It's Monday! What Are You Reading #308, May 1st

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 #307
Teaser Tuesday #315
WWW Wednesday #315
WOW #312
Will the Time Come #306
Third Sentence Thursday #297
Random Reads #283
First Lines Friday #302
The Reward Challenge Update #293
Follow Friday #285
How Well I Stuck to It #136
Wrote that Review Update #142

Week 17 Reviews:
Immortally Yours
The Perfect Stranger
Night Myst
Missing
Grave Ransom
Wicked Abyss
White Hot
Bitter Night
A Kiss of Shadows
A Caress of Twilight
Seduced by Moonlight
Strange Candy

Random:
Bout of Books 19.0 Sign Up
Clean Sweep ARC Challenge May 2017 Sign Up
We Have the Title of Dorina Basarab #4!!!!
Laurell K. Hamilton Author Page

OK, so I got 26 posts in 7 days, and yeah, I'm really excited for this week, because I just really, really want to read A Court of Wings and Ruin! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read A Court of Wings and Ruin and Matchmaker Abduction.

Looming war threatens all Feyre holds dear in the third volume of the #1 New York Times bestselling A Court of Thorns and Roses series.

Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's maneuverings and the invading king threatening to bring Prythian to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit-and one slip may spell doom not only for Feyre, but for her world as well.

As war bears down upon them all, Feyre must decide who to trust amongst the dazzling and lethal High Lords-and hunt for allies in unexpected places.

In this thrilling third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Sarah J. Maas, the earth will be painted red as mighty armies grapple for power over the one thing that could destroy them all.

True love is said to defy time, but can it survive space, aliens, and being abducted? Angus MacNamara and Erin O’Shea are about to find out.

The big blue planet that most call  Earth desperately needs matchmakers. There is only one small—okay, BIG—problem. No one wants the alien dating service job… No one. The original matchmakers are dead, and much worse, their DNA is no longer viable for cloning.

Solution? Go back in time to some of Earth’s other—thankfully slower spinning—versions, and retrieve the alternates of the one couple in any universe who seems able to do the job.

Far easier said than done though, especially when the alternates are anything but a loving couple, and both are none too pleased to be thrown into the future.

What does oil and water create? Salad dressing or a real mess of aliens, humans, and matchmaking fun!

Week 17 Review: Bitter Night

From Goodreads:
SOMETIMES YOU CHOOSE YOUR BATTLES. AND SOMETIMES, THEY CHOOSE YOU... 

Once, Max dreamed of a career, a home, a loving family. Now all she wants is freedom...and revenge. A witch named Giselle transformed Max into a warrior with extraordinary strength, speed, and endurance. Bound by spellcraft, Max has no choice but to fight as Giselle's personal magic weapon—a Shadowblade—and she's lethally good at it. But her skills are about to be put to the test as they never have before....

The ancient Guardians of the earth are preparing to unleash widespread destruction on the mortal world, and they want the witches to help them. If the witches refuse, their covens will be destroyed, including Horngate, the place Max has grudgingly come to think of as home. Max thinks she can find a way to help Horngate stand against the Guardians, but doing so will mean forging dangerous alliances—including one with a rival witch's Shadowblade, who is as drawn to Max as she is to him—and standing with the witch she despises. Max will have to choose between the old life she still dreams of and the warrior she has become, and take her place on the side of right—if she survives long enough to figure out which side that is...

My Review:
I really enjoyed reading this book! I've been meaning to read it for a while, but I only now got a chance to actually read it. And it was just so fantastic! I enjoyed the world, the characters, the writing, and I can't wait to read more!

Max didn't want, doesn't want this life. She was friends with her roommate, she answered positives to questions-and then she was a slave to her roommate, who inflicted a lot of pain on Max, enough that Max now makes pain a strength. Yeah, I wouldn't want to be in her position!

This world of witches, and the Guardians who want humanity gone-and to have the witches do so, yeah, so fascinating! I know it's going to be the 3rd book or so, maybe the end of the 2nd, before that actually happens, but there's still these first 2 books, where things are fairly normal and hidden, though there are some battles!

That ending was pretty brutal! I want to know what's going to happen next! That Max is going to work with Giselle, to make more Shadowblades and Sunspears, that's a hard decision. But it's better than going on with few numbers in this war. Yeah.

Absolutely fantastic book, and I can't wait to read more!

Author: Diana Pharaoh Francis
Series: Horngate Witches #1
Read: April 25th, 2017
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Sounded really good, and it's a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2017 Book and a WTC Book!
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: October 27th 2009

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

WWW Wednesday #315, April 26th

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you'll read next?

Thanks to MizB of Should Be Writing now A Daily Rhythm for starting this meme!

I'm currently reading Bitter Night, and I'm really enjoying it, it's different and awesome!

I read White Hot, and it was absolutely amazing! I loved every word, and now I'm desperate for Wildfire!

I'm going to be reading Private Demon and I can't wait, it's been so long since I first read it!

What about you guys? Happy reading!

Teaser Tuesday #315, April 25th

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Ambrosia of The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Today's teaser comes from Bitter Night by Diana Pharaoh Francis, page 36.

"She didn't look like much. But then neither did black-widow spiders."

Well that's a scary, and apt, comparison! I want to know more! What about you guys? Happy reading!

Will the Time Come #295, January 26th

Every Thursday I am going to list a book which I really want to read/keep meaning to get to. These are mostly books which have been on my shelf for awhile now but don't have to be, maybe you got it two weeks ago and really want to read it! Thanks to Jodie from Books for Company for this meme!

Want to Join?

-Pick a book you have been meaning to read

-Do a post telling us about the book    

-Link the post up in the linky  

-Visit the other blogs

From Goodreads:
SOMETIMES YOU CHOOSE YOUR BATTLES. AND SOMETIMES, THEY CHOOSE YOU... 

Once, Max dreamed of a career, a home, a loving family. Now all she wants is freedom...and revenge. A witch named Giselle transformed Max into a warrior with extraordinary strength, speed, and endurance. Bound by spellcraft, Max has no choice but to fight as Giselle's personal magic weapon—a Shadowblade—and she's lethally good at it. But her skills are about to be put to the test as they never have before....

The ancient Guardians of the earth are preparing to unleash widespread destruction on the mortal world, and they want the witches to help them. If the witches refuse, their covens will be destroyed, including Horngate, the place Max has grudgingly come to think of as home. Max thinks she can find a way to help Horngate stand against the Guardians, but doing so will mean forging dangerous alliances—including one with a rival witch's Shadowblade, who is as drawn to Max as she is to him—and standing with the witch she despises. Max will have to choose between the old life she still dreams of and the warrior she has become, and take her place on the side of right—if she survives long enough to figure out which side that is...

Why the time hasn't come yet...
Oh, I don't know! But I'm hoping to read it this week! Because yeah, it looks really fantastic! What about you guys? Happy reading!

Diana Pharaoh Francis Author Page

The Story: I saw the Horngate Witches around on Goodreads and it looked really great! And yeah, I can't wait to read it!

Website

Series: Horngate Witches, Diamond City Magic.

Horngate Witches: Bitter Night and my review, Crimson Wind and my review, Shadow City and my review, Blood Winter and my review, Unexpected Choices and (Part of *Urban Enemies*).

Unexpected Choices is a short story set in Urban Enemies, set in the Horngate Witches World, here's my review.

Diamond City Magic: Trace of Magic and her site, my review, Edge of Dreams and her site, my review, Whisper of Shadows and her site, my review.