It's Monday! What Are You Reading #538, September 27th

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 #537
Teaser Tuesday #545
WWW Wednesday #545
WOW #541
Will the Time Come #538
Third Sentence Thursday #528
Random Reads #514
First Lines Friday #541
Book Blogger Hop #207
The Reward Challenge Update #523
Wheel of TBR #70
How Well I Stuck to It #375
Wrote that Review Update #373

Week 38 Reviews:
American Street

The Dead and the Dark

The Bronzed Beasts

Desperate Measures
Learn My Lesson
A Worthy Opponent
The Beast
The Sea Witch
Queen Takes Rose
Wicked Villains Shorts

The Pretenders 

Unequal Affections

Death Comes to Pemberley

A Dance With a Fae Prince

A Dance With a Fae Prince Bonus Scene

Queen's Gambit

Unseen

Running Wild

Unbroken

Becca's BookoplAthon: 

Update 18

Update 19
Update 20

Magical Readathon: Orilium: 

Update 34

Update 35

Update 36

Update 37

Update 38
Update 39

Update 40

Update 41

Update 42

Update 43

Random:

Elise Kova Author Page

We Have the Cover of GhostWalkers #18!!!!

OK, so I got 38 posts in 7 days, and yeah, I had a great read, I read a lot, and yeah I can't wait for next week! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read Poison Study, Assassin Study, Magic Study, Fire Study, Power Study, Ice Study, The Last Graduate, and Mile High with a Vampire.

A budding dark sorceress determined not to use her formidable powers uncovers yet more secrets about the workings of her world in the stunning sequel to A Deadly Education, the start of Naomi Novik's groundbreaking crossover series.

At the Scholomance, El, Orion, and the other students are faced with their final year—and the looming specter of graduation, a deadly ritual that leaves few students alive in its wake. El is determined that her chosen group will survive, but it is a prospect that is looking harder by the day as the savagery of the school ramps up. Until El realizes that sometimes winning the game means throwing out all the rules . . 

In the latest Argeneau novel from New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands, an immortal and her mortal pilot are on the run from hungry vampires...and discover they're life mates along the way. 

Jet Lassiter likes being a pilot for Argeneau Inc. Perks included travelling to exotic locations and meeting interesting people, even if they are the blood-sucking kind. He's living the good life, until his plane goes down in the mountains and four of his passengers are gravely injured. They need blood to heal... and Jet is the only source.

Quinn Peters never wanted to be immortal. Once a renowned heart surgeon, she was turned against her will and now she has to drink blood to survive. Before she can ask how her "life" can get any worse, she's in a plane crash. One of the few survivors, Quinn is desperate to get the mortal pilot to safety before her fellow immortals succumb to their blood lust and drain Jet dry.

But hungry vampires are the least of their worries—the crash wasn't an accident, and someone is trying to kill Quinn. Will she and Jet find their happily ever after as life mates, or will her assassin find her first?

Week 38 Review: Death Comes to Pemberley

From Goodreads:

A rare meeting of literary genius: P. D. James, long among the most admired mystery writers of our time, draws the characters of Jane Austen's beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem.

 

It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their life together at Pemberley, Darcy's magnificent estate. Their peaceful, orderly world seems almost unassailable. Elizabeth has found her footing as the chatelaine of the great house. They have two fine sons, Fitzwilliam and Charles. Elizabeth's sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live nearby; her father visits often; there is optimistic talk about the prospects of marriage for Darcy's sister Georgiana. And preparations are under way for their much-anticipated annual autumn ball.

 

Then, on the eve of the ball, the patrician idyll is shattered. A coach careens up the drive carrying Lydia, Elizabeth's disgraced sister, who with her husband, the very dubious Wickham, has been banned from Pemberley. She stumbles out of the carriage, hysterical, shrieking that Wickham has been murdered. With shocking suddenness, Pemberley is plunged into a frightening mystery.

