Finished this book over the weekend for #20in4.

This was a fun mystery. 4 assassins are retiring and go on a cruise, but someone is out to kill them! So they work together to figure out who. They travel to a lot of places and it‘s a lot of fun. It also flashes back to 1979 with them learning to become assassins and a few of their first missions.

I really love Deanna Raybourn.

I absolutely loved this book! I love the setting, the world, the storytelling, all the characters. A great follow up to A River Enchanted. I need to check out other books by this author.

I did finish this during #20in4 just super behind on my reviews!

Here is my April #bookspin list.

I‘m doing #thingsincommon, so a bunch of my books will be for that!

Since it doesn‘t seem like we‘ll be getting any snow, we brought our deck furniture back out for the Spring. It‘s 54°F (though a bit windy).

Great day for sitting outside and reading.

#currentlyreading I‘m almost halfway through this book and loving it.

Idk why they decided to put the sticker right over the title 🤦‍♀️.

I really enjoyed this romance. I basically read it in a day. Though Grant was super mean and judgmental because she was a courtesan. Called her a whore a few times.

Vivien loses her memory and Grant is a Bow Street Runner investigating the crime. She stays at his house while she recovers. Lots of sexy time. I did guess one of the mysteries and was suspicious of the 2nd.

I finished this one early last week. It was recommended to me by #getTBR (which I‘ve since put on hold).

It‘s a cozy, witchy mystery. It‘s been a while since I‘ve read a cozy so that probably effects my rating. This one was okay, but I probably won‘t continue with any more of the series.

Help me decide which book to read!!

I‘m in a weird mood and my current read isn‘t working for me. So grabbed a bunch of mysteries to dive into!

Books I‘m hoping to read this weekend. #20in4

Tagged is on audio, as Killers of a Certain Age. So I‘ll be trying to find things to do so I can listen.

I brought this on vacation with me at the beginning of March, but my husband stole it to read on the plane. So I didn‘t get to it until this week. It‘s been a while since I‘ve read a Christie book in print and not the audio!

Poirot is on vacation and there is a murder! So Poirot takes a break from his holiday to investigate. A good mystery that I didn‘t see coming!

This one was a bit weird. Veronica and Stoker were on the outs, so they didn‘t spend a ton of time together solving crimes. They actually weren‘t very friendly to each other most of the book. I‘m hoping the next book they actually work together to solve a crime!

Other than that, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. And we got to spend more time with Stoker‘s brothers.

I love this series.

#SeriesLove2023

So I don‘t know if it‘s me or this book, but I didn‘t love it. I don‘t want to say too much since it‘s my pick for #LMPBC. I hope everyone else likes it a lot more than I did. I don‘t want to influence anyone else‘s opinion.

I hope to mail this out this week (along with the Golden Enclaves)!

Thanks so much Chrissy for letting me borrow this book! It always takes me so long to read the final book in the series, because I never want it to end.

This one is a lot different than the other 2 books because they aren‘t in school anymore. It was an interesting premise and I enjoyed seeing El getting in touch with her fellow students.

This was definitely an interesting series and I enjoyed it.

#SeriesLove2023

OH EM G! I absolutely loved this book! I couldn‘t put this down and completely absorbed it all. I love Aaron and his character. Just everything about this book worked for me.

This will probably be my top read for the month! Jane Harper is one of my favorite authors (though I have yet to read The Lost Man).

#SeriesLove2023 - 3rd book in the Aaron Falk series.

Book 8 in the Lane Winslow series. #SeriesLove2023

These books just keep getting better. This one Lane discovers a teacher injured and brings her to the hospital. She then subs in as the teacher, so this mystery was a bit different. Her and Darling have another mystery to solve together. And Ames is solving another mystery too. I love these characters.

Finished this yesterday. It was interesting and different. You‘ll want to fly through it but you‘ll need to take a moment to get through the dialogue. It‘s very thick and Scottish. (There is a glossary in the back, which I didn‘t notice until too late, so FYI!) It‘s my pick for #LMPBC #groupH, so I won‘t say anything else.

Hope to mail it out this week Robin, but we‘ll see!

Picked up my preorders from my indie bookstore today. I was surprised to see the Samantha Shannon was autographed! And can‘t wait for the next Veronica Speedwell adventure!

So many books and so little time!

#newbooks #bookhaul

Thanks for the tag @Eggs !

