Top Ten Tuesday: 2022-2023 Winter TBR

 

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl.

This weeks topic is to share our 2022-2023 winter TBRs. I have a bad habit of putting the same books on these seasonal lists. I have already shared most of these and some are what I am going to be starting next. Over the past year I have had a tough time sticking to TBRs, so I am hoping that this will be more like a priority list.

 

Exhausting Week// Sunday Post #46

 

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly from The Caffeinated Book Reviewer.

First week of having a small puppy is exhausting. It is even more exhausting with 3 kids homeschooling, 3 cats and full grown dog who all need my attention equally. My free time was devoted to cooking and cleaning and sleeping. Thankfully this weekend I got some much needed time because my husband was home from work and able to spend time with the puppy. So during that free time I finished a book, watched some youtube, and I finally got a video that I filmed back in March edited and uploaded. 

I am excited to get back into Youtube in the new year. I have a few more videos from March that were the last ones I filmed this year and then I have a channel and life update planned before the end of the year. 

Other than youtube, I finished the book I started last Saturday. Again it took me another week to finish a book. But this time I am so glad that I took as long as I did because I enjoyed every minute of it. 

If you have not read or even heard about this book... READ IT!!!! It is about different mythologies. It mixes African, Norse, Mayan, Aztec and Inuit. The main character is Inuit and her mother is an Inuit water goddess. The mix of Gods and Goddesses is something that I never knew I needed. The new book that I have started is the start of another series. I got the second book earlier this year for part of a blog tour.

if anyone has read this series let me know your thoughts and if it's any good. 

I am hoping that this week goes a little smoother and that our routine can be more finely tuned. I am officially done with Christmas Shopping. The last gift I bought which was one of the first ones I bought finally showed up way before delivery date. Looking forward to the upcoming weekend as well because I get to babysit the toddlers again while their parents go to their work Christmas party.

Everyone have a good week!

BLOG TOUR: Armadas in the Mist by Christian Klaver

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the ARMADAS IN THE MIST by Christian Klaver Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About The Book:

Title: ARMADAS IN THE MIST (The Empire of the House of Thorns #3)

Author: Christian Klaver

Pub. Date: December 6, 2022

Publisher: CamCat Books

Formats: Hardcover, paperback, eBook, Audiobook

Pages: 332

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org

The Black Shuck’s forces gather just beyond the mist . . .

Captain Justice Kasric knows how complicated family can be. The escalating Human-Faerie war has scattered and wounded her siblings and transformed her parents beyond recognition. After narrowly escaping yet another dangerous clash, fifteen-year-old Justice has had enough. She’s determined to defeat the Black Shuck, the mysterious leader controlling the Faerie invasion of London, but if Justice hopes to stand a chance at victory, she’ll have to do the impossible: reunite her family and lead them against the looming Faerie Armada.

With her mother and brother at the helm of the enemy fleet, and the prophesized Seven Virtues slipping out of reach, Justice more than has her work cut out for her. Even if she can save England, the cost may be higher than she’s willing to pay.

 

Grab the first 2 books in the Empire of the House of Thorns series now!

 

Review: coming soon

 

About Christian Klaver:

Christian Klaver has been writing for over twenty years, with a number of magazine publications, including Escape Pod, Dark Wisdom Anthology, and Anti-Matter. He’s the author of The Supernatural Case Files of Sherlock Holmes series, but has written over a dozen novels, both fantasy and sci-fi, often with a Noir bent. He's worked as book-seller, bartender and a martial-arts instructor before settling into a career in internet security. He lives just outside the sprawling decay of Detroit, Michigan, with his wife, Kimberly, his daughter, Kathryn, and a group of animals he refers to as The Menagerie. He’s also a part of the Untitled Writer’s Group based in Ann Arbor for the past decade or so with a bunch of equally starry-eyed dreamers and social misanthropes.

Website | Twitter | Goodreads | Amazon | BookBub

 

Giveaway Details:

2 winners will receive a finished copy of ARMADAS IN THE MIST, US Only.

Ends December 20^th, midnight EST.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

11/21/2022	Mythical Books	Guest Post/IG Post
11/22/2022	Jazzy Book Reviews	Excerpt/IG Post
11/23/2022	Books and Kats	Excerpt
11/24/2022	Living in a Bookworld	Excerpt
11/25/2022	Two Chicks on Books	Excerpt
11/26/2022	@jaimerockstarbooktours	IG Post

Week Two:

11/27/2022	A Dream Within A Dream	Excerpt
11/28/2022	Lady Hawkeye	Excerpt/IG Post
11/29/2022	@froggyreadteach	IG Review
11/30/2022	OneMoreExclamation	Review/IG Post
12/1/2022	Locks, Hooks and Books	Review
12/2/2022	YA Books Central	Guest Post/IG Post
12/3/2022	Sadie's Spotlight	Excerpt/IG Post

Week Three:

12/4/2022	Books a Plenty Book Reviews	Review
12/5/2022	The Momma Spot	Review
12/6/2022	Fire and Ice	Review
12/7/2022	Rajiv's Reviews	Review/IG Post
12/8/2022	Brandi Danielle Davis	IG Review/TikTok Post
12/9/2022	Lifestyle of Me	Review
12/10/2022	A Court of Coffee and Books	Review/IG Post

Week Four:

12/11/2022	Emily Ashlyn	IG & Facebook Review
12/12/2022	popthebutterfly	Review/IG Post
12/13/2022	The Real World According To Sam	Review/IG Post
12/14/2022	History from a Woman’s Perspective	Review
12/15/2022	A Blue Box Full of Books	IG Review/LFL Drop Pic
12/16/2022	@ReadsReaders	YouTube Review/IG Post

Top Ten Tuesday: Books Recently Added to my Goodreads TBR

 

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl.