 

Inspired by a lifelong passion for Austen, P. D. James masterfully re-creates the world of Pride and Prejudice, electrifying it with the excitement and suspense of a brilliantly crafted crime story, as only she can write it.

My Review:
I enjoyed this book, but maybe I shouldn't have read it right after Unequal Affections. I loved that book. This one, not as much. Between the fact that it is written more like it would've been if it had been written around the time of the original, though maybe pared down a little. But also these familiar characters, but in situations that they wouldn't be in, acting in ways I'm not sure that they would. I just think it would've been better if it hadn't been with these characters, if it was just a historical mystery. It just didn't come together. 

Not to say that I didn't enjoy it, I did. It was an interesting mystery, that did rely on past knowledge of what happened to these characters. It was just very dense and required a lot more brain power, the normal amount to understand the language, but then there was also solving the mystery on top of that.

One thing that I wanted most of all, was to see these two together, alone, in their marriage, settled in. And I kept waiting. And then things got all complicated by this death, and the subsequent legal proceedings. 

Watching the case of Wickham's death unfold was interesting, because the capabilities and the procedures for law enforcement, and later in the courts, was just at its infancy, or just about to be born in some cases. So that was interesting to read.

I enjoyed this book, and I'm glad I read it, but it's not going to be one of my favorites or need to be reread in the future. 

Author: P.D. James
Read: September 22nd, 2021
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: It sounded really good, and it's a Historical Fiction 2021 Book and a SAC 2021 Book! 
Publisher: Alfred A.Knopf
Published: December 6th 2011

4/5 Hearts

1/5 Books

2/5 Stars

Magical Readathon: Orilium Update 36

So I read my next book for Magical Readathon: Orilium, and it was Death Comes to Pemberley which was for the prompt Character 5 The Mist of Solitude, and I'll be reading A Dance with the Fae Prince next! 

My Reading Journey:

