Hello, happy Friday and also Tortured Poets Department day to all those who are celebrating! Today, I have such a treat of an interview with fellow Swiftie and Amy, Amy Clarkin, to share and I hope you love reading it. 1. Hi fellow Amy, thanks so much for being here today! To start us off, can you describe What Walks These Halls/Who Watches This Place in 5 words? Spooky, mysterious, secrets, found family (wow 5 words is hard!) 2. Your series are ghost stories, and very good ones, so I was wondering what you love most about writing this genre? (Or subgenre? Forgive me for being clueless lol) *f ..read more

Hi everyone, Today, I’m delighted to be part of another blog tour and sharing my review! This is another super fun installment in the Alex Neptune serie, which follow a boy who discovers he has powers over the sea and this is his fourth adventure. Now, I’ve also read book 3 recently as preparation for this blog tour, but not reviewed it, so it’ll be a big higgledy piggedly but you can expect a post about that too! This time, Alex and his brilliant best friends Zoey and Anil are up against pirate zombies who ride upon crabs, and while that may sound silly, I can assure you they are very menacin ..read more

Hi everyone! As promised, there are two blog tour posts this weekend, and this is the second! I’ve been reading this author for many years now and loved the first book in her new series last year, so it’s a huge treat to be part of the blog tour for the second! In the Royal Jewel Plot we once again follow recently reunited siblings Alice and Sonny as they solve a mystery aboard a boat, in this case the yacht the Lady Rose, which they have just inherited. The then king Edward (this is set in 1936) and his party is their first charter since taking over the boat, and everyone in their family is v ..read more

Happy Saturday! This weekend I have two blog tour posts to share with you, and here is the first! I’ve really enjoyed middle grade books by this author in the past so I was delighted when I was asked to review her young adult debut. We follow a teenager named Tara who has recently been plagued by night terrors, totally transforming her life. She was adopted as a child and feels very different to her white parents, as she is Black. She decides that the only way she thinks she will find any peace is to visit her biological homeland of Nigeria, and then upon arrival she convinces her dad to let ..read more

Hello again! Today, I’m thrilled to have another blog tour post to share with you, this time an interview with Janine Beacham to celebrate her new release the Doll Twin! 1. Hi Janine, I’m so delighted to have you here today! Can you please describe THE DOLL TWIN in 5 words? I’m so happy to be here! Thank you for hosting me on your blog. In five words: Creepy, thrilling, suspenseful, twisty, nailbiting! 2. The book is set in 1920, and explores what life was like following World War One. This is a fascinating time period and it’s hardly ever written about, so I wanted to ask what made you want t ..read more

Hello everyone! Today, I am so thrilled to be starting off the blog tour for Tamsin Mori’s new book Guardians of the Source, which is something I’m very excited to read soon. I have an amazing guest post from Tamsin to share! A House Full of Magic People are remarkably unwilling to notice magic – swift to dismiss anything out of the ordinary. That’s how magic stays hidden. Most of the time. Curiosity is stunted by the demands of the everyday – crowded out by shopping lists and appointments and utility bills and calendars. Perhaps that’s why children are better at sensing magic? Their heads ar ..read more

Hi everyone! Some of you may remember a post I did in January about making it my mission to start featuring more author interviews here again, and I was so lucky to have so many people interested. One of these was Laila Rifaat and I am so excited to be sharing her answers with you today! 1. Hi Laila, I’m so delighted to have you here today! Can you please describe Aliya to the Infinite City for us in 5 words? Hi Amy, Thanks so much for asking me to be a part of your blog! Aliya to the Infinite City in 5 words: Adventure, Time travel, Friendship, Mythical Creatures and Flying carpets! 2. This b ..read more

Hello everybody! Hope you’re having the best Monday you can be. Today, I’m delighted to be part of the blog tour for the brand new body swap comedy middle grade Skylar and the K-Pop Headteacher. I have a post from the author to share about the main character’s playlist alongside my review! Let’s hear from Luan Goldie… In the book, Skylar is a Glow, which is the fandom name for the fictional K-pop boyband AZ8. AZ8 is a nod to BTS and its fandom ARMY. The seven-piece group, currently serving in the South Korean military, have over 230 songs, and I’ve chosen four. The first is Boy With Luv featur ..read more

Hello everybody! Today, I’m delighted to be part of the Lie or Die blog tour with my review. Also, if you head over to my social medias (goldenbooksgirl on both twitter and Instagram!), you’ll find a giveaway where the publisher is giving away five copies via me. This is a YA thriller that kind of mashes up the concepts of Big Brother and the Traitors to form the premise of its own reality show, with a high tech twist (and plenty of plot twists too!). We follow a girl named Kat whose friend applied on her behalf, and watch as things descend into terror and chaos when people start dying for rea ..read more

Hello, hope you’re having as happy a Monday as you possibly can be! Today, I’m delighted to be part of the blog tour for Rebeka Shaid’s young adult debut novel Seven Days. It follows teenagers Noori and Aamir, whose lives suddenly collide after a chance meeting. They are both dealing with grief after the loss of loved ones and their love story over the course of seven days is also the story of them beginning to heal their broken hearts. The book of course deals with some tough subjects and is very moving, but I feel that there was always this underlying heartbeat of hope and a deep sense of lo ..read more