Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books From My Past Seasonal TBR Posts I STILL Haven’t Read

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish and currently hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl.

Top Ten Tuesday: Books From My Past Seasonal TBR Posts I STILL Haven’t Read

This week’s TTT is all about books from our previous seasonal TBR posts that we still haven't read. I'm a good example of people who get excited about upcoming releases for a season, even preorder some, then never get around to reading them. Here are a few I still haven't read yet...

Fall 2021

1. Window Shopping by Tessa Bailey (October 29, 2021)

2. The Rhythm Method by Kylie Scott (November 9, 2021)

3. You've Reached Sam by Dustin Thao (November 9, 2021)

Winter 2021-2022

4. To Die For by Amy Plum (December 13, 2021)

5. A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham (January 11, 2022)

6. In Every Generation by Kendare Blake (January 4, 2022)

7. House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas (February 15, 2022)

Spring 2022

8. The Club by Ellery Lloyd (March 1, 2022)

9. Famous in a Small Town by Kylie Scott (April 7, 2022)

10. Fate Touched by Becky Moynihan (May 31, 2022)

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What books were on your previous seasonal TBRs that you just haven't gotten around to reading yet? Is there any reason you're hesitating?

Let me know in the comments or drop a link to your TTT!

Happy Reading Bookdragons!

-Taylor

I Can't Wait for... Lightlark!

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released.

I read about this one a couple weeks ago (yes, late to the game, as usual) and it sounds fantastic. 

Lightlark

Lightlark, Book 1

by Alex Aster
eBook, Hardcover, 416 Pages
August 23, 2022 by Amulet Books

Blurb:

Welcome to the Centennial.

Every 100 years, the island of Lightlark appears to host the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play. The invitation is a summons—a call to embrace victory and ruin, baubles and blood. The Centennial offers the six rulers one final chance to break the curses that have plagued their realms for centuries. Each ruler has something to hide. Each realm’s curse is uniquely wicked. To destroy the curses, one ruler must die.

Isla Crown is the young ruler of Wildling—a realm of temptresses cursed to kill anyone they fall in love with. They are feared and despised, and are counting on Isla to end their suffering by succeeding at the Centennial.

To survive, Isla must lie, cheat, and betray…even as love complicates everything. 

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Why I Want To Read Lightlark:

I'm loving the trope of deadly games lately. Not to mention that Isla sounds like a character I'll absolutely love. Just everything about the blurb, and the cover, sounds so good!

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Will you be checking this book out? What upcoming releases are you looking forward to?

Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Most Anticipated Books Releasing In the Second Half of 2022

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish and currently hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl.

Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the Second Half of 2022

This week’s TTT is a freebie but I’ve been away from book blogging since last September so to dive back in I’m going to do the prompt from July 5: my 10 most anticipated books releasing in the second half of 2022! 

1. Lightlark by Alex Aster (August 23, 2022)

2. Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney (August 30, 2022)

3. Their Vicious Darling by Nikki St. Crowe (September 1, 2022)

4. Green Monsters by Nicky Shearsby (September 6, 2022)

5. Ledge by Stacey McEwan (September 13, 2022)

6. The Ballad of Never After by Stephanie Garber (September 13, 2022)

7. The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling (September 20, 2022)

8. Cruel Illusions by Margie Fuston (November 1, 2022)

9. Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six by Lisa Unger (November 8, 2022)

10. To Free the Rising Storm by C.N. Maxwell (November 22, 2022)

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What books did you pick for your most anticipated for the rest of the year? Were any of these on your list? What freebie topic did you use this week?

Let me know in the comments or drop a link to your TTT!

Happy Reading Bookdragons!

-Taylor

I Can't Wait For... 22 September, 2021

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released.

These are a couple books releasing in the next couple weeks that I can't wait to pick up...

The Wish

Standalone

by Nicholas Sparks
eBook, Hardcover, Audiobook, 400 Pages
September 28, 2021 by Grand Central Publishing

Blurb:

1996 was the year that changed everything for Maggie Dawes. Sent away at sixteen to live with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind . . . until she meets Bryce Trickett, one of the few teenagers on the island. Handsome, genuine, and newly admitted to West Point, Bryce gradually shows her how much there is to love about the wind-swept beach town—and introduces her to photography, a passion that will define the rest of her life.

By 2019, Maggie is a renowned travel photographer. She splits her time between running a successful gallery in New York and photographing remote locations around the world. But this year she is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis. Increasingly dependent on a young assistant, she finds herself becoming close to him.