This weeks topic is a freebie and I had no clue what I wanted to do and then I watched two different BookTube videos where one was anticipated reads of 2023 and then an old Christmas Book Haul and i wanted to share the last ten books that I have added to my Goodreads TBR. All of these have my buzzwords that interest me and I just can't wait to get to these next year. 

Review: The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan & Maureen Johnson

 

The last time I read a Shadowhunter book was last year in July and I cried my damn eyes out and wanted to immediately read The Bane Chronicles and put it on every TBR since and I have finally read it. It took me a week but man it was so good. I love Magnus Bane!! He is one of my favorite characters that I have read in the Shadowhunter world so far. He tops Jem and I am obsessed with everything Jem aka someone else but I will not be spoiling that tidbit of info.

Anyways, going into this I knew that it was a bunch of short stories of his life throughout the many years of his life till current day with Clary, Jace and Alec and all the others. It goes into detail of his intense friendships with Ragnor Fell and Catarina Loss. They are sassy and sarcastic, The nicknames that they have and joke on was the best part of the beginning. Ragnor blaming everything especially the earthquake on Magnus was hilarious. 

It also brings a tough and emotional moment with our favorite trio from the infernal devices and it hit me in the feels. There were a few stories at the end where they weren't my favorite like his first date with Alec. I could care less about that. I may feel different about the relationship once I read The Red Scrolls of Magic or some of the other series, but right now I am indifferent to that relationship. I would have liked a story of him continuing to do the memory spell on a certain character as she was growing up. I think that was a missed opportunity. Also, the first date story was the only one written solely by Cassandra Clare and the rest she co wrote with the other two authors attached. So the creator of this world had the weakest story in my opinion. 

The next two that I have to read before I can start The Dark Artifices series are The Shadowhunter Codex and Tales from The Shadowhunter Academy. 

If you have not read any of the books in the Shadowhunter Universe, please do so because they are worth it. The first book is very cringe but gets ten times better by the end of the first series. 

Say Hello To Pizza// Sunday Post #45

 

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly from The Caffeinated Book Reviewer.

In todays post I wanted to share my December TBR. I am 8 books away from my Goodreads goal and the last 3 weeks, I have only finished 3 books with each book taking me a week to read. I want to read but just don't have the time and now my little bit of me time that I have had for the past few months are now going to a new little member of my family. Everyone meet Pizza! Her name came from the shirt I was wearing on Friday which was a Marvel Hawkeye shirt of Lucky the Pizza Dog.

My husband rescued her on his way home from work on Friday night. We live in the country and he always takes back roads home and it was almost completely dark and he had to slam on brakes because this little baby ran out in front of him and went under the car to the tire and curled up. She was not the only one. There is an even sadder part to this story. There was a black and brown puppy that had been hit by a car and there was no way for my husband to move this puppy. He called me crying and this man does not cry. 

This road is uninhabited. No one lives on this road. We are 100% sure that she was dumped. There was no mama and no other puppies that we could see. Right when he pulled into the yard, I could see her through the window and I immediately knew that she was ours to keep. This baby was exhausted, scared and lonely. 

Yesterday, we took her to the Petsmart vet because our vet that we take our German Shepherd  and 3 cats too are not open on the weekend. They determined that she is between 3-4 weeks old. She is a labrador and she is a little over 3 pounds. She is perfect besides some digestion issues which is understandable because she doesn't have her mama's nutrients. And also some puss filled ant bites near her private area.

She has gotten so comfortable in the 24 hours that she has been here. She is playful and teething like a mad woman. She is growling and finding her bark. She is obsessed with Si our German Shepherd and Si tried to play with her today, it was cute. The only animal that is not to comfortable yet is my cat Luna. She is the youngest of my three cats and a complete diva. 

All of our animals have been rescues by my husband. He can't stand to see an animal on the side of a road or in abandoned buildings or living on the street. I have told him that this is our last animal because our cats are up in their years and unfortunately, our oldest cat Missy is not doing that great health wise. 

Anyways, Pizza is our new puppy and my reading may be non existent for a while.... hoping not. I did finish a book yesterday that I started last Saturday and that was The Bane Chronicles. 

I also started an ebook called This Eternity of Masks and Shadows and it is about Inuit mythology I believe. The one chapter I have read so far has been really good and intriguing.

I am going to be trying my damndest to finish this in a couple days and not take a week. 

Here I leave you with more pictures of my newest hellbeast!

Review: Wake the Bones by Elizabeth Kilcoyne

 

I got a review copy of this earlier this year and never got around to picking it up. I always kept the title in the back of my mind to read for spooky season, and I am so glad I did. I went into this book knowing nothing about this and I did read trigger warnings about the type of gore that was written. I kind of wish that I didn't see those trigger warnings because I think I would have been even more grossed out than I was. 

This story takes place in a little small town in Ohio and we follow our main character named Laurel Early who likes to walk in the woods around her tobacco farm and gather dead animal bones and make art or jewelry to sell. She has just dropped out of college and her uncle who is her guardian is disappointed and says that she needs to act like an adult and work now. 

There is also two relationships that form and to be honest, right when the story was getting good and creepy, the relationship between the two boys and Laurel and her love interest took over and kind of ruined the horror feel.

I really liked the paranormal and spirit aspect and I wish that it went even deeper. Overall I give this a 3 out of 5 stars and I am interested in this author's future works.