June 2019 Wrap Up

I got through a ton of books this month.  Since so many of these were ARCs, I got a bit bogged down toward the end of the month and got a bit behind.  Fortunately I was able to get audiobooks for some of these and was able to get caught up on some of them.  A few of these were challenge prompt books.  I'm feeling behind on my challenges, but it is only the end of June and I've gotten through 87  books so far.  That isn't too bad.

Books/Ebooks/ARCs

• The Dragonet Prophecy by Tui T. Sutherland
• I finally met my end of the bargain I made with my son.  While I won't be continuing on with the series, I now understand why my son loves this.  If you have a young reader who loves fantasy, I highly suggest this one.  It is 100% tailored for young readers who love dragons.  There are also some really good lessons.
• The Black Tides of Heaven by J.Y. Yang
• I picked this up through Tor's free ebook of the month.  I picked this for one of my reading challenge prompts for a novel by a trans or nonbinary author.  It also features LGBTQIA+ characters.  This is a really interesting fantasy featuring imaginative creatures, elemental magic, and political struggles between the two ruling bodies.  I'm glad I discovered this series, I'm looking forward to continuing on with the remaining books.  I really like the writing style and the characters.
• Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
• Review
• I've really enjoyed Sager's previous books, so when the opportunity to review this new release due out July 2nd.  This is the lightest of his 3 books so far.  Still good, the ending was good, but it wasn't as suspenseful and twisty.  If you like lighter thrillers check this one out.  This is a book that I see being turned into a movie soon!
• The Sorcery Trial by J.A. Armitage and Claire Luana
• Review
• This was a really fun book.  It comes out July 1st.  It is a mashup of The Hunger Games and The Amazing Race, if they had magic and fae.  It is fast paced and I really enjoyed the characters.  I've looking forward to the rest of the series.
• Teardrop Shot by Tijan
• Review
• This is out June 24th and is a sports romance featuring basketball.  If you don't know much of my time is spent on the sidelines of a basketball court.  This is a new adult romance from Tijan and it was so fun.  This was funny, heartbreaking, and just overall a great story.  One of my new favorite Tijan books!  I couldn't put it down.
• The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs by Katherine Howe
• Review
• This comes out June 25th.  This is a paranormal historical fiction from what I can tell.  The synopsis reminds me a bit of The Discovery of Witches and it has some ties to the Salem Witch trials which I find fascinating.  I'm looking forward to reading about this magical family.  

Audiobooks

I was able to get through quite a few audiobooks this month despite a few of them being very long and heavy.  

• Nexus by Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings
• Review
• This was OK.  The narration wasn't the best on Zenith or Nexus, they were a bit monotone and it bugs me when there are multiple narrators and they don't all pronounce character and place names the same or even try to mimic the same accents for the characters they are all portraying.  This blended YA, Sci-Fi and Fantasy, some of it worked and some of it didn't.  Well atleast for me..  It was entertaining, but I wish I had read the print version of it versus listening to it.
• A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
• This is for a reading challenge prompt for a book that takes place in a single day.  That was all I knew about it when I started it.  This deals with the heavy topics of gun violence and abortion, which is fitting given recent current events.  I'm not sure I would have picked it up had I known what it was about because I tend to shy away from realistic fiction.  This was pretty heavy, and at times uncomfortable.  It was so well written, and makes so many good points.  I won't say I enjoyed it because I don't think it was an entertaining book nor do I think it was meant to be, but I think it made a really important statement about such a very important issue.  Definitely a good conversation starter.
• Binti, Home, and The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
• This series has been on my TBR forever, it is a sci-fi set in the future and parts of it are set in space.  inti is a mathematical prodigy, but when she leaves her humble tribe to attend the prestigious university to study, her space transport is attacked by alien lifeforms called the Meduse.  As the sole survivor Binti uses her gift as a harmonizer to befriend the Meduse and broker a treaty with them so they stop the destruction.  She continues to hone her mathematical craft and her skills as a peacemaker.  This is filled with creativity and a strong female lead who is brilliant in math and science.  I really enjoyed this whole series.  
• Kingsbane by Claire Legrand
• Review
• I was so excited to get approved for an ARC of this.  This is a fairly large book and because it was already published when I was approved for the ARC I opted for the audio book.  The audio is very long but it is narrated by a wonderful narrator and she did an amazing job with this book.  I still have alot of open questions and felt the book could have been shorter.
• A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis
• Review
• I received an ARC of this one too, but since this was published in 2018 I opted for the audio on this one too.  This feels like an episode of Criminal Minds, which I enjoy.  It follows an FBI agent and a local police officer as they try to locate a missing girl.  I won't say more but its good.
• Shadowglass by Rin Chupeco
• I started this in June, but I don't think I'm going to finish it.  So far it is pretty good.  I'm excited to see how this plays out.  So far Tea is on a rampage destroying things and no one is sure why.  Like the previous books it alternates between Tea telling her story about what happened in the past and the Bard telling the story in the present as Tea has emerged from exile and exacts her vengeance.

Review: A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis

A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I received a copy of this via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.  This was published in 2018, so I listened to the audiobook, which was very good.

This is perfect for fans of Criminal Minds, NCIS, CSI, etc, it reads just like an episode of those types of shows. Someone goes missing and FBI agent Elsa begins the hunt to find them. In this case her unsub preys on teenage girls, and Elsa teams up with local police officer Lex to track down and find the missing girls. In addition to the case, we also follow Elsa's journey through her own childhood trauma as her father is terminally ill. The stress of her father's approaching death and the case force Elsa to face her own childhood trauma and bring up demons from her past.

As a fan of crime drama television, I enjoyed this. The characters had a good amount of baggage they each had to work through. This aided in the character development, which I thought was pretty good. As far as plot goes, I didn't find this terribly suspenseful. I won't spoil the mystery/thriller part, but I did find this fairly predictable. As stated above it plays out much like the crime shows I mentioned. Don't get me wrong I highly enjoy those shows and watch them regularly, but I find those fairly predictable as well.

If you like lighter less violent, non-creepy thrillers, this is a good read. I'm looking forward to reading the next book in the series. I will say there are quite a few things that could be trigger warnings in this book: child abuse, cutting, physcological abuse, kidnapping, drug use and abuse. Reader be warned.

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Review: Kingsbane by Claire Legrand

Kingsbane by Claire Legrand
Narrated by Fiona Hardingham
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I felt like this was a good sequel. I listened to the audiobook, but I was also provided with an ARC via Edelweiss for review. The narrator was amazing and she brought life to all of the characters in such a spectacular way. I highly recommend the audio because this book is long and much like with Furyborn the pacing was off in places. I find that audiobooks tend to help with pacing issues, especially with very large books.

This picks up where Furyborn left off, but we still haven’t gotten back to the opening bit in Furyborn where Rielle falls. I still have lots of unanswered questions, in fact after Kingsbane I think I have more unanswered questions. I hope that those will get answered in the next installment as I feel like we are getting there slowly. Much like in Furyborn we are still following the back and forth perspectives of Rielle and Eliana as they navigate their power and their place in the war and politics of their respective times. There are also some other perspectives randomly thrown in throughout the book. Some of them are valuable, while I felt others didn’t really lend much to the story.

A downfall of this series is that the books are much too long. Legrand's writing is getting better and better as she continues to hone her craft, but I feel like there were far too many verbose scenes that while written well didn't really add to the plot advancement. I think that is just the author's style, she is very descriptive and sections of the book are repetitive. That being said, there is a lot going on in this book but I’m still not clear where it is heading. I’d like a bit more on the magic system, I’m still not clear on castings and why some people need them and some don’t. We did get an explanation on the angels and the saints and that whole situation. I appreciated that. I’m still not really clear on the political motivations of any particular character anymore and I’m not sure if that is by design or if that is because I missed something. At the end of this book I kind of just felt overwhelmed and confused, I think that is because the ending felt rushed and after a 500+ page book that should not be the case. I’m looking forward to the next book and I’m hoping all will become clear in the final installment of this trilogy. I’m looking forward to seeing how things play out for our two leading ladies as things have shifted for both of them. We have started to see Rielle’s fall from grace and Eliana has begun to embrace her power but things are not going according to the original plan. I’m also really interested in seeing what part Corien plays in each of their stories as this all plays out.

