Casee
I just finished up Archangel’s Light by Nalini Singh. Bluebell & Sparkle are everything. I adore those two & loved the beginning of their story. I just received an eARC for Give Me a Reason by A.L. Jackson that I’m really looking forward to. It’s the first book in a new series. I love me some A.L. Jackson.
Holly
I didn’t have a lot of reading time again this week, which bums me out because I wanted to read. I finished Revealed in Fire by K.F. Breene, then read Mentored in Fire. I didn’t realize the third book, Battle with Fire, wasn’t out until September. I hate waiting. I can’t wait to see how the series ends.
I started a new-to-me series, The Ghost Mountain Wolf Shifters by Audrey Faye. I read the first three books, Alpha, Heart and Rebel. It’s a very sweet series that follows a shifter pack as they recover from years under an abusive alpha. I’m looking forward to continuing the series.
I set aside the audio of Dark Shores by Danielle L. Jensen. I’m interested in the story, but there was a lot going on and I wasn’t able to give it the attention I needed to. I’ll go back to it when I can focus on it fully, or I’ll just read it. I’m currently reading The Devil You Know by Kit Rocha.
This week I read two books that went on my favorites of 2021 list: ROLE MODEL by Rachel Reid (m/m pairing between deeply-closeted professional hockey player and out-and-proud social media manager for the player’s new team); and JUST NOT THAT INTO BILLIONAIRES by Annika Martin (dancer tracks down the man she married in a drunken haze in Vegas ten years ago, discovers he’s now a tech billionaire and needs a wife to make social appearances with him). Both were wonderful.
Over the past week ~
— finished the fifth and final book in the fantasy series I’ve been reading ~ Cloaked: The Taellaneth – Book 5 by Vanessa Nelson. I don’t know if this is a series I’ll reread, but I definitely enjoyed it.
— Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik which is the second book in the Temeraire series. This fantasy series features dragons in the Napoleonic era and is best read in order. I enjoyed the book.
— Bonds of Brass: Book One of The Bloodright Trilogy by Emily Skrutskie. This was an enjoyable science fiction story with a surprising twist near the end.
Holly, I picked up Alpha after reading this post and as soon as I got into it, I realized it was the same author who used to write under the name Debora Geary. I loved all of her Witch central books. She pulled the earlier books from Amazon awhile back and I’m not sure if she’s ever going to re-publish them. I know she went through some major life changes at that time. Glad to see she’s still writing and I’m loving the new series. Her books are almost too saccharine sweet, but sometimes that’s exactly what I’m in the mood for.
Oh, that’s interesting. I have a couple Debora Geary books in my TBR, but I didn’t realize it was the same author. Those books really hit the spot for me when I read them, but I could only do three in a row before I needed a break. I’ll finish the series later.