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monique

Monique

Our Science Fiction and Fantasy expert. Also likes Manga and Romance novels.

Get to know more about Monique and her taste in books below:

More about me

1. Who are your auto-buy (you'll buy absolutely anything they write - even their shopping list) authors?

Chloe Liese, Marissa Meyers, Helen Hoang and Shannon/S.A Chakraborty.

2. What's your favourite genre/s?

Fantasy - especially retellings and books based on mythology

Science Fiction - particularly dystopias

Romance - more so rom-coms

3. Do you judge a book by its cover?

Yes! I will read a book I'm interested in no matter what the cover looks like but it makes my heart glad when the cover is as beautiful as the book. I will also be more drawn to a book and likely to pick it up if the cover is stunning. What can I say... I have no shelf-control.

4. What's your most anticipated releases of 2024?

The Hurricane Wars book 2 - Thea Guanzon

Amina Al-Sarafi books 2 and 3 - Shannon Chakraborty

Dancers of the Dawn - Zulekh'a Afzal

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands - Heather Fawcett

A Fate Inked in Blood - Danielle L. Jensen

Thief of Night - Holly Black

The Darkness Within Us - Tricia Levenseller

My Salty Mary - Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years - Shubnum Khan

5. How do you organise your personal bookshelves?

My organisation of my books might bring some people to tears, but here it is...

I seperate my books by genre, themes and format.

I have all my magazines, manga, comics, textbooks, cookbooks and coffee books (i.e. books you either read in one sitting or continually reference and flick through) on one bookshelf.

Another bookshelf is dedicated solely to books with Autistic (ASD) and mental health representation, both fiction and non-fiction and is organised by colour.

My third bookshelf is dedicated to fantasy, historical, contemporary romance and ocean books (all colour co-ordinated) with a dedicated shelf to books about books and some very (one book dating to 1835) old books (not colour co-ordinated but rather by size). 

A fourth bookshelf holds all my children's books (from my childhood and some from my mother and grand-mother), Greek mythology, Norse mythology, books set in Africa and the Middle-East and my collection of Arabian Nights (these are not organised by colour or size but rather grouped in kind).

My fifth bookshelf holds all my sci-fi, crime/thrillers (mainly spy books and romantic suspense) and some non-fic (these are all colour co-ordinated).

I then have crates filled with arcs (uncorrected advance reader copies courtesy of working in a bookshop) borrowed books, colouring books, journals, travel books, language books and religious texts.

Hey it makes sense to me!

6. What books are high on your TBR (to be read pile) this year?

Holly Black's YA novels

A Brandon Sanderson novel

Blake Crouch's backlist

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers

Wakers - Orson Scott Card

Speed of Dark - Elizabeth Moon

Norse Ancient Origins, Stories of People and Civilization - J.K Jackson

Assistant to the Villain - Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Curious Tides - Pascale Lacelle

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman

Sword Catcher - Casandra Clare

Aurora Rising - Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride - Roshani Chokshi

The Last Namsara - Kristen Ciccarelli

Zoro - Isabel Allende

Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match - Sally Thorne

Favourites of 2024 so far:

TBR (want to read list):

Currently Reading:

Battle Angel Alita 3

  • Yukito Kishiro

Own the manga thrill ride that changed global comics and inspired the James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez's cyberpunk action film Alita: Battle Angel! This new paperback edition features an updated translation in six affordable, 300-page volumes.

Contains chapters 18-25 of Battle Angel Alita.

Own the manga thrill ride that changed global comics and inspired the James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez's cyberpunk action film Alita: Battle Angel! This new paperback edition features an updated translation in six affordable, 300-page volumes.

Contains chapters 18-25 of Battle Angel Alita.

In a dump in the lawless settlement of Scrapyard, far beneath the mysterious space city of Zalem, disgraced cyber-doctor Daisuke Ido makes a strange find: the detached head of a cyborg woman who has lost all her memories. He names her Alita and equips her with a powerful new body, the Berserker. While Alita remembers no details of her former life, a moment of desperation reawakens in her nerves the legendary school of martial arts known as Panzer Kunst. In a place where there is no justice but what people make for themselves, Alita decides to become a hunter-killer, tracking down and taking out those who prey on the weak. But can she hold onto her humanity as she begins to revel in her own bloodlust?

Battle Angel Alita 3

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