Lottie Reads

Morning BookWyrms, I was kindly gifted an e-copy of Alexis Henderson's debut The Year of the Witching by Lilly Cox, Marketing Executive at Transworld Publishing. As a fan of anything with witch-y vibes I was excited to read this book having seen so much hype about it within the bookish community - I needed to see for myself if it was as good as everyone said. Firstly can we talk about this cover art, there are two versions (both striking) but this was the cover on my copy. I appreciate that there are only a few elements on this cover, I like that the colour palette is simple and the design minimalist. I do think from the cover alone you can tell this is going to be an intense read. The smoking symbol with that tagline - really give you a feel for the tone of the book! Here is the blurb taken from the Waterstones website: ***** Born on the fringes of Bethel, Immanuelle does her best to obey the Church and follow Holy Protocol. For it was in Bethel that the first Prophet pursued and

Morning BookWyrms,  I was lucky enough to be chosen to take part in the Darkroom Tours event for this book and I am thrilled because I finished this book within two days. I received an E-ARC of The Short Knife and want to share my honest review with you all. I found it to be so well written, with a plot that just keeps rolling and tumbling along, that it just pulled me in and suddenly I felt as if I were standing in the Dark Ages fighting to survive. I could not put this down. Truly.  The Short Knife is Historical Fiction and takes place in AD455 with flashbacks to AD454 - and if you know me then you know one of my stock phrases is "I'm not a huge lover of Historical Fiction." Which I’ve now decided is actually rubbish as every HF book I've picked up I've loved. Including this one.  Here is the blurb, from the Waterstone's website: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ It is the year 454AD. The Roman Empire has withdraw