Casee: This has been a crap reading month for me all around. I’m reading my fourth book of the month. My fourth. I just started Deadly Silence by Rebecca Zanetti and so far so good. It’s been crazy busy with soccer and homecoming and all those other teenage things. I have high hopes for October. I hope all of you are having a better reading month than I am.
Holly: I’m still in the funk to end all funks. I managed to reread Golden Trail by Kristen Ashley and got about halfway through Fate’s Edge by Ilona Andrews. That’s it for me this week. I started about 6 other books, but nothing really grabbed me.
Rowena: It’s been a really slow reading week for me. I was going to start Results May Vary by Bethany Chase but my weekend got away from me and then The Goal by Elle Kennedy came out on Monday and I started that book but it’s Friday, 4 days since I got The Goal and I still haven’t finished it. I don’t know if I’m not in the mood for that book or in reading in general. Send help!
What are you reading this week? Any new favorites or books that drove you crazy? Share!
Sending you all good reading vibes!
— A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler. I read this for my sister’s book group which will be meeting in a couple of weeks the night before I fly home (I’m currently being a companion to my mother). I am not unhappy to have read this; however, I would not have finished it were it not for a book group. It’s the kind of book that left me with more questions than answers.
— I also read Defying the Odds by Kele Moon which is a contemporary romance. I enjoyed it, but it didn’t quite meet my expectations given the praise I’d heard.
— Cunning Linguist by Rachel Shane is a new adult romance; it was okay but not a book I’m likely to re-read.
— Sleeping with the Wolf by Maddy Barone deals with a plane that crashes fifty years into the future in a world that has been devastated and in which women are few. The heroine is fought for and won by a wolf shifter. Once again, it was pleasant but not a book I’m likely to re-read.
— I re-read, with pleasure, some of the stories from Patricia Briggs’ Shifting Shadows collection.
— Currently re-reading Mariana Zapata’s The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
For those who might like a free book: I read a review on the Dear Author site of the historical romance April and May by Beth Elliott which is currently available free to Kindle readers.
And a currently free Kindle young adult novel that has some enthusiastic reviews ~ The Secret Billionaire by Teymour Shahabi
Poison Princess by Kresley Cole
oh I am so sorry to hear about you not enjoying The Goal so far!! Weird, because Elle Kennedy is one of those authors I can normally get into pretty easily. I would suggest taking a break and read something else and then return back to it. That can help me especially when its a author I know and love.
Yay for Rebecca Zanetti….isn’t she fabulous. I love her vampire series, I still need to catch up on her other books.
I just started The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah Maclean and so far I’m enjoying it. Other books I’ve read this week:
Nuts by Alice Clayton which I thought was sweet.
Roman Crazy by Alice Clayton and Nina Bocci- I had mixed feelings on this one but enjoyed overall
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie- I read this for banned books week and really loved it.
Sleepless in Manhattan by Sarah Morgan- I love the best friend of the older brother trope and it was really well done here.
If I Only Had a Duke by Lenora Bell- I just couldn’t connect to the characters in this one and the story didn’t quite work for me.