Welcome to another unboxing from Fairyloot! 🙂 This time we’ll open November’s box!
FairyLoot is an amazing YA bookish subscription box that I’ve been getting for quite many years and would highly recommend getting.
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Hey guys!
How has your month been?
I had a pretty good reading month this time. Especially with manga, I read a ton!
Check out what I’ve read this month:
1.The Push was my favourite book of the month hands down. It’s incredibly impactful and beautifully written. It will make you doubt yourself and it will make you cry.
2.For Your Own Good was an incredible thriller that started pretty much with the end. We know what’s going to happen and yet it’s a page turner that will make you roote for the bad guy for how perfect he makes his murders.
3.Beautiful World Where Are You was a brutally honest and raw book about real life, no sugar coating. It’s beautiful and it will make you see that life is just as difficult for everyone no matter how many filters you put on it.
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Series: N/A
Publisher: Atria Books
Published June 1st 2021
Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Drama
Pages: 357
Format: Hardback
Buy: Book Depository | Amazon
Get Out meets The Stepford Wives in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing.
Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she’s thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They’ve only just started comparing natural hair care regimens, though, when a string of uncomfortable events elevates Hazel to Office Darling, and Nella is left in the dust.
Then the notes begin to appear on Nella’s desk: LEAVE WAGNER. NOW.
It’s hard to believe Hazel is behind these hostile messages. But as Nella starts to spiral and obsess over the sinister forces at play, she soon realizes that there’s a lot more at stake than just her career.
A whip-smart and dynamic thriller and sly social commentary that is perfect for anyone who has ever felt manipulated, threatened, or overlooked in the workplace, The Other Black Girl will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last twist.
Nella Rogers is a 26 year-old editorial assistant at Wagner Books, and the only black girl working there. As a beginner she was an eager and bold worker with ideas on how to promote diversity and wanting to do big changes in the publishing world for black authors and readers. Especially when this was the publisher that published her fav book by a black author, so it’s the best place to start change, right? After 10 years and attempts to campaign diversity not being met with kind eyes, she turned into a more subdued person more worried into not losing her job and stepping lightly around microaggressions and other problems. But after a black newcomer named Hazel starts working in the office, things seem to start changing. And after Nella receives a note saying “Leave Wagner. Now” … nothing good can come from that.
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Meet Me Under the Northern Lights by Emily Kerr
Series: N/A
Publisher: HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter
Expected publication: December 3rd 2021
Genres: Contemporary, Romance
Pages: –
Format: ARC
Buy: Amazon
* Received this copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you very much! This doesn’t affect the review in any way. My opinions are, as always, my own.*
All it takes is one moment to change your life . . .
When a cleverly edited video of radio host Lucy Fairweather goes viral, she knows she needs an escape. And preferably somewhere far away.
Where better than Wild Zone – a destination for people who want to experience the Arctic Circle? Owned by the gorgeous but brooding Tommi, Lucy agrees to help with the guests in return for her stay. But getting to grips with her skis is proving harder than it looks.
Far from home and in a winter wonderland, will an encounter with the breathtaking Northern Lights change her luck, in both life and love?
Lucy Fairweather is a breakfast show radio presenter at Star FM. Her life is crazy both professionally and personally, her taste for drinking, parties and overall disregard for rules brings her to a lot of problems. The biggest one being the video that just went viral. This video is all bullshit, but does it really matter? No. Her life is turned upside down from it, bringing threats, stalking and a lot of unpleasantness when the other person in the video, her coworker Jonno doesn’t have her back. You see, for him the video brings something good, so why not go with it?
Lucy turns to her friend Skye for help and it just so happens she has an idea, why not go help her brother-in-law in Finland at the Wild Zone near the Artic Circle! This is an outdoor retreat and she can stay there all she wants in return for her help at the place. But this might be another nightmare for her and her problematic nature brings all new problems to tackle. After all you can run but you can’t hide, at least not forever…
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The Push by Ashley Audrain
Series: N/A
Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books
Published January 5th 2021
Genres: Thriller, Fiction
Pages: 307
Format: Paperback
Buy: Book Depository | Amazon
A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family–and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for–and everything she feared.
Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had.
But in the thick of motherhood’s exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter–she doesn’t behave like most children do.
Or is it all in Blythe’s head? Her husband, Fox, says she’s imagining things. The more Fox dismisses her fears, the more Blythe begins to question her own sanity, and the more we begin to question what Blythe is telling us about her life as well.
Then their son Sam is born–and with him, Blythe has the blissful connection she’d always imagined with her child. Even Violet seems to love her little brother. But when life as they know it is changed in an instant, the devastating fall-out forces Blythe to face the truth.
The Push is a tour de force you will read in a sitting, an utterly immersive novel that will challenge everything you think you know about motherhood, about what we owe our children, and what it feels like when women are not believed.
This book is all about motherhood. About being a good mother even when you weren’t blessed with a good role model, like our mc Blythe. Both her mother and grandmother were complete fails as mothers, will Blythe be the same? She does her best to connect with her daughter Violet, but she is sure something is wrong with her. Nobody believes it, not even her husband. Instead they think there’s something wrong with Blythe… Is it her past? Or is there something really wrong?
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Hey guys!
It’s time to unbox LitJoy Crate Special Edition Sassenach Crate! This is a special edition box inspired by Outlander! Tatataaaaam…
Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales edited by Ashley Herring Blake and Rebecca Podos
Series: N/A
Publisher: Running Press Kids
Expected publication: December 7th 2021
Genres: Anthology, Romance
Pages: 288
Format: ARC
Buy: Amazon / BookDepository
* Received this copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you very much! This doesn’t affect the review in any way. My opinions are, as always, my own.*
Join fifteen bestselling, award-winning, and up-and-coming authors as they reimagine some of the most popular tropes in the romance genre.
Fake relationships. Enemies to lovers. Love triangles and best friends, mistaken identities and missed connections. This collection of genre-bending and original stories celebrates how love always finds a way, featuring powerful flora, a superhero and his nemesis, a fantastical sled race through snow-capped mountains, a golf tournament, the wrong ride-share, and even the end of the world. With stories written by Rebecca Barrow, Ashley Herring Blake, Gloria Chao, Mason Deaver, Sara Farizan, Claire Kann, Malinda Lo, Hannah Moskowitz, Natasha Ngan, Rebecca Podos, Lilliam Rivera, Laura Silverman, Amy Spalding, Rebecca Kim Wells, and Julian Winters this collection is sure to sweep you off your feet.
Fools in love is a collection of short stories featuring 15 different authors. It features some typical and famous love tropes with a lot of amazing representations! Overall loved the idea and I have my expectations for some of the authors! This is perfect for lovers of LGBTQ+ romance and comes with a variety of genres! We have fantasy, magical stories, contemporary ones and more!
Let’s see about each story individually!
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Hey guys! Here’s the unboxing for Owlcrate Special box – The Scorpio Races! Hope you enjoy!
Owlcrate is an amazing YA bookish subscription box that I would highly recommend getting. Plus, if you live in Europe like me, it still arrives incredibly fast and somehow (for me) it doesn’t get more expensive than any other box coming from Europe – although obviously, it changes from country to country…
If you want to check out what this box included, just keep reading! I will show photos of all the items, information on them and some of my thoughts!
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Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Series: N/A
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published September 7th 202
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Pages: 337
Format: Paperback
Buy: Book Depository | Amazon
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.
Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young – but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They worry about sex and friendship and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?
In this book we follow Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon through the ups and downs of daily life. We see their friendships, family relationships and their romantic relationships; their desires and hopes; their breakdowns and happy moments. It’s raw, intriguing and just purely real.
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