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April TBR🌸
I have taken a little bit of a break from here, but hope to start posting my monthly reviews here again starting from this month 🙏 Here's what I am hoping to get around to this month!
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may tbr post yayy
rereads are marked by a ☆, new reads are marked by a ♡, and new acquisitions are bolded
physical tbr: 15
more letters from a nut - ted l. nancy ♡
fahrenheit 451 - ray bradbury ♡
little (grrl) lost - charles de lint ♡
dracula - bram stoker ♡
dune - frank herbert ♡
dune messiah - frank herbert ♡
frankenstein - mary shelley ♡
juilet takes a breath - gabby rivera ♡
sense and sensibility - jane austen ♡
stories of people and civilization, greek ancient
origins - lindsay powell, j. k. jackson ♡
the silent stars go by - dan abbet ♡
touched by an angel - johnathan morris ♡
the handmaids tale - margaret atwood ✩
the testaments - margaret atwood ♡
aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the
universe - benjamin alire sáenz ✩
digital tbr: 4
pandora's jar: women in the greek myths - natalie haynes ♡
providence girls - morgan dante ♡
cemetery boys - aiden thomas ♡
if you could see the sun - ann liang ♡
read: 11
an education in malice - s. t. gibson - 3.5/5
i have,,, conflicted feelings on this book. it was good, the action was interesting, the characters were complex, the vibes were impeccable, but,,,,, idkkk.... i can't even verbalize it but there was something about this that just made it a slog to get through.
i can't help myself from comparing it to a dowry of blood, which i feel had a much cleaner execution of very similar themes. dracula felt charasmatic, he felt gravitational, he felt like a person you would give up humanity for. de lafontaine felt,,,, like a mean professor. carmilla and laura constantly wax on about how brilliant and intoxicating she is, but i never felt that. s.t. gibson can write an obsessive, imbalanced, interesting relationship! they can write it very well! so i don't understand why this fell flat for me.
overall, i think this book was disjointed. it felt like a collection of vibey scenes and quotes to put on your instagram. (which, to be fair, the quotes are banger. and the vibes are so so vibes.) i liked it, but i don't know how long it'll stay on my shelf.
maneater - emily antoinette - 2.5/5
tbh i don't have much to say abt this 👍 it was an ok book 👍
hot button issue - catrina bell - 2.5/5
i liked seeing more of this world! the couple wasn't really my thing but thats more of a me issue (get it? no? ok) i do wish there was a little more roller derbying but overall this was cool.
wild is the witch - rachel griffin - dnf
cool concept but the writing style was too repetitive for my taste 👍
luxuria - colette rhodes - dnf
i didn't like this book whoopsies. i wanted to actually try fantasy romance instead dismissing the entire genre but ummm. yeah no i don't like fantasy romance. not my thing. paranormal besties please take me back ill never stray again 🙏
garron park - nordika night - 1/5
ok so. well. where do i even start with this book. extremely silly to, at 25 years of age, call someone your enemy. are you five? are you five years old? everyone certainly swears like a five year old. tiny baby writing tip: maybe keep the word fuck to, like, once a paragraph.
additionally, you can create tension without violence sometimes! if your main characters have confessed their undying love to each other, probably they can talk to eachother for four seconds! probably they don't need to punch eachother as much! probably, a change in their actions and words would show the audience how much their relationship has grown.
i also wasn't super into how many times the main characters brothers brought up how sexy they were? kind of a weird move. certainly not something i would choose to say about my own brother, nor my best friends brother! maybe thats just me though who knows
it was genuinely just edgy k-pop wattpad poverty-porn yaoi but? i did read 300 pages in one sitting so? points for that? you get 1 point for that.
