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:

 

I didn't finish anything as I had a wicked head cold

 

 

Currently Reading:

The Liar's Crown by Abigail Owen

What I Plan to Read Next:

That Weekend by Kara Thomas

Other Posts of Interest:

Teaser & Top Ten Tuesdays
Can't Wait Wednesday
Random Thursday
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.

 

I can't really remember much of this week. Mostly because I battled a head cold for the majority of it. Not Covid thankfully, but a head cold is a reader's worst enemy for I could barely read all week and I was in bed by 6 every night! So yeah...not the greatest of weeks! It did end on a highlight though as I attended a book signing! I met Meg Bannen, having read The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy I was anxious to get my Fairy Loot personalized and pick up the standard US copy as well! I even ran into Carole from Carole's Random Reading Life! It was fun chatting with another reader in person! So pretty much up until Friday my week sucked then got immensely better! Lol.

Here's what I got this week:

The Graveside Bar and Grill by Darynda Jones
The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston--after hearing this one get mentioned at my signing and how it involved a ghost I practically ran to B&N this weekend to pick it up! I guess when I first saw it going around I thought it was a contemporary romance and while it may be that in part...there is a GHOST!! So maybe more light paranormal romance! Lol

The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen--SIGNED!

And then I finally got my order from A Touch of Magic Designs' biggest sale! It was worth the wait for sure!

From left to right, Lou and Coco as mermaids from Serpent & Dove
Rose and Dmitri from Vampire Academy
a fancy fashion Tella from Legendary
a fancy fashion Scarlett from Caraval
Tella and Legend as mermaids from Legendary
Scarlett and Julian as mermaids from Caraval

Then I bought the character stands of the Crave gang
The Kingdom of the Wicked cupcake pin
then a freebie of demon cat...it's hard to see...I think it's a Nevernight thing? Maybe? Not sure.

There were two other freebie prints but since they were not the ones I was hoping to get, I didn't show them here. One was Throne of Glass so if anyone is looking for that, feel free to message me. The other one I think is HOSAB...it's very mature rated, so I didn't feature it here just in case I have any younger viewers here.

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

 

 

Book Blogger Hop

 

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

 

 

 

This week's question is: If you receive a request from an author to read his/her book and you don't have time, do you suggest another way to help the author? (submitted by Elizabeth @ Silver's Reviews)

MY ANSWER: Honestly, I don't. I really don't know of another way to help the author when what they are asking is for me to review their book. And unless it's something that really grabs at me, I usually have to pass because my TBR pile is out of control.

 

Random Thursday

 

Time to learn more totally unthemed intriguing facts from Shane Carley's True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t! What bizarre and unbelievably weird facts will we learn today?

(image borrowed from Space.com)

Did you know that Astroglide Lube was originally going to be the name for a space shuttle coolant?

(image borrowed from Allina Health)

Did you know the Cornish word for "breath" is "anal?"

That's ass-backwards! Lol. Sorry, couldn't resist!

(image borrowed from Wikipedia)

Vantablack is the darkest substance in the known universe. It absorbs 99.965% of all visible light.

(image borrowed from Wikipedia)

Isaac Newton wrote hundreds and hundreds of pages trying to prove that 1+1=2. Hundreds of pages in his Principia Mathematica are dedicated to proving the simplest of mathematical equations.

That's devotion right there!

(image borrowed from Wiktionary)

A cat once inherited $12.5 million!

I mean...who then manages the money for the cat? And does he leave it behind before he's about to go?

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.

 

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stalking the Jack the Ripper series comes the steamy conclusion to Kingdom of the Wicked trilogy.

Two curses.
One prophecy.
A reckoning all have feared.

And a love more powerful than fate. All hail the king and queen of Hell.

Emilia is reeling from the shocking discovery that her twin sister, Vittoria, is alive. But before she faces the demons of her past, Emilia yearns to claim her king, the seductive Prince of Wrath, in the flesh. Emilia doesn’t simply desire his body, she wants his heart and soul—but that’s something the enigmatic demon can’t promise her.

