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Hey book babes! I’m so excited to tell y’all about THE CITY OF BRASS *pauses so we can all marvel at the stunning cover* TCOB is a spell-binding debut, part history and part fantasy in which the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a defiant young con artist with miraculous healing gifts. Plus: a giveaway! ✨🙌🏾✨👏🏾💛 GIVEAWAY: Enter to win a copy of The City of Brass! - follow me, @harpervoyagerus and @storygramtours - tag a friend you think will be interested For an EXTRA entry: - visit @xenatine tomorrow and repeat the steps ☺️ - Giveaway ends November 20th at midnight EST - US only - must be 18 or have parents permission - must be a public account so I can verify entries Full summary in the comment below and you can click the link in my bio to learn more about The City of Brass! #cityofbrasstour #sachakraborty #thecityofbrass #ownvoices #thedaevabadtrilogy #storygramtours #bookstagram #bookstagramfeature #bookish #autumn #sweater

GODSGRAVE Review:

So a few months ago, I was #blessed enough for St. Martin's Press to send me an ARC of Godsgrave, my absolute most highly anticipated read of 2017. Well fast forward to now y’all and it did not disappoint!! Godsgrave is just as stabby and badass as Nevernight, if not more.

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ALSO HOLY MOTHER OF PLOT TWISTS BATMAN! SO SO MANY! The entire world is basically tilted on its head in this book, but it never became unbelievable. In fact, though I couldn’t predict all the reveals, they felt inevitable, which to me is a sign of great writing. 

Just as with Nevernight, Godsgrave is dark and twisty and sexy as hell. There is a new ship, which I don't ship quite as much as my OTP (Mia & Don Tric. 😣😭) but it's still quite great. And hell yeah for some bisexual rep!!

Rating: 5/5 stars! Top 10 books of 2017 for sure. 

❝I am Diana of Themyscira, daughter of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons. In the name of all that is good, your wrath upon this world is over.❞ QOTD: Favorite heroic character? My pick is definitely Diana Prince, though this funko is actually my mom's. 😁 Sadly I won't have my copy of Warbringer until at least next week because I want to get it signed at Leigh's event here next week.

Iced coffee for Dimple Shah & graphic novels for Rishi Patel. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Mini review: I really enjoyed this! I fell for Rishi immediately and I totally understood Dimple from the first page. Super fluffy, super cute. I only wished there was more of the Insomnia Con work in the plot. Also I'm ready for Ashish's book!! *Can I have a Patel boy please and thank you?* 🤗🤗🤗 Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ QOTD: What's your current read? Bonus points if you tell me your Starbucks drink of choice. I love White Mochas & White Tea Lemonades. 💖👌🏾💖

Hey hey book babes 📓😽 QOTD: What's your favorite ice cream/fro-yo flavor? So last night I finally tried @halotopcreamery Red Velvet ice cream and let's just say...I'm obsessed. Red velvet is my favorite flavor forever and always, and this ice cream was so amazing. I was super pleasantly surprised! Plus it's totally guilt free 🙌🏾🙌🏾 You should definitely pick up a pint. 😋 Last night I quickly binged another Anita Blake book - I am a glutton for punishment 🤗😏😒 - and I'm going to finish When Dimple Met Rishi tonight! Then I have a few arcs to read. 👌🏾

❝I think you're a fairy tale. I think you're magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in your story.❞ ➖ Strange the Dreamer, Laini Taylor Here is your routine reminder that Strange the Dreamer is amazing and you need to read it ASAP! What book did you read this year that you recommend to everyone? My three are The Hate U Give, Strange the Dreamer, and An Enchantment of Ravens. An underhyped book that I recommend is Queens of Geek. That book legit made me happy. So good.

Happy Friday 💖 I've been hanging out with 1, 2, and 3 year olds all day, so I'm having me midday cup of coffee and loving it. I started WDMR last night and I love it already! Dimple Shah is my kind of girl and Rishi Patel is too damn cute. I'm hoping to finish this weekend. Do you have any big weekend plans? Honestly I would curl up with a pile of books from now until Monday morning if I could. PS - the gorgeous candle in this photo is featured two posts back if you're interested!

