The Entirety of the Inheritance Games trilogy:
Inheritance Games, Hawthorne Legacy and The Final Gambit
One of my all time favorites now, also:
House of Sky and Breath
Fate of the Fallen and Destiny of the Dead, Kel Kade
Blade Breaker
Recursion, Blake Crouch
Blade of Secrets.
#littenswanttoknow
#manicmonday #letterF @CBee
📖: Fate of the Fallen, Kel Kade
The Final Gambit, Jennifer Lynn Barnes
✍️: Fiona Davis (the only author I have that starts with an F on either name, but the Magnolia Palace was excellent.)
📺: Friends, Firefly
🎤: Flyleaf
🎶: Faster ~ Within Temptation
Freak Like Me ~ Halestorm
2022 YALLfest author line up announced. Shelby Mahurin and Victoria Aveyard are my top two to meet and get signed.
Finnnnnally! Are we getting the list of attending authors??? I hope so. They started the 2022 author page...but it's been empty...Sooo..
I Will Be There!!!
9 Weeks to YALLfest!
Here we go! My personal Most Anticipated Book of the entire year of 2022 begins. As Gordon Ramsay is fond of saying, in paraphrase: “My (Your) time starts…now!”
#manicmonday #LetterD @CBee
📖: Dark Age, Red Rising #5, Pierce Brown
✍️: Davis, Fiona. (Magnolia Palace is very good.)
🎥/📺: Deep Impact, Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, Deadpool
🎤: Delain, Disturbed
🎶: Drengr of Ragnarok, Peyton Parrish. (Top favorite song)
#littenswanttoknow @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
The ReaperOf portion of my name comes from Red Rising. Main character Darrow becomes known as the Reaper of Mars, and is one of my favorite series.
Terrasen is Terrasen from the Throne of Glass series, also one of my favorite series and ToG is my very first YA fantasy book.
#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
1: Master of Iron and These Hollow Vows last Saturday
2: Impossible to say. I read Blade Breaker, Forging Silver Into Stars and Recursion this month and they're all awesome... And tied.
3: NYC is my favorite place in the country and I want to live there.
Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and Seattle/San Juan Island.
#manicmonday #LetterC @CBee
📖: Crooked Kingdom; Court series.
✍️: Cinda Williams Chima, Clive Cussler
🎥: Columbiana, Chef
🎤:Crashing Atlas, Collective Soul
🎵: Crystalline ~ Amaranthe
#AlphabetGame #LetterV @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
This was my personal Book of the Year last year. Excellent.
#AlphabetGame #LetterT @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
This book is fantastic, I'm really hoping there will be a second one.
Runners Up:
Throne of Glass (My first ever YA fantasy book)
The Toll (Scythe 3)
These Hollow Vows
#AlphabetGame #LetterS @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
It took some thinking, but this one edged to the top.
Runners Up: Six of Crows, Sword of Summer (first book bought 10/15/15), Scythe, Shadow and Bone, Serpent & Dove...so many others ...
I changed the tagged book more than a few times, tough one. Lol
#AlphabetGame #LetterR @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Whew...a tough one (dreading the S). But this one and the rest of the series is fantastic. I feel I must acknowledge the other very close runners up if no one minds:
Realm Breaker, Ruin and Rising, Rule of Wolves, and most recently Recursion.
📚: Blood & Honey (Mahurin), Blade Breaker (Aveyard), Blade of Secrets (Levenseller)
✍️: Bardugo, Leigh. Butcher, Jim. Brown, Pierce
📺: Battlestar Galactica, the Big Bang Theory.
🎤: Beethoven, Bon Jovi
🎵: Burn, The Pretty Reckless. Brittle, Icon For Hire.
#ManicMonday #LetterB @CBee
#AlphabetGame #LetterM @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
I'm ready for book 6! And apparently 7 too since that's a thing apparently.
#AlphabetGame #LetterL @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Loved this trilogy and this book. I think there's supposed to be a spin off or sequel, hoping!
I mean...based on my screen name, it wasn't going to be anything else. Lol I want more books in this world, maybe based on the offspring of Aelin and Rowan as well as the children from the other paired couples in this series. A new crew.
Also based on the events of the end of Crescent City 2 (not saying more), I'm hoping for certain other things. Being as vague as possible.
#AlphabetGame #LetterK @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
In a few hundred books I've read it turns out this is the only J I have lol. Unfortunately this is one of the very few instances where the movie was better. I liked the darker tones of the book, but some of the characters in the book bugged me... especially Lex. She was whiny and annoying in the book.
#AlphabetGame #LetterJ @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
I absolutely love love love this trilogy and am extremely excited for the final book at the end of this month.
#AlphabetGame #LetterI @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
📚: Aurora Rising
✍️: Aveyard, Victoria
🎥: Alita: Battle Angel
🎤: Amaranthe
🎵: Apocalyptic ~ Halestorm
#manicmonday #LetterA @CBee
#AlphabetGame #LetterH @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
For me, this is the best one in the Throne of Glass series because it's the transition book for Aelin and for the overall story.
Yes, I‘m using a second book in the same series I used earlier, but Fate of the Fallen, the book before Destiny of the Dead, is excellent. I‘m so very much ready for book 3.
#AlphabetGame #LetterF @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Does anyone know anything about when YAllfest starts posting information about attending authors and events? I'm actually going to this this year, very excited. Hotel and flight all booked and ready to go.
#AlphabetGame #LetterE @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Eragon and Saphira have the best bond between two characters of any series in my opinion. I always wished I had my own Saphira while reading this book. And this series has one of my favorite zero-to-hero trope stories. Zero-to-hero is one of my absolute favorite tropes.
