Teaser & Top Ten Tuesdays

 

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Purple Princess of The Purple Booker. 

Here are the rules:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a page
3. Pick out 2 lines that are SPOILER FREE
4. Name the title, author, etc.

"'He's the Gatekeeper.'

Silence reigned for a moment. Then I shattered it with an outburst of laughter, images of proton packs and ectoplasm flashing through my memory. 'Are you the keymaster?'

Devich frowned, and my smiled faded. I tossed back the rest of my whiskey. I could not trust someone who didn't even know he was quoting Ghostbusters." p 67

TITLE: Living Dead Girl
AUTHOR: Rachel Vincent
PUBLISHER: Urban Quill
GENRE: Urban Fantasy
RELEASE DATE: December 19, 2022

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and The Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

This week's topic is: Top Ten Book Titles Featuring Ordinal Numbers (submitted by Joanne @ Portobello Book Blog)

*in no particular order
**super, super tricky! I forgot how long it took me to compose 10 titles for this one! Very long! Lol.

1. ONCE BITTEN by Kalayna Price--the first book in the Haven series which was sadly never completed. I mourn its loss every day as it was one of the first books I ever received a review copy of and was SO excited as I kept reading it.
2. TWICE TEMPTED by Jeaniene Frost--the second book in the Night Prince series featuring one of many favorite Frost vampires!
3. THREE STRIKES by Kate Kessler--the third in the Audrey Harte series which I sadly still need to start, but I got all the books at least!

4. FOUR by Veronica Roth--the fourth installment of the Divergent series...yes, it was a novella collection, but it was aptly titled and it did release AFTER the third book!
5. FIRST by Alyssa Rose Ivy--this was a prequel novella to The Crescent Chronicles that was released after the third book, but it backtracked to the beginning of the series, to before the beginning. It happened first! Get it? Lol. Stretching on this one but this topic was hard!
6. ONE DARK WINDOW by Rachel Gillig--the first book in The Shepherd King duology.

7. TWO FEET UNDER by C.C. Hunter--the second book in The Mortician's Daughter trilogy, and one I still need to finish!
8. EIGHTH GRAVE AFTER DARK by Darynda Jones--the eighth book in the Charley Davidson series!
9. THIRTEEN by Kelley Armstrong--the thirteenth book of the Women of the Otherworld series!

10. SECONDHAND LUCK by Kim Harrison--The second book of The Shadow Age series. Literally thought of this one at the last second as my last choice did not really fit the theme and I was trying to do better, lol!

Disney Princess Book Tag

 

So I saw this tag on Instagram last week @NurseKendraReads and I thought it looked like fun because Disney AND books! She followed the prompts from @DreamerWithABook and @Booksta.Graham, so since I followed her post, I will be following her used prompts! I also borrowed this lovely image you see above from her because it's beautiful and I have no tech skill!

SNOW WHITE
seven books on my TBR pile

In my sort of immediate queue I have in no particular order:

MOANA
a character who goes on a self discovery journey

I guess you can say Allison went on a journey of self discovery when she wakes up as a vampire and must adjust to a new lifestyle!

CINDERELLA
a book you read past midnight

Okay, I honestly can't remember the last book that kept me up late at night. But this one was definitely  a fun and spooky one to read late into the night if you like a good scare!

ARIEL
a fictional world you wish you could be a part of

The Magnificent North for sure! Such a magical place, I would love to visit it! I'd take any Stephanie Garber world though! Lol.

AURORA
a book so good it put you in a reading slump

I honestly don't get into reading slumps! I've too many wonderful books on my TBR pile that I want to read. So I bask in the glory of whatever I'm reading, review it and then move onto the next adventure! I guess you can say Legendary was hard to move past, especially after that ending! Lol.

JASMINE
a confident and bold FMC who inspires you

Yeah, I didn't plan that right! Lol. Tella is my girl! I love how bold, feisty, and brave she is!

BELLE
a book that feels like a love letter to reading

I LOVED Obsidian! Katy is a book blogger and omg this is still my favorite ode to reading, to books, to blogging and just the excitement of books! Yes, it plays a minor part in the books and gets smaller as the series went on, but it was still wonderful to see!

RAPUNZEL
a book that made you step out of your comfort zone

Finlay Donovan is Killing It is definitely one of those books I likely would have never picked up if I hadn't read Cosimano's YA books and loved them! I figured since this was a mystery with an amateur sleuth who wasn't even trying to be a sleuth and was just trying to write her book before her deadline, it sounded like a fun time and it has been!

TIANA
a long series that felt ambitious and fulfilling to read

Kim Harrison's The Hollows series! It started at 13 books, I started reading it around the third or fourth book maybe? Or right at the third book releasing. It came to an end at 13 books, but then in 2020, six years after what was once the last book, Kim returned to the series and it's still going as far as I know! Lol. Haven't heard what this year's title is, but last year's was #18 of the series! Pretty much all other series I've read that closed out always ended at 13...really weird, but there you go! Lol.

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

 

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Kathryn at Book Date. It's a fun meme where we gather to share what we've read last week and our reading plans for this week.

