It's Monday! What Are You Reading #387, November 5th

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 #386
Teaser Tuesday #394
WWW Wednesday #394
WOW #390
Will the Time Come #387
Third Sentence Thursday #377
Random Reads #362
First Lines Friday #390
The Reward Challenge Update #372
Book Blogger Hop #56
How Well I Stuck to It #224
Wrote that Review Update #221

Week 44 Reviews:
One Giant Leap
Zenn Diagram
First Grave to the Right
For I Have Sinned
Second Grave to the Left

Third Grave Dead Ahead
Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet
Fifth Grave Past the Light
Shimmer
Glow
Sixth Grave on the Edge
Seventh Grave and No Body
Eighth Grave After Dark
Brighter Than the Sun

OK, so I got 15 posts in 7 days, I read a lot, and yeah, I'm pretty happy with this week, and I can't wait for next week! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read The Dirt on the Ninth Grave, The Curse of Tenth Grave, A Very Charley Christmas, The Moonlight on the Eleventh Grave, The Trouble With the Twelfth Grave, Summoned to the Thirteenth Grave, The Dragon Tamer, and Little White Lies.

Grim Reaper Charley Davidson is back in the final installment of Darynda Jones' New York Times bestselling paranormal series!

Charley Davidson, Grim Reaper extraordinaire, is pissed. She's been kicked off the earthly plain for eternity – which is the appropriate amount of time to make a person starkraving mad. But someone's looking out for her, and she's allowed to return after a mere hundred years in exile. Is it too much to hope for that not much has changed? Apparently it is. Bummer.

She's missed her daughter, she's missed Reyes, and Beep, but now that she's back on earth, it's time to put to rest burning questions that need answers. What happened to her mother? How did she really die? Who killed her? And are cupcakes or coffee the best medicine? It all comes to a head in an epic showdown between good and evil in this final smart and hilarious novel.

A kingdom divided cannot stand. For those caught in the middle, it means death.

For centuries humans and dragons existed side by side in Alveria, bonded by their care of one another. But no longer. After decades with no viable eggs, humans far outnumber dragons, and the survival of the species appears bleak. The outlook for everyday humans is little better as rogue dragons raid and torment villages. Yet it's far worse for the tamers, beaten and killed simply for serving the noble dragons.

But eking by at the bottom of Alverian society isn't any easier for seventeen-year-old Kaelan Younger. Harder still when her loyalty to the dragon crown is no secret. But when her dying mother reveals a horrifying truth about her identity, Kaelan is thrust into a world for which she is ill prepared.

Faced with a new life at the proving grounds for humans and dragons alike, Kaelan must reconcile not just her past but embrace the future laid out before her. When her responsibilities as an Akademy tamer collide with her feelings for a powerful dragon shifter, it will take everything she has to prepare for the coming danger threatening them both. The fate of the dragons she has sworn to serve rests in her hands.

Now Kaelan is no longer an outsider.

She's the enemy.

"I'm not saying this is Sawyer's fault," the prim and proper one said delicately. "But."

Eighteen-year-old auto mechanic Sawyer Taft did not expect her estranged grandmother to show up at her apartment door and offer her a six-figure contract to participate in debutante season. And she definitely never imagined she would accept. But when she realizes that immersing herself in her grandmother's "society" might mean discovering the answer to the biggest mystery of her life-her father's identity-she signs on the dotted line and braces herself for a year of makeovers, big dresses, bigger egos, and a whole lot of bless your heart.

The one thing she doesn't expect to find is friendship, but as she's drawn into a group of debutantes with scandalous, dangerous secrets of their own, Sawyer quickly discovers that her family isn't the only mainstay of high society with skeletons in their closet. There are people in her grandmother's glittering world who are not what they appear, and no one wants Sawyer poking her nose into the past. As she navigates the twisted relationships between her new friends and their powerful parents, Sawyer's search for the truth about her own origins is just the beginning.

Set in the world of debutante balls, grand estates and rolling green hills, Little White Lies combines a charming setting, a classic fish-out-of-water story, and the sort of layered mystery only author Jennifer Lynn Barnes can pull off.

Week 44 Review: One Giant Leap

From Goodreads:
When Cassandra Gupta was chosen to be the youngest member of a top-secret mission to the far reaches of the universe she knew to expect the unexpected. But nothing could have prepared her for the catastrophic events that would occur once she left Earth.

