pickHector, a famed performer of telekinesis, has moved to the city where his former fiance lives with her wealthy husband. Ten years ago, Valerie promised to wait when Hector left to seek his fortune, only to tersely break their engagement and his heart. Now Hector has found a way to insinuate himself back into her presence, by courting Nina, an unconventional young woman. By the end of this, I was on the edge of my seat and fully invested. Loved it!
pickLoved the Jane Austen vibes in this one. I would‘ve been happy with more of the magical realism and I guess I expected it to get darker at some point with Valérie's weird kind of rage but I realize that SMG mixes up her tone book to book, which does keep things intriguing. Excited to read another of her books soon. Also, the cover!
so-soThe reader is privy to things the characters aren‘t so most of this book I spent willing the characters to do or see things differently. I liked Antonia but Pere annoyed me for the most part and Valerie was awful! The setting and the magical realism part of it I liked but overall not for me.
pick5/5 🌟
This book is beautiful, inside and out. I thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish. The writing is amazing.
bailedI thought this one was going to work for me 😞. But I don‘t want to read about a 30ish year old guy who takes advantage of a 19 yr old‘s affection in order to spend time with her cousin, who he‘s infatuated with.
The writing is good, the setting is beautiful, there‘s magic… at another time I might have kept reading.
I might be in a bit of a slump- I‘ve bailed on 4 books so far this month! Just going to move on though.
#AuthorAMonth
I love this kind of afternoon.
I spent the day organizing, tidying, cleaning, and doing some of the last bit of unpacking, and I got some good listening in with The Beautiful Ones. I'm enjoying it! #AuthorAMonth In the evening I cherished curling up with Anna Karenina, for my third read of it. 😊 #Tomevember #BookSpinBingo #DoubleSpin
#WeeklyForecast of books I hope to make progress on this week. 3 Kindle, 5 Print, and 1 Audio. A few for #NonfictionNovember and a few for #Tomevember. I'll listen to the tagged one for #AuthorAMonth while working around the apartment today! 🧹 #BookSpinBingo
November's planned reading for #bookspinbingo
Getting to the end of the year now and have quite a few challenges to complete. So this board is mostly made up of #Naturalitsy #SheSaid #Pemberlittens #Autumnbingo and #Booked2022
I think I'll need to do a seperate board for #Authoramonth with Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Who knew such a young author could be such a prolific writer? 😲
@TheAromaofBooks
Nina is telekinetic and everyone tells her to hide it. Until she meets Hector who is a telekinetic performer and helps her control her powers. While Nina is falling for Hector, he‘s feeling things for her too, but she isn‘t the reason (or person) he came to town for. Messy messy messy. Slowwww start but really liked it once it picked up about 100 pages in.
pickI think SMG is such a talented author and excellent storyteller, and I love that her novels are all very different but all include a magical element. I liked this one less than Mexican Gothic but more than Gods and Jade and Shadow. But all three are worthy reads.
#July was tough to pick a favorite book in, that wasn‘t included in my #Top21 list. Apparently July was a great reading month.
Decided to go with this one because you never know what you‘re going to get with Silvia Moreno-Garcia
#7thbookof2021 #12booksof2021
pickBefore this, the only book I'd read by Silvia Moreno-Garcia was Mexican Gothic and they were very, very different stories. It seems the author enjoys trying out different genres, which is kind of cool.
This felt like sort of a Jane Austen-ish period drama with magic, and it was a lot of fun!
@TheAromaofBooks this is my November #bookspin
What an excellent way to start Thanksgiving break! Meeting @LittleMouse5708 for coffee, but I got here a little early to sneak in some reading time...
pickI never have any idea what to expect from this author. But she tells good stories and keeps me engaged so that's a win. This is fantasy and a bit of romance. It was good. I can't decide if I like this cover.
#BookSpinBingo square 20
@TheAromaofBooks
pickOne thing I like about Silvia Moreno-Garcia is that she writes in different genres and her characters are interesting and not conventionally beautiful. This book is fantasy, romance, drama, and I get such a Victorian vibe from it. It‘s about unrequited love, lust, magic, social class conventions..I could go on and on. Plus, I actually liked the ending on this one.
pickThis cover ❤️. I set this aside to get some other reading done for some book clubs and I finished this last night and LOVED it. I think it‘s pretty amazing Silvia writes such different genres of books, so far I‘ve liked her writing style no matter the genre. 5 ⭐️
so-soI finally read this (she writes so fast I had two books by her on my eARC backlog! I made myself read this one before Velvet Was the Night).
It's like... alt history or just nameless vague regency plus a little bit of telekinetic magic. ...
#BookReport - Finished 5 books this week, 2 were audio. All were very good! I‘ve officially finished all of the books recommended to me by BookRiot this quarter.
Finished a book last night and couldn‘t check any audiobooks out, so I‘m not currently reading anything.
#WeeklyForecast - Will start Pretty Things on audio this week. Not sure which book I‘ll pick up, but it‘ll probably be one of these. Or not 🤷🏻♀️
Starting the tagged book today! I loved Mexican Gothic so I have high hopes for this one! 💕📚 I wanted to finish reading a different book first, but once I set it down I discovered that Chaplin had other ideas! 😹 #catsoflitsy #littenkitten #chaplin
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I wasn‘t sure what to expect when I picked this up. Her books are all so different from each other. This one is a historical fiction, with romance, heartbreak and magical realism.
It was a bit slow and not a lot happened but about 100 pages in, I was hooked and was dedicated to the characters. I needed to see what happened.
A book I‘d definitely recommend but note, IT IS NOTHING LIKE MEXICAN GOTHIC!
