Read This Month, July and August

(July) & August

1. The Idiot Brain, Non-fiction, ✦✦✦.5✧
2. Sea Witch, ebook/audiobook, REVIEW, ✦✦✦.75✧

Data:

Male/Female author:

         50 % female,

         50 % male

Genre:

         50 % non-fiction,

         50 % retelling/magic

Pages:

       670 p

Format:

         25 % e-books,

         25 % audio books,

         50 % physical books

Average:

         3.6
Arcs:
          50 % sent to me (for honest reviews)

*For stars and more info check my Goodreads: link*

Read on lovelies,

S

Harry Potter Spells TAG

Flagrate: Writing charm

A book that you found interesting, but would like to rewrite

Dream a Little Dream started off so well, but by the last book it didn't keep up

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Alohamora: Unlocking charm

A first book in a series that got you hooked

Snow Like Ashes, so good yet it it took me years to actually finish the series

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Accio: Summoning spell

A book that you wish you could have right now

To Kill a Kingdom

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Avada Kedavra: Killing curse

A killer book

Renegades, was a great one!

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Confudo: Confusion charm

A book you found confusing

The Princess Saves Herself in This One, I just don't tend to read poetry

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Expecto Patronum: Guarding spell

Your spirit animal book

Nope can't decide

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Sectumsempra: Dark curse

A dark, twisted book

Three Dark Crowns? Kind of

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Expecto Patronum: Guarding spell

A childhood book connected to good mmemories

The Ella books

I recently found them on BookBeat (e-book and audiobook service) and they are hilarious

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Expelliarmus: Disarming spell

A book that took you by surprise

Not that I didn't think I'd like it, but My Lady Jane was so good!

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Prior Incantato: Reverse Spell

The last book you read

Pallokala was the previous one

My current read is Heart of Iron

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Riddikulus: Boggart banishing spell

A funny book you've read

Herding Cats (I have a review coming up later)

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Sonorus: Amplifying charm

A book you think everybody should know about

I can't say that it'll be good, book I am so looking forward to the book To Kill a Kingdom link

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Obliviate: Memory charm

A book or spoiler you would like to forget having read

Enigma

I have a post about reading old favorites and being disappointed and that's what happened with this one

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Imperio: Controlling curse

A book you had to read for school

Well there's The Crucible

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Crucio: Torture curse

A book that was painful

Alien Busters was really hard to get through

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Read on lovelies,

S

Sea Witch by Sarah Henning : Review

Sea Witch by Sarah Henning

*e-ARC kindly provided by the publisher HarperCollins in exchange for an honest review!*

Publication: July 31st


SUMMARY
Everyone knows what happens in the end.
A mermaid, a prince, a true love's kiss.
But before that young siren's tale, there were three friends.
One feared, one royal, and one already dead.
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The rise of Hans Christian Andersen's iconic villainess is a heart-wrenching story of friendship, betrayal, and a girl pushed beyond her limits - to become a monster.

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Stars: ✦✦✦.75✧

So as usual, I'll tell 3.75 things I liked about the book and 1.25 thing I didn't like.

So what did I think?

+1 | The idea and premise is clever and intriguing. I'm just so drawn to fairytale retellings, especially unpredictable ones. 

+1 | Characters. The set of characters were so different and I wanted more


+1  | World and building. The magic and world is unique. It's also told in a way of skipping to the past at times, which by the end made things even more action packed!

+0.75/-0.25 | Entertainment value. It was a roller coaster - that kept me reading.

-1  | The first 25% of the book. Honestly I almost stopped reading, and over the years I've learnt to actually DNF books instead of wasting time, but something kept me reading - and because of the last 25% I am so glad I did!

Read on lovelies,

S

Book Cover pt2: Dislikes

Book cover likes and dislikes

I think we all have those things we find really off-putting on covers, and things that draw us in so here are the picks for my least favorites:

I really don't like it when the authors name is bigger than the title, but the thing is that's what sells - the name. Another think I usually don't like is people on the cover, especially photos of ones

Case in point:

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Enigma: I've talked about this book before, not in the best light, but I mean that cover. I, yeah, I'm just gonna leave it at that.

City of Bones: You know what? I don't think I need to explain myself with any of these...

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Read on lovelies,

S

Also anyone else notice how my favorites had a color scheme of lightness and colors,

and on the other hand these are darker.