rebel girls - elizabeth keenan - 2.5/5
second pro-choice book i've read this month so thats cool! guess we have a theme going. tbh i don't have much to say about this. the characters were interesting, if lacking in depth. the plot was fine, if lacking in depth. the messaging was good, if lacking in depth. i guess this book was overall, lacking in depth. i'm sure my local free little library will appreciate it. 👍
undergrounders - j. e. glass - 2.5/5
this is just the month of the perfectly average books huh? everybody's getting 2.5 stars skdisjdj.
anyways, i wanted to see if my issue with luxuria was actually its genre, or if it was the overwhelming hetero of it all. so i read a queer fantasy romance! with all of the tropes i like! and i still didn't enjoy it :(. i am glad that i tried this, but i can say with absolute certainty now that fantasy romance is not for me.
the main couple was sooooo cutes though and the side characters were sooooo cutes and the worldbuilding was v v v cool! if you like sapphic fantasy romance? absolutely reccomend this book!
the ballad of songbirds and snakes - suzanne collins - 3/5
girl this is why u reread books bcus i used to tell people that this was my favorite book ever. it is not. idk why i thought that.
ANYWAYS this was alright. i liked how easy the themes were to pick up on, the ambiguous ending, and listening to coriolanus justify his weird evil behavior. that was cool. i didn't like um lucy gray. not because she was bad, but because she felt like a non-character yk? i thought she had some pretty cool characterization in the beginning, especially surrounding her being a performer (being a parallel to coriolanus) but then she kind of fell off and just became a stock Trusting Girlfriend. which was meh. i'm excited to watch the movie, snow lands on top or whatever 👍
cultish: the language of fanaticism - amanda montell - 4/5
this was very cool to learn about and easy to digest 👍. not a full 5/5 because it was nonfiction so i wasn't obsessed with it, but definitely more engaging than most other nonfiction books I've read.
fox court - nora sakavic - 1/5
started reading this because i heard that it was like,,, bad but addictive? like full wattpad nonesense but u look up and you've finished the whole series in one sitting yk? it was,,, not that way for me. i thought it was boring, confusing, and the characters were sooo unlikable. ik this has a pretty big fandom on here please don't come for me sowwyy um. yeah
last months goal: finish a reread
WOO HOO i did it this time! gold star for me, best reader in the whole world. this was really easy, because i genuinely couldn't remember a single thing about a ballad of songbirds and snakes, so it felt like i was reading a brand new book. i also said that i wanted to carve away a more sizable chunk of my tbr this month, which i kind of did? i only read 3 physical books, but i got rid of almost an entire shelfs worth because my family was having a yard sale! so yk. vibes.
this months goal: ... finish dune
LOOK LOOOK STOP THROWING TOMATOES AT ME LOOK ok. last time this was a lofty goal filled with folly and big dreams and it was stupid. THIS TIME i literally only have 257 pages left. which is actually so reasonable. if i read 50 pages a night before bed that's only 5 days of reading. i can straight up do this one this time I PROMISE.
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TBR | January 2024
2024 is here, Happy New Year!
To celebrate, let's set some goals: I want to read 50 books in 2024, and get to at least 60% of my current TBR (this means 43 books). These are both suuuuuuper lowkey goals that I think will be easily accomplishable, but I think it's about time I don't stress myself out with plans. 2024 is shaping up to be a very full year in terms of professional and personal matters, so I want my reading to be relaxing.
However, in the spirit of tackling my TBR, I'm going to try and set a list of books I want to get to this month in the hopes of actually sticking to it...
The Lost Pianos of Siberia - Sophy Roberts
El Zorro: comienza la leyenda - Isabel Allende
Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised - Alice Te Punga Somerville
Nagori: La nostalgie de la saison qui vient de nous quitter - Ryoko Sekiguchi
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White - Blair Braverman
Marx in the Anthropocene - Kōhei Saitō
Poets and Dreamers: Studies and Translations from the Irish - Lady Gregory
I think this is a good mix of non-fiction, fiction, and poetry, with radically different topics, genres, and even languages, so I don't get bored. There's something for every mood and I'm really looking forward to all of them.
What are you reading this year?
