We all know I'm a sucker for a foil-detailed cover, and it just happens that there are soooo many beautiful ones out at the moment - and quite a few on my TBR stack - so I thought I might pull together a mini stack of some of my favourite shiny covers to read from in April.




Gingerbread :: Helen Oyeyemi
I have read - and loved - a couple of books by Helen Oyeyemi, and I am really excited to read this one, her brand new novel. Thanks to Macmillan Australia for sending me this copy!

The Beast's Heart :: Leife Shallcross
I bought this Beauty and the Beast retelling about a year ago, and am totally embarrassed not to have read it yet!

The Binding :: Bridget Collins
I know next to nothing about this book, but my book club is reading it this month.

The Priory of the Orange Tree :: Samantha Shannon
I have been looking forward to reading this since I first heard Samantha Shannon talking about it at the Canberra Writers Festival almost two years ago! It is pretty big at over 800 pages, and I'm planning to take it to read when we go away for a little while over Easter.


Not pictured here, since it arrived after I took these photos, is The Familiars, which is the book in the latest box from Bookish Escape Crate (more about that one soon!).

So, let me know! Are any of these on your TBR? Have I missed a favourite shiny cover of yours? Leave me a comment if you have any recommendations!

xo Bron

This week Cath Crowley's "Words in Deep Blue" was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards  in the Young Adult category. Since it's sitting on my #loveozya TBR shelf, I thought it would be fun to pull out all the books with blue covers from the same shelf.... 

Well, I had no idea there were so many blue-covered books on my shelf! This must be about two thirds of the books from that shelf. 

So, now I'm curious, do I have an unconscious blue cover bias when I'm book buying? Or does the industry love blue covers?

Xo Bron

** I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own**


Sixteen-year-old Sorina has spent most of her life within the smoldering borders of the Gomorrah Festival. Yet even among the many unusual members of the traveling circus-city, Sorina stands apart as the only illusion-worker born in hundreds of years. This rare talent allows her to create illusions that others can see, feel and touch, with personalities all their own. Her creations are her family, and together they make up the cast of the Festival's Freak Show... 

 **I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.**


GATHER THE DAUGHTERS tells the story of an end-of-the-world cult founded years ago when ten men colonised an island. It's a society in which men reign supreme, breeding is controlled, and knowledge of the outside world is kept to a minimum. Girls are wives-in-training: at the first sign of puberty, they must marry and have children. But until that point, every summer, island tradition dictates that the children live wildly: running free, making camps, sleeping on the beach. And it is at the end of one such summer that one of the youngest girls sees something so horrifying that life on the island can never be the same again.