As they count down the last days of the season together, she begins to tell him the story of another Christmas, decades earlier—and the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.

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Why I Want To Read The Wish:

It's been ages since I read or enjoyed a Nicholas Sparks book but this one really sounds like something I would like. 

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Lakesedge

World at the Lake's Edge #1

Lyndall Clipstone

ebook, Hardcover, 384 Pages

September 28, 2021

Blurb:

A lush gothic fantasy about monsters and magic, set on the banks of a cursed lake. Perfect for fans of Naomi Novik and Brigid Kemmerer.

There are monsters in the world.

When Violeta Graceling arrives at haunted Lakesedge estate, she expects to find a monster. She knows the terrifying rumors about Rowan Sylvanan, who drowned his entire family when he was a boy. But neither the estate nor the monster are what they seem.

There are monsters in the woods.

As Leta falls for Rowan, she discovers he is bound to the Lord Under, the sinister death god lurking in the black waters of the lake. A creature to whom Leta is inexplicably drawn…

There’s a monster in the shadows, and now it knows my name.

Now, to save Rowan—and herself—Leta must confront the darkness in her past, including unraveling the mystery of her connection to the Lord Under.

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Why I Want to Read Lakesedge:

I fell in love first with the cover, but the description - from the haunted estate and the boy with the dark past to the death god bound to the lake all sound so fantastic to me. 

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The Violent Season

Standalone

Sara Walters

ebook, Paperback, 320 Pages

October 5, 2021 by Sourcebooks Fire

Blurb:

There is something terribly wrong in Wolf Ridge. Every November, every teen is overwhelmed with a hunger for violence…at least, that’s the urban legend.

After Wyatt Green’s mother was brutally murdered last Fall, she’s convinced that the November sickness plaguing Wolf Ridge isn’t just a town rumor that everyone ignores…it’s a palpable force infecting her neighbors. Wyatt is going to prove it, and find her mother’s murderer in the process. She digs up every past brutal act she can find from Wolf Ridge’s past – from car wrecks, suicides, and unnamed victims turning up in rivers—and even reaches out to an out-of-state journalist that seems to believe her. But all of her digging leads to nowhere. Everyone in Wolf Ridge accepts that the November sickness is real, and absolutely no one will talk about it.

As Wyatt’s best friend Cash turns on her, and her friend is almost killed in a tragic accident, Wyatt panics – how can she keep her friends safe, and find her mother’s murderer, when no one believes her?

As the evidence stars to disappear, Wyatt wonders: is she just imagining everything? Is the sickness real, or are the people of Wolf Ridge just naturally prone to doing bad things?

Can Wyatt and her friends come out of the Violent Season unscathed, or is one of them going to be the next victim?

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Why I Want to Read The Violent Season:

I read an excerpt of The Violent Season in an email newsletter about a month ago and it grabbed me right away. I can't wait to read more. 

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Will you be checking any of these books out? What upcoming releases are you looking forward to?

Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Bookish Wishes

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish and currently hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl.

Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Bookish Wishes

This week’s TTT falls on Jana's birthday. Happy Birthday Jana! So for the theme, we're doing books on our wishlist! Here are 10 books on my Amazon wishlist... (link here: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/HWRQVU0NYWKK?ref_=wl_share and at the bottom of the list)

1. A Wicked And Beautiful Garden by Katie McGarry

2. About Tomorrow by Abbi Glines

3. The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky

4. The Vines by Shelley Nolden

5. A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair

6. Rise of the Sea Witch by Stacey Rourke

7. Gravebriar by Casey L. Bond

8. The Novella Collection by Katie McGarry

9. Love Song by Kylie Scott 

10. The Hunting Wives by May Cobb

Wishlist Link: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/HWRQVU0NYWKK?ref_=wl_share

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What books are on your wishlist? I'm between jobs so I may not be able to grant a ton of wishes but I'll try for a few!

Let me know in the comments or drop a link to your TTT!

Happy Reading Bookdragons!

-Taylor

I Can't Wait For... Resurrection Road

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released.

I met Hannah through some of my instagram author friends and this book, perfect for fans of Supernatural, sounds amazing...

Resurrection Road

Series?

by Hannah Marae
eBook, Paperback
July 26, 2021 by Somewhere Press

Blurb:

For as long as she can remember, Eden has been on the run.
The open road is the only freedom she’s ever known, the only life she’s ever had. But when the road ends in a backwater town, a mysterious phone call sends her on a new journey.

