The Nature Puzzle Book By Kitty Greenbrown

29 July , 2025 by Hannah ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Pick up your backpack, your boots and your pencil!

Filled with trees, plants, and creatures great and small, this collection of puzzles celebrates Mother Nature in all her glory. Whether you’re wandering in the woods or the weather has you cooped up indoors, how about a puzzle or two to keep you feeling down to earth? From quick quizzes and riddles to more leisurely crosswords and sudoku, there’s plenty in these pages to fill your mind with wonder for our wide, wild world.

Inside this book, you will be challenged to:
– Find the flowers hiding within word searches
– Spot the differences between majestic oaks
– Shuffle the letters of anagrams to identify fascinating flora and fauna
– Wind your way through a series of woodland mazes

And much more!

My Thoughts:

This is an absolutely brilliant puzzle book, it has so many different puzzles to contend with. It would make a great gift too but I liked it as it is small enough to fit into a bag but it is also a hardback so if you are out and about and want to do a few puzzles it is easier to lean on with a hardback. There are word searches, mazes, spot the difference and anagrams something to keep everyone entertained and it makes it feel fresher if there are different puzzles to solve. I love the way it is set out and it is great to keep the mind active. A great handy pocket sized fun book.

I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review.

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The Expanded Earth By Mikey Please

3 April , 2025 by Hannah ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

On a remote coastal path, Giles awakes in his new body to discover a world reshaped and magnified into a place of astounding abundance and deadly peril. Desperate to reconnect with his loved ones, he seeks the help of fellow survivors, and together they embark on a quest across the altered landscape. But as their journey unfolds, the more the question persists – are they still truly human, or has their reduction in size marked the beginning of a descent into savagery, an evolution into something other?

Elsewhere, one week earlier, Professor Elizabeth Goodwin makes a monumental discovery – God is alive and physically among us, but not in the form we’ve been taught to expect. As Goodwin prepares to make first contact with the omnipresent ocean-spanning creature, forces conspire in the wings, and the spectre of imminent catastrophe inches closer and closer still . . .

My Thoughts:

This is a bit different to what I would normally read but I thought I would give it a go and I am glad I did. When Giles wakes up not knowing where he is and what has happened to him, he is alone and afraid, seeking reassurance and wanting to find out where his loved ones are he sets out to find anyone around. But this journey is not safe and their lives are in peril danger, can Giles figure out what has happened or is something else at play here? Professor Elizabeth Goodwin has made a massive discovery and it could really affect the world but nothing is what she thought would happen and God has thrown a spanner in its works. It was a powerful and thought provoking read that really did pull me in. I have never read a book that I was so mesmerised with, the writing was dark and detailed. It has really made me do a lot of thinking and this was an adventure and a half.

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The Witch’s Daughter By Imogen Edwards -Jones

14 October , 2024 by Hannah ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

A city burning. A revolution raging. A woman on the run.

Nadezhda has never wanted to be a witch. But the occult is in her blood. Her mother, Militza, conjured Rasputin and introduced him into the Romanov court, releasing the devil himself. Now he is dead, but Militza still dreams of him – stalking her sleep and haunting her waking hours.

As Petrograd burns and the Russian Empire crumbles, Nadezhda escapes through the capital, concealing a book of generational magic. But as danger grows closer, she may be forced to embrace her heritage to save what she loves most…

My Thoughts:

This being a sequel to Imogen’s previous book The Witches of St Petersburg I was assuming I would of needed to read that book first but you can read this as a standalone. The main character is called Nadezhda and living in Russia where she has become a witch, which she never wanted anyway. Bad things are happening and Nadezhda has to find a way to escape and protect her family. I found it a little overwhelming, there is a lot going on and lots of information to keep up with. Needless to say the information that I did discover was interesting. Imogen as the author has done a good job of researching this era and Russian history. I liked the story though but I did feel it was a little heavy going.

I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review.

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