It's Monday! What Are You Reading #497, December 14th

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 #496
Teaser Tuesday #504
WWW Wednesday #504
WOW #500
Will the Time Come #497
Third Sentence Thursday #487
Random Reads #473
First Lines Friday #500
Book Blogger Hop #166
The Reward Challenge Update #482
Wheel of TBR #29
How Well I Stuck to It #334
Wrote that Review Update #331

Week 50 Reviews:
Every Single Lie

The Scapegracers

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

All Out

The Lost Sisters

The Wicked King

Let it Snow

The Fifth Season

Glitches

The Little Android

Cinder

City of Glass

Jocelyn's Story

Navigating the Stars

Chasing the Shadows

Defending the Galaxy 

Taylor Swift Playlistathon: 

Update 38

Update 39

Update 40

Update 41

Update 42

Reindeer Readathon: 

Update 6

Update 7

OK, so I got 30 posts in 7 days, things are getting busy, so I don't have quite as much as much reading time, but I'm squeezing it in when I can. What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read Broken Dawn.

Delve into an exciting new stand-alone novel in New York Times bestselling author Dianne Duvall's "fast-paced and humorous" (Publishers Weekly), "utterly addictive" (RT Book Reviews) Immortal Guardians series.

Nick Belanger can't stop thinking about the single mother who lives next door. She's smart. She's funny. She's so beautiful he can't stare at her too long for fear his eyes will start to glow. But Kayla thinks he's just an ordinary guy who works in security. Finding out he instead is a powerful immortal warrior who hunts and slays psychotic vampires for a living may not go over well, particularly since she has a daughter she doesn't want to endanger.

Kayla Dorman can keep neither her gaze nor her thoughts from straying to the man next door. Who can blame her really? He is the epitome of tall, dark, and handsome with smart, charming, and honorable thrown in. He's also a few years younger than her and surely would not be interested in a single mom who hasn't dated since her divorce. At least that's what she thinks until an accident nearly takes her life and Nick risks all to save her.

The dynamics of their relationship swiftly change. The friendship they've developed over the years deepens into love as the two spend every minute they can together, laughing and teasing, never suspecting a threat may lurk in the shadows. But that threat soon strikes, making it clear that Nick is the target and his enemy doesn't care if Kayla gets caught in the cross fire. Though Kayla bravely rises to the occasion and is determined to do whatever it takes to help Nick defeat his enemy, Nick is terrified of losing her. Can he identify and eliminate his new nemesis before the man takes everything from him? 

Week 50 Review: The Fifth Season

From Goodreads:
This is the way the world ends... for the last time.

A season of endings has begun.

It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun.

It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter.

It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester.

This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.

My Review:
I really enjoyed reading this book. But it was really confusing. There's a lot of perspectives, and not all of them are taking place at the same time. Once I realized that, it started to make sense, there was just the question of when each perspective was taking place. Plus this world was different and interesting and I had to learn the terms for things.

Another thing making this book a big confusing was that the different perspectives were told differently. We had one where we, the reader, are told we are this mother, the one with a murdered son and a missing daughter. And then we had another perspective where it was more normal 3rd person. So that was a little jarring. But it was unique!

I really just wanted to understand what the heck was going on. There's the Orogenes who have immense power, but are feared because of it. To the point where we had one perspective of a child who it was just found out that she was an orogene, and her parents locked her up in the barn, and had someone from the power structure around orogenes come get her. Because her comm might come and kill her, now that they know that she's an orogene. Yeah.

I loved how this story wove together, it was just so well done! There was a lot going on, but it was important to what was going on. Plus there was diversity that was so well done. And the emotions! This book is painful and a weapon that hurt. It also healed because it showed difference with love and care, and that was just fantastic! 

This was a really great read, and I can't wait to continue the series!  

Author: N.K. Jemisin
Series: The Broken Earth #1
Read: December 8th, 2020
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Sounded really great, and it's a 2020 Dystopia Book and a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2020 Book!
Publisher: Orbit
Published: August 4th 2015

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

WWW Wednesday #504, December 9th

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 reading Cinder, and really enjoying reading it again! 

I read The Fifth Season, and I totally understand why it won awards! Such a fantastic read! 

I'm going to be reading City of Glass, and I can't wait, because I'm really enjoying rereading this series! 

