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 #399
Teaser Tuesday #407
WWW Wednesday #407
WOW #403
Will the Time Come #400
Third Sentence Thursday #390
Random Reads #376
First Lines Friday #403
The Reward Challenge Update #385
Book Blogger Hop #69
How Well I Stuck to It #237
Wrote that Review Update #234
Week 5 Reviews:
The Vanishing Stair
Scythe
Thunderhead
The Burning Sky
The Perilous Sea
The Immortal Heights
Toxic Game
The Girl at Midnight
The Shadow Hour
The Savage Dawn
Random:
We Have the Cover of Dark #29!!!!
We Have the Title of Gods of War #2!!!!
We Have the Title of Lady Sherlock #4!!!!
We Have the Cover of Lifelike #2!!!!
We Have the Cover of Contagion #2!!!!
We Have the Cover of Heart of Iron #2!!!!
We Have the Cover of Constellation #3!!!!
We Have the Cover of Give the Dark My Love #2!!!!
We Have the Cover of Shadow of the Fox #2!!!!
We Have the Cover of Psy-Changeling Trinity #3!!!!
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Neal Shusterman Author Page
So this week I want to read Fury From the Tomb, The Beast from Nightfall Lodge, Connections in Death, Courting Darkness, Honor Among Thieves, Vengeance Road, and Watcher in the Woods.
Saqqara, Egypt, 1888, and in the booby-trapped tomb of an ancient sorcerer, Rom, a young Egyptologist, makes the discovery of a lifetime: five coffins and an eerie, oversized sarcophagus. But the expedition seems cursed, for after unearthing the mummies, all but Rom die horribly. He faithfully returns to America with his disturbing cargo, continuing by train to Los Angeles, home of his reclusive sponsor. When the train is hijacked by murderous banditos in the Arizona desert, who steal the mummies and flee over the border, Rom – with his benefactor's rebellious daughter, an orphaned Chinese busboy, and a cold-blooded gunslinger – must ride into Mexico to bring the malevolent mummies back. If only mummies were their biggest problem…
The family of a famous explorer and big game hunter offer a staggering reward for the head of a mythical beast, which they claim attacked their father at a remote lodge in the Colorado Rockies. A team of investigators - an Egyptologist, a headstrong, brilliant millionairess, and a bounty-hunting sniper - accepts the challenge. Blizzards, icefalls, killer grizzly bears, mad trappers, cannibal cults, and a ghostly white buffalo await them. So does a family who may have lost their minds and souls to the legendary Wendigo.
Homicide cop Eve Dallas and her billionaire husband, Roarke, are building a brand-new school and youth shelter. They know that the hard life can lead kids toward dangerous crossroads—and with this new project, they hope to nudge a few more of them onto the right path. For expert help, they hire child psychologist Dr. Rochelle Pickering—whose own brother pulled himself out of a spiral of addiction and crime with Rochelle's support.
Lyle is living with Rochelle while he gets his life together, and he's thrilled to hear about his sister's new job offer. But within hours, triumph is followed by tragedy. Returning from a celebratory dinner with her boyfriend, she finds Lyle dead with a syringe in his lap, and Eve's investigation confirms that this wasn't just another OD. After all his work to get clean, Lyle's been pumped full of poison—and a neighbor with a peephole reports seeing a scruffy, pink-haired girl fleeing the scene.
Now Eve and Roarke must venture into the gang territory where Lyle used to run, and the ugly underground world of tattoo parlors and strip joints where everyone has taken a wrong turn somewhere. They both believe in giving people a second chance. Maybe even a third or fourth. But as far as they're concerned, whoever gave the order on Lyle Pickering's murder has run out of chances…
Sybella has always been the darkest of Death's daughters, trained at the convent of Saint Mortain to serve as his justice. But she has a new mission now. In a desperate bid to keep her two youngest sisters safe from the family that nearly destroyed them all, she agrees to accompany the duchess to France, where they quickly find themselves surrounded by enemies. Their one ray of hope is Sybella's fellow novitiates, disguised and hidden deep in the French court years ago by the convent—provided Sybella can find them.
Genevieve has been undercover for so many years, she struggles to remember who she is or what she's supposed to be fighting for. Her only solace is a hidden prisoner who appears all but forgotten by his guards. When tragedy strikes, she has no choice but to take matters into her own hands—even if it means ignoring the long awaited orders from the convent.
As Sybella and Gen's paths draw ever closer, the fate of everything they hold sacred rests on a knife’s edge. Will they find each other in time, or will their worlds collide, destroying everything they care about?
Breezy Simmons was born into a ruthless motorcycle club—and now that she's out, she's never going to be that girl again. But when her past catches up with her, Breezy must go to Sea Haven to seek out the man who almost destroyed her. The man who chose his club over her and left her feeling used and alone.
As vice president of Torpedo Ink, Steele is ride or die for the brothers he lived through hell with. He never thought he'd find something as pure as his feelings for Breezy, or that keeping her safe would mean driving her away with cruel words that turned her love for him to ash.
Now, Steele won't let her walk away twice. He'll do whatever it takes to make Breezy his woman again—especially when he learns the real reason she came to him for help, and that the stakes are higher than he ever could have imagined…
The secret town of Rockton has seen some rocky times lately; understandable considering its mix of criminals and victims fleeing society for refuge within its Yukon borders. Casey Duncan, the town's only detective on a police force of three, has already faced murder, arson and falling in love in less than the year that she's lived there. Yet even she didn't think it would be possible for an outsider to find and cause trouble in the town she's come to call home.
When a US Marshal shows up in town demanding the release of one of the residents, Casey and her boyfriend, Sheriff Dalton, are skeptical. And yet only hours later, the marshal is shot dead and the only visible suspects are the townspeople and her estranged sister, in town for just the weekend. It's up to Casey to figure out who murdered the marshal, and why they would kill to keep him quiet.
I enjoyed Watcher in the Woods and plan to spend tomorrow reading Connections in Death. Both are must read books from must read authors for me. Come see my week here. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I enjoyed both books, and both authors are must reads for me, as well. Well, technically not Nora Roberts, but J.D. Robb, love the in Death series! Thanks for stopping by! Happy reading!
DeleteI'm taking a break from Kelley Armstrong. But I will probably read Watcher in the Woods at a later date. Looks like you had a great week. My weekly update
ReplyDeleteYeah, Kelley Armstrong does have a lot of books under her belt. But yeah that you'll read it, because it was fantastic! And yeah, I did have a good week! Thanks for stopping by! Happy reading!
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