1. Tagged (started last night), The Golden Enclaves, Magic Slays

2. Jane Harper, Lisa Jewell, Ruth Ware, Sarah MacLean, Shannon Chakraborty, Agatha Christie and so many more!

3. The Other Einstein, Lady Clementine

#weekendreads

I held off on picking my books because I was on vacation the first week of March. So I just got my books today! I cannot wait to read all of these books! I want to read them all at once! 😬🤪

#BOTM

I finished book 3 in this series in March. I didn‘t want to bring a hardcover with less than 100 pages left with me on the plane (especially a library book), so I read the last third on audio. I did not enjoy this book on audio (didn‘t like the narrator), but powered through. Because I was already enjoying the book, it didn‘t effect my feelings. I think is the last book with Nevada as the main character, so I‘ll miss her.

#serieslove2023

Finished this book in February. I‘m flying through this series. Per Storygraph, Ilona Andrew‘s is my most read author this year.

This is book 2 in the hidden legacy series. You get more Nevada and Rogan, solving another mystery and working together.

I really enjoy these 2 characters and this series.

This was a low pick for me. Audio probably wasn‘t the best format to read this one in. Way too many characters and names for me to keep track of and remember. Overall, I liked this family saga and family drama.

I read this in February, so my memory is already vague. #BOTM

I‘ve been a bit MIA. I‘ve been down in Knoxville & Nashville. When in Knoxville, we visited McKay‘s used bookstore and I bought 3 books.

Even though I brought 2 books with me and my kindle, I started reading Mort (which apparently I have on kindle ?‍♀️).

Had a great trip, backed up on reviews and am home now. It was nice and warm and came back to 30°F.

Here are my March #bookspin and #doublespin picks. Bookspin is just a generic ebook, so we‘ll see what I end up reading! And the other is one of @DebinHawaii ‘s #ALSpine reads!

Okay, here is my March #bookspin list. Trying to be a little flexible with books since I‘ve been all over the place this year.

I wasn‘t really blown away by any of my February reads. I picked the tagged book as my favorite of the month because I basically read it almost all in 1 day.

But so far nothing is going to beat Legends & Lattes. Here‘s to hoping March is a better reading month.

Picked up the tagged book from the library today and the bottom 2 we‘re waiting for me at the bookstore. I just did a quick browse by the tables and the cover and the name “Murder Your Employer”, caught my eye. And I had a $10 coupon, so I got it for $19 instead of $29!

A nice bookish treat after having to watch 2 dogs all week (1 mine and he had surgery so he‘s currently in recovery mode).

#bookhaul #newbooks

Finished this book the other day. I‘ve had it on my TBR for a while, so glad that I finally read it. And a great first book in a series. The mystery was interesting and a bit different than all the other historical mystery series. Emily‘s a widow and didn‘t really know her husband before he died. She immediately has 2 love interests, gets new hobbies and solves mysteries.

#serieslove2023

Sorry #LMPBC there is no way I can read 370 pages of this book, in this world. I only read 40 and I‘m already skimming. It‘s so overly dramatic and I just know I‘m not going to enjoy it.

I skipped to the back and see that no one else really enjoyed it, so I don‘t feel bad.

Here are my March #Roll100 picks! I think I‘m most looking forward to the tagged book, but we‘ll see what I actually end up reading in March. 🤪

Okay, here are a bunch of choices for #LMPBC Round 17 #GroupH

The top 2 rows are books I already own. The bottom 4, I would have to buy but no big deal. They‘re all on my TBR regardless!

Finished my first book for #backlistreadathon - I‘m really liking Ilona Andrew‘s books. This is the first book in the hidden legacy series. I really liked the 2 main characters and there are 2 more books with them, so I can‘t wait to read them. Nevada is a private investigator and she gets a job she literally cannot say no to. She teams up with Rohan to help save the city.

I was avoiding this book, but I‘m not sure why. Because I saw it floating around, but didn‘t want to pick it up. So this month, I decided to pick it up. It was just lovely. I‘m not a fan of fanfic. I might have tried reading it way back in the day. And this book jumped around a lot, so probably not the best to listen to the audio version. This was definitely about the last season of GoT and the writers, etc.

Here‘s a bunch of choices for #LMPBC Round 17 #groupf

I‘ll tag the books in the comments. Let me know what you want to read! I know it‘s a lot to go through, but I couldn‘t decide on just 4 to choose from!