I had no intention of getting any books for myself, but you all know how that goes...
pickI loved this story! Nina is such a great character with a lot of spunk and intelligence. Hector is a swoony character, I felt like I learned more about him in part II. Valerie is so vile and wicked, she is the perfect villianess throughpit the story. Also, I enjoyed the style of writing Moreno-Garcia used, it made the story feel like a play and a literary classic.
Here are my options for #LMPBC Round 12 - #GroupD
The top 3 I already own. The others I have no problem purchasing if we pick one of those (probably used).
I‘ll tag the rest below in the comments. Let me know what you all prefer!
pickI received this book from NetGalley. I requested it because I love how the author writes. I like how she doesn‘t write for one genre. This one is a magic realism/romance. One allusionist meets another, and there is a love triangle and jealousy involved.
The first blanket I ever made and a good book. The perfect Saturday night!
Heard there was a new cover for Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Beautiful Ones (surfed the web for months to see the cover reveal for it), ran to my nearest bookstore and bought a copy. I am in LOVE with this cover!! So excited for Silvia Moreno-Garcia's books resurfacing and being reprinted. It has star-crossed lovers, social class issues, telekenetics all wrapped in a lush world filled with beauty and mysteries #bookworm #2021 #bookcovers
pickI recommend The Beautiful Ones to romance fans of all ages that enjoy historical novels with elements of magic, fantasy and whimsy.
4 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickI just? Everything about this was perfect?
This story is the perfect combination of Pride and Prejudice-esque angst, magic, and high society drama. The first part was a bit slow, but the slow burn was worth it. I will read literally anything Silvia Moreno-Garcia writes, and I'm pretty sure it'll be perfect every single time.
I say perfect a lot in this review but I have no other words.
*ARC provided by Netgalley for review*
I woke up to the sound of rain, so I hurried down to my reading nook faster than usual so I could read and drink a cup of tea while listening to the rain 🥰
pickThe Illusionist meets Jane Austen. Described as a novel of manners, but equally a novel of errors. A performer returns to see his first love, now married, only to court her cousin by marriage instead to stay close to her. I loved the blending of fictional historical setting with speculative elements (telekinetic abilities), the extremely imperfect characters, the lush world building, and the voice. Nothing like Mexican Gothic, but so so good.
Enjoying some bathtime reading with a bathbomb from @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm 🤗
"Hector was like a castaway who had washed up on a room of velvet curtains and marble floors."
#FirdtLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
Baby had to get three staples so now we're resting
Reading at the vet. Not how I expected to be spending the afternoon, but the pup has a hurt foot so I'm trying to pass the time (and the tension headache).
Hugs to everyone. This week has felt like a year.
Lunch break with a new Silvia Moreno-Garcia book I'm already obsessed with
April TBR! I've already started several of these, including the tagged book which is great so far. I'm participating in the #magicalreadathon2020 this month, which I found out about via instagram--it's a month-long readathon with different prompts that equal Hogwarts courses, and then you pick a magical career based on what courses you tale (so cute!)
pickAntonia Beaulieu is attending her first Grand Season in the city of Losail where she meets a magnetic man named, Hecto Aurvey. They share the same talent, telekinesis.
This story reminded me a lot of Austen‘s work. It‘s in the same time period as those books but is slightly different. I really enjoyed this slow paced novel that had me unable to put the book down. The characters are so well written and formed that I felt I knew them.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickI definitely thought this was going to be more fantasy based but I was so pleasantly surprised with this book. It had a Cruel Intentions feel and rich, vibrant characters. I got quite caught up in all the drama and the romance. The ending was extremely satisfying and I definitely will be rereading this in the future.
bailedI sure have been bailing on a lot of books lately! But this one was only a random pick from my library so I had something to read on my break.
This is the 2nd book by this author I've tried and I had the same experience twice: the book sounds really cool but it just doesn't grab me. The other one I tried on audio and I thought it was the narrator I didn't like but I think now it's just this author's style or voice that doesn't do it for me.
I forgot to bring one of the many books I am already reading to work today. For a second there, I was worried about what I was going to read on my lunch break. Then I remembered I work in a library. Haha. 😁
Literally just checked my library holds status, went "oh good, my highest place on any of them is 2nd, I should have a week or two to focus on currently reading/owned tbr", and then got email notifying me my hold has been auto-checked out to me. #jinxedit
Looking forward to this one though (fantasy of manners! gorgeous cover!) so how can I mind.
pickI was astounded by the writing, though I had been expecting something different from the blurb. I was assuming I would be reading a paranormal romance, but instead I was greeted with something that felt like a historical romance set in a different yet familiar world. This story is also very character-driven, which was a pleasant change from my usual readings.
Full review on my blog: http://blog.makaylasophia.com/post/168081024673/thebeautifulones
pickAntonina Beaulieu is having trouble attracting a suitable offer of marriage so she is sent to stay with her cousin and his wife, a leading socialite, in the city in the hope she will find a husband. There she meets Hector Auvray, a renowned telekinetic performer, & falls in love. But you know it isn‘t that simple, that‘s just where the story really gets going. Moreno-Garcia‘s writing is exquisite & I really enjoyed this book.
Ok, we interrupt today‘s current read to dive into an ARC that arrived in today‘s mail. I really enjoyed Moreno-Garcia‘s previous book, ‘Certain Dark Things‘ and have been looking forward to this one for some time. Thanks to St. Martin‘s Press for sending the book.
pickThis is really quite different from Signal to Noise, and I liked it a lot more. I did find the misunderstandings painful, and I wish Valerie wasn't such a demon, but it worked out the way I hoped and I was hooked enough to read it in two sittings. (Received to review.)
Started reading this recently. It's beautifully written!
#amreading #thebeautifulones #fantasy #historicalfiction
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