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
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
8 posts published by Charlotte during July 2025| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
“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
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
4 posts published by Charlotte during June 2025| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
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
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
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
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
There is an old tale woven through the mountain town of Woodsmoke about a stranger who appears as the first snow falls in winter, who will disappear without a trace as the frost thaws in spring, le…| Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
