Highlights From My Bookstagram

I’ve mentioned a few times on my blog that I have a Bookstagram account and many of the photos I use in my posts, can be found on my Bookstagram account.

My Bookstagram account is @reading_at_teatime and I created it around the summer of 2015.

I thought it would be fun to create a blog post featuring some of my favourite photos from my Bookstagram, although I have tried to pick those which I haven’t included in posts on here before.

As you can tell, I feature a range of different books on my account. I would love it if you liked it enough to give it a follow!

Do you have a Bookstagram account? Leave your @ below and I’ll check it out!

Elanor 🙂

Book Recommendation: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Hello again, fellow bookworms!

Although it’s only July, I’ve already read 35 books and I’ve got to say, some of them have been amazing!

In this time, I discovered one of my favourite books and I would 100% recommend it to everyone! I wanted to make this post to share my opinion of the book and hopefully convince some of you to read it! 🙂

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (Rating: 5 Stars)

Firstly, if you’ve never read an Agatha Christie book, you’re really missing out! I absolutely love her books and I’ve even managed to get some of my friends reading them too!

And Then There Were None is one of Christie’s most famous works, having been voted the “World’s Favourite Christie” in a global vote in 2015 to mark her 125th anniversary.

In this novel, 10 strangers arrive on Soldier Island, each having been invited there by an unknown host. They are each hiding something (a crime which they have gotten away with). When first one, then another (and so on) of their group is murdered, they begin to realise that the murderer must be among them.

There is a major plot twist in this novel, which is partly why I love it so much! I read this  book in a day and rated it 5 Stars which I think says a lot!

It has been made into TV adaptions and is even the plot of a Family Guy episode (Episode 1, Season 9) called “And Then There Were Fewer”. I don’t usually watch Family Guy but my best friend got me to watch this episode with her before I had read the book and it was actually pretty good!

I would definitely recommend this book to you all and I hope that more people will read this book!

Bye for now,

Elanor 🙂

Review: Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare *Spoiler Free*

Hi there fellow bookworms!

I recently finished reading Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare, which is the second book in her Dark Artifices trilogy and thought that this was the perfect book to review first on this blog.

First things first: I LOVED this book! My parents bought me Lady Midnight as a Christmas present and I was lucky enough to be bought Lord of Shadows by a friend, as a birthday present.

Normally, I don’t like reading a series as it is being published, I prefer to wait until the whole series is available to be read as I have a tendency to forget details from the previous book. Initially, I’d told myself that I was not going to read Lord of Shadows until the final book in the trilogy was published as I’m not a particularly patient person and was worried that this book would end on a cliffhanger. I was right.

Through this book, I loved the focus on the rest of the Blackthorns (and Emma and Cristina) other than just Julian and I felt that there was a great deal of development of the characters across the book. I thought that the focus on the friendship between Kit (Herondale), Ty and Livvy was really cute 🙂

Arthur was one of my favourite characters in Lady Midnight, partly because I was confused as to how none of the Clave had realised how obviously unwell he was and I liked discovering a little more about him in this book.

One of my favourite things about this book was the reappearance of characters from The Mortal Instruments, The Bane Chronicles and even Tales From the Shadowhunter Academy!

If you haven’t read this already and are worried about being left on cliffhanger ending until the final book is published, I’d save reading Lord of Shadows until just before the final book is published!

There is so much more to talk about with this book but I don’t want to spoil the book for anyone who hasn’t read it!

Overall, I really enjoyed this book and I can’t wait for the final Dark Artifices book to come out!

Rating: 4 Stars 

Have any of you read Lord of Shadows yet? I’d love to discuss it!

Elanor 🙂