Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books Set at Boarding Schools and Colleges

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 Books I Love That Are Set At Boarding Schools and Colleges

This week’s TTT is a back to school freebie so I've chosen books that I love that are set at boarding schools and colleges! I'm obsessed with thrillers set in boarding schools and colleges and I love dark academia vibes! 

1. Private by Kate Brian

2. Privilege by Kate Brian

3. Wake Unto Me by Lisa Cach

4. Initiation by K.E. O'Connor

5. The Black Witch by Laurie Forest

6. She was the Quiet One by Michele Campbell

7. The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich

8. In The Hall With The Knife by Diana Peterfreund

9. The Similars by Rebecca Hanover

10. Reputation by Sara Shepard

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What did you choose for this week's school freebie?  Let me know in the comments or drop a link to your TTT!

Happy Reading Bookdragons!

-Taylor

I Can't Wait for... The Kiss Curse!

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'm looking forward to this one to kick of the Spooky Season... 

The Kiss Curse

The Ex Hex #2

by Erin Sterling
eBook, Paperback, Hardcover, Audiobook 320 Pages
September 20, 2022 by Avon Books

Blurb:

Welcome to Spooky Season!! The follow-up to Erin Sterling’s New York Times bestselling hit The Ex Hex features fan favorite Gwyn and the spine-tinglingly handsome Wells Penhallow as they battle a new band of witches and their own magical chemistry.

Gwyn Jones is perfectly happy with her life in Graves Glen. She, her mom, and her cousin have formed a new and powerful coven; she’s running a successful witchcraft shop, Something Wicked; and she’s started mentoring some of the younger witches in town. As Halloween approaches, there’s only one problem—Llewellyn “Wells” Penhallow.

Wells has come to Graves Glen to re-establish his family’s connection to the town they founded as well as to make a new life for himself after years of being the dutiful son in Wales. When he opens up a shop of his own, Penhallow’s, just across the street from Something Wicked, he quickly learns he’s gotten more than he bargained for in going up against Gwyn.

When their professional competition leads to a very personal—and very hot—kiss, both Wells and Gwyn are determined to stay away from each other, convinced the kiss was just a magical fluke. But when a mysterious new coven of witches come to town and Gwyn’s powers begin fading, she and Wells must work together to figure out just what these new witches want and how to restore Gwyn’s magic before it’s too late.

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Why I Want To Read The Kiss Curse:

I enjoyed The Ex Hex earlier this year and I was really excited to hear that there would be a second book centering around Gwyn and Wells. I hope it's as humorous and addictive as the first book!  

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Will you be checking this book out? Have you read The Ex Hex? What upcoming releases are you looking forward to?

Top Ten Tuesday: 8 Series & Standalone Books I Wish Had More Books

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: 8 Completed Series I Wish Had More Books

This week’s TTT is all about completed series we wish had more books. I actually don't really read a lot of series, I'm more into standalones or if I do read series it takes me ages to finish them  and by that point I'm usually fine with them being completed. Here are 9 series and standalones that I do wish had another book to follow-up. Some of these series never actually got completed and I'm still wishing for a final book. 

1. the Annabelle Lee Series by Stacey Jay

This is actually not a completed series. There were two books with me fully anticipating a 3rd book that just... never came. I wish it would have been finished!

2. The Goddess Test Series by Aimee Carter

Before all of the Hades/Persephone retellings everyone loves now, the Goddess Test was one of the OGs of Hades/Persephone retellings. While Kate and Henry's story wraps up at the end of the trilogy, I thought there was going to be a spin-off series and I guess it just never panned out. It's a shame. 

3. Goodnight Series by Rosemary Clement-Moore

Surely there must be more Goodnights we could read about! I love this family so much for there to only be two books! PHIN! PHIN needs her own book! Please Rosemary???

4. Gravebriar by Casey L. Bond

Gravebriar is a standalone but I would love more books set in this world! Maybe about some of the other witch families?

5. The Thousandth Floor Trilogy by Katharine McGee

I don't even know where she would go with another book, but I love this series so much. 

6. Maybe This Time by Jennifer Crusie

Another standalone I wish would have a sequel. I would love to see Alice and Carter return to the house as adults. 

7. Clue Mystery Series by Diana Peterfreund

I don't know if I exactly like how the last book ended. I know things were mostly wrapped up but I'd love to see the crew solve more murders and see where they went after leaving Blackbrook Academy. 

