Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Marlene of Reading Reality. It is all about sharing the books that you have recently added to your bookshelves. These books can be physical books, ebooks and of course audiobooks.
Hello!
I hope everyone is having a good weekend so far. I have had one new book this week which was another preorder from Waterstones.
This is a new author for me but the story and format it is written in intrigued me so I preordered it.
I’m really excited to get reading Hekate by Nikita Gill.
My chosen poem this week is by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896). Stowe was an American author and abolitionist who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Think Not All Is Over
Think not, when the wailing winds of autumn Drive the shivering leaflets from the tree, - Think not all is over: spring returneth, Buds and leaves and blossoms thou shalt see.
Think not, when the earth lies cold and sealed, And the weary birds above her mourn,- Think not all is over: God still liveth, Songs and sunshine shall again return.
Think not, when thy heart is waste and dreary, When thy cherished hopes lie chill and sere,- Think not all is over: God still loveth, He will wipe away thy every tear.
Weeping for a night alone endureth, God at last shall bring a morning hour; In the frozen buds of every winter Sleep the blossoms of a future flower.
In the thousand-sun network of humanity’s expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace.
In the vast space between Earth and Jupiter, the inner planets and belt have formed a tentative and uncertain alliance still haunted by a history of wars and prejudices. On the lost colony world of Laconia, a hidden enemy has a new vision for all of humanity and the power to enforce it.
New technologies clash with old as the history of human conflict returns to its ancient patterns of war and subjugation. But human nature is not the only enemy, and the forces being unleashed have their own price. A price that will change the shape of humanity — and of the Rocinante — unexpectedly and forever…
Review
I had a bit of break from The Expanse series but I was so happy to return to this amazing series. I really enjoyed seeing my favourite characters years after the last book and where they now are in their lives.
The previous books build up the tension and information regarding the protomolecule and this book starts to give us some serious answers. The Laconian’s reappear and make themselves known to the inner planets and the belt and we see what technology the Laconian’s bring with them. Whilst all this is going on the crew of the Rocinante are trying to keep the peace and make a difference.
The thing that got me about this book was that the bad guys don’t actually act like villains. They don’t want to resort to violence, they want order and peace and progress. However, they don’t want to negotiate or hear any other people’s opinions, it is their way or nobody’s way.
It soon becomes clear in this book that absolutely nobody is safe and perhaps some of our favourite characters that we have known all the way through the series might not make it or make it unchanged. As happy as I was to see my favourite characters again I really feared for them.
It is really hard to say much more without giving the story away so I will stop here. I absolutely loved this book and couldn’t put it down. Every time I read one of these books I say it is my new favourite and this is definitely my current favourite. I give this book 5 out of 5 Dragons.
About the author
James S. A. Corey is the pen name of fantasy author Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, George R. R. Martin’s assistant. They both live Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Goodreads Monday is now hosted by Budget Tales Book Club. All you have to do is show off a book from your TBR that you’re looking forward to reading.
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I hope everyone has had a good start to the week. I have had a busy day of teaching and Etsy orders so sadly haven’t managed much reading.
My chosen book to feature this week is another recent addition to the TBR pile. I’m really excited to read this book as I do love a Tracy Borman book.
The Stolen Crown by Tracy Borman
In March 1603, Queen Elizabeth I, the last Tudor monarch, lies dying at Richmond Palace. The queen’s ministers cluster round her bedside, urging her to name her successor – something she had stubbornly resisted throughout her reign. Almost with her last breath she whispers that James VI of Scotland should succeed her. She dies shortly afterwards and the throne of England passes peacefully from Tudor to Stuart. Or so we’ve been led to believe…
But, as enthralling new research shows, this is not what happened. In the weeks and months that followed, history was literally re-written on the orders of James VI to hide the truth. Elizabeth went to her grave without naming an heir, so the notion of an approved succession from Tudors to Stuarts was an elaborately constructed fiction. Newly-discovered documents in the British Library even hint that James plotted to have Elizabeth murdered. The lie that began his rule in England had devastating consequences. The Stuart regime rapidly descended into turbulence and uncertainty, conspiracy and persecution, witchcraft and gunpowder – culminating in the destruction of the monarchy in the English Civil War.
With a combination of rigorous research and brilliant story-telling, Tracy Borman’s revealing new book shows that truth and monarchy have always been strange bedfellows…
I hope everyone is having a good weekend so far. I am still really behind with my book reviews so I am hoping that in the next few weeks I can catch up.
Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Marlene of Reading Reality. It is all about sharing the books that you have recently added to your bookshelves. These books can be physical books, ebooks and of course audiobooks.
Hello!
I hope everyone is having a good weekend so far. I have had a lovely day of music and cake baking.
I had two preordered books delivered this week and I can’t wait to get reading them.
No Friend to this House by Natalie Haynes – Haynes is one of my favourite authors and an auto buy author for me so I am very excited to read this.
Among The Burning Flowers by Samantha Shannon – I love this series so I am excited to read this book. I can’t believe how small it is though!
My chosen poem this week is by the poet Robert Frost who was one of the United States’ best loved poets and playwrights. He had four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and a Congressional Gold Medal.
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
I haven’t done an Etsy update since February so I thought it was time to do another update. I have been busy with the shop and I have been creating new items to go in the shop.
I love these bookmarks because they are great for Halloween and for just witch lovers in general. They really remind me of some of my favourite characters from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series.
This bookmark is something new that I am trying. The picture of Bath is one that I have taken and turned into a bookmark. I am planning on doing more of these bookmarks from other places I have visited.
I have more products arriving soon so watch this space.
Lady Book Dragon 