It's Monday! What Are You Reading #666, March 11th

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 #665
Teaser Tuesday #673
WWW Wednesday #673
WOW #669
Will the Time Come #666
Third Sentence Thursday #656
Random Reads #642
First Lines Friday #669
Book Blogger Hop #335
The Reward Challenge Update #651
Wheel of TBR #198
How Well I Stuck to It #503
Wrote that Review Update #500

Week 10 Reviews:
Written in Red

Murder of Crows

Vision in Silver

Marked in Flesh

Etched in Bone

Dead Things are Closer Than They Appear

Avoiding Alpha

Alpha Divided

Bruja 

Endless

The Crown's Dog

Sweet Filthy Boy

Sweet Filthy Morning After 

Dirty Rowdy Thing

Disturbing the Dead 

Magical Readathon: Orilium:

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Spring Into Reading-A-Thon:

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Phase Out Your TBR:

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Greek God-a-Thon:

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Random:

The Bookworm Revolution March 2024 TBR

OK, so I got 41 posts in 7 days, and it was as pretty good week, I read some really excellent reads, and I can't wait for this coming week! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read A Grave Robbery! 

Veronica and Stoker discover that not all fairy tales have happy endings, and some end in murder, in this latest historical mystery from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–nominated author Deanna Raybourn.

Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud’s. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes a gruesome discovery: this is no wax figure. The mannequin is the beautifully preserved body of a young woman who was once very much alive. But who would do such a dreadful thing, and why?

Sleuthing out the answer to this question sets Veronica and Stoker on their wildest adventure yet. From the underground laboratories of scientists experimenting with electricity to resurrect the dead in the vein of Frankenstein to the traveling show where Stoker once toured as an attraction, the gaslit atmosphere of London in October is the perfect setting for this investigation into the unknown. Through it all, the intrepid pair is always one step behind the latest villain—a man who has killed once and will stop at nothing to recover the body of the woman he loved. Will they unmask him in time to save his next victim? Or will they become the latest figures to be immortalized in his collection of horrors?

Week 10 Review: Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear

From Goodreads:

A painfully average teen's life is upended by a magical apocalypse in this darkly atmospheric and sweepingly romantic novel perfect for fans of The Raven Boys, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The Rest of Us Just Live Here.

High school is hard enough to survive without an apocalypse to navigate.

Sid Spencer has always been the most normal girl in her abnormal hometown, a tourist trap built over one of the fault lines that seal magic away from the world. Meanwhile, all Sid has to deal with is hair-ruining humidity, painful awkwardness, being one of four Asians in town, and her friends dumping her when they start dating each other—just days after one of the most humiliating romantic rejections faced by anyone, ever, in all of history.

Then someone kills one of the Guardians who protect the seal. The earth rips open and unleashes the magic trapped inside. Monsters crawl from the ground, no one can enter or leave, and the man behind it all is roaming the streets with a gang of violent vigilantes. Suddenly, Sid's life becomes a lot less ordinary. When she finds out her missing brother is involved, she joins the remaining Guardians, desperate to find him and close the fault line for good.

Fighting through hordes of living corpses and uncontrollable growths of forest, Sid and a ragtag crew of would-be heroes are the only thing standing between their town and the end of the world as they know it. Between magic, murderers, and burgeoning crushes, Sid must survive being a perfectly normal girl caught in a perfectly abnormal apocalypse.

Only—how can someone so ordinary make it in such an extraordinary world?

My Review:
I had a fantastic time listening to this book! The whole premise of magic having been locked down, but in these towns, they have Guardians who protect, but theoretically could open the magic up again-and having that happen, yeah, I couldn't get enough! 

I do wish I could've read a bit physically, just to get a sense for the style, because there were a few times where it felt like it jumped, and I was a bit confused about what was going on, and I think I would've better understood if I could've read it physically. 

Sid is adopted, and that sense of identity is a pretty big part of the plot, of who she is, where she belongs, what she shares with others, since while she loves her family, she doesn't see herself reflected in them. So I loved what that added to the story.

The whole thing with the magic and the guardians, and the guy who wants all the power, it was almost superhero-esque, but make it the world-ending as we know it of dystopian, which was really entertaining. Plus Sid and the gang were all great to read, and I loved their different dynamics! 

I really enjoyed this book and I can't wait to read more by Robin Wasley! 

Author: Robin Wasley
Read: March 6th, 202 
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Sounded really good, and it's a DAC Book and a SAC 2024 Book!
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: February 27th 2024

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Phase Out Your TBR Update 4

So I've read my next book for the Phase Out Your TBR, and it was Endless which is for the prompt Yellow 8, and I'll be reading Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear next! 