This is the 3rd book in the series. Ending out the trilogy. Its been a couple years since I read the other 2 books, but I remembered all the characters, so I could really get into this one.

Noc and Leena journey to the last 2 ruins to visit the gods. And then they get ready to go to war. A great ending to their story.

And I found out there is a new spinoff book coming out this year. So can‘t wait to read that one.

#fabulousfebruary

Finished this one on Thursday. This was an interesting story. It mentions fairytales and what usually happens in the tales. Marra lives at a nunnery and is very naive. She learns her sister, married to a prince is being abused. So she sets out to save her. She rounds up a group of people and a bone dog and they journey across to try and kill the king.

#podcastinspired #fabulousfebruary

Fantasy group #groupF! Come join me!

I was thinking about skipping this round, but knew I would regret it.

It‘s 60°F today! A heat wave! But because it‘s winter and we still expect snow, all our patio furniture is put away. So sitting on the deck for a bit to enjoy the sun. ☀️

I‘m hopping on the #backlistreadathon for February!

I think I‘m going to try and get through some of Ilona Andrew‘s backlist with this series. Maybe another Kate Daniel‘s book.

But we‘ll see if I‘m actually in the mood next week to read these. 🙃🙃

I have jury duty tomorrow. A physical book and a loaded up kindle should be good right?

I‘ve never have jury duty before so I‘m not sure what to expect. I‘m honestly not even sure if I‘ve been to a courthouse before.

So just trying to be prepared for anything!

I‘m not sure if I like these books. They‘re super short and basically each an episode of GBBO and someone seems to get murdered every weekend. It was under 200 pages, so I think I can use it for a couple of prompts. This one was also a bit more witchy I think.

#fabulousfebruary #trappedonanisland #doublespin

This one is a low pick for me. It was a SLOW BURN! Nothing happened, not even a kiss until 75% in. Like it made sense for the story and their journey, but damn. I just kept waiting.. it‘s kind of an enemy to lovers romance, but only she thinks they‘re enemies. It‘s also a super long book for really no reason. And some things were very repetitive. But I read it in a day, so 🤷🏻‍♀️

#loveathon #fabulousfebruary

I have a ton of holds out from the library so I had to finish this one early.

It took me a bit to believe their relationship and I don‘t think I actually agree. And I didn‘t realize she was only 20. They both have such an awful past (a lot darker than I usually like to read). But it‘s a romance so it ends happily ever after. And I‘ve never read a boxing romance before, so that was interesting.

#LittensLoveRomance #FabulousFebruary #Loveathon

Low pick for me. Neil Gaiman books are always a hit or a miss for me. This one was a bit of a miss. It was entertaining in some parts, but I may have skimmed a bunch.

Goodreads stated this was American Gods book 2, which I didn‘t realize, but I don‘t remember anything about American Gods, so it definitely is a stand-alone.

Went in the mail today, priority, so should be there by the end of the week. #LMPBC

#FabulousFebruary - book 1 finished

This is a very low key series for me. A cozy mystery set in the 1920s. This one a necklace is stolen and someone is murdered in the room during a dance. Eleanor teams up with her butler to help solve the crime. Low stakes, fun read and they‘re free on KU.

Eh, didn‘t really care for this book. And probably won‘t continue with this series. It had an interesting premise, but it didn‘t really work out for me. I‘ll stick with other Ilona Andrews books.

Finished this one January as well.

Apparently I‘m super behind on posting reviews! I finished this one at the end of January. This is a vampire fantasy romance. It was a quick, fun read. I‘m waiting for second one from the library.

Late to post, but here are my goals for the #fabulousfebruary readathon

I need to finish the tagged book, but think I‘ll finish it today. And then read some other books.

Here are the picks for February #BookSpin

The tagged and a trapped on an island book, but I‘m not sure which one I‘m going to read yet.

@PuddleJumper !! Here are the books I picked for you for February!

I‘ve read 4 out of 5 and loved them all and hope you also love them! I tried to pick a mix of romance and fantasy.

#trappedonanisland

I had 3 5⭐️ reads in January! That is unheard of! A big thanks to #ALSpine for putting the books on my radar.

Overall, I think this one was my favorite because I‘ve been in a huge fantasy mood.

Love this bracket! Thanks for creating it @chasjjlee !