It's Monday! What Are You Reading #621, May 1st

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 #620
Teaser Tuesday #628
WWW Wednesday #628
WOW #624
Will the Time Come #621
Third Sentence Thursday #611
Random Reads #597
First Lines Friday #624
Book Blogger Hop #290

Monthly ARC's Update 37

23 Books to Read in 2023 Update 3

The Reward Challenge Update #606
Wheel of TBR #153
How Well I Stuck to It #458
Wrote that Review Update #455

Week 17 Reviews:
Resonance Surge

The Iron Warrior

Pieces of Me

The Rosewood Hunt

The Summer Girl

Skyhunter

Alice in Zombieland

Cole...Meet Ali

Through the Zombieglass

The Queen of Zombie Hearts

A Mad Zombie Party

Kat in Zombieland

Down the Rabbit Hole

The Foxglove King

A Game of Fate

Semiosis

A Discovery of Witches

Shadow of Night

The Book of Life

The Last House Guest

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride 

The Ones We Burn

Wolfsbane

Treachery 

Roseblood

Aftermath

Magical Readathon: Orilium: 

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Random:

Book Battle May 2023 TBR

OK, so I got 54 posts in 7 days, and yeah, I read a whole bunch, and I'm pretty tired, but I read some really great books! And it was a great distraction, because last Monday, I woke up to 3 emails from Facebook, basically saying that my account was hacked. And I've been unable to get it back, and I haven't yet heard back from Facebook. Then on Saturday, I received a parcel from Amazon because it got hacked too. Which lead me to find out that the original cause was my Google account. I think my google account is good, and Amazon is dealing with the parcel-now it's just getting ahold of Facebook, the one that started this journey for me. Whoopee. What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read whatever I want! 

Week 20 Review: Master of None

From Goodreads:

ONE UNLUCKY THIEF. ONE UNLIKELY GENIE. ONE VERY ODD COUPLE.

Gavyn Donatti is the world's unluckiest thief. Just ask all the partners he's lost over the years. And when he misplaces an irreplaceable item he was hired to steal for his ruthless employer, Trevor—well, his latest bungle just might be his last. But then his luck finally turns: right when Trevor's thugs have him cornered, a djinn, otherwise known as a genie, appears to save him.Unfortunately, this genie—who goes by the very non-magical name of "Ian"—is more Hellboy than dream girl. 

An overgrown and extremely surly man who seems to hate Donatti on the spot, he may call Donatti master, but he isn't interested in granting three wishes. He informs Donatti that he is bound to help the thief fulfill his life's purpose, and then he will be free. The problem is that neither Donatti nor Ian has any idea what exactly that purpose is.

At first Donatti's too concerned with his own survival to look a gift genie in the mouth, but when his ex-girlfriend Jazz and her young son get drawn into the crossfire, the stakes skyrocket. And when Ian reveals that he has an agenda of his own—with both Donatti and the murderous Trevor at the center of it—Donatti will have to become the man he never knew he could be, or the entire world could pay the price. . . .

My Review:

I read the first chapter of this online, linked there from a blog I visiting on on of the giveaway hops. It was awesome (though I thought that the MC was a girl at the beginning, and only in reading the summary did I think otherwise) and I enjoyed it, enough that I took it out from the library.

This book was awesome. I loved the character's sarcasm, it was great, and it endeared him to me. He was fun, and I loved all the things that the got himself into, and I just learned that there's a sequel that came out just around the time I started blogging, which is weird, but something that means only 1 thing-I'm going to read this book!

The setting was great, and I loved how the characters did some things that were really funny, and then there were sad parts, with death. But there was hope, too, a child, and I loved the romance that Donatti had, and then has again. It left off at a great place, so I can't wait for the sequel!

Go check it out! Now!!

Author: Sonya Bateman
Series: Gavyn Donatti #1
Read: May 20th, 2011
Source: Library
Reason Why: Sounded really fantastic, and really enjoyed the online excerpt!
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: March 30th 2010

5/5 Hearts

4/5 Books

4/5 Stars