Lauren Sparks 🧜🏽♀️Book Siren🧜🏽♀️
@thickthighnolie.bsky.social
🧜🏽♀️I washed up like this🧜🏽♀️ Manchester 🇬🇧 Mixed Race Mum of 2 👦🏽👦🏽 (6&11)
📚Reviewer of ARCs & available for tours - DM me
📚Lover of Black Girl Magic, YA, Historical Fiction, MG & Picture books
Twitter followers was 2,510 before exodus
Instagram followers: 2,811
📚Reviewer of ARCs & available for tours - DM me
📚Lover of Black Girl Magic, YA, Historical Fiction, MG & Picture books
Twitter followers was 2,510 before exodus
Instagram followers: 2,811
Whilst I wait for my signed proof for @mwcraven.bsky.social’s #TheFinalVow to arrive from taking part in the Focus Group (thanks Mike for taking the time to sign and personalise them that was really kind of you🥰) I shall be face planting straight into the e-arc 🥳
August 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Whilst I wait for my signed proof for @mwcraven.bsky.social’s #TheFinalVow to arrive from taking part in the Focus Group (thanks Mike for taking the time to sign and personalise them that was really kind of you🥰) I shall be face planting straight into the e-arc 🥳
I cannot even explain to you how excited this has made me 😍 I absolutely LOVED. and Adored #RiverSingMeHome by #EleanorShearer so to see she has a new book coming after such an amazing debut is so fantastic 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 @headlinebooks.bsky.social who do I beg for early copy consideration please 🙏🏽🥹
July 31, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I cannot even explain to you how excited this has made me 😍 I absolutely LOVED. and Adored #RiverSingMeHome by #EleanorShearer so to see she has a new book coming after such an amazing debut is so fantastic 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 @headlinebooks.bsky.social who do I beg for early copy consideration please 🙏🏽🥹
My #PoeAndTilly re-read is almost complete in readiness for #TheFinalVow coming 🥀 The Mercy Chair is currently underway 😁 can’t wait for The Final Vow @mwcraven.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
My #PoeAndTilly re-read is almost complete in readiness for #TheFinalVow coming 🥀 The Mercy Chair is currently underway 😁 can’t wait for The Final Vow @mwcraven.bsky.social
Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil by #VESchwab
Absolute perfection as always! How is it that in just a few short lines I am so deeply immersed in a book? Schwab’s writing is like musical magic - woven to pull you deep within a dream of a story 😍
Full review: www.instagram.com/reel/DK39lpz...
Absolute perfection as always! How is it that in just a few short lines I am so deeply immersed in a book? Schwab’s writing is like musical magic - woven to pull you deep within a dream of a story 😍
Full review: www.instagram.com/reel/DK39lpz...
June 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil by #VESchwab
Absolute perfection as always! How is it that in just a few short lines I am so deeply immersed in a book? Schwab’s writing is like musical magic - woven to pull you deep within a dream of a story 😍
Full review: www.instagram.com/reel/DK39lpz...
Absolute perfection as always! How is it that in just a few short lines I am so deeply immersed in a book? Schwab’s writing is like musical magic - woven to pull you deep within a dream of a story 😍
Full review: www.instagram.com/reel/DK39lpz...
A brew, some books and some blossoms 🥰
Happy Thursday everyone ☀️
Happy Thursday everyone ☀️
June 12, 2025 at 7:57 AM
A brew, some books and some blossoms 🥰
Happy Thursday everyone ☀️
Happy Thursday everyone ☀️
I’ve shared my review of #GradyHendrix’s #WitchcraftForWaywardGirls over on Instagram! Please go and check it out!
Such a fantastic book and astounding that it was written by a man as it’s so perceptive on the female perspective 🥰
www.instagram.com/p/DI_zu6ZIpr...
Such a fantastic book and astounding that it was written by a man as it’s so perceptive on the female perspective 🥰
www.instagram.com/p/DI_zu6ZIpr...
April 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I’ve shared my review of #GradyHendrix’s #WitchcraftForWaywardGirls over on Instagram! Please go and check it out!
