Thursday, 30 October 2025

Tome Thursday: Dinner with Daddy

 
Hello everyone!
 
Listen, every once in a while, I go off the rails, okay.
 
I read so many books that cover so many different topics, so many genres (not counting horror because that's the ONE thing I don't usually touch), that it's almost overwhelming sometimes.
 
Which is why I'll be looking for a reading cleanser, so to speak, and land on something like this.
 
It's not exactly what's the usual cup of tea on the blog, I'll give you that.
 
It is, however, wildly entertaining.
 
And to be perfectly honest it somehow manages to keep getting more plot-heavy with every single book that you read in this weird series?
 
I'm not entirely sure how it happened, but here we are.
 
We're about to head right back into the hands of the Irish mafia, and we'll be having Dinner with Daddy.
 

Tuesday, 28 October 2025

Talkie Tuesday: WAR

 

"Your country comes first, second, and last."

 
Hello everyone!
 
Welcome to a two-week Bollywood action extravaganza that's about to happen on this blog in terms of movie reviews.
 
Because Netflix just put the sequel to tonight's movie choice up on its streaming services, and you KNOW I'm going to be watching!
 
Mostly because of it's male lead.
 
Listen ... this isn't me, this is just how it goes. If Hrithik Roshan releases a new movie, you generally run along to watch it, if only to see whether or not the opening sequence has somehow changed from all the others he's done in the past thirty or so years.
 
But we're also headed back to the spyverse tonight, the one YRF has been building slowly but surely since the early 2010s, so it goes back a bit.
 
And there's also a female-led movie that's coming at the end of this year, so buckle up!
 
Because for now, we're headed into WAR.
 

Thursday, 23 October 2025

Tome Thursday: Hunted by the Undead

 
Hello everyone!
 
Welcome to tonight's book of choice for the blog.
 
And dare I say, it's yet another banger?
 
To be honest though, I tend to only post the good ones on here, rather than ones I sometimes stumble upon that I either don't finish, or barely make myself finish (yes, they are the rarest of gems as I'm basically a black hole for reading, but they DO exist, I promise).
 
I think I might have only really posted a bad book review on here maybe once or twice, but that's about it.
 
As far as things go, it's only positives, bby!
 
Now without further ado, let's hop right into it, shall we?
 
We're revisiting one of my absolute favourite authors with her newest release that just hit the shelves this month, and it's time to brush off our knowledge of elemental magic for this.
 
Ladies and gentlemen: C. L. Carhart's Hunted by the Undead.
 

Tuesday, 21 October 2025

Talkie Tuesday: Blood of My Blood

 

"I will stand with you, whatever comes. We are one."

 
Hello everyone!
 
While I'm still not completely out of the woods yet - this stupid cold is taking absolutely FOREVER, and it probably doesn't help that I have to work in retail every single day, either - I'm feeling okay-ish enough to finally get back to blogging.
 
To a point.
 
It's going to be a much shorter post tonight unfortunately because I'm mostly just super tired all the time, and had to drag myself out of bed just now, BUT.
 
I CANNOT just stay sleeping anymore. It'll ruin my rhythm altogether!
 
So it's time we hop back in time a little bit, and check out the Scottish Highlands yet again.
 
Because nothing says 'welcome back, baby' as an Outlander-related prequel.
 
Blood of My Blood, here we come!
 

Thursday, 9 October 2025

Tome Thursday: Dreams Never Seen

 
Hello everyone!
 
Back to our post-apocalyptic world we go.
 
I mean, it's about time, isn't it?
 
I keep picking up books and reading through them and whatnot, but I also always circle back to the ones that stick to the top of my favourites list.
 
Sarah Westill and her books are certainly on there! I'm still very much eagerly awaiting the release of her newest book, beginning another series, but in the meantime I'm working through where it all began.
 
Mom and dad still have plenty of adventures to share, after all!
 
So for tonight, we're ditching the slowly-turning-colder Northern hemisphere, although of course in Sziveria it's even more brutal than here with us.
 
We're headed someplace warmer, and much more exotic.
 
Let's see where and why in Dreams Never Seen!
 

Tuesday, 7 October 2025

Talkie Tuesday: Sleeping Beauty

 

"I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream ..."

 
Hello everyone!
 
Welcome to the movie section of this blog post.
 
We're finally back after taking that slightly unplanned break last week, and let me tell you, I picked a classic for tonight's choice.
 
I mean, I thought it was going to be a classic to begin with before I started watching (or re-watching ... I actually can't remember if I've ever seen this one before), but then I sat down and watched and ... I have thoughts LOL.
 
I'll be explaining them down below as I move through the plot, I promise.
 
But without further ado, let's jump straight into it, shall we?
 
Time and tide - and in this case, fairies - wait for no man or woman.
 
Although they might make a mess of a lot of things in Sleeping Beauty.
 

Thursday, 2 October 2025

Tome Thursday: Velvet Thorns

 
Hello everyone!
 
Welcome back to the blog.
 
I know I unfortunately had to take a mini break this past Tuesday, but that's because real life just CONSPIRED against me, and I spent most of my time either at work, or sleeping off being work-tired.
 
Here I am now though, with a pretty banger of a book that literally JUST released.
 
Like, it released yesterday.
 
I can't be any more on the nose about it than that.
 
Lea Rose has quickly shot right up to my favourite authors list with Where We Burn, and I'm now determined to read her other books as well because, hello, when you find an author you really like, that's what you do.
 
I'll slowly but surely collect them all on here for your reviewing pleasure while I'm at it.
 
So without further ado, to tonight's book of choice: Velvet Thorns.