Last Week I Read:

East of Envy by Nikki St. Crowe (ARC)--Review to come at a later date

Currently Reading:

Living Dead Girl by Rachel Vincent

What I Plan to Read Next:

Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser

Other Posts of Interest:

Teaser & Top Ten Tuesdays
Random Thought: Author Series
Can't Wait Wednesday #238

Books from the Backlog #176
Book Blogger Hop #401
Stacking the Shelves

Stacking the Shelves

 

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! The meme is now hosted by Reading Reality.

Can I just say how much I HATE daylight savings time? Every year we lose an hour of sleep and it takes me way too long to acclimate and get back on track with my sleep! It's AWFUL! Everyone else apparently loves it because they are happy the sun stays out til like 8 o'clock at night and I hate that too! And now sunrise isn't until like 8am because we're changing the clocks too soon. I just wish we could be done with it. I don't want to move my clock forward. I want to leave it at standard normal time and stop this clock moving nonsense. It makes no sense. Yes, in fall, it's dark around 5pm, but now it's dark at 7am because sunrise isn't until later in the hour. It puts me in bad mood. People talk about their seasonal depression in winter, well mine pretty much starts right about now and doesn't let up until the clocks move back. So if I am grumpy anytime starting now...this is why! Lol. It's either grumpiness or sadness pretty much at this point with occasional bouts of happiness, but yeah the bright sun shining at 8pm doesn't really put me in a good mood when I am trying to get to sleep and get up early in the morning. Closed blonds and curtains only go so far. Adulthood sucks. Lol.

But anyway, this wasn't too bad of a week for books. I enjoyed my last week of normal time before losing that hour. I was trying to psych myself up for it, while also enjoying this last normal week, but yeah. It hits really hard and fast and doesn't like to let up. Ugh. I hate DST! Back to books!! Sorry, this seriously does get me in an unhappy mood and you'd think I'd be used to it by now, but it still sucks. lol.

Dire Bound by Sable Sorensen
Midnight on the Celestial by Julia Alexandra
Summoned to the Wilds by A.K. Caggiano
To Cage a Wil Bird by Brooke Fast
Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser--this was my Book of the Month choice! I chose this one since I had a credit still and this was one I was curious about so I went for it!

Then FINALLY I received my Fairy Loot copy of Silver Elite! Omg, this thing shipped over a month ago and tracking never updated and then one day this week it was just there!

Silver Elite by Dani Francis--Fairy Loot edition

And then I got my bookmark unscathed from Amazon in the last order I created when I needed to get my total up there for shipping!

It says: Books are the seeds, your imagination is the garden.

It sounded like a nice quote and I was $2 off from shipping, so into the cart it went! Lol.

And that was my haul this week! What all did you get?

Book Blogger Hop #401

 

This meme is hosted by Billy at Ramblings of a Coffee Addict!

This week's question is: If you had to, would you pass your book collection on to someone special? If not, what would you prefer your family or friends do with your books after you’re gone? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee-Addicted Writer)

MY ANSWER: Well, I will likely leave my collection to my niece and nephew. They are still rather young right now, but I can't really say if they will be readers and want to keep any of the books for themselves. I mean, I would love it if they kept a handful of titles that interested them or just to have as a reminder of me. But ultimately it will be up to them what they do with them. I can only hope they'd at least donate them somewhere. If they want to try selling them, go for it. Keep them, I'll love them forever and ever! Just don't destroy them or I might have to haunt them! Lol. Kidding...mostly. ;)

I may have to stipulate that I be buried/cremated with my unread books, so you know, I have something to keep me occupied in the afterlife for a while at least! Lol.

Books from the Backlog #176

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!

Enter New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh’s breathtakingly passionate Guild Hunter world with the story of a woman who isn’t a vampire or an angel…or human…

Once a broken girl known as Sorrow, Holly Chang now prowls the shadowy gray underground of the city for the angels. But it’s not her winged allies who make her a wanted woman—it’s the unknown power coursing through her veins. Brutalized by an insane archangel, she was left with the bloodlust of a vampire, the ability to mesmerize her prey, and a poisonous bite.

Now, someone has put a bounty on her head…

Venom is one of the Seven, Archangel Raphael’s private guard, and he’s as infuriating as he is seductive. A centuries-old vampire, his fangs dispense a poison deadlier than Holly’s. But even if Venom can protect Holly from those hunting her, he might not be able to save himself—because the strange, violent power inside Holly is awakening…

No one is safe.

So as I was looking through my list for this month, I started noticing my dates for the Guild Hunter series got way off! I think it was a case of "I forgot to mark it as 'want to read' as soon as I bought it when it released because yeah...I was marking the book before this one in the same timeframe as when this one came out and with MMPB I started making sure I bought them asap because I learned the hard way of trying to track them down later!

ANYWAYS!! That was a segue to say that I added Archangel's Viper by Nalini Singh to my TBR pile in October of 2017. It released in September of 2017, so I likely just forgot to mark it that previous month! I am so behind in this series but I remember loving every minute of it so I was sure to buy the books as they released! In a few weeks you'll see book 9 in this series and this is book 10...so yeah! I get crazy forgetful sometimes...and honestly, I still can forget to mark my books on Goodreads NOW! Lol.