Ohh this was easy, lots of good Ds but I lovvve this series. The characters are fantastic and love the story, but the humor in it is excellent. I don't know if it's meant to be a comedy, but I find myself cracking up a lot with the banter between characters.
#AlphabetGame #LetterD @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
1/2) The biggest challenge I had driving my new book life into my gaming life was trying to balance both since I generally play RPGs which take many hours per game. Mostly I read during the work nights (Sun night to Thursday night) and game Friday and Saturday.) Though it overlaps sometimes.
3) Fantasy and Sci-fi are my main genres. But I've been branching out more and more, mostly thanks to BOTM and Bookish Box.
#WonderousWednesday @Eggs
Very tough to choose just one. Near tie between A Court of Mist and Fury and Crooked Kingdom. But it has to be ACOMAF because it's Feyre's true introduction to Valeris and the gang. That's when the series picks up for me, ACOTAR is a decent book yes, but from ACOMAF it's fantastic.
So many other good C's too.
#AlphabetGame #LetterC @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Blade of Secrets - Tricia Levenseller
Blood & Honey - Shelby Mahurin
Brisingr - Christopher Paolini
#AlphabetGame #LetterB @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
1) Definitely magic. Especially Ancient magic or Fae magic. Zero-to-Hero stories where a character starts at the lowest possible rung with hidden or long forgotten, powerful magic. Aelin, Feyre, Poppy…etc.
2) Throne of Glass, ACOTAR, FBAA, Shadow and Bone, Seven Realms/Shattered Realms.
#two4tuesday @TheSpineView
Bookish box books are getting nicer and nicer. Loving the stenciling and embossing designs.
#AlphabetGame #LetterA
Tough one right off the bat. Several good letter A's, including the entire Aurora Cycle trilogy. All three Aurora books could be in this spot.
Thanks to @ChaoticMissAdventures for the idea of doing this, thought it‘d be fun to make a ‘most read authors‘ graph. Not only is Rick Riordan my most read author, but his Magnus Chase: The Sword of Summer was the one book I picked up on a whim on October 15, 2015. The very beginning of my book life. This should be a thing; what are your top author book counts?
I) Hardcover all the way. With dust covers off, I love the rustic look of naked hardcovers, especially with excellent foiling.
II) Indoor generally, don‘t like the wind blowing pages. And I usually get distracted by background noises outside.
III) Spring! Still cool to warm and I know winters over! And love heavy spring storms.
#wondrouswednesday @Eggs
1) When someone, especially when that someone I‘m absolutely sure isn‘t a reader, interrupts my reading to ask what I‘m reading or what it‘s about. And especially when I know if I try to explain it they won‘t understand it or really care anyway. I generally want them to just go away lol…
2) I would buy the first book I saw in Strand, then all the others and then the building itself.
#two4tuesday @TheSpineView
300 Books read! I spent most of my life shrugging away books, just never had an interest. Basically spent all my free time gaming and, well, not reading. I can say I did start feeling the pull towards books for a few years before 2015, like Anakin Skywalker trying to resist the dark side. And like Anakin, I succumbed to the pull on 10/15/15…walking through a store.. I grabbed a book on a whim…and that was it. 7 years, 300 books, ~42/year.
1) I did have a few series' that hit me emotionally like that, not necessarily a specific book: The Eragon series had some moments for me, Auroras End, certain moments in the Throne of Glass series.
2) Fantasy (then Sci Fi, near tie)
3) Very hard to choose just one but: Kingdom of Ash
#wonderouswednesday @Eggs
Saw this on Instagram, while I can't say I'd wear this, I thought it looked like something I can say I haven't seen before. Very cool looking. Wondering if those are actually spines from old books.
"The hardest part of this job isn't the stealing" [It's the escaping]
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
"I prefer metal to people, which is why the forge is my safe space."
Loving this book, the main character takes introverted to a new level and is an excellent character.
I'm currently reading The Magnolia Palace, a Historical Fiction I got from BOTM. I was very interested to learn that one of the main characters, Lillian "Angelica" Carter, is based on Audrey Munson, Miss Manhattan herself. Audrey Munson was one of the most famous muses and sculpture models in NYC and was dubbed American Venus. But also, she is the muse and model for "Wisconsin (Forward)". The statue at the top of my home states capitol building.
Does anyone familiar with YALLfest in Charleston know when the tickets usually go on sale? Already have plane tickets and hotel reservations, just waiting on ticket sales.
#YALLfest
Coming across several errors, about 3 or 4 wrong words in 60 pages, minor things. Enjoying the book though.
Armentrouts books, especially the FFBA and Flesh and Fire series' I've seen several punctuation errors. Usually a missing quotation mark ending a dialogue line. Found a quotation mark error in all three of the FBAA books and the Shadow book.
This gorgeous gem of a book hiding under the dust jacket! I always read hardcovers with them on, but when I finish them the dust jackets go away and the books go on the shelves in their birthday suits. And pulling off the jackets after reading is like unwrapping a gift, it's exciting to see what's waiting underneath... This is one of my favorite hardcover designs yet.
1) Tagged - Almost finished
2) The Inheritance Games - Absolutely fantastic. The main character is very well created, and the endlessly intriguing plot kept me going. The Hawthorne Legacy was fantastic too and very much looking forward to the final book in August.
3) Gaming Saturday, reading Sunday. The typical weekend.
#WeekendReads @rachelsbrittain