What about you guys? Happy reading! 

Taylor Swift Playlistathon Update 38

So I read my next book for Taylor Swift Playlistathon, which was The Fifth Season, which is for the songs Forever & Always, and I'll be reading Cinder next! 

My Reading Journey:

Even if We Break by Marieke Nijkamp

Prompt Fulfilled: ...Ready for It?, The Outside, Tied Together With a Smile, Haunted, Bad Blood, Me!, cardigan 

Started On: November 13th

Finished On: November 13th, 5:49 PM

Pages Read: 336

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

Prompt Fulfilled: Welcome to New York, A Place in This World, my tears ricochet

Started On: November 13th

Finished On: November 13th, 9:37 PM

Pages Read: 416

You Don't Know Me but I Know You by Rebecca Barrow

Prompt Fulfilled: We Are Never Getting Back Together, Tell Me Why

Started On: November 13th

Finished On: November 13th, 11:57 PM

Pages Read: 336

The Blood Spell by C.J. Redwine 

Prompt Fulfilled: The Man, Back to December, Enchanted 

Started On: November 15th

Finished On: November 15th, 9:33 PM

Pages Read: 448

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E Schwab

Prompt Fulfilled: Blank Space, Hey Stephen, I Wish You Would, Clean, Cruel Summer, Cornelia Street, It's Nice to Have a Friend

Started On: November 16th

Finished On: November 16th, 10:28 PM

Pages Read: 489

Leopard's Rage by Christine Feehan

Prompt Fulfiled: So it Goes..., Starlight

Started On: November 17th

Finished On: November 17th, 7:10 PM

Pages Read: 480

Day Zero by Kelly DeVos

Prompt Fulfilled: Sparks Fly, Dancing with Our Hands Tied, seven

Started On: November 18th

Finished On: November 18th, 7:03 PM

Pages Read: 432

Roomies by Sara Zarr and Tara Alterbrando 

Prompt Fulfilled: Stay Beautiful, Everything Has Changed, Getaway Car

Started On: November 18th

Finished On: November 18th, 10:46 PM

Pages Read: 279

The Perfectionists by Sara Shepard

Prompt Fulfilled: peace

Started On: November 19th

Finished On: November 19th, 10:23 PM

Pages Read: 322

The State of Us by Shaun David Hutchinson

Prompt Fulfilled: Miss American and the Heartbreak Prince, The Way I Loved You, London Boy, You Need to Calm Down

Started On: November 20th

Finished On: November 20th, 6:30 PM

Pages Read: 416

Ink by Jonathan Maberry

Prompt Fulfilled: Our Song

Started On: November 20th

Finished On: November 20th, 11:44 PM 

Pages Read: 480

Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter

Prompt Fulfilled: Don't Blame Me, Wildest Dreams, I Forgot That You Existed

Started On: November 21st

Finished On: November 21st, 10:47 PM

Pages Read: 416

What You Hide by Natalie D. Richards

Prompt Fulfilled: Red

Started On: November 22nd

Finished On: November 22nd, 5:20

Pages Read: 384

Missing at 17 by Christine Conradt 

Prompt Fulfilled: Love Story

Started On: November 22nd

Finished On: November 22nd, 9:08 PM

Pages Read: 296

Lie to Me by J.T. Ellison

Prompt Fulfilled: Paper Rings, mirrorball

Started On: November 23rd

Finished On: November 23rd, 9:28 PM

Pages Read: 511

The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth

Prompt Fulfilled: Breathe

Started On: November 24th

Finished On: November 24th, 10:05 PM

Pages Read: 368

The Lies They Tell by Gilliam French

Prompt Fulfilled: Sad Beautiful Tragic, the lake

Started On: November 25th

Finished On: November 25th, 4:08 PM

Pages Read: 295

The Missing Season by Gilliam French

Prompt Fulfilled: Out of the Woods, I Know Places 

Started On: November 25th

Finished On: November 25th, 9:06 PM

Pages Read: 294

The Mall by Megan McCafferty

Prompt Fulfilled: Style

Started On: November 26th

Finished On: November 26th, 5:39 PM

Pages Read: 320

Devoted by Jennifer Mathieu

Prompt Fulfilled: False God

Started On: November 26th

Finished On: November 26th, 9:07 PM

Pages Read: 336

Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson

Prompt Fulfilled: Teardrops on my Guitar, Change, Mine, Daylight, the 1

Started On: November 27th

Finished On: November 27th, 6:47 PM

Pages Read: 384

Everything All At Once by Katrina Leno

Prompt Fulfilled: The Lucky One, epiphany 

Started On: November 27th

Finished On: November 27th, 10:11 PM

Pages Read: 368

The Summer Set by Aimee Agresti

Prompt Fulfilled: Tim McGraw, This Love, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, August 

