It's Monday! What Are You Reading #571, May 16th

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 #570
Teaser Tuesday #578
WWW Wednesday #578
WOW #574
Will the Time Come #571
Third Sentence Thursday #561
Random Reads #547
First Lines Friday #574
Book Blogger Hop #240

Monthly ARC's Update 9
The Reward Challenge Update #556
Wheel of TBR #103
How Well I Stuck to It #408
Wrote that Review Update #406

Week 19 Reviews:
Game Changer

Wolf in the Shadows

The Stars Between Us

Good Girls Go to Heaven

Sparrow Hill Road

Train Yard Blues

The Girl in the Green Silk Gown

Winter's Orbit

Love on the Brain

Blue Hearts of Mars 

Magical Readathon: Orilium:

Update 61

Clean Sweep ARC Challenge: 

Update 9

Update 10
Update 11

Update 12

Update 13

Random:

We Have the Cover of October Daye #16!!!!

OK, so I got 28 posts in 7 days, and yeah, it's been a quiet week, but this current week is my week off, and I'm really going to take advantage of all this time off! Sleeping in is much preferred to getting up at 4:20 for work! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read whatever I want! 

Week 19 Review: Blue Hearts of Mars

From Goodreads:

Seventeen-year-old Retta Heikkinen is in love with a boy--a thoroughly gorgeous, captivating, and mysterious boy known as Hemingway. The situation is rather ideal: he likes her, she likes him. There's just one little problem.

He's a blue heart, an android.

Being in a relationship is its own complicated mess, but how long can a forbidden love last? Soon Retta discovers a secret that could destroy the uneasy truce between the blue hearts and humans, which makes life under the domes on Mars possible. Would exposing what she knows make things better or worse? And how can she know for certain without exposing the secret?

My Review:
I had a good time reading this book, but I would've enjoyed reading it more if I'd read it more around the time that it came out. Retta was just a bit young, and while that explains some of her actions, that doesn't mean I had the best time reading about them.

There were a few decisions that had me scratching my head. We're popped right into this world with not a lot of context, and I would've loved a bit more detail about this world. And it doesn't help that we're in the head of Retta, who while she's 17, seemed to be on the young side, and pretty immature.

What most interested me about this book was the androids, I just find the whole idea pretty cool. Though of course human flaws come in, and they are treated pretty horribly. So finding out that secret, well, yeah, that was pretty intense, and I had to know what was going to happen next!

I had a pretty great time with that ending, I really liked where things left off, how they resolved. And that final reveal was really excellent! All in all, it was a good book, but one that I wish I'd read sooner, because I think I aged out of it. 

I enjoyed this book, but it's not one that I'll think about much in the future. 

Author: Nicole Grotepas 
Read: May 12th, 2022
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Sounded really great, and it's a SAC 2022 Book!
Publisher: Nicole Grotepas
Published: January 11th 2013

5/5 Hearts

1/5 Books

1/5 Stars

Clean Sweep ARC Challenge Update 11

Ok, so I read my next book for Clean Sweep ARC Challenge, and it was Blue Hearts of Mars and I'll be reading Clown in a Cornfield: Frendo Lives next! 

My Reading Journey:

The Life She Had by K.L. Armstrong

Started On: May 1st
Finished On: May 1st, 8:55 PM
Pages Read: 320

A Curse of Queens by Amanda Bouchet 

Started On: May 3rd

Finished On: May 3rd, 9:20 PM
Pages Read: 496

Heroic Hearts Anthology 

Started On: May 4th

Finished On: May 4th, 10:21 PM
Pages Read: 368

Alone Out Here by Riley Redgate

Started On: May 5th

Finished On: May 5th, 9:34 PM
Pages Read: 400

Claws for Suspicion by Deborah Blake

Started On: May 6th

Finished On: May 6th, 4:02 PM
Pages Read: 288

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

Started On: May 6th

Finished On: May 6th, 8:40 PM
Pages Read: 368

Game Changer by Neal Shusterman

Started On: May 7th

Finished On: May 7th, 9:45 PM
Pages Read: 400

Wolf in the Shadows by Maria Vale

Started On: May 8th

Finished On: May 8th, 9:10 PM

Pages Read: 360

The Stars Between Us by Cristin Terrill

Started On: May 9th

Finished On: May 9th, 8:36 PM

Pages Read: 400

Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

Started On: May 11th

Finished On: May 11th, 8:12 PM

Pages Read: 384

Blue Hearts of Mars by Nicole Grotepas

Started On: May 12th

Finished On: May 12th, 9:34 PM

Pages Read: 368

Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives by Adam Cesare

Started On: May 13th

Currently On: Page 0 of 416

Books Read: 11

Goal: 25 Books

Pages Read: 4152

Third Sentence Thursday #561, May 12th

Third Sentence Thursday is a weekly meme which likes to watch fireworks especially while eating a cookie!

1) Take the book you are currently reading and open it to a random page. Share the third full sentence on that page. (If there isn't a third one – like at the end of a chapter or a blank page – you can share the third sentence of the book or just choose another random page.) Feel free to share more than one sentence, if you feel the need to do so.

2) Review this sentence anyway you want (funny and silly reviews encouraged)

3) Post a link to your sentence at Words I Write Crazy (This Blog)

4) Visit one or two of the other blogs to check out their third sentences!

"Why not buy from them?" -Blue Hearts of Mars by Nicole Grotepas, page 8.

This has no context, so why not? Now to read more! What are your guy's 3rd lines? Link up below!

Clean Sweep ARC Challenge Update 10

Ok, so I read my next book for Clean Sweep ARC Challenge, and it was Love on the Brain and I'll be reading Blue Hearts of Mars next! 

My Reading Journey:

The Life She Had by K.L. Armstrong

Started On: May 1st
Finished On: May 1st, 8:55 PM
Pages Read: 320

A Curse of Queens by Amanda Bouchet 

Started On: May 3rd

Finished On: May 3rd, 9:20 PM
Pages Read: 496

Heroic Hearts Anthology 

Started On: May 4th

Finished On: May 4th, 10:21 PM
Pages Read: 368

Alone Out Here by Riley Redgate

Started On: May 5th

Finished On: May 5th, 9:34 PM
Pages Read: 400

Claws for Suspicion by Deborah Blake

Started On: May 6th

Finished On: May 6th, 4:02 PM
Pages Read: 288

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

Started On: May 6th

Finished On: May 6th, 8:40 PM
Pages Read: 368

Game Changer by Neal Shusterman

Started On: May 7th

Finished On: May 7th, 9:45 PM
Pages Read: 400

Wolf in the Shadows by Maria Vale

Started On: May 8th

Finished On: May 8th, 9:10 PM

Pages Read: 360

The Stars Between Us by Cristin Terrill

Started On: May 9th

Finished On: May 9th, 8:36 PM

Pages Read: 400

Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

Started On: May 11th

Finished On: May 11th, 8:12 PM

Pages Read: 384

Blue Hearts of Mars by Nicole Grotepas

Started On: May 12th

Currently On: Page 0 of 368

Books Read: 10

Goal: 25 Books

Pages Read: 3784

WWW Wednesday #578, May 11th

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 Love on the Brain, and yeah, really enjoying it! 

I read Winter's Orbit, and yeah, it was such a wonderful read! 

I read Blue Hearts of Mars, and yeah, I can't wait, it sounds really great! 

What about you guys? Happy reading!