Sky's Reads

Hux holds up four copies of books, spines facing out. They are all by Lizzie Huxley-Jones and from left to right are hits different, make you mine this Christmas, under the mistletoe with you, and reality check.

A stack of four books on a bookshelf from top down they are reality check by Lizzie Huxley-Jones, the layover by Beth Reekles, look up handsome by Jack strange, and wooing the witch queen by Stephanie Burgis

Hiya book lovers! Today is St David’s Day which is the national day of recognising Welsh people for being hot and talented and cool. How about you go read some Welsh books (here’s some fun romcoms!!) and enjoy a lil Catatonia and several Welsh cakes x 📚💙

Cover of She Gets the Girl. Block purple background with 2 hands coming down from the top, backs facing each other. One hand is a lighter tone, the other a little darker. Both hands have a wide variety of small flowers and leaves wrapped around them in different directions, largely red coloured. The lighter skin hand has red nails, the darker skin hand has nude coloured nails. Below the hands is the subtitle, "Sometimes love needs a helping hand" in a light purple, below that is the title of the book in yellow. Along the bottom of the cover is the names of both the authors.

My review of She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick

4.5/5⭐

Very sweet, very lovely relationship and characters!

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PB: pagebound.co/reviews/1108...
GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Going to be back being a bit more active posting news and bookish things that catch my eye 🙂

Cover for the book Deephaven. Title is across the middle-top curved upwards in the middle in block capitals, orange-yellow colour. Behind it spanning the whole cover is what looks like the front of a mansion, above it looming over the roof is some kind of black monster with long strands of hair and piercing blue eyes. Most of the cover is taken up by a shot looking through a doorway at a person stood in a spotlight, holding a lit candle. They've got short black hair, a long orange-brown coat, white button up shirt, black trousers and black shoes. Their stance is like they're looking around hesitantly. The sky is a green-ish colour behind the monster and there's whispers of fog around the bottom corners.

My review of Deephaven by Ethan M. Aldridge
4.5/5⭐
Gothic, tense story with super cool illustrations and world-building!

Representations: trello.com/c/mW8i0skQ/1...

PB: pagebound.co/reviews/1097...
GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Cover for the book The Spiral of Life by Francesca McMahon. Cover has the main character, Eilean, stood proud in the middle of the cover. She has red hair, with some of her hair braided and in a little bun - rest of her hair is flying in the wind, loose. She has blue magical-looking energy swirling around he. She is wearing a dark grey no-sleeve tunic with chain-mail within it, a green neck thing, cream coloured fluffy shoulder pads. She's also wearing brown troisers with a belt, and holding a sword with a golden handle in her left hand. Her right hand is holding a necklace with a spiral on it that's hung around her neck. Behind her is a glimpse of a landscape image with a orange and pink sunset, with water/part of a lake to the side.

My review of The Spiral of Life by Francesca McMahon
4.5/5⭐

A proper good Celtic mythology tale ❤️

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PB: pagebound.co/reviews/1009...
GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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bsky.app/profile/did:... this feed! If you pop them together like that it'll register for both this one and the main booksky one!
And thank you for sharing that list, I had no idea there were so many more!! (Disability!!! Steampunk!!!! Trans!!!!!)

This is my first book on @runalongwomble.bsky.social 's 2026 BookTempter’s TBR Challenge as well! Starting off with a banger 😄 I've made shelves on both goodreads and pagebound for the books I'm reading on the challenge 🙂

View the challenge here: www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/12...

