First of all, my apologies for the hiatus in posting this week. I’ve been suffering a miserable cold and eye infection so I’ve not really been feeling much like blogging. On the other hand, audiobooks meant I was still able to enjoy my reading without hurting my eyes. I was able to get through both The School for Good and Evil, a good vs evil fairytale by Soman Chainani and Cress, book three in the Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer. Both of these are excellent books narrated by fantastic narrators and I will do full reviews once I get rid of this cold. Added to my library this week I had been hearing good things about The Maze Runner by James Dashner, but it was not one that grabbed me so much that I wanted to buy it. I waited patiently to come to the head of my library’s ebook queue and downloaded it to my Kobo today. Cress, in both Kindle and Audible formats. This is the week of release of the third book in the Lunar Chronicles and as I adored the earlier books in the series I had this on preorder. I listened to it straight through and…
First of all, I’ve decided to extend my give-away for another week – if you’re interested in winning the first three books in Vampire Academy series from Audible check it out. A reminder that you don’t need to have an Audible subscription or account to take advantage of this prize. Good luck! This last couple of weeks, I’ve done something I don’t do very often – marathoning an entire series of books. In the last couple of weeks I have read the entire six books in the Vampire Academy series. I just adored the world, the characters and the storylines. You can follow my Vampire Academy reviews through the index. I kept thinking ah well, the books aren’t that thick (ebooks can be deceiving in that way…) but then I realised that they were four or five hundred pages each! Often I like to change things up a bit, so it says a lot for Mead’s writing and worldbuilding that she was able to retain my interest through six large books. Recently I came across a fun exercise from Random House of Canada: Reading Bingo. Please check it out on RHoC’s Facebook page or their site page. I…
First of all in honour of the new site name, Scottish eReader, and also in honour of my current obsession with Vampire Academy, I have decided to host a giveaway of the first three books in Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy series. They are: Vampire Academy. In which we first meet dhampir bodyguard-in-training Rose Hathaway and her best friend, good vampire Lissa Dragomir. This is narrated by Stephanie Wolf. Go ahead and read my review of Vampire Academy. Check out a sample. Frostbite. This is the second book in the series and Rose’s relationship with Dimitri deepens as does her and Lissa’s knowledge of spirit magic. This is narrated by one of my favourite narrators, Khristine Hvam. Check out my thoughts on the book. Check out a sample. Shadow Kiss. Things start to get more serious between Rose and Dimitri and St Vladimir’s faces an unexpected threat and tragedy is ahead. This is also narrated by Khristine Hvam. Review coming soon. Check out a sample. The prize will be gift codes to pick up the first three books from Audible.com. In order to enter the giveaway, please check out the books on Audible.com, OR share the giveaway on your favourite social…