Month: January 2017

BLOG TOUR: THE WITCH’S TEARS by Katherine and Elizabeth Corr

Posted January 26, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, Blog Tour, Fantasy, Favourites, HarperCollins, Katherine and Elizabeth Corr, Magic, Most Anticipated, The Witch's Kiss, The Witch's Tears / 4 Comments

HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY TO THE WITCH’S TEARS!!!! 
This week has been a week of blog tours for me and a week of releases that’s for sure. One of which is this beauty. I’ve read both in one week and they are incredible. I haven’t read a witch/fantasy book like this in a long time. My reviews will be up shortly. But before I go onto my post for the tour, I wanted to say that I met these lovely sisters, at my school, at my event that I created and it was amazing. The students loved it and the atmosphere was just something to be deeply proud of. Plus I was just as excited as the girls too, almost like a dream this job. Ha. 
Anyways back to the blog tour, The Witch’s Tears is the second in the series. So before you read the synopsis of The Witch’s Tears – which maybe have to subtle hints about what happened in the first book, you HAVE to read The Witch’s Kiss first (obviously)!

Sixteeen-year-old Meredith is fed-up with her feuding family and feeling invisible at school – not to mention the witch magic that shoots out of her fingernails when she’s stressed. Then sweet, sensitive Jack comes into her life and she falls for him hard. The only problem is that he is periodically possessed by a destructive centuries-old curse. Meredith has lost her heart, but will she also lose her life? Or in true fairytale tradition, can true love’s kiss save the day?

Can true love’s kiss break your heart…? The spellbinding sequel to THE WITCH’S KISS by authors and sisters, Katharine and Elizabeth Corr. It’s not easy being a teenage witch. Just ask Merry. She’s drowning in textbooks and rules set by the coven; drowning in heartbreak after the loss of Jack. But Merry’s not the only one whose fairy tale is over. Big brother Leo is falling apart and everything Merry does seems to push him further to the brink. And everything that happens to Leo makes her ache for revenge. So when strangers offering friendship show them a different path they’d be mad not to take it…Some rules were made to be broken, right? The darkly magical sequel to THE WITCH’S KISS burns wickedly bright.

Our Favourite YA Boyfriends

This has been a tough post to write, particularly given the number of gorgeous, (and, let’s face it, often very brooding) YA boyfriends out there! But here is a selection of our favourites. They’re all from fantasy YA, but that’s how we like them…

Baz – Carry on, Rainbow Rowell

‘And when I felt myself slipping too far, I held on to the one thing I’m always sure of. Blue eyes. Bronze curls. The fact that Simon Snow is the most powerful magician alive. That nothing can hurt him, not even me… And I’m hopelessly in love with him.’

After spending several years as roommates at Watford’s School of Magic, Baz and Simon have cultivated a mutual and steadfast dislike of one another. At least, that’s what Simon believes. As far as he’s concerned Baz (a smug, ruthless ‘tosser’, who also happens to be a vampire) is just waiting for the chance to kill him.

The truth, however, turns out to be quite the opposite. Baz is in love with Simon, even though he’d much rather not be; a lot of the time he regards the scruffy and rough-around-the-edges ‘Chosen One’ with disdain. He doesn’t for one second expect Simon to reciprocate his feelings (Simon has a girlfriend), but he can’t stop himself being in love with him.


What makes Baz one of our favourite YA boyfriends is that he loves Simon for who Simon is, not for how Simon makes him feel about himself. It’s romantic love at its purest. On top of that, Baz is smart, funny, good-looking and possesses superhuman strength – who doesn’t love a YA love interest with superhuman strength? A sort of bad-tempered, sarky, less-weird version of Edward Cullen. We think he’d be a great boyfriend.

Prince Ash – The Iron Fey Series, Julie Kagawa

‘Then, through the trees, I a saw him, a lean figure on a huge black horse. The boy from my dream…His cruel, angelic face wore a smile as he drew back a large bow, an arrow, glistening at the tip.’

Ash, a faery prince from the Winter Court, is in many ways the archetypical brooding YA boyfriend: mysterious, handsome and powerful. Not only is he an accomplished warrior, as a member of the Fey, he also possesses various magical powers.

The first time we meet him he is in pursuit of his sworn enemy, Puck, a faery from the Summer Court. Meghan – his future love interest – simply gets in the way. From then on there is a lot of Ash either trying or threatening to kill everyone, including Meghan. Of course, by the end of The Iron King, Meghan gets to see the other side of Ash and the pair fall in love. Turns out, that underneath his ‘treat ‘em mean, keep ‘em keen’ exterior, Ash is a beautiful soul; caring, deeply honourable and committed to keeping Meghan safe from harm, no matter the personal cost to himself.