Lazarus is no stranger to ghosts.
Shades and spirits are his constant companions, it’s the living that set him on edge. The decision to help a troubled mage will find him taking on more than he bargained for.

Becoming a hunter was never part of Zeke’s plan.
He finds himself stepping into all the dark places where horrors lurk and spirits roam free—until a job gone wrong shows him there’s more than one way to deal with a monster.

A missing friend.
A chance to prove himself.
A desire to keep the darkness inside at bay.
Together, the three set out on the long road east, each pulled by a secret.
But a powerful presence lurks in the shadows, eager to make a deal that will change their lives forever.

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I Can't Wait For... FALLEN!

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released.

Confession: When books in a series can be read as a standalone I sometimes read out of order. Which means that even though this is the 13th book in this series and I've only read the first one... I'm aiming to read this one next...

Fallen

Kate Burkholder Book 13

by Linda Castillo
Thriller
eBook, Hardcover, Audiobook, 320 Pages
July 6, 2021 by Minotaur Books

Blurb:

In New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo’s new thriller Fallen, a rebellious Amish woman leaves the Plain life, but the secrets she takes with her will lead Chief of Police Kate Burkholder down a dark path to danger and death.

When a young woman is found murdered in a Painters Mill motel, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is shocked to discover she once knew the victim. Rachael Schwartz was a charming but troubled Amish girl who left the fold years ago and fled Painters Mill. Why was she back in town? And who would kill her so brutally?

Kate remembers Rachael as the only girl who was as bad at being Amish as Kate was—and those parallels dog her. But the more Kate learns about Rachael's life, the more she's convinced that her dubious reputation was deserved. As a child, Rachael was a rowdy rulebreaker whose decision to leave devastated her parents and best friend. As an adult, she was charismatic and beautiful, a rabble-rouser with a keen eye for opportunity no matter who got in her way. Her no-holds-barred lifestyle earned her a lot of love and enemies aplenty—both English and Amish.

As the case heats to a fever pitch and long-buried secrets resurface, a killer haunts Painters Mill. Someone doesn’t want Rachael’s past—or the mysteries she took with her to the grave—coming to light. As Kate digs deeper, violence strikes again, this time hitting close to home. Will Kate uncover the truth and bring a murderer to justice? Or will a killer bent on protecting a terrible past stop her once and for all—and let the fallen be forgotten?

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I Can't Wait For... THE GOSSIP!

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released.

I've been a fan of this author's sister for years and last year I read the first book in this series and loved it. I can't wait to see what else will shake up River Glen in...

The Gossip

River Glen Book 2

by Nancy Bush
Thriller
eBook, Paperback, 416 Pages
June 29, 2021 by Zebra

Blurb:

From New York Times bestselling author Nancy Bush, a gripping page-turner that explores the dark side of popularity, when harmless high school gossip turns deadly...

Every word you whisper
In high school, rumors can make or destroy a reputation. A thoughtless nickname can turn each day into a living hell. Gossip is irresistible--and contagious. But sometimes, gossip can kill...

Every secret you share
Mackenzie Laughlin, formerly with Oregon's River Glen police department, has reluctantly agreed to investigate a local woman's disappearance. The case reconnects her with Jesse James Taft, a P.I. gifted at getting under Mac's skin. But when the body is found tangled in river weeds, Mac and Taft realize that the case has changed, from one missing woman to a hunt for a terrifying and relentless killer...

Could be your last
In his old school yearbooks, they were the pretty, popular ones, confident and callous. Back then, they held the power. But now, it's all his. He's been waiting to teach them the lessons they should have learned long ago: that gossip and popularity have a price, and it's time to pay...

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I Can't Wait For... SAY I'M THE ONE

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released.

I have several of this author's books on my kindle that I haven't had a chance to read yet but when I saw this one in her latest newsletter I had to add it to the top of my TBR... 

Say I'm the One

All of Me Duet, Book 1
by Siobhan Davis
Contemporary Romance
eBook, Paperback (presumably)
April 30, 2021 by Siobhan Davis

Blurb:

From the USA Today bestselling author of Inseparable and When Forever Changes comes another emotional, angsty, new adult romance that will rip your heart apart before mending it again.

I’m head over heels in love with my best friend. Although, I can’t pinpoint exactly when Reeve Lancaster became my entire world.

Was it when we were little kids, practically brought up together, after Reeve’s mom died during childbirth and his dad subsequently fell apart? Or when I doodled his name in my school journal at age ten? Maybe it was when we became boyfriend and girlfriend at fourteen or when we shed our virginity at sixteen, pledging our forever?

