Book Bloggers Appreciation | December 2019 💻💫

💫 Hi, my beautiful bookish people, I hope you’re having the most amazing day. 💞 This is a blog post series, where every month I’ll highlight a series of blog posts, from around the book blogger community, that I enjoyed reading or that I think are amazing and deserve more love and recognition. With this, I hope to be able to somehow support other book bloggers more, and I also hope you can find new book blogs to follow or content that interests you or help you.
Maybe the look of this post will be simpler to what you usually see on the blog, but I like this idea and it’s honestly with the simple purpose of supporting each other more and we can find new content in a simple and organized way.
I don’t have a certain amount to I’m highlighting per month, they’re just posts I’ve come across with and I think they’re INCREDIBLE, so I want to share them with you all. I used to make a small top 5 with my favorite posts of the month, but I realized that I had to delete many posts to be able to select only 5, and I don’t think it’s fair, there are SO many wonderful posts and everyone deserves the same love and recognition, so that’s why I decided to make this post apart. 😊 
I hope you enjoy, like and support this idea. I LOVE YOU 🥰 and let’s start! 💫

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December Wrap Up || Finishing Trilogies & Prioritizing 2020 Plans 🌾

 🌾 Hi guys!! I hope you’re having the best day & you’re enjoying your reading 💞 Today I bring you my beloved Wrap Up of the month of December, where I’ll talk about all the books I’ve read during the month. This is officially the last Wrap Up of 2019, guys! Isn’t that crazy? This year really flew for me, but it has been in summary a great blessing in terms of my blogging life and a great learning and growth journey in my personal life. So I’m super happy to have gone through all these experiences to get where I am today, but also super ready to start a 2020 with renewed energy and many projects. 🥰

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Before I start, I can’t say goodbye to this year without thanking you for being there for me, honestly and from the bottom of my heart, you don’t know how much your comments and “likes” mean, all your interactions with me on Twitter, I’ve met wonderful people of generous souls and also bloggers who inspire me every day, so I just grateful and I’m very excited to share another year with you, so I hope you decide to stay because nothing would make me happier and there’s much more I want to share with you. ❤️ 🌟 

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In terms of reading this month has been a bit crazy, of course and as expected, I ended up reading much less than I planned, but still, I feel satisfied with what I’ve read because I fulfilled my goal that was to end with two trilogies that I’ve really loved, I’m kind of nostalgic about it but it’s also a great experience, so I’ll talk more about it below. I’ve also dedicated myself to start reading my first ARC of 2020 and an author has been kind enough to send me his work also to review and it has been a great experience, so I feel happy about it. 😄 👏🏻 
I think that in general, I’ve been much more focused on planning for next year in terms of my life and the blog and things related to my reading and writing, of which I tell you everything in the post of my goals if you want to check it out, and also I’m planning to do a new reading journal again for next year but try new things and I’m quite entertained with it, watching videos and things, I’m obsessed, I cannot lie. I feel like a little girl buying pens and things for my notebook  😂 
So I’ve read a very large book, so I’m pleased with myself, and although I had time to read something else before the end of the month, I didn’t want to force myself, I’ve already achieved my Goodreads Challenge, I’ve read 63 books in total this year, which is great, so I don’t feel pressure and I thought it was best to take it easy and use the time to plan things for the next year instead.  😊 

So super excited to share with you what I’ve read during the month and also as always, I’ll be sharing my favorite posts and some more detailed statistics. I LOVE YOU and THANK YOU again for always being there, I see you 🌾 

Book Review || The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air #3) by Holly Black

 

Title: The Queen of Nothing

By: Holly Black

Series: The Folk of the Air #3

Pages: 308

Published: November 19th, 2019

By: Little, Brown and Company

Genre: YA | Fantasy | Romance

Buy it: Book Depository

 

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He will be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.

Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to. Jude learned that lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power.

Now, as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is left reeling from Cardan’s betrayal. She bides her time, determined to reclaim everything he took from her. Opportunity arrives in the form of her deceptive twin sister, Taryn, whose mortal life is in peril.

