It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!
What happened in the past week:
Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #378
Teaser Tuesday #386
WWW Wednesday #386
WOW #382
Will the Time Come #379
Third Sentence Thursday #369
Random Reads #354
First Lines Friday #382
The Reward Challenge Update #364
Book Blogger Hop #48
How Well I Stuck to It #216
Wrote that Review Update #213
Week 36 Reviews:
One Knight Stands
Buzz Kill
Carry On
Radio Silence
Archangel's Prophecy
Leverage in Death
Night and Silence
Suffer a Sea-Change
Lady Midnight
So this week I want to read Dangerously Driven, The Deepest Roots, Dragon Claw, Flying, Lord of Shadows, and Real Murders.
The Riders…three legendary brothers who were born to aid the Baba Yagas, until tragedy changed everything. Separated by guilt and circumstance, they will finally have a chance to come back together. But what will happen when they do?
Neither Mikhail, Alexei, nor Gregori are enthusiastic about the invitation to join the three Baba Yagas at Bella's home in the Wyoming woods. But Bella and her apprentice Jazz have just spent a year in the Otherworld after Jazz's disastrous attempt to cure the Riders' loss of their immortality, so it isn't really a summons any of them can refuse. As much as they might wish they could.
Each brother has his own reason to feel guilty, and they all mourn what they have lost despite having built themselves rewarding new lives. None of them is quite ready for a reunion. But they no longer have all the time in the world. So they get on their enchanted steeds (now a black Harley, a red Ducati, and a white Yamaha) and head out across the country, never expecting the adventures that lie ahead.
The brothers travel different roads to get to Wyoming, but they all end up on the same path. A surprise visit from an old friend might just show them that the journey is more important than the destination…especially when you travel it with those you love.
Everyone knows the girls of Cottonwood Hollow are peculiar. Generations ago, a wealthy settler named Emmeline Remington cursed them with strange abilities like Fixer, Siren, or Finder.
For Rome Galveston and her friends, these abilities have never been anything but a burden, until they realize that their strange talents might be the key to uncovering Emmeline's long-hidden treasure. Rome and her friends each want Emmeline's treasure for different reasons—reasons they are keeping secret from each other.
Soon, these secrets strain their friendship, and even if they do find what they are looking for, their friendship might never be the same.
Everyone knows that vampires are hard to kill. But when Dory Basarab is called to a crime scene in a smelly basement in Queens, she discovers that that may no longer be the case. Somebody has developed a new weapon, a vamp killer, and left her plenty of clues to follow. One of them leads her to the other side of the world, and to a city like no other, where the paranormal is normal and where death stalks the streets. Can she defeat a clever killer before he kills again, and on an unprecedented scale?
New York Times bestselling author Carrie Jones introduces sassy alien-hunting cheerleader Mana in Flying, the launch of a sparkling new YA Science Fiction series.
People have always treated seventeen-year-old Mana as someone in need of protection. She's used to being coddled, being an only child, but it's hard to imagine anything could ever happen in her small-town, normal life. As her mother's babying gets more stifling than ever, she's looking forward to cheering at the big game and getting out of the house for a while.
But that night, Mana's life goes haywire.
First, the hot guy she's been crushing on at school randomly flips out and starts spitting acid during the game. Then they get into a knockdown, drag-out fight in the locker room, during which Mana finds herself leaping around like a kangaroo on steroids. As a flyer on the cheerleading squad, she's always been a good jumper, but this is a bit much. By the time she gets home and finds her house trashed and an alien in the garage, Mana starts to wonder if her mother had her reasons for being overprotective.
It turns out, Mana's frumpy, timid mom is actually an alien hunter, and now she's missing--taking a piece of technology with her that everyone wants their hands on, both human and alien. Now her supposed partner, a guy that Mana has never met or heard of (and who seems way too young and way too arrogant to be hunting aliens), has shown up, ordering Mana to come with him. Now, on her own for the first time, Mana will have to find a way to save her mother--and maybe the world--and hope she's up to the challenge.
Los Angeles, 2012. It's been five years since the events of the Mortal Instruments when Nephilim stood poised on the brink of oblivion and Shadowhunter Emma Carstairs lost her parents. After the blood and violence she witnessed as a child, Emma has dedicated her life to the eradication of demons and being the best, fastest and deadliest Shadowhunter since Jace Lightwood.
Raised in the Los Angeles Institute, Emma is paired as a parabatai with her best friend, Julian. As Emma hunts those who caused the death of her parents, the trail they're following leads back to those they've always been taught to trust. At the same time, Emma is falling in love with Julian — her closest friend and, because he is her parabatai, the one person in the world she’s absolutely forbidden by Shadowhunter Law to love.
Set against the glittering backdrop of present-day Los Angeles, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches from the warlock-run nightclubs of the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica.
Though a small town at heart, Lawrenceton, Georgia, has its dark side-and crime buffs. One of whom is librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden, a member of the Real Murders Club, which meets once a month to analyze famous cases. It's a harmless pastime—until the night she finds a member killed in a manner that eerily resembles the crime the club was about to discuss. And as other brutal "copycat" killings follow, Roe will have to uncover the person behind the terrifying game, one that casts all the members of Real Murders, herself included, as prime suspects-or potential victims.
I enjoyed Flying and The Deepest Roots. I am reading the Aurora Teagarden series but it isn't my favorite of the author's series. Leverage in Death is on my Kindle and my calendar but I have quite a few books to read before I will be getting to it. Come see my week here. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteI've read the Sookie Stackhouse series, and seen one of the Aurora Teagarden movies, but I haven't read any yet! And sounds good, I get having so many books to read! Thanks for stopping by! Happy reading!
DeleteDangerous Drivers and Deep Roots both sound good. My husband enjoyed Flying but I haven't read it yet. My weekly updates
ReplyDeleteYeah, really excited to read The Deepest Roots, both Dangerously Driven and Flying were really great! Thanks for stopping by! Happy reading!
DeleteSome action filled books I'd say. Dangerously Driven has a very appealing cover and blurb.
ReplyDeleteI know! Such a really great author and series! Thanks for stopping by! Happy reading!
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