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 1 Province

Started On: September 1st

Finished On: September 1st, 9:21 PM

Pages Read: 384

Dark Breaks the Dawn by Sara B. Larson 

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 1 The Novice Path Entrance

Started On: September 2nd

Finished On: September 2nd, 5:28 PM

Pages Read: 320

Bright Burns the Night by Sara B. Larson

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 2 Heritage

Started On: September 2nd

Finished On: September 2nd, 9:12 PM

Pages Read: 307

Cliff's Descent by Dianne Duvall 

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 2 Tower of Rumination

Started On: September 3rd

Finished On: September 3rd, 4:38 PM

Pages Read: 290

Bond of Destiny by Larissa Ione

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 2 Ruin of the Skye

Started On: September 5th

Finished On: September 5th, 10:48 AM

Pages Read: 207

The Bone Code by Kathy Reichs 

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 2 Obsidian Falls

Started On: September 5th

Finished On: September 5th, 4:41 PM

Pages Read: 368

Finding Felicity by Stacey Kade

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 1 The Mist of Solitude

Started On: September 5th

Finished On: September 5th, 8:52 PM

Pages Read: 304

Cape Storm by Rachel Caine

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 1 Ashtorn Tree

Started On: September 6th

Finished On: September 6th, 6:01 PM

Pages Read: 320

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 1 Obsidian Falls

Started On: September 6th

Finished On: September 6th, 10:50 PM

Pages Read: 400

The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 1 Tower of Rumination

Started On: September 7th

Finished On: September 7th, 6:38 PM

Pages Read: 400

Forgotten in Death by J.D. Robb

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 1 Background

Started On: September 7th

Finished On: September 7th, 11:19 PM

Pages Read: 384

Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 2 The Novice Path Entrance

Started On: September 8th

Finished On: September 8th, 10:47 PM

Pages Read: 752

The Gravedigger's Son by Darynda Jones 

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 3 Ruin of the Skye

Started On: September 10th

Finished On: September 10th, 4:01 PM

Pages Read: 103

The Operator by Kim Harrison

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 3 Obsidian Falls

Started On: September 10th

Finished On: September 10th, 10:02 PM

Pages Read: 468

Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 2  Ashtorn Tree

Started On: September 11th

Finished On: September 11th, 5:12 PM

Pages Read: 400

The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die by April Henry

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 2 The Mist of Solitude

Started On: September 11th

Finished On: September 11th, 7:41 PM

Pages Read: 224

Imagineer by Honor Raconteur

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 3 Ashtorn Tree

Started On: September 12th

Finished On: September 12th, 2:29 PM

Pages Read: 313

Excantation by Honor Raconteur

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 3 Tower of Rumination

Started On: September 12th

Finished On: September 12th, 7:15 PM

Pages Read: 227

Master of Tomes by Honor Raconteur

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 3 The Novice Path Entrance

Started On: September 12th

Finished On: September 12th, 9:30 PM

Pages Read:  268

When Sorrows Come by Seanan McGuire

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 2 Province

Started On: September 14th

Finished On: September 14th, 5:27 PM

Pages Read: 384

The Last Laugh by Mindy McGinnis

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 4 Obsidian Falls

Started On: September 15th

Finished On: September 15th, 6:37 PM

Pages Read: 384

The Deepest of Secrets by Kelley Armstrong 

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 2 Background

Started On: September 16th

Finished On: September 16th, 8:47 PM

Pages Read: 352

Unknown by Rachel Caine

