I really struggled to read The Twisted Sword, there is so much sadness and heartbreak in it, always impending doom, much like The Black Moon but without the growing love of Drake and Morwenna to counteract it. That being said there is a lot that goes on involving the comeback of Napoleon and the location change to Paris France is nice but I found myself longing for Cornish shores. Can't wait to get into Bella Poldark. #Poldark

Took me a little longer to get through The Loving Cup, I think it just took a while to get going, still enjoyed it, especially the last few chapters. Can't wait to see how this series ends! #poldark

The ninth book in the Poldark series, still cannot figure that Stephen Carrington out, he's doing my head in. Still missing Sam, Drake & Morwenna, but getting attached to the Poldark children now. It ended on an interesting note so keen to see what happens next!
#poldark

Admittedly I did struggle to get into this one because of the 10 year jump from The Angry Tide, my favourite trio from the previous 3 books, Sam, Drake and Morwenna hardly show up, and Ross and Demelza's oldest children are all grown up... There is a lot more political/war talk but once I got used to the Poldark kids being the front runners I did really enjoy it. Not sure what to make of Stephen Carrington however... #poldark

”An hour before dawn they went down to the cove, following the bubble of the stream and the descending combe, with a glowworm here and there green-lit like a jewel in the dark.” - Winston Graham, Demelza.
Graham's beautiful descriptive language ❤️
#Poldark

“War is a severe thing, if I may so put it. We're fighting for our very lives, and I do not know how we may prevail. The country seems to have lost faith in itself, to be no longer willing to fight for the principles in which it used to believe. As a nation we are slothful or altogether asleep.” - Hugh Armitage, The Four Swans.
Sounds like a commentary on today...
#Poldark

I haven't posted for a while as I'm currently reading the Poldark Series, which there's 12 of and I'd rather review them all at once, but I decided to do a Sam Carne themed photo today, he's become one of my favourite characters, and I wanted to share it here! The Angry Tide is full of twists and turns, it's such a roller coaster ride but it's so worth the read, not my favourite Poldark, but brilliant all the same. #poldark #winstongraham #demelza

I just want to say, of the reviews I've read of this, a lot of people haven't even read Jane Austen's original which I find strange... but whatever.

4/5 ✨
While I panned "Eligible", I enjoyed Northanger Abbey, the author didn't try too hard to make it their own, but stayed true to Jane Austen's storyline. There are a few things that I would have changed, such as the indecipherable text language and the "teen communication" (I've never said amazeballs once except in irony) but other than that the story was clever and page turning and Henry Tilney was as swoon worthy as ever!

5/5✨
See previous post on Ross Poldark.
#Demelza #RossPoldark #Poldark #WinstonGraham #AidanTurner #EleanorTomlinson

5/5 ✨
This review is for Ross Poldark and Demelza. I'm absolutely loving the Poldark story so far, the characters are so wonderful and intriguing and their lives are so interesting! What I think makes these books resonate with me is that despite the fact they're set in the late 1700's, I find their problems and joys relatable. Definitely a five out of five read for me! #Poldark #RossPoldark #Demelza #AidanTurner #EleanorTomlinson #WinstonGraham

5/5✨
This is an amazing book, would absolutely read it again and again. It completely opens your mind to the way Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia, and also teaches a lot about the world and universe around us. So worth the read, definitely want to read Planet Narnia now!
#TheNarniaCode #Narnia #TheChroniclesOfNarnia #MichaelWard #PlanetNarnia

4.5/5✨
The only reason I'm taking half a star off is because it was slightly less enjoyable than "Little Women", "Good Wives" is just that little bit more grown up, some of the fun is gone out of it and life becomes harder. That being said, it's an amazing and inspirational book, a little ray of hope in a dark world.
#LittleWomen #LouisaMayAlcott

Reading the "bad reviews" of Little Women, and seeing that the biggest problem was that it was "too moral". Gee, I wonder why this world is so screwed up?... ?

5/5✨
Such a beautiful, uplifting story, I'll never tier of it. Only disappointment in this edition is that it's only the first volume 😏 but it is so beautiful to look at! 😍 #LittleWomen #LouisaMayAlcott #Tea

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." - C.S. Lewis.
#Narnia #Tea #Books #BooksAndTea #Candle

Just finished Narnia for the umpteenth time and every time is better than the last, there's so many haters, but these books are home to me, I'll never grow out of them. ❤🦁
#Narnia

4/5✨
After the disappointment that was The Cursed Child, Fantastic Beasts was a welcome change. Of course I saw the film first and loved it, so there was no way I couldn't love the script. It wasn't home, but it was closer too it, and for that I'm glad. Still have PTSD from Cursed Child 😣*shivers*
#HarryPotter

2.5/5✨
It hurts so much having to give HARRY POTTER of all things a bad review, but my way of justifying it is to pretend this story was never written. Because a) it doesn't make sense as an 8th HP book, sooo many plot holes, and b) JK wasn't the only one who wrote it (IF she had anything to do with writing it. It doesn't feel like HP at all, more like a bad dream). Just steer clear of it, really, it reads like bad fanfic disguised as literature.

3/5✨
While this is a mildly amusing retelling of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", I didn't at all like how Seth Grahame-Smith made the characters ugly. Elizabeth Bennet was in all honesty, awful, and the unfaithful Mr. Bennet made it a struggle for me to finish the book. However it did have some humorous and exciting parts, which bump up its rating for me.
#PrideAndPrejudice #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudiceAndZombies

2.5/5 ✨
I wasn't at all pleased with this "modern retelling", quite frankly, I think Jane Austen would be more ashamed of this than of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. It didn't flow, the characters were butchered, it was smutty and just plain blah for want of a better word. I really wanted to like it, seeing as I liked Northanger Abbey and Sense & Sensibility, the other books I've read in The Austen Project series, but this was a major let down.

But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did. - Edmund Pevensie.
#TheChroniclesOfNarnia #TheHorseAndHisBoy #EdmundPevensie

4/5 ✨
I really enjoyed The Light Between Oceans, I'd heard some rather damning reviews, people being really quite nasty about certain characters and such, but I felt I could relate and see through the eyes of every character, experience the pain and joys of them all. It's a very thought provoking novel, and I'm not sure who I'd act like if I was put into the same situation these characters were...
#Lighthouse #TheLightBetweenOceans