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I usually have a tbr for October, but I've been busy and tired lately, so my tbr this year is more modest 🥲 I'm hoping to finish at least one of these!
Frankenstein by Junji Ito
In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
Are you guys reading anything spooky this month? 🍂
#booklr#books#book photography#frankenstein#manga#junji ito#miso soup#ryu murakami#the year of the witching#alexis henderson#halloween 2022#monthly tbr#the refuge of books
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May 2024 TBR--
Connor Cow and I are excited to talk about the books we're planning on reading in May. (AKA look at my cute stuffed cow because my physical TBR is TINY.) I have three Kindle books and three NetGalley ARCs I plan on reading during the month so the physical TBR for the month is small. I'm so excited for my reading plans for the month. I've already started one of the Kindle books and I am INVESTED.
Teen Titans: Beast Boy Loves Raven by Kami Garcia and Gabriel Picolo-- I'm continuing my reread of the Teen Titans graphic novel series. Up next we see Beast Boy and Raven meet and we see them starting to put the pieces of the puzzle together. This isn't my favorite of the series (that one's next month), but I still enjoy the Teen Titans graphic novels so much.
Aesop's Fables by Aesop-- I found this beautiful collection of Aesop's Fables when visiting a small bookstore in San Antonio a few months ago and I decided this would probably be a good choice for May since I am back to school and I need some light reads to help me push through the month. There are more than 200 short fables (less than one page per) that use animals to discuss human problems. Some are as short as two sentences. Some are as long as five or six sentences. I'm hoping to finish this one early on in the month.
Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang (Kindle)-- Okay. So this is the one I'm already SUPER invested in. I started it at the end of April and I'm 100 pages in. All of the people who said this book made them angry were so right. This was sold to me as a standalone dark academia novel featuring a woman trying to survive the magic school as the first woman admitted to the High Magistry. She has the janitor forced upon her as her assistant as a cruel joke by others in the High Magistry. And we follow them as they try to make it in this magical school. The absolute rage I've felt in the first 100 pages is astounding. I can't wait to dive deeper into it.
Faking It with Number 41 by Piper Rayne (Kindle)-- This is the next book I'm picking up in the Hockey Hotties series. In this one we follow Ford who is the heir to Jacobs Enterprises, but with a career in the NHL, he doesn't want to fall into the family business. His father agrees...with one condition. He fakes a relationship with the family's PR rep. But do things stay pretend? Or does Ford find himself in an even bigger pickle than he was in before? I liked Ford in the other book I read in this series so I'm excited to read his story.
Pacific Rim by Alexander C. Irvine (Kindle)-- Did I really buy a novelization of a movie I watched last month? Am I really about to read it...despite having watched the movie two times now? Yes and Yes. Hey. Hi. Hello. Have you met me? The Resident Hyperfixation Expert is here to continue the hyperfixation. Pacific Rim follows a former Jaeger pilot and an untested trainee as they attempt to push back a giant Kaiju and keep the world from the edge of defeat in their war against the Kaiju.
Icon and Inferno by Marie Lu (NetGalley)-- This is the second book in the series which follows a spy and a pop star as they team together to take down a very bad man. I reread book one recently and remembered how much I love Winter and Sydney. In the first one, we saw Winter brought into the agency and trained up as he joined Sydney on a mission to bring a rich, and bad, man to justice. I was so worried reading book one the first time that this would be a one and done situation with their partnership, but in book two we've got the gang back together and I'm so excited. This time things get a little more personal for Sydney which I think will really up the stakes (and possibly the romance).
The Calculation of You and Me by Serena Kaylor (NetGalley)-- The GoodReads pitch is as follows: "A calculus nerd enlists her surly classmate's help to win back her ex-boyfriend, but when sparks start to fly, she realizes there's no algorithm for falling in love." I'm excited to meet this moody musician and this math nerd and see how they inevitably fall in love. I've read from this author before so I'm excited to dive on in to a new one.