My Reading Journey:

A Feather So Black by Lyra Selene

Prompt Fulfilled: Green 6

Started On: March 1st 

Finished On: March 1st, 11:35 AM

Pages Read: 496

Becoming Alpha by Aileen Erin

Prompt Fulfilled: Green 8

Started On: March 1st

Finished On: March 1st, 1:58 PM

Pages Read: 348

Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop

Prompt Fulfilled: Red 1

Started On: March 5th

Finished On: March 5th, 11:02 PM

Pages Read: 528

Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear by Robin Wasley

Prompt Fulfilled: Red 7

Started On: March 6th

Finished On: March 6th, 10:18 AM

Pages Read: 448

Endless by Josephine Angelini

Prompt Fulfilled: Yellow 8

Started On: March 7th

Currently On: Page 0 of 362

Prompts Left: Red 4, Red 4, Green 4, Yellow 4, Yellow 5, Red 6, Red 5, Yellow 11, Blue 12, Red 12, Red 12, Green 5, Blue 7, Yellow 10, Green 11

Books Read: 4

Pages Read: 1820

Spring Into Reading-A-Thon Update 6

So I read my next book for Spring Into Reading-A-Thon, and it was Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear which was for the prompt Road Trip, and I'll be reading Endless next! 

My Reading Journey:

A Feather So Black by Lyra Selene

Prompt Fulfilled: Spring Court

Started On: March 1st 

Finished On: March 1st, 11:35 AM

Pages Read: 496

Becoming Alpha by Aileen Erin

Prompt Fulfilled: Spring Cleaning

Started On: March 1st

Finished On: March 1st, 1:58 PM

Pages Read: 348

Written in Red by Anne Bishop

Prompt Fulfilled: Let it Shine

Started On: March 2nd

Finished On: March 2nd, 7:45 PM

Pages Read: 496

Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop

Prompt Fulfilled: Spring Forward

Started On: March 4th

Finished On: March 4th, 9:50 PM

Pages Read: 511

Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop

Prompt Fulfilled: April Showers

Started On: March 5th

Finished On: March 5th, 11:02 PM

Pages Read: 528

Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear by Robin Wasley

Prompt Fulfilled: Road Trip

Started On: March 6th

Finished On: March 6th, 10:18 AM

Pages Read: 448

Endless by Josephine Angelini

Prompt Fulfilled: Spring Fashion

Started On: March 7th

Currently On: Page 0 of 330

Prompts Left: New Beginnings, Wet T-Shirt Contest, Stormy Weather, Rewind, Luck of the Irish, Self-Care, Prom Queen, Read the group book, Love Is In The Air, Over The Rainbow, Spring Break, Refresh Your TBR, Women's March, Friendship Bracelets, Flower Power, Read Like An Aires, Tiptoe Through The Tulips, Tiny Umbrellas

Read: 6

Pages Read: 2827

Phase Out Your TBR Update 3

So I've read my next book for the Phase Out Your TBR, and it was Marked in Flesh which is for the prompt Red 1, and I'll be reading Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear next! 

My Reading Journey:

A Feather So Black by Lyra Selene

Prompt Fulfilled: Green 6

Started On: March 1st 

Finished On: March 1st, 11:35 AM

Pages Read: 496

Becoming Alpha by Aileen Erin

Prompt Fulfilled: Green 8

Started On: March 1st

Finished On: March 1st, 1:58 PM

Pages Read: 348

Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop

Prompt Fulfilled: Red 1

Started On: March 5th

Finished On: March 5th, 11:02 PM

Pages Read: 528

Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear by Robin Wasley

Prompt Fulfilled: Red 7

Started On: March 6th

Currently On: Page 0 of 416

Prompts Left: Red 4, Red 4, Green 4, Yellow 4, Yellow 5, Red 6, Red 5, Red 8, Yellow 11, Blue 12, Green 12, Red 12, Red 12, Green 5, Blue 7, Yellow 8, Yellow 10, Green 11

Books Read: 3

Pages Read: 1372

Spring Into Reading-A-Thon Update 5

So I read my next book for Spring Into Reading-A-Thon, and it was Marked in Flesh which was for the prompt April Showers, and I'll be reading Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear next! 

My Reading Journey:

A Feather So Black by Lyra Selene

Prompt Fulfilled: Spring Court

Started On: March 1st 

Finished On: March 1st, 11:35 AM

Pages Read: 496

Becoming Alpha by Aileen Erin

Prompt Fulfilled: Spring Cleaning

Started On: March 1st

Finished On: March 1st, 1:58 PM

Pages Read: 348

Written in Red by Anne Bishop

Prompt Fulfilled: Let it Shine

Started On: March 2nd

Finished On: March 2nd, 7:45 PM

Pages Read: 496

Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop

Prompt Fulfilled: Spring Forward

Started On: March 4th

Finished On: March 4th, 9:50 PM

Pages Read: 511

Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop

Prompt Fulfilled: April Showers

Started On: March 5th

Finished On: March 5th, 11:02 PM

Pages Read: 528

Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear by Robin Wasley

Prompt Fulfilled: Road Trip

Started On: March 6th

Currently On: Page 0 of 416

Prompts Left: New Beginnings, Wet T-Shirt Contest, Stormy Weather, Spring Fashion, Rewind, Luck of the Irish, Self-Care, Prom Queen, Read the group book, Love Is In The Air, Over The Rainbow, Spring Break, Refresh Your TBR, Women's March, Friendship Bracelets, Flower Power, Read Like An Aires, Tiptoe Through The Tulips, Tiny Umbrellas

Read: 5

Pages Read: 2379