Shadow Of The Wolf by Tim Hall

Release Year: 2014
Publisher: David Fickling Books

Format: Hardcover
Genre(s): YA Fantasy, Retellings, HIstorical Fiction.
Pages: 471
Price: £10.99
How long did it take to read: 10 days
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Favourite Quote: 'You are Robin Hood. You are the Sheriff's doom.'
Stars: 3

2015 Reading Challenge: Read A Book That Is A Retelling.


Blurb: 
A world of gods and monsters. An elemental power rising. This is Robin Hood, reborn, as he has never been seen before...
Robin Loxley is seven years old when his parents disappear without trace. Years later the great love of his life, Marian, is also taken from him. Driven by these mysteries, and his anguish, Robin follows a darkening path into the ancient heart of Sherwood Forest. What he encounters there will leave him transformed, and will alter for ever the legend of Robin Hood...


Review:
When I first saw this book in a book store it had heard nothing about it so I decided to read the blurb. When I read it was a retelling of Robin Hood I brought it straight away but it sat on my bookshelf for a couple of months before I decided to finally pick it up after watching one of the many Robin Hood movies out there. I am glad I did.
In the Prologue little seven year old Robin is left in the woods by his father and when he finally manages to get out he finds out they have packed up and left the little village. He then moves to live in the woods on his own with nothing but a bow and arrow his farther gave to him just before he left. He never gives up hope that he will see his family again and show them how he has survived all on his own with no ones help. It does pull on your heart strings a little.
At the start of the book Marian was a hard character to like but she stop getting annoying and she gets a little bad ass at the end of the book.
This book was kind of a long read for me, the first 100 or so pages were amazing but after that I found myself forcing myself to read more of it. It was nothing to do with the story or how it was written, I think it was more to do with my book mood. I don't think I was in the right mood for a Fantasy type book just yet. Overall this book was good and if you are a fantasy/ retelling lover then I would recommend this book to you.

Happy Reading!!

Bookish Bingo Challange

Bookish Bingo

I found this on ellesbellesbookshelf blog and I though it would be a good way for me to read different books though out the year. I'm super excited to start this. This was created by The Girly Geek and you should go and check the page out. This will be kept in my 2015 reading challenges if you want to see who I am doing. 

There are three choice of difficulty which you can choose to play by:

Beginner - Try and complete one line

Intermediate - Complete the entire outside box

Expert - Fill in every single square

As there are 45 squares in total and my Goodreads challenge in 100 so I'm going to try and do them all. Wish me luck!! :D

My Book Buying Ban

I have decided to go on a book buying diet. I am taking part in Benjaminoftomes's Project TBR and I really want to get my TBR Shelf down to around 50 books. I have 110 unread books and that doesn't include the books of my Kindle which I have about 10.
I know I won't be able to just stop buying books altogether so I've gave myself some rules:

1. I'm allowed to buy new releases.
2. I'm allowed to buy the next book in a series but I have to have read the others in the series first.
3. Every 4 books I read or unhaul I can buy a new one.
4. I can pre-order up to 3 books a month.  

I'm hoping I can stick to this, I hate seeing all my unread books just sitting there lonely. 

My TBR Shelf

Harry Potter Studio Tour London

Last month I had the chance to go to the Harry Potter Studio Tour in London and it was amazing. I got to see the outfits of some of my favourite characters. I though I would share with you my experience. When we first got in the studios my first though was on how big it was but then I noticed the gift shop which was huge with all different things in. I brought Sirius Black's Wand, A chocolate frog, A slytherin T-shirt, Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans and a Sirius Black mug. As you may have guest Sirius Black is my favourite. It was really nice to see my favourite books and movie props. The best was seeing Harry and Ron's Christmas jumpers from Mrs Weasley.

 They had all the props that they actually used in the movies which is really amazing. 

 Quidditch is my favourite sport to watch, Even if it isn't a real sport. The Qudditch uniforms have always been my favourite outfits in the movies. 

Sirius Black's Azkaban Prison Number from Prisoner Of Azkaban.

Snapes potions lab. All the bottles had descriptions on with little things to make them look full.

The Order Of The Phoenix 

The Weasleys house was amazing, They had a button you could press which makes the scarf knit it's self. 

Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes

I've had this book on my TBR shelf for a couple of months now and I was in the mood for a good fantasy book. I had heard nothing but good things about it. I finally decided to pick it up this month and I'm so glad I did. Morgan Rhodes did a great job with the Young Adult Fantasy book. The book had a lot of blood, death and mentions of sex I would say its more for the mature young adults.
This book has love, magic and death in. What more does a book need? The world is described beautifully and you get a good feel of what life is like for the different kingdoms.
There are three different neighbouring kingdoms called Auranos, Paelsia and Limeros. Auranos and Limeros are both rather wealthy while Paelsia that sits in the middle of the two is poor with little food and shelter for its residents. The people are lucky to survive the winter. The only thing they have going for them is there amazing wine they make.
The kingdoms have a sort peace treaty going on but when one stupid drunk Auranos lord goes and kills a Paelsia boy the peace is shattered and the kingdoms are at war with each other. The dead boys brother will stop at nothing to get revenge for his brothers death even if that means killing a princess. There is lots of deception and greed which will give you a little shock.
There are so many characters that are introduced and you get a feel for all of them. I didn't have much trouble remembering who is who after the first few chapters.
This book ripped my heart out and put it back together again by the end. I'm hoping to pick up Rebel Spring something next month so I can carry on with the series.

Welcome To A Book Lovers Life

Fancy seeing you here!

As you may have guested from the name of this blog I am a big book lover. My name is Lauren, I am 19 years old and a Slytherin. Don't judge me by the house, I can be nice when I want to be which is 99% of the time. 

I want to try my best at reviewing books, going to Signings and just having adventures with my books. Non-Spoiler reviews will be up once I've finished a book to give you all my opinion on why you should read the book. I've never reviewed a book before so I might start of a bit rusty but I can only hope to get better with time. 

I am currently on a book buying ban because I have 112 unread books sitting on my TBR shelf and I'm hoping to half that by the end of the year. But I am letting myself buy new releases and the next books in the series I already own. 

My favourtie Genres of books are: Fantasy, Dystopia and Horror.
Some of my favourite books are:
The White Rabbit Chronicles by Gene Showalter
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Project Cain by Geoffery Girard
The 100 by Kass Morgan

I am currently reading Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes which hopefully should be my first ever review. I am going to try my best to update a post every week or maybe twice a week.
I'll hopefully be seeing you in my next post.
xx