Jude must risk venturing back into the treacherous Faerie Court, and confront her lingering feelings for Cardan, if she wishes to save her sister. But Elfhame is not as she left it. War is brewing. As Jude slips deep within enemy lines, she becomes ensnared in the conflict’s bloody politics.

And when a terrible curse is unleashed, panic spreads throughout the land, forcing her to choose between her ambition and her humanity….

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Jingle Bell Book Tag || 🎄

🎄 Hi guys! First of all and before I begin, I wish you to have the most beautiful Christmas together with your loved ones, I hope you have a lot of peace and are surrounded by love and understanding. I LOVE YOU and I wish you the greatest happiness.❤️
Well, today I came back with a book tag, something I haven’t done for a while but this time it’s special because is a Christmasy tag, I’ve been tagged by the wonderful and sweet Meghan | Meghan’s Whimsical Explorations & Reviews |, thank you, honey, for thinking of me! She’s an amazing book blogger so I highly recommend that you check her blog out, you’ll surely have a lot of fun and entertainment. I hope this is a relaxed and fun time to talk about Christmas things and put some books in the mix as we like it, it sounds like the recipe for success, so I’m super excited. 👏🏻
Before I start I want to mention that I’ve been tagged in several Christmas tags for which I feel entirely grateful, but I’ll not be able to do them all during the holidays, because I will not have the time, but I promise to do them anyway during the next year, I really feel blessed for every tag I receive, thank you SO SO much guys, my little Hufflepuff heart is happy! 🥰 😭
Now, without further ado, let’s start, I feel it will be a lot of fun! 🎄 

My 2020 Goals || Blogging, Reading & Writing 👏🏻

🌿 Hi guys! I hope you’re having a beautiful day, full of good readings. Thank you for being there for me, means the world to me.❤️ In these last weeks of 2019, I’ve been much more aware of the things I want to express and the new projects I want for my life, so this post is really super important for me. 😊  Sharing with you ALL my plans for next year transmits me a lot of positive and renewal energy, I’m very excited by 2020 I know it will be a great year for the blog, and it’s not to be presumptuous by any means, I just feel blessed and I want all the love and passion I put in my blog to really reach you, that we can share our love for reading and books one more year and we can grow together in each of our projects, supporting each other in a new year. 🥰  
I have many plans for my readings for next year, I have new ideas for post series that I’ve been thinking about a lot & I’m also very excited to start a new stage where I’ll finally begin to develop the story that has been on my mind since 3 years ago 😭  
Super excited to share this post with you, not only to share all my plans with you and get excited together but also to encourage you to start those projects that make you feel insecure, be bold and brave, we’ll move to another level of growth and happiness together. I LOVE YOU & without further ado, let’s start! 🌿

Book Review || A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic #3) by V.E. Schwab

 

Title: A Conjuring of Light

By: V.E. Schwab

Series: Shades of Magic #3

Pages: 624

Published: February 21st, 2017

By: Tor Books

Genre: YA | Fantasy | Magic

Buy it: Book Depository

 

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Witness the fate of beloved heroes – and enemies.

THE BALANCE OF POWER HAS FINALLY TIPPED…
The precarious equilibrium among four Londons has reached its breaking point. Once brimming with the red vivacity of magic, darkness casts a shadow over the Maresh Empire, leaving a space for another London to rise.

WHO WILL CRUMBLE?
Kell – once assumed to be the last surviving Antari – begins to waver under the pressure of competing loyalties. And in the wake of tragedy, can Arnes survive?

WHO WILL RISE?
Lila Bard, once a commonplace – but never common – thief, has survived and flourished through a series of magical trials. But now she must learn to control the magic, before it bleeds her dry. Meanwhile, the disgraced Captain Alucard Emery of the Night Spire collects his crew, attempting a race against time to acquire the impossible.

WHO WILL TAKE CONTROL?
And an ancient enemy returns to claim a crown while a fallen hero tries to save a world in decay. 

