Books Via Ashley

September was a busy month for me! We took a trip at the beginning of the month to celebrate our one year wedding anniversary (yay!) and then we had TWO weddings to attend! A month full of love! All these trips meant I was able to get a fair amount of reading in though! In total I read nine books! Burning Glass - Kathryn Purdie (3 stars) Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng (4.5 stars) Tower of Dawn - Sarah J. Maas (4 stars) Moxie - Jenniefer Mathieu (4.5 stars) Godsgrave - Jay Kristoff (4 stars) 4:50 from Paddington - Agatha Christie (4 stars) Hanna Who Fell From The Sky - Christopher Meades (3.5 stars) Wicked Like A Wildfire - Lana Popovic (4 stars) Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein (4.5 stars) A few books really stood out this month. Moxie was incredible and awesome! I finally ready Wicked Like a Wilkdfire , which I received in the August FairyLoot box, and I really really liked it! I got an ARC of Little Fires Everywhere and it was just as beautiful as Celeste ...

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu Synopsis  (from Goodreads) Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with her small-town Texas high school that thinks the football team can do no wrong. Fed up with sexist dress codes and hallway harassment. But most of all, Viv Carter is fed up with always following the rules. Viv’s mom was a punk rock Riot Grrrl in the ’90s, so now Viv takes a page from her mother’s past and creates a feminist zine that she distributes anonymously to her classmates. She’s just blowing off steam, but other girls respond. Pretty soon Viv is forging friendships with other young women across the divides of cliques and popularity rankings, and she realizes that what she has started is nothing short of a girl revolution. Review Where do I even start? I picked up this book while wandering around Waterstones while waiting for my train in London. I had heard of it before and my interest was piqued. I ended up reading this book in less than a day, on the flight home. Basically, ...

Hanna Who Fell From The Sky by Christopher Wreade *I received a free ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review* Synopsis (from Goodreads) Hanna has never been outside her secluded community of Clearhaven. She has never questioned why her father has four wives or why she has fourteen brothers and sisters. And in only one week, on her eighteenth birthday, Hanna will follow tradition and become the fifth wife of a man more than twice her age. But just days before the wedding, Hanna meets Daniel, an enigmatic stranger who challenges her to question her fate and to follow her own will. Then her mother tells her a secret--one that could grant Hanna the freedom she's known only in her dreams. As her world unravels around her, Hanna must decide whether she was really meant for something greater than the claustrophobic world of Clearhaven. But can she abandon her beloved younger sister and the only home she's ever known? Or is there another option-...

Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas *This is the sixth book in the Throne of Glass series. Mild spoilers if you haven't read the rest of the series!* Synopsis  (from Goodreads) Chaol Westfall has always defined himself by his unwavering loyalty, his strength, and his position as the Captain of the Guard. But all of that has changed since the glass castle shattered, since his men were slaughtered, since the King of Adarlan spared him from a killing blow, but left his body broken. His only shot at recovery lies with the legendary healers of the Torre Cesme in Antica-the stronghold of the southern continent's mighty empire. And with war looming over Dorian and Aelin back home, their survival might lie with Chaol and Nesryn convincing its rulers to ally with them. But what they discover in Antica will change them both-and be more vital to saving Erilea than they could have imagined. Review I could see how this was originally a novella, and also how it developed into a full-b...

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng * I received a free ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review * Publishing date: 12 Sept 2017 Synopsis "In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. "Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother - who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. "When old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a C...

The Fire Queen by Emily R. Queen * I received a free ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review * This book will be out 26 September 2017! This is the sequel to The Hundreth Queen , which was published in June, so mild spoilers ahead! Synopsis With the rajah dead and the rebels invading the city, Kalinda flees with her guard, and lover, Deven. Their goal is to seek Prince Ashwin, who has taken refuge in a neighboring kingdom. In order to win the freedom she so desperately desires for herself and Deven, Kalinda must compete in yet another tournament for the throne. As her people become refugees and suffer awful conditions, she finds herself conflicted over her duty to protect her kingdom and those she loves, and also struggles with how to master her fledgling powers. Review One of the best things about this book? That I didn't have to wait an entire year for it! I love that King is pushing them out every four months. Please that become ...