Enjoyable posts of the past week from others
What if it was haunted?/ Kristina @ Books and Dachshunds
WHAT DO BOOK BLOGGERS ACTUALLY DO?/ Briana @ Pages Unbound
Tabbing and Annotating in books/ Bionic Book Worm
WHAT IS YOUR BOOKWORM UTOPIA LIKE?/ Lashaan @ Bookidote
Posts of the past week ICYMT
Music Monday: 10/29: Melodies of Life
Review: Burn Up: Secrets of Mylin by Joe Klingler
WWW Wednesday: October 31st, 2018
Tour: Broken Arrow by Azaria MJ Durant
I Love Characters: One of a Kind Rarity
Books read, reviewed, and posted/scheduled the past week
Nemesis by Kat Ross, 5*
The Prophetic Mayan Queen: K’inuuw Mat of Palenque by Leonide Martin, 4*
Favourite Read(s) of the Past Week
Current Read
Next Up (maybe)
Building a Trade Empire by Paul E Horsman
High Merchant by Paul E Horsman
Fascinating New Yorkers by Clifford Browder
Hiding by Jenny Morton Potts
Everything Under the Sun by Jessica Redmerski
Reckoning of Fallen Gods by RA Salvatore
Timeless by RA Salvatore
The Poppy War by RF Kuang
The Sky Throne/ The High Court by Chris Ledbetter
Colour of Lies by CJ Lyons
War of Storms by Erica Cameron
Fountain Dead by Teresa Braun
Devil’s Fingers by Hunter Shea
Book Haul
High school senior Ella Cleary has always been good at reading people. Her family has a rare medical condition called synesthesia that scrambles the senses—her Gram Helen sees every sound, and her uncle Joe can literally taste words. Ella’s own synesthesia manifests itself as the ability to see colors that reveal people’s true emotions…until she meets a guy she just can’t read.
Alec is a mystery to Ella, a handsome, enigmatic young journalist who makes her feel normal for the first time in her life. That is, until he reveals the real reason why he sought her out—he wants to learn the truth behind her parents’ deaths, the parents that Ella had always been told died in a fire. Alec turns Ella’s world upside down when he tells her their deaths were definitely not an accident.
After learning her entire life has been a lie, Ella doesn’t know who she can trust or even who she really is. With her adoptive family keeping secrets and the evidence mixing fact and fiction, the only way for Ella to learn the truth about her past is to find a killer.
‘For me it all goes back to that night, the dark corroded hinge between before and after, the slipped-in sheet of trick glass that tints everything on one side in its own murky colours and leaves everything on the other luminous and untouchable.’
One night changes everything for Toby. He’s always led a charmed life – until a brutal attack leaves him damaged and traumatised, unsure even of the person he used to be. He seeks refuge at his family’s ancestral home, the Ivy House, filled with memories of wild-strawberry summers and teenage parties with his cousins.
But not long after Toby’s arrival, a discovery is made: a skull, tucked neatly inside the old wych elm in the garden.
As detectives begin to close in, Toby is forced to examine everything he thought he knew about his family, his past, and himself.
A spellbinding standalone from a literary writer who turns the crime genre inside out, The Wych Elm asks what we become, and what we’re capable of, if we no longer know who we are.
Thelia isn’t in line to inherit the crown, but she’s been raised to take power however she can. She’s been friends with Princess Corene her whole life, and she’s scheming to marry Bayled, the heir to the throne. But her plans must change when an army of elves invades the kingdom. Thelia, her cousin Parsival, and Corene become trapped in the castle. An elf warrior, Sapphire, may be Thelia’s only hope of escape, but Sapphire has plans of their own. Meanwhile, an ancient magic is awakening within the castle, with the power to destroy the whole kingdom. Can Thelia find a way to protect her future—and her life?
