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💫 Mini Review 💫

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Ascension by Nicholas Binge NEEDS to be added to your TBR! Let me tell you why:

  • It’s a stand alone fantasy & only 300 pages
  • A mysterious mountain appears out of nowhere and the world’s best scientists and professionals are brought together to discover how it came to be there
  • Isolated and trippy events take place
  • Characters are pegged as crazy and disturbed after coming back from the top of the mountain – nobody knows what was at the top
  • Time travel elements that you can ACTUALLY understand as a new time travel reader
  • Clever historical and religious elements
  • Unreliable narrator and told through letters back and forth
  • Short chapters and regular chapter breaks to help you put down and pick back up after making a quick cup of tea … and then reading again
  • Addictive scale was at HIGH
  • I would reread this book! SAY WHAT?! Yes, it was that good.

This is a debut novel for UK author Nicholas Binge and I so SO hope this is adapted to screen, because it would be one heck of a movie! Pick this novel up – you will not be disappointed. Purchase your own copy via the link here CLICK ME ✅

WWW Wednesdays

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WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words 📚 It is a book tag to broaden the reading community and help connect avid readers!

All you have to do is answer the following three questions:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

CR: Ascension by Nicholas Binge is SO addictive! Imagine a mountain appears out of nowhere but it’s only brought to your attention because you are a physicist that is needed on the highly secretive mission to the top. Everyone who has come back from the top base camp (only 2 so far in its small history) has turned mad and been ‘changed’ from whatever they learnt/experiences/whatever happened up there. And one of those two is the main character’s ex-wife. The story is cleverly written from the past by letters the main character is holding onto for his niece. In the present time, the main character is found by his brother in a mental facility and he has also lost his mind. So we know what’s to come but how does it all play out. I cannot wait to finish this book!

RF: The Cheat Sheet by Sarah Adams was my recent fun and smutty read for my week off from bookselling. It was great and you can find my review here (click me romance go-er) 💖

RN: Death of a Book Seller by Alice Slater is a book I know nearly nothing about but have every desire to read from its title! How capturing and well, frightening … This book involves a true crime bookseller buff, a new employee who is not as they seem and a deadly friendship. It’s had pretty high reviews so I am keen to give it a whirl.

What are you all reading this week? Leave a COMMENT below 💬

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