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I always hope that I read new-to-me authors every month and getting book box subscriptions, access to library borrows, Netgalley and also KU really helps with that so thought it would be nice to look back and see what new authors I’d read this month.
By the end of September I’d read 38 new-to-me authors and now I’ve read 44 so far this year!
Lenny Henry Joan He Dianna Wynne Jones Catherine Doyle/Katherine Webber Travis Baldree
The year is 414 of the Xin Dynasty, and chaos abounds. A puppet empress is on the throne. The realm has fractured into three factions and three warlordesses hoping to claim the continent for themselves.
But Zephyr knows it’s no contest.
Orphaned at a young age, Zephyr took control of her fate by becoming the best strategist of the land and serving under Xin Ren, a warlordess whose loyalty to the empress is double-edged—while Ren’s honor draws Zephyr to her cause, it also jeopardizes their survival in a war where one must betray or be betrayed. When Zephyr is forced to infiltrate an enemy camp to keep Ren’s followers from being slaughtered, she encounters the enigmatic Crow, an opposing strategist who is finally her match. But there are more enemies than one—and not all of them are human.
Stop what you are doing and go and buy this book! It was so good and is one of my best books of 2022 – all the stars!
Let me start off by saying that I didn’t know what a zither was so I looked it up before I started reading and when the significance entered the story I was in awe!!!! It was beautiful, utterly beautiful!
Zephyr is a strategist for a warlordess, Ren and she’s good at what she does. When her plans take her on the wrong side of the war she puts her plans into action. There she also meets fellow strategist, Crow and sparks fly……
There was war, politics, found family, schemes, women working together (and against each other!). It was an action packed masterpiece!
Top Ten Tuesday is featured by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
Topic: Unlikable Characters You Can’t Help but Love!
I mean I always go for the evil bad boy so making this list wasn’t a stretch for me!!!!
Celestial Heirs – Zodiac Academy Serapio – Black Sun Andrew Minyard – All for the Game The Darkling – Grishaverse Jacks – Once Upon a Broken Heart
Lord Sorcier (Elias Wilder) – Half a Soul Wrath – Kingdom of the Wicked Ryder – Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac Rhysand – ACOTAR Kieran Kingson – Shadowhunters
“Fear not November’s challenge bold— We’ve books and friends, And hearths that never can grow cold: These make amends!” — Alexander Louis Fraser, “November”
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” – Jim Bishop
CJRTB Books 