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Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura

Firstly, a huge thank you to Doubleday and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.

Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: 22/04/2021
Length: 400 pages
Genre: Fantasy | Translated Fiction | Magic Realism

CW: n/a

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How will you help your friend if she doesn’t want to be saved?

In a tranquil neighbourhood of Tokyo, seven teenagers wake to find the mirrors in their bedrooms are shining.

At a single touch, they are pulled from their lonely lives into a wondrous castle filled with watchful portraits, winding stairways and twinkling chandeliers. Hidden within the walls is a key which will grant one wish, and a set of clues with which to find it. But there’s a catch: they must leave the premises by five o’clock or suffer a fatal end.

And so they begin to unlock each other’s stories: how a boy is showered with more gadgets than love; how another suffers a painful and unexplained rejection, and how a girl lives in fear of her predatory stepfather.

As time passes, the devastating truth emerges: only those brave enough to share their stories will be saved.

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How Do You Live? by Genzaburo Yoshino

Firstly, a huge thank you to Ebury Publishing, Rider Books and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of How Do You Live? in exchange for an honest review.

Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Publication Date: 08/04/2021
Length: 280 pages
Genre: Translated Fiction | Japanese Fiction

CW: n/a

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The streets of Tokyo swarm below fifteen year-old Copper as he gazes out into the city of his childhood. Struck by the thought of the infinite people whose lives play out alongside his own, he begins to wonder, how do you live?

Considering life’s biggest questions for the first time, Copper turns to his dear uncle for heart-warming wisdom. As the old man guides the boy on a journey of philosophical discovery, a timeless tale unfolds, offering a poignant reflection on what it means to be human.

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The Guardian by Erin Lee

Firstly, a huge thank you to Erin Lee for sending me a copy of her novel in exchange for an honest review.

Publisher: Self-Published
Publication Date: 20/04/2021
Length: 410 pages
Genre: Fantasy | Young Adult

CW: n/a

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A human with dragon magic. A dragon desperate for his magic to return. A promise of revenge that ties them together…

One of only ten humans with dragon magic, seventeen-year-old Alvis Witt is forced to hide his identity as a Talisman Wielder when all he wants is to fight alongside the resistance group, Linless. Then Alvis gets his chance to use his secret magic to rescue the dangerous and notorious dragon, Rae Bremmet, from the country’s heavily guarded prison. What seems like a simple mission twists into a series of events that leaves Alvis and Rae with a thirst for revenge for everything their corrupt homeland has stolen from them.

But Alvis and Rae can only agree on one thing—they fight best when they fight alone.

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Blog Tour – The Lore of Prometheus by Grant Austin-King

Welcome to my stop on The Write Reads’ Ultimate Blog Tour for the winner of BBNYA 2020, The Lore of Prometheus. Thank you to The Write Reads for the opportunity to take part.

Publisher: Fallen Leaf Press
Publication Date: 30/11/2018
Length: 320 pages
Genre: Paranormal | Urban Fantasy | Thriller

CW: n/a

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John Carver has three rules: Don’t drink in the daytime, don’t gamble when the luck has gone, and don’t talk to the dead people who come to visit.

It has been almost five years since the incident in Kabul. Since the magic stirred within him and the stories began. Fleeing the army, running from the whispers, the guilt, and the fear he was losing his mind, Carver fell into addiction, dragging himself through life one day at a time.

Desperation has pulled him back to Afghanistan, back to the heat, the dust, and the truth he worked so hard to avoid. But there are others, obsessed with power and forbidden magics, who will stop at nothing to learn the truth of his gifts. Abducted and chained, Carver must break more than his own rules if he is to harness this power and survive. 

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Backstories by Simon Van der Velde

Firstly, a huge thank you to Simon for sending me a copy of his novel in exchange for an honest review.

Publisher: Smoke & Mirrors Press
Publication Date: 25/03/2021
Length: 116 pages
Genre: Short stories | Fiction

CW: Racism, racist language, homophobia, homophobic language, anti-semitism, incest, sexual abuse

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Dreamers, singers, heroes and killers, they can dazzle with their beauty or their talent or their unmitigated evil, yet inside themselves they are as frail and desperate as the rest of us. But can you see them? Can you unravel the truth? These are people you know, but not as you know them.Peel back the mask and see.

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Blog Tour – On Hampstead Heath by Marika Cobbold

Welcome to my stop on the On Hampstead Heath blog tour! Huge thanks to Arcadia Books and Midas PR for giving me the opportunity to take part in this! I was provided a copy of the novel in exchange for an honest review.

Publisher: Arcadia Books
Publication Date: 13/05/2021
Length: 160 pages
Genre: Contemporary Fiction

CW: n/a

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Thorn Marsh was raised in a house of whispers, of meaningful glances and half- finished sentences. Now she’s a journalist with a passion for truth, more devoted to her work at the London Journal than she ever was to her ex-husband.

When the newspaper is bought by media giant The Goring Group, who value sales figures over fact-checking, Thorn openly questions their methods, and promptly finds herself moved from the news desk to the midweek supplement, reporting heart-warming stories for their new segment, The Bright Side, a job to which she is spectacularly unsuited.

On a final warning and with no heart-warming news in sight, a desperate Thorn fabricates a good-news story of her own. The story, centred on an angelic apparition on Hampstead Heath, goes viral. Caught between her principles and her ambitions, Thorn goes in search of the truth behind her creation, only to find the answers locked away in the unconscious mind of a stranger.

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