Monday, September 28, 2020

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #486, September 28th

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 #485
Teaser Tuesday #493
WWW Wednesday #493
WOW #489
Will the Time Come #486
Third Sentence Thursday #476
Random Reads #462
First Lines Friday #489
Book Blogger Hop #155
A-Z Reading Challenge Update 58
The Reward Challenge Update #471
Wheel of TBR #18
How Well I Stuck to It #323
Wrote that Review Update #320

Week 39 Reviews:
The Aftermath
Kingdom of Souls
A Stranger in Town
Among the Beasts & Briars
The Road With No Return
The Last Wish
Good Girls Lie
A Darker Shade of Magic
Faith: Taking Flight
Night of the Dragon
The Glass Queen
Leopard's Wrath

Tours:
Sister of the Chosen One: Review and Giveaway

Becca's BookoplAthon:
Update 16
Update 17
Update 18
Update 19
Update 20
Update 21

Enthuse-a-Thon:
Update 11
Update 12 and Wrap Up

Random:
We Have the Cover of A Court of Thorns and Roses #4!!!!
We Have the Title of Hidden Legacy #6!!!!
Andrzej Sapkowski Author Page
21 Books to Read in 2021 Sign Up

OK, so I got 38 posts in 7 days, it was a pretty fantastic week, I read a good number of books! And I only have a few more books left in my various TBR's! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read VignetteBlood Rites, A Deadly Education, Ill Wind, Pride and Premeditation, The Way of Kings.

A short story of the Dresden Files. Bob and Harry discuss the latter's Yellow Pages advert.
For Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, there have been worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Dodging flaming monkey poo, for instance. Or going toe-to-leaf with a walking plant monster. Still, there is something more troubling than usual about his newest case. The film's producer believes he's the target of a sinister entropy curse, but it's the women around him who are dying, in increasingly spectacular ways.

Harry is doubly frustrated because he got involved with this bizarre mystery only as a favor to Thomas, his flirtatious, self-absorbed vampire acquaintance of dubious integrity. Thomas has a personal stake in the case Harry can't quite figure out, until his investigation leads him straight to Thomas' oversexed vampire family. Harry is about to discover that Thomas' family tree has been hiding a shocking secret; a revelation that will change Harry's life forever. 
From the New York Times bestselling author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver comes the story of an unwilling dark sorceress who is destined to rewrite the rules of magic.

I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my life.

Everyone loves Orion Lake. Everyone else, that is. Far as I'm concerned, he can keep his flashy combat magic to himself. I'm not joining his pack of adoring fans.

I don't need help surviving the Scholomance, even if they do. Forget the hordes of monsters and cursed artifacts. I'm probably the most dangerous thing in the place. Just give me a chance and I'll level mountains and kill untold millions, make myself the dark queen of the world.

At least, that's what the world expects me to do. Most of the other students in here would be delighted if Orion killed me like one more evil thing that's crawled out of the drains. Sometimes I think they want me to turn into the evil witch they assume I am. The school itself certainly does.

But the Scholomance isn't getting what it wants from me. And neither is Orion Lake. I may not be anyone's idea of the shining hero, but I’m going to make it out of this place alive, and I'm not going to slaughter thousands to do it, either.

Although I'm giving serious consideration to just one.

With flawless mastery, Naomi Novik creates a heroine for the ages—a character so sharply realized and so richly nuanced that she will live on in hearts and minds for generations to come.
First in the new Weather Warden series...

Joanne Baldwin is a Weather Warden. Usually, all it takes is a wave of her hand to tame the most violent weather. But now, she's trying to outrun another kind of storm: accusations of corruption and murder. So, she's resorting to the very human tactic of running for her life...

Her only hope is Lewis, the most powerful warden known. Unfortunately, he's stolen not one but three bottles of Djinn-making him the most wanted man on earth. Still, she's racing hard to find him-before the bad weather closes in fast...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman who desires a law career must be in want of a case. So when seventeen-year-old Lizzie Bennet hears about a scandalous society murder, she sees an opportunity to prove herself as a solicitor by solving the case and ensuring justice is served.

Except the man accused of the crime already has a lawyer on his side: Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, the stern young heir to the prestigious Pemberley Associates law firm. Lizzie is determined to solve the murder before Darcy can so that she can show the world that a woman can be just as good as a man. (The fact that Darcy is an infuriating snob doesn't help.) But there's still a killer on the loose, and as the case gets more complicated, Lizzie and Darcy may have to start working together to avoid becoming the next victims themselves.
I long for the days before the Last Desolation. Before the Heralds abandoned us and the Knights Radiant turned against us. When there was still magic in Roshar and honor in the hearts of men.

In the end, not war but victory proved the greater test. Did our foes see that the harder they fought, the fiercer our resistance? Fire and hammer forge a sword; time and neglect rust it away. So we won the world, yet lost it.

Now there are four whom we watch: the surgeon, forced to forsake healing and fight in the most brutal war of our time; the assassin, who weeps as he kills; the liar, who wears her scholar's mantle over a thief's heart; and the prince, whose eyes open to the ancient past as his thirst for battle wanes.

One of them may redeem us. One of them will destroy us.

8 comments:

  1. I am getting dizzy thinking about posting 38 times in 7 days!

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    1. To be fair, I have the meme posts have the outlines done for a year, I just have to add the day's book stuff to it. And then the books I read got posts for being part of reading challenge posts and reviews, so it does add up! Thanks for stopping by! Happy reading!

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  2. Im also reading A Deadly Education this week.
    I loved the Weather Warden series. I’m greatly saddened that Caine has entered hospice care and can no longer write.

    Wishing you a great reading week

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    1. Yeah, I can't wait to read it! And I hope to love it, too, since I've really loved her other books. And it is sad, though I thought she said that entering hospice care means that she can still focus on writing. And thanks, I hope you do, as well! Thanks for stopping by! Happy reading!

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  3. I really liked the Weather Warden series. I should put them on the stack for rereading. I just ordered Novik's new one and look forward to reading it. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

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    1. Yeah, I hope to reread them, and right now there's a lot of talk about her books given that Rachel Caine has entered hospice care. Her writing is just so great, so this is pretty sad. And I'm looking forward to it as well, I've loved all her books that I've read! Thanks for stopping by! Happy reading!

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  4. I'm not big on fantasy but A Deadly Education looks like it might be a good read. It sounds a little like Hunger Games meets Harry Potter.

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    1. Yeah, that sounds like a good mix comparison, from what I've heard of this book. I'm so excited to read it! Thanks for stopping by! Happy reading!

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