throne of glass

September Wrap Up – The one where college starts again and my schedule is suddenly a lot more full

Posted on October 2, 2016October 1, 2016 by Ashleigh

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Taking a little break from the blogger tips mini-series, here’s my wrap up of the month!

~~Don’t worry though, the blogger tips will be back next Sunday. Shh, don’t tell anyone.~~

For some strange reason, this entire month I kept thinking we were halfway through October. It’s almost a relief we’ve reached October, just so that I’ll finally be right 😆

Plus, IT’S AUTUMN! *throws orange leaves in the air* Sure, it means from now until June next year I’ll be permanently cold, but oh well. Everything is cosy and pretty.

As always, this is going to be a long post, so get cosy and enjoy!

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Empire of Storms by Sarah J Maas | The story of how Sarah never fails to trap my heart and CRUSH IT (no spoilers – as always!)

Posted on September 16, 2016September 12, 2016 by Ashleigh

You knew this review was coming.

And you probably know how big a fan I am of everything Sarah J Maas writes, so you can probably guess which side of the love/hate scale this review is on.

But either way. Here’s my review!

Let’s talk about Empire of Storms!

Title: Empire of Storms

Author: Sarah J Maas

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Series Status: The 5th book in the Throne of Glass series

Genre: Young/New Adult, Fantasy

Number of Pages: 689

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The Throne of Glass Colouring Book REVIEW – A very different kind of review, but an interesting one to say the least

Posted on September 12, 2016September 8, 2016 by Ashleigh

So you might be thinking something along the lines of “Ashleigh…a review…of a COLOURING book? What?”

I know. It’s different. But there’s a story behind it.

But recently I joined the SocialBookCo Reviewing Programme. This is a site that compares all the different prices of books from different retailers, showing you where you can buy each book for the cheapest price. And then there’s the reviewing side – If you join their programme, there are opportunities for you to be sent books for free in exchange for an honest review by a given date.

That was quite a flimsy summary of the website – I’m not too great at explaining things. But basically, SocialBookCo sent me this colouring book in exchange for a review, and I couldn’t be more thrilled about it because I didn’t think I’d get this book for months! So thank you!

Is it even possible to give spoilers for a colouring book?

Let’s talk about the Throne of Glass Colouring Book!

Title: Throne of Glass Colouring Book

Author: Original story by Sarah J Maas, Illustrated by Yvonne Gilbert , John Howe & Craig Phillips

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Series Status: Companion colouring book to the Throne of Glass series

Genre: Colouring, Young Adult, Fantasy

Number of Pages: 96

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Throne of Glass TV show news : My conflicting thoughts turned into incoherent psychobabble

Posted on September 8, 2016September 8, 2016 by Ashleigh

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This literally happened just half an hour ago (as I’m typing, though this will be scheduled for the morning) and I need to type because I have so many conflicting thoughts and they’re overwhelming me.

It’s been announced the Throne of Glass will have a TV show. Not just optioned for one. THERE WILL BE ONE.

Before I go further, click here to see the article explaining, if you haven’t seen it already.

And thus, let my incoherent psychobabble of thoughts begin…

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The Wonderful People I Will Keep Throwing Money At For Their Books… My Auto-Buy Authors!

Posted on May 21, 2016 by Ashleigh

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I think every bookworm has their auto-buy authors.

The authors where no matter what they publish, you WILL be buying it. The authors where you’re constantly waiting for any news of upcoming books. The authors where they could write out their shopping list, and you’d find it enthralling.

Granted, auto-buy authors is kind of a new concept to me. I knew about them, but didn’t think I had any of my own. Purely because I have this thing where it takes me forever to continue series, so most of the time I never have the entire collection of books.

But then I realized…there are a few.

Even though there’s only 5 here, I’ll split this into two sections:

– I own all their books so far & eagerly waiting for the next

Pretty self explanatory. Most of the time, these are ongoing series, or an upcoming release is not yet out.

– Permanent *grabby hands* at the books I intend on buying

I don’t yet own all the books these authors have published, but I fully intend on buying them to get the whole collection.

So who are my auto-buy authors? Let’s find out!

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The Most Epically Exciting UK & US Empire Of Storms Cover Reveal – Fangirl With Me!

Posted on May 12, 2016May 12, 2016 by Ashleigh

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I know that literally everyone and their mother, father, sister, brother, aunt, grandmother, nephew and goldfish will be writing posts like this (Ok, BIT of an exaggeration), but I JUST HAD TO JOIN IN.

BECAUSE THE COVER REVEAL FOR EMPIRE OF STORMS HAPPENED TODAY!!!

Empire of Storms is the 5th book in the Throne of Glass series, and probably my most anticipated book of the year. So of course I’m majorly fangirling. Because now we finally have an image to go with the epic book we have coming our way this September.

You’ve probably all seen this by now, but I want to discuss my own thoughts and hear your opinions too!

So here’s the UK and US covers of Empire of Storms in

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Bookish Fan Art

Posted on March 6, 2016 by Ashleigh

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Today’s post is something a little different.

I’ve got a huge fascination for fan art. I love searching through Pinterest looking at the talent people have.

And if you follow me on Twitter, I’m sure you know that I also love attempting my own fan art.

So for today’s post, I’m splitting this into two sections:

Section 1 – Sharing some of my favourite fan art that I’ve seen on Pinterest

Section 2 – Sharing a few of my own.

So let’s look at some Fan Art!

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Top 10 Character Names I Really Love

Posted on February 20, 2016 by Ashleigh

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You know sometimes, while reading a book do you ever get a moment where you see a character’s name and think “Oh wow I really like that name!”?

Because I do.

Quite often actually.

Well, that’s what this post is inspired by.

Since I haven’t done a Top 10 post in a while, I’ve basically chosen my Top 10 character names that I can’t help but love.

So here we go!

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Books I want to REread this year

Posted on January 30, 2016 by Ashleigh

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This post might seem like something I should have written at the beginning of January rather than the end, but it’s only recently that I’ve started really wanting to reread some of the books I own.

This is going to be split into two sections: The first being books I’ll definitely reread this year, the second being books that I might reread.

So let’s get to it!

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My Favourite Book Quotes

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Ashleigh

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I don’t like just writing up blog award posts and having that as the only post of the day, in case people don’t like reading them, so I decided to add this post today too: My Favourite Book Quotes!

The idea is basically for me to write down some of my favourite book quotes for you guys to see. People’s favourite quotes do tend to show more about their personality, so maybe that will show through this post 🙂

Hopefully this post is interesting to read!

So in no particular order…