It's Monday! What Are You Reading #453, February 10th

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 #452
Teaser Tuesday #460
WWW Wednesday #460
WOW #456
Will the Time Come #453
Third Sentence Thursday #443
Random Reads #429
First Lines Friday #456
Book Blogger Hop #122
The Reward Challenge Update #438
How Well I Stuck to It #290
Wrote that Review Update #287

Week 6 Reviews:
Golden in Death
10 Bodies Lying
Lord of Shadows
Wild Country
Storm Cursed
Ghosts of the Shadow Market

Random:
We Have the Cover of The Shaw Confessions #3!!!!
We Have the Cover of Sisters of Shadow and Light #2!!!!
We Have the Cover of Alex Craft #7!!!!

OK, so I got 21 posts in 7 days, I read some really fantastic books, and felt pretty productive this week, and I can't wait for this coming week, lots of fantastic books! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read Buried in My Past, Honor Among Thieves, Honor Bound, Honor Lost, Queen of Air and Darkness, and Shatter the Earth!

She's desperate to stop the panic attacks. But the truth won't set her free...

Jamie Kendal sees life through the bottom of a bottle. After surviving assault and betrayal, she is forced back to her hometown to care for her mother. Not long after her return, she's plagued by terrifying slivers of memories from the night her twin brother disappeared forever...

Unearthing new evidence, she's shocked to learn she'd been found wandering in the woods that same night-- covered in blood. More than one person from her past hid a haunting truth that's bubbling to the surface. The deeper she digs into the horrors from her past, the more she fears anyone could be a killer, including Jamie herself.

Can Jamie expose what happened that night, or will she join her missing brother?

Space renegade Zara Cole may have finally met her match. Lifekiller—a creature that can devour entire planets—is spreading terror throughout the universe, and it seems nothing can stand in the monstrous godking's way.

Reeling from a series of battles, Zara and her wounded band of allies are going to need a strategy before they face Lifekiller again. Zara's street smarts may not be enough when their enemy could be anywhere, destroying civilizations and picking his teeth with the bones.

And just when it feels like she's reached a special place in her bond with Bea and Nadim, an ex from Earth with an ax to grind comes after her with nefarious intentions. With human enemies, alien creatures, and mechanical stalkers on her tail, it's down to the wire for Zara to save the galaxy—and the people she calls home—before the godking consumes them all.

Dark secrets and forbidden love threaten the very survival of the Shadowhunters in Cassandra Clare's Queen of Air and Darkness, the final novel in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling The Dark Artifices trilogy. Queen of Air and Darkness is a Shadowhunters novel.

What if damnation is the price of true love?

Innocent blood has been spilled on the steps of the Council Hall, the sacred stronghold of the Shadowhunters. Their society now teeters on the brink of civil war. One fragment of the Blackthorn family flees to Los Angeles, seeking to discover the source of the disease that is destroying the race of warlocks. Meanwhile, Julian and Emma take desperate measures to put their forbidden love aside and undertake a perilous mission to Faerie to retrieve the Black Volume of the Dead. What they find there is a secret that may tear the Shadow World asunder and open a dark path into a future they could never have imagined. Caught in a race against time, Emma and Julian must save the world of the Shadowhunters before a deadly curse destroys them and everyone they love.

Ironically for the time traveling, chief seer of the supernatural world, time has never been on Cassie Palmer's side. There has always seemed to be too much to learn, too much to master, and never enough hours in a day. But the tables have now turned, and the fluctuating timelines of earth and faerie are diverging, slowing time in faerie relative to earth, and giving humans an advantage for the first time in their war with the fey. It is one they desperately need, for a literal war of the worlds is about to take place.

To win, or even to survive, Cassie and her allies, the powerful vampire senator Mircea Basarab and the formidable war mage John Pritkin, will have to pull off their greatest feat yet. And find a way to become more than the sum of their parts.

Week 6 Review: Ghosts of the Shadow Market

From Goodreads:
From New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Cassandra Clare comes an exciting new short story collection that follows Jem Carstairs as he travels through the many Shadow Markets around the world. Ghosts of the Shadow Market is a Shadowhunters novel.

The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks, and vampires. There, the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains, and whisper secrets they do not want the Nephilim to know. Through two centuries, however, there has been a frequent visitor to the Shadow Market from the City of Bones, the very heart of the Shadowhunters' world. As a Silent Brother, Brother Zachariah is a sworn keeper of the laws and lore of the Nephilim. But once he was a Shadowhunter called Jem Carstairs, and his love, then and always, is the warlock Tessa Gray. And Jem is searching through the Shadow Markets, in many different cities over long years, for a relic from his past.

Follow Jem and see, against the backdrop of the Shadow Market's dark dealings and festival, Anna Lightwood's doomed romance, Matthew Fairchild's great sin, and Tessa Gray as she is plunged into a world war. Valentine Morgenstern buys a soul at the Market and a young Jace Wayland's soul finds safe harbor. In the Market is hidden a lost heir and a beloved ghost, and no one can save you once you have traded away your heart. Not even Brother Zachariah.

My Review:
Oh, yeah, I really enjoyed reading this collection of stories! I technically haven't read the last two, since they're set after Queen of Air and Darkness, but I'm going to read that shortly, and read those right after. I just want to read things in order, you know?

A lot of these stories, they had fantastic, great moments-but they also had pretty low moments, and the first one, espcailly, ended on that low note. The second one was a bit of a mixed bag. And espcailly since these first two stories star characters from the generation of the coming series, The Last Hours, well, it's sad that they were tortured like this before they make their big debut, but it was great getting to know them!

Brother Zachariah, or Jem when he's remembering Will, he's in all of these stories. And a lot of these stories wove between his quest to find the Lost Herondale, and the narrator of the current story. Because while it takes place at the same time, they don't intersect all that often. They do, but only for brief moments of time.

The whole story about the Lost Herondale, we learned so much about Kit's heritage, and what threats he faces, and it's so fantastic to read! We also just got moments in time with these various characters that added so much to the world. I just love these collections in this world!

Yeah, I loved reading these so much, they're such great reads!

Authors: Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson, Kelly Link and Robin Wasserman
Series: Ghosts of the Shadow Market #1-10
Read: January 7th, 2020
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Love this world, and these authors, and it's a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2020 Book!
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Published: June 4th 2018

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars