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Topic: Modern Books You Think Will Be Classics In The Future
I mean, I don’t think these will be classics, but one can dream!!!!!
Anything Shadowhunters by Cassandra Clare Anything TJ Klune Servant of Earth by Sarah Hawley Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas Illuminae Files by Jay Kristoff The Three Series by Kristen Ashley ACOTAR by Sarah J Maas Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
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!
What a week! I was officially discharged from the eye hospital — my pressure is finally down! They think it was caused by the steroids, and now that I’ve stopped taking them, everything has settled. Such a relief!
I also treated myself to a pedicure, which was absolutely lovely. And even though I spent two days battling a migraine, I still managed to get through two audiobooks!
🎧 Fallen City by Adrienne Young ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
🎧 Blackthorn by JT Geissinger ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
See my reviews soon!
Unboxing – Afterlight October Review – Fallen City by Adrienne Young Feature – December releases
Feature – Remember, Remember Review – Blackthorn by JT Geissinger
Luca Matius has one purpose—to carry on the family name, maintaining its presence in the Forum once his powerful and cruel uncle dies. But his noviceship with the city’s Philosopher places him in the middle of a catastrophe that will alter the destiny of his people.
Maris Casoeria was raised amidst the strategic maneuvers of the Citadel’s inner workings, and she knows what her future holds—a lifetime of service to a corrupt city. But her years of serving as a novice to the last Priestess who possesses the stolen magic of the Old War has made her envision a different kind of future for the city. When she meets Luca, a fated chain of events is set into motion that will divinely entangle their lives.
As a secret comes to light and throws the city into chaos, Luca and Maris hatch a plot to create a calculated alliance that could tip the scales of power. But when an execution forces Luca to become the symbol of rebellion, he and Maris are thrown onto opposite sides of a holy war. As their fates diverge, they learn they are at the center of a story the gods are writing. And even if they can find their way back to each other, there may be nothing left.
‘When a legionnaire falls in love with a Magistrate’s daughter, their love will threaten the fate of the city and the will of the gods.’
The premise of this had me dying to dive into this read!
Let’s start with what I did like: ~ Luca ~ The concept ~ The pacing was perfect ~ The forbidden love, the tension ~ The political intrigue and war.
However, there was something that I didn’t get on with. The plot jumped back and forth in time and, maybe it was just because I was listening to the audiobook, but I found myself getting a bit lost. I’ve read plenty of books with dual timelines before, but in this case, I kept rewinding and relistening just to keep track of what was happening, which took away some of my enjoyment.
The ending was left open for the next book and I’m hoping that I enjoy it!
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: Books I Enjoyed that Were Outside My Comfort Zone
I actually think it’s good to occasionally read outside your niche because you never know if you’re missing out on some fab books.
Primarily, I’m now a fantasy, romantasy, sci-fi reader and I don’t really read contemporary romance anymore. But, over the years, I’ve read quite a few, probably more on the darker side! So here’s some of my faves!
Great Beautiful Life WildfireLizzie and BelleKiller Vacation Lessons in Chemistry
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry Wildfire by Hannah Grace Lizzie and Belle Mysteries by JT Williams My Killer Vacation by Tessa Bailey Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Cashs Fight RawUntouchable Fear MeRide Steady
Cash’s Fight by Jamie Begley Raw by Belle Aurora Untouchable by Sam Mariano Fear Me by BB Reid Ride Steady by Kristen Ashley
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BLURB
Tenderhearted Galilee was raised by the Kincaids, a formidable clan of Black women sequestered deep in the weeping willows and dark rushing creeks of their land. Galilee has always known that she’s different—that there is an old and unknowable secret around her very existence. It has been a hollow ache inside her since her childhood, something she assumes she will always have to live with.
Until she meets Lucifer Helel. He’s fronting as the head of security for her wealthy friend Oriaku’s family, protecting a mysterious, ancient artifact, but from the moment she lays eyes on him, Gali knows he’s not human. From her first incendiary touch, Lucifer knows something even Gali herself doesn’t—that she isn’t human either.