Started On: November 28th

Finished On: November 28th, 3:35 PM

Pages Read: 384

Changes in Latitudes by Jen Malone

Prompt Fulfilled: invisible string 

Started On: November 28th

Finished On: November 28th, 11:49 PM

Pages Read: 384

Nocturna by Maya Motayne

Prompt Fulfilled: Gorgeous

Started On: November 29th

Finished On: November 29th, 6:18 PM

Pages Read: 471

Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters

Prompt Fulfilled: Love Story

Started On: November 29th

Finished On: November 29th, 10:09 PM

Pages Read: 368

Twin Daggers by MarcyKate Connolly

Prompt Fulfilled: Never Grow Up

Started On: November 30th

Finished On: November 30th, 12:39 PM

Pages Read: 368

Furbidden Fatality by Deborah Blake

Prompt Fulfilled: 22

Started On: November 30th

Finished On: November 30th, 2:39 PM

Pages Read: 288

Blink of an Eye by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen

Prompt Fulfilled: Stay Stay Stay

Started On: November 30th

Finished On: November 30th, 5:36 PM

Pages Read: 416

Death of a Showman by Mariah Fredericks 

Prompt Fulfilled: How You Get the Girl

Started On: November 30th

Finished On: November 30th, 9:34 PM

Pages Read: 288  

The Hellion by S.A. Hunt

Prompt Fulfilled: Afterglow

Started On: November 30th

Finished On: December 1st, 12:21 AM

Pages Read: 368

Winter Glass by Lexa Hillyer

Prompt Fulfilled: Cold As You, The Last Time

Started On: December 1st

Finished On: December 1st, 9:34 PM

Pages Read: 329

Capturing the Earl by A.S. Fenichel

Prompt Fulfilled: Dress, the last great american dynasty, exile

Started On: December 3rd

Finished On: December 3rd, 1:56 PM 

Pages Read: 304

City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare

Prompt Fulfilled: I Knew You Were Trouble, betty

Started On: December 3rd

Finished On: December 3rd, 10:01 PM

Pages Read: 453

Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson 

Prompt Fulfilled: Fearless, You're Not Sorry, Long Live, this is me trying

Started On: December 4th

Finished On: December 4th, 11:48 PM

Pages Read: 1306

Every Single Lie by Rachel Vincent

Prompt Fulfilled: White Horse

Started On: December 5th

Finished On: December 5th, 2:32 PM

Pages Read: 336

The Wicked King by Holly Black

Prompt Fulfilled: Last Kiss

Started On: December 6th

Finished On: December 6th, 10:15 PM

Pages Read: 322

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemison

Prompt Fulfilled: Forever & Always

Started On: December 8th

Finished On: December 8th, 10:00 PM

Pages Read: 512

Cinder by Marissa Meyer 

Prompt Fulfilled: Ours, Begin Again

Started On: December 9th

Currently On: Page 0 of 387

Books Left: The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee, Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, Little Wrecks by Meredith Miller, That Night by Amy Giles, Rises the Night by Colleen Gleason, You Say it First by Katie Cotugno, Even If I Fall by Abigail Johnson, Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds, Top Ten by Katie Cotugno, The Grace Year by Kim Liggett, The Princess Knight by G.A. Aiken, Speak Easy, Speak Love by McKelle George, What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera, We Were Never Here by Jennifer Gilmore, Tempting the Best Man by Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert, Vengeful by V.E. Schwab, Antigoddess by Kendare Blake, A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab, Heartless by Marissa Meyer, Wildcard by Marie Lu, Wait for You by Jennifer L. Armentrout, King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo, Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier

Books Read: 38

Pages Read: 15685

Teaser Tuesday #504, December 8th

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 The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, page 44.

