My Dark(ish) November | Monthly WrapUp

November was a little of a blur for me, to be honest. I was still recovering from making a ish-tonne of content after the #JBPxBookTok event, something happened at the end of October that had us reeling and hustling like never before, and then The Hunger Games became my whole life, thanks to my nephew...

Well, I Gave It A Shot | My Not-So-Spooky-After-All October WrapUp

And so spooky season came and went and now we head downhill toward the holidays and a New Year! Last month saw me as a stressed-out ball of anxiety for most of the month because I attended the Jonathan Ball Publishers #BookTok event and I needed a costume and I didn't know what to expect...

Book Review | The Sun And The Star by Rick Riordan & Mark Oshiro

Thank you to Penguin Random House SA for providing me with a free copy in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. SPOILER WARNING: This review may contain spoilers! FormatTrade paperback Pages470 pagesPublishedMay 2, 2023GenreLGBTQIA+, Middle Grade, Fantasy, Mythology, RomanceBook SeriesCamp Half-Blood Chronicles #17, StandaloneContent Warning??? ONE PROPHECY. TWO DEMIGODS. A HEROIC...

A Whirlwind Of Reading | My February WrapUp

And so we come to the end of February; at last! Not going to lie, February was one long month of adjustment for me; now that I don't have to dedicate time to someone else, I suddenly seemed to have a lot of extra time on my hands... Just when I thought I'd finally found...

Book Review | Lost And Found by Natalie Shampanier, Illustrated by David Pavon

Thank you to Natalie Shampanier, the author, for providing me with a free digital copy in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. SPOILER WARNING: This review may contain spoilers! FormatPDF, Kindle Pages32 pagesPublishedDecember 24, 2022GenreChildrenBook SeriesStandaloneContent Warning??? Forgotten toys at a summer campgroundAre tossed into the camp’s Lost and Found.But Dino...

Adventure Awaits | My Unromantic February TBR

Oh, look; it's February, the month of love. And here's me, newly single... This just means more time for reading, right? This month sees the first leg of #Readathin, a readathon that happens four a year, and it is a readathon I really enjoy, so I participate whenever I can. It has a bingo board...

Starting Small | My January #Newyearsathon TBR

January is always filled with potential and the spark of new possibilities, and, of course, all the new books we get to read (or listen to, even). Readathons are a great way to, hopefully, take a nice chunk out of your TBR and that is the very purpose of #Newyearsathon which is the first readathon...

Goodbye 2022 | My Favourite Reads Of The Year

This year has been incredibly hard on all of us as the world slowly returned to a semblance of pre-pandemic normalcy and it is finally coming to an end; even though I can truly say this year went by rather quickly, it was also excruciatingly long. The one constant positive in my life (other than...

Loadshedding Must Fall | My November WrapUp

Ugh, guys, November was a very hard month for me; I became depressed early on and it has, unfortunately, continued unabated through to December. I can tell you that there were many reasons for it: My Birthday was coming up in December; I would be turning Fifty and my anxieties, about my mortality, life expectancy,...

A Torturous Adventure | My October Wrapup

Would you believe me if I told you that I'm still trying to recover from October? First, going into a new month during a reading slump is excruciating; then around the middle of the month, Leon started a new job. The job itself is not the problem, the shift work is; it entails three days,...