It's New Year's resolutions time, and here at The Honest Bookclub we are nothing if not resolute. We make bold, lofty promises. We aspire to greatness and world domination . We pledge to read our way through the Library of Alexandria on days off, and to write the Great American European Novel. And then w…

'Tis the season... to attempt to stick twelve Christmas trees in your living room and decorate them with a levitating charm. 'Tis also the season for owl post. Much as we hold out hope for Christmas letters with our initial(s) and a certain wax-sealed letter of admission into a certain magic school, once agai…

Happy first-night-of-winter, fellow snowflakes (because, let's face it, the day is short  here in the northern hemisphere on this date in particular)! Your choices are twofold: you can bemoan the cold and the gloom and the lack of proper daylight, or you can grab a good book and fail to notice the cold and the gl…

An anxiety disorder disrupts fourteen-year-old Audrey’s daily life. She has been making slow but steady progress with Dr. Sarah, but when Audrey meets Linus, her brother’s gaming teammate, she is energized. She connects with him. Audrey can talk through her fears with Linus in a way she’s never been able …

Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen. The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet s…

*another obligatory flail about WHERE HAS THE YEAR GONE* We don't always eat books. When we do, however, we make sure to devour them whole in a span of few hours, then proceed to flail about their deliciousness for at least a year. Normally, Nutella and pizza are the sort of food groups we recognize and resor…

I am exactly 3497 decades too late putting this up. I did the math. (And you thought you  were a procrastinator!) 3497 is also, serendipitously, how old I am in draconic years. It's how old my soul  is... when I'm not writing dirty limericks or watching Courage The Cowardly Dog over and over again. But I …

Seventeen-year-old Mercedes Ayres has an open-door policy when it comes to her bedroom, but only if the guy fulfills a specific criteria: he has to be a virgin. Mercedes lets the boys get their awkward, fumbling first times over with, and all she asks in return is that they give their girlfriends the perfect fir…

I knew the moment Katy Swartz moved in next door, there was going to be trouble. Lots of it. And trouble’s the last thing I need, since I’m not exactly from around here. My people arrived on Earth from Lux, a planet thirteen billion light years away. Plus, if there’s one thing I know, it’s that humans can’t be …

*obligatory flail about WHERE HAS THE YEAR GONE* Now that that's behind us, let's begin. 2015 has been good to us in terms of new releases. We've been... a bit less good about actually staying on top of them all. Our bad. But now that the end of the year draws near, we apparently rhyme have are activel…

You know those mysterious, mysterious creatures who are active online and post plenty, but never about themselves? For all you know, they were trained at the Ninja Academy (which may or may not be a real thing) - they pop in and out, never for long enough to get a hold of them and shake some solid personal facts out…

So you find yourself steeping in ennui. Reading is a chore. Books are a chore (and too heavy to carry, anyway, and why even bother, and you don't even read them when you're out). Life is a chore and nothing makes sense anymore, and how did you ever even manage to finish a book? The bad news is, you have b…

It's that time of the month again! Well, the good kind anyway. I got another delivery for my subscription to Fandom Of The Month and I was jolly excited, to say the least! (I can't believe i just wrote 'jolly excited' but okay). It arrived attached to my other delivery of OwlCrate , which will be my…

Just... ten? How can we pick just ten? It wasn't an easy process. We all love a good quote from a wise reader. Whether it's something to get you back into reading, to inspire someone else to start reading ( do it !), or because they're just awesome read, we can't get enough of them.  We love …

Mail time! I have to say - this is a biggie.  This post contains books I've bought and parcels I've received in the last couple of weeks, and due to my laziness and busy life (well... reading time), I've yet to write a post. So here I am, shoving it all in one and hoping you don't get bor…

My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla. But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He’s tall, lean and w…

Feeling alive is always worth the risk. Meeting Jack on the Owl—San Francisco's night bus—turns Beatrix's world upside down. Jack is charming, wildly attractive...and possibly one of San Francisco's most notorious graffiti artists. But Jack is hiding a piece of himself. On midnight rides and city …

The Grisha Trilogy introduced readers to the irresistible fantasy world of the Grisha - and now Leigh Bardugo brings us a new sweeping epic. Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price - and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy, Kaz Brekker. Kaz is o…

#1  New York Times  bestselling author  S.C. Stephens  brings us the next book in her  Thoughtless  series!  The spotlight doesn't only shine. Sometimes it burns. Being the bad-boy bassist for the world's hottest band has earned Griffin Hancock some perks: a big house, a fast car, and most im…

I received my Fandom of the Month box a lot faster than I expected! I came back from a week's holiday and went to pick up the little box of goodness from the post office, and it looks so diddy and cute. I saw a few videos of BookTubers opening their boxes of previous months and they all look great, and although m…

It is a well-established fact that we intend to take over the world. We have given ample warnings in outros to most of our posts. If you are the sort of reader who skips the outros - good job, you are now unprepared and defenseless. Fear not, however. There is ample time to join our team as we assemble the good, the …

From the moment Laura Rivers steps foot into Englewood High, she notices the stares—and they aren’t the typical once-overs every pretty new girl endures. The students seem confused and… spooked. Whispers echoing through the halls confirm that something is seriously off. “That new girl looks just like her,” they sa…

Earlier this month, we compiled a list of our favorite hooks  - the concepts most likely to draw us to a book, and ones most likely to ensure our continual enjoyment of said book. There was beautiful writing. There was witty banter. But the one universally agreed-upon hook  was The Plot Twist.  Oh, The Plot Twist.…

Lola Nolan is a budding costume designer, and for her, the more outrageous, sparkly, and fun the outfit, the better. And everything is pretty perfect in her life (right down to her hot rocker boyfriend) until the Bell twins, Calliope and Cricket, return to the neighborhood. When Cricket, a gifted inventor, steps…

The road to power... is paved with blood and magic. Cleo   is now a prisoner in her own palace, forced to be an ambassador for Mytica as the evil King Gaius lies to her people. Magnus   stands to eventually inherit the new kingdom but is still obsessed with his feelings for his adopted sister, Lucia. Lucia   is …

She’s hiding something big. He’s hiding someone small. Scarlet Crowley’s life was torn apart the day father was arrested for unspeakable crimes. Now the shock has worn off, but not the horror.  It’s a safe bet that Scarlet is the only first year at Harkness College who had to sneak past TV news trucks parked on …

In the three kingdoms of Mytica, magic has long been forgotten. And while hard-won peace has reigned for centuries, a deadly unrest now simmers below the surface. As the rulers of each kingdom grapple for power, the lives of their subjects are brutally transformed... and four key players, royals and rebels alik…

Last month, I signed up for receive a monthly book box subscription. It's the thing at the moment, they seem to have started up out of nowhere, and now they're competing against each other. I think they're an amazing idea.  As I live in the UK, the shipping for the US boxes always put me out of pocket, as…

Some of the reasons we buy books: beloved authors, parts of beloved series, recommendations we deeply trust. Slightly more shallow reasons we buy books: the hype surrounding them, intriguing synopses, book trailers. Still more shallow reasons we buy books:  beautiful covers, they're on sale, and/or we get them …