"But it is not as hard to leave as you thought it would be. Not now, with your former neighbors' stares sliding over your skin like rancid oil."

Well, that's not a good situation to be in! Must read more! What about you guys? Happy reading! 

Taylor Swift Playlistathon Update 37

So I read my next book for Taylor Swift Playlistathon, which was The Wicked King, which is for the songs Last Kiss, and I'll be reading The Fifth Season next! 

My Reading Journey:

Even if We Break by Marieke Nijkamp

Prompt Fulfilled: ...Ready for It?, The Outside, Tied Together With a Smile, Haunted, Bad Blood, Me!, cardigan 

Started On: November 13th

Finished On: November 13th, 5:49 PM

Pages Read: 336

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

Prompt Fulfilled: Welcome to New York, A Place in This World, my tears ricochet

Started On: November 13th

Finished On: November 13th, 9:37 PM

Pages Read: 416

You Don't Know Me but I Know You by Rebecca Barrow

Prompt Fulfilled: We Are Never Getting Back Together, Tell Me Why

Started On: November 13th

Finished On: November 13th, 11:57 PM

Pages Read: 336

The Blood Spell by C.J. Redwine 

Prompt Fulfilled: The Man, Back to December, Enchanted 

Started On: November 15th

Finished On: November 15th, 9:33 PM

Pages Read: 448

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E Schwab

Prompt Fulfilled: Blank Space, Hey Stephen, I Wish You Would, Clean, Cruel Summer, Cornelia Street, It's Nice to Have a Friend

Started On: November 16th

Finished On: November 16th, 10:28 PM

Pages Read: 489

Leopard's Rage by Christine Feehan

Prompt Fulfiled: So it Goes..., Starlight

Started On: November 17th

Finished On: November 17th, 7:10 PM

Pages Read: 480

Day Zero by Kelly DeVos

Prompt Fulfilled: Sparks Fly, Dancing with Our Hands Tied, seven

Started On: November 18th

Finished On: November 18th, 7:03 PM

Pages Read: 432

Roomies by Sara Zarr and Tara Alterbrando 

Prompt Fulfilled: Stay Beautiful, Everything Has Changed, Getaway Car

Started On: November 18th

Finished On: November 18th, 10:46 PM

Pages Read: 279

The Perfectionists by Sara Shepard

Prompt Fulfilled: peace

Started On: November 19th

Finished On: November 19th, 10:23 PM

Pages Read: 322

The State of Us by Shaun David Hutchinson

Prompt Fulfilled: Miss American and the Heartbreak Prince, The Way I Loved You, London Boy, You Need to Calm Down

