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Aliens and Portals in Salvation | Spoiler-Free Review

October 2, 2019October 1, 2019 ~ Kirstie Ellen ~ Leave a comment

Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton

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I looove the sound of this October release 😍 if there weren't so damn many good books coming out this month that I'd already bought, I'd totally be heading out to get a copy of this! * * _________________________________________ The start of a fierce fantasy duology about three maidens who are chosen for their land's greatest honor...and one girl determined to save her sister from the grave. 🌟 In the walled city-state of Alu, Kammani wants nothing more than to become the accomplished healer her father used to be before her family was cast out of their privileged life in shame. 🌟 When Alu's ruler falls deathly ill, Kammani’s beautiful little sister, Nanaea, is chosen as one of three sacred maidens to join him in the afterlife. It’s an honor. A tradition. And Nanaea believes it is her chance to live an even grander life than the one that was stolen from her. 🌟 But Kammani sees the selection for what it really is—a death sentence. 🌟 Desperate to save her sister, Kammani schemes her way into the palace to heal the ruler. There she discovers more danger lurking in the sand-stone corridors than she could have ever imagined and that her own life—and heart—are at stake. But Kammani will stop at nothing to dig up the palace’s buried secrets even if it means sacrificing everything…including herself. _________________________________________ * * #books #bookworm #bookdragon #booknerd #amreading #bookstagram #bookphotography #currentlyreading #bookrecommendations #instabook #bookflatlay #prettybooks #booksarelife #booksofinsta #bookcommunity #bookaesthetic #flatlay #gravemaidens

So who's read Renée Ahdieh's new release? I'm curious to see what people think! Somehow, I didn't even realise until about a month ago that she even had a new book coming out 😂 * * QOTD: what's your favourite hobby that isn't reading? I've been super into jigsaw puzzles lately and looove all the Ravensburg Disney ones! * * #books #bookworm #bookdragon #booknerd #amreading #bookstagram #bookphotography #currentlyreading #bookrecommendations #instabook #bookflatlay #prettybooks #booksarelife #booksofinsta #bookcommunity #bookaesthetic #flatlay #reneeahdieh #thebeautiful #newreleases

My favourite thing about this photo is that I was supposed to be a picture of books with magic... But when I was editing it I realise Girls of Paper and Fire doesn't say anything about magic in the blurb. WELP. Nonetheless, I am still keen AS for these newish releases ✊🏻 * * QOTD: What 2019 release are you wanting to read? * * #books #bookworm #bookdragon #booknerd #amreading #bookstagram #bookphotography #currentlyreading #bookrecommendations #instabook #bookflatlay #prettybooks #booksarelife #booksofinsta #bookcommunity #bookaesthetic #magicbooks #fantasybooks #flatlay #nocturna #girlsofpaperandfire #wehunttheflame

I don't own many spooky books but if I were to make a slightly thrilling TBR for October, I think I'd include these two books. Have you heard of them? The Cold is in Her Bones sounds particularly awesome. * * Naturally, my TBR for October *actually* consists of a rereading Throne of Glass and has nothing to do with spooky stuff 😂 * * #books #bookworm #bookdragon #booknerd #amreading #bookstagram #bookphotography #currentlyreading #bookrecommendations #instabook #bookflatlay #prettybooks #booksarelife #booksofinsta #bookcommunity #bookaesthetic #flatlay #thecoldisinherbones #thewood #spookyreads

What's your favourite Agatha Christie? Mine is And Then There Were None, how can it not be? * * #books #bookworm #bookdragon #booknerd #amreading #bookstagram #bookphotography #currentlyreading #bookrecommendations #instabook #bookflatlay #prettybooks #booksarelife #booksofinsta #bookcommunity #bookaesthetic #flatlay #agathachristie #themovingfinger

What would life be without novelty mugs? * * Do you collect mugs? * * #booknerdsandfriends - #mugmonday * * #books #bookworm #bookdragon #booknerd #amreading #bookstagram #bookphotography #currentlyreading #bookrecommendations #instabook #bookflatlay #prettybooks #booksarelife #booksofinsta #bookcommunity #bookaesthetic #flatlay #noveltymugs

This week I followed great advice from my mum which I think we should all take on board. I said to her, why, mother, I want to buy a book but all the new releases come out at the end of October - and how long a wait that is! And she turned to me and said, why, daughter, there is only one thing for it: you shall have to save you money and buy TWO books! * * So I did. One should always listen to there mum. And with that, I welcome a September release, Serpent and Dove, which is about WITCHES and WITCH HUNTERS marrying each other, to my shelves. Hurrah! * * #booknerdsandfriends - black cats - black * * #books #bookworm #bookdragon #booknerd #amreading #bookstagram #bookphotography #currentlyreading #bookrecommendations #instabook #bookflatlay #prettybooks #booksarelife #booksofinsta #bookcommunity #bookaesthetic #flatlay #newrelease #serpentanddove

I'm well overdue to finish this series (nothing new there). I'd say in the spirit of Halloween I should binge this series and get it done, but naturally I'm reading everything but spooky reads 😂 * * QOTD: if you had a freaky ability, what would it be? * * #booknerdsandfriends - ghosts & goblins - green and grey * * #books #bookworm #bookdragon #booknerd #amreading #bookstagram #bookphotography #currentlyreading #bookrecommendations #instabook #bookflatlay #prettybooks #booksarelife #booksofinsta #bookcommunity #bookaesthetic #flatlay #missperegrines #graybooks

Give me a 🐍 emoji if you're excited for Ninth House! 🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍 Who isn't!? Who would turn down a new Bardugo book?!? * * ________________________________________ Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most elite universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her? 🐍 Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. ________________________________________ * * #booknerdsandfriends - jack-o-lantern - books and pumpkins. Okay I don't own a single pumpkin prop and it's actually spring for me, so the Orange flowers are the best I can do 😂 * * #books #bookworm #bookdragon #booknerd #amreading #bookstagram #bookphotography #currentlyreading #bookrecommendations #instabook #bookflatlay #prettybooks #booksarelife #booksofinsta #bookcommunity #bookaesthetic #flatlay #ninthhouse #newrelease

Do you like paranormal romance novels? 🧛‍♂️They're not something I reach for very often and as it turns out, I don't own many. I always find them to be fluffy, easy reads - like Obsidian - which is great to simply take at face value. But I've never had the motivation to pick up the Shiver series by Stiefvater. Have you read this? Should I? * * #booknerdsandfriends - love bites - paranormal romance * * #books #bookworm #bookdragon #booknerd #amreading #bookstagram #bookphotography #currentlyreading #bookrecommendations #instabook #bookflatlay #prettybooks #booksarelife #booksofinsta #bookcommunity #bookaesthetic #maggiestiefvater #shiver #paranormalromance #ireadya #yabooks

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