Leviathan. As Lucifer’s most trusted prince of Hell, Levi is ruthless and determined to eliminate the intolerable danger that is Galilee before she brings death and disaster to those he loves. While unseen battles rage between Hell, Heaven, and earth, Lucifer and Galilee’s attraction threatens to bring all the structures of their existence crashing down around them.
Soon, loyalties will be shattered and reformed as Kincaid secrets clash with the princes of Hell, driving even the most powerful to their knees. Galilee Kincaid must decide if she will step into herself and embrace the consequences of power in this astonishing, seductive, and wildly original fantasy.
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!
Firstly, it was a great reading week – 2 five star reads!
It was back to work for me after a week off, it was firework night aka Guy Fawkes so we had fireworks in the garden along with hot dogs and I started my Christmas shopping!!!!
I’ve got an eye hospital appointment tomorrow to see if the high pressure has gone after my op. I don’t think it has as my eye keeps twinging so shall see what happens!
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.
OMG.
I’ve been really bad.
And I’ve not read 1 book in October. Not 1 (apart from rereads).
But I’ve managed to ‘collect’ 20 new books.
20. In one month.
Save me! (from myself!)
I haven’t even put all the pics here as I thought it would take too long!
Books I Bought
SE’s of One Dark Window/Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig (yes, my 2nd set of this!) The Second Death of Locke by VL Bovalino (Illumicrate) Alchemised by Senlinyu Holly by Adalyn Grace Princess of Blood by Sarah Hawley Alchemy of Secrets by Stephanie Garber Nightshade by Autumn Woods Accomplice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer Road Trip with a Vampire by Jenna Levine Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent Bonds of Hercules by Jasmine Mas Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Advanced Reader Copies
Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett Fallen City by Adrienne Young The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer Enchanting the Fae Queen by Stephanie Burgis We Fell Apart by E Lockhart A Dark Forgetting by Kristen Ciccarelli
I’d better get readingwhen I can get out of this horrible slump!
Mallory Fontaine is a fraud. Though she comes from a long line of witches, the only magic she possesses is the ability to see ghosts, which is rarely as useful as one would think. She and her sister have maintained the family business, eking out a paltry living by selling bogus spells to gullible buyers and conducting tours of the infamous mansion where the first of the Saphir murders took place.
Mallory is a self-proclaimed expert on Count Bastien Saphir—otherwise known as Monsieur Le Bleu—who brutally killed three of his wives more than a century ago. But she never expected to meet Bastien’s great-great grandson and heir to the Saphir estate. Armand is handsome, wealthy, and convinced that the Fontaine Sisters are as talented as they claim. The perfect mark. When he offers Mallory a large sum of money to rid his ancestral home of Le Bleu’s ghost, she can’t resist. A paid vacation at Armand’s country manor? It’s practically a dream come true, never mind the ghosts of murdered wives and the monsters that are as common as household pests.
But when murder again comes to the House Saphir, Mallory finds herself at the center of the investigation—and she is almost certain the killer is mortal. If she has any hope of cashing in on the payment she was promised, she’ll have to solve the murder and banish the ghost, all while upholding the illusion of witchcraft.
But that all sounds relatively easy compared to her biggest learning to trust her heart. Especially when the person her heart wants the most might be a murderer himself.
Oh how I love a Marissa Meyer read and this was no exception!
Mallory and her sister accept an invitation to go to Armand’s home to vanquish the ghost of murderer, Count Bastien Saphir aka Monsieur Le Bleu…..but Mallory promises more than she can deliver because she actually cannot banish ghosts as she claims!
What follows is a dark, supernatural, gothicy pleasure of a read!
Some of my faves include: ~ Triphine – I love her and her ailments! ~ Monsieur Le Bleu was actually very scary! ~ Sweet, sweet Armand ♥️ ~ Constantino and Fitcher, ~ The fact that it was a very dark fairytale, ~ The ending was so action packed, I was on the edge of my seat!
I’m hoping there will be another book following some characters after that ending (can’t say anymore or spoilers will be flying everywhere!!)
CJRTB Books 