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Title: The Book of M Author: Peng Shepherd Rating: 3/5 I finished 'The Book of M' about a week ago now and have had enough time to fully form all my mixed feelings about it, so here's my (spoiler-y) review! I fell in love with the book as soon as I started reading it, but it got progressively harder to enjoy the more I stuck with it. And here's why. There wasn't nearly enough world building. I would have actually preferred 'The Book of M' to be split into two books if it meant we would get more world building in the first. There just wasn't enough explaining - the whole way through I felt like there were gaps in my knowledge about the world when characters would mention something I was expected to have figured out on my own. It was kinda confusing. I know it's not good to spell everything out but at least give us a chance maybe ??? For example, I never understood how Ursula managed to get them out of the cage and into this new and i...

After reviewing my favourite and my least favourite books of 2018, it's time to look forward to what's to come! Here are the books I'm excited to get my hands on in 2019: 'Children of Virtue and Vengeance' by Tomi Adeyemi If you have read my favourite books of 2018 post, this will come as no surprise to you. 'Children of Blood and Bone' was my absolute favourite book of this year, so of course I can't wait to read the next in the trilogy! This series is the perfect mix of magic, fantasy and adventure and I love it so, so much. It comes out in March 2019, so I don't have that long to wait! 'Speeches of Note' by Shaun Usher I wrote a Blogmas post about my favourite book I received as a Christmas present , which was 'Letters of Note' by Shaun Usher. So, when I heard there was another in the series, I couldn't wait to read it! I think this one is already out, so I will get it when I go back ...