A sort of bad boy version of Legolas from LOTR (at least initially), we think he’d be an interesting individual to go out with. Indeed, as writers and lovers of all things fantasy, we find Prince Ash highly appealing…

Lucas Delos – Starcrossed Series, Josephine Angelini


‘He had short black hair and a dark end-of-summer tan that brought out his white smile and his swimming pool blue eyes. Meeting his eyes was an awakening. For the first time in Helen’s life she knew what pure, heart-poisoning hatred was.’
The fates seem to be determined to keep Helen and Lucas apart. As members of opposing Houses, and as descendants of the gods, they are sworn enemies, and are thus compelled to try to kill one another. However, eventually, in the face of their obvious mutual attraction, and after Lucas saves Helen’s life, they overcome the compulsion to hurt one another and become friends.

They are on their way to becoming lovers when the fates intervene once more. Helen and Lucas are told (falsely) that they are blood relations, first cousins in fact. Mortified, they try to stay away from one another, but of course they find this almost impossible to do so.

Lucas makes the list of favourite YA boyfriends for various reasons. Obviously, he is a total ‘hautie’ (over six foot tall, athletic, tanned and muscular – what’s not to like?). And as a demi-god he has a whole host of supernatural powers, including the ability to fly. What makes him most loveable, however, is his complete devotion to Helen, even when he thinks there is absolutely no chance of them ever being able to be together.

What follows are lots of fights between Lucas and other demi-gods in his attempts to try and protect Helen (and her honour). It’s all a bit swoon-worthy.

Puck/Robbie – The Iron Fey Series, Julie Kagawa

‘Hi, princess. Sorry I’m late. Traffic was a bitch.’

Puck is Prince Ash’s former friend, and the other guy vying for Meghan’s attention. In the mortal world Puck posed as Meghan’s best friend, Robbie, his task being to keep her safe from all things Fey. When they cross over into the NeverNever (the Fey world), Puck continues to appear at exactly the right moments to save Meghan from various dangers, whilst tormenting the life out of Prince Ash at every available opportunity.

We have a real soft spot for Puck. He’s an extremely mischievous and meddlesome faery, with a truly wicked sense of humour. Unlike Prince Ash, he rarely stops joking around. Okay, so he’s a little bit ‘Jacob Black’: completely devoted to Meghan, even though Meghan is completely devoted to Ash… But, he still deserves a mention on the best YA boyfriends list.

Not only is Puck devilishly handsome (wild red hair, captivating green eyes), he too has magical powers, including the ability to change himself into a raven. He’s also really fun, providing some of the best dialogue in the series. There’s no chance of a date with him being boring. And he definitely doesn’t brood.

Magnus Bane – The Mortal Instruments Series, Cassandra Clare

‘I’m tired of watching you be in love with someone else – someone, incidentally, who will never love you back. Not the way I do.”

‘You love me?’

‘You stupid Nephilim,’ Magnus said patiently. ‘Why else am I here?’

Magnus Bane – an extremely powerful Warlock – is also ‘very, very sexy’, attracting the attention of men and women alike. On top of that, he’s rather sparkly and likes to party. Hard. But there’s another side of him, revealed as he develops feelings for Alec Lightwood, one of the demon-fighting Shadowhunters. When they first meet, Alec is in love with fellow Shadowhunter Jace Wayland. However, after Magnus saves his life, and then keeps turning up to help his friends, Alec starts to see Magnus in a different light, and the pair embark on a secret fling. Alec finally acknowledges the relationship by kissing Magnus in front of his family.

We love Magnus. Not only is he the experienced older man (roughly 800 years old), he’s also sarcastically funny, sweetly patient, and cute (spiky black hair, a lean, muscular build, and the green/gold eyes of a warlock). We also love Magnus because of his fashion sense: glittery eye-shadow, bold lipstick choices, rainbow leather pants and a blue sequined hair band – can you tell that we’re jealous? He definitely knows his designers. All in all, there aren’t many other YA boyfriends quite like him…



About Katherine and Elizabeth Corr

We are sisters and best friends (try writing a book with someone else and you’ll see why that last bit is kind of important). After spending our childhood in Essex, we now live ten minutes away from each other in Surrey. We both studied history at university and went to work in London for a bit. When we both decided to write novels – on account of fictional people being much easier to deal with than real ones – it was obvious we should do it together.

