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Books of Amber currently has over 1100 followers on WordPress, Bloglovin’, and Feedly. On social media, Books of Amber currently has over 900 followers on Instagram, 3500 followers on Twitter, and 3300 subscribers on Youtube. A typical review post will receive up to 100 views in the first 24 hours, and a typical review video on Youtube will receive up to 200 views in the first week and then continue to rise. For examples, please click here, here, and here.

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Books of Amber was created in May 2010 when Amber decided to review The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. However, Amber swiftly quit blogging immediately after because she was too nervous about putting her work out there. She made an epic comeback (that nobody knew about because Books of Amber had no readers back then, and it wasn’t even called Books of Amber) in September 2010 and is now here to stay.

Amber’s main reason for wanting to start a blog was that none of her friends were big readers, and she found that she was storming through books over the summer (when she probably should have been studying for her A Levels), and she wanted to talk about them with someone. That someone became many someones, and through book blogging Amber has discovered a fantastic hobby, and met dozens of brilliant people.

Over the past nine years, the blog has grown substantially and Amber recruited Tatum, a friend and fellow bookworm who she met on a Vampire Diaries forum. Yes, it was weird, but it was the start of an epic twinship. Books of Amber primarily focuses on spreading the word about awesome YA novels, but since Tatum joined the team and Amber stopped taking any notice of her to be read pile, the types of reviews that are posted have become a lot more eclectic. Tatum quit blogging a couple of years ago because life got in the way.

1410604263About Amber

I am twenty seven years old and I refuse to admit that I’m growing up. I live in the English countryside in a large village that has more restaurants than actual shops that I want to shop in, which is probably why I have developed a love for travelling. I first went abroad when I was two years old, but growing up we didn’t have spare money to throw into holidays, so my travelling feet became very itchy. But in 2013 I scored a job as an editor at a translation company (and have since become a senior supervisor), and now I want to travel the world.

I’ve always been an avid reader, probably because my home life was kind of rubbish most of the time up until I was eighteen, and reading was the perfect escape. The coloured reading groups at school were the bane of my life because I was too shy to read out loud properly, and the teachers equated that with having poor reading comprehension. Eventually, I threw a giant tantrum and I was then allowed to read whatever I wanted.

I started off with Roald Dahl and Michael Morpurgo, and moved onto Jacqueline Wilson, Darren Shan, and Malorie Blackman. After reading most of what they had to offer, I fell into an Urban Fantasy phase at fourteen and started reading all sorts of books about vampires and werewolves and their badassery (and also sex lives, oops), and by sixteen I was reading things from every genre. I eventually got back into Young Adult fiction at an obscene level, and started a blog. We can all thank The Hunger Games and Twilight for that. Since then, I’ve grown as a person and my mindset is totally different to how it was a few years ago. I’ve met the best people, and made the best friends in the entire world. From all over the world. I can honestly say that blogging has changed my life, and I never want to stop.

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Happy release day to The Effort! I'm so excited to read this apocalyptic story about people coming together to prevent a global crisis. Like I said the other day, I'm really into disaster stories lately 😊

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I'm smashing through my physical ARCs this week, which means it's almost time for me to read This is Not the Jess Show! I'm excited for this one, if a little cautious about how similar to The Truman Show it's going to be.

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    The first week back at work put me in an unfortuna The first week back at work put me in an unfortunate reading slump, but I'm hoping Hold Back the Stars will get me out of it! I'm going to be reading this one today and hopefully forgetting about real life.

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I absolutely blasted through The Girls I've Been by Tess Sharpe this week! I was worried I was getting slumpy from too much sff so I switched to a YA thriller and WHEW, it was excellent. 

The Girls I've Been is about a girl called Nora who is the daughter of a con artist (and also bi!). She's living her own life now away from her mother, and then someone tries to rob a bank while she's inside it.

This was so fast paced and I love that it was told in a non linear format. Trigger warnings for lots of things, though. You can find the full list on the author's website but the main one for me was domestic violence.

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    Because I like to read about other apocalypses dur Because I like to read about other apocalypses during pandemics, apparently.

 I've just started The Lightest Object in the Universe and I'm intrigued! Have you read it?

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Siri, Who Am I? was my final read of 2020 and it was a fun one. While I didn't love how the main character treated others, particularly her attitude towards sex workers, I did like how fast paced this one was and the slight mystery element mixed with Rich People Drama kept me reading. Will I reread it? No. But I enjoyed my time with it well enough.

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    I'm supposed to be starting The Bear and the Night I'm supposed to be starting The Bear and the Nightingale on Tuesday for my weekly buddy read, but I want to read it now! I should probably finish some of the books I've already started though.

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    Yes, I'm still reading this 😂 I'm trying to fin Yes, I'm still reading this 😂 I'm trying to finish it by the end of the year but who knows if that'll happen? I'm enjoying buddy reading it with @ishouldreadthat though, and I'm sure she's appreciating my rants and fangirling.

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    I am so unbelievably excited to try this YA thrill I am so unbelievably excited to try this YA thriller this month. I am tempted to drop everything and pick it up right now but, ya know, commitments.

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    I just HAD to feature one of my favourite books of I just HAD to feature one of my favourite books of the year, and the start of one of my all time favourite series before the end of 2020. I adore The City of Brass so much, and I recommend it to everyone I come across. I've reread it three times now, and in 2021 I plan to make it four!

What's your favourite fantasy series?

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