Saturday Snippet: Boy

 

I can now understand the hype behind this xD

HANN TIL RAGNAROKS!

 

xx

*video not mine

Tome Thursday: Idriel's Children

 

Hello everyone!

 

I return, and I bring goodies.

 

Pretty much just before my vacation starts - and let me tell you I'm excited for THAT - I've finished reading another one of those books that's just a must-have even though you would think that there's so many floating around that it's just another.

 

But no.

 

It isn't just another.

 

I was super surprised when Hayley Reese Chow reached out to me to review the continuation of her Odriel's Heirs saga, and obviously I said yes. You don't say no when an opportunity like that comes knocking.

 

I do owe the author a small apology though since it took me a bit to get to the sequel, but it's here now, and around all the packing and insanity happening all around, let's have a look at just what makes Idriel's Children such a good book, shall we? It's time to dive into some fantasy mayhem, some low-key kind of dangerous stuff, and say hi to a sarcastic cat.

 

Talkie Tuesday: Black Money Love

 

"In this life, there is nothing more important than love."

 

Hello everyone!

 

Once again, I'm sort of doing something a little bit different for this week's blog post, considering the fact that I haven't reviewed a television show since the Selena series on Netflix.

 

BUT,

 

I ran into this one on television here in my country when another Turkish soap had to go on hiatus (because it's still filming and we were catching up to it with how many parts we'd aired already) and I thoroughly enjoyed watching it, despite the fact that I eventually moved to Netflix to finish it off.

 

See, when you have to sit through two hours plus change considering there's a whole bunch of commercials included, you'll try and find a different route.

 

Netflix gave me that, being so kind as to have it in its lineup, which definitely made my summer!

 

And so without further ado, let's check in with murder, mayhem, and money laundering, shall we?

 

Black Money Love, or Kara Para Ask, is up next.

 

Saturday Snippet: What Percy Jackson is ALL about

 

 

Basically ... yeah, that's it.

 

xx

*image not mine

Tome Thursday: Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes

 

Hello everyone!

 

So I'm once again in a Rick Riordan kind of mood, which should be no surprise at this point.

 

Actually I'm in this kind of mood a lot, I guess.

 

Riordan writes the types of books I enjoy reading to turn my brain off and just enjoy the story, the characters and the humour, and I have to admit that it's nice to revisit them every once in a while.

 

I've been making my way through the Olympians series a little while ago and then let the rest of the books just sit there, but then last week I was like, you know what? Why the heck not.

 

Which was why I ended up picking up the Heroes of Olympus one more time.

 

Despite the fact I have mixed feelings about the sequel series, I still enjoy the story as a whole.

 

And then of course, if you're reading the main stories, you have to read the companion books as well, which brings me to this week's subject.

 

I suppose I've waited long enough to get this going, so here we are: Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes are up next!

 

Talkie Tuesday: HZD The Frozen Wilds

 

"Only in the struggle against death to we find, even for a moment, the spark of life."

 

Hello everyone!

 

So I kind of lied to myself.

 

I figured I'd review Horizon Zero Dawn and then move on to movies and TV shows again, but then I started watching the playthroughs for the DLC and ... well.

 

The rest, as they say, was history.

 

To be fair I didn't think I was going to review the DLC until somewhere three quarters in though. Initially I definitely thought I'd just watch it, and actually already decided not to touch the review somewhere at the halfway point.

 

But then I just couldn't not.

 

Both the DLC and the main game are probably some of the best I've watched in a long, long time, so I thought they both deserve the recognition.

 

Which means we're heading into The Frozen Wilds.

 

Saturday Snippet: The Witcher SEASON 2 TEASER

 

DECEMBER 17

 

xx

*video not mine

Tome Thursday: Burning Shadows

 

Hello everyone!

 

I have to say I've been extremely lucky in my blogging choices, because they've led me to where I am today, and where I am is that I'm on good terms with several pretty amazing authors, contemporary and fantasy alike, and that leads to some awesome collaborations.

 

This means I get fortunate enough to be sent an ARC of their works, which I can then review as soon as I end up finding the time.

 

Which I always do, and PRONTO.

 

Last year at some point, I was contacted by the lovely Hayley Reese Chow asking whether or not I'd be interested in reading her fantasy novel, Odriel's Heirs, and I mean ... fantasy, y'all. What else do you say but HECK YES?

 

I've since been waiting patiently on the sequel, and the truth of the matter is we aren't just getting a sequel, oh no, no, no.

 

There's a sequel novella AND the sequel!

 

So strap on those swords and come have a look at Burning Shadows with me, alright? Time to go kill some undead.

 

Talkie Tuesday: Horizon Zero Dawn

 

"I would have wanted her to be curious.  And willful, 

unstoppable even, but with enough compassion to heal the world."

 

Hello everyone!

 

So this week I'm doing something much, MUCH different than any other week before.

 

You're probably wondering how this all makes sense. After all, I may have mentioned in some other post (or two) that I'm not actually a gamer, strictly speaking. I don't have a computer that could handle that type of graphic, and I definitely don't have a gaming console at this moment in time.

 

But what I DO have is access to Youtube, and you can find pretty much any game played from start to finish on there, if you know which gamers to follow.

 

I've been following Tmartn for a few years now, but I've equally been subscribed to Tetraninja, and it was the latter's gameplay of this masterpiece that I ended up going through.

 

And man, did I power through it. I just couldn't stop watching!

 

I've seen some gameplays in the years since I started watching, and all of them have a story worth following, but I don't think I've ever run into something as insanely awesome as Guerilla Games' production of Horizon Zero Dawn.

 

Saturday Snippet: Smokie

 

xx

*video not mine

Tome Thursday: The Castaway Billionaire

 

Hello everyone!

 

I feel like I'm starting to get super boring with these intros, but here we are again with another lovely, lovely book that's just perfect for a summer read.

 

And I mean perfect.

 

What's better than reading about a random, deserted island, so isolated that no one else even knows about it, and two people who used to be lovers but are now on their own separate paths, though they somehow land on it together?

 

Not much, is my answer.

 

Then again it depends on your point of view, probably.

 

But I will say this: if you've enjoyed previous books by Serenity Woods, I'm confident you'll love this one just as much, because we are continuing with The Billionaire Princes this week in our reviews, and the second book, The Castaway Billionaire, tells us all there is to know about Theo.

 

You remember Theo - tall, handsome as sin, with some baggage from the past? Well it's time to drop that baggage.