Today I wanted to talk to you about The Names They Gave Us by Emery Lord! This was the first time I had read her work but I knew she was quite popular and has a large fan base. I had heard this book was amazing from other bloggers before reading it, and if you can’t tell by the title, I was not impressed.

If you did enjoy The Names They Gave Us, I am sorry for how badly I’m going to tear this book apart, so if you don’t want to read this, I won’t hate you because I understand!

Don’t you just hate feeling let down by books? Whenever I am told I’m going to love a book, while I may still like it but I won’t love it. This is because I start building a ‘shrine’ for the book in my mind, especially when my favourite bloggers rave on and on about it! I hate when it happens and even when I try to consciously not hype myself up for books IT STILL HAPPENS! And it’s even worse when instead of being horrible, the book is just ‘meh’ and a sad average three stars because then you can’t even rant about why you hated it extensively! *insert sad face emoji here*

Hi friends! 

Today I’m bringing to you a review for Stalking Jack The Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco! I’m not much of a thriller reader and going into this, I didn’t know anything about it, but we had recently studied a murder mystery novel in literature (in school) set in Victorian England and it was The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde so I was quite interested to read this! And I have to say, I’m so glad I did!

In case you didn’t know, it’s pride month – a time to celebrate LGBTQI+ books and writers! And of course then there was no better time than this to share with you a special, Pride Month edition of mini reviews about books featuring bisexual main characters both of which are #ownvoices (meaning the authors feature the same diverse characteristics as their character)! 

Let’s just get started!

I have never been a huge fan of pirates, if I’m being really honest. I didn’t see what was so appealing about them, especially since they are well known thieves and in some cases murders. I have seen the first Pirates Of The Caribbean but haven’t seen the others, and as a child, Peter Pan was a story I avoided because there was nothing appealing about a guy with a hook for an arm. 

Going into Daughter Of The Pirate King, I didn’t really have high expectations – not because it didn’t sound interesting – but because pirates were a ‘meh’ for me. And this book totally changed my mind!