December Wrap Up & Short-a-thon Fail [2018]

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📖  Hi guys!, I hope you’re having an incredible day, getting ready to start an amazing new year, from here, from my little place in the world, I wish you many successes, love, health and work, in this new year that begins. I know that all of you are capable to achieve all your goals!
In other news, here we are, and I come to tell you all about my readings of the month, or failing that, the lack of them lol.
This month I decided not to do a TBR, I honestly knew that I wouldn’t have much time to read and also I didn’t feel like reading anything specific, so this seemed like a good idea at the time. The good thing is, that I realized that I LOVE and I NEED my TBR, they help me to keep reading, no doubt. The bad thing is, that I’ve read almost nothing and I’m pretty disappointed about it. Although, what I read was good, I expected to do a better job, even more when I was participating in a Read-a-thon as incredible as the Short-a-thon, but well, life got in the way and the results aren’t that good 📖 

Book Review: An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes #1) by Sabaa Tahir

Title: An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes #1)

By: Sabaa Tahir

Pages: 480

Published: April 28th 2015

By: Razorbill 

Genre: YA|Fantasy|Romance

You can buy it HERE: Book Depository

Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free.

Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear.

It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empire’s impoverished backstreets. They do not challenge the Empire. They’ve seen what happens to those who do.

But when Laia’s brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision. In exchange for help from rebels who promise to rescue her brother, she will risk her life to spy for them from within the Empire’s greatest military academy.

There, Laia meets Elias, the school’s finest soldier—and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias wants only to be free of the tyranny he’s being trained to enforce. He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are intertwined—and that their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself.

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Try a Chapter||Book Tag (Cleaning my TBR)💫

💫 Hi guys I hope you’re having an amazing day!. This month I’m very hesitant with my readings, I don’t really know what I want to read, so I decided to make this tag so that it helps me a little to choose what I’ll read next!. I’ve wanted to do this tag for a while now (The original creator is BookParadise on YouTube), I find it super fun, so I’m really excited.
What I’ll be doing is a bit different from the original idea, and is that after reading the first chapter of each book, I’ll not only be deciding which I’ll continue reading, but I’ll also be removing at least 1 or 2 of my TBR, which honestly is out of control LOL. For this opportunity I’ll choose the 6 books that have been on my TBR the longest, obviously I want you to leave all your opinions about them in the comments, I’ll be reading because it’s always very helpful with my decisions, especially if I’m not sure about some of them.
It would be fun to do this often to clean my TBR, right ?, but we’ll see, for now I hope you enjoy this tag I’m a little nervous about this, but also super excited so, Let’s start!💫