For February's book club book, I endeavoured to choose a more romance-centred fantasy that would hopefully make me swoon without tearing apart my heart. If you've been following our blog for a while, you would know that I love angsty books that make me sob like a child, but sometimes a wholesome story is what I need. For that reason, I chose Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross for the most romantic month of the year. In short, Divine Rivals is about Iris as she navigates her mother

Did I choose this book because it was December and we're getting to the colder months? Or was it because I saw an event on the Waterstones website with Chloe Gong which compelled me to buy tickets because who wouldn't want to meet a successful young female author? Either way, Coldwire might seem like a rogue choice since we usually choose fantasy or contemporary thrillers, but we couldn't miss this cyberpunk novel in our current climate of AI taking over the world. Coldwire i

I thought my fan fiction days were over, but when I saw the huge hype around a Dramione fan fiction called Manacled being traditionally published, I was obviously curious. Seems like nothing, not even time and leaving fan spaces, could deter me from going back to my roots. My initial curiosity, mixed with people's opinion on TikTok insisting that Manacled destroyed them as well as the beautiful, gothic cover art, made me choose Alchemised by SenLinYu for October's book club

I seem to be one of the few people who honestly did not know much about Katabasis or R.F. Kuang before I chose this for September's book club pick. As her most anticipated read of 2025, CY could barely contain her excitement in the run-up to its launch in August. So of course she attended the Waterstones book launch event, and the overwhelming response to the TikTok video she posted got me swept up in the online hype. Katabasis is a dark academia about Alice Law, a Phd studen

If you’re following us on TikTok, you would already know that I went to Toppings & Company in Bath and picked one of the wrapped books on the Blind Dates with a Book table for the month of August. And if you haven't seen the video yet, go to TikTok now and follow us! Camp Damascus follows the story of Rose Darling who is haunted by an eerie woman with sagging skin and can't stop regurgitating flies at the dinner table. As she notices strange events happening around her relig

After attending Lisa Jewell's book launch event hosted by Waterstones, I was so excited to read this book. Especially as CY talked so highly of Lisa Jewell's other books, in particular The Family Upstairs . Don't Let Him In follows a series of women, most notably Ash, Nina and Martha, who unwittingly become entangled in the unravelling of a dark and twisted tale. It also follows the handsome and charming Nick, who enters Nina and Ash's lives suddenly and seems to be the perfe

For the month of June, I was torn between two books that both incidentally had blue covers. I'm not sure if it's because summer reminds...

I was recommended this book several times, and after the Netflix show came out it jumped up my list so that I could read it before...

For my birthday month, I was eager to try something different, a book whose themes would grip me so hard that I would still feel their...