Such a fantastic book and astounding that it was written by a man as it’s so perceptive on the female perspective 🥰
www.instagram.com/p/DI_zu6ZIpr...
Such a fantastic book and astounding that it was written by a man as it’s so perceptive on the female perspective 🥰
www.instagram.com/p/DI_zu6ZIpr...
🎉 COVER REVEAL 🎉 for the god tier of series 🎉
THE FINAL VOW BY @mwcraven.bsky.social
Just look at it 😍😍😍
I cannot wait to read the next #PoeAndTilly book
Get this bad boy pre ordered IMMEDIATELY 💨
#TheFinalVow #TillyAndPoe #MWCraven #CrimeAuthor
THE FINAL VOW BY @mwcraven.bsky.social
Just look at it 😍😍😍
I cannot wait to read the next #PoeAndTilly book
Get this bad boy pre ordered IMMEDIATELY 💨
#TheFinalVow #TillyAndPoe #MWCraven #CrimeAuthor
March 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
🎉 COVER REVEAL 🎉 for the god tier of series 🎉
THE FINAL VOW BY @mwcraven.bsky.social
Just look at it 😍😍😍
I cannot wait to read the next #PoeAndTilly book
Get this bad boy pre ordered IMMEDIATELY 💨
#TheFinalVow #TillyAndPoe #MWCraven #CrimeAuthor
THE FINAL VOW BY @mwcraven.bsky.social
Just look at it 😍😍😍
I cannot wait to read the next #PoeAndTilly book
Get this bad boy pre ordered IMMEDIATELY 💨
#TheFinalVow #TillyAndPoe #MWCraven #CrimeAuthor
Thanks to @tracyfenton.bsky.social Phoenix Books & @katekemp.bsky.social for my copy of #TheGrapevine and for a great read!!
🐜Please check out my full review over on Insta: instagram.com/p/DHBJyyYI4Mq/…
The Grapevine releases on Thursday 13th March so there’s still time to preorder!! 🐜
🐜Please check out my full review over on Insta: instagram.com/p/DHBJyyYI4Mq/…
The Grapevine releases on Thursday 13th March so there’s still time to preorder!! 🐜
March 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Thanks to @tracyfenton.bsky.social Phoenix Books & @katekemp.bsky.social for my copy of #TheGrapevine and for a great read!!
🐜Please check out my full review over on Insta: instagram.com/p/DHBJyyYI4Mq/…
The Grapevine releases on Thursday 13th March so there’s still time to preorder!! 🐜
🐜Please check out my full review over on Insta: instagram.com/p/DHBJyyYI4Mq/…
The Grapevine releases on Thursday 13th March so there’s still time to preorder!! 🐜
@bryonypearce.bsky.social #Aphrodite published by @uclanpublishing.bsky.social is now available to preorder from Amazon & I suggest you get right on that because I’ve read it & it kicked off my most fab reading month in YEARS!
Here’s the link: amzn.eu/d/9mc0n89 trust me it is truly brilliant!!
Here’s the link: amzn.eu/d/9mc0n89 trust me it is truly brilliant!!
March 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
@bryonypearce.bsky.social #Aphrodite published by @uclanpublishing.bsky.social is now available to preorder from Amazon & I suggest you get right on that because I’ve read it & it kicked off my most fab reading month in YEARS!
Here’s the link: amzn.eu/d/9mc0n89 trust me it is truly brilliant!!
Here’s the link: amzn.eu/d/9mc0n89 trust me it is truly brilliant!!