8. Stormheart Series by Cora Carmack

Okay, Okay, I know this is unfair to really, really want the third book to come out considering the author has a ton of health problems, I just really hate to be left hanging and hope this trilogy gets completed someday. 

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What completed series do you wish had more books? Did any of mine make your list? Let me know in the comments or drop a link to your TTT!

Happy Reading Bookdragons!

-Taylor

Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books I Love That Were Written More Than 10 Years Ago

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 Books I Love That Were Written More Than 10 Years Ago

This week’s TTT is all about books we love that were written before 2012! Looking through my Goodreads shelves, it's interesting to see how long ago some of my favorites were written and published! Some of them feel like just yesterday. (Although just to be clear, And Then There Were None was published way, way before I was born! 😆)

1. Glass Houses by Rachel Caine (2006)

2. The Revenant by Sonia Gensler (2011)

3. If She Only Knew by Lisa Jackson (2000)

4. Texas Gothic by Rosemary Clement-Moore (2011)

5. The Sweep Series by Cate Tiernan (2001-2003)

6. Nevermore by Kelly Creagh (2010)

7. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (1939)

8. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin (1996)

9. Some Girls Bite by Chloe Neill (2009)

10. Maybe This Time by Jennifer Crusie (2010)

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What books do you love that were written more than 10 years ago? Did any of mine make your list? Let me know in the comments or drop a link to your TTT!

Happy Reading Bookdragons!

-Taylor

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? - 8 August, 2022

#IMWAYR is a weekly meme started on J Kaye’s blog and then was hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at The Book Date.

Hey Bookdragons! I was able to catch up on a lot of reading this past week during down times at work and I'm on track to get back to my August TBR Hopefuls. I hope your month is off to a good start!

What I Read Last Week: 

My Killer Vacation by Tessa Bailey

I finished this one last Monday and I really loved it. It was high on spice and humorous in spots, although I thought the murder mystery got a little lost with all the sexy times and was a bit thrown together in the end. I'm wondering now if Jude will get his own book. I kind of hope so?

Chaos & Carnage by Stacey Rourke

This was a quick read, which I was expecting. I finished it in about an hour at work. I admit, I liked the first three books in this series that focused on Tempest more. I'm still kind of iffy on Malaria as a main character. 

The Dark One by Nikki St. Crowe

The first book on my August TBR. I read this one during one of my overnight shifts at work and now I can't wait for the 3rd book to come out in September! I loved seeing more of this version of Neverland and all of the sexy times, but I really want some chapters in Vane's perspective. I hope we get some in the third book. We also learn more about Cherry in this book (ugh, I hate her!!) and we get to meet Captain Hook!

Currently Reading: 

Gallant by V.E. Schwab

I started this one on Thursday night and I really liked the way it's written at first and can see why it has Crimson Peak comps. The main character seems a little more Middle-Grade age appropriate so far than what I was expecting. And I'm finding it to be such a slow read that I'm not really sure I want to finish it. I feel like I know where the story is going but it's taking so achingly long to get there. It literally took me 6 hours to read 70 pages at work the other night. Normally I could have either finished a book or almost finished a book in that time. 

 

Next Read

Fate Touched by Becky Moynihan

Fate Touched has been on my TBR since I finished reading Curse Touched a few months ago. I got my copy in June and was going to read it while I was in Deadwood but I didn't have much reading time. It's about time I see how this trilogy ends!! 

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 What are you reading this week? Have you read any of my recent reads?

Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books on my Summer 2021 TBR

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 Books On My Summer 2021 TBR

This week’s TTT is all about books we plan to read this summer (or winter if you're in the Southern Hemisphere). I got two months free of Kindle Unlimited so I'm planning to read some kindle books I've had my eye on for a while. 

1. Say I'm the One by Siobhan Davis

2. Kiss Kiss Fang Fang by Penelope Bloom

3. Bad Prince by Lilian Monroe

4. Rejected by Jaymin Eve

5. Black Sunshine by Karina Hall

6. Origins by Lyla Oweds 

7. That Boy by Jillian Dodd

8. Under a Gilded Moon by Joy Jordan-Lake

9. Before You Ghost by Helena Hunting and Debra Anastastia 

10. Irresistible by Melanie Harlow

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What books do you want to read this summer?

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

Happy Reading Bookdragons!

-Taylor