Showing posts with label Kathryn Foxfield. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kathryn Foxfield. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Waiting on Wednesday #701, October 16th

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating! 

Stranger Skies by Pascale Lacelle
Expected Publication: November 5th, 2024
From Goodreads:
Ninth House meets The Hazel Wood in this riveting sequel to the New York Times bestselling dark academia fantasy Curious Tides, following Emory, Baz, Romie, and Kai on their desperate quests through space and time!

Opening locked doors has a price—even for those who hold a key.

After going through the door that called to them both in dreams, Emory and Romie find themselves in the the same verdant world written of in Song of the Drowned Gods, albeit a twisted, rotting version of it. A sinister force has awoken with their arrival, intent on destruction as it spills across realms, and now Emory and Romie must stop it before it reaches their own shores.

Meanwhile, Baz and Kai are desperate to follow their friends through the door to other worlds, but a mishap pulls them back in time instead—where they come face to face with Cornus Clover himself, famed author of Song of the Drowned Gods. Stuck together in the past, they must navigate a very different Aldryn as they unravel the school’s darkest secrets.

Across time and worlds, Emory, Romie, Baz, and Kai find their fates eerily interwoven with the heroes from Clover’s book. But when stories can’t be trusted, friendships are put to the test, and deadly enemies are not always as they seem, they must decide who gets to be a hero—and who is desperate enough to see themselves become a villain.

Hexed by Emily McIntire
Expected Publication: November 5th, 2024
From Goodreads:
He's the prince of La Cosa Nostra. She's the witch who steals his heart.

From USA Today bestselling author Emily McIntire comes a dark and delicious fractured fairytale of The Little Mermaid.

Venesa Andersen has never been good. She wasn’t good enough for her parents, and she isn’t good enough for the gangster uncle who took her in after they died. But she’s cunning. Beautiful. Dutiful to her uncle’s demands. And she doesn’t have time for a moral compass, anyway. When her runaway cousin returns to their coastal southern town, she brings a man with her…and Venesa soon realizes he’s the only one who’s ever seen her for her.
There’s just one problem: she can never have him.

Enzo “Loverboy” Marino is a wealthy businessman by day and prince of the underworld by night. Underboss to a notorious mafia syndicate, he answers to no one except his father, the strongest don in the Northeast. When he’s tasked with marriage, Enzo doesn’t think twice.

Until he meets his fiancée’s cousin.

Venesa is everything he never knew he wanted, bewitching him with her sultry voice and supple curves. But Enzo learned long ago that for a man like him, life is better without the things you want.

When plans unravel and temptation sings its siren song, they’ll both have to choose what’s more important: duty to their families, or a forbidden love that was never supposed to be.

Where the Library Hides by Isabel Ibañez
Expected Publication: November 5th, 2024
From Goodreads:
The stunning conclusion to the story that started in What the River Knows. A lush immersive historical fantasy set in Egypt filled with adventure, and a rivals-to-lovers romance like no other!

1885, Egypt

Inez Olivera is left reeling from her cousin Elvira’s murder, and her mother’s betrayal, and when Tío Ricardo issues an ultimatum about her inheritance, she’s left with only one option to consider.

Marriage to Whitford Hayes.

Former British soldier, her uncle’s aide de camp, and one time nemesis, Whit has his own mysterious reasons for staying in Egypt. With her heart on the line, Inez might have to bind her fate to the one person whose secret plans could ruin her.

Getting Away With Murder by Kathryn Foxfield
Expected Publication: November 5th, 2024
From Goodreads:
The bestselling author of Good Girls Die First is back with an entertaining, high-octane and read-in-a-single-sitting new thriller.

Walking disaster Saffron and her perfectionist twin sister Georgia have only one thing in common-they are both obsessed with battle royale video game Sole Survivor.

While working at a brand new, high tech escape room complex, Saffron poses a question to the resident which high school stereotype would survive the longest in a real life version of Sole Survivor? She is convinced a rebel like her would beat a know-it-all like Georgia. Unbeknown to her, the AI decides to determine the answer to her question by testing it out for real. It invites Saffron and Georgia's gamer friends to a preview of the escape rooms, but then it locks the doors and turns the rooms into a life-or-death battle to be the last player standing.

The rebel, the know-it-all, the princess, the jock, the geek, the weirdo, the star, the artist and the criminal. Just like in Sole Survivor, only one can survive the night...

It's Cabin in the Woods meets Squid GamePerfect for fans of Holly Jackson and Karen McManus. Knife-edge tension and twists you won't see coming.

4 books that I'm so excited for, I love these authors, and the series are really great, and the stand alones sound really great, too! What about you guys? Happy reading! 

