Showing posts with label Edgar Cantero. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edgar Cantero. Show all posts

Monday, October 31, 2022

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #595, October 31st

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 #594
Teaser Tuesday #602
WWW Wednesday #602
WOW #598
Will the Time Come #595
Third Sentence Thursday #585
Random Reads #571
First Lines Friday #598
Book Blogger Hop #264
Monthly ARC's Update 26
The Reward Challenge Update #580
Wheel of TBR #127
How Well I Stuck to It #432
Wrote that Review Update #429

Week 43 Reviews:
Where Dreams Descend

Becca's BookoplAthon: 

ARCtober: 

Random:

OK, so I got 40 posts in 7 days, and yeah, read some really great books. Personally in the week wasn't great, I hurt my finger, and the pain caused me to faint, and I hit my head, and had to go to urgent car to make sure I didn't have a concussion. I didn't, and my finger is fine, and the goosebump on my head has gone away, but yeah, that wasn't fun. What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read Awakening, The Witch King, and The Fae Keeper.

Set in alternate world of art deco beauty and steampunk horror, MONSTRESS tells the epic story of Maika Halfwolf, a teenage survivor of a cataclysmic war between humans and their hated enemies, the Arcanics. In the face of oppression and terrible danger, Maika is both hunter and hunted, searching for answers about her mysterious past as those who seek to use her remain just one step behind… and all the while, the monster within begins to awaken…

Collects MONSTRESS #1-6. 
To save a fae kingdom, a trans witch must face his traumatic past and the royal fiancé he left behind. This debut YA fantasy will leave you spellbound.

Wyatt would give anything to forget where he came from—but a kingdom demands its king.

In Asalin, fae rule and witches like Wyatt Croft…don't. Wyatt's betrothal to his best friend, fae prince Emyr North, was supposed to change that. But when Wyatt lost control of his magic one devastating night, he fled to the human world.

Now a coldly distant Emyr has hunted him down. Despite transgender Wyatt's newfound identity and troubling past, Emyr has no intention of dissolving their engagement. In fact, he claims they must marry now or risk losing the throne. Jaded, Wyatt strikes a deal with the enemy, hoping to escape Asalin forever. But as he gets to know Emyr, Wyatt realizes the boy he once loved may still exist. And as the witches face worsening conditions, he must decide once and for all what's more important—his people or his freedom.
In the heart-stopping sequel to The Witch King, Wyatt and Emyr attempt to rebuild Asalin despite unexpected new enemies within their kingdom.

Two weeks after the door to Faery closed once more, Asalin is still in turmoil. Emyr and Wyatt are hunting Derek and Clarke themselves after having abolished the corrupt Guard, and are trying to convince the other kingdoms to follow their lead. But when they uncover the hidden truth about the witches' real place in fae society, it becomes clear the problems run much deeper than anyone knew. And this may be more than the two of them can fix.

As Wyatt struggles to learn control of his magic and balance his own needs with the needs of a kingdom, he must finally decide on the future he wants—before he loses the future he and Emyr are building… 

Saturday, October 29, 2022

Week 43 Review: Meddling Kids

From Goodreads:
With raucous humor and brilliantly orchestrated mayhem, Meddling Kids subverts teen detective archetypes like the Hardy Boys, the Famous Five, and Scooby-Doo, and delivers an exuberant and wickedly entertaining celebration of horror, love, friendship, and many-tentacled, interdimensional demon spawn.

SUMMER 1977. The Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in Oregon's Zoinx River Valley) solved their final mystery and unmasked the elusive Sleepy Lake monster—another low-life fortune hunter trying to get his dirty hands on the legendary riches hidden in Deboën Mansion. And he would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids.