Started On: November 20th

Finished On: November 20th, 6:30 PM

Pages Read: 416

Ink by Jonathan Maberry

Prompt Fulfilled: Our Song

Started On: November 20th

Finished On: November 20th, 11:44 PM 

Pages Read: 480

Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter

Prompt Fulfilled: Don't Blame Me, Wildest Dreams, I Forgot That You Existed

Started On: November 21st

Finished On: November 21st, 10:47 PM

Pages Read: 416

What You Hide by Natalie D. Richards

Prompt Fulfilled: Red

Started On: November 22nd

Finished On: November 22nd, 5:20

Pages Read: 384

Missing at 17 by Christine Conradt 

Prompt Fulfilled: Love Story

Started On: November 22nd

Finished On: November 22nd, 9:08 PM

Pages Read: 296

Lie to Me by J.T. Ellison

Prompt Fulfilled: Paper Rings, mirrorball

Started On: November 23rd

Finished On: November 23rd, 9:28 PM

Pages Read: 511

The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth

Prompt Fulfilled: Breathe

Started On: November 24th

Finished On: November 24th, 10:05 PM

Pages Read: 368

The Lies They Tell by Gilliam French

Prompt Fulfilled: Sad Beautiful Tragic, the lake

Started On: November 25th

Finished On: November 25th, 4:08 PM

Pages Read: 295

The Missing Season by Gilliam French

Prompt Fulfilled: Out of the Woods, I Know Places 

Started On: November 25th

Finished On: November 25th, 9:06 PM

Pages Read: 294

The Mall by Megan McCafferty

Prompt Fulfilled: Style

Started On: November 26th

Finished On: November 26th, 5:39 PM

Pages Read: 320

Devoted by Jennifer Mathieu

Prompt Fulfilled: False God

Started On: November 26th

Finished On: November 26th, 9:07 PM

Pages Read: 336

Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson

Prompt Fulfilled: Teardrops on my Guitar, Change, Mine, Daylight, the 1

Started On: November 27th

Finished On: November 27th, 6:47 PM

Pages Read: 384

Everything All At Once by Katrina Leno

Prompt Fulfilled: The Lucky One, epiphany 

Started On: November 27th

Finished On: November 27th, 10:11 PM

Pages Read: 368

The Summer Set by Aimee Agresti

Prompt Fulfilled: Tim McGraw, This Love, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, August 

Started On: November 28th

Finished On: November 28th, 3:35 PM

Pages Read: 384

Changes in Latitudes by Jen Malone

Prompt Fulfilled: invisible string 

Started On: November 28th

Finished On: November 28th, 11:49 PM

Pages Read: 384

Nocturna by Maya Motayne

Prompt Fulfilled: Gorgeous

Started On: November 29th

Finished On: November 29th, 6:18 PM

Pages Read: 471

Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters

Prompt Fulfilled: Love Story

Started On: November 29th

Finished On: November 29th, 10:09 PM

Pages Read: 368

Twin Daggers by MarcyKate Connolly

Prompt Fulfilled: Never Grow Up

Started On: November 30th

Finished On: November 30th, 12:39 PM

Pages Read: 368

Furbidden Fatality by Deborah Blake

Prompt Fulfilled: 22

Started On: November 30th

Finished On: November 30th, 2:39 PM

Pages Read: 288

Blink of an Eye by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen

Prompt Fulfilled: Stay Stay Stay

Started On: November 30th

Finished On: November 30th, 5:36 PM

Pages Read: 416

Death of a Showman by Mariah Fredericks 

Prompt Fulfilled: How You Get the Girl

Started On: November 30th

Finished On: November 30th, 9:34 PM

Pages Read: 288  

The Hellion by S.A. Hunt

Prompt Fulfilled: Afterglow

Started On: November 30th

Finished On: December 1st, 12:21 AM

Pages Read: 368

Winter Glass by Lexa Hillyer

Prompt Fulfilled: Cold As You, The Last Time

Started On: December 1st

Finished On: December 1st, 9:34 PM

Pages Read: 329

Capturing the Earl by A.S. Fenichel

Prompt Fulfilled: Dress, the last great american dynasty, exile

Started On: December 3rd

Finished On: December 3rd, 1:56 PM 

Pages Read: 304

City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare

Prompt Fulfilled: I Knew You Were Trouble, betty

Started On: December 3rd

Finished On: December 3rd, 10:01 PM

Pages Read: 453

Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson 

Prompt Fulfilled: Fearless, You're Not Sorry, Long Live, this is me trying

Started On: December 4th

Finished On: December 4th, 11:48 PM

Pages Read: 1306

Every Single Lie by Rachel Vincent

Prompt Fulfilled: White Horse

Started On: December 5th

Finished On: December 5th, 2:32 PM

Pages Read: 336

The Wicked King by Holly Black

Prompt Fulfilled: Last Kiss

Started On: December 6th

Finished On: December 6th, 10:15 PM

Pages Read: 322

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemison

Prompt Fulfilled: Forever & Always

Started On: December 7th

Currently On: Page 0 of 512

Books Left: The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee, Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, Little Wrecks by Meredith Miller, That Night by Amy Giles, Rises the Night by Colleen Gleason, You Say it First by Katie Cotugno, Even If I Fall by Abigail Johnson, Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds, Top Ten by Katie Cotugno, The Grace Year by Kim Liggett, The Princess Knight by G.A. Aiken, Speak Easy, Speak Love by McKelle George, What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera, We Were Never Here by Jennifer Gilmore, Tempting the Best Man by Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert, Vengeful by V.E. Schwab, Cinder by Marissa Meyer, Antigoddess by Kendare Blake, A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab, Heartless by Marissa Meyer, Wildcard by Marie Lu, Wait for You by Jennifer L. Armentrout, King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo, Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier

Books Read: 37

Pages Read: 15173