Well, that’s it 😭🥹 it’s over now till August ❤️🩹 never fell so hard 🥹 what a fantastic series 🥰 #TillyAndPoeTillIDie❤️ @mwcraven.bsky.social
And now I need to do a review because I’ve spent the last 10 days reading 8 books and not written a bloody review for any of em 🤣🤦🏽♀️
And now I need to do a review because I’ve spent the last 10 days reading 8 books and not written a bloody review for any of em 🤣🤦🏽♀️
February 22, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Well, that’s it 😭🥹 it’s over now till August ❤️🩹 never fell so hard 🥹 what a fantastic series 🥰 #TillyAndPoeTillIDie❤️ @mwcraven.bsky.social
And now I need to do a review because I’ve spent the last 10 days reading 8 books and not written a bloody review for any of em 🤣🤦🏽♀️
And now I need to do a review because I’ve spent the last 10 days reading 8 books and not written a bloody review for any of em 🤣🤦🏽♀️
@mwcraven.bsky.social I’ve just listened to Chapter 65 of #TheMercyChair 3 times 🤣🤦🏽♀️ I can’t stop laughing
I literally LOVE Tilly and Poe 🥰😍💞 #DonkeyDick #iykyk
I literally LOVE Tilly and Poe 🥰😍💞 #DonkeyDick #iykyk
February 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
@mwcraven.bsky.social I’ve just listened to Chapter 65 of #TheMercyChair 3 times 🤣🤦🏽♀️ I can’t stop laughing
I literally LOVE Tilly and Poe 🥰😍💞 #DonkeyDick #iykyk
I literally LOVE Tilly and Poe 🥰😍💞 #DonkeyDick #iykyk
It’s the beginning of the end 😩 well until August anyway….. Nico is at Muay Thai and I considered sitting here doing nothing…… but I can’t help it 🤦🏽♀️ what am I going to do between now and August once I finish? It’s been the best week @mwcraven.bsky.social @littlebrown.bsky.social 🤩
February 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It’s the beginning of the end 😩 well until August anyway….. Nico is at Muay Thai and I considered sitting here doing nothing…… but I can’t help it 🤦🏽♀️ what am I going to do between now and August once I finish? It’s been the best week @mwcraven.bsky.social @littlebrown.bsky.social 🤩
Another 3 bites the dust as of today 🤩 (apparently I keep forgetting to update here 🤦🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️)
Only 2 more to go & then I will be in limbo until the next is released in August and I can only imagine how bereft I am going to be without #TillyAndPoe 😢🥺
@mwcraven.bsky.social has created something special
Only 2 more to go & then I will be in limbo until the next is released in August and I can only imagine how bereft I am going to be without #TillyAndPoe 😢🥺
@mwcraven.bsky.social has created something special
February 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Another 3 bites the dust as of today 🤩 (apparently I keep forgetting to update here 🤦🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️)
Only 2 more to go & then I will be in limbo until the next is released in August and I can only imagine how bereft I am going to be without #TillyAndPoe 😢🥺
@mwcraven.bsky.social has created something special
Only 2 more to go & then I will be in limbo until the next is released in August and I can only imagine how bereft I am going to be without #TillyAndPoe 😢🥺
@mwcraven.bsky.social has created something special
#Bookmail Huge thanks to #Bookbreak and @panmacmillan.bsky.social for these two copies of #KristinHannahTheWomen this #GalentinesDay to share with my someone special 🥰 and today is the paperback publication day too!
The Women shows us how powerful and healing special relationships can be 💞
The Women shows us how powerful and healing special relationships can be 💞
February 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
#Bookmail Huge thanks to #Bookbreak and @panmacmillan.bsky.social for these two copies of #KristinHannahTheWomen this #GalentinesDay to share with my someone special 🥰 and today is the paperback publication day too!
The Women shows us how powerful and healing special relationships can be 💞
The Women shows us how powerful and healing special relationships can be 💞
Yesterday I finished @mwcraven.bsky.social’s #ThePuppetShow and today I finished his #BlackSummer and so I have been FORCED to buy the next in the series!! Bravo Mike 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Bravo 😜
February 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Yesterday I finished @mwcraven.bsky.social’s #ThePuppetShow and today I finished his #BlackSummer and so I have been FORCED to buy the next in the series!! Bravo Mike 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Bravo 😜
I had a total BALL at @stockportnoir.bsky.social today!! My 1st book festival 15mins from my home!! Met up with #BookishDadReads had a laugh & chatted to ppl & authors, listened to the panels (front row no less) & bought books! @mwcraven.bsky.social gave me a set of bookmarks 🎉 same time next year?
