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🌊 The Light that Blinds Us is a solid enough debut YA fantasy that has just enough world-building and lore to pique my interest in reading book two. Read my full review 👇 www.lukeharkness.com/book-reviews...

Sorry I’ve been quiet and missed my Sunday newsletter, we went on our daughter’s first holiday! 😍

🤪 It’s back! Here’s every book I read in September in the form of silent face reactions!

🔥 Catching Fire does everything a good sequel does, building on the world, the stakes and the characters while leaving more to be explored. Read my full review 👇 www.lukeharkness.com/book-reviews...

🐦‍🔥 I often think of The Order of the Phoenix as the weakest in the series, but then reread it and remember how series-defining it is! Read my full review here 👇 www.lukeharkness.com/book-reviews...

BILF (Book I’d Like to Finish)

Anyone else not of any of the books from the Booker Prize shortlist, let alone read them?

What’s something you learned from reading a book (fiction or non-fiction, it doesn’t matter)?

I’m just excited for the post rapture book sales! 🤑

🫵 In this video, I try and convince you to read these books. Let me know if it works 👇 youtu.be/vA5m1jXNXWs

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So excited to have forgot I pre-ordered Dan Brown’s new Robert Langdon novel The Secret of Secrets and have it rock up on my doorstep!!

Before the baby, I sometimes read three books a week. Now I sometimes read three pages before someone needs changing.

✅ Finished book 35 of the year, Empire of Silence, yesterday. What an epic of a book. Probably a bit slow for my liking but I hear it really picks up in the (many) sequels! Have you read it?

🤖 In The Blink of an Eye introduces an AI bot into the police workforce and starts off cliché, but suddenly improves about halfway through. Read my full review 👇 www.lukeharkness.com/book-reviews...

Being a reader means constantly deciding between reading the books you already own or buying new ones you’ll also ignore

📖 I’m back baby! I read six books in August after reading only ONE in July. Have a watch of which were my favourites 👇 youtu.be/nwxIgIaNXEc?...

“The Hunger Games will eventually go down as a classic and, having now properly read it as an adult , I understand why - but it doesn’t necessarily make it a fantastic book” Read my full review 👇 www.lukeharkness.com/book-reviews...

There are so many fantasy and science fiction books I want to read this year! Here are ten I’m most hyped to read! 👇 youtu.be/gtWS-pSL7rs?...

One minute I’m out clubbing at the age of 18, the next minute I’m 31 and sharing a 10 hour white noise Spotify playlist with my partner because it’s the latest thing “that works” to rest the baby

Just finished. Yes, this is significantly the better prequel. Brilliant!

Time to finish off the Hunger Game books. I hear this is the better of the prequels 🤞

Won’t buy a book for months. Then one random Tuesday I’ll click onto Amazon like I’ve just won the lottery

Reading: the only activity where staring at dead trees for hours makes you smarter instead of weirder! 😏

👶 Started reading James by Percival Everett to my 7 week old to “get her to sleep”. 13 chapters later she’s encapsulated! What a book.

Currently reading: The Adventures of Trying to Read While Holding a Baby.

Dungeon Crawler Carl is the most outright fun I've possibly ever had reading a book and is filled with more depth than I was expecting! Read my full review 👇 www.lukeharkness.com/book-reviews...

Currently reading a David Nicholls book, so I’m emotionally preparing for the inevitable warm heartbreak.

The past couple of months have been different, so I do a quick July reading wrap-up, some chat about having a baby and a look at my TBR in my latest video: youtu.be/H3UBGoOdt8M

My favourite genre is “books I bought five years ago and still haven’t read.”

Guys… don’t want to say it too loudly but………….. I’m not really enjoying All The Colours of the Dark and I’m about halfway through…

Everyone has that book they wish they could erase from their memory so they could read it again for the first time. What’s yours?

I bloody love an epilogue!

I’m very much a reader who tells himself he’s going to read a certain book next and then just picks up whatever the hell he feels like anyway!

Just received my first ever support on Ko-Fi. Someone sent me £9 to get a coffee for the late nights! 😂🥹 Ko-fi.com/home/coffees...

🌏 Orbital by Samantha Harvey is less of a fictional novel and more of an elongated philosophical poem about humanity and Earth. Read my full review👇 www.lukeharkness.com/book-reviews...

I’m SO tempted to get a Kobo but I use so much of the Amazon ecosystem - audible, I have over 1,200 Kindle books. Can someone convince me it’s an easy switch?

If you post about what books you’re reading and your thoughts on them, drop a comment below so I can make sure I’m following you!

I’ve read almost 30 books so far this year… here is a video on the very best so far! 👇 youtu.be/wKuLvGzwr_E

📕 Had my paperback pre-order of The Will of the Many by James Islington arrive yesterday. I have heard SO MANY good things about this!

📚 My follower monthly book pick reviews! An updated look at the review ratings I’ve given all of the books you picked for me to read so far this year! So far mostly bangers!

📚 My favourite books from June and what I want to read in July! youtu.be/3KmsG_rxbrs

⛰️ Marley's Ghosts has a fantastic back story and an ok crime story, some great characters and a genuinely emotionally impactful story. Read my full review 👇 www.lukeharkness.com/book-reviews...

You know what I'd LOVE to be able to do? Read every indie author's books and offer all of them reviews.

Time to get this apprentice trained to take over my blog! 👶📚

Picked up You Are Here recently as I was such a huge fan of One Day! Has anyone read it? Is it good?

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We’re now 50% of the way through the year! What’s been your best book of 2025 so far?

Still alive. Life’s just changed a bit! CRs: The Secret History and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes!