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The Cruel Prince by Holly Black So I just finished reading The Cruel Prince by Holly Black. To be honest it was ok, I had previously heard a bit of the hype going around but never read anything about it. To start it was a good book. I loved the writing and characters. The writing was pretty good, it was easy to read and follow. There were a couple of points throughout the book where I felt that the sentances weren't making sense ( in mt mind) but that was probably just me. The characters were also pretty good, I like the relationships and conflict between them it made me want to read and never stop. The problem I have with the characters is their characterisation, there wasn't much of it.  I felt as if I was in a way suppose to already know the characters, they were described well and everything but there wasn't much described them as a character such as their backstory, attitudes, emotions etc. This made it hard for me to follow along with the book and the characters...

Double Exposure What is double exposure? – Double exposure is the effect of overlapping two photographs and making them one. It is generally created with a person or animal’s headshot and some sort of landscape or close up image of a plant. The double exposure effect makes the photograph seem misty as it fades out and is generally a black and white colour scheme, with the sometimes appearance of colour.  How to edit a double exposure photograph - To create a double exposure, you first want to start with finding the right images, you want to use images that are simple and not too complicates. For the headshot you want an image that doesn’t have a whole lot of detail in the actual head or background. For the landscape you want something that is simple and matches the aesthetic of the headshot, trees are a good option. The next thing you want to do is cut out the headshot from the background. To do this you use the quick selection brush to select the headshot and use...

--- Just a quick note, I know I said I was going to read the books that I currently have before buying new books, but I was at the shops and saw this book and was immediately intrigued, so I decided to get it and read it :) --- I hate everyone but you By Gaby Dunn & Allison Raskin I hate everyone but you is a book about two friends, Eva and Gen, that have been best friends since they were young, the story follows their lives through email as they both go through college on opposite sides of the country. The blurb explains that the storyline covers topics such as mental health, coming out, relationships and self-discovery. I was pretty excited for this book as I had never read anything like it before, based on the format, of the emails and the mental health and coming out topics. I didn't read any reviews before reading this book so had no idea what to expect. The start of the book was really good, the plot was forming well and the flow of the story was going well. Ther...

Update I wanted to give you guys an update on what I'm currently reading and will be reading in the future. I am currently reading Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews  I am about 70 pages in at the moment and really liking it, to be honest, I should of read the blurb a bit better as I was very surprised by the content of the story. I had no idea how in-depth or detailed it would be and that's my fault. Besides that it has been really good, I enjoy the style of writing and the storyline so far. As for the future, I am planning on reading the Me Before You trilogy by Jojo Moyes, I recently found out it was a trilogy and got super excited. I had previously read the first book before and loved it, I am a bit nervous of how the other two book are going to go as I have read some reviews on the second book and they weren't all good but I haven't currently read anything on the third book, but I am overall excited.  After those four books, I'm not really sure what I'll...

Watercolour Flowers For this post I wanted to share my recent watercolour work, I don't know a whole bunch about watercolour so I haven't done any major pieces of work. I mainly just experiment with techniques and colours.  Materials used: Watercolour paper Winsor & Newton half pan set (not sure of the specifics) Water brush As you can see from these two pieces I really like flowers, I experimented with the colours and the style of flower. I like the first page better then the second as I feel it is something I feel is more my 'style' of work, it's not perfect and it's kind of messy.  with the first page I drew the flowers out in pencil then went over that with watercolour, it helped with the messy effect and I really like the way that the shades of colour overlapped.  with the second page, I didn't draw out any lines I went straight in with the paint and didn't paint the inside of the flowers. I don't like the secon...