I figured it was time for another WWW Wednesday Update:
Aurora Burning by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
The Black Prism by Brent Weeks
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
Tag: Seanan McGuire
Tome Topple Readathon TBR
I’ve had a lot of fun doing small little readathon’s throughout the last couple of months so when I seen that Thoughts from Tomes on Youtube was hosting another round of the Tome Topple I decided I had to participate. The Tome Topple Readathon will be taking place from midnight in your time zone on May 9th to 11:59pm in your time zone on May 22nd. I have seen this readathon floating around Booktube for a while now and I have quite a lot of big books on my TBR so I figure this was a great way to finally get around to reading a few of them. I definitely won’t be completing all of these books but I am hoping I’ll be able to either become a Scholar or a Sage!
The tome that has been on your TBR the longest
A tome audiobook
Tome that’s part of a series
A standalone tome
Read 1 tome
A tome featuring a AAPI main character and/or written by a AAPI author (for Asian American/Pacific Islander Heritage Month)
Tome from a genre you don’t usually read
The tome on your TBR with the most pages
An adult tome
April Wrap Up
For some reason I have had the best reading month of my life! I know at this time a lot of people haven’t been able to focus on reading with everything happening in the world but it has really become an escape for me. This month I have never felt the need to take a break from reading or had to force myself to pick up a book, it’s been quite lovely actually. I ended up participating in two readathons this month the Smutathon hosted by Riley Marie on YouTube and I completed the OWL’s Magical Readathon which I will post a separate wrap up for tomorrow!
You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendriks & Sarah Pekkanen – ⭐️4/5 stars
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite – ⭐️3/5 stars
The Crown’s Fate by Evelyn Skye – ⭐️4/5 stars
Vengeful by V.E. Schwab – ⭐️3/5 stars
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert – ⭐️4/5 stars
The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson – ⭐️4/5 stars
The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan – ⭐️4/5 stars
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J Maas – ⭐️5/5 stars
Heartstopper Volume 1 by Alice Oseman – ⭐️4/5 stars
Pines by Blake Crouch – ⭐️3/5 stars
Wayward by Blake Crouch – ⭐️3/5 stars
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling – ⭐️5/5 stars
The Last Town by Blake Crouch – ⭐️4/5 stars
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo – ⭐️3/5 stars
An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson – ⭐️3/5 stars
Enemies by Tijan – ⭐️3/5 stars
Angry God by L.J. Shen – ⭐️3/5 stars
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire – ⭐️3/5 stars
Hate the Game by Winter Renshaw – ⭐️3/5 stars
Bennett Mafia by Tijan – ⭐️3/5 stars
I Bet You by Ilsa Madden-Mills – ⭐️3/5 stars
I Dare you by Ilsa Madden-Mills – ⭐️3/5 stars
The Dare by Harley LaRoux – ⭐️3/5 stars
The Lies We Tell by Becca Steele – ⭐️3/5 stars
Theirs for the Night by Katee Robert – ⭐️3/5 stars
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling – ⭐️5/5 stars
Every Heart a Doorway Review
Didn’t quite live up to the hype….
This book revolves around a school that takes in wayward children who have travelled to different worlds and have stumbled back to reality and can’t cope.
This book just didn’t quite gel with me personally. I went into it only really knowing that everyone absolutely loves this book and you don’t really get a lot of negative reviews but it didn’t quite live up to my expectations. Even though the book is quite short I thought it would go into a lot more details about the different worlds and the adventures that each of the children had whilst they were there and how it contrasts to the current world.
There wasn’t really any point in time where I was invested or all that engaged in the story. I think the development stage was a tad rushed and I wasn’t really settled into the plot at any point. I was definitely intrigued and once the murders started occurring I was eager to figure out who was behind them, but the pacing and the structure of the story felt a little fractured I guess.
I wasn’t all that attached to any of the characters either. They were all very diverse and distinct and had a voice and a story of their own but it was never to the point where I was developing any emotions or commitment to them. They all felt a little one dimensional to me as well, and again I think it was just due to the length of the book and that underdevelopment factor.
The premise is definitely original and now that I read this book and I understand kind of how it has been written and the purpose of the story I think I will enjoy the rest of the series. As a high/epic fantasy reader it just wasn’t fleshed out enough for me. I am used to a lot more world building and magical elements which this did have just not to the extent that I was expecting.
⭐️3/5 stars promising, needs a bit more oomph!
✨O.W.L.S Magical Readathon TBR ✨
For April I decided to take part in the O.W.L.S Magical Readathon hosted by Book Roast on Youtube, for any information regarding the readathon see her announcement video HERE. I’m not 100% sure what my career is going to be so I am going to try and complete all of the prompts for this round and then when it comes to the N.E.W.T.S I will announce which career path I choose in that TBR!
The prompts & my tentative TBR for the OWLS include:
Heart rune: heart on the cover or in the title
Magical Qualities of number 2: balance/opposites – read something outside your favourite genre
Night Classes: read majority of this book when it’s dark outside
Hippogriffs: creature with a beak on the cover
Lumos Maxima: white on the cover
Grindylows: book set at the sea/coast
Third eye: assign numbers to your TBR and use a random number generator to pick your read
Mimbulus mimbletonia: title starts with an M
Witch hunts: book featuring witches/wizards
Book from a perspective of a muggle (contemporary)
Shrinking solution: book under 150 pages
Animagus lecture: book/series that includes shapeshifting
Amy Leigh Reads 