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Kathryn Foxfield Author Page

The Story: I saw her books on NetGalley, and I've enjoyed them as they've been listed, and I've loved them and I can't wait to read more! 

Website

Stand Alone's: Good Girls Die First and my review, Tag, You're Dead and my reviewGetting Away With Murder and my review.

Monday, July 8, 2024

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #683, July 8th

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 #682
Teaser Tuesday #690
WWW Wednesday #690
WOW #686
Will the Time Come #683
Third Sentence Thursday #673
Random Reads #659
First Lines Friday #686
Book Blogger Hop #352
Last Letter, First Letter Reading Challenge Update 91
The Reward Challenge Update #668
Wheel of TBR #215
How Well I Stuck to It #520
Wrote that Review Update #517

Week 27 Reviews:
Here We Go Again

Magical Readathon: Orilium: 

Phase Out Your TBR:
Update 1

OK, so I got 33 posts in 7 days, and it was a pretty good week, I read some great books, so I'm happy with that. But my tablet fell from my locker, and even though it has a screen protector and a case, the screen broke again, so I'm sending it in to be repaired, which is annoying, since it happened 2 years ago, too. What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read whatever I want from my TBR's! 

Saturday, July 6, 2024

Week 27 Review: Tag, You're Dead

From Goodreads:
From the bestselling author of Come Out, Come Out, Whatever You Are and Good Girls Die First comes an entertaining new thriller filled with knife-edged tension, twists you won't see coming, and contestants who will do anything to win—even something deadly.

When teen social media influencer Anton Frazer stages a live-streamed, citywide game of Tag where the prize is to become one of his live-in personal assistants, his fans go wild.

Outfitted with body cams, GPS trackers, and pressure sensors to keep tally of who's disqualified, contestants are split into Chasers and Runners then let lose into the night-covered urban jungle to hunt each other down. While the whole world watches.

Four contestants, however, have alternative motives for joining the game, secret reasons to want to win despite the money, obsession, fame…and revenge. One of them will stop at nothing to be the victor at the end of this adrenaline- and fear-fueled night.

My Review:


Author: Kathryn Foxfield
Read: July 2nd, 2024
Source: NetGalley
Reason Why: I enjoyed the other book that I read by her, and it's a SAC 2024 Book! 
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Published: December 5th 2023
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars

Wednesday, July 3, 2024

WWW Wednesday #690, July 3rd

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! And thanks now to Taking on a World of Words for reviving it! 

I'm currently listening to A Marvellous Light, and I'm loving it! 
I'm reading Children of Anguish and Anarchy and it's so good! 
I read Tag, You're Dead, and I really enjoyed it! 
I'm going to be reading A Tale of Two Dragons, and I can't wait, I love the series! 

What about you guys? Happy reading!

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Teaser Tuesday #690, July 2nd

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 Tag, You're Dead by Kathryn Foxfield, page 26.

"Strap it to the leg of a carrier pigeon if that's your weird, twisted thing. It doesn't matter."

OK, this has no context whatsoever, and it's strange and I have to keep reading! What about you guys? Happy reading!

Saturday, October 28, 2023

Week 43 Review: Good Girls Die First

From Goodreads:
Mind games. Murder. Mayhem. How far would you go to survive the night?

Blackmail lures sixteen-year-old Ava to the derelict carnival on Portgrave Pier. She is one of ten teenagers, all with secrets they intend to protect whatever the cost. When fog and magic swallow the pier, the group find themselves cut off from the real world and from their morals. As the teenagers turn on each other, Ava will have to face up to the secret that brought her to the pier and decide how far she's willing to go to survive.

For fans of Karen McManus' One of Us is Lying, Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None and films like I Know What You Did Last Summer.

My Review:
I had such a blast reading this book! The synopsis had me intrigued, and this book kept me hooked, I had to read more, to see where this story was going to go! The idea of a group of teens being blackmailed to come to this place, and then all this crazy stuff starts happening, yeah, it sounded really good and the was so easily read!

The setting of this isolated carnival park, where someone has brought them there with their secrets, yeah, it was such a thrilling set up, and the atmosphere helped build out this story. It was creepy and tense, and as the bodies started pilling up, was perfect for this story!

All these characters have their secrets, that's something that everyone knows, and is a typical teen experience. To be killed over them? That's not a typical teen experience. Getting to know these characters and why they were there, I had to know more, to figure out what was going on! 

When the truth came out, yeah, that was pretty shocking. That was pretty unexpected, but after all that they had kept secret, and what they went through, I loved it! Dealing with it all, well, that was pretty complicated, but I had to know! 

Loved reading this book and I can't wait to read more by Kathryn Foxfield! 

Author: Kathryn Foxfield
Read: October 21st, 2023
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Sounded really great, and it's a SAC 2023 Book! 
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Published: December 7th 2021
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars