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: Secondary/Minor Characters Who Deserve Their Own Book
* Manon Blackbeak – Throne of Glass * Tric from Nevernight – what happened….after * Jameson – Coldest Girl in Coldtown * Charles, Rathie, Jean, Marguerite – Vespertine
* Silas – Sorcery of Thorns * Lucien – ACOTAR *Delano – FBAA * Nova and Jinx – Rage by Cora Cormack * Lighthouse Crew – The Extraordinaires
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.
Hi everyone, hope you’ve had a good week?
It’s my last but one week at my current job and I’ve had a week full of training people so I’ve been brain tired this week!
My son had his top train track brace fitted this week and I’ve had a checkup at the dentist so it’s been a teeth week! My son also had his flu and covid jabs yesterday and he doesn’t feel too bad today!
My reading has been good and I found a firm 5 star favourite, House of Roots and Ruin!
New Arrivals
Well I’m waiting for a Waterstones delivery but, from the looks of my tracking, I think Royal Mail have lost it!
What I’ve Read
The Cursed by Harper L Woods ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75
Caged Wolf by Caroline Peckham ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
House of Roots and Ruin by Erin A Craig ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Look out for my reviews soon!
You might have missed…..
Review – Sea of Ruin by Pam Godwin Review – Unfortunately Yours by Tessa Bailey
A down-on-her-luck Napa heiress suggests a mutually beneficial marriage of convenience to a man she can’t stand… only to discover there’s a fine line between love and hate.
After losing her job and her fiancé in one fell swoop, Natalie Vos returned home to lick her wounds. A few months later, she’s sufficiently drowned her sorrows in cabernet and she’s ready to get back on her feet. She just needs her trust fund to finance her new business venture. Unfortunately, the terms require she marry before she can have the money. And well, dumped, remember? But Natalie is desperate enough to propose to a man who makes her want to kill him–and kiss him, in equal measure.
August Cates may own a vineyard, but he doesn’t know jack about making wine. He’s determined to do his late best friend proud, no matter what it takes. Except his tasting room is empty, his wine is disgusting (seriously, he once saw someone gag), and his buddy’s legacy is circling the drain. No bank will give him the loan he needs to turn the business around… and then the gorgeous, feisty heiress knocks on his door. Natalie has haunted his dreams since the moment they met, but their sizzling chemistry immediately morphed into simmering insults.
Now, a quickie marriage could help them both. A sham wedding, a few weeks living under the same roof, and then they can go their separate ways–assuming they make it out alive. How hard could it be? There’s just one thing they didn’t account for: their unfortunate, unbearable, undeniable attraction.
We met Natalie in Julian’s book. She was shamed and dumped because of a bad deal in New York and is back in Vos winery to get her head back together and get her trust fund before she goes off to set up her new company. But there are stipulations!
August, who we also met in Secretly Yours, is trying to realise his dream of making wine. But he’s not very good! When he and Natalie first met, sparks flew!
Natalie has a proposition for August which he readily accepts and then it all happens! Gawd I love a marriage of convenience read!
August is probably the hottest, dirtiest mouthed hero I’ve ever read whilst also being one of the sweetest and real guys ever! He speaks his feelings, no exceptions. Their segsual tension was off the charts!
And you know how I hate the 3rd act drama, well this had it but it was small, short and palatable so no hate from me on this!!!!!
Bennett Sharp is on the run. Wanted for piracy, she fears neither God nor death nor man. Except Priest Farrell.
The unfaithful, stormy-eyed libertine hunts her with terrifying possessiveness. Nothing will stop him from coming for her. Not his unforgivable betrayal. Not when she’s captured by the ice-cold pirate hunter, Lord Ashley Cutler. She must escape Ashley’s prison and Priest’s deceit. But can she walk away from their twisted desires?
Two gorgeous captains stand on opposite sides of the law. When they collide in a battle to protect her, the lines blur between enemies and lovers. Passion heats, secrets unravel, and hearts entangle until they break. Can love prevail in the sea of ruin?
I don’t know what I was expecting but it wasn’t this, so spicy and quite kinky!!
But be warned, it was dark, gruesome with triggers that some might not like and weren’t pleasant to read.
Their stories are intertwined and basically is a story about a womans journey to get treasure with 2 blokes who are borderline obsessed with her!!!!
Ashley and Priest were cruel to Bennett in different ways but they both truly love her. I’d say Priest wasn’t convincing but Ashley was, he was my fave!
Bennett’s life is full of heartbreak but she is such a strong character, maybe what has happened to her has made her that way but she is sick of being treated poorly and used by men….but it works out for her in the end!!!
I did guess about their relationship and thought it was utterly beautiful!
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 on My Autumn 2023 To-Read List
I don’t make a tbr each month as I’m a mood reader so find these topics a bit hard!
