I’ve decided to start a weekly selection of the book blogging posts I’ve enjoyed most this week. Feel free to join in if It’s something you like the sound of. In an attempt to support other bloggers and share their content in one place. I appreciate the likes, the reads and shares, and the comments on my own posts so lets share the love. So, five posts I’ve loved this week in no particular order. 1. MY TOP TEN SFF READS OF 2021 by sffoasis.com 2. MY 2022 BOOKISH AND BLOGGING GOALS by KBbookreviews 3. THE FRIDAY FACE-OFF: TOP READ OF 2021 4. BOOK REVIEW – STONES OF LIGHT BY…

Go to any website and they almost offer the ability to review their products. It will almost always be in a form of star ratings. Usually ranging from 1 to 5 stars (5 being the best), although this is great in practice especially for items for consumption I find that it rarely shows the full picture for authors and their books. Author’s put their life and soul into producing and telling their stories – writing multiple drafts, editing, research, querying their work, and a huge amount of marketing. Rating their book 3,4,5 stars rarely encompasses everything you want to say about it even with the most in-depth review. Too much…

It’s been quite the year what with the pandemic and all!! Anyway, it’s also been quite the year for reading too with me just completing my 137th read. That’s quite the achievement as i usually only manage about a hundred – i say that as if it’s a small number! So what has been my top ten reads of the year – read on and find out! 10. Deity by Matt Wesolowski Online investigative journalist Scott King investigates the death of a pop megastar, the subject of multiple accusations of sexual abuse and murder before his untimely demise in a fire … another episode of the startlingly original, award-winning Six Stories series.…

I can’t quite believe we are almost at the end of another year. 2021 for many has been another year of isolating, being ill and a portion of it being in lockdown. I would be quite happy for 2022 to be a year that we break away from all that. Anyway, with a new year comes new books. By all accounts its shaping up to be an exceptional year for books releases and I’m going to struggle to keep this list small. 1. The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart A locked-room murder mystery set at a hotel for time travelers—in which a detective must solve an impossible crime even as…

The Broken Binding is an independent bookstore in the UK. They specialise in special edition/signed copies in the SFF genre with a generous helping of horror also. They have introduced an indie section that looks to give independently published authors a platform to grow. They also run a regular book of the month as well as a number of polls, competitions, and giveaways over on our Twitter feed. They are also in the process of setting up a book subscription service, so keep an eye out for that in the future! Something else they have been arranging is their Blogger and Booktuber Awards. Not quite sure how, but my little…