1990. The former detectives have grown up and apart, each haunted by disturbing memories of their final night in the old haunted house. There are too many strange, half-remembered encounters and events that cannot be dismissed or explained away by a guy in a mask. And Andy, the once intrepid tomboy now wanted in two states, is tired of running from her demons. She needs answers. To find them she will need Kerri, the one-time kid genius and budding biologist, now drinking her ghosts away in New York with Tim, an excitable Weimaraner descended from the original canine member of the club. They will also have to get Nate, the horror nerd currently residing in an asylum in Arkham, Massachusetts. Luckily Nate has not lost contact with Peter, the handsome jock turned movie star who was once their team leader . . . which is remarkable, considering Peter has been dead for years.

The time has come to get the team back together, face their fears, and find out what actually happened all those years ago at Sleepy Lake. It's their only chance to end the nightmares and, perhaps, save the world.

A nostalgic and subversive trip rife with sly nods to H. P. Lovecraft and pop culture, Edgar Cantero's Meddling Kids is a strikingly original and dazzling reminder of the fun and adventure we can discover at the heart of our favorite stories, no matter how old we get.

My Review:
This book was a lot of fun to read! I really enjoy Scooby-Doo, it was a great part of my childhood. And this takes the same premise, a group of kids who investigate various goings on in this town, but they've disbanded, and it's years later and they're coming back together. Kinda like the 2002 Scooby-Doo movie.

The way this was written was so hilarious! I loved the humor, and the references, and the pop culture. It was so easy to read this book, even though there was some meanings that were layered that were a little hard to grasp sometimes.

This is the story of the group now when they're adults, where life hasn't always treated them kindly, who look back at the time when they solved these mysteries with fondness. Besides the last case, there was something fishy about how that all played out.

I really enjoyed watching the band get back together (with a canine descendant of the original canine member) as they learn more about this case. The synopsis mentions Lovecraft, which while I've never read, I known the geist from mentions in the collective culture. It was dark and spooky and I enjoyed it so much! 

I had a really great time reading this book, it was really entertaining! 

Author: Edgar Cantero
Read: October 22nd, 2022
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Sounded really good, and it's a Historical Fiction 2022 Book and a SAC 2022 Book!
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: July 11th 2017
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars

Saturday, October 22, 2022

Becca's BookoplAthon Update 30

So I read my next book for Becca's BookoplAthon, Roll as You Go edition, and it was Meddling Kids which is for the prompt Features a Death, and I'll be rolling for what I'm reading next below! 

My Reading Journey:

Belladonna by Adalyn Grace
Prompt Fulfilled: Community Shelf
Started On: October 1st
Finished On: October 1st, 8:33 PM
Pages Read: 416

After the Bite by Lynsay Sands
Prompt Fulfilled: Chance Card
Started On: October 2nd
Finished On: October 2nd, 11:06 PM
Pages Read: 400

I Am Margaret Moore by Hannah Capin
Prompt Fulfilled: Favourite Genre
Started On: October 3rd
Finished On: October 3rd, 5:15 PM
Pages Read: 336

A Bad Day For Sunshine by Darynda Jones
Prompt Fulfilled: Colour Wheel
Started On: October 3rd
Finished On: October 3rd, 9:50 PM
Pages Read: 416

A Good Day for Chardonnay by Darynda Jones
Prompt Fulfilled: Mood Read
Started On: October 4th
Finished On: October 4th, 9:20 PM
Pages Read: 416

Nevermore by Kelly Creagh
Prompt Fulfilled: Big Book
Started On: October 5th
Finished On: October 5th, 7:31 PM
Pages Read: 560

Enshadowed by Kelly Creagh
Prompt Fulfilled: People
Started On: October 6th
Finished On: October 6th, 9:38 PM
Pages Read: 429

Tsumiko and the Enslaved Fox by Forthright
Prompt Fulfilled: Dice Roulette
Started On: October 7th
Finished On: October 7th, 5:36 PM
Pages Read: 478

Kimiko and the Accidental Proposal by Forthright
Prompt Fulfilled: Favourite Genre
Started On: October 7th
Finished On: October 7th, 11:24 PM
Pages Read: 450

Game of Gravestones by Gena Showalter and Jill Monroe
Prompt Fulfilled: Features a Mystery
Started On: October 8th
Finished On: October 8th, 5:05 PM
Pages Read: 184

