The Trials of Apollo review - by Rick Riordan

Attention! This review may contain spoilers that could reveal the story line or events that occur over the duration of the book. If this does not bother you, or if you would just like to get a better feel of what this book is about before you read it, please feel free to carry on and enjoy this review!

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Quick overview:

The all powerful Apollo is (obviously) a devastatingly handsome and all powerful God. So it is a big surprise when he wakes up and is no longer in his Godly form and is instead stuck as a (slightly) overweight and acne covered teenager called Lester... Getting beat up by a gang of street thugs is only the first of his issues, he is now stuck with a fashion disaster of a young demigod and has to save the wrld! But most importantly... he has to get rid of this acne!

(Trials of Apollo by Rick Riordan)

Read the full summary and check out other books by Rick Riordan on this Goodreads link.

Personal opinion on the book:

So it actually took me SOOO many month to read this book... Like, I liked this book, but dang I think I read like 5 other books at the same time I read this. From the very first chapter of this book I was immediately swept back into  Rick Riordan's world. This actually inspired my to start a (now crazily large) Pintrest board just so that I could gather all of my favorite Percy Jackson fan art and just put it in one place and be able to fan girl about it whenever I wanted. *forced laughter while slowly backing away*...

Burning Embers review - written by Hannah Fielding

Attention! This review may contain spoilers that could reveal the story line or events that occur over the duration of the book. If this does not bother you, or if you would just like to get a better feel of what this book is about before you read it, please feel free to carry on and enjoy this review!

I received this book for free as a physical copy, kindly provided to me by the amazing author of the book - Hannah Fielding!
I would just like to quickly thank Hannah for sending me this book, as well keeping me in the loop about all of her other books! It is really great to have such a friendly and positive connection between myself as a book blogger, and Hannah as a published author. 

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Quick overview:

After calling off her wedding and receiving news that her father has passed, Coral leaves her life in England to travel back to her childhood home in Kenya, Africa. In Kenya, Coral takes ownership of her inheritance - the plantation, Mpingo. 

Although, while on the voyage Coral meets a handsome stranger, who she again encounters days later, and he is introduced as Rafe de Monfort. The man who is a known womanizer and her new neighbor who is thought to be involved in her fathers death...  

(Burning Embers by Hannah Fielding)

Read the full summary and check out other books by Hannah Fielding on this Goodreads link.

Personal opinion on the book:

When I first received this book, I kinda expected it to be a sappy romance book, but it turned out to be so much better than that. Yes, it is very different to the type of books that I would normally read, but it was actually really good to read.

From the very first few pages, I was struck by how in-depth the description of every little detail was, up to the point when I was kinda like "damn! this book." 

By page 3 I could already feel myself being drawn into the book's story line, although the book was apparently meant to be set in the 1970's and 1960's, but I honestly couldn't tell the difference in the setting...