Sleep has been evading me a little of late. It could be the heat. It could be after effects of treatment. It could even just be the after effects of being off work and not having as much of a routine as I’d like. Whatever the answer, this box was on paper, everything I needed it to be.

Opening the box, it SMELT like sleep and recovery. Inside, there was two bags of Sleep Tight Tea from T2 Tea. I’m into herbal and fruit tea in a big way at the moment, so this little offering was gratefully received. The flavour is really delicate, so quite possibly not for everyone, but I really enjoyed it.

There was a balm, from Made By Coopers, which is multi functional, helping with both beauty and sleep. The pure oil relaxing candle from Hopping Hair Candles  smells beautiful as well and really helped in chilling me out and getting me to unwind.

The sweet treat this month were the yummiest little biscuits from Chins Kitchen. These little Rose and Cardamom biscuits were everything I would never choose but they were so so good!

This month’s read was “Bad Romance” by Emily Hill. I’m afraid this one only earned itself about 1.5 stars from me. Here’s my GoodReads review:

“My attention span is struggling as of late, so although I don’t consider myself a reader of short stories, this seemed like a brilliant pick for me.

I really really wanted to like it. But I just didn’t get it. Had this been a full length book I definitely would have given up before I’d even made it halfway. The saving grace of this book was that despite the constant lack of engagement with each story, I still desperately thought that “maybe this next one will be the one.”

I guess the genre could be described as black comedy. And in fairness, I did occasionally respond to said comedy and I really found myself laughing. But not that often.

I also couldn’t connect on any level with the characters. I felt that I should have. I got the feeling I was similar in age to them. But I just didn’t like them. And that could have been because we had such few pages to get to know them.

The stories finished abruptly and I found myself having to re-read parts as I wasn’t entirely sure what I’d just read.

Overall, I kind of found this one a confusing read that I really struggled to enjoy. Having said that, I still insisted on following through to the end and finishing it so it can’t have been THAT bad.”

This is absolutely what I love about the concept of Reading in Heels though. In spite of that, I’m still glad that I got that book. I wouldn’t pick it in a month of Sunday’s so it was still so refreshing to read something that wasn’t my typical choice, even if it wasn’t for me.