Cover of Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle. Overall cover is a chaotic horror version of a king playing card. A multi coloured king is on the top and bottom of the cover. Top king is facing towards the left and has a white sword going through his head from the back, with a blue iris eyeball dripping with blood on the end. The sword for the top king is held by an amputated white hand, facing forwards, with the only the middle finger up, however it is disconnected from the hand and looking as if it was flying upwards. The hand has pink nail polish. The top king has white skin, green hair, blue and purple crown and a purple shirt. Crown has rabbits on the spikes on the crown, spikes going through their eyes. The top king is also on fire along the bottom of him. The bottom king is flipped upside down and facing towards the right and has a sword going into the back of his skull (he has not skin on his face) but it doesn't come out of the front. Instead, there are 4 purple worm-like things protruding from his skull, one out the mouth, one out the visible eye socket, and 2 coming from the other side of the skull. The sword is held by another amputated hand, all fingers gripped around the hilt, with green nail polish. He has 1 golden tooth, towards the front of the mouth, blue hair, green shirt and a reddish pink and purple crown, the spikes topped with 4 leaf clovers. Blood is along the bottom of the bottom king, dripping upwards from the sword in the back of his skull. Between the 2 kings is the title of the book and the authors name, at a slight slant.

My review of Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle
4.5/5⭐

X-Files with a bit of Junji Ito + Existential dread and depression. Perfection

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PB: pagebound.co/reviews/9923...
GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Cover for the book The Night of Baba Yaga. Solid yellow background, title of the book is in big, black letters taking up most of the cover. In the middle is a red vending machine slashed in half by a black slash outlined in red reaching from the top left corner down, curving and ending at a point on the middle right of the cover. There is a figure, with their back towards us, in black except for their arms showing. They are stood next to the vending machine looking towards it.

My review of The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani
4.5/5⭐

Female, queer John Wick! Needs to be read as if you were watching an action film

Representations: trello.com/c/a7zwXcto

PB: pagebound.co/reviews/8738...
GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Cover for The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling. Book title is in the middle, center formatting, in bright yellow font, capitalised - lightly faded as it goes towards the bottom. Beneath it is a gloved hand gripping a rock, coming from behind it. On the back of the hand looks like a panel of wires. Rock background, everything has a blue tint. Across the top is a tag line reading The cave will swallow them whole.

My review of The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
4/5⭐

Absolutely cracking world building and characters, falls a little short at the end though.

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PB: pagebound.co/reviews/7225...
GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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This year I'm gonna break out of my burn out fully and post a lot more!! Got a good review to post to kick it all off 📚❤️

Cover for the book Role Model. Pale blue background with icons from social media, numbers and elephants scattered over it around a headshot of a person with dark blue shoulder length hair, light skin, hands on the sides of their head, red lips slightly angled. The title of the book is in dark blue with a red background as 2 stripes across their eyes. Elle McNicoll's name is along the bottom of the cover formatted to look like it's in a comment bubble.

My review of Role Model by Elle McNicoll
5/5⭐

An absolute must read for everyone, especially autistics. Her best book so far.

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PB: pagebound.co/reviews/3793...
GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Getting back into the swing of things. Been distracted by LARP a fair bit recently but I'm shaking off the burn out slowly. Still won't be doing full-on massive reviews for a bit but that's not mandatory anyway 😊

Did I just post 2 reviews back to back, one of a cute kids book and another of Korean body horror? Yes I did, and both are great books 😄

Cover image. Shows the title of the book over the blue sky, clouds coloured in a gradient from yellow at the top down to pink at the bottom, seagulls are dotted around the sky too. Blue sea with white webbing across the bottom of the image. A mermaid with red hair, green t-shirt and a pearly light blue tail is waving from the water. Behind her is some magical creatures and a red and white striped lighthouse.

My review of A Mermaid's Diary by Chris Riddell
5/5⭐

Perfect art as always from Chris, and spot on humour even for adults!

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PB: pagebound.co/reviews/2824...
GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Cover image. Top half shows a human face that's made from a reddish pink gloopy jelly-like substance, that's dripping down onto a human regular-looking face on the bottom half of the image. Between the 2 faces, behind them in the background, you can see part of a rollercoaster, a greenish sky and a castle that looks a bit like the Disney castle.

My review of New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre by Cho Yeeun
4.5/5⭐

Insane, body horror-y sticky sweet book that isn't exactly *fun* but it is enjoyable.

