Before I even start with all of the unboxing pictures and raving about the fantastic items that were contained inside the July Fairy Loot box, I want to start by saying that this month’s box was one of the better subscription boxes I have ever received. EVER. While I always feel a bit hesitant ordering international boxes because of the shipping costs, the curation of the July Pirates and Power box topples any doubts I may have had.
When I posted my review of the May Fairy Loot box, I tried to break down the contents by price, just so I could see that the cost of the box including shipping was worth me continuing to purchase this subscription. As I said earlier, I believe that this box was so well put together that I wouldn’t mind whether or not the value of the box was above and beyond what I paid for it. However, for the benefit of anyone on the fence about internationally ordering a Fairy Loot box, I will continue the tradition of assigning a monetary value to each item included in the box.
And with all of that being said, I present the July Fairy Loot: Pirates and Power!
I am new to the genre of ‘middle grade reads’, but I am always looking to expand my reading horizons, and that means reading books that may be below my reading level, as well as above.
Hi, everyone and happy Monday! I participated in a read-a-thon this weekend called 24in48, created by Rachel at 
So, some of my bookstagram followers may already know this story, but for the sake of this post I am going to tell it again.
“Someone once said give a dog food and shelter and treats and they think you are a god, but give a cat the same and they think they are the god.”
I read the first book in the Mistborn trilogy back in January of this year. I loved the book, and immediately ordered the second one in the series, but didn’t pick it up until this month. Why is that do you ask? Well, these books are kind of large and intimidating. It took me a week and a half to read the first one, where I could almost read three normal size books in that time frame instead. But, I told myself that summer is the time for fantasy, and it was high time I knock this one off of my TBR list, so I finally picked up The Well of Ascension the last week in June, hell-bent on finishing it to include in my June wrap-up.
*Disclaimer! I read The Final Empire back in January of 2016, before I had created this blog. Since I have recently finished the second book in the series, The Well of Ascension, and I NEED to talk about it formally, I thought I would put my review for The Final Empire up first. This is just a quick review that I wrote for my Goodreads, so please forgive my unrefined reviewing skills.* 
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