My Favourite Book-Tubers and Bloggers

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Books. They are the most influential and effective way for spreading knowledge, joy and the feels! 

Today I decided that I would compile a list of book bloggers and book-tubers who have not only inspired me to read a who bunch of amazing books, but also who are super cool! 

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My first and foremost would have to be Sasha Alsberg who is an incredible book-tuber - her account being called abookutopia. She is super relateable, funny, beautiful and is also the person who made me actually start reading some of my favourite book series of all time! One of which is the LUX series by Jennifer L. Armentrout - this book is the reason why I started blogging!
So a winner here!
She also look insainly like Clary Fray from the Mortal Instruments book series when she has red hair!

The Buried Symbol - Jeffery L. Kohanek | Review

↠ The Buried Symbol by Jeffery L.  Kohanek ↞

Read the full summary and check out other books by Jeffery L. Kohanek on this Goodreads link.

Quick overview:

Brock has been living his whole life in a society where a rune is the marking of your place in society. Without this rune, he is doomed to live out his life below the lowest rung of the social ladder. 

Brock is unwilling to accept his fate and is willing to risk his life to obtain a fake rune that marks him as a member of the Empire's ruling class. 

He then embarks on a journey to an institution where the Empire's future leaders are trained. 

As a student of the academy, Brock uncovers a chain of secrets that had been kept hidden for centuries. 

Queen of Shadows review - Sarah J. Maas | Favourite Fan-art

↠ Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas ↞

Read the full summary and check out other books by Sarah J. Maas on this Goodreads link.

Quick overview:

Amy Smith has always felt like she doesn't belong. Like she doesn't quite fit in with the world around her - she doesn't even feel like she fits her own name. 

So when Amy starts dreaming of a male voice calling out to a girl named "Marla," she doesn't know why she feels like she is the one being called for. 

One night when the darkness of her dreams clear, she finally meets Lief and their forbidden love that follows is one that will change both their worlds... 

Personal opinion on the book:

This book literally killed me! I could not put this book down! And when I did put it down, it was only because I couldn't breathe. This book was the most gut wrenching thing I have ever read. I seriously believe that Sarah J. Maas is actually a super human. These book will go down in history and I am so pleased that I was able to read it...

Betrothed review - written by Wanda Wiltshire

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:

Amy Smith has always felt like she doesn't belong. Like she doesn't quite fit in with the world around her - she doesn't even feel like she fits her own name. 

So when Amy starts dreaming of a male voice calling out to a girl named "Marla," she doesn't know why she feels like she is the one being called for. 

One night when the darkness of her dreams clear, she finally meets Lief and their forbidden love that follows is one that will change both their worlds... 

(Betrothed by Wanda Wiltshire)

Read the full summary and check out other books by Wanda Wiltshire on this Goodreads link.

Personal opinion on the book:

Straight up, the first thing I must acknowledge is just how incredible this book cover is! It legitimately shimmers in the light and is the beacon of hope while I am too busy fan-girling over how beautiful this book is!

I actually received this book from my cousin, who went to Super Nova and got is signed by Wanda Wiltshire (the author)! And it is just so amazingly cool! 

Now to the actual review...

Uninvited review - written by Sophie Jordan

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:

In a society where your DNA is the single thing that could ruin your life and your future, what are you meant to do? You can't change your DNA...

Davy is the golden girl, destined for great things, everyone loves her. Her family, her friends and especially her boyfriend. But what happened when the golden girl tests positive for Homicidal Tendency Syndrome? More commonly known as HTS or the "kill gene." Uninvited from her prep school and suddenly losing everyone and everything that was once close to her, Davy is thrown into a special class for HTS carriers. She couldn't be more different, especially from Sean, who's "H" tattoo is proof of his dark past. But in a world where no one is to be trusted, why is she beginning to trust the one person she shouldn't be...

(Uninvited by Sophie Jordan)

Read the full summary and check out other books by Sophie Jordan on this Goodreads link.

Personal opinion on the book:

This book was down right the most though provoking novel I have read in a very long time! Not only does this book address so many social and cultural issues, but it does it in such a way that make it interesting for a person who doesn't normally care about politics. This book left me stunned! I was in awe of Sophie Jordan's writing and this novels concept just added to the perfection of it's execution....

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...