The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton (NetGalley)-- When I heard Kayla from BooksandLala talk about this one, I had to request it. This is going to be a genre mash-up that could be everything for me: Sci-Fi/Romance. It's pitched as "part space odyssey, part sapphic rom-com." Four twenty-somethings accidentally steal a spaceship and as the ship travels deeper into space, the laws of physics start twisting and old mysteries come crawling back to life. I'm going to try to go into this one without knowing too much, but I was so excited to get an ARC for this one.
I do want to clarify that reading all of these is my goal for the month of May. But I started a class in April and if I need to then I will start pulling things off of my TBR in order to keep up with my coursework. I'm hoping that having a couple of short and easy reads for the month will make it easier to hit my daily page goals.
#tbr#monthly tbr#to be read#tbr pile#bookish#booklr#bookstagram#books to read#teen titans: beast boy#teen titans#beast boy#Aesop's fables#blood over bright haven#faking it with number 41#pacific rim#icon and inferno#the calculation of you and me#the stars too fondly
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this june i want to read:
juniper & thorn (this is my current read)
dracula (just to continue dracula daily)
fence: disarmed
the magician's gambit
the secret service of tea and treason
the priory of the orange tree
the long way to a small, angry planet
may the best man win
six of crows
the will to change: men, masculinity, and love
i don't know if i will get to all of these this month,, but we can hope
#juniper & thorn#dracula daily#dracula#fence comic#the belgariad#the secret service of tea and treason#the priory of the orange tree#the long way to a small angry planet#becky chambers#may the best man win#six of crows#bell hooks#to be read#monthly tbr
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Alright February, let’s do this! I’ve packed as many romance books into this month as possible. And I’m hoping to make a decent dent in my reading goal for the year 🥰
Here’s my February TBR:
Bite Me! -currently reading
There Are Things I Can’t Tell You
The Charm Offensive
Hand Picked
Charisma Check
This Wonderful Season With You
Rosaline Palmer Takes The Cake
Legends & Lattes
Sticky Ties
Happy reading everyone! ❤️
#february tbr#monthly tbr#booklr#tbr#rr2023#tbr pile#to be read pile#books#reading#read#book#bookish#bookworm#romance books#queer books#lgbtq+ books#legends and lattes#spooky boys series#bite me!#there are things I can’t tell you#this wonderful season with you#the Sunday brothers#hand picked#Sunday brothers series#the charm offensive#charisma check#roll for love series#rosaline palmer takes the cake#sticky ties#the family Novak series
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June TBR
(Yes, they’re making a comeback. I like lists. And summer is an easy reading time to plan. )
🌊 The Girl Sho Fell Beneath the Sea
🩷 Loveless
🏖️ Beach Read
💜 Is Love The Answer? (Manga)
🧜♀️ The Mermaid’s Voice Returns in This One
*hearts are Pride month reads
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#crime and punishment#dostoyevski#reading#april tbr#monthly tbr#tbr 2023#read in 2023#dark academia#light academia#bookblr
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JOMP day 1
February goals
I don’t know what my physical tbr really is right now 😅 I have so many books from the library I need to get to I think this month will also be mostly digital 🤷♀️
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I don't have 12 friends so I decided to take 12 books from my TBR pile instead. Sword and Pen is the final book in the Great Library series (a brilliant series if you have ever wondered what the world might be like, had the library at Alexandria survived). I'm currently reading Only a Monster.
