Definitely worth a read,if you like historical gay romance and werewolves?
But compared to Chambers' other work, I found this one a little slower to take off.
She has a great way with words, however, and I did enjoy the pay off, despite it being somewhat predictable.

No spoilers.
I just enjoyed this much more than the last. It was easier to get into and keeo up with (for the most part). So many nerdy references and I definitely didn't get them all. Bjt fun drinking game if you take a shot for the ones that you DO get.

I love Foxglove.

Peter knows how to help the LGBT+ community go on the pull.

Ever the optimist!

Giles Milton, regarding Robert Bower.
Sadly relevant today. #punchnazis

I really enjoyed reading about the Rivers of London world from a different perspective and seeing what the main series narrator and his world have gotten wrong. Or simply failed to consider.
I hope the characters get to meet, even if somewhat reluctantly.

The quality is on par with the main series. You have to pay attention at times so my dog walks involved a little bit of an audio rewind here and there. And comedy is threaded through.

Both my grandmas grew up on farms. Both would be capable. One has threatened many and I would not be surprised if something ever turned up about her or her dad.

I love them so much 😂♥️

I've been listening to this while walking the dog and it genuinely made me walk a little extra, so the dog liked it too!
It's a different take on the end of humanity, avoiding political actions or climate change, and it's a small scale survival in a huge scale event.
It's definitely worth picking up. It threatens to drag at times, but it's easy to come back to.

So, this is actually film vs film ranting. But I've seen so many things really slating the film in comparison to A Quiet Place and also claiming it copied it. However, this book was written before A Quiet Place which, other than hiring an actual deaf actor, was pretty forgettable. There's no real back story, no real progression for me. I'm not saying The Silence is a masterpeice, but I do feel critics are over-harsh. #hiredeafactors

As read by Sam Peter Jackson.
I have a physical copy, but when I checked to see if the audiobook had a German narrator, well. Be still my beating heart. I have a thing for German accents and the language. It's a change in style from Kobna but it's change in narrator too. Jackson is a calm and playful narrator.

So, I get films changing a lot of a books content in order to squeeze it into their time frame. But I always mourn when they change a location. Even more so when I learn the original is in WALES. Welsh accents are a gift from the Old Gods. But no, if American's make it, it HAS to be American. How else would their audience understand it or even want to see it??? Booooooo. Netflix, Amazon, Sky, someone make the Welsh series. And have a deaf actor?

Some lyrics used in Hardcore Self Help: F@!# Anxiety

My first DC, thought it would be a laugh. And it was ok? He's pretty awkward, I don't know if it was the same for the American raised Superman?

#anxietyismybitch

#selfhelp and a little #mothersruin.

If you dont mind nerds and bad language and suffer from #anxiety (or know anyone who does), please give this a try. It's short and available as an ebook, audio, or physical, and is packed with advice and support. Absolutely perfect for a person like me.

First read of the year. Things have been slow now that I have a PS4 distracting me! But I was lending some Roald Dahl books to a friend and accidentally started reading one.....

Roald Dahl always gets five stars from me.

I'm 50/50 but usually put on my Slytherin colours!
#harrypotter #slytherclaw

#myyearinbooks #goodreads

Most were comics and apps, but still better than the year before. My longest was Sense and Sensibility, which I took on during a weekend of so much self indulgence, I had to complete it by audiobook as I was too drunk to see.

Feel free to add me on goodreads, I'm starvinglion.

Can I get away with these for #silhouettesoncover? I'm going to try, anyway!

#seasonsreadings2016

Here's a #bookwithpictures and not really much else. But there are some wonderful and unusual pictures. #seasonsreadings2016

This is my #poetry shelf, by my bed. There are a few others around the house, of course......

#seasonsreadings2016

These count as adaptations, right?

#favejaneaustenadaptation #seasonsreadings2016

Part of my foreign lit shelf (the rest is pretty much just Primo Levi). I almost went with Rivers of London for POC characters, but it's written by a white guy. This felt a little more diverse for authors and cultures. #weneedmorediversebooks #seasonsreadings2016

All I could think of for #steampunk! Only read the first one so far.....

#seasonsreadings2016

I have #multiplecopies of several books, but I found the big grey one recently after being a little worried about it. It was a gift from my brother, the top right was a gift from friends during a little bout of hard times. #seasonsreadings2016

This was the first LGBT Lit I read (outside of fanfiction!). I have a thing for Alan Cumming and have since High Life! So this book immediately caught my teenage attention. It's not an easy romance, and not in the silly mistakes way, there's a lot of things going on. Also, yey #bisexual visibility!

#seasonsreadings2016 #inthemoodforlove

I used to live & work overseas and, after my brother had his arn twisted to come visit so he could take some of my books back to the UK, my family got me a kindle. I fell in love, love the search function, the look, the size, the entire library in my bag, highlighting, samples. Audible.

But I still bought physical books and, when I came home from good, went back to physcial mostly. But I still love my reading apps!

