Mini Book Gift Haul

Hello fellow Pendragons! Today’s blog post is going to be us sharing some bookish gifts we received from friends and family last week! Thanks to everyone who gave us these wonderful presents! 🎁🎁🎁

We’ll give a quick run through of our thoughts on the books:

✏️ Throne of Glass Colouring Book: An absolutely stunning book. We’d like to properly review this in the future, but for now, we highly recommend buying it. If you love the Throne of Glass series, this is such a good accompaniment to it. It provides a vivid insight into the characters and their world, and the excerpts of different books on each page is excellent. Warning: Do not purchase this book unless you’re up-to-date with the series.

😇 Angelfall by Susan Ee: The first book in Penryn and the End of Days, we love this book for its humour and original characterisation. The protagonist - Penryn - is named after Penryn Road, a road sign from Interstate 80, and like the distinct naming of the character, this book will always stay as a distinct memory!

😈 Demon Road by Derek Landy: To be honest, we’ve never read this book. We’ve seen it at the bookstores a couple of times, but we’ve never picked it up. The shiny cover is enough to intrigue readers, and we must say, the promise of killer cars and undead serial killers is very captivating. Derek Landy is the author of Skulduggery Pleasant, which is has received very positive reviews from our friends, so hopefully, this book is amazing. (Did you see that, the angelic and demonic books are next to each other! OK, got it, we're nerds)

🗽American Gods by Neil Gaiman: If you’ve read our other blog posts, you’ll know that we absolutely love Neil Gaiman! American Gods is considered one of his finest works - if not the best - so we’re quite certain that this book will be immensely enjoyable.

🚣 Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien: Released this year, this novel tells the story of a young girl and her mother who invite a Chinese refugee home. This novel was nominated for the Man Booker Prize, so again, we have high hopes for this novel.

😉 The Good People by Hannah Kent: Aussie author Hannah Kent is well known for her 2013 novel Burial Rites, which exploded with favourable reviews in the same year. We have yet to try Hannah Kent, but our school librarian assured us that she is a talented writer, so it’s likely a nice read.

🌒 Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare: To be brutally honest, we’re not very fond of Cassandra Clare’s works. We loved The Infernal Devices, until Book 3, which marred our enjoyment of the series. The same applies to The Mortal Instruments;  we enjoyed it, until after City of Glass, because we felt the series was being prolonged. Hopefully, Lady Midnight crushes those sour memories we have of Clare’s works. Clare is one of our love-or-hate authors, so perhaps Lady Midnight will be a loveable novel.

🚀 Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff: Again, if you have read our previous blog posts, you will will understand that we LOVE Amie and Jay!!!!! This book took forever to come out - we might even be on the casualty list! (OK, that doesn’t seem super exciting, but still!)

And last but not least, thanks to Saturn for buying me (Luna) this wonderful word art for These Broken Stars. Here is a link to other Evie Seo works, which she sells on Society6. (Note to all international audiences outside USA: Society6 sells everything using the US dollar, so be careful if you’re not in the US!)

https://society6.com/evieseo

Have you read any of these books? Please pop a comment below and share your thoughts!