Can’t Wait Wednesday 10/28/2020

Hello bookish lovelies! Can’t Wait Wednesday is hosted by Wishful Endings and is based on Waiting on Wednesday that was previously hosted by Breaking the Spine.   It was created to show off a book that you are excited to read that hasn’t been released yet.

ABOUT THE BOOK: 

Title: Victories Greater Than Death

Author:  Charlie Jane Anders

Release Date: April 13th, 2021

Published By:  Tor Teen

Pages: 288 pages

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SYNOPSIS:

A thrilling adventure set against an intergalactic war with international bestselling author Charlie Jane Anders at the helm in her YA debut—think Star Wars meets Doctor Who, and buckle your seatbelts

Tina has always known her destiny is outside the norm—after all, she is the human clone of the most brilliant alien commander in all the galaxies (even if the rest of the world is still deciding whether aliens exist). But she is tired of waiting for her life to begin.

And then it does—and maybe Tina should have been more prepared. At least she has a crew around her that she can trust—and her best friend at her side. Now, they just have to save the world.

From internationally bestselling author Charlie Jane Anders (All the Birds in the Sky) comes a thrilling adventure set against an intergalactic war—Anders’s long-awaited YA debut.

WWW Wednesday 10/28/2020

Hello bookish lovelies! Happy August! WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. Each week, you’re supposed to let your readers know what you’re currently reading, what you recently finished, and what you think you’ll read next.

What are you currently reading?

Iron Heart by Nina Varela (the sequel to Crier’s War) and Instant Karma by Marissa Meyer

What did you recently finish reading?

Nothing in the past week

What do you think you’ll read next?

November 2020: Most Anticipated Releases

Hello Bookish lovelies! Can’t believe we’re writing about November already. I remember in my last anticipated releases post I was talking about how happy I was that Fall was almost here and well…… 2020 continues to troll us lol. We didn’t get much Fall, we did get a big preview of Winter though. Lots of snow this month, so much in fact that 2020 is now the snowiest on record for the month of October.

Goodreads Monday 10/26/2020

Hello bookish lovelies! Goodreads Monday is hosted by Lauren’s Page Turners. All you have to do is show off a book from your TBR that you’re looking forward to reading.

ABOUT THE BOOK: 

Title: Blood Of Elves (The Witcher #1)

Author:  Andrzej Sapkowski

 Release Date: February 11th, 2020 (first published in 1994)

Published By: Gollancz

Pages:  315 pages

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SYNOPSIS:

For more than a hundred years humans, dwarves, gnomes and elves lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over and now the races once again fight each other – and themselves: Dwarves are killing their kinsmen, and elves are murdering humans and elves, at least those elves who are friendly to humans… Into this tumultuous time is born a child for whom the witchers of the world have been waiting.

Ciri, the granddaughter of Queen Calanthe, the Lioness of Cintra, has strange powers and a stranger destiny, for prophecy names her the Flame, one with the power to change the world – for good, or for evil… Geralt, the witcher of Rivia, has taken Ciri to the relative safety of the Witchers’ Settlement, but it soon becomes clear that Ciri isn’t like the other witchers. As the political situation grows ever dimmer and the threat of war hangs almost palpably over the land, Geralt searches for someone to train Ciri’s unique powers.

But someone else has an eye on the young girl, someone who understand exactly what the prophecy means – and exactly what Ciri’s power can do. This time Geralt may have met his match.

It’s Monday, What Are You Reading? 10/26/2020

Hello bookish lovelies! Happy Monday! Here we are on the last Monday of October. Hard to believe it’s going to be 2021 soon after the year we’ve all had. I hope you all had a great weekend! What are you reading today?

CURRENT READ(S):

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Title: Iron Heart

Author: Nina Varela

Release Date: September 8th, 2020

Published By: Harper Teen

Pages: 400 pages

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SYNOPSIS:

An unstoppable love between two girls—one human, one Made—both set on destroying the Iron Heart.

For too long the cruel, beautiful Automae have lorded over the kingdom of Rabu, oppressing the humans who live there. But the human revolution is on the rise, and at its heart is Ayla. Once handmaiden, now fugitive, Ayla escaped the palace of Lady Crier, the girl Ayla had planned to kill . . . but instead fell in love with. Now Ayla has pledged her allegiance to Queen Junn, whom she believes can accomplish the ultimate goal of the human rebellion: destroy the Iron Heart. Without it, the Automae will be weakened to the point of extinction.

