Tome Thursday: The Lord of the Rings, pt. 2

I finished this yesterday and bawled my eyes out.

Again.

Yes, I'm one of those.

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Game of Thrones: The Dragon and the Wolf

"The Great War is here."

Hello everyone!

Well, we made it. Yet another season over and we all still seem to be standing. Okay, sadly, Thoros isn't with us anymore, and lamentably we said bye-bye to a lot of nameless extras who happened to tag along in just the right places to be conveniently killed, but you know what I mean. 

We're almost at the hail Mary for this show!

Game of Thrones has consistently delivered, despite perhaps not having the exact political bangs going on as it did while Martin was still actively participating and the episodes were based off his actual books. Which, to be perfectly honest, is not the show's fault. The producers can't be expected to wait FOREVER until the guy finally decides how he's going to untangle the mess he created for himself.

Also, he's still around, you know, giving commentary. It's not like it's not approved.

But in any event, The Dragon and the Wolf was an episode EVERYONE looked forward to - and pretty much everyone was stoked about by the time it ended.

Saturday Snippet: Late Vacation, pt. 2

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Tome Thursday: The Lord of the Rings

I'm honestly just detoxing and doing a lot of: sleeping, eating, reading, sleeping, not necessarily in that order, so I don't have a book review to go up today. I probably won't until I get back home.

But I'm doing my annual Lord of the Rings summer read instead, so here you go <3 

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Game of Thrones: Beyond the Wall

"The Great War is here."

Hello everyone!

Even at the seaside, I can't resist the lure that is Game of Thrones. I mean, come on, who could?

Definitely not me. 

Besides, there's something incredibly poetic about watching a big-ass dragon torch anything and everything in front of him while I'm sitting on the large terrace listening to the sea on the beach not too far away.

But I digress.

The penultimate episode of the season left us with one big-ass WHAT just as the episode ended (and you can see I love the term big-ass; I'll be using it a lot when it comes to the dragons, sorry-not-sorry!), but also with a sense of ... hey, guy ain't fooling around no more.

Beyond the Wall promised a lot - and delivered.

Saturday Snippet: Late Vacation

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Tome Thursday: Beguiled

Hello everyone!

I seem to always have books to read, but that doesn't mean all of them will or would even ever end up on this blog, for different reasons. Some just aren't all that interesting, others are re-reads, and then out of those I decide to write about ... well, I can't put them all up at once, right?

Right.

I'm headed back to a trilogy I started not too long ago in this blog post, actually, as Joanna Chambers has quickly become one of my favourite authors in terms of how easily it is to sink into one of her books and forget about the real world for a little bit.

I reviewed the first novel in the Enlightenment series, Provoked, already, and the link to the post will be found at the end of this one.

For the purpose of this blog, however, I'm stepping away from book numero uno and moving on to book numero due, titled Beguiled, which continues the infamous love story of lawyer David Lauriston and Lord Murdo Balfour.

Game of Thrones: Eastwatch

"The Great War is here."

Hello everyone!

Can I just say one thing?

Oh.

My.

GOD.

SERIOUSLY.

Once again, some of my friends have complained nothing much happened in this week's Game of Thrones episode. I'm not entirely sure we're watching the same show anymore ... EVERYTHING HAPPENED THIS WEEK.

It isn't about the battles. It's not about who dies. It's about the people still living and breathing who're moving around the chessboard, and the declarations and revelations that keep hitting one after another and make me feel like I'm in one of those amusement parks trying to hold on for all it's worth. The episode titled 'Eastwatch' was EVERYTHING. And here's what happened.

Saturday Snippet: Raoul

Unimpressed Raoul is #Unimpressed!

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Tome Thursday: The Devil's Cut

Hello everyone!

It's book review time again this week, but seriously, I need to take two seconds to focus after seeing the Shadowhunters summer finale trailer.

Like, OMG.

I mean I've read the first trilogy, obviously - I'm working on the second one - but that doesn't mean that what I see Freeform putting out isn't amazing. They've taken a step beyond what Cassandra Clare's written and made it their own, and the actors look like they might have pushed all the boundaries, ever.

I can't wait for next Monday!

But, ahem.

It's time for the actual review to begin, and considering it's August, suffice to say there is no other book to talk about but J. R. Ward's Devil's Cut, the conclusion of her Bourbon Kings trilogy.

Game of Thrones: The Spoils of War

"The Great War is here."

Hello everyone!

Thankfully, our initial heatwave seems to be over at the moment, although looking at these stormclouds that seem to be gathering I'm apprehensive for quite a different reason this time around.

But anyway. 

Making sure I don't miss my weekly Game of Thrones blog, I come bearing gifts, which is the review for the fourth episode of the season, The Spoils of War! And dang, we're already past the halfway point now, only three more to go.

How fast does time fly, right?

And man, if you just look at these episodes, it's like we can never get enough, which is probably the point.

After all, there is only one Iron Throne.

Saturday Snippet: Before and After

The after part is on the right ... :D 

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Tome Thursday: The Infernal Devices

Hello everyone!

Tonight's blog post is another compilation, since I feel like it would be cheating if I just posted each book separately, and honestly it makes much more sense to me to bring them all together into one blog post and not three.

Although I WILL admit that I'm confused since I was fairly sure I'd reviewed the first one of the trilogy at some point ...

Apparently not.

Anyway, with Shadowhunters going in for the kill with their last two episodes of the season, I felt like I should honour them somehow, and then remembered that I'd read and finished The Infernal Devices series, also by Cassandra Clare, not too long ago.

See I actually started it earlier, but for some reason never got around to books two and three, but this time around what I did was just sit there until I finished it all.

You can't go wrong that way, really. So here we go, a blog post to review The Infernal Devices!

Game of Thrones: The Queen's Justice

"The Great War is here."

Hello everyone!

Let me first tell you that I feel for the poor chicken which usually ends up in the cooking pot. I'm about the same right now and it's not even that late yet, but just sitting still I feel like I'm about to melt into a puddle on the floor. 

Summer has DEFINITELY got us in its grip, and will still for the next two weeks or so they say, so I desperately need some winter to cool off.

That pun was totally intended.

Anyway, after watching this latest episode of Un Passo Dal Cielo yesterday, I sat down to go through Game of Thrones as well, because ... well, because I couldn't resist, especially with that epic meeting in the works.

Let's move into The Queen's Justice, shall we?