Wow so. Wow. I finished An Enchantment of Ravens late last night and it was beautiful? I’m still a little bit in awe, but I shall compose myself. *Don’t think about perfect pumpkin roll Rook or you will never get through this review*

An Enchantment of Ravens is about portrait artist Isobel who lives in a town called Whimsy on the edge of the courts of the Fair Folk. The Fair Folk cannot Craft™—meaning create, even to attempt to cook would turn them to piles of ash and dust—so they prize human Craft, especially gifts like Isobel’s. She paints their portraits and the Fair Folk pay in enchantments. All is going well until Isobel paints Rook, the autumn Prince, she makes the grave decision to paint him as she sees him, with damning human sorrow in his eyes. Betrayed by his weakness, Rook spirits Isobel into the Fair Folk lands so she can stand trial for her “crime.”

First thing to know about An Enchantment of Ravens is that Margaret Rogerson’s writing is deft, sharp, and lovely enough to leave me gasping and turning the pages, hungry for more.

The second is that Isobel falls among my favorite heroines. Her voice, her thoughts, were both sensible and passionate, and realistic. Often I read YA fantasy where the heroines lose all good sense in the midst of a book, whether for love or magic, and it was so refreshing to see Isobel keep her whits about her. She was neither swept away by love/magic, nor completely immune to it, and I loved her for it. (She actually reminded me a bit of two of my recent favorite heroines, Sarai from Strange the Dreamer, and Maya from The Star-Touched Queen.)

The last thing you need to know is that you will fall hopelessly in love with Rook and there’s just nothing to do for it but accept this sweet, vain, proud, SHAPESHIFTING pumpkin roll Prince into your life and smile because it happened. Honestly what a brilliant creature he was. I honestly could not even handle his equally infuriating and adorable nature. I mean…oh gah. AUTUMN PRINCE YALL. AUTUMN PRINCE WHO IS VAIN AND A BIT INSECURE AND WINGS AROUND AS A RAVEN AND SOMETIMES A HORSE AND IS SAD™

Basically you need to put An Enchantment of Ravens on your list for Fall. It releases September 26th (and believe me I’ll be going on and on about it until then so you won’t forget!) Perfect if you love Holly Black, Roshani Chokshi, and Laini Taylor. Perfect if you want your faerie tales well aware of the old lore, with teeth and romance and monsters.

Rating: Five Stars

Thanks SO MUCH to Simon & Schuster for sending this my way. 

Happy Monday *what an oxymoron 🙃* If you had to choose, would you rather have libraries disappear from the world or bookstores? Though I prefer to buy books - since I'm notoriously horrible with returning library books on time - buying books is such a privilege and the world would be a horrible place without both....Unless of course every library was a part of this vast network seeking to control the world's knowledge and keep information from people they don't deem worthy. 😬😬😬 That's what happens in Rachel Caine's The Great Library series. Imagine the Library of Alexandria was never burned, and instead became this corrupt organization controlling all the world's books! I'm about halfway though Ink and Bone right now and loving it. The world building is brilliant. Part alternative history, part dystopian future, and never what I expect, with a diverse cast of characters. Ash and Quill, the final book in the trilogy, comes out tomorrow! Thanks so much to @berkleypub for sending these my way 💖💖

❝Today is a good day to try.❞➖ Quasimodo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame 💖 Okay confession: I've always loved that quote but The Hunchback of Notre Dame is probably my least favorite Disney movie? 😣 Now that that's off my shoulders...Hey hey! How's your day going? I'm back in my writing chamber, banging away at the keyboard, trying my best lol I spent the morning finishing The King of Bourbon Street - if you like very much adult, steamy, kinky romance, it is DELIGHTFUL. And I highly recommend it. I also hope to finish Ink and Bone tonight. (I've decided I have to finish reading all of my current reads before I start the Belles. 😣) Do you tend to read more than one book at once? I've started to backslide into my old juggling 4 books at a time ways and I kinda love it, kinda hate it. 🙃😩😜

Book ombré 🎆🔮👩🏾‍🎤💜🍬🦄👻 What's your most anticipated fall release? I can't wait for Warcross, Wonder Woman, and They Both Die at the End. A reading update: I'm pretty close to finishing the King of Bourbon Street - if you like romance books it is freaking amazing - and I'm at the halfway point with Ink and Bone. I honestly need to finish all my current reads so I can focus on The Belles and another ARC I'm really looking forward to: Before She Ignites 🙏🏾👌🏾 BTW: are we friends on Goodreads, because if not, we really should be! Add me! The link is in my bio. 💖💖💖