But playing at Ayla’s memory are the powerful feelings she developed for Crier. And unbeknownst to her, Crier has also fled the palace, taking up among traveling rebels, determined to find and protect Ayla.

As their paths collide, neither are prepared for the dark secret underlying the Iron Heart.

In this stunning sequel to acclaimed author Nina Varela’s Crier’s War, the love that launched a revolution must now pave the way for a whole new era . . . and the ultimate change of heart.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Title: Instant Karma

Author: Marissa Meyer

Release Date: November 3rd, 2020

Published By: Feiwel and Friends

Pages: 400 pages

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SYNOPSIS:

In this young adult contemporary romance, a girl is suddenly gifted with the ability to cast instant karma on those around her—both good and bad.

Chronic overachiever Prudence Daniels is always quick to cast judgment on the lazy, rude, and arrogant residents of her coastal town. Her dreams of karmic justice are fulfilled when, after a night out with her friends, she wakes up with the sudden ability to cast instant karma on those around her. Pru giddily makes use of the power, punishing everyone from public vandals to karaoke hecklers, but there is one person on whom her powers consistently backfire: Quint Erickson, her slacker of a lab partner and all-around mortal enemy. Soon, Pru begins to uncover truths about Quint, her peers, and even herself that reveal how thin the line is between virtue and vanity, generosity and greed . . . love and hate.

Stacking The Shelves 10/24/2020

Happy Saturday bookish lovelies! Stacking the Shelves is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Tynga’s Reviews and Reading Reality. Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual.  You can include books you buy in physical form, ARC’s,  books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts, and of course audio books and ebooks!

DIGITAL ARCS:

EDELWEISS:

I also downloaded The Nature Of Witches which does not have a cover yet

PHYSICAL BOOKS:

First Lines Fridays 10/23/2020

Hey bookish lovelies! Happy Friday! We are back again with another First Lines Friday!

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?

• Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
• Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
• Finally… reveal the book!

FIRST LINES:

Quint Erickson is late. Again. I shouldn’t be surprised. I’m not surprised. I’d be more surprised if he was actually on time for once. But really? Today? Of all days? I’m simmering in my seat, my fingers drumming against the presentation board that’s folded up on our lab table.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Title: Instant Karma

Author: Marissa Meyer

Release Date: November 3rd, 2020

Published By: Feiwel and Friends

Pages: 400 pages

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Synopsis:

In this young adult contemporary romance, a girl is suddenly gifted with the ability to cast instant karma on those around her—both good and bad.

Chronic overachiever Prudence Daniels is always quick to cast judgment on the lazy, rude, and arrogant residents of her coastal town. Her dreams of karmic justice are fulfilled when, after a night out with her friends, she wakes up with the sudden ability to cast instant karma on those around her. Pru giddily makes use of the power, punishing everyone from public vandals to karaoke hecklers, but there is one person on whom her powers consistently backfire: Quint Erickson, her slacker of a lab partner and all-around mortal enemy. Soon, Pru begins to uncover truths about Quint, her peers, and even herself that reveal how thin the line is between virtue and vanity, generosity and greed . . . love and hate.

The Hallotober Tag!

I wasn’t tagged for this but I saw it on One Book More’s blog and it looked really fun so I had to do it!  The Hallotober Tag was created by Jordanne from The Life Of A Glasgow Girl.

Hallotober Rules

1. Thank the person who tagged you and link to their post
2. Put the rules at the beginning or after introduction
3. Answer the 13 questions
4. Tag 13 people to do the tag
5. Delete Question 13, add a new number one question of your own
6. You are free to use the tag image somewhere in the post

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Questions:

1. What’s your favorite spooky book?

I don’t really read a lot of spooky books or a lot of horror, so i’m not sure I can even say if I have a favorite spooky book or not. I did love Goosebumps when I was younger and the Choose Your Own Adventure books, I must have read The Mystery Of Chimney Rock a hundred times.

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2. What’s your favorite thing about October?

I mean what’s not to love? The changing of the seasons, the fall colors, the weather, Halloween!