#12 books challenge#books#library#reading#reading challenge#monthly tbr#booklr#books and reading#bookworm#book lover
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Gotta tell y’all my Dec/mostly Jan TBR!! It kinda slays 🫡😤🫣🔥
#monthly tbr#January TBR#December TBR#reading#black reader#booklr#bookblr#book blog#reading blog#alyssagrey#studyspo#study aesthetic#reading aesthetic
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april tbr post yayy
rereads are marked by a ☆, new reads are marked by a ♡, and new acquisitions are bolded
physical tbr: 20
what moves the dead - t. kingfisher ♡
an education in malice - s. t. gibson ♡
juilet takes a breath - gabby rivera ♡
stories of people and civilization, greek ancient origins - lindsay powell, j. k. jackson ♡
rebel girls - elizabeth keenan ♡
the silent stars go by - dan abbet ♡
touched by an angel - johnathan morris ♡
dracula - bram stoker ♡
dune - frank herbert ♡
dune messiah - frank herbert ♡
frankenstein - mary shelley ♡
sense and sensibility - jane austen ♡
hippie - barry miles ♡
evernight - claudia gray ☆
stargazer - claudia gray ♡
the handmaids tale - margaret atwood ☆
the testaments - margaret atwood ♡
aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the
universe - benjamin alire sáenz ☆
would-be witch - kimberly frost ☆
the ballad of songbirds and snakes - suzanne collins ☆
digital tbr: 2
pandora's jar: women in the greek myths - natalie haynes ♡
wild is the witch - rachel griffin ♡
read: 7
a million kisses in your lifetime - monica murphy - dnf
i got like 80 pages in and then just,,, could not continue. no shade if u liked this book it was just solidly, solidly not my thing.
my monster valentine - various authors - 3/5
debated putting this on here for obvious reasons but i neeeeed to be accurate i guess. i only read about half of the stories in this collection and they were pretty hit or miss. it was free though so yk. vibes.
high spirits - camille gomera-tavarez - 2.5/5
this book was pretty alright! i don't have much to say about it (hence the middling rating) but i would reccomend it if you're looking for a fast read :D
the coldest touch - isabel sterling - 4/5
THIS WAS SO CUUUUTTTTTEEEEE!!! i liked the way the author portrayed the genuine hell that being stuck at 17 would be. please get me out of here i want a fully developed frontal lobe. AW and all of the characters were super likable. truly so adorable i was squealing the whole time.
im knocking a point off for the romance being a littttllllleeeee rushed and the character descriptions feeling off (it felt odd that both pov characters categorized every single person into a specific race? i think its good practice to make a characters race clear, but idk if that applies to a random teacher with no dialogue). to be so real though i loved this book enough that it didn't bother me too much.
beastly & bookish - catrina bell - 5/5
did i finish this book in one sitting? yes. did i stay up until 1am doing that? ...mind your business. honestly, im maybeee being a little bit generous giving this 5 stars but !! i really liked it!!! rom was soo mecore. i'm excited to read the rest of the books in this collection (even though they're all christmasy), and i can't wait for my physical copy to get here!!
holly's unjolly christmas - lark green - 2/5
this book was truly just fine. like, the definition of pretty alright. the tropes weren't my thing and the romance felt wildly rushed, but the writing style was easy to read and there were some funny bits. i also felt like the demon characters fell pretty flat? idk felt mid overall. (tbh the highlights of this book were when rom and noelle showed up. my babiesssss)
holidays ablaze - lucy limon - 3/5
v cute 👍 i love samite he's so autistic 💗
last months goal: finish dune
hmm ok. so i did not finish dune. i don't know why i thought i could. whatever possessed me to believe i could finish an 800 page sci-fi book in one month was truly of the devil herself. what the fuck. that was a blatant temptation towards hubris and I FELL FOR IT. anyways i hit 300 pages. everyone clap.
this months goal: finish a re-read
i have a lot of books i'd like to re-read but!!! i just never get around to it!!!! there r always newer shinier books that grab my attention!! i'd also like to carve away a more sizable chunk of my physical tbr this month because i have officially run out of space on my bookshelf TwT. everything is so so crammed in there, i truly cannot afford any more physical books. public library here i come!!
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Gothtober Readathon
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This year I've decided to join the gothtober reading challenge. Since this year's theme is final girls and the set up of the challenge is so beautiful, I just had to join.
