Hello everyone and happy new month! I hope you had a good reading month in June and I wish you the best this new month. Last month, I met most of my reading goals and I am so happy about it so I will be using the same strategy this month where I ensure that … Continue reading Joyful July: New Releases To Check Out This Month
This book was recommended to me at a bookstore I visited a couple of months ago and I placed a priority on reading it because I was intrigued by the blurb. This is my first by the author although I was gifted a copy of his other novel last year which I haven’t still gotten … Continue reading Book Review: Believers and Hustlers by Sylva Nze Ifedigbo
Hello everyone, Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday! Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. THE TOPIC THIS WEEK IS: … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Comfort Reads
I met the author of this book on a flight from Lagos to London and as we chatted, I got to know that he was a writer who was almost done with writing his debut novel (this book). Imagine my excitement when I got a message from him telling me his book had been published … Continue reading Book Review: The Bachelor’s Ride by Kolapo Akinola
Hello everyone, I hope your week has been good so far. I have being seeing this book tag on several book blogs and thought it would be fun to try it out. So here we go.... THE LAST BOOK I WAS GIFTED As part of the wedding anniversary gifts I received from my husband last … Continue reading Book Tag Thursday: The Last Book I…..
Hello everyone, I hope your day has been good so far. Welcome to WWW Wednesday! WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam @Taking On a World of Words, and how it works is each month I will answer three questions about my book life by answering these three questions: What are you currently … Continue reading WWW Wednesday
I fell in love with this author's work when I read his crime series, 'Easy Motion Tourist' and 'When Trouble Sleeps' therefore I was excited to read this book. 'The Beautiful Side of the Moon' follows Osaretin, an IT worker living in Lagos, Nigeria after he finds a strange note on his office table. Osaretin … Continue reading Book Review: The Beautiful Side of the Moon by Leye Adenle
This is the second book in the 'Wideacre' Trilogy and after reading the first book, I was eager to know how the story unfolds in this book. 'The Favored Child' follows Beatrice Lacey's two children, Julia and Richard. As they grow up together in the now bankrupt Wideacre estate raised by their aunt, they are … Continue reading Book Review: The Favored Child by Philippa Gregory
This is the fourth book in the "Hedgehog Hollow" series by the author and I loved reading books 1 to 3 so I really had high hopes for this one or at least for it to follow in the trend of the other three. In this book, the author focuses mostly on Phoebe who used … Continue reading Book Review: A Wedding At Hedgehog Hollow by Jessica Redland
I read the author's debut a couple of years ago so when I stumbled upon this novella by her, I was curious to read it and see how her work has grown thus far. 'The Baby is Mine' is a story set in Lagos, Nigeria during the time of the COVID-19 Pandemic lockdown told from … Continue reading Book Review: The Baby Is Mine by Oyinkan Braithwaite