Stuff Katharine likes: playing instruments badly; dead languages; LOTR; loud pop concerts; Jane Austen; Neill Gaiman; Loki; the Surrey Hills. Killing off characters.

Stuff Elizabeth likes: sketching, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, cinema, long baths, kitchen discos, Terry Pratchett, Thor, London. Saving characters.

Thank you so much to Katherine and Elizabeth Corr for being part of my blog and part of my week. Don’t forget to follow the rest of the tour this week and read these amazing books!

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BLOG TOUR & GIVEAWAY – WAITING FOR CALLBACK: TAKE TWO by Perdita and Honor Cargill

BLOG TOUR & GIVEAWAY – WAITING FOR CALLBACK: TAKE TWO by Perdita and Honor Cargill

Hi Everyone, and welcome to DAY 1 of Waiting For Callback: Take Two Blog Tour.  I reviewed this books only days ago and it’s the highlight of my month so far, just scroll down a little further and your will find a glowing and fangirling review. I would recommend it as it’s just makes you smile and love so much. 😍 Not only is their sequel is even more amazing than the first, but Perdita and Honor are the loveliest of people too. The tour is themed by incorporating the stages of movie/book production and as I’m first up and it’s […]

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ARC REVIEW – WAITING FOR CALLBACK: TAKE TWO by Perdita & Honor Cargill

ARC REVIEW – WAITING FOR CALLBACK: TAKE TWO by Perdita & Honor Cargill

Waiting for Callback: Take Two (Waiting for Callback #2)by Perdita & Honor CargillPublisher – Simon and Schuster UKRelease Date: 26th January 2017Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Elektra has finally landed a part in a film. It’s the dream. Well …until she works out that Straker is a movie so dystopian that within weeks most of the cast and all of the crew wish that the world had actually ended (preferably in scene one). And while it’s obviously great news that she’s moved from the friend-zone with Archie to become his almost-girlfriend, it would be better if he hadn’t immediately relocated […]

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REVIEW – HARRY POTTER and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K Rowling

Posted January 16, 2017 by Emma in 2017 Books, Fantasy, Harry Potter, J.K Rowling, Magic, Reviews / 6 Comments
REVIEW – HARRY POTTER and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K Rowling

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter #1)by J.K. Rowling Publisher – Bloomsbury Children’sRelease Date (this edition) – September 1st 2014Buy – Amazon | Book Depository When a letter arrives for unhappy but ordinary Harry Potter, a decade-old secret is revealed to him that apparently he’s the last to know. His parents were wizards, killed by a Dark Lord’s curse when Harry was just a baby, and which he somehow survived. Leaving his unsympathetic aunt and uncle for Hogwarts, a wizarding school brimming with ghosts and enchantments, Harry stumbles upon a sinister mystery when he finds a three-headed dog guarding […]

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WING JONES PHOTO BLOG TOUR: Stop 17

Posted January 13, 2017 by Emma in Blog Tour, Photo Tour, Walker Books, Wing Jones / 4 Comments
WING JONES PHOTO BLOG TOUR: Stop 17

I’m so excited to be part of this book photo tour, I mean it’s Wing Jones, the most anticpated, uplifting book of 2017! This #WJPhotoTour follows Katherine Webber and her journey to stardom as a debut writer, of Wing Jones and the inspiration that lead to the inspiring words in this beautiful bounded book by Walker. From childhood memories that inspired her writing to her time living in Atlanta and Asia that influenced the book to authors she’s met over the years right up to receiving her first finished copy of the book, follow along to see Katherine’s author life […]

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MINI-REVIEWS Part 1….

MINI-REVIEWS Part 1….

…of all books I didn’t get to review in 2016! (So due to loads of things last year, there was some really great books that I never got to review so I thought I would so some really short reviews that would make me feel better for reviewing them and showing you just how amazing they are!) Did I Mention I Miss You (DIMILY #3)by Estelle MaskamePublisher – Black and White PublishingDate read – September 2016Find my reviews for book 1 and book 2 Review – This is it, the end of the most addictive and sensational contemporary novel to […]

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HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here’s to 2017!

Posted January 1, 2017 by Emma in Blog / 5 Comments
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here’s to 2017!

                   Hi Everyone, and a very Happy New Year to all of you! 2016 has been a year for me and a brilliant one at that. Aside from the crap that’s happened in the news personally long myself, and my family are happy and healthy that is all I care about. Before I end 2016 completely here is the highlights for me, both personally and bookish.  Pic 1: Turning 21…I’m Old! 😋😜– Ha I’m only joking, a big milestone but I don’t feel any different. I had a very special day and my […]

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