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 #420
Teaser Tuesday #428
WWW Wednesday #428
WOW #424
Will the Time Come #421
Third Sentence Thursday #411
Random Reads #397
First Lines Friday #424
The Reward Challenge Update #406
Book Blogger Hop #90
How Well I Stuck to It #258
Wrote that Review Update #255
Week 26 Reviews:
Containment
The Reckoning of Noah Shaw
The Unkindest Tide
Hope is Swift
Wherever She Goes
The Eyes of Tamburah
My Favourite Half-Night Stand
The Evil Queen
Roar
Rage
Random:
We Have the Cover of The Honors #3!!!!
We Have the Cover of This Mortal Coil #3!!!!
We Have the Cover of Truly Devious #3!!!!
We Have the Cover of The Final Six #2!!!!
We Have the Cover of The Cerulean Duology #2!!!!
We Have the Cover of The Pioneer #2!!!!
We Have the Cover of Fire & Thorns #4!!!!
We Have the Cover of System Divine #2!!!!
We Have the Cover of Crown of Feathers #2!!!!
We Have the Cover of Be Not Far From Me!!!!
We Have the Cover of Red Hood!!!!
We Have the Cover of Seven Deadly Shadows!!!!
We Have the Cover of The Liars #1!!!!
We Have the Cover of Circle of Shadows #2!!!!
We Have the Cover of Bone Grace #1!!!!
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So this week I want to read The Dark Days Club, Grim Lovelies, A Lady in Disguise, Sworn to Justice, Tricks for Free, That Ain't Witchcraft, and The Measure of a Monster.
Now, the world she always dreamed of is rife with danger. Pursued through Paris by the underground magical society known as the Haute, Anouk and her fellow Beasties only have three days to find the real killer before the spell keeping them human fades away. If they fail, they will lose the only lives they've ever known…but if they succeed, they could be more powerful than anyone ever bargained for.
From New York Times bestselling author Megan Shepherd, Grim Lovelies is an epic and glittering YA fantasy. Prepare to be spellbound by the world of Grim Lovelies, where secrets have been long buried, friends can become enemies, and everything—especially humanity—comes at a price.
Lady Maggie Wentworth must support herself as an investigative reporter. Writing under another name, she's been exposing the notorious scandals of the ton—this time it's the "working girls" of London. While interviewing the women, a client enters, and Maggie is shocked to see her beau. She changes clothes with one of the girls and flees out the window, only to be whisked away by a stranger.
Lord James is honoring a deathbed promise: watch over his late friend's sister. Following Maggie to a house of ill repute, he's stunned to see her emerge dressed as the notorious Lady X! Hard times must have driven her to such a desperate act, and he is intent on reforming the wanton chit. No amount of protest will stop him from saving her reputation. Now if only he can hold his own desires in check—and keep himself from falling in love.
But it turns out that while the goddess wants to kill all those she loves and cares for, at least her motivations are pure. Ciardis quickly learns however that the Emperor's conclave don't hold to that same ethos. While Ciardis is destined to defeat Amani, she must first navigate the perils of an entrenched court balking against interlopers challenging their very existence.
The conclave will they take things further than could ever be imagined, forcing the daemoni prince, the Emperor of Algardis, and the Lady Companion to renegotiate the building blocks of their alliance. Ciardis once thought she had everything in the world – two individuals who loved her, a home in a palace, and power unlike any other. But as she learns – nothing is permanent and everything is up for grabs.
As Ciardis finds herself surrounded by traitors direct from the Imperial Court themselves, she has to wonder-if she's fighting to save the empire, who is fighting to save her?
1. Punishment for past actions.
2. An attempt to pay for what can't be bought.
3. See also "exile."
Antimony Price is on the run. With the Covenant on her tail and her family still in danger, she needs to get far, far away from anyone who might recognize her—including her own mice. For the first time in a long time, a Price is flying without a safety net. Where do you go when you need to disappear into a crowd without worrying about attracting attention? An amusement park, of course.
Some people would call Lowryland the amusement park. It's one of the largest in Florida, the keystone of the Lowry entertainment empire…but for Annie, it's a place to hide. She's just trying to keep her head down long enough to come up with a plan that will get her home without getting anyone killed. No small order when she's rooming with gorgons and sylphs, trying to placate frustrated ghosts, and rushing to get to work on time.
Then the accidents begin. The discovery of a dead man brings Annie to the attention of the secret cabal of magic users running Lowryland from behind the scenes. They want the fire that sleeps in her fingers. They want her on their side. They want to help her—although their help, like everything else, comes with a price.
No plan. Minimal backup. No way out. Annie's about to get a crash course in the reality behind the pretty facade. If she's lucky, she'll survive the experience.
1. A place where two roads cross.
2. A place where bargains can be made.
3. See also "places to avoid."
Antimony Price has never done well without a support system. As the youngest of her generation, she has always been able to depend on her parents, siblings, and cousins to help her out when she's in a pinch—until now. After fleeing from the Covenant of St. George, she's found herself in debt to the crossroads and running for her life. No family. No mice. No way out.
Lucky for her, she's always been resourceful, and she's been gathering allies as she travels: Sam, fūri trapeze artist turned boyfriend; Cylia, jink roller derby captain and designated driver; Fern, sylph friend, confidant, and maker of breakfasts; even Mary, ghost babysitter to the Price family. Annie's actually starting to feel like they might be able to figure things out—which is probably why things start going wrong again.
New Gravesend, Maine is a nice place to raise a family…or make a binding contract with the crossroads. For James Smith, whose best friend disappeared when she tried to do precisely that, it's also an excellent place to plot revenge. Now the crossroads want him dead and they want Annie to do the dirty deed. She owes them, after all.
And that's before Leonard Cunningham, aka, "the next leader of the Covenant," shows up…
It's going to take everything Annie has and a little bit more to get out of this one. If she succeeds, she gets to go home. If she fails, she becomes one more cautionary tale about the dangers of bargaining with the crossroads.
InCryptid novella appearing at the end of That Ain't Witchcraft.
Looks like a great pair of books. My weekly update
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