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 4 Ruin of the Skye

Started On: September 17th

Finished On: September 17th, 9:39 PM

Pages Read: 305

American Street by Ibi Zoboi

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 3 The Mist of Solitude

Started On: September 18th

Finished On: September 18th, 8:44 AM

Pages Read: 352

The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 1 Ruin of the Skye

Started On: September 18th

Finished On: September 18th, 5:03 PM

Pages Read: 368

The Bronzed Beast by Roshani Chokshi

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 4 Tower of Rumination

Started On: September 18th

Finished On: September 18th, 11:34 PM

Pages Read: 400

Desperate Measures by Katee Roberts 

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 5 Obsidian Falls

Started On: September 19th

Finished On: September 19th, 10:44 AM

Pages Read: 230

Learn My Lesson by Katee Robert

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 5 Ashtorn Tree

Started On: September 19th

Finished On: September 19th, 2:50 PM

Pages Read: 253

A Worthy Opponent by Katee Robert

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 6 Obsidian Falls

Started On: September 19th

Finished On: September 19th, 5:06 PM

Pages Read: 302

The Beast by Katee Roberts

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 6 Ashtorn Tree

Started On: September 19th

Finished On: September 19th, 8:09 PM

Pages Read: 284

The Sea Witch by Katee Roberts

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 4 Ashtorn Tree

Started On: September 19th

Finished On: September 19th, 10:01 PM

Pages Read: 275

Queen Takes Rose by Katee Roberts

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 4 Background

Started On: September 19th

Finished On: September 19th, 11:49 PM

Pages Read: 294

Wicked Villains Shorts by Katee Roberts

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 5 Tower of Rumination

Started On: September 19th

Finished On: September 19th, 11:56 PM

Pages Read: 134

The Pretenders by Rebecca Hanover

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 1 Orilium Academy Arc

Started On: September 21st

Finished On: September 21st, 4:04 PM

Pages Read: 416

Unequal Affections by Lara S. Ormiston 

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 4 The Mist of Solitude

Started On: September 21st

Finished On: September 21st, 10:24 PM

Pages Read: 352

Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 5 The Mist of Solitude

Started On: September 22nd

Finished On: September 22nd, 9:40 PM

Pages Read: 325

A Dance with the Fae Prince by Elise Kova

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 4 The Novice Path Entrance

Started On: September 23rd

Currently On: Page 0 of 344

Prompts Left: Character 1 Heritage, Character 2 Orilium Academy Arc, Character 3 Orilium Academy Arc, Character 3 Background, Character 3 Province, Character 3 Heritage, Character 4 Orilium Academy Arc, Character 4 Province, Character 4 Heritage, Character 5 The Novice Path Entrance, Character 5 Ruin of the Skye, Character 5 Orilium Academy Arc, Character 5 Background, Character 5 Province, Character 5 Heritage, Character 6 The Novice Path Entrance, Character 6 The Mist of Solitude, Character 6 Ruin of the Skye, Character 6 Tower of Rumination, Character 6 Orilium Academy Arc, Character 6 Background, Character 6 Province, Character 6 Heritage

Read: 36

Pages Read: 11949

WWW Wednesday #545, September 22nd

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 Death Comes to Pemberley, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it!

I'm on a Pride and Prejudice kick, and I last read Unequal Affections, and it was such a great read! 

I'm going to be reading A Dance With the Fae Prince, and I can't wait, I loved the first book! 

What about you guys? Happy reading!

Magical Readathon: Orilium Update 35

So I read my next book for Magical Readathon: Orilium, and it was Unequal Affections which was for the prompt Character 4 The Mist of Solitude, and I'll be reading Death Comes to Pemberley next! 

My Reading Journey:

