So I shall keep this short but sweet. I have exciting news!! I’m working with Penguin to be able to offer all of my lovely followers the opportunity to win one of THREE copies of Katie Khan’s fabulous debut novel, Hold Back the Stars. Ive got a full review that I’ve linked below so you can just how much I loved this book. To enter this giveaway is really simple, all you need to do is follow me on Twitter at @Alexxmarie74 and RT my pinned tweet- it really is that simple!

Hold Back the Stars review:  https://angelwingsandpetticoats.wordpress.com/2017/01/15/hold-back-the-stars-by-katie-khan/

Welcome to the Girls on Fire book tour!! A huge thank you to Grace and Little Brown for sending me this book and allowing me the opportunity to share me thoughts on this novel during this virtual tour. Although not a debut, this is Robin Wasserman’s first adult novel, dealing with many adult themes- definitely not suitable for those under 16!! Continue reading “Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman”

Going into this book I was not too sure what to expect; described as a sci-fi romance I was in two minds about how I would take this. I love a good sci-fi, and enjoy a nice romantic element to a novel but I do not like novels that focus purely on the romance in the majority of cases. This one was different- I absolutely LOVED it!! Continue reading “Hold Back the Stars by Katie Khan”

Last year I set myself some reading goals, and to say the least it didn’t go overly well. This year, therefore I’m setting myself some even harder ones! Make sense? No? I know, its a bit crazy! But oh well, I have a good feeling about the blog and my reading this year so I’m going to aim high. Continue reading “2017 Reading Goals”

Welcome to Day one of ‘The Dry’ blog tour, really exciting to be one of the first day hosts. The Dry is a debut crime novel based in Australia during the worst drought for a century, when Aaron Falk comes back to the small town for his old school best friends funeral. Luke Hadler was found shot dead along with his wife and son, looking suspiciously like a suicide, but not all are convinced. Falk is tasked with looking into the death of his friend, reconnecting with some of his old school friends and opening up questions about the death of his old school romance that happened 20 years previous. Continue reading “‘The Dry’ by Jane Harper”

So the year is not quite over yet, so this is going just from what I have read up until this point. As of right now I have not quite managed to hit my GoodReads target of 50, but I am only 3 books away from it so I’m still confident. When I sat to write this I planned on just working with all the books I had read this year despite when they were released, but when I looked through what I read this year and picked my favourites, they just happened to mostly if not all been released this year. But lets get into this… Continue reading “Best Book of 2016”

Its Christmas- well almost!! And that means that I will hopefully have plenty of reading time, which is lucky as I have a lot to get through before January with book tours and reviews due. However I am really excited for all of my Christmas reads; but I should warn you, none of them are actually ‘Christmassy’! Continue reading “My Christmas TBR”

It has been a really rough few months, so much in my life has changed, and that’s triggered me to make some changes of my own. Circumstances have given me a great opportunity to make some adjustments and focus my life slightly differently. I have decided to make the most of the situation that I am in, and am going to use this time to work on something that I love and want to achieve. Continue reading “What’s to come in 2017”

I wrote this post a couple of weeks ago, planning on it to go out on the 28th of November, but for a bundle of reasons I delayed it. As the title gives away, this is dedicated to my Granddad, and was going to go out on his birthday; however he had been very ill for a long while, and took quite a downwards turn on his birthday saying he wanted to hold off opening his cards and other birthday activities. It didn’t feel right then publishing this, however its all try, and I feel it needs saying.. Continue reading “Granddad…”

Continue reading “From DUST AND DESIRE – An Excerpt by Conrad Williams”