Cassie and the rest of the crew have found themselves in the middle of a conflict between two alien civilizations hell-bent on destroying each other . . . and anyone else who gets in their way. What was supposed to be a reconnaissance mission soon becomes a fight for their lives. But Cassie knows that it isn't enough to simply survive. The war is coming to Earth, and only she has the information that can possibly stop the devastation it will bring. With humanity's fate in the balance, Cassie must decide who she can trust and who she is willing to sacrifice in order to complete her mission.

My Review:
Oh, I really enjoyed reading this book! After that shocking ending of the first book, I needed to know what was going to happen next! And it didn't disappoint! Loved reading it so much! There were a ton of twists in this book, and that ending was remarkable!

I didn't know where things would go after the big reveal that Luka as an alien whose species had sent the information that'd let humanity build the ship that'd brought them to where they were. I couldn't wait to find out more about why they'd sent that information to humanity!

The interfacing with Sunny was very interesting, and pretty important, given that humanity had built another one, Pinnacle, which definitely complicated matters, because Pinnacle was more of a sword and offensive then a shield and defensive like Sunny.

The war of the Megobarri LiteBrite system, it wasn't what it seemed. Of course not, because that would've been too easy. I really enjoyed finding out the truth, though it was hard for Luka. It made for a really satisfying ending!

This book was so fantastic and enjoyable, and I loved reading it!

Author: Heather Kaczwnski
Series: Dare Mighty Things #2
Read: October 28th, 2018
Source:  Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Loved the first book, and it's a End of Series 2018 Book, Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2018 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Harper Teen
Published: October 23rd 2018

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Heather Kaczynski Author Page

The Story: I saw Dare Mighty Things on Edelweiss, and it looked really good, so yeah, I requested and read it, and it was really great! Can't wait to read more by Heather Kaczynski!

Website

Series: Dare Mighty Things.

Dare Mighty Things: Dare Mighty Things and her site, my review, One Giant Leap and her site, my review.

Week 30 Review: Dare Mighty Things

From Goodreads:
The Selection meets The 5th Wave in this heart-racing debut duology about a girl competing for a spot on a mysterious mission to the outer reaches of space.

THE RULES ARE SIMPLE: You must be gifted. You must be younger than twenty-five. You must be willing to accept the dangers that you will face if you win.

Eighteen-year-old Cassandra Gupta's entire life has been leading up to this—the opportunity to travel to space. But to secure a spot on this classified mission, she must first compete against the best and brightest people on the planet. People who are as determined as she is to win a place on a journey to the farthest reaches of the universe.

Cassie is ready for the toll that the competition will take; the rigorous mental and physical tests designed to push her to the brink of her endurance. But nothing could have prepared her for the bonds she would form with the very people she hopes to beat. Or that with each passing day it would be more and more difficult to ignore the feeling that the true objective of the mission is being kept from her.

As the days until the launch tick down and the stakes rise higher than ever before, only one thing is clear to Cassie: she'll never back down...even if it costs her everything. 

My Review:
I really enjoyed reading this book! I mean, going to space books are pretty awesome, and yeah, combined with a mystery, it was just so great to read and I really enjoyed it! Sure, they don't get to space until the very end, but there's a ton of space training so that was really great!

Cassie was a different character. She wasn't sociable, she had her goals and I can see why some people might not like her. I really enjoyed her journey, both in the competition to be going into space, and as a person, making friends really for the first time. That was so great to read!

The idea of an alien civilization contacting us, yeah, that'd be a pretty extraordinary event! And that they'd gift us with more advanced spacecraft, yeah, so great! My fear would be, why are they doing this? And yeah, we do get a reason in the end! Can't wait to see how it's going to play out!

That ending was evil! It made so much sense, that big reveal, but then it ended, and yeah, I just want more! That ending just wanted me to have the next book now, and yeah, I'm kinda glad that I waited till now to read this book, so the wait for the next book isn't as long!

This book was so awesome, and so great to read, and I can't wait for the sequel!

Author: Heather Kaczynski
Series: Untitled Duology #1
Read: July 22nd, 2018
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: Sounded really good, and it's a DAC Book and a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2018 Book!
Publisher: Harper Teen
Published: October 10th 2017

5/5 Hearts

4/5 Books

4.5/5 Stars