Book Giveaway

Time for another giveaway :D This time I'm giving away 6 books. One precious hardcover, and five ARCs. It is international, open to everyone. You just have to follow; but lots of different entries :) One winner will win all the books. Oh, I hope you will all enter to win this :D I'm trying to get more room for books, as my space is getting very limited. Ack. And so I decided to have another giveaway. Wishing you all the best of luck :D And I hope you will love the books if you end up winning. I love Plus One so much.

Rules.

International.

Will be one winner.

Must reply within 48 hours.

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Preview Review: And I Darken by Kiersten White

Gosh, this book. How do I even begin to share about it. I was nervous yet so excited about reading it. So many have loved it. And I wanted to love it too. So thankful to Cassie at Random House for letting me take part in the blog tour and for letting me read this book early via Netgalley :D So glad that I read it.

This is only going to be a preview review, where I share a bunch of my thoughts about the book, but nothing really spoilery about it at all. I will be sharing my full review for the blog tour, on July 6th. Which seems forever away, lol, so sharing a bit of what I thought about the book right away. Sharing much more in July.

I knew from the very first page that I would love this book. Because the writing was gorgeous. And I have such huge issues with writing when I read, lol. It needs to be amazing for me to love a book. And gosh. This writing was so good. And I fell quickly in love with the story and the characters. So glad I read this book. I loved it from beginning to end. Okay, the ending was mean. But I liked it. The reason for why this is a four star is because I had some issues with the romance. It bothered me so much. But I also loved it lots and ugh. I'm conflicted. But no matter what, I loved the book. And the characters. Ahh. They were amazing. I loved getting to read about this world. It was written so well and I fell in love with everything. Sigh.

This is the story of Lada. And her brother, Radu. The story begins with them being born, and it continue with them growing up for about half the book. I thought it might bother me, but it did not. Reading about their life was amazing. Oh. Lada is the most fierce girl. At first I thought I disliked her, lol, but my mind changed. And I love her the most. I like Radu too. Sort of. Just, so many characters. Such an amazing world. Such a stunning book. I loved it so much. More thoughts about it in my full review.

What I will post in July will be longer and different. You should really check out my review then. Ack. Because I really, really had a lot of thoughts about this book. And I shared so little of them right now. But yeah. I do hope you will all end up getting this book and reading it and loving it like I did. I just wish I had the lovely print ARC version. Ack. I shall hunt for it, hih. And simply cannot wait for the hardcover to come out at the end of June. It will look so gorgeous, I'm sure of it. The cover is so pretty. I love it.

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In My Mailbox #233

This has been a stressful week. Hospital visit done with, which was pretty awful and painful, but thankfully done for now. Sigh. Have also just been feeling pretty crappy lately. And sad about some things. Like how I'm pretty much unimportant. Sigh. But anyway. I managed to read two books this week; one of them was And I Darken, which I just finished, and will be posting a preview review of in a tiny moment :) I am also having a new giveaway, starting tomorrow. Six books will be given away to one winner, open to all. I hope you will enter. Hugs. I also got some pretty aaaaamazing books this week :D So thrilled about all of them. Lots of ARCs. And toooons of pop figures, lol. So happy with everything :) Also did a bit of blogging. I shared my review of The Girl Who Drank the Moon, which I liked so much. This week I'm waiting on Never Ever :) I posted a DNF review of Traitor Angels. Sadly, not for me at all. And then my newest Book Collection is books by Rainbow Rowell :D I hope next week will be amazing.

The Orphan Queen + The Mirror King. International. Ends 04/21. 
The Darkest Corners Finished Hardcover. US. Ends 04/24.

The Passion of Dolssa. I must read this hardcover soonish :D I adore this author. So curious about this.
Shuffle, Repeat. Thank you so much Anna at Random House for this :D Excited to read it. + Blog tour :D
Tell Us Something True. Thank you so much Cailin at Rock the Boat UK :D Can't wait to read this one.
Some Kind of Happiness. Eee! Thank you Audrey at SimonKids :D And Alyssa for shipping it to me. <3
Out of My Mind + What the Dead Want + Ivory and Bone. YAY! Thank you so much to HarperCollins International for these lovely books :D First one is so not a book for me, but excited about the others.

