Books from the Backlog #174

 

Books from the Backlog is a fun way to feature some of those neglected books sitting on your bookshelf unread.  If you are anything like me, you might be surprised by some of the unread books hiding in your stacks. This is a fun meme hosted by Carole's Random Life in Books!

READER BEWARE: If these Words of Making are spoken into the air, these 8 grim fables will become your world forever!

From the moment seventeen-year-old Fate Floyd could hold a pen, writing has brought her dreams to life. Now she must write to stay alive. Mysteriously cast into the ancient Book of Fables, Fate can hardly tell what's real and what's not. She’s trapped inside a magical world of darkly spun fairy tales. While Fate loves adventures, she prefers reading about them while munching on chocolate. Unfortunately, there’s no closing the book on this very real cast of frightening sorceresses, faeries and creatures of legend.

And then there's Finn McKeen. The golden-haired Scottish boy who looks like he stepped straight from her journal of secret daydreams. Entranced by this achingly familiar stranger, who’s as inexplicably drawn to Fate as she is to him, they run the gauntlet of this menacing storybook realm, changing each fable’s dreadful ending into a happily-ever-after with the unpredictable power of the Words of Making. But Fate soon learns that while some words make dreams come true, others create nightmares. Can she survive long enough to write her own happy ending, or will she spell her doom?

Brimming with fierce magic, breath-taking action and a heart-wrenching romance, FATE’S FABLES, is perfect for readers of Brigid Kemmerer, Sarah J. Maas and Holly Black.

I added Fate's Fables by T. Rae Mitchell to my TBR pile in August of 2017! I forgot where I learned of it, likely in the blogosphere somewhere! It sounded like an intriguing and exciting tale so I bought it on my kindle...which there it remains unread for 8 years. Yeah. I have a book buying problem. Lol. It does still sound interesting but that page count is SOOO daunting and knowing it's on my kindle makes me more hesitant to get to it. I'm not a great fan of my kindle for various reasons but I found it necessary to have one at some point. So there you go. I would like to read this one some day, but the question of course is when?