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.

I just started reading this one (on Friday as I write up this post!) and was taken away by this moment! Yes, it's super early on and I had another one lined up, but I loved this one too much!

"But the real beauty of what lay before her was that each and every one of the hundreds of bookshelves was packed full with book after book after book. Rows of old leather-bound volumes to brand-new hardbacks with pristine dust jackets.

All she wanted to do was pull them off the shelves just to smell them. Crack open those perfect spines and devour the contents. She wanted to live and breathe a different world. Something, anything, other than her own horrid reality." p 3

TITLE: The Wren in the Holly Library
AUTHOR: K.A. Linde
PUBLISHER: Red Tower Books
GENRE: Fantasy Romance
RELEASE DATE: June 4, 2024

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 10 Books on my Summer 2025 To-Read List

*in no particular order

10. THE ROBIN ON THE OAK THRONE by K.A. Linde--since I will be just finishing the first book in time for the signing later this week, I figure I'll dive right into the second!
9. THE HEMLOCK QUEEN by Hannah Whitten--decided to give this series another try since Hannah is coming here next month for the final book!
8. THE UNDERMINING OF TWYLA AND FRANK by Megan Bannen--a theme with this row, yup, Megan is coming here next month as well, so hoping to dive into this one beforehand or very close to! At least the books are all standalones in the same world!

7. THE LAST LOST GIRL by Casey L. Bond--I love me a Peter Pan retelling where Hook is the hero, anti or otherwise! Lol.
6. WARRIOR PRINCESS ASSASSIN by Brigid Kemmerer--I won an ARC of this from GR at the end of April and have read three different time periods of when to expect the book...needless to say I am still waiting and trying to figure out when to reach out to GR about this!
5. THE HOUSE SAPHIR by Marissa Meyer--another ARC I have waiting for me that I am thinking I might try to get to at the end of the summer possibly!

4. KILL CREATURES by Rory Powers--a title chosen somewhat randomly! But I am super excited to read it regardless!
3. FANG FICTION by Kate Stayman-London--still need to read this one no matter how many times I put it on the seasonal tbr list! Other events pop up or review books that take priority but still dying to read it!
2. SECRETS SO DEEP by Ginny Myers Sain--so behind on her books but still have them piling up!

1. DISTURBING THE DEAD by Kelley Armstrong--if I read this one soon, then I am sort of caught up with her current series...I just need to read the recent ones and about 50 books from her backlist! Lol.