARCs so expect a barrage of reviews in the next few weeks!

✦ It's almost spring!

Hi guys! I'm having pretty much the busiest week ever but I managed a nice guilty pleasure read as a way of procrastinating. If I'm a bit quiet on the blogosphere please don't think I've forgotten you - I'll be back and catching up with all of you (and your wonderful blogs/bookstagrams/booktube videos) at the end of the week!

Barely a month after the vampires came out in Chicago, graduate student Merit gets attacked by a rogue vampire. The rogue is scared off after a sip, but to save her life, Merit herself has to be turned into a vampire. She quickly becomes the resident troublemaker of Cadogan House. The House is one of 12 in the USA, and consists of a group of vampires headed by Ethan Sullivan, also known as 'my Liege' to many of the House residents. As if being turned against her will wasn't enough, Merit also has to survive deadly vampire politics. Her new life is at stake.

Another post related to an event hosted by the wonderful Rachel @ Beauty and the Bookshelf. Please do go check out her blog! Today's prompt was to review your favourite book - fangirling allowed and encouraged.

Story time! (You don't actually have to read this entire following paragraph. You can skip to the last few lines. I was just in a writing mood.)

I walked into Waterstones. I didn't mean to, I just accidentally ended up standing inside the shop, staring at a stack of wonderful new hardcover releases. After a struggle of heroic proportions that really should be told in iambic pentameter to do it any justice, I decided on only two books(!). I walked over to the friendly cashier who was communicating with a 2-year-old kid about buying a book focused on incy wincy spider. (She seemed just as excited about her book as I was about mine. [The little one was obviously in the arms of her mother who was letting her practice the process of buying things.]) It was adorable, but I digress. As they left, I stepped forward and somehow ended up in a long conversation about Garth Nix, Trudi Canavan, Philip Pullman, Patrick Ness and got invited to a YA book club meeting. 

But the most wonderful thing was that when I said "you know Patrick Rothfuss? I'm absolutely obsessed with his Kingkiller Trilogy," this guy beamed at me. 

"Yes. He is excellent."

This made me really happy, because a) I seriously freaking love those books, and b) it's awesome when someone's actually heard of them before I passive-aggressively and almost reduced to tears force them to just read the bloody book and see for themselves.

Hi guys! It is finally the weekend again, and I am so happy about it!

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme for sharing our news, hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. Please go visit her blog - it's really lovely!

• Yes, I bought books. Yes, I promised I wouldn't. *Sigh* (And since writing this, I have gone back on amazon and bought more books. Oops.)
• Uni is still busy. I've spent way too much time procrastinating (read: drinking wine).
• I bought a little bookcase! Look at it! I'm a tad bit excited ;)
• I've had kind of a miserable week so I've just been home, reading whenever I can ♥
• We had an awesome hen-do for my friend on Friday!

“Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.” Agnieszka lives in a valley, near the corrupted Wood, that is full of something powerful, magical, and dangerous. Her village is aided by the mysterious Dragon, a wizard who lives in a tower and requires one girl to serve him, selected from one of the valley villages every ten years.

Check the details and the introductory post over at Beauty and the Bookshelf and get involved!

It turns out it was World Kidney Day yesterday, so prompted by Rachel (make sure and check the link above!) I came up with a list of three bookish things that would totally be worth handing over one of my kidneys. (obviously I'd only be able to choose one of these because I'm pretty certain I need to retain one of my kidneys, but let me dream of having extra kidneys and getting all three things, okay, thanks.)

Click to add it on Goodreads. In 1956, the Cornish village of St Steele is shocked by a trail of murders taking place in their midst. 15-year-old Betty is helping her somewhat erratic and fragile mother manage Hotel Eden while members of the London press descend on it. Betty finds a friend in the aloof, 30-year-old reporter, Mr Gallagher. Their relationship grows, but the circumstances surrounding the murders will lead them both to make their own decisions that will largely affect their futures.