#seasonsreadings2026 #ereader

Please excuse the absence of Rivers of London. It's in possession of a coworker. I used to own 2 of the 4 copies I've bought, but Dad fell in love so I let him keep it. Maybe I need another spare.

Anyway! This was written by a screenwriter who worked on Dr Who and there are talks of a TV SHOW! Which I would be equally happy with. I just need more formats, more things to possess.

#seasonsreadings2016 #thisshouldbeamovie

As well as spies and history, I have a thing for myths, legends, and magic. So here's a mini fairytale stack for #fictionnonfictionpairing

#seasonsreadings2016

I already posted an #artrelatedbooks, so this time I've gone abstractly for one with beautiful art. I went to great pains to get this book before the new year (2015) & got it on new years eve after leaving work early to spend £5 getting in & out of town to pick it up from #waterstones. It was worth it, as I read it at the stroke of midnight after a rough few weeks. It gave me hope& comfort and really is just so, so beautiful.

#seasonsreadings2016

I really like the #serial app, but when I was reading the translation at the bottom, I remembered the better (imo) version above and it might have put me off a little! What to do, what to do.....

#translations

Let's try this #recommensday thing.

Jane Austen took me a long time to appreciate. We watched Sense and Sensibility a lot at home when I was a kid but, being the Romantic that I am, I didn't understand all the crying and outbursts. I liked watching it for my joint crush on Winslet and Rickman. I didn't get any more Romantic as an adult, but I tried the book for an Online course about mental health and reading and fell in love with the humour!

I managed to find one #setonanisland without cheating and doing the UK. This is my first Agatha Christie, and I read it after working abroad and having so many students recommend her books to me! This seemed a good place to start and I very much enjoyed it.

#seasonsreadings2016

Sharing this here, over from the Penguin Instagram Challenge, because I'm quite pleased with the photo!

This is the spy secrion of my wartime and spy books. Fleming, Le Carré, and a few factual books, all of which I highly recommend.

As stated on the Instagram post, I'd never seen a Bond film until about 4 years ago. Skyfall was due out and a friend and colleague encouraged me to give it a go. But first I had to read the book! Now im hooked!

This is a very feeble offering of a #blurb. I kind of gave up and just grabbed this. I dont read blurbs much and couldn't think of any entertaining ones!

#seasonsreadings2016

Despite Don Quixote being my favourite fictional character, I've never read past the first few chapters..... But I've sat with the Don Quixote statue outside Cervantes' home! Thanks to another #litsy user, I've downloaded the Serial Reader app.

To Kill a Mocking Bird was recommended by mum who read it at school and introduced me to the film last year.

#seasonsreadings2016 #classicihaventread

I have a thing about foreign languages. I'm no good at them, but I love them and have attempted a few (most for work). So I collect books I like in languages I like. A few Japanese ones are missing as they still live at mum's, sadly.

#seasonsreadings2016 #notinenglish

#seasonsreadings2016 #takesplaceinalibrary

This is close enough, right? I read it recently and, despite some small issues, I quite like it.

#kickassheroines #seasonsreadings2016

This one has to go joint to these two slight extremes. The carefree Tank Girl, violent and brash, and the clever, but equally as brave, Hermione.

#seasonsreadings2016 #wanttoreadindec

A Christmas present from my brother years ago, that I still haven't gotten to! I've been obsessed with werewolves from a young age and proudly did my dissertation on the subject! Somehow, however, december gets busy and I refuse to read this out of season. And it's a short season when you're chapter 1 Scrooge.

"John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no /reason/ to suffer, and that satisfies him."

#mentalillness #depression

I think I've onky read this one other time since uni and only remembered the very basic idea. I forgot how well constructed it was and how vibrant the narrator. It gives such an insight into the treatment of women and mental illness at the time, and reflects a lot of the current stigma too.

#feministwriting #feminism #mentalillness #depression #anxiety #postnataldepression

"Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by nature." ~ George Harrison

#nature #selfhelp

Gorgeous book, great content. The app would be amazing if it wasnt quite so dear.

#calm #anxiety #depression #selfhelp #mindfulness

A book to get me and my partner through our first year living together! hopefully 😅

Listening to the audiobook, narrated by the amazing Kobna Holdbrook-Smith while I paint and clean!

This is incredibly relatable. I had these exact same problems at my worst. I was taking trains every day, and having to keep myself as far back as I could, and I didn't think I was unique, but this is the first time actually seeing in down on paper, from somebody else.

#churchill #depression

Amazing. Beautiful.

Read the series.
It's real british, POC, LGBTQA+, without being "british", "POC", "LGBTQA+".

Ah, I love Peter. From the architectural opionions to the nerd knowledge. The first time I saw the Shard, I'd arrived in London from Paris and was getting a train home. I hadn't heard a single thing about the building and just saw this strange structure that looked ready to send a beacon to awaiting alien spacecraft.

#london