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 Re-Read:

Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber (5 stars)

 

 

 

Currently Re-Reading:

The Ballad of Never After by Stephanie Garber

 

 

What I Plan to Read Next:

A Curse for True Love by Stephanie Garber--no I don't have it yet, but I'm intending to read it as soon as possible come Tuesday morning!

Other Posts of Interest:

Let's Discuss: Re-Reading Books
Teaser & Top Ten Tuesdays
Can't Wait Wednesday
Books from the Backlog #52
Book Blogger Hop
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. 

Well it was another week! Things are getting super busy at work, it did not help at all that I think it was Wednesday or Thursday one of our systems we use religiously was not working properly. It pretty much kicked you out as soon as you tried to do anything. Luckily the next day it was more cooperative, but it was the last thing any of us needed during our busy season. I'm just hoping that it will be working properly still tomorrow! Lol. It was a pretty calm week otherwise. Not too many releases, no events to attend. Only two extremely limited things I had to rush to buy and luckily both were successes! Got a few things to try to buy this week and most of them are tomorrow, going to try dukeing it out with the FL system and attempt to get a Fourth Wing copy. I didn't try the first time around as I hadn't read it yet, now I'd kinda like to try to get it since it was so pretty! Lol. My credit card bill will be hurting this month, thank goodness the majority of my ACFTL UK copies are already paid for, I just bought my Goldsboro one this past week and hopefully I will get my Forbidden Planet email on that copy as well! I've been ordering at least one from them to throw into the mix! Now I just have to hope I can get 4 covers from 5 orders, but we'll have to wait and see! Luckily I'm in a trade group that helps out with this thing, specifically this thing!

Here's what I bought this week:

The Haunting by Natasha Preston
The Night Hunt by Alexandra Christo
Kiss of the Selkie by Tessonja Odette--deluxe edition, SIGNED!

 

Then I got my preorder gift from House of Marionne:

 

THANK YOU Penguin Teen!

Then I finally got my art print from A Court of Alsace's Art! It was an overseas shop and the first one got lost, but luckily she sent me another set!

I got a Jacks & Evangeline print
Tella print
Scarlett print
another Tella print
Rhysand and Feyre looking like that one famous art print I don't know the name of, lol.
Poppy & Hawke
The Little Mermaid
Belle
then I got tickets to The Magnificent North, The Hollow, Caraval, and Valenda! I actually had the Magnificent North one already from the publisher, but it was cheaper to order all of them then just the 3 I needed! Which ironically at the time I was tearing everything up trying to find said ticket, but ended up finding it since this one was a tad delayed.

And that was it for me this week! What all did you get?

Re-Re-Review--Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber

 

How far would you go for happily ever after?

For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in true love and happy endings... until she learns that the love of her life will marry another.

Desperate to stop the wedding and to heal her wounded heart, Evangeline strikes a deal with the charismatic but wicked Prince of Hearts. In exchange for his help, he asks for three kisses, to be given at the time and place of his choosing.

But after Evangeline’s first promised kiss, she learns that bargaining with an immortal is a dangerous game—and that the Prince of Hearts wants far more from her than she’d pledged. He has plans for Evangeline, plans that will either end in the greatest happily ever after or the most exquisite tragedy...

 

 

 

Yes my friends, you are seeing that right! I've re-read Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber once more! Stephanie is the first author I've broken my "no time for re-reading books" rule since I went to a handful of RT conferences and received sooo many books, some of which I still haven't read yet! With about 600 or so books I want to read, I don't usually allow myself the luxury of re-reads anymore, but with Stephanie's books I feel compelled to do just that! Mainly so I can dive into the final book of this trilogy later this month!

So since there are already two reviews of this book on my blog, what more can I add to them? Well, I don't know! I am still deeply in love with this book, the characters, the world, the storyline...it's all so magical! It's easy to be swept away into everything like it's the first time too! Of course, as I was reading I did pick up on little things that I might not have realized of their importance the first time around, so that was fun too! Of course with my job kicking gear into the busy season, it's taking me the week to read said books, so yeah, I might still slip up on some memory recall things, but hopefully it won't effect my reading of A Curse for True Love!

