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Jos Booktastic Books Is Back! 📚✨

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  Well… this feels slightly surreal. The last time I properly posted here was 2015 , and somehow more than a decade has passed since then. 😱 But after years away, Jos Booktastic Books is officially back! This little blog used to be my place to share book hauls, wrap-ups, reviews and whatever else I happened to be reading. I recently found myself wanting that space again — somewhere I can talk about books in much more detail than I can squeeze into a TikTok or Instagram caption. So rather than starting again from scratch, I decided to bring my old bookish corner of the internet back to life. 💜 And she's had quite the makeover. 😂 What’s Changed? Jos Booktastic Books now has a completely new look inspired by everything I love: magical libraries, fantasy worlds, midnight colours, stars, books and just a tiny bit of witchy chaos. ✨🌙 But the biggest change is probably me . My reading tastes have definitely evolved since 2015, and these days you'll usually find me reading: 🐉 Fant...
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January/February 2015 Haul!

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Hi Book Lovers and Welcome to my Book Haul for January/February 2015! (Clicking on the picture takes to the corresponding Goodreads page) Physical Books These are all the Physical Books that I acquired this month! To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Purchased from Tesco) Affiliate  Links: The Book Depository Amazon UK Kindle UK Throne Of Glass by Sarah J Maas (Received as a Gift) Affiliate  Links: The Book Depository Amazon UK Kindle UK Crown Of Midnight by Sarah J Maas (Received as a Gift) Affiliate  Links: The Book Depository Amazon UK Kindle UK Heir Of Fire by Sarah J Maas (Received as a Gift) Affiliate  Links: The Book Depository Amazon UK Kindle UK AudioBooks These are all the AudioBooks that I purchased this month! The Dark Tower II: The Drawing Of The Three by Stephen King (Purchased from Aud...
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January/February 2015 Wrap Up!

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Hi Book Lovers and Welcome to my January/February 2015 Wrap Up! So here are all the books I read in January/February 2015 : The Collectors By Phillip Pullman 2nd January - 2nd January *****      5 out of 5 stars Peter and Wendy By JM Barrie 9th April 2014 - 24th February 2015 ****      4 out of 5 stars
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September/October/November/December Wrap Up

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Hi Book Lovers and Welcome to my September/October/November/December 2014 Wrap Up! So here are all the books I read in  September/October/November/December  2014: The Fault In Our Stars By John Green 29th August - 4th September *****      5 out of 5 stars The Ocean At The End Of The Lane By Neil Gaiman 7th September - 7th September ****      4 out of 5 stars My Sister's Keeper By Jodi Picoult 11th September - 22nd September *****      5 out of 5 stars Fables #2 Animal Farm By Bill Willingham 16th October - 16th October *****      5 out of 5 stars Fables #3 Storybook Love By Bill Willingham 19th October - 19th October *****      5 out of 5 stars Fairest #1 Wide Awake By Bill Willingham 25th October - 25th October ****      4 out ...
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Review: All I Want For Christmas by Claudia Carroll

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Hi Book Lovers and Welcome to my Review of All I Want For Christmas. (WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS) Title : All I Want For Christmas Author : Claudia Carroll Publisher : Avon Date Published : 25th November 2014 Genre : Contemporary Romance Pages : 21 Synopsis : Christmas with the one you love. It’s going to be perfect … isn’t it? Three couples. Three Christmases. One perfect day! In three days Lucy and Andrew will to fly to Mexico for their beautiful wedding. What’s a twenty-year age gap when you’re this in love? Christmas dinner feels like the perfect occasion to introduce the two families to each other. What could possibly go wrong? Workaholic Jo Hargreaves spends most of her Christmas day wondering where her unreliable new husband is. Dawn and Kirk spend hours slaving over a mung-bean based vegan festive lunch - but Dawn’s mum is struggling to keep her true feeling to herself. Can these three couples manage the ma...
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Review: Killer Christmas by Harper Lin

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Hi Book Lovers and Welcome to my Review of Killer Christmas. (WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS) Title : Killer Christmas Author : Harper Lin Publisher : Harper Lin Books Date Published : 8th December 2013 Genre : Contemporary Mystery Pages : 71 Chapters : 18 Synopsis : After breaking up with hunky movie star Nick Doyle, Grammy Award-winning singer Emma Wild returns to her hometown for Christmas to get away from it all. In Hartfield, a small town in Ontario, Canada, she gets caught up in a murder case after a fan's drink is poisoned at the Chocoholic Cafe, owned by Emma's sister Mirabelle.  Source : Kindle book I purchased myself. Date Read : 16 December- 26th December 2014 Review : *** 3 out of 5 stars Killer Christmas is the first book in An Emma Wild Holiday Mystery series. Its is about a famous singer called Emma Wild, who has just recently split up from her movie star boyfrie...
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Review: All I Want For Christmas by Amy Silver

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Hi Book Lovers and Welcome to my Review of All I Want For Christmas. (WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS) Title : All I Want For Christmas Author : Amy Silver Publisher : Arrow Date Published : 25th November 2010 Genre : Contemporary Romance Pages : 325 Chapters : 12 Synopsis : Twelve days and counting... It's Bea's first Christmas with her baby son, and this year she's determined to do  everything  right. But there is still so much to do: the Christmas menu needs refining; her café, The Honey Pot, needs decorating; and she's invited the whole neighbourhood to a party on Christmas Day. She really doesn't have time to get involved in two new people's lives, let alone fall in love... When Olivia gets knocked over in the street, however, Bea can't help bringing her into The Honey Pot and getting to know her. Olivia's life is even more hectic than her own, and with her fiancé's entire ...
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