Fantasy, YA, Romance & Thrillers
The Book Blog Life
Hi, I’m Jordann! 30ish years old with a massive love of reading.
If you want to read about all the books I’m reading and trying then stick around.

All my ramblings…

The Wizards of Once book review
I found The Wizards of Once in a charity shop and I was intrigued, I knew that the How To Train Your Dragon books were beloved but I had never…

The Hunger Games book review
When I say Sunrise on the Reaping has put me back into the world of Panem I’m not joking. The next reasonable thing to do was to reread the entire…

Water Moon book review
Water Moon was one of my Illumicrate books and I am trying to make a better effort to read them. I went into this one not really knowing what to…

Sunrise on the Reaping book review
There is something brilliant about The Hunger Games universe and getting the chance to jump back in with Sunrise on the Reaping feels like an absolute treat. I adore Haymitch,…

The Pact book review
I have always loved Jodi Picoult books, they always deal with difficult issues but offer a completely different perspective and The Pact is no different. When you read a book…

Bride book review
There has been so much hype around Bride and I was definitely intrigued, vampires and werewolves living alongside humans definitely sounded up my street. The first part of this book…

The Amulet of Samarkand book review
This was a nostalgia read for me, I read The Amulet of Samarkand back when I was in secondary school and when The Works had the complete series for ridiculous…

The Thursday Murder Club Series
I have finally caught up and read the entire published books of The Thursday Murder Club. It is a fantastic series, with a great group of characters where each of…

Deadly Occupants book review
I had seen this one everywhere on my TikTok. Could Deadly Occupants be the book to get me into horror? Which shouldn’t have been as hard as it is. When…

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow book review
After seeing some really disparaging reviews of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow I wasn’t sure whether I was going to hate it or love it. But this book took me…

June Wrap Up & July TBR | 2024
June turned out to be a slower month for me, I listened to a lot of books and it was a fantasy heavy month. I enjoyed a lot of what…

May Wrap Up & June TBR | 2024
This is a very late wrap up but May was a busy month and the start of June seems to have flown by. I did manage to get through a…

April Wrap Up & May TBR | 2024
April was my comeback month, and I had such a great reading month this time around. There were some really great reads and I didn’t struggle as much as I…

A View Across the Rooftops book review
I don’t think this has been my year for historical fiction, first the nightmare that was Nineteen Steps and now A View Across the Rooftops. It’s a little unfair of…

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi book review
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi was my only five star read in March. I recommend that anyone looking for a fantasy surrounding a female pirate and a fantastic crew of…

Murder in the Family book review
I picked this one up purely because of the hype and to be honest it was an okay read, I just wish that the ending was better. Murder in the…

March Wrap Up & April TBR | 2024
March was a slow month for me, I was in a bit of a rut and I really struggled through a lot of three star reads which no one wants…

Final Girls book review
I had heard that Final Girls was the Riley Sagar book to read, I have already read Lock Every Door and I wasn’t a huge fan of the ending. There…

Sorcery of Thorns book review
A book about books and libraries, Sorcery of Thorns felt like the perfect book for me to pick up and read. I think the magic system and the really thin…

Empire of the Vampire book review
I have so many thoughts about Empire of the Vampire that I’m not even sure where to begin. There was so much happening in this book and there was a…