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PB: pagebound.co/reviews/2886...
GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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My review of Needy Little Things by Channelle Desamours
3.5/5⭐

Very good, slightly predictable but not fully (at least for me), pretty damn good characters too!

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PB: pagebound.co/reviews/711410
GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Cover of Strange Pictures by Uketsu. Cover is a red background, with a green based and black walled bento box. There's red blood dripping down it, a piece of nigiri with an octopus tentale ontop and red blood between the rice and octopus. There's also a soy sauce fish shaped packet to the side.

My review of Strange Pictures by Uketsu
3.75/5⭐

Weird, engaging, but falls short with its gimmick.

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PB: pagebound.co/reviews/655672
GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Ended up getting burnt out a bit on reviews, thought it was a slump at first but no I guess it was just burn out 😅

Got 1 new review written up though on a fun book, and I just finished up another that was quite fun to read :3 Might be writing shorter/less structured reviews for a bit though

New Knights Of book!!! I absolutely love this publisher, they really know quality when they see it 😁 Can't wait to get my hands on this new one!!

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Cover of the book The Underwood Tapes by Amanda Dewitt. The cover mostly has a teal/light blue and green colour palette, black cassette tapes and their tape is woven around 2 characters stood back to back in the middle. One on the left has blonde hair in an over-the-shoulder braid wearing a white t shirt and a black jacket. They're looking towards the reader. The other character on the right has very short black hair wearing a patterned red t shirt. Their face has been smudged out.

My review of The Underwood Tapes by Amanda DeWitt
5/5⭐

Read this in 2 settings, half of the book each time. I got absolutely HOOKED!

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PB: pagebound.co/reviews/136159
GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Happy book birthday!! Grats on release!!

Rosiee (white, short curly brown hair, geometric glasses, wearing a black shirt with an alien head on it that says "humans aren't real") holding a copy of Why on Earth (Cover is Illustration with soft lines gives a hazy effect in purple, blue and orange. It depicts a circular alien ship crash landing near the santa monica pier, leaving trails of smoke behind it. In the foreground, five teenagers stand on the beach pointing at it. One records it on a phone. The title is written in white futuristic text over the top.)

It's WHY ON EARTH release day!

I’m so proud of this book and everything it turned out to be. This project took a huge leap of faith from everyone involved, trusting in us and our vision for this queer, goofy, alien book. Thank you to everyone who believed! 👽💕🛸

🌈📚 www.rosieethor.com/why-on-earth

Julia and the Shark - Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Temple Alley Summer - Sachiko Kashiwaba, Miho Satake
Little Town of Marrowville - @robbotron.bsky.social
Last Great Heir - Carina Finn
Vanquishers - @kalynnbayron.bsky.social
Cosima Unfortunate - @lauranoakes.bsky.social

Some recommendations!

Witchlings - @claribelortega.bsky.social
Vivi Conway - @littlehux.bsky.social
Strangeworlds Travel Agency - @ldlapinski.bsky.social
Hatmakers - Tamzin Merchant
Front Desk - @kellyyang.bsky.social
The Swifts - @bethatintervals.bsky.social

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Read It Forward is GO!

Buy ANY children’s book via Bookshop.org during February and we’ll donate 10% of the sale to the leading children’s reading charities, @booktrust.org.uk and @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social 📚 Every sale supports independent bookshops 📚 bit.ly/RIFEB25

West Heart Kill by Dann McDorman, The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton

If you want some just pure whimsy/joy
Strangeworlds Travel Agency by LD Lapinski, Vivi Conway and the Sword of Legend by Lizzie Huxley-Jones, Witchlings by Claribel A. Ortega
I rec these highly to adults too!

Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai, A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers, Night Call by Brenden Carlson (book 1 is a tad rough but he certainly improved writing skills in 2 & 3!), Dead Sience by S. A. Barnes, The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks

Any specific kind of genre or whatever?

Damn, my kindle is about to give out on me and I was going to pick up a kobo to replace it...

Netgalley has really been making a lot of questionable choices recently..