Little Red's Reading Blog

Her entire life Fallon has trained to be a warrior like her sister Sorcha. Although her sister was killed in battle by Caesar’s forces her shadow looms large in Fallon’s daily life. She spends her days training with her friend and love Maelgwyn, and eagerly awaits the day when her father, King Virico, will accept her into his war band. Fearing that she...

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Booktuber ReadByZoe started the Austentatious Book Club back in August beginning with Pride and Prejudice.  While I have been keeping up with the book club these past few months I have not kept up with posting about it! I had not read either Persuasion of Northangar Abbey before but I had seen the film adaptations and loved them. I did not enjoy reading them as...

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The Grisha are a group of individuals born with magical gifts to heal, kill, start fires and a number of other useful skills. For the druskelle of Fjerda the Grisha are dangerous demons hunted and burned alive. For the merchants of Kerch, the Grisha are a commodity. When a new drug comes on the market that gives the Grisha near invincible powers, merchants...

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When Cath applied to college she assumed she would be rooming with her twin sister Wren. But when Wren announces that she will not only be in a different room but also a different dorm entirely, Cath finds herself with a roommate she isn’t sure even likes her, much like her favourite literary character Simon Snow. While Cath holes up in her dorm...

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Aelin Ashryver Galathynius has revealed herself to the world as the Queen of Terrasen, come to reclaim her crown and her land but the lords of Terrasen will not recognize her as their queen. Aelin and her court must fight against time to recruit allies and fight the rising forces of the dark lord Erawan.  By protecting Dorian Havillard from the Yellowlegs unleashed...

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Laia and her brother grew up raised by their grandparents in the Scholar’s Quarter. The night a Mask, the elite soldiers of the Martial Empire, comes to their home, changes her life forever. When her grandparents are brutally murdered and her brother sent to prison Laia flees seeking the only people who can help her, the resistance, a group of people her family...

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The Assassin and the Pirate Lord:  When Adarlan's Assassin, Celaena Sardothien is ordered to go on a mission to Skull's Bay by the King of Assassins, she wasn't expecting to her rival Sam Cortland to tag along. Together the two were raised by Arobynn Hamel to become lethal weapons, and he raised the two to compete and distrust one another. When Celaena discovers that...

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After Maven’s betrayal, Mare and Cal join forces with the Scarlet Guard and head to their secret headquarters on an island called Tuck. But the Red resistance is not so different from the cruel Silver elite, and against orders Mare, Cal, Farley, Kilorn and Shade go looking for the Newbloods on the list Julian had compiled and given to Mare, a list that...

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When the Marauder, the vessel of the fierce Bloody Baroness and her crew, is boarded by the man Captain Androma Racella had left for dead years ago, all hell breaks loose. Her former lover and master, still reeling from being abandoned by her years ago, brings an unwelcome proposition from another man from her past. Governor Cyprian offers to clear all Andi's crimes...

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Yesterday my sisters, mother, and I went to the Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games to meet Diana Gabaldon. Growing up we knew Diana Gabaldon was mum's favourite author and Outlander her favourite book and would buy any of her books we saw for Mother's Day, Birthdays and Christmases. When the Outlander show came out two years ago, we were excited to see...

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Booktuber ReadByZoe has recently started the Austentatious Book Club, reading none other than Jane Austen herself for the next six months! This month we read Pride and Prejudice.  I read it once before long ago and I have watched the adaptations so many times I know them by heart so I was very excited to begin. I have really enjoyed reading Pride and...

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19 years after the battle of Hogwarts, Harry Potter takes his second son Albus to Platform 9 3/4s to go to Hogwarts for the first time. Albus says he is merely nervous that he will be sorted into Slytherin, but in fact he fears living up to the name of his father. When he is indeed sorted into Slytherin as he feared, he...

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In anticipation of the release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Super Space Chick and The Nerdy Girlie are currently hosting a Potter Month, and being such a Potterhead myself I decided to contribute! To take my mind off waiting for the midnight release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child tonight I am throwing a Harry Potter party for my boyfriend and I...

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After he has displeased his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus and turned mortal as punishment. Not only is Apollo a mortal, but he is a teenager with acne and flab! Alone and vulnerable, Apollo is soon mugged by some thugs in an alley but is saved by a demigod named Meg. It is clear to Apollo that he...

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Mare Barrow is a Red, the downtrodden class of society forced to serve the elite Silvers as slaves and fodder in a never-ending war.  As a thief, Mare  avoids conscription, whilst taking what she needs in a world where she will be given nothing. But when she slips her hand into the pocket of a palace servant her life seems to change for...

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In anticipation of the release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Super Space Chick and The Nerdy Girlie are currently hosting a Potter Month, and being such a Potterhead myself I decided to contribute! Hogwarts is first and foremost a school. Before the sets were built on Leavesden Studios, Harry Potter was filmed at locations all over the U.K. Many iconic scenes from the...

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