Here are some books that are either arcs, book club reads or tbr books that I might read in Autumn, but no promises 🤣
Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood City of Stardust by Georgia Summers A Power Unbound by Freya Marske
A Demons Guide to Wooing a Witch by Sarah Hawley Song of Silver, Flame Like Night by Amelie Wen Zhao House of Roots Ruin by Erin A Craig
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.
Hi everyone, hope you’ve had a good week?
The first full week back to school for my son and we are tired! It’s amazing how quickly you get out of step in the holidays isn’t it, so chilled and relaxing!
Me being tired spilled over into my reading and after I finished Divine Rivals (it was so good), I didn’t feel like reading any physical book so fell back on audio!
New Arrivals
None again – I’m being so good!
What I’ve Read
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 This Dark Descent by Kalyn Josephson ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
🎧 Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Look out for my reviews soon!
You might have missed…..
Review – Fall of Ruin and Wrath by JLA Review – Mindbreaker by Kate Dylan Feature – October releases
Born into a religious cult on the fringe of society, Indra Dyer lives a simple, tech-free existence. But when an illicit trip to the city leaves her with a debilitating – and terminal – condition, Indra must make a choice: die faithful or betray her Order and accept the cure Glindell Technologies is offering.
Forced to sign over full ownership of her life, Indra is horrified to learn the true nature of Glindell’s plans. Instead of saving her body, they upload her mind to a first of its kind MindDrive, housed in a fully robotic shell.
On the outside, Indra still looks the same; on the inside, she’s not so sure. More than once, she finds herself in places she really shouldn’t be, with no memory of how she got there, and dangerous abilities she can’t explain. So when news breaks of an attack against Glindell’s biggest rival, Indra begins to suspect the worst.
With help from her one friend at the company, Tian — a research assistant with questionable morals and a smile that won’t quit — Indra must uncover the truth behind the procedure that saved her life, before Glindell can use it to change the face of technology, and what it means to be human, forever.
Loved this sequel so much!
Indra is dangerously ill but is actually bought and paid for by Glindell Technologies and turned into….something else but all is not well inside Indra and she breaks free, meets up with an old friend and a new friend from Glindell, Tian. And it all comes out what has been happening – none of it good!!
This was fast paced and full of action and drama! I love this world so much! Also a couple of familiar faces pop up in the form of Sil, Ryder and the AA – so happy!!!
Indra ran into everything headlong and was totally reckless but Nyx tried to be her anchor, the voice of reason. Talking of Nyx, it was refreshing to get a friendship that didn’t turn into a romance as they’re both queer!
This book, as well as book 1, has just shown me not to trust tech!!! I really hope there’s more in this world!
SHE LIVES BY HER INTUITION. HE FEEDS ON HER PLEASURE.
Long ago, the world was destroyed by gods. Only nine cities were spared. Separated by vast wilderness teeming with monsters and unimaginable dangers, each city is now ruled by a guardian―royalty who feed on mortal pleasure.
Born with an intuition that never fails, Calista knows her talents are of great value to the power-hungry of the world, so she lives hidden as a courtesan of the Baron of Archwood. In exchange for his protection, she grants him information.
When her intuition leads her to save a traveling prince in dire trouble, the voice inside her blazes with warning―and promise. Today he’ll bring her joy. One day he’ll be her doom.
When the Baron takes an interest in the traveling prince and the prince takes an interest in Calista, she becomes the prince’s temporary companion. But the city simmers with rebellion, and with knights and monsters at her city gates and a hungry prince in her bed, intuition may not be enough to keep her safe.
Calista must follow her intuition to safety or follow her heart to her downfall.
‘But as with most things that are beautiful on the outside, there is nothing but ruin and wrath on the inside.’
Oh wow! It’s not often that I get totally obsessed with a book, but this is one of them! I was captivated, bewitched and infatuated. Mainly by Thorne! Yes, me! Infatuated by a leading man!
Lis, a mind reader, is an orphan who grew up on the streets with her childhood friend Grady, but gets lucky when she meets the Baron of Archwood, Claude. He gives them employment and board and helps Lis keep her abilities hidden from the world.
When some Hyborn guests arrive in Archwood, the story really begins. And it was explosive! The chemistry between Thorne and Lis was absolutely off the charts and I was here for it!
At page 287 my jaw dropped and then several other places, I was so invested! I do love an enchanting romantasy read!
That last 10% was absolutely crazy. It kicked OFF! And that ending! I need to know when book 2 is coming out!!!!
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: Favourite Character Relationships
One of my favourite tropes is found family so I’ve chosen that for this topic!
All for the Game by Nora Sakavic House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Strike the Zither by Joan He The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna The Blood Traitor by Lynette Noni The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare Aurora Cycle by Jay Kristoff
CJRTB Books 