The readathon is hosted by Olivia of Olivia's Catastrophe, Hannah of LadetteM, and Tish of Little Wolf over on youtube.
There's a RPG set up as a choose your own adventure questionnaire type of game. It can be used to generate a list of prompts for your tbr. You can find it here.
I 100% recommend playing the game because it's really well done, it only takes a few minutes, and it's totally customized to your choices. However, you could also just follow along with my prompts down below.
Now for the good stuff...
My Generated Prompts
read a gothic mood read book
read a book you've been avoiding
read a slasher
read a book with multiple deaths or mass casualties
read a book by a BIPOC author
read a book with LGBTQIA+ rep
read a book with disability rep
read a book with blood on the cover or in the title
read a book with an isolated setting
read a book with a plot twist
Can I just say I absolutely love this prompt list?
My TBR List
As I am joining a bit late and there are no rules against doubling up on prompts, that's exactly what I did. Even still, with work and school, I am being a bit ambitious in my reading plans.
But here it goes:
For a gothic book, I picked Kill Creek by Scott Thomas.
For a book I've been avoiding, I picked Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney. While, yes, she is my all time favorite author, it's been a genre that I haven't been looking to read right now. (I've been reading more romance novels.) Thus, it's a book I've been avoiding. But, we're throwing myself into scarier and more suspenseful reads this month. So, why not start with a 5 star prediction?
For a slasher, I picked Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare.
For a book with multiple deaths, I doubled up and chose Clown in a Cornfield.
For a book by a BIPOC author, I picked Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero.
For a book with LGBTQIA+ rep, I picked Even If We Break by Marieke Nijkamp.
For a book with disability rep, I picked Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant.
For a book with blood on the cover or in the title, I doubled up and picked Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant.
For a book with an isolated setting, I doubled up here as well and chose Kill Creek.
For a book with a plot twist, I chose Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall. I can't definitively say this has a plot twist, so I'm crossing my fingers that it fulfills the prompt as I really want to read it. If it doesn't, I'm assuming one of the other books is bound to fulfill the prompt instead.
Suggested Alternatives
Because I am doubling up on prompts, I am also including some alternative picks just to offer some variety.
NOTE: A lot of these books, I have not read and cannot personally vouch for. However, I have heard great things about them either from reviews on Storygraph or YouTube.
Gothic: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas, or White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
Slasher: Camp Slaughter by Sergio Gomez, Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix, or My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Multiple deaths: Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones, Final Girls by Riley Sager, or The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky
BIPOC author: The Hole by Hye-young Pyun, The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong, or The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez
LGBTQIA+ rep: The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher, Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth, or Wilder Girls by Rory Power
Disability rep: Even If We Break by Marieke Nijkamp, Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes, or Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White
Blood on the cover or in the title: Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey, A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson, Tips for Living by Renée Shafransky
Isolated Setting: What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher, The Hole by Hye-young Pyun, Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Plot twist: Summer's Edge by Dana Mele, Rock, Paper, Scissors by Alice Feeney, I'm Thinking Of Ending Things by Iain Reid
#readathon#gothtober#reading challenge#monthly tbr#tbrbooks#tbr list#spooky#halloween#horror novels#horror books#bookblr
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February TBR--
It's Girl Scout cookie season AND I get to finally read the next book in The Empyrean series? It's going to be a good month. I'm also continuing on with the Sci-Fi series I started last month. Plus I'm diving into a translated High Fantasy novel that I found a few months back while browsing in a book store.
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (The Empyrean #2)-- Year two at Basgiath War College for Violet Sorrengail is destined to be more grueling and brutal than the first. Now the real training begins and Violet must contend with a new vice commandant who has made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is--unless she betrays the man she loves. But Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.