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3. Are you a big celebrator of Halloween?

I love Halloween, it’s my favorite holiday!

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4. What’s your favorite horror movie?

I wouldn’t say I have a favorite but there are some I enjoy and rewatch on occasion, Darkness Falls, Dead Silence, Young Frankenstein, House on Haunted Hill, House of Wax, Carrie, and others I am blanking on at the moment.

5. Would you rather a cozy night in watching horrors or a big night out in a costume?

Big night out in a costume

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6. Which has been your most favorite costume to date?

It’s hard to say I’ve had so many lol

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7. Bobbing for apples or pin the hat on the witch?

I assume pin the hat on the witch is the halloween version of pin the tail on the donkey but I’ve never heard of it before lol I’d pick Bobbing for apples though

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8. How do you celebrate Halloween?

Depends, I always seem to celebrate Halloween a different way every year lol

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9. What’s your least favorite horror?

Child’s Play freaked me out as a kid so bad

10. Do you have a favorite trick or treating memory?

My parents took me out for trick or treating in the great Halloween blizzard of ’91

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11. What’s your favorite thing about Halloween?

Candy (and the spooky atmosphere)

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12. Scary costume or silly costume?

Neither

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13. What’s your favorite Halloween candy?

Peanut butter cups. Fight me lol

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I Tag:

1. Blue Reader Gal
2. A Court Of Coffee And Books
3. Paws and Paperbacks
4. Alison In Bookland
5. Kristin Kraves Books
6. Howling Libraries
7. Basement Bookcase
8. Confessions Of A Ya Reader
9. The Book Dutchesses
10. The Reading Addict
11. Bookish Lauren
12. Sofi @ A Book A Thought
13. Shelf Life Chronicles

Questions:

1. Have you ever been to a haunted house, or would you ever go?
2. What’s your favorite spooky book?
3. What’s your favorite thing about October?
4.  Are you a big celebrator of Halloween?
5. What’s your favorite horror movie?
6. Would you rather a cozy night in watching horrors or a big night out in a costume?
7. Which has been your most favorite costume to date?
8. Bobbing for apples or pin the hat on the witch?
9. How do you celebrate Halloween?
10. What’s your least favorite horror?
11. Do you have a favorite trick or treating memory?
12. What’s your favorite thing about Halloween?
13. What is your one must do thing of the night on Halloween?

Can’t Wait Wednesday 10/21/2020

Hello bookish lovelies! Can’t Wait Wednesday is hosted by Wishful Endings and is based on Waiting on Wednesday that was previously hosted by Breaking the Spine.   It was created to show off a book that you are excited to read that hasn’t been released yet.

ABOUT THE BOOK: 

Title: House of Hollow

Author: Krystal Sutherland

Release Date: April 6th, 2021

Published By:G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers

Pages: 304 pages

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SYNOPSIS:

A dark, twisty modern fairytale where three sisters discover they are not exactly all that they seem and evil things really do go bump in the night.

Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. Ever since they disappeared on a suburban street in Scotland as children only to return a month a later with no memory of what happened to them, odd, eerie occurrences seem to follow in their wake. And they’re changing. First, their dark hair turned white. Then, their blue eyes slowly turned black. They have insatiable appetites yet never gain weight. People find them disturbingly intoxicating, unbearably beautiful, and inexplicably dangerous.

But now, ten years later, seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow is doing all she can to fit in and graduate high school on time—something her two famously glamourous globe-trotting older sisters, Grey and Vivi, never managed to do. But when Grey goes missing without a trace, leaving behind bizarre clues as to what might have happened, Iris and Vivi are left to trace her last few days. They aren’t the only ones looking for her though. As they brush against the supernatural they realize that the story they’ve been told about their past is unraveling and the world that returned them seemingly unharmed ten years ago, might just be calling them home.

WWW Wednesday 10/21/2020

Hello bookish lovelies! Happy August! WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. Each week, you’re supposed to let your readers know what you’re currently reading, what you recently finished, and what you think you’ll read next.

What are you currently reading?

Iron Heart by Nina Varela, it is the sequel to Crier’s War

What did you recently finish reading?

Nothing in the past week

What do you think you’ll read next?

I’m such a mood reader and with everything going on my focus has been shot