A young woman’s quiet life is shattered when a Prince’s lethal guard uncovers the secret behind the silver scars in her eyes. Forced into the deadly service of the King, she must join forces with the man who exposed her and confront a growing passion that could change everything.
Broken Souls and Bones by LJ Andrews
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There is rivalry between our realms, and danger surrounds us on all sides.
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The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson
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Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks! And audiobooks. Don’t forget audiobooks!
In other words, if you can read it or if it can be read to you – no matter how you got it – it belongs in Stacking the Shelves.
The Stacking the Shelves meme was originally hosted at Team Tynga’s Reviews. It is currently hosted by Reading Reality.
It’s been a good month (but not for my tbr!!!) And also, May was my birthday month, so this post includes my birthday haul!!!
Books I Bought The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson Silver Elite by Dani Francis
Advanced Reader Copies Traumaland by Josh Silver The Fallen and the Kiss of Dusk by Carissa Broadbent Warrior Princess Assassin by Brigid Kemmerer A Steeping of Blood by Hafsah Faizal Never the Roses by Jennifer K Lambert
Birthday Haul Foxglove by Adalyn Grace Leather and Lark by Brynne Weaver Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer A Shadow in the Ember by Jennifer L Armentrout
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: Summer Freebie
I tried to pick books that remind me of Summer…maybe they have a summery cover or they are about summer or have elements of summer things in them!
Maid’s Secret – nice yellow cover! Great Big Beautiful Life – features a beach Courting of Bristol Keats – cover reminds me of a summer cottage! Emily Wildes – beautiful summer flowers Januaries – lovely red, summer cover My Killer Vacation – a holiday that goes wrong (or right!) Beach Read – speaks for itself! It Happened One Summer – has summer in the title! Moti on the Water – that cover! Golden Dynasty – a setting sun coloured cover!
The Sunday Post is a blog news meme hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer It’s a chance to share news, a post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received.
I hope you had a great week!
Happy June! Can you believe it, halfway through the year! Blink and we’ll be putting up our Christmas trees!
I had a week off work this week and it was my birthday! We had a lovely meal and lots of cake!
It was a relaxing week, just what the doctor ordered…..and I topped it off with a series mood read!
Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac series by Caroline Peckham (mood reread!)
Dark Fae Savage Fae Vicious Fae Broken Fae Warrior Fae
(mixture of 4 and 5 stars!)
Review – The Half King by Melissa Landers Review – A Steep and Savage Path by JJA Harwood
Feature – Stacking the Shelves: May Unboxing – Illumicrate: April Unboxing – Fairyloot Romantasy
‘Far up in the deep blue sky, Great white clouds are floating by; All the world is dressed in green; Many happy birds are seen, Roses bright and sunshine clear Show that lovely June is here.’ ~ F. G. Sanders
‘In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.’ ~ John Steinbeck
An immortal vampire. A mortal bride. A vow that even death can’t break.
Irina is about to be married to a dead man. She is the willing village sacrifice for the Wedding of the a desperate ritual designed to lay the hungry vampire that has been terrorising her Transylvanian village to rest. Irina’s beloved sister’s soul is trapped in the land of the dead. If Irina can retrieve it, she could bring her back – but Irina would need a guide, one who can walk between the living and the dead.
Irina strikes up a deal with her new husband – if he agrees to get her safely there and back again, then he can drink her blood as much as he wants.
They begin a perilous journey through the afterlife together, in which Irina realises Stefan isn’t the cruel and terrifying monster that she thought. In a land of three-headed beasts, winged creatures and walking corpses, the last thing Irina would have expected was to fall in love.
Only, Irina learns that by bringing Stefan to the land of the dead she has put him in grave danger, and will be faced with an impossible choice. Will they be able to make it out, undead or alive?
A bride marries the village vamp so she can gain access to the underworld to rescue her sister’s soul…..
I absolutely loved the premise of this story and I absolutely adored how the underworld was described, monsters aside!
Irina was so determined and Stefan really tried to come off as a monster because he was a vamp…..but there’s a story there too. The 2 of them together made my heart sing! (My little cauliflower!!!!)
It did fall a bit flat for me in places because their journey was just so long and repetitive but overall, I enjoyed it.
The Great Betrayal changed everything for the Allied Realm. Long ago, the kingdom’s noble houses rose up against the goddess… and for their treachery, the firstborn of each noble family was cursed.
One with perilous beauty. One with destructive knowledge. One with insatiable bloodlust.
But the royal house Mortara received the worst affliction of all. For while the king exists during the day, he fades into nothingness at night…until his twenty-first birthday, when he will be lost to the shadows forever.
Now an acolyte has arrived at court. Like all the second-born children of the Allied Realm, she’s destined to serve the goddess and become a Seer…only Cerise Solon has no gift of foretelling. In fact, she has no magical gift at all.
Instead, she’s surrounded by courtiers and priests—smiling sycophants whose hearts are filled with secrets and lies. And at the center of it all sits His Majesty Kian Hannibal Mortara, with his haunting eyes, sharp tongue, and an unerring ability to send her pulse skittering at the worst possible moments.
Falling for him is unthinkable. Because the king is the last of his line, and as the specter of his twenty-first birthday—and the full force of his curse—approaches, the kingdom holds its breath.
But there’s only one way to save a dying king… and it lies with the one person who’s hiding the biggest secret of all. Cerise.
‘A king by day. Shadow by night…’
Second born, Cerise, is an acolyte and is sent to the King’s Court after a vision.
Kian is the King, struck with a curse to return to shadows from dusk until dawn.
Together, with a bunch of other courtiers, they strike out to break the curse.
The good – the secrets, twists, shocks, the romance, the pace, the championing of women and insta love (my fave!)
The not-so-good – the characters sometimes were like young teenagers instead of 19/21 year old, a lot of telling, no showing and every part of their plan seemed to resolve itself very easily!
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: Animal Companions
Animal companions do really make a story…and here’s some good ones!
Nevernight – Mr Kindly Greenteeth – Cavall Heir of Fire – Abraxos Skyward – Doomslug Iron King – Grimalkin Fourth Wing – Tairn Emily Wilde’s – Shadow and Orga the murder cat Blood Orchid – evil alchemy duck, Durian So This is Ever After – a murder crow Shadowhunters – Church the cat
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