Iron Wolf by Siri Pettersen (Vardari #1)-- This is a Fantasy Mystery built on a foundation of Norse Mythology about blood, desire, and addiction. Juva knows all about blood readers. Praised for their Sight, they are nothing but swindlers preying on people's fears. Born by blood readers herself, she knows only too well and has vowed never to become one of them. Then her family is threatened by vardari, the eerie lasting ones, who never age. Juva is entangled in a desperate hunt for the blood readers' legacy: a dark secret that once changed the world and may do so again. I don't know a ton about this one. It was translated somewhat recently so I'm excited to get to it. The second book in the series has come out but has not been translated yet so hopefully I'm not setting myself up for heartbreak here.
The Exiled Fleet by J.S. Dewes (The Divide #2)-- The Sentinels narrowly escaped the collapsing edge of the Divide. They mustered a few other surviving Sentinels but with no engines they have no way to leave the edge of the universe before they starve. Adequin Rake has gathered a team to find the materials they'll need to get everyone out.
The Fake Out by Stephanie Archer (Vancouver Storm #2)-- In this one, we follow a girl who decides to get back at her horrible ex but fake dating his rival. But fake dating hockey star Rory Miller is fun and addictive. He's sweet, funny, and protective. He teaches her to skate, sleeps in her bed, and convinces her to break her just-one-time hookup rule. He kisses her like it's real. Which makes her wonder if Rory was ever faking it to begin with. There are just so many things here to make my heart happy. I liked but didn't love the first book in this series so I'm excited to see how I feel about book two.
Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis (NetGalley)-- Welcome to the Grand Abeona, home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and the very best views the galaxy has to offer. All year round it moves from planet to planet, system to system, pampering guests across the farthest reaches of the Milky Way. The last word in sub-orbital luxury--and a magnet for intrigue. I'm excited to see what kind of take on a Sci-Fi Mystery we get with this one.
Cursed Cruise by Victoria Fulton and Faith McClaren (Horror Hotel #2; NetGalley)-- We rejoin our group of teen ghost hunters as they're invited to travel onboard a haunted historic cruise ship. They'll record onboard the RMS Queen Anne, a transatlantic ocean liner with a colorful past of violent deaths. I'm excited to enter this world again. It's been about two years since I read and enjoyed the first one.
Such a Lovely Family by Aggie Blum Thompson (NetGalley)-- This one almost didn't make it to this list before it posted. I got approved for it late in the day while at work yesterday. But if I've got the time I'm going to read it before the end of the month. The Calhouns are in the midst of hosting their annual party to celebrate the cherry blossoms being in full bloom when a brutal murder transforms the yearly gathering into a homicide scene and all the guests into suspects. The family has secrets and drama and I'm sure they're stupidly rich. Who doesn't want to read about rich people drama?
I didn't realize how many second books in series I'm going to be reading during the month. I'm glad I'm making progress in these series. I know a lot of people in the bookish spaces are focused on reading series this year.
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The Awakening by Nora Roberts
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4/5
I absolutely loved this book. It starts out a little slow with the introduction of characters but definitely is worth the push through. This book quickly became my obsession.
Synopsis: In the realm of Talamh, a teenage warrior named Keegan emerges from a lake holding a sword—representing both power and the terrifying responsibility to protect the Fey. In another realm known as Philadelphia, a young woman has just discovered she possesses a treasure of her own…
When Breen Kelly was a girl, her father would tell her stories of magical places. Now she’s an anxious twentysomething mired in student debt and working a job she hates. But one day she stumbles upon a shocking discovery: her mother has been hiding an investment account in her name. It has been funded by her long-lost father—and it’s worth nearly four million dollars.
This newfound fortune would be life-changing for anyone. But little does Breen know that when she uses some of the money to journey to Ireland, it will unlock mysteries she couldn’t have imagined. Here, she will begin to understand why she kept seeing that silver-haired, elusive man, why she imagined his voice in her head saying Come home, Breen Siobhan. It’s time you came home. Why she dreamed of dragons. And where her true destiny lies—through a portal in Galway that takes her to a land of faeries and mermaids, to a man named Keegan, and to the courage in her own heart that will guide her through a powerful, dangerous destiny…
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