Blog Tour Review: Winner Takes Gold by Eloise Smith

Hello everybody, happy first blog post of the year! I’m hoping to have more blog posts that aren’t for tours this year, including tags and author interviews, but I think outwith tours the best place to find reviews now is on my Instagram.

Anyway, today I am thrilled to be part of the blog tour for the new release from fabulous Eloise Smith. Onto the post!

Blog Tour Review: the Destiny of Minou Moonshine by Gita Ralleigh

Hello everybody! Today, I’m delighted to be part of the blog tour for enchanting new fantasy adventure The Destiny of Minou Moonshine. Onto the post!

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Blog Tour Review: Son of the Sea by Richard Pickard

Hello everybody, and welcome to a very busy week of blog posts! To kick off, we have a review of Richard Pickard’s new book, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Onto the post!

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Blog Tour Review: the Not So Uniform Life of Holly-Mei by Christina Matula

Hello everybody! Today, I’m delighted to be part of the blog tour for the first book in the Holly-Mei series by Christina Matula, which (spoiler alert) I REALLY enjoyed. Onto the post!

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Reviews: Spooky Scary Skeletons

Hello everybody! I decided to delay my Halloween/autumn review post a bit, as I hadn’t read quite as many as I would have liked by the day itself. So here we are now over 4 (5? 6? Idk) months later, but regardless, onto the post! I hope it finds some readers, all the same.

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Blog Tour Review: Mort the Meek and the Perilous Prophecy

Hello everybody! Today, I’m thrilled to be part of the blog tour for the last book in the Mort the Meek series, even though I’m incredibly sad the series is now over. Onto the post!

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Reviews: Heaven Sent, part 2

Hello everybody! Today, I’m back with another (very overdue) review post, even though it’s very overdue (the original date in my diary for this was October 15th, besties), and these are all books I’m delighted to have been sent by the publishers and thoroughly enjoyed. From now on, these posts will be probably be called heaven sent, because I just love it as a title, and it’s such a great song by SPINN! Onto the post!

Blog Tour Review: Key Player by Kelly Yang

Hello everybody! Today, I’m so pleased to be part of the blog tour for the fourth book in Kelly Yang’s fantastic Front Desk series, Key Player, which sees main character Mia navigate the 1999 Women’s World Cup that is pitting her two countries America and China against one another. Onto the post!

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Blog Tour Review: My Mum is a Spy! by Jess French and Andy McNab, illustrated by Nathan Reed

Hello everybody! Today, we have a rare Sunday post because I’m on the blog tour for the super funny, animal-centric adventure My Mum is a Spy! with my review. Onto the post!

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Review:

I hadn’t heard of this prior to being offered a copy, but I’m so glad I was as I had such fun reading it, and as it’s a younger MG, it was perfect as a read-in-one-sitting palate cleanser between some other things I was reading.

It’s the story of Idris and his (not official, but very close to being) step-sister Lucía, who is obsessed with all things spying and is convinced that Idris’s mum Sarah is in fact a spy. So when some pangolins go missing at the local zoo and Idris’s mum goes missing after she is behaving rather oddly on a trip to see what happened, Lucía is seemingly proven right and she teams up with Idris to get his mum back, and find out what happened to the missing animals too.

Idris is very understandably freaked out by all this, and I think it would be impossible for anyone not to empathise with him. Not to mention the fact he absolutely LOVES animals, which I think is one of the very best traits any person can have. Lucía is absolutely hilarious; she is so clever and funny and again, exactly the type of character I love. The plot is super fun and I liked the little twist we got, and the villain is exactly the type of high fashion, very glam person I am always down to love to hate. Obviously I do not condone her love of furs or being vile to animals, to be clear!!

There is a lovely little hint at the end (the last page made me smile SO MUCH, by the way, special shout out to the illustration there!) about what the next book in the series will be, and I’m definitely planning to pick it up because I just had the best time with this book.

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Thank you so much for reading! What are your favourite wild animals? Have you read this book, or is it on your TBR? I’d love to have a chat in the comments!

Amy xx

Reviews: Summer Lovin’

Hello everybody! Today, I have kind of a random mishmash of things I’ve read in the last couple of months that I wanted to review now, and then I have some slightly more themed ones coming up in the next wee while. I’m trying not to be super rigid with my reading right now so I can mood read, so review posts going forward will probably have less clear themes, which I hope people don’t mind too much. Anyway, onto the post!

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