Lottie Reads

Morning BookWyrms,  Here I am again with another review as part of a Kaleidoscopic Tours event. This time its for The Boy I Am by K.L.Kettle.  I'd like to thank Kaleidoscopic Tours, Little Tiger Books and K.L for allowing me to read and review this, quite frankly amazing, novel.  As always here is the cover, which is stunning and vibrant, and the blurb: ***** They say we’re dangerous. But we’re not that different. Jude is running out of time. Once a year, lucky young men in the House of Boys are auctioned to the female elite. But if Jude fails to be selected before he turns seventeen, a future deep underground in the mines awaits. Yet ever since the death of his best friend at the hands of the all-powerful Chancellor, Jude has been desperate to escape the path set out for him. Finding himself entangled in a plot to assassinate the Chancellor, he finally has a chance to avenge his friend and win his freedom. But at what price? ***** The Boy I Am will still, without any doubt, be in

Morning BookWyrms,  I am back with another review as part of the Kaleidoscopic Tours event for Last One to Die by Cynthia Murphy. I'd like to thank Kaleidoscopic Tours, Scholastic UK and Cynthia for allowing me to read and review this debut novel.  As always here is the cover and blurb: ***** Niamh is in London for a summer of fun and freedom.  But young women are being attacked across the city.... and she quickly discovers they all look scarily similar to her.  Can her new friends all be trusted? Can she shake off the feeling that someone is watching her? Will she stay one step ahead of the killer, or.... will she be next? ***** I devoured this book is record time and it was one of the first books I finished in January. Once I'd started reading it I could not put it down. Cynthia has a real flow about the way she writes, building and ebbing the tension and suspense, throughout. You get caught up in the drama of it all and I love that. The Irish references and words were a grea

Morning BookWyrms,  I hope you are all staying safe and well during these worrying times.  Thank you to The Next Step PR and Rebecca for gifting me an e-arc of The Fate of Crowns so that I could read and review, it has been a pleasure to dive into this one.  If you follow me on Instagram then you will know  I've being sharing photos and talking about this one - as I was part of the countdown tour - so you already know I am a fan but I wanted to share a full (spoiler free) review with you here.  Here is the cover and blurb: ***** With my brother's death came the crown and all the trappings that accompany it. Now, my father--the most dangerous man in Magaelor--seeks to control my future. But fate has other plans. Thrown into mer-filled waters, I'm dragged into the rival kingdom of Berovia. Surrounded by those who murdered my brother and wished my entire family dead, I must find my way back to my kingdom. There, a marriage between myself and the dark fae prince could bring pea