Girls At The Bookstore

  I read this book as a 12 recommendations from 12 friends challenge. It is a YA book set in a fictional land and sea called the Narrows. It is about a young woman named Fable. I followed Fable as she went on dangerous missions on the wild sea, filled with pirates, greedy merchants and rogue trader ships. Fable had a secret that she had to protect, but her vivid red hair and her face marked her as the daughter of Isolde the gem sage. It's only through quick thinking, gold and gems exchanging hands in the dark alleyways, that she is able to come up top.  I enjoyed these two books that I read the novellas and companion books. It is definitely worth a read if you want to embark on a seaworthy ship.  Tropes if you are interested: Survival Against all Odds Morally Grey Characters Brooding, Loyal Love Interest Absent/Strained Father-Daughter Dynamic High Stakes Uncovering Family Secrets Pawn to Player Found Family

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? a place to meet up and share what you have been, and are about to be reading over the week. It’s a great post to organize yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit and comment and er… add to your groaning TBR pile! This meme by  Kathryn at   The Book Date It has been a bit since I have been here, life is always kicking us lately, but we are attempting to kick right back. Recently my mom was put on hospice so she left her apartment and has moved in with us. Boy is it a change. She does not like having to live with us ( she is 90 ) and she isn't very pleasant because of it LOL. Anyway, we are managing, but it is something we are all having to get use to! Audio books have become my friend with all the things I am having to do, I am enjoying listening to them, BUT, I listen a lot at the end of the day, while laying in bed, and I have found myself having to rewind the entire book the next morning because I fell asleep!!!     WHAT I READ LAS...

GOODREADS SUMMARY: Maeve and Therese Dunigan are sisters—but the two have been estranged for years. They could not be more Maeve, a rule-follower and Therese, a rebel. But when their mother's death brings the family back together, the two find that they have inherited a painting—one that could be worth millions and could save each of them from their respective wolves at the door. The only issue is, the painting might be a fake and the only way the can solve the problem is to find the original. This means a road trip—to Ireland, to their family roots, and to a mysterious crime that occurred years ago. With tensions simmering, the two hit the road and find themselves on twisty lanes, in colorful villages, at local pubs, and with handsome men whose gift of the gab is surpassed only by their charm. Can Maeve and Therese find the real painting, remove a family curse, solve a cold case, and actually survive without killing each other?  TEE'S THOUGHTS Summer doesn't begin for me u...

GOOD READ SUMMARY: A feminist YA horror-thriller-romance retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray by the TikTok sensation and author of The Society for Soulless Girls… Penny Paxton is the daughter of an icon. Her supermodel mother has legions of adoring fans around the world, and Penny is ready to begin her journey to international adoration, starting with joining the elite Dorian Drama School. When Penny’s new mentor offers her an opportunity she cannot refuse, to have a portrait painted by a mysterious artist who can grant immortal beauty to all his subjects, Penny happily follows in the footsteps of Dorian’s most glittering alumni, knowing that stardom is sure to soon be hers. But when her trusted mentor is found murdered, Penny realises she’s made a terrible mistake – a sinister someone is using the uncanny portraits to kill off the subjects one by one. As more perfectly beautiful students start to fall, Penny knows her time is running out . . . A seductive and searing exploration o...

a   I told myself I would read slowly this month….. but apparently I thrive on emotional damage and questionable decisions. Here’s where I’ve landed: — TRIAL 1 BOOK: Immortal Consequences PROMPT: Academic Competiton , Betrayal Between Friends Too many POVs had me fighting for my life  but the afterlife academy?? the trials?? the climb to magic elite status?? I saw the vision and I respect it. TRIAL 2 BOOK: These Violent Delights PROMPT: A Book About Obessession, A Forbidden Romance My heart is shattered, my night was wrecked. The ending? It should have been illegal TRIAL 3 BOOK: A Lesson in Vengeance PROMPT: Set at a School, A Mysterious Death This one? This is the atmosphere I’m chasing. haunting, heavy, dripping in grief and guilt— academia wrapped in secrets and slow unraveling minds. obsessed with the characters, stayed for the tension, never recovered. TRIAL 4 BOOK: Half City PROMPT: Forbidden Romance, Morally Grey Scholar Grief-stricken demon hunter FMC sent to ...

Can you believe it is May? In one more month we will be half way through 2026, and I swear it just got started! I hope your reading has been great so far? I have read so many great books, and a few bad ones, and boy do I have a long list of books that I am wanting for the month of May..so lets get to it.... RELEASING MAY 5TH FURY BOUND BY SABLE SORENSON I know I am not the only one that is counting the days until Fury Bound hits the book store shelves. The second book in the Wolves of Ruin series, the ever popular Dire Wolf being the first, includes Found Family, Fated Mates, Morally Grey Characters ( My favorite kind ) and a Forbidden Romance. I don't know about you, but by the sound of it, this has everything and more that I want in a book. OUR PERFECT STORM BY CARLEY FORTUNE Carley Fortune became an auto buy author for me the moment I  closed the cover on her debit book Every Summer After. I look forward to her yearly book being my favorite summer read, and so far she has not fa...