2019 Bookending Spring Day 4: 30 Books I’d Keep If I Were Marie Kondo

Welcome my dear friends and readers to another Bookending Spring day! For the next 4 days our host is going to be Sam from Fictionally Sam. The posts were originally created by AJ @ For The Love of Diversity in Books, and if you saw the announcement on the BESpring official Twitter account, you know that Sam has taken over as host for the next four days. The first prompt today is a really interesting one, guys. I'm so excited to share with you

2019 Bookending Spring Day 3: A Guide to buying optimal number of books

Welcome to day 3 of Bookending Spring!! Jayati has really great prompts, guys! In her last day as a host in the Bookending Spring event she's asking us to write about our book buying habits., and our guide to buying just the right amount of books. Remember to go check out her original post and share some love.

2019 Bookending Spring Day 2: Pre-scheduling and organizing your blog ft. mood blogging

Hello friends and welcome to day 2 of Bookending Spring! Today's prompts from Jayati is all about how we blog. And let me tell you, it's a hot mess here at Ruby's Books. Before we get started, remember to check out Jayati's original post about Pre-scheduling and organizing your blog ft. mood blogging.

Let's begin!

2019 Bookending Spring Day 1: 2019 Spring Releases

Hello my dears! Welcome to day 1 of the Bookending Spring event. Our first host is the awesome Jayati @ It’s Just A Coffee Addicted Bibliophile and she has some great prompts. Her first prompt that starts off this event is all about the Spring Releases we cannot wait to get our hands on.

You can check out Jayati's Anticipated 2019 Spring Releases on her blog.

Let's get started.

2019 Bookending Spring Intro Post

Hello my dear book lovers, book bloggers, and writing enthusiasts! It's almost April and we know what that means, right? No? It means that the Bookending Spring event of 2019 is almost here!!

In case you haven't heard about the Bookending Spring event, or about the Bookending events in general, it's a very nice, super fun, super inspiring event put together by some awesome bloggers, Sam and Clo, with the collaboration of some other amazing bloggers. For more information and to sign up, go to Sam's Bookending Spring Announcement post. You've got daily prompts, that you can draw inspiration from and write as many blog posts as you can, you can blog hop and check what others have written and thought of for the daily prompts, and you can probably also bet on making your TBRs bigger. Since I'm all about inspiring myself, I want to do the full month.

Now. I know what you're going to say. You'll be all like "But Ruby, you've tried this twice now and you failed miserably". And you know what, you're right, I did fail miserably the past two events, but that's because I went at it the wrong way. Now I'm smarter, which means I've actually started planning my blog posts early, so I have most of these blog posts in my drafts, if not already scheduled by the time you read this post. So I'm sneaky that way.

But don't let my personal goal dictate what you want to do. Remember, that as with most blogging events, and blogging in general, you're supposed to have fun. So do as many or as few of these posts as you want. And if you want, share with me your links and I'll make sure to blog hop to your posts and see what your take on the daily prompts is.

Book Review: From Breath and Ruin by Carrie Ann Ryan

Author: Carrie Ann Ryan
Series: Elements of Five #1
Audience: YA
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: Self Published
Release Date: March 19th 2019
My Rating: 4.5 Cups
Source: InkSlinger PR
Blurb (from Goodreads):

In her YA debut, New York Times bestselling author Carrie Ann Ryan dives into a world with magic and sacrifice with the Elements of Five.

Five hundred years ago, the Maison Realm was shattered, divided into warring kingdoms of elemental Wielders with fate and truth shadowed and uncertain. Now, factions of both the light and dark venture into the human realm in search of the prophesied Spirit Priestess who is said to Wield the Elements of Five and bring the two fractured kingdoms together.

Lyric has no idea that there’s a realm outside the human one she lives in. When fate and circumstances are pulled from her hands after an accident, and she finds out that nothing is at it seems.

There is a war surrounding her and when Lyric realizes that they are searching for her, she must rely on those she once trusted: a boy who isn’t who she thought, and a new realm of warriors who have come to protect her as she trains.
For the darkness is coming, and the Queen of Obscurité wants to ensure that the King of Lumière can’t get his hands on Lyric. And the only way to ensure that is if Lyric herself is no more…no matter the cost to prophecy.

*Disclaimer: I received an eARC of this book from InkSlinger PR in exchange for an honest review. This does not influence my rating or the content of my review in any way.

Having been a fan of Carrie Ann Ryan's works for a few years now, I'm always ready to try out anything she writes. I was excited to hear about her upcoming venture in the YA genre, so when I got the opportunity to do so, I jumped at the occasion to read an advance copy of her book. I am happy to say that this book was just as good as I imagined.