When a high-ranking member of House Greed is assassinated, Emilia and Wrath are drawn to the rival demon court. Damning evidence points to Vittoria as the murderer and she’s quickly declared an enemy of the Seven Circles. Despite her betrayal, Emilia will do anything to solve this new mystery and find out who her sister really is.

Together Emilia and Wrath play a sin-fueled game of deception as they work to stop the unrest that’s brewing between witches, demons, shape-shifters and the most treacherous foes of all: the Feared.

Emilia was warned that when it came to the Wicked nothing was as it seemed. But, have the true villains been much closer all along? When the truth is finally revealed, it just might end up costing Emilia her heart.

 

DYYYYYING to read this one!! Love this series and am eager to see how it will end!

 

TITLE: Kingdom of the Feared
AUTHOR: Kerri Maniscalco
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
GENRE: YA Paranormal
RELEASE DATE: September 27, 2022 

 

 

From Alexandra Christo, the author of To Kill a Kingdom, comes Princess of Souls, a Rapunzel-inspired YA fantasy romance about a teen witch groomed to steal souls for an immortal king and the reckless, rebellious boy to whom her fate is tied.

For sixteen years, Selestra has been trapped in her tower on the Floating Mountain, preparing to take her mother’s place as the King's Witch, who foretells deaths in the Festival of Predictions. Outrunning your fate earns a wish and the chance to steal the King’s immortality. But die and your soul is forfeit. And though thousands have tried, nobody has ever beaten death.

A soldier in the King's army, Nox is an unlikely candidate for the Festival, but, driven by revenge, he is determined to steal the King’s immortality and kill the entirety of his court, starting with Selestra.

Yet when Selestra touches Nox in her very first prediction, their fates become entwined, and death seeks to take both their souls. Only by working together can they survive long enough to escape the dark fate and the immortal King that now hunts them. 

 

This one sounds like so much fun!!! I love a dark and twisty take on the fairy tales! This one sounds like it will be vastly different from Rapunzel, what with no mentioning of hair, but the prisoner in the tower has the same trend going! We shall see what will happen!

 

TITLE: Princess of Souls
AUTHOR: Alexandra Christo
PUBLISHER: Feiwel Friends
GENRE: YA Fairy Tales
RELEASE DATE: October 11, 2022 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

"Wrestling with disappointment, I get to my feet, slipping the flower into a pocket to finish later.

But before I can pick up my pack and turn back for the city, a leanly muscled arm wraps around my chest and a knife blade digs into my throat." p 18

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TITLE: The Liar's Crown
AUTHOR: Abigail Owen
PUBLISHER: Entangled Teen
GENRE: YA Fantasy
RELEASE DATE: August 30, 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 Completed Series I Wish Had More Books

*in no particular order

10. WOMEN OF THE OTHERWORLD SERIES by Kelley Armstrong--I know all good things have to end, but this was definitely a fave series of mine that I would've happily read another 13 books to!
9. UNCHAINED by J. Lynn--I know it was canceled, but I wish it could've gone on longer.
8. SHADOW FALLS: AFTER DARK SERIES by C.C. Hunter--mainly in terms of Miranda's story. I was a bit sad that hers was only 1 book long where her friends had much longer.

7. THE ILLUMINAE FILES by Amie Kaufamn & Jay Kristoff--I can't be the only one who would've liked more from this world!
6. SOMETHING STRANGE AND DEADLY TRILOGY by Susan Dennard--this was a fun series and I would've loved to have more ghostly adventures!
5. WICKED SERIES by Jennifer L. Armentrout--I know it kind of continued with the novella series, but who could ever say no to more of JLA?!

4. GHOST HUNTER MYSTERIES by Victoria Laurie--another series that did get a spin off that I still need to start. But I'm gonna miss MJ!
3. THE BLOOD OF EDEN TRILOGY by Julie Kagawa--I had always hoped a particular someone would've gotten a book or series to further explore this world! I loved this series so much!
2. LUX SERIES by Jennifer L. Armentrout--true, we've seen the characters in some of the world books, but come on, who could say no to more Daemon all the time?!

1. MEDIATOR SERIES by Meg Cabot--while this addition was a happy surprise, I still wouldn't say no to more! I LOVED this series. Think Veronica Mars with ghosts before Veronica Mars aired!