February 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I had a total BALL at @stockportnoir.bsky.social today!! My 1st book festival 15mins from my home!! Met up with #BookishDadReads had a laugh & chatted to ppl & authors, listened to the panels (front row no less) & bought books! @mwcraven.bsky.social gave me a set of bookmarks 🎉 same time next year?
Happy Publication Day to Gabriel Dylan for his newest #ShiverPoint #BeneathTheGhostlyGraves which is the 5th in this fantastic series to epically rival a well known kids series I refuse to name because Gabriel’s is BETTER!! Thanks to @amberivatt.bsky.social @piccadilly-press.bsky.social for my copy
February 6, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Happy Publication Day to Gabriel Dylan for his newest #ShiverPoint #BeneathTheGhostlyGraves which is the 5th in this fantastic series to epically rival a well known kids series I refuse to name because Gabriel’s is BETTER!! Thanks to @amberivatt.bsky.social @piccadilly-press.bsky.social for my copy
I suggest you all add @bryonypearce.bsky.social’s #Aphrodite from @uclanpublishing.bsky.social to whatever TBR plan you have going 😍😍 Absolutely stunning 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 and I’m not just saying that because the doofus that is Zeus made her the god of Love and Beauty 😜 iykyk
February 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I suggest you all add @bryonypearce.bsky.social’s #Aphrodite from @uclanpublishing.bsky.social to whatever TBR plan you have going 😍😍 Absolutely stunning 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 and I’m not just saying that because the doofus that is Zeus made her the god of Love and Beauty 😜 iykyk
Happy Publication Day to @alexhaybooks.bsky.social for #QueenOfFives
♠️They whisper her name in every corner of town.
♥️The lady with a hundred faces, a thousand lives.
♣️Five moves, five days - for such are the rules of her game.
♦️If you want something to keep you gripped, this is it 😍
♠️They whisper her name in every corner of town.
♥️The lady with a hundred faces, a thousand lives.
♣️Five moves, five days - for such are the rules of her game.
♦️If you want something to keep you gripped, this is it 😍
January 30, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Happy Publication Day to @alexhaybooks.bsky.social for #QueenOfFives
♠️They whisper her name in every corner of town.
♥️The lady with a hundred faces, a thousand lives.
♣️Five moves, five days - for such are the rules of her game.
♦️If you want something to keep you gripped, this is it 😍
♠️They whisper her name in every corner of town.
♥️The lady with a hundred faces, a thousand lives.
♣️Five moves, five days - for such are the rules of her game.
♦️If you want something to keep you gripped, this is it 😍
SPOTLIGHT POST
The Teacher of Auschwitz by Wendy Holden
Each year on this date (27th January), Holocaust Memorial Day takes place. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Take a look at my spotlight post here:
www.instagram.com/p/DFUsmVSgmz...
The Teacher of Auschwitz by Wendy Holden
Each year on this date (27th January), Holocaust Memorial Day takes place. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Take a look at my spotlight post here:
www.instagram.com/p/DFUsmVSgmz...
January 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
SPOTLIGHT POST
The Teacher of Auschwitz by Wendy Holden
Each year on this date (27th January), Holocaust Memorial Day takes place. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Take a look at my spotlight post here:
www.instagram.com/p/DFUsmVSgmz...
The Teacher of Auschwitz by Wendy Holden
Each year on this date (27th January), Holocaust Memorial Day takes place. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Take a look at my spotlight post here:
www.instagram.com/p/DFUsmVSgmz...
I just had the privilege of reading @lucynoguerawrites.bsky.social’s #SwöpTheDaringDinosaurDetective which releases on 20th January and if you have kids in KS2 then you need to RUN and preorder now: www.brilliantmonstersbooks.com/shop
My full review is on insta:
www.instagram.com/reel/DE19-x0...
My full review is on insta:
www.instagram.com/reel/DE19-x0...
January 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I just had the privilege of reading @lucynoguerawrites.bsky.social’s #SwöpTheDaringDinosaurDetective which releases on 20th January and if you have kids in KS2 then you need to RUN and preorder now: www.brilliantmonstersbooks.com/shop
My full review is on insta:
www.instagram.com/reel/DE19-x0...
My full review is on insta:
www.instagram.com/reel/DE19-x0...
