TBR Update

Hi everyone, 

So a little while ago I posted my physical TBR for this year. Consisting of 25 books I would like to read during 2021. Hopefully it will be a better reading year than 2020. I have found that I know have some more time to read, and I am currently reading 2 books. You can find my TBR post here. 

Currently reading

I am currently re-reading Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas. The second book in the Throne of Glass series. I am re-reading this because I actually don't remember any of the details, from this one, now that I am re-reading I am rembering some. I forgot about the magical door knob called Mort, I still enjoy this side character, eventhough he only has the role of messenger. The other reason I am re-visting this book is that I would like to continue the series, Heir of Fire is on my reading list for this year. By re-reading Crown of Midnight I hope to get back into the story and feel the urge to continue onwards with Heir of Fire. One can only hope! 

I am also reading Scythe, the boyfriend has been urging me to read this, he already finished the trilogy in record time I might add. And I am now starting with the first book, because he really enjoyed these books but can't talk about them because spoilers. So I decided when I finished The Gilded Ones I would continue with Scythe, just so we can discuss it.  By the way, the first 100 pages I was really struggling to get into the book, I like the world building, but I think I needed to get into the writing style, also I haven't read any science fiction for a while, so maybe I needed to get used to that as well.

Books I finished

I finished my first book of my TBR! 

I am really proud at myself because, 1 I finished something, and 2 it was on my TBR! I am usually the kind of person who says at the beginning of the year, I am going to read these books, and then abandon the TBR and read something random. So I am glad I already managed to finish a book in about a month, so I am all for it, it generally takes me a long time to finish anything so I am glad I managed this. 

The book I read during January is The Gilded Ones, which came out in February, and I own a beautiful Fairyloot paperback with beautiful green edges and a lot of gold.The book was amazing! I really loved it, the story is so unique I have not read anything like it. I can't wait for the second on to come out! I hope to have a review up for it somewhere this month. It is going to be a 5 star read for me. 

Stacking The Shelves #18 ~ Bad, bad girl

Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks! This is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews and anyone can get involved!

The Cake Book Tag

A while ago I was tagged by Sofia from Take A Walk On The Write Side I thought this was fun so I decided to fill it out and tag someone else.

Stacking The Shelves #17: Boekenfestijn + Manuscripta Haul

Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks! This is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews and anyone can get involved!

Reading update

Hi all!

I hope you all had a great weekend! I sure did, I did lots of reading, outside in the sun! Loved it, we had some great weather this week! But know it is raining yet again. Anyway I am half way through two great books! Below the two books I am currently reading.

TBR-Update #1

What have I read? 

1. Runes ~ Runes #1 ~ Ednah Walters
2. Cirque Du Freak ~ Cirque Du Freak #1 ~ Darren Shan
3. Glass Houses ~ Morganville Vampires #1 ~ Rachel Vincent
4. Bitten ~ Women Of Otherworld #1 ~ Kelley Armstrong
5. Of Breakable Things ~ Of Breakable Things #1 ~ A. Lynden Rolland
6. My Wishful Thinking ~ Shel Delisle
7. Aubrey ~ The Encounters series #1 ~ April Vance
8. Nomad ~ J.L. Bryan
9. Eyes Ever To The Sky ~ The Sky Trilogy #1~ Katie French

What I want to add to my TBR?

1. Reread/Herlezen: Beautiful Creatures ~ The Caster Chronicles #1 ~ Kami Garcia & Margareth Stohl
2. Beautiful Darkness ~ The Caster Chronicles #2 ~ Kami Garcia & Margareth Stohl
3. Beautiful Chaos ~ The Caster Chronicles #3 ~ Kami Garcia & Margareth Stohl
4. Beautiful Redemption ~ The Caster Chronicles #4 ~ Kami Garcia & Margareth Stohl
5. Erik of het klein insectenboek ~ Godfried Bomans
6. Profeet van de Duivel ~ Duivel #1 ~ Adrian Stone
7. Zoon van de Duivel ~ Duivel #2 ~ Adrian Stone
8. Ziel van de Duivel ~ Duivel #3 ~ Adrian Stone
9. Maire ~ De roep van de jachtmaan ~ Tisa Pescar
10. Jager ~ Jager & Prooi #1 ~ Kim ten Tusscher
11. Gebonden In Duister ~ Lilith #1 ~ Kim ten Tusscher
12. Verbroken In Schemer ~ Lilith #2 ~ Kim ten Tusscher
13. Geboren In Licht ~ Lilith #3 ~ Kim ten Tusscher
14. Reread/Herlezen: Shiver ~ Wolves Of Mercy Falls #1 ~ Maggie Stiefvater
15. Linger ~ Wolves Of Mercy Falls #2 ~ Maggie Stiefvater
16. Forever ~ Wolves Of Mercy Falls #3 ~ Maggie Stiefvater
17. Ivoren Hart ~ Evi Parker