If you've known me for any time at all in these last few years, you know I've become healthily obsessed with Stephanie Garber's books! lol. Caraval swept me away and held me enchanted and each book after that has gripped me even tighter and mesmerized me even more! With this new spinoff series, I found that same enchantment but in a new light...one that is rose-gold! *wink wink*

Evangeline is a different kind of heroine from Scarlett and Tella. I loved those two, but I love Evangeline as well! I honestly can't pick a favorite, so please don't ask me to! Evangeline has always wanted love and happy endings. She loved her parents relationship and she wanted that kind of love for herself. But when her beloved, Luc, is set to marry her stepsister, Evangeline is heartbroken and makes a deal with a Fate, but not just any Fate, she choose Jacks, for he is the Fate of heartbreak. 

But when her deal with Jacks goes sideways, Evangeline finds herself taking on the curse that was meant for her stepsister, Marisol, and Luc. But as you might figure, Evangeline comes back and after a lovely meeting with the Dragna sisters, she is off to the Magnificent North to attend Apollo's Nocte Neverending, where the prince will seek out his bride.

Soon begins a whirlwind of adventure that Evangeline could have never imagined possible! She encounters the world in which all her late mother's stories came from. It is like coming home for her, but naturally, not everything can go well for her and soon everything falls apart. Starting with Jacks coming back to claim his favor that she owes him, kissing three people of his choosing and Apollo is first on the list!

The best word to describe this book, and the series, and the author herself, is magical! This book was pure magic and captures the essence of fairy tales, magic, love, and happy endings. Of course, this one doesn't quite end on a happy ending, but well, we all know every story has the possibility for infinite endings! All the things we've learned about stories and endings will come to fore with this trilogy and I am eager to dive into the second installment once more as I impatiently wait for the third and finale book.

Overall Rating 5/5 stars

Book Blogger Hop

 

 

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

 

 

 

This week's question is: Do you read anything specific in the fall? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer)

 

 

 

 

MY ANSWER: Usually in the fall I like to try to read some of my spookier or thriller reads! Just since it's that time of year! I still try to read these throughout the year at any old time, but if my plate is clear, then I try to make it as many spooky reads as possible! Of course due to publication changes this year my October will be spent re-reading Stephanie Garber's OUABH trilogy so I am ready for when the new book releases at the end of the month! It's going to be challenging trying to time when I should start as I never know what my work week will look like and if I'll manage to get my lunch break in! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Books from the Backlog #52

 

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!

 

Welcome to Las Vegas, home of the Sin City Collectors. The job description is easy: Bring the offending supernatural in to the Boss and don’t ask any questions.

Gage Hudson is a vampire on a mission. All he wants—all he’s ever wanted—is to locate the vampire who killed his brother and exact his revenge. Even if that means losing his job as a Gotham City Collector. And he knows what loss feels like, because his desire for revenge has already cost him the love of his life.

Sin City Collector and pixie Minka Winslow has revenge fantasies of her own and they all involve Gage. When he walked out on her with no explanation, she took the heat for the Collection he ruined. Fortunately for him, she’s put that part of her life behind her.

At least until the two are forced to work together to stay alive. When an enemy from their past returns to threaten them, they have no choice but to reconcile long enough to survive. Then new information changes everything. Just how much will they gamble to make things work this time?

What’s Collected in Vegas, stays in Vegas...

 

 

 

I added Double or Nothing by Kristen Painter to my TBR pile in February of 2015. This was a fun little series of novellas that Kristen Painter wrote and Amanda Carlson wrote a few as well! There were only ever 6 and this is the last one. I'm not sure why I never read it...timing I guess. Luckily, they are novellas and they all contain new characters/stories. The characters might have interacted with one another along the way so I'm in a good place for not remembering much! Lol!

 

Can't Wait Wednesday

 

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine.

 

Two villains, one girl, and a deadly battle for happily ever after.

Evangeline Fox ventured to the Magnificent North in search of her happy ending, and it seems as if she has it. She’s married to a handsome prince and lives in a legendary castle. But Evangeline has no idea of the devastating price she’s paid for this fairytale. She doesn’t know what she has lost, and her husband is determined to make sure she never finds out . . . but first he must kill Jacks, the Prince of Hearts.

Blood will be shed, hearts will be stolen, and true love will be put to the test in A Curse for True Love, the breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Once Upon A Broken Heart trilogy.

 

 

 

 

I bet you were all wondering when I would feature this one! I was just making my way down my list and it finally popped up! So I decided it needed a solo feature for CWW day! This has been my MOST ANTICIPATED read for 2023 and I am sooo glad the wait is almost over!

 

TITLE: A Curse for True Love
AUTHOR: Stephanie Garber
PUBLISHER: Flatiron Books
GENRE: YA Fantasy
RELEASE DATE: October 24, 2023