Thursday, 3 April 2025

Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover


Published: August 30, 2022 by St. Martin's Press


Fiction/own





It has been ages since I read this author, I like her magical realism books. Though here the magical realism, well it was so real so...well I have to doubt things a bit. But here there clearly are ghost.




Zoey moves into a flat. She has her own problems, horrid family. Her mum died long ago. She befriends other in the building, all with their own ghosts. And then of course someone dies the first day too.




Old secrets are slowly coming to light and all these strangers will become friends




Trying to make it shirt. Good book. Very lovely






Between the real and the imaginary, there are stories that take flight in the most extraordinary ways. Right off the coast of South Carolina, on Mallow Island, The Dellawisp sits—a stunning old cobblestone building shaped like a horseshoe, and named after the tiny turquoise birds who, alongside its human tenants, inhabit an air of magical secrecy.




When Zoey comes to claim her deceased mother’s apartment at the Dellawisp she meets her quirky and secretive neighbors, including a young woman with a past, two estranged middle-aged sisters, and a lonely chef, and three ghosts. The sudden death of one of Zoey's new neighbors sets off a search that leads to the island's famous author and to a long-estranged relative of the sisters.

Each of them has a story, and each story has an ending which hasn't yet been written.




Wednesday, 2 April 2025

Best of March




Here are our bests from March!!!! 


Best Book of the Month:

"This one gets best book because it was a well written story."







"Such a powerful book. 100% recommend."





Best Movie of the Month:

Carole -  Nosferatu (2024)
"Creepy....weird....odd....but oh so good."


"Best movie. Saw Paddington 3 in the cinema :D"




Best TV show of the Month:


Blodeuedd - Ghosts (s2)
"I watched s2 of Ghosts and now Netflix have no more cries!"



Carole - Ghosts (s4)
"Is the season over? I need more! I'm not ready for the season to end!"





Best Cover of the Month:

C's pick:
Sooooo pretty! Even prettier live!



B's pick:
It also gets best cover cos look what a cutie















Tuesday, 1 April 2025

TMST

 


 

Tell Me Something Tuesday is a weekly discussion post where bloggers discuss a wide range of topics from books and blogging to life in general. Weigh in and join the conversation by adding your thoughts in the comments. If you want to do your own post, grab the question and answer it on your blog. Feel free to leave your links in the comments if you are participating.





4/1/2025 What is your current genre of choice? Has it changed recently?



It used to be UF and fantasy. But honestly I hardly read any UF anymore, except for those that I am still reading 10 years later. I feel like the BIG UF days are gone.




Still loving fantasy, oh and yes obvi romance! But like with UF, it feels like HR has been pushed out. Like where is all the HR!?







4/8/2025 Which author do you wish you could meet? And what would you say to them?


4/15/2025 It's been a while... tell us more about you!


4/22/2025 What types of music do you enjoy?


4/29/2025 What is your favorite thing about spring?





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Monday, 31 March 2025

Carole´s Monday: Cupcakes, Trinkets and Other Deadly Magic

 


Author: Meghan Ciana Doidge
Title: Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic
Series: The Dowser #1
Genre: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Format: ebook
Pages: 266
Published: June 18, 2013
Where I got It: My shelf (Amazon)



Summary: 
If you’d asked me a week ago, I would have told you that the best cupcakes were dark chocolate with chocolate cream cheese icing, that dancing in a crowd of magic wielders — the Adept — was better than sex, and that my life was peaceful and uneventful. Just the way I liked it. That’s what twenty-three years in the magical backwater of Vancouver will get you — a completely skewed sense of reality. Because when the dead werewolves started showing up, it all unraveled … except for the cupcake part. That’s a universal truth.

Review:
Picked this up because I loved the cover and the title....and it just sounded like pure fun. Oh and free is always nice ;) 

Here we follow Jade who owns her very own bakery. She loves baking and that is all she wants to do in life. However, she is dragged into the magical world....a world she has tried to avoid....and into a murder mystery.

Jade was a nice girl. I liked her a lot. She is sassy, but she has a deep avoidance issue so it was nice to see her dragged into things. 

Sadly, I only liked Jade. Everyone else was kinda crappy. Sienna is selfish and manipulative. Her Gran is overly protective. Her mom is not even there. Rusty was eh. The wolves....eh. The vampires? Super eh. Maybe in book 2 I'll grow to like someone other than Jade. 

This was campy, but fun. I did struggle because I didn't like anyone except Jade so it made it hard to appreciate more of the story lines. 

Oh! I loved the Canadian setting! That was super different. With this genre, we are so often stuck in a big US city so it was nice to get a different local. 

All-in-all, I did have some fun with this one. Jade was a delight and I loved the setting. Plus...cupcakes? Nommy. Not sure if I'll read forward though. Maybe...one day....we'll see.

I'll give this 3 stars. Bonus star for a fun local and an awesome cover.

Favorite Character(s): Jade
Least Favorite Character(s): Everyone else.


  

Challenge(s):
- Cloak & Dagger #7



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