Finally it's @owlcrate unboxing time! This month's theme was MAKE IT OUT ALIVE and I love the survivor theme! June's box included: 💚 a beautiful magnet inspired by An Ember in the Ashes by @littleinklingsdesign 😍 💚 A double sided bookmark inspired by the ACOTAR series by Hey Atlas Creative @treehouseofbooks 💪🏾 💚 A bathbomb from @fizzyfairyapothecary Inspired by Divergent, which includes a charm sorting you into the different factions. 💚 A zombie sleep mask by @archiemcphee 🤢 💚 An iron-on patch by @laserbrainpatchco Inspired by my all time favorite dystopian book The Giver! 🍎 💚 This month's box included TWO BOOKS 😱😆 : New World Rising by Jennifer Wilson @oftomes 💚 The Sandcastle Empire by Kayla Olson plus a signed bookplate, letter from Kayla and a sticker sheet! I loved this month's box - I also love how everything kind of matches 💚💛👌🏾 You can still get this box too! June's box is available on the Owlcrate site right now. And you still have a little time to order and remember you can use my code: CRAFT15 to save 15% on your first box. July's theme is WANDERLUST 👌🏾👌🏾

*waves* Happy Friday! 💖 Do y'all have any fun plans for the weekend? I have no plans but to read, write, and eat barbecue. 😋😂 I'm still sort of in between things on my TBR, but I'm pretty into Hunger by Roxane Gay right now. Her writing is brilliant➖sharp and precise➖and every time I put it down I feel adrift. I'm pretty sure I'll finish it in the next few days. And then who knows what I'll end up reading. 😫

If you could visit any five locations in the world, where would you go? California is definitely on my mind right now, especially since I'd just visited around this time last year and I recently finished another one of Christina Lauren's brilliant books set in LA. 

 Dating You/Hating You is a brilliant twist on my favorite trope: hate to love. 

When Evie and Carter Aaron are set up by friends, they hit it off➖as all ways, all the props to Christina Lauren for the great flirty banter➖but that soon goes all the way left when they find out their companies are merging. When Evie and Carter find out they'll be competing for one position, a series of misunderstandings, disastrous meetings, and hilarious pranks ensure. 

Okay so...I loved it! Evie and Carter's love-hate-lust felt more realistic than lots of love to hate romances I've read. This was mostly because of how committed Carter and Evie were to their careers. I also loved how the book addresses how being a woman affects your career. (Spoiler alert: sexism is trash, forever and always 🙏🏾) Evie was a badass agent, and while Carter Aaron was oblivious at times, he was still so charming. And hot. So hot. 😻😻😻 The pacing was super quick - I read DYHY in two sittings - and as always it TOTALLY KILLED MY READING SLUMP! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 also lol I love how I still found side characters to ship like this was going to be a series. 😂 👀 Carter's brother though 😻 

 Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/ 5 stars *and now begins the wait for Autoboyography and Roomies*

Do you read thriller? If so what are your favorites? I'm so excited because tonight I'm going to see Paula Hawkins tonight! @andersonsbookshop is hosting an event and I'm so thankful to @vikingbooks for sending me! 💖 | I loved Girl on the Train so much so this is very exciting. Thrillers/crime fiction is slowly becoming one of my favorite genres. I'm really excited for Into the Water! I'll be sharing lots of the event on my story tonight so watch out for that.

I'm obsessing over these bookmarks by @littleinklingsdesign 💖😭 | How do you hold your place in books? I like to choose a pretty bookmark according to my mood but I've also been known to slip a receipt between pages. 🍉 I'm pretty sure I'm about to start reading multiple books at once. Because I really just want to read like 10 different things (Ramona Blue, Red Sister, Upside, etc etc) and I just can't stop myself. Plus if you follow me on Goodreads you'll know that I've been reading a few things (the Song Rising included 🌚😭😭) for a LONG WHILE. Do you read multiple books at a time? 🐷🍉💖