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ARC August 2018

OK, so it's been a while. I've been on holiday, I graduated, I went to YALC and continued working on my WIP but I want to start posting again. I've known for a while that I wanted to do ARC August which is hosted by Read, Sleep, Repeat as I have so many NetGalley and ARCs to read so this is a get way to do this.

 My aim is to read as many of these books as possible as well as catching up on book reviews of ARCs that I am so behind on. This may means so posts coming your way. I know finally...

 So these are the books I want to review:

 Purple Hearts by Michael Grant

 Out Of The Blue by Sophie Cameron 

 Final Draft by Riley Redgate

 The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

Ascension by Victor Dixen (Link)

 She Must Be Mad by Charly Cox (which was part of my original TBR)  (Link)

 Bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward (Link)

 Secrets for the Mad by dodie  (Link)

 Starstruck by Jenny McLachlan (Link)

 Wild Embers by Nikita Gill  (Link)

 Pardon My Heart by Marcus Jackson (Link)

 The Taste of Blue Light by Lydia Ruffles (Link)

 Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (Link)

Books I want to read are: 

 Floored by Various YA authors Rating: 5/5 stars (Link)

 The Hidden Face by S. C. Flynn

 Keeper of the Dawn by Dianna Gunn

 The Iron Web by Kristin Ravelle Rating: 3/5 stars

 Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio Rating: 4/5 stars

 Fire Colour One by Jenny Valentine (CR part of it)

 The Search Of Us by Ava Dellaria 

 Everything All At Once by Steven Camden 

 Clean by Juno Dawson 

 A Pocketful of Crows by Joanna Harris (CR part of it)

 Giant Days by Non Pratt

 Puddin' by Julie Murphy (CR part of it) Rating: 4/5 stars

 So there is clearly a lot here but I don't really have much planned for this month but we will see how it goes. I will hopefully make a wrap-up post at the end of the month so yeah...

 See you soon, 

 Amy 

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