Currently Reading: 

1. Reread: The Vampire Academy ~ The Vampire Academy #1 ~ Richelle Mead
2. Hedge Witch ~ The Cloven Land Trilogy #1 ~ Simon Kewin
3. Het Meisje Dat Vlam Kon Vatten En Andere Verhalen ~ J. Sharpe

Stacking The Shelves #16 Dutch Edition

Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks! This is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews and anyone can get involved!

So I found myself another great model to take pictures with! His name is Dennis and was a gift from my sister for my mom's birthday! I hope you like my tiny cute little model! ;D

Het meisje dat vlam kon vatten en andere verhalen ~ J. Sharpe

Maire ~ De Roep van de Jachtmaan ~ Tisa Pescar

Wait, this book is signed? Wow Great signature! 

Jager ~ Kim Ten Tusscher

Wait is this one signed too??? Let me check. 

A big thank you to the publisher Zilverspoor. Who provided me this copy!

Duivel Trilogie ~ Adrian Stone

Lilith Trilogie ~ Kim Ten Tusscher

What did you get this week?

Ramblings: Misinterpretation

I really need to get something of my chest, because one of my reviews, got misinterpreted by author, Darren Shan.  You can read, what he had to say about it here: Darren Shan News. It has been bugging me all week so that is why I am writing about it know.


It's my review of Cirque Du Freak #1, which you can read here: Cirque Du Freak. In the review I clearly stated that I was dissappointed by the first book in the series, because I have seen the movie first. This was interpreted by the author as me liking the movie better than the book. NO, that was not what I meant to say at all because my motto really is: Books are always better than the movie.  So I want to rectify this part of my review right here and now:

I in no way intended to say that the movie is better than the book! 

So why was it interpreted that way? I think I know why, the movie ruined the reading experience for me, gave me very high expectations of the book, with lots of action, many things happening at the same time. Where as the book took things a little slower, this took me by surprise and left me with know choice but explaining it, very badly, the way I did in my review. The movie just gave me a false image of what the book might be like. I really wish I could reverse the situation and read the books before seeing the movie. I can promise you this, I will not write a movie review before I read all the books.

This bad feeling also concluded in me picking up the second book in the series: The Vampire's Assistant. I just started reading it friday night and I can promise you that the review for this book is going to be a lot different than that of the first, because I am loving it already. There is less mix up with the movie. Or maybe I have gotten use to the fact that I really need to separate them. Put them in different boxes in my head.

Just the way I did with The Vampire Diaries, which causes them same kind of reactions for people, the way I reacted by seeing Cirque du Freak first before reading it. I heard people say about TVD: the books are so disappointing and  that the TV-series is so much better. (This is when my blood begins to boil because the books are equally as good as the TV-series, just different.) By the way, I haven't read the TVD books after Midnight because they are not written by L.J. but by a ghostwriter.

I hope you all understand a little better where I am coming from now. I am not going to change my review, this article is just to clarify it a little more.  I am glad to get this of my chest I am feeling a little better now.

Stacking The Shelves #15 ~ DVD Edition

Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks! This is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews and anyone can get involved!

This week I am not going to show of many books, instead I am doing a DVD edition, since I have gotten many DVD's lately! So here we go! 

New Girl Season 1

New Girl Season 2

Dragon Hunter

Jack The Giant Slayer

Pitch Perfect

Hansel & Gretel ~ Witch Hunters

Black Plague

Salomon Kane

Resident Evil: After Life

Game Of Thrones season 1, 2 and 3!!

What did you think of my little sheep? Cute aren't they? I thought it was fitting since it is spring time here in the Netherlands and for once the weather has been decent!

Books  ~ Freebies

What did you get this week?