Top 5 series I wished didn’t end
Finishing a beloved series is always bittersweet. These are five worlds and characters I wasn't ready to say goodbye to when I turned the final page.
Top 5 series I wished were shorter
Not every series benefits from stretching its story across multiple books. These are five series that I enjoyed but felt could have reached the finish line sooner.
Top 5 standalone books I wished were series
Some stories end exactly where they should. Others leave me desperately wishing for another book. These are five standalones I would happily spend more time with.
Top 5 Tuesday topics: April-June 2025
Hello friends!! Welcome to the Top 5 Tuesday topics post: April-June 2025!! Friends, this post is later than I planned, and I apologise. However, the last couple of weeks I’ve added a link to my top 5 Tuesday posts that takes you to my google docs spreadsheet which has the topics for the rest of the 2025 calendar year. You…
Top 5 series I will finish in 2025
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 series I will finish in 2025!! Yes, you heard it here first! 2025 is going to be the year that I close out a bunch of series that I’m currently in the middle of! Or, one book away from the end of. Either way, they won’t be…
Top 5 series I will start in 2025
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 series I will start in 2025!! Look at me rolling in here with my new found bad-bitch confidence that I’m going to smash all my reading goals in 2025!! Not the series I want to start, but the series I WILL start. *mic drop* LOL, again, this…
Top 5 series I will finish* in 2023
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 series I will finish* in 2023!! * And by “finish”, I mean “at least get caught up on”. You get a pass if the author releases more books. Because last week we did books series we are going to START. And if you want to start new…
Top 5 series I will start in 2023
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday*!! This week’s topic is top 5 series I will start in 2023!! Umm, not sure about you all, but there are a few series on my shelves that I haven’t even started yet. And by ‘a few’… I mean lots. It’s quite embarrassing really. Why do I keep buying books in a series…
Top 5 series that I *still* haven’t finished
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 series that I *still* haven’t finished. I did technically change the name of this week’s topic for myself, as when I originally saved the draft, it came up with a “top-5-series-I-haven’t-finished-3”. Which means that I already have 2 versions of this from previous years… And I…
This or that tag
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to me attempting to catch up on the 51 tags I haven’t done!! With today’s post: the this or that tag. I was tagged to do this THREE times in 2020. Which, scarily, is not the largest number of times I’ve been tagged to do a post. Oops?! So, huge thanks to the following amazing bloggers for…
Top 5 series of all time
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 series of all time. THIS is going to be a “big call” post. Maybe even one where the decisions I make below are going to be ‘die on the hill’ ones. But the real question is… do we agree? Only joking!! That’s not really important. The important…
Top 5 Tuesday topics: July-September 2021
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to the Top 5 Tuesday topics post: July-September 2021!! Yes, I’ve decided to go quarterly, and see if I can’t start to get super organised in my life… (I am aware that this is not likely to help, but we can only try!!) Top 5 Tuesday was created by Shanah at Bionic Book Worm, and it is…
Hawk – James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet
Release date: 6 July 2020 Goodreads link Book Depository link Aussie purchase links Rating Hawk (Hawk #1) blurb: Where is Maximum Ride? Maximum Ride lost her fight to save the world. But from the ashes of the old world a phoenix has risen… She calls herself Hawk. Hawk doesn’t know her real name. She doesn’t know who her parents are,…
Her Royal Highness – Rachel Hawkins
Release date: 7 May 2019 Goodreads link Book Depository link Rating Her Royal Highness (Royals #2) blurb: Millie Quint is devastated when she discovers that her sort-of-best-friend/sort-of-girlfriend has been kissing someone else. Heartbroken and ready for a change of pace, Millie decides to apply for a scholarship to a boarding school … in the rolling Highlands of Scotland. The only…
The Night Country – Melissa Albert
Release date: 9 January 2020 Goodreads link Book Depository link Rating The Night Country (The Hazel Wood #2) blurb: Alice has fought hard for a normal life. Having escaped the Hinterland – the strange, pitch-dark fairy-tale world she was born into – she has washed up in New York City, determined to build a new future for herself. But when…
The Map From Here to There – Emery Lord
Release date: 5 March 2020 Goodreads link Book Depository link Rating The Map From Here to There (The Start of Me and You, #2) blurb: Paige Hancock is finally living her best life. She has everything she needs: ? Great friends (core four forever) ? A boyfriend who totally gets her (even if Max is in Italy all summer long)…
Havenfall – Sara Holland
Release date: 3 March 2020 Goodreads link Book Depository link Rating Havenfall (Havenfall, #1) blurb: Maddie Morrow knows that Havenfall is more than it seems. Beneath the beautiful sprawling Inn lie the hidden gateways to three ancient realms: Byrn, Fiordenkill and Solaria. Maddie’s destiny is here, rooted in her family’s promise to protect the fragile alliance between the worlds. But…
An Ember in the Ashes – Sabaa Tahir
Release date: 28 April 2015 Goodreads link Book Depository link Rating An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1) blurb: An orphan fighting for her family. A soldier searching for his freedom. A story burning to be told. Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested in…
A Heart So Fierce and Broken – Brigid Kemmerer
Release date: 7 January 2020 Goodreads link Book Depository link Bloomsbury link for Aussie’s Rating A Heart So Fierce and Broken (Cursebreakers, #2) blurb: HARPER has freed Prince Rhen from the curse that almost destroyed his kingdom. But all is not well in Emberfall: rumours are rife that there is a rival heir with a stronger claim to the throne…
The Sky Weaver – Kristen Ciccarelli
Release date: 12 November 2019 Goodreads link Book Depository link Rating The Sky Weaver (Iskari, #3) blurb: At the end of one world, there always lies another. Safire, a soldier, knows her role in this world is to serve the King of Firgaard—helping to maintain the peace in her oft-troubled nation. Eris, a deadly pirate, has no such conviction. Known…
Sorting my bookshelves: a labour of love or a sucker for punishment?
Good morning bookworms! Well, we haven’t had a proper discussion post for a while, so I thought it was time for me to uhhh, waffle at you all for a bit. (I would say ‘You’re welcome’, but I’m not really sure if you should be happy about this or not?!!) I don’t know about you guys, but I never feel…
The Queen of Nothing – Holly Black
Release date: 19 November 2019 Goodreads link Book Depository link Rating The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3) blurb: His voice is soft, and I make the mistake of looking into his black eyes, at his wicked, curving mouth. ‘But your beauty will fade,’ he continues, just as softly, speaking like a lover. ‘And all you have…
Serpent and Dove – Shelby Mahurin
Release date: 3 September 2019 Goodreads link Book Depository link Rating Serpent and Dove (Serpent and Dove #1) blurb: Two years ago, Louise le Blanc fled her coven and took shelter in the city of Cesarine, forsaking all magic and living off whatever she could steal. There, witches like Lou are hunted. They are feared. And they are burned. Sworn…
Going Off Script – Jen Wilde
Release date: 21 May 2019 Goodreads link Book Depository link Rating Going Off Script blurb: Sometimes you’ve got to live outside the lines. Seventeen-year-old Bex is thrilled when she gets an internship on her favorite tv show, Silver Falls. Unfortunately, the internship isn’t quite what she expected… instead of sitting in a crowded writer’s room volleying ideas back and forth,…
