I purchased this book after seeing Amy Jeffs at the Cheltenham Literature Festival last October. She brought a band with her and sang some of the tales with original musical compositions. It was so different to any other literary event I had been to before. The tales themselves are rooted in nature and Amy really brings this to life in her retellings. The audiobook also contains the musical tracks as well as the narrated stories.

So I know that this is a rather tenuous link as the actual hawthorn bush is spelled differently, however I just couldn’t pass up to the opportunity to include another one of these Inheritance Games books to my list! And it does have some nature-like leaves on the cover… 😁 It’s one of my favourite series ever! You can read my review for The Brothers Hawthorne here!

Keeping with the snake imagery (Reputation TV is coming y’all! 😂🐍) – Forest of a Thousand Lanterns was another one of my Fairyloot books which made my eyeballs turn into little hearts when I first saw the cover. The book inside was also phenomenal. Pitched as an evil queen origin retelling, I absorbed every last word and even had to import the sequel from America just to find out what happened in the end.

The cover of Wicked Like a Wildfire is so gloriously packed with images to try and find! I loved reading this story – it really made me want to travel to Montenegro and experience some of their tasty treats and fabulous architecture.

The flower detail on this cover was on point and added to the aesthetics of the tory incredibly well. On my Fairyloot edition, these were sprayed up the sides too so the overall edition was stunningly beautiful.