It’s September, which means sweater weather is right around the corner where I live. I’m definitely looking forward to crisp Fall days though there are a couple summer activities that I…| Sorry, I'm Booked
Here we are with what is more or less my last post of the Summer Of Horror event. I’m planning to do a wrap up within the next couple of weeks too, although I want to get reviews for the books I’ve read linked to this topic (besides one of the arcs, which I’ll be… Continue reading Summer Of Horror: Cover Love – Gothic Fiction:| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
Hello and welcome to my 2025 edition of the Mid Year Freak Out Book Tag. Back in June (was it really that long ago?) Veros tagged me to join in with this one and I really did intend to get to it sooner. I wanted to make sure I got to the Spring Equinox Celebrations… Continue reading The Mid Year Freak Out Book Tag:| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
I first saw this tag going around several months ago but where my reading got off to a slow start this year I wanted to wait to join in until I had a couple more titles to pick from. Then, typically, I forgot all about it until I saw Tasya and Celeste share it recently.… Continue reading The Firsts Of 2025 Book Tag:| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
When I realised I only had two more weeks to fit some horror related cover posts in I thought it would be a good idea to highlight ones that feature some of my favourite subjects within the genre. So to start things off here is one of my early bookish loves – vampire fiction. Initially… Continue reading Summer Of Horror: Cover Love – Vampires:| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
Thanks so much to Veros for tagging me to do The Spring Equinox Celebrations Book Tag earlier this year. I somehow missed that I’d been tagged initially and then didn’t get around to sorting my tags out for a while either but I have three I want to share within the next fortnight or so,… Continue reading The Spring Equinox Celebtrations Book Tag:| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
Living in the Blackwood family home with only her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian for company, Merricat just wants to preserve their delicate way of life. But ever since Constance was acquitted of murdering the rest of the family, the world isn’t leaving the Blackwoods alone. And when Cousin Charles arrives, armed with overtures… Continue reading Book Review: We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
Since horror is a genre all about fear I thought it would be fun to use phobias as the subject for my cover love post this week. A lot of these are animal based phobias as it’s a lot easier t…| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday is all about doorstopper books, which usually means a book that is 500 pages or more. I’ve read quite a few of doorstopper books over the years and the below…| Sorry, I'm Booked
What is Throwback Thursday? I’ve noticed many of these memes on a few book blogs. For example, Susan Loves Books does one, which is (or was originally) hosted by Renee@It’s Book Talk. I also …| The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog
Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But the longer Winifred spends within the estate’s dreary confines and the more she learns of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds… Continue reading Book Review: Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
Sorry for disappearing last week, I made the mistake of falling down a TBR sort out rabbit hole and let’s just say ‘never again’. After a shaky start to the month I’m back to reading and posting though. I’ve finally started my latest cross stitch project too and I’m also doing my best not to… Continue reading Birthstone Book Covers – August 2025:| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
Marguerite has been locked in the attic of her family home, a disintegrating Chelsea house overlooking the stench of the Thames. For company she a sewing machine, a copy of Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management and trays of congealing food carried up to her with little regularity. Marguerite has been confined by her mother, Cécile, who… Continue reading Book Review: Carrion Crow by Heather Parry| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
This year I’ve decided to join in with Leslie’s @ Books Are The New Black Birthstone Book Cover posts for a number of reasons. One: it looks like fun. Two: she’s such a lovely blo…| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
I was riding a horror high in July in terms of books and movies. I took a small detour and reread The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy (which I think I enjoyed even more the second time around), but returned to horror. I am planning on picking up Twyla and Frank sometime in August. I … Continue reading Monthly Wrap-Up: July ’25| A Kernel of Nonsense
It feels like we’re more than halfway through summer in the northern hemisphere, which I’m both excited and a little sad about; I love any weather where I can wear comfy sweaters but I …| Sorry, I'm Booked
“Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches”: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter Minerva—stories that have stayed with Minerva all h…| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
And just like that, summer already feels like it’s halfway over. Luckily, I am about at the halfway point of my reading goal for this year! I was able to read 9 books in June, which is I thin…| Sorry, I'm Booked
It’s time for my second ‘cover love’ post as part of Tammy’s Summer Of Horror. My main reason for joining in with the event was in an effort to check the horror genre out mo…| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
Before diving into this post I just want to let you all know that I’m aware that I have a bit of catch up to do right now when it comes to comments & blog hopping. I have a couple of post…| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
