BOOK TRAILER | Imposters by Scott Westerfeld

  The second trailer for Scott Westerfeld’s new book, Imposters, dropped a few days ago! It’s a high quality trailer; vibrant and well-produced. It also concisely  give us the premise of the story. Our main character is a twin who is the daughter of a rich, powerful, and dangerous man. She is trained to kill, […]

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BOOK REVIEW | Demon Road (Demon Road, #1) by Derek Landy

Disclaimer: minor spoilery content ahead. This was exactly what I expected a supernatural road trip to be, in the best of ways: horrifying, dark, exciting, and loads of fun.   Demon Road follows Amber Lamont, a once normal sixteen-year-old girl, who goes on the run after discovering a deadly family secret. Along the titular Demon […]

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Library picks!

I hit up my local library last week and picked up three goodies: Rogue (The Paladin Prophecy, #3) by Mark Frost Starborn (Worldmaker, #1) by Lucy Hounsom The Novice (Summoner, #1) by Taran Matharu I’ll definitely be reviewing Rogue as it’s the conclusion of the Paladin Prophecy. As for the others, that will depend on […]

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Update!

I’ve changed my URL from oncebooked to theoncehooked because I feel like the latter is closer to the essence of why I started this blog in the first place, and it’s also much catchier in my head. “oncebooked” was actually a bad pun on my part for “oncehooked”, and my need to put something book-related […]

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BOOK REVIEW | Year One (Chronicles of The One #1) by Nora Roberts

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these things. It’s also been a while since I’ve finished a book. It’s nice to finally be out of my many-months-long reading slump… but now I’m not sure if I’ve jinxed myself. Heh. Anyway, let’s get straight into this review.   Summary With one drop of […]

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I read it first!

So there I was, a few months ago, casually browsing through YouTube, when this ad for a new movie coming out played before the video: I literally watched the trailer again and again, in disbelief, because I thought to myself, in no way could this be for one of my favourite thriller novels of all […]

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It’s been a while… again

I think it’s time to accept the fact that I have serious commitment issues when it comes to blogging as it has been seven months since my last post hahaha. I’m not even going to promise to post regularly because let’s face it, that’s not going to happen. 😛 It’s nice to come back here […]

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Supa(fun)nova

I went to Supanova for the first time yesterday, and guess what?! I MET ANNE BISHOP. NO BIG DEAL. JUST ANOTHER ORDINARY DAY IN THE LIFE OF MOI.   Ermergerd. I got my copy of Marked In Flesh signed and asked her what inspired her to start the series. She said she started to think […]

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So this happened…

After literally half a year of debating with myself, I finally bought a Kindle Paperwhite! I’ve put it off for so long that I had to take a friend with me to my local Officeworks so I wouldn’t back out. If I had gone on my own, I would’ve found reasons not to buy it. Having a friend […]

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