The hunger games – The ballad of songbirds and snakes

As a book and film blog, I have the perfect opportunity to talk about a film that’s recently been adapted from one of my favourite books! The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The book (and film) is a prequel to ‘The Hunger Games’ (64 years before those books began) and is essentially […]

I need to talk about heartstopper

So last year I wrote a post about book adaptations of my favourite books and what I thought about them and as you may know (I think most people do at this point) the webcomic series turned graphic novels ‘Heartstopper’ was just adapted into an 8 part series on Netflix, and I think it’s perfect! […]

Books you should read if you like murder mysteries…

Ok so I took quite a long break, but exams are now finished and I have a bit more time for reading and writing now, which I’m happy about! I do really enjoy writing this blog and sharing my passion for reading with others. For this reason I decided to start a mini series across […]

The Things We Don’t See – Review

Thank You to Netgalley for the chance to read this book! “The year is 1987 and the sleepy village of Sandown Bay is waking up . . .” To its residents, Sandown is home – a tiny village holiday resort in the western United States. To everyone else, it’s a minuscule island, that brings tourists in […]

It’s been a while…

Ok so it’s been a little while since my last post here, and the reasoning for that is… exams.Yeah…So it’s that time of the year where I get closer to finishing school but with that is exams, this year it’s all a bit different which actually means I have them a bit sooner than I […]

The Reader’s Problems Book Tag

This week is a big week for me with two of my most anticipated books being released, so I thought whilst I read these and gather my thoughts on them to share with you all. It would be fun to do a book tag! The tag is called the Reader’s Problems Book Tag and the […]

Adaptations: part 1

As any book lover would know, book adaptations can be very hit or miss. As many of us build connections to the books and hold high hopes for the films/series we can’t help but sometimes feel disappointed by the outcome but it doesn’t necessarily mean they are bad; we just hold them to higher standards.So […]

January Reads

January has been a bit of a slow reading month for me, especially with the return to online school and mock exams! I was still able to finish three books this month and started my fourth though so not a really bad reading month! So I thought it would be cool to recap the books […]

‘Concrete Rose’ Review

Warning: Minor spoilers for ‘The Hate U Give’ and ‘Concrete Rose’. ‘Concrete Rose’ revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of ‘The Hate U Give’ which recently became a major motion picture, exploring black boyhood and manhood and the struggles Maverick had to face. ‘With his King Lord dad in prison and his mom […]