Coyer Summer 2016: Sign-up post

It’s time again for Coyer! Coyer is a reading challenge hosted by Michelle from Because Reading is Better Than Real Life, Berls from Fantasy is More Fun and Stormi from Books, Movies, Reviews Oh My!. I am so excited another Coyer is almost here, I always have a lot of fun with this challenge. This time I am not going to set any goals. I am already doing really well with my reading challenges goals, except for the Blogger Shame challenge. So during summer I want to focus on reading the books I want to read and probably still read […]

Posted May 28, 2016 by Lola in Coyer / 4 Comments

Lola’s Kitchen: French Toast Recipe

Lola’s Kitchen is a feature on Lola’s Reviews where I talk about all things related to food, cooking and baking. These posts can be recipe posts, tens list posts about food or recipes or more discussion type posts about food. I love cooking and spend some time in the kitchen almost every day, so I wanted to give it a place on my blog as well. The banner for this feature is designed by Michelle from Limabean Designs. Here in the Netherlands we call this dish “Wentelteefjes”, it’s bread drenched in egg or egg and milk mixture and then baked. […]

Posted May 27, 2016 by Lola in Lola's Kitchen / 26 Comments

Lola’s Ramblings: Why I enjoy Reading Reviews

Lola’s Ramblings is a feature on my blog Lola’s Reviews where I ramble on about a book related or a non-book related topic. These are discussion type of posts where I talk about a topic and readers can weigh in on the topic in the comments. Usually these posts are everything that doesn’t fall under any standard header, like tours, cover reveals, memes, challenges, recaps or reviews. Lola’s Ramblings posts are discussions of a certain topic and my point of view on them. The banner for this feature is designed by Michelle from Limabean Designs. I’ve seen mentions around the […]

Posted May 26, 2016 by Lola in Lola's Ramblings / 32 Comments

Review: Forever and One Week by Caroline Cairn

Forever and One Week (Spirits of Saoradh #2) by Caroline Cairn Blurb; The Spirits of Saoradh, who carry the guilt of a crime they committed when they were alive, now spend their ghostly days in the Void, dark nothingness where time and space are distorted. Until they get bound to a human. As often as needed, that human can call them to the real world, ask them to grant a wish, then send them back to the Void. The Spirits also have to follow strict rules or be punished, unaware that they can earn their redemption through a selfless sacrifice. […]

Posted May 25, 2016 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 10 Comments

Review: Saven Denial by Siobhan Davis

Saven: Denial (Saven #2.5) by Siobhan Davis Blurb; THE TRUTH HURTS My mother was right to fear me. I’m an abomination. And the world should be very afraid. Sadie has been kidnapped by the Tor, the vindictive alien race who destroyed Thalassic City. As her past, present, and future collides, her worst nightmare looks set to become her shocking new reality. A deliberate pawn in leader Griselda’s vengeful game, Sadie is horrified to learn the truth about her heritage and the destiny that’s already been mapped out for her. Refusing to cooperate, she risks paying the ultimate price for her […]

Posted May 23, 2016 by Lola in Review, Romance, Sci-Fi / 16 Comments

Sunday Post #179

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share News. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. What happened this week? This week the weather was cooler than last week, so that was good. Besides that there isn’t really much to tell about this week. I felt a bit off and had some worry days this week, but I hope next week will be better again. And I had […]

Posted May 22, 2016 by Lola in Sunday Post / 49 Comments

Review: True Colors by Krysten Lindsay Hager

True Colors (Landry’s True Colors #1) by Krysten Lindsay Hager Blurb; Landry Albright just wants to be one of the interesting girls at school who always have exciting things going on in their lives. She wants to stand out, but also wants to fit in, so she gives in when her two best friends, Ericka and Tori, push her into trying out for a teen reality show modeling competition with them. Landry goes in nervous, but impresses the judges enough to make it to the next round. However, Ericka and Tori get cut and basically “unfriend” her on Monday at […]

Posted May 21, 2016 by Lola in Contemporary, Review / 6 Comments