PidginPea's Book Nook: { Something Old, Something New }

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{ Something Old, Something New} is a meant to help us focus on the new releases in our TBR piles and also hand-pick some older books that we've been meaning to read. (I'm hoping down the road when I have more time to read I can add in the "something borrowed" and "something blue"... but for now, when I'm lucky to read 2 books a month, it's just "old" and "new".)

On my reading list for November 2018 is...

{ Something Old }

A Great and Terrible Beauty
by Libba Bray

Publication date: December 9, 2003
Available as: hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, ebook, audiobook
Pages: 277
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Suggested tags: young adult (ages 13-17), historical fiction, gothic

First in the Gemma Doyle series. From Goodreads:

"It's 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls and their foray into the spiritual world's lead to?"

I'm in the mood for some historical fiction, and this one's been on my TBR for a long time. The spiritualism aspect really appeals to me - a reviewer described it as "gothic fantasy" and as soon as I read that I needed it in my hands. Like yesterday.

{ Something New }

The Wren Hunt
by Mary Watson

Publication date: November 6, 2018
Available as: hardcover, Kindle edition, ebook, audiobook
Pages: 432
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Suggested tags: young adult (ages 13-17), fantasy

From Goodreads:

"Every Christmas, Wren is chased through the woods near her isolated village by her family's enemies—the Judges—and there’s nothing that she can do to stop it. Once her people, the Augurs, controlled a powerful magic. But now that power lies with the Judges, who are set on destroying her kind for good.

In a desperate bid to save her family, Wren takes a dangerous undercover assignment—as an intern to an influential Judge named Cassa Harkness. Cassa has spent her life researching a transformative spell, which could bring the war between the factions to its absolute end. Caught in a web of deceit, Wren must decide whether or not to gamble on the spell and seal the Augurs’ fate."

This synopsis sucked me right in because tbh I have no idea what is going on... but it sounds magical and complicated and I can't wait!

What's on your { Something Old, Something New} reading list for this month? Pick a book that you've been meaning to read but haven't yet (your Something Old) and a new release or soon-to-be-released book (your Something New), read and/or review them, and share a link to your posts here or tweet it at me @PidginPea! I'd love to share your books and reviews when I do my { Something Old, Something New } post at the start of each month. If you'd like to read/review more than 2 books, be my guest! I'm hoping I can do { Something Old, Something New } AND a "something borrowed" and a "something blue" in the future too!

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Rating System for Reviews

I have decided not to post negative reviews on my blog. I'd rather spend my time and effort sharing books that I really loved, spreading the word about them and getting other readers excited to try reading them for themselves.

Here are my ratings:

{ I liked it! } = I thought this book was good! I may not buy it for myself but I enjoyed reading it. I would probably recommend it to others.

{ I loved it! } = I thought this book was great! I might buy it for myself since I will probably be rereading it. I would definitely recommend it to others.

{ I'm obsessed with it! } = I thought this book was amazing! It's now officially one of my favorite books! I immediately bought a copy for myself because I will be rereading it again and again! I shall be shouting about it from the rooftops for days and I am currently recommending it to everyone I come in contact with!

My reviews are honest and my opinions are my own; your reading experience may vary, so give it a read and see what you think. :)

3 comments:

Amber HolcombJanuary 4, 2015 at 5:21 PM
Thanks so much for hosting this! Here's the link to my first post: January 2015 Pick.

~Amber

P.S. Please forgive the deleted comment - I accidentally linked to your post instead of mine. ;)
Amber HolcombFebruary 7, 2015 at 7:41 PM
Here's my {Something Old} review of Pearl in the Sand for January!

~Amber
Amber HolcombFebruary 7, 2015 at 7:41 PM
And here's my {Something New} review of Seeing Through Stones for January, along with my February picks!

~Amber