I almost forgot to do this one! Thankfully I saw Kristin @ Kristin Kraves Books’ post for her own tag. I think there were a couple questions I didn’t have a book for, so I deleted them. Otherwise, let’s see how my year is shaping up so far! Best book you’ve read so far? You … Continue reading Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag| Sorry, I'm Booked
According to legend, the Soldier drowned entire kingdoms in darkness. Yet, the Soldier was only a girl, robbed of her will and raised as a weapon for her power-hungry father. When she awakens years…| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
While it’s supposed to be officially summer in my part of the world, it’s been very rainy the last week or so and it doesn’t look like it’s going to let up. Part of me is gl…| Sorry, I'm Booked
hi!! it has been 3 years since I started ‘a whisper of ink’. It honestly doesn’t feel like it has been that long? But I’m intensely grateful to have this platform and for me to have readers who care?? about what I say?? Wild!! (ignore how this post is a day late) I asked you… Continue reading it’s my 3 year blogiversary and i’m exposing myself→| A Whisper Of Ink
June…honestly went way too fast I didn’t even realise it was the end of June and now it’s July Anyways, this was a pretty uneventful month since we’re all still social distancing! 🌻BOOKS🌻 (all hyperlinks take you to my Goodreads review!) I read 16 books in May!! And then in June, I read a measly… Continue reading June Whispers // my birthday + a reading slump + avatar, the last air bender→| A Whisper Of Ink
This is one of my favourite posts of the year!! I know everyone else says that but it’s for a good reason because this tag…is so much fun. You can check out me doing this tag in previou…| A Whisper Of Ink
When you’ve been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for? As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of…| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of bo…| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
FOR MORTALS TO RISE THE GODS MUST FALL. In ancient Greece, the twelve gods demand the ultimate tribute – food, treasure, even human sacrifice. There are some mortals who cling to a desperate prophe…| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
Alright, folks, it’s that time of year again — time to make New Year’s resolutions I’ll definitely stick to; until I come to my senses and remember that I don’t actually enjoy “self-dis…| Chelle's Book Ramblings
Earlier this year Veros @ Dark Shelf of Wonders shared the Game Night book tag and I immediately bookmarked it as one to try out myself over the festive period. Please do go check out her wonderful…| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
Return to the realm of gods and legends, magic and romance.Sue Lynn Tan’s highly acclaimed, bestselling Celestial Kingdom duology is expanded with this new compilation of stories from before, durin…| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
After her perilous quest to free her mother, Xingyin thrives once more in the tranquility of her home. But her fragile peace is threatened by the discovery of a strange magic on the moon and the un…| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
This is my first time sharing a wrap up. I meant to do one for October but my reading plans went slightly haywire when I made the mistake of trying to organise my TBR. Rather than give up on the id…| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
Shortly after posting my review for ‘The Woodsmoke Women’s Book Of Spells’ I had an email including a few pictures that I could add to that review. Originally I planned to simply …| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
For centuries, generations of Everlys have seen their brightest and best disappear, taken as punishment for a crime no one remembers, for a purpose no one understands. Their tormentor, a woman name…| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
What the River Knows has the makings of a five star read. It promises an adventure-hungry debutante, a bad boy scholar, mysteriously exotic Egypt, ancient magic and comical scheming villains. But, promises are meant to be broken. … More Needs Way More Mummies: What the River Knows – An ARC Review| B for Bookslut
Fantasies have been a little dull for me, as of late. I’ve been finding myself reaching for more and more contemporaries but Night of the Witch has brought me back to life! With a strong plot and characters that are actually characters instead of tropes, I was hooked immediately and I can guarantee, you will be too. … More Not Your Average Witch and Witch Hunter Romance: Night of the Witch – An ARC Review| B for Bookslut
If you’re looking for a small town, holiday season read to cosy up to when the sun goes down, the candles come on and you’re snuggled up with a warm cup of tea, Lovelight Farms is the perfect selection. It is filled with delightful townsfolk who mean well but are terribly nosy, a friends to lovers fake dating situation and the wonders of Christmas magic. Although there are some aspects of it I didn’t quite enjoy, I’m sure many of you will. … More Friends to Lovers and Fake Dating: L...| B for Bookslut
Author: Julia Vee & Ken BebellePublication date: July 11, 2023Genre: urban fantasyMy rating: 3.5/5 stars I read this one last year and am super late in getting to my proper review, so congratul…| Metaphors and Miscellanea
Author: Colleen HooverPublication date: December 7, 2018Genre: thrillerMy rating: 3/5 stars The thing about reading a book super quickly is that, sometimes, you don’t have quite as much to sa…| Metaphors and Miscellanea
Well, folks, another year has come to a close (yes, yes, that was three weeks ago), and you know what that means: time for a roundup of all the books with ace rep that I read in 2023! This past yea…| Metaphors and Miscellanea
Editor: Madeline DyerPublication date: October 10, 2023Genre: young adult anthologyMy rating: 4.5/5 stars I first heard about this anthology before it even had a title; the editor, Madeline Dyer, m…| Metaphors and Miscellanea
Author: Kacy RitterPublication date: August 1, 2023Genre: middle grade fantasyMy rating: 4.25/5 stars 2023 is apparently the year of dragon books. From A Day of Fallen Night and Dragonfall to Fourt…| Metaphors and Miscellanea