I was there as his star ascended—like I’d always known it would—and there wasn’t a prouder person on the planet. As the only child of Hollywood’s golden couple, I’ve lived my life in the spotlight enough to know it wasn’t what I wanted for my future. But I sacrificed my own desires, because Reeve’s happiness meant everything to me.

Until he crushed my heart into itty-bitty pieces, forcing me to fly halfway around the world just to escape the gut-wrenching pain.

The opportunity to study at Trinity College Dublin came at the perfect moment, and I jumped at the chance without hesitation. If I’d known fate was meddling in my life, perhaps I would have chosen differently, but my future was cemented the instant I laid eyes on him.

Dillon O’Donoghue was Reeve’s polar opposite in every way, and perhaps, that’s why I felt drawn to him. He was the dark to my light. The thorn in my side, irritating me with his cold disdain, wild recklessness, and a burning rage hidden deep inside him that spoke to a silent part within me. Yet Dillon showed me what it was like to truly live, opening my eyes to endless possibilities.

What happened next was inevitable, and I only have myself to blame. He warned me, and I knew my reprieve was temporary, because there is only so far I can run.

Especially when fate hasn’t finished messing with me yet.

This is a full-length 168K-word second-chance romance novel that is book one of two. It cannot be read as a stand-alone, and it ends on a cliff-hanger. Recommended to readers aged eighteen and older.

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I Can't Wait For... WITCH PLEASE!

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released.

I saw this book while I was scrolling through Goodreads the other day and it sounds really good.. 

Witch Please

Fix-It Witches Book 1
by Ann Aguirre
Paranormal Romance
eBook, Paperback, 352 Pages
September 7, 2021 by Sourcebooks Casablanca

Blurb:

Danica Waterhouse is a fully modern witch—daughter, granddaughter, cousin, and co-owner of the Fix-It Witches, a magical tech repair shop. After a messy breakup that included way too much family “feedback,” Danica made a pact with her cousin: they’ll keep their hearts protected and have fun, without involving any of the overly opinionated Waterhouse matriarchs. Danica is more than a little exhausted navigating a long-standing family feud where Gram thinks the only good mundane is a dead one and Danica’s mother weaves floral crowns for anyone who crosses her path.

Three blocks down from the Fix-It Witches, Titus Winnaker, owner of Sugar Daddy’s bakery, has family trouble of his own. After a tragic loss, all he’s got left is his sister, the bakery, and a lifetime of terrible luck in love. Sure, business is sweet, but he can’t seem to shake the romantic curse that’s left him past thirty and still a virgin. He’s decided he’s doomed to be forever alone.

Until he meets Danica Waterhouse. The sparks are instant, their attraction irresistible. For him, she’s the one. To her, he’s a firebomb thrown in the middle of a family war. Can a modern witch find love with an old-fashioned mundane who refuses to settle for anything less than forever?

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I Can't Wait For... SHADOW TOUCHED!

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released.

I met Becky through Bookstagram and I love her books. I really can't wait for her upcoming release...

Shadow Touched

A Touch of Vampire Book 1
by Becky Moynihan
Paranormal Romance
eBook, Paperback
May 11, 2021 by Broken Books

Blurb:

Perfect for fans of Twilight, Vampire Diaries, and modern Beauty & the Beast retellings. Sink your teeth into a world of dark mystery and forbidden desire.

Some truths are best kept in the shadows . . .

At nearly eighteen, I'm months away from escaping my aunt's secrets and lies. Except, I'm harboring a big secret of my own.

A red-eyed man cloaked in shadow has been stalking me at night.

I wanted Rosewood, Maine to be my final destination before college. My chance at normalcy. But strange, unexplainable things are threatening to derail my plans.

The red-eyed man followed me here, and he's not the only one. Two hot guys transfer to my new high school right after I do. They track my every move, especially the aloof and mysterious Lochlan D'angelo.

As I'm sucked into a dangerous world embroiled in secrets, I start to question everything I've ever known. Including who I am.

SHADOW TOUCHED is the thrilling first installment in a steamy upper YA/NA paranormal vampire romance series. If you like enemies-to-lovers and fated mates, heartrending twists, a tough heroine, and a sexy antihero, this book is for you.

Get ready for a fresh take on vampires, werewolves, and witches by one-clicking today!

*This book is part of a series and ends in a cliffhanger. Best suited for ages 16+ due to sexual situations.

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