Miraculous Ladybug. Ordered all of this lovely via Etsy a while back :D LOVE IT. Love this show the most.
Harry Potter Pop. Eee :D They are GORGEOUS. Getting the other new ones too, once they are in stock.
The Good Dinosaur. Couldn't help but buy this gorgeous memo game for the pretty cards inside. Love.
Zootopia. Getting the other pop figures too :D These are just perfect. Oh. So much love. Love my Judy.
Marvel. New Iron Man :D And The Hulk plush. Love. And gosh, Ant-man. That ant is huuge. I love them.
Plushes + Movie. And two new cute plushes for my collection, hih. And that awesome movie too. Love it.

More Instagram photos here. <3

Book Collection #7

Seventh week of my new Book Collection posts. I will be doing this every Friday. And I am loving it. I own so many amazing books, and I love that I get to share my collection of many of them. I will be posting collections randomly, but I love them all. I hope you will all enjoy these posts of mine. Would love to know if you have any collections like mine, and if you own and love these books too. Let me know :)

Books by Rainbow Rowell. 

I have only read three books by this author so far, ack, but I loved Eleanor & Park + Fangirl + Carry On so, so much. And I cannot wait to read Landline and Attachments and Kindred Spirits and My True Love Gave to Me as well soonish. I simply adore Rainbow. She's amazing. I cannot wait to read more by her. Carry On is my favorite book by her so far, and gosh, I love it the most. Simon and Baz are the best.

Attachments. Eleanor & Park. Fangirl. Landline.  

My True Love Gave to Me. Carry On. Kindred Spirits.

DNF Review: Traitor Angels by Anne Blankman

This is the second book I have had to DNF this year. And it makes me so upset. But the writing did seriously not work for me. So I decided to just not read more of this book, instead of reading another meh book, which I have done too much of this year. I feel badly about not finishing this, but I'm also happy.

I have read the two other books by this author, and sadly they were both a bit meh for me. They were boring. Yet I still wanted to try this one, and I got it from Edelweiss. Cover is so pretty. And I was curious about the plot. But yeah. I now regret getting it. Which is just depressing. I didn't read all that much, though.

As I decided to stop this book after having read six chapters, and on page 52 of 315 of my ebook. I just could not deal with the writing in this one. Sigh. It was not good at all. I don't know how else to describe it. I didn't connect. Sadly, the writing was annoying to me. I felt nothing for the main girl. Her father, who was everything to her, seemed like an idiot at the few times he was there. I did not like him either. And, well, I didn't really like getting to know Elizabeth either, and yeah, there weren't much to know about her in those six chapters either. Her father is blind. He has made her write his new poem for him. She trains with knives and such each day. She has three sisters and a mean stepmom. Just, ugh. There was nothing interesting so far.

I felt like I wanted this book to be better. And it just wasn't. Not for me. This DNF review of mine will not end up being long at all. Because I really did not read much of this book. And I don't have that many things to say about what I read. Sigh. Just that it was boring. And I cared nothing for any of it. And I really didn't like the writing. If I had liked it, I would have read a bit more. But I just decided to stop reading instead. I'm so very tired of forcing myself to read bad books. So I'm pleased that I stopped.

When I stopped reading this book, Elizabeth's father had just been picked up by the king's men, most likely to be hanged in two weeks. And I cared not one bit. So I'm just happy I stopped reading this one. Sure, I was curious about the small romance coming up. But not that curious about it. I'm sure there are other amazing books out there. I will find them, lol. Thank you, though, to the publisher, Balzer + Bray aka HarperTeen for the Edelweiss auto-approval. <3 Means the most. Sorry that I didn't finish this one.

DNF

 

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