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 1 Province

Started On: September 1st

Finished On: September 1st, 9:21 PM

Pages Read: 384

Dark Breaks the Dawn by Sara B. Larson 

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 1 The Novice Path Entrance

Started On: September 2nd

Finished On: September 2nd, 5:28 PM

Pages Read: 320

Bright Burns the Night by Sara B. Larson

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 2 Heritage

Started On: September 2nd

Finished On: September 2nd, 9:12 PM

Pages Read: 307

Cliff's Descent by Dianne Duvall 

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 2 Tower of Rumination

Started On: September 3rd

Finished On: September 3rd, 4:38 PM

Pages Read: 290

Bond of Destiny by Larissa Ione

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 2 Ruin of the Skye

Started On: September 5th

Finished On: September 5th, 10:48 AM

Pages Read: 207

The Bone Code by Kathy Reichs 

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 2 Obsidian Falls

Started On: September 5th

Finished On: September 5th, 4:41 PM

Pages Read: 368

Finding Felicity by Stacey Kade

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 1 The Mist of Solitude

Started On: September 5th

Finished On: September 5th, 8:52 PM

Pages Read: 304

Cape Storm by Rachel Caine

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 1 Ashtorn Tree

Started On: September 6th

Finished On: September 6th, 6:01 PM

Pages Read: 320

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 1 Obsidian Falls

Started On: September 6th

Finished On: September 6th, 10:50 PM

Pages Read: 400

The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 1 Tower of Rumination

Started On: September 7th

Finished On: September 7th, 6:38 PM

Pages Read: 400

Forgotten in Death by J.D. Robb

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 1 Background

Started On: September 7th

Finished On: September 7th, 11:19 PM

Pages Read: 384

Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 2 The Novice Path Entrance

Started On: September 8th

Finished On: September 8th, 10:47 PM

Pages Read: 752

The Gravedigger's Son by Darynda Jones 

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 3 Ruin of the Skye

Started On: September 10th

Finished On: September 10th, 4:01 PM

Pages Read: 103

The Operator by Kim Harrison

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 3 Obsidian Falls

Started On: September 10th

Finished On: September 10th, 10:02 PM

Pages Read: 468

Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 2  Ashtorn Tree

Started On: September 11th

Finished On: September 11th, 5:12 PM

Pages Read: 400

The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die by April Henry

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 2 The Mist of Solitude

Started On: September 11th

Finished On: September 11th, 7:41 PM

Pages Read: 224

Imagineer by Honor Raconteur

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 3 Ashtorn Tree

Started On: September 12th

Finished On: September 12th, 2:29 PM

Pages Read: 313

Excantation by Honor Raconteur

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 3 Tower of Rumination

Started On: September 12th

Finished On: September 12th, 7:15 PM

Pages Read: 227

Master of Tomes by Honor Raconteur

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 3 The Novice Path Entrance

Started On: September 12th

Finished On: September 12th, 9:30 PM

Pages Read:  268

When Sorrows Come by Seanan McGuire

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 2 Province

Started On: September 14th

Finished On: September 14th, 5:27 PM

Pages Read: 384

The Last Laugh by Mindy McGinnis

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 4 Obsidian Falls

Started On: September 15th

Finished On: September 15th, 6:37 PM

Pages Read: 384

The Deepest of Secrets by Kelley Armstrong 

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 2 Background

Started On: September 16th

Finished On: September 16th, 8:47 PM

Pages Read: 352

Unknown by Rachel Caine

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 4 Ruin of the Skye

Started On: September 17th

Finished On: September 17th, 9:39 PM

Pages Read: 305

American Street by Ibi Zoboi

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 3 The Mist of Solitude

Started On: September 18th

Finished On: September 18th, 8:44 AM

Pages Read: 352

The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 1 Ruin of the Skye

Started On: September 18th

Finished On: September 18th, 5:03 PM

Pages Read: 368

The Bronzed Beast by Roshani Chokshi

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 4 Tower of Rumination

Started On: September 18th

Finished On: September 18th, 11:34 PM

Pages Read: 400

Desperate Measures by Katee Roberts 

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 5 Obsidian Falls

Started On: September 19th

Finished On: September 19th, 10:44 AM

Pages Read: 230

Learn My Lesson by Katee Robert

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 5 Ashtorn Tree

Started On: September 19th

Finished On: September 19th, 2:50 PM

Pages Read: 253

A Worthy Opponent by Katee Robert

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 6 Obsidian Falls

Started On: September 19th

Finished On: September 19th, 5:06 PM

Pages Read: 302

The Beast by Katee Roberts

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 6 Ashtorn Tree

Started On: September 19th

Finished On: September 19th, 8:09 PM

Pages Read: 284

The Sea Witch by Katee Roberts

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 4 Ashtorn Tree

Started On: September 19th

Finished On: September 19th, 10:01 PM

Pages Read: 275

Queen Takes Rose by Katee Roberts

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 4 Background

Started On: September 19th

Finished On: September 19th, 11:49 PM

Pages Read: 294

Wicked Villains Shorts by Katee Roberts

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 5 Tower of Rumination

Started On: September 19th

Finished On: September 19th, 11:56 PM

Pages Read: 134

The Pretenders by Rebecca Hanover

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 1 Orilium Academy Arc

Started On: September 21st

Finished On: September 21st, 4:04 PM

Pages Read: 416

Unequal Affections by Lara S. Ormiston 

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 4 The Mist of Solitude

Started On: September 21st

Finished On: September 21st, 10:24 PM

Pages Read: 352

Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James

Prompt Fulfilled: Character 5 The Mist of Solitude

Started On: September 22nd

Currently On: Page 0 of 325

Prompts Left: Character 1 Heritage, Character 2 Orilium Academy Arc, Character 3 Orilium Academy Arc, Character 3 Background, Character 3 Province, Character 3 Heritage, Character 4 The Novice Path Entrance, Character 4 Orilium Academy Arc, Character 4 Province, Character 4 Heritage, Character 5 The Novice Path Entrance, Character 5 Ruin of the Skye, Character 5 Orilium Academy Arc, Character 5 Background, Character 5 Province, Character 5 Heritage, Character 6 The Novice Path Entrance, Character 6 The Mist of Solitude, Character 6 Ruin of the Skye, Character 6 Tower of Rumination, Character 6 Orilium Academy Arc, Character 6 Background, Character 6 Province, Character 6 Heritage

Read: 35

Pages Read: 11624