Thursday, 5 March 2015

Personal Pickings - She's Not A Baby Anymore..

Personal Pickings is a feature here at Beautiful Bookish Butterflies that allows one of us to approach subject personal to us that has no link or connection to our bookish endeavors. Today, Stacie is talking about the most important person in her life, someone who is growing up too fast.

Who Wore It Better - Requiem


Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Bookish Musings - #UKYA: My Past, Present and Future


For those of you whom the wonderful fact passed you by, I was born, live and will probably always live in the UK (not London though, there is much more to the UK than just London mind..) We're not exactly a huge place, although, we do have A LOT of people who live here, including, a lot of popular and well loved authors, those of whom I shall get to very soon. However, I have noticed that I, a UK living and breathing citizen, felt as though I hadn't been reading much work from the authors that actually live where I live, and eat the food I eat, and suffer the same rubbish weather forecasts that I do, and I was ashamed. Publishing is already becoming more and more difficult in this day and age, with publishing houses closing because they can't afford to run themselves, with many authors turning to self-publishing, the whole system is developing huge cracks, and that's just the publishing houses in the US, never mind how difficult those in the UK must be.

Tuesday, 3 March 2015

The Taylor Swift Book Tag!


We were tagged by Charnell from Reviews from a Bookworm to do the Taylor Swift Book Tag!

Book Review - Apple and Rain

Apple and Rain
Author: Sarah Crossan
Standalone
Genres: Contemporary | Young Adult
Release Date: 12th February 2015
Publishers: Bloomsbury Childrens
No. Pages: 330
Source: Review Copy - Bloomsbury Childrens
Rating:
When Apple's mother returns after eleven years away, Apple feels whole again. But just like the stormy Christmas Eve when she left, her mother's homecoming is bittersweet. It's only when Apple meets someone more lost than she is that she begins to see things as they really are.

A story about sad endings.
A story about happy beginnings.
A story to make you realise who is special.

Monday, 2 March 2015

Book Review - Half Bad

Half Bad
Author: Sally Green
Series: Half Life #1
Genres: Paranormal, Fantasy | Young Adult
Release Date: 27th March 2014
Publishers: Penguin
No. Pages: 380
Source: Review Copy - Penguin
Rating: 
Buy From: Amazon | Book Depository | Barnes and Noble | Waterstones
Wanted by no one.
Hunted by everyone.


Sixteen-year-old Nathan lives in a cage: beaten, shackled, trained to kill.

In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, Nathan is an abomination, the illegitimate son of the world's most terrifying and violent witch, Marcus. Nathan's only hope for survival is to escape his captors, track down Marcus, and receive the three gifts that will bring him into his own magical powers — before it's too late.

But how can Nathan find his father when there is no one safe to trust, not even family, not even the girl he loves?

Sunday, 1 March 2015

Weekly Recap | 23-28 Feb. 2015

Welcome to Beautiful Bookish Butterflies Weekly Recap. Once a week, Stacie and Amanda take the time to talk about the weeks goings on, both on the blog and in our lives elsewhere, any new books we may have received and want to mention and what's interested is within the blogging community. Stacie and Amanda link up this recap with Caffeinated Book Reviewers Sunday Post and occasionally Tynga Reviews' Stacking the Shelves.