I’m running an end of year giveaway for a special edition of #AddieLaRue over on my Instagram if anyone would like to enter:
www.instagram.com/reel/DENXWha...
It’s open internationally ☺️
www.instagram.com/reel/DENXWha...
It’s open internationally ☺️
December 30, 2024 at 4:56 PM
I’m running an end of year giveaway for a special edition of #AddieLaRue over on my Instagram if anyone would like to enter:
www.instagram.com/reel/DENXWha...
It’s open internationally ☺️
www.instagram.com/reel/DENXWha...
It’s open internationally ☺️
It’s so lush to be one of the chosen few for my all time fave author 🥰
Thanks @dorothykoomson.bsky.social @edpr.bsky.social @headlinebooks.bsky.social
Sequel to Dorothy’s last book #EverySmileYouFake, Give Him To Me picks up with Kes in another life or death, death & more death situation!
Thanks @dorothykoomson.bsky.social @edpr.bsky.social @headlinebooks.bsky.social
Sequel to Dorothy’s last book #EverySmileYouFake, Give Him To Me picks up with Kes in another life or death, death & more death situation!
December 10, 2024 at 3:17 PM
It’s so lush to be one of the chosen few for my all time fave author 🥰
Thanks @dorothykoomson.bsky.social @edpr.bsky.social @headlinebooks.bsky.social
Sequel to Dorothy’s last book #EverySmileYouFake, Give Him To Me picks up with Kes in another life or death, death & more death situation!
Thanks @dorothykoomson.bsky.social @edpr.bsky.social @headlinebooks.bsky.social
Sequel to Dorothy’s last book #EverySmileYouFake, Give Him To Me picks up with Kes in another life or death, death & more death situation!
It’s the 1st of December so I guess it’s about time to “Step Into Christmas” 🎄
Thanks so much to #BookBreakUK for my lovely proof copy of #OlivieBlake’s #Januaries 😍 I am loving it atm!!
So far my favourite is #TheWishBridge
#QOTD: Do you like short stories? If so do you have a favourite?
Thanks so much to #BookBreakUK for my lovely proof copy of #OlivieBlake’s #Januaries 😍 I am loving it atm!!
So far my favourite is #TheWishBridge
#QOTD: Do you like short stories? If so do you have a favourite?
December 1, 2024 at 11:10 PM
It’s the 1st of December so I guess it’s about time to “Step Into Christmas” 🎄
Thanks so much to #BookBreakUK for my lovely proof copy of #OlivieBlake’s #Januaries 😍 I am loving it atm!!
So far my favourite is #TheWishBridge
#QOTD: Do you like short stories? If so do you have a favourite?
Thanks so much to #BookBreakUK for my lovely proof copy of #OlivieBlake’s #Januaries 😍 I am loving it atm!!
So far my favourite is #TheWishBridge
#QOTD: Do you like short stories? If so do you have a favourite?
Who are your reading buddies? I’ve gained a new one in Tebby 🥰
We’re excited to start #TheDayOfTheRoaring by Nina Bhadreshwar
This is Nina’s debut crime thriller set in Sheffield feat DI Diana Walker
Now this plot has piqued my interest! I won’t tell anyone why 😂
Out 30/1 you can pre order now!
We’re excited to start #TheDayOfTheRoaring by Nina Bhadreshwar
This is Nina’s debut crime thriller set in Sheffield feat DI Diana Walker
Now this plot has piqued my interest! I won’t tell anyone why 😂
Out 30/1 you can pre order now!
November 27, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Who are your reading buddies? I’ve gained a new one in Tebby 🥰
We’re excited to start #TheDayOfTheRoaring by Nina Bhadreshwar
This is Nina’s debut crime thriller set in Sheffield feat DI Diana Walker
Now this plot has piqued my interest! I won’t tell anyone why 😂
Out 30/1 you can pre order now!
We’re excited to start #TheDayOfTheRoaring by Nina Bhadreshwar
This is Nina’s debut crime thriller set in Sheffield feat DI Diana Walker
Now this plot has piqued my interest! I won’t tell anyone why 😂
Out 30/1 you can pre order now!