The Hexed & the Hunted by Melissa Marr
Prompt Fulfilled: First Person
Started On: October 8th
Finished On: October 8th, 11:15 PM
Pages Read: 319

A Hard Day for a Hangover by Darynda Jones
Prompt Fulfilled: Highest Rated
Started On: October 9th
Finished On: October 9th, 1:25 PM
Pages Read: 416

The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever by Jeff Strand
Prompt Fulfilled: Dice Roulette
Started On: October 9th
Finished On: October 9th, 9:38 PM
Pages Read: 266

A Familiar Stranger by A.R. Torre
Prompt Fulfilled: Pub/Set Since 2020
Started On: October 10th
Finished On: October 10th, 1:04 PM
Pages Read: 290

The Luminaries by Susan Dennard
Prompt Fulfilled: Emoji
Started On: October 10th
Finished On: October 10th, 8:00 PM
Pages Read: 384

The Kraken's Sacrifice by Katee Robert
Prompt Fulfilled: Letter
Started On: October 11th
Finished On: October 11th, 8:44 PM
Pages Read: 177

Fateful by Claudia Gray
Prompt Fulfilled: Features a Romance
Started On: October 11th
Finished On: October 11th, 10:01 PM
Pages Read: 328

My Eyes Are Up Here by Laura Zimmermann
Prompt Fulfilled: Spring
Started On: October 13th
Finished On: October 13th, 8:11 AM
Pages Read: 352

Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira
Prompt Fulfilled: Chance Card
Started On: October 13th
Finished On: October 13th, 7:47 PM
Pages Read: 352

Wizard's Masquerade by Jay Pellegrin
Prompt Fulfilled: Pub/Set Since 2020
Started On: October 14th
Finished On: October 14th, 10:11 PM
Pages Read: 550

The Caged Queen by Kristen Ciccarelli
Prompt Fulfilled: Favourite Genre
Started On: October 15th
Finished On: October 15th, 8:59 PM
Pages Read: 416

Blackout Anthology 
Prompt Fulfilled: Features a Romance
Started On: October 16th
Finished On: October 16th, 10:29 PM
Pages Read: 256

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
Prompt Fulfilled: Third Person
Started On: October 17th
Finished On: October 17th, 7:19 PM
Pages Read: 432

The Obsidian Tower by Melissa Caruso
Prompt Fulfilled: Winter
Started On: October 18th
Finished On: October 18th, 4:50 PM
Pages Read: 483

The Quicksilver Court by Melisa Caruso
Prompt Fulfilled: Chance Card
Started On: October 19th
Finished On: October 18th, 8:30 PM
Pages Read: 544

The Ivory Tomb by Melissa Caruso
Prompt Fulfilled: Buildings
Started On: October 20th
Finished On: October 20th, 6:06 PM
Pages Read: 544

Tokyo Dreaming by Emiko Jean
Prompt Fulfilled: Sumer
Started On: October 21st
Finished On: October 21st, 5:41 PM
Pages Read: 336

A Long Stretch of Bad Days by Mindy McGinnis
Prompt Fulfilled: TBR Game
Started On: October 21st
Finished On: October 21st, 11:20 PM
Pages Read: 368

Where Dreams Descend by Janella Angeles
Prompt Fulfilled: Features a Romance
Started On: October 22nd
Finished On: October 22nd, 1:42 PM
Pages Read: 480

Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
Prompt Fulfilled: Features a Death
Started On: October 22nd
Finished On: October 22nd, 5:47 PM
Pages Read: 338

Books Read: 30
Pages Read: 10837

Day 22, Roll 31:
A 4, which gets me to Community Shelf. But since that's doubles, I have to do another roll! I got Read a book that you've read before. I'm going with Fumiko and the Finicky Nestmate by Forthright, I've read this book before, so that works!

Day 22, Roll 32:
A 3, which gets me to Chance Card. I got Pimiko and the Uncharted Island by Forthright!