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Top 5 || Least-Favorite Books of 2019 👎🏻

☄️ Hi, my beautiful bookish friends!! I hope you’re having the most wonderful day! 🥰 We’re VERY close to Christmas, OMG, I can’t believe the month is going so fast, isn’t it crazy? I hope you have a beautiful Christmas and remember that it’s not about the gifts, but about connecting with the people we love and being grateful for everything we have. As always, I’m SO SO grateful for having you in my life, so THANK YOU for being there reading this post, you don’t know how much it means to me.❤️ 
So, today I bring you another one of my series of the end of the year posts, where I’m summarizing my entire year of reading. This time it’s about my least favorite books or “worst” books of the year for me, as always I want to remind you that this is only my opinion and I think it’s great if you’ve loved any of these books, they just weren’t for me, maybe because they didn’t have that click with me or because they have some kind of triggering content for me. ❌ 
I had a post recently where I talked about my most disappointing readings, and I want to clarify that this post has nothing to do with that, but here I’ll mention my top 5 of those books that I really didn’t like and don’t enjoy at all, so obviously, I’ll not be repeating any books that I mentioned in that previous post.
Again, I’m doing this post in the form of a top since I think it’s more fun like that, starting with the least non-favorite until the worst book I’ve read this year in the number 1 position. 👏🏻 
I repeat that I respect your opinion on each book 100% and it makes me happy if you’ve enjoyed them, this is only my personal opinion about each one of them & of course, I would love to know everything you think in the comments, so now, without more further ado, let’s start! ☄️

Top 10 || Favorite Books of 2019 🌟

 🌟 Hi guys! I hope you’re having the most wonderful day.❤️ Today I FINALLY bring you the post that excites me most of all the posts at this time of the year and that’s where I show you my absolute favorite books of the year!!! I’m SUPER excited for this post really, I can’t wait to share with you every book that I’ve loved during this 2019. So to make of this post something more entertaining for you and more difficult for me lol, I’ll be doing it in the form of a Top, where I’ll be showing from position number 10 to my absolute undisputed favorite of the year in position number 1. Even so, I’ve enjoyed a lot of each one of these books, so I want to recommend them a lot because each one is worth it 😍 
In case you want to know more, I’ll be leaving the links under each book, as well as a mini description of how I feel about them to give you an idea of why I love them so much. Last year, I did this same thing and I really liked how it turned out, so I’m doing it again this year, and I’ll describe each book with just one shot sentence. 😊
I hope you really enjoy it, you know that I would love to know what you think about them in the comments and without more further ado, I’m dying to start so, let’s do it! 🌟

Surprises & Disappointments || 2019 ⚡️

⚡️ Hi guys! Happy start of the week, I hope you’re having the best day, full of good readings! 🥰 I’m having so much fun making All these posts, it’s really a blessing for me to share with you all about my year in readings and chat a little, it makes me SO SO happy, so thanks for being there for me.❤️  Today I bring you a mini top of those readings that ended up surprising me way more than I expected, and on the contrary, those that ended up disappointing me when I expected a lot from them.
Later in the month, I’ll be making my post of favorite books of the year and my least favorites, so this has nothing to do with that and I will not be repeating books. What this post represents, on the one hand, are those readings of which I didn’t expect anything and ended up being incredible and on the other hand, those of which I did expect a lot and ended up falling short. I hope you understand what I’m trying to do here 😅, I’m very excited to talk to you about these books because even though some of them disappointed me, I feel that they aren’t bad books at all and I feel that you could enjoy them yourself. 👏🏻 
I hope you like it, I’ll tell you more about each one below and as always, let me know ALL your thoughts in the comments. Without further ado, let’s start!⚡️

Double ARC Review || The Summer of Madness & It’s My Life

🌿 Hi guys! I hope you’re having a beautiful weekend ❤️, here I bring you another edition of my double book reviews and this time, I have two super different stories but equally interesting and easy to read. Both are ARCs, so I want to thank both the author, Alexander Raphael who has provided me with his book to review, and NetGalley & Sourcebooks Fire for providing me with a copy also to give my honest thoughts about. I’m really grateful and blessed to have the opportunity to read ARCs, and I can’t wait to share my thoughts with you, I hope you enjoy it! 🌿