I also have a big problem with this series being marketed as a YA, it is not. It is an adult fantasy series. A huge pet peeve of mine is when characters are teenagers and a series is labeled YA, I don’t care what their age is it is their actions and the content that should be considered when marketing a book to specific age groups not the age of the characters alone. I think there is a line that should be maintained when it comes to sex and violence in YA vs. adult fantasy and this is clearly adult. There are some questionable scenes in this book that while I can roll my eyes at them and say it’s just a book or that’s not OK in real life, young readers may not be ready for that content or may not want to read those scenes just yet. Again that’s just my opinion.


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Review: Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I received a copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.  This is due out on July 2, 2019.

Let me tell you I had no idea where this book was headed at the end. The ending threw me for a loop. I was not expecting. I expect this will be Riley Sager's next best-seller! I can see this becoming a movie soon.

This was not as fast-paced and page turning as his previous two books, but I still really enjoyed it. In the previous books I was never quite sure who dun it, in this one the suspense just wasn't there for me as I knew right away who the culprit was, just not what they were up to. The story follows Jules, a girl very down on her luck. She lost her boyfriend, her job, recently lost her parents, and she has found herself at rock bottom. When she finds herself interviewing for a job as an apartment-sitter at one of New York's most prestigious apartment buildings, it is almost too good to be true. Jules is hesitant to take the job because it just seems too easy for such a large sum of money. Left with no job prospects and nowhere to live, Jules takes the job and almost immediately discovers something strange going on at the famous Bartholomew. It is the setting of her favorite novel, but it has a sinister past and when Jules starts looking into some of the strange things that have happened there she is met with more than she bargained for. I won't say much more because it would spoil the plot.

The setting of the Bartholomew and its history was excellent. We don't normally get "world building" like that in real world settings. If you liked Sager's other books or thrillers in general, I recommend it.

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Review: Teardrop Shot by Tijan

Teardrop Shot by Tijan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I received an advanced copy of this via the author in exchange for an honest review.  This released today June 24, 2019.  I sat down yesterday and read all but the last few chapters in 1 sitting.  This book is fairly long, but I just couldn't put it down.

I really enjoyed this. It had just the right amount of humor, heartbreak, emotional baggage, romance, steam, and serious content to balance it all out. In the beginning I wasn't sure I was going to like it. As the description mentions, Charlie is a bit out there with her ridiculous questions to hide from the reality of life. At first I thought it was a bit much, she's kind of over the top at times, but really give Charlie a chance. You come to realize that behind some of the crazy stuff she says internally and outloud, she really is a great character. She develops slowly and I really came to love her by the end. I quickly came to appreciate Charlie and what she's been through. It takes a good portion of the book to find out what she's hiding from and why she's hiding it from all of her friends. Give her story time to unfold and you won't be sorry. Then there is Reese, I won't say he was perfect, but he was a decent guy. He has his moments, but he's got his own baggage to deal with and he's quick to take the blame when he makes a mistake.

Charlie finds herself fired from her current job and heading back to the summer camp she used to work at in her teens. She is also heading back to the friend group she abandoned due to undisclosed reasons that she isn't ready to tell them yet. Charlie has been hiding from some fairly tragic and traumatic events that have occured in her life and she's only just beginning to try to get over them. With no job, she heads back to the friends that are more like family to try and mend fences and see if she can rebuild the friendships she once had. Fortunately her friend group is awesome and they welcome Charlie back with open arms as if she never left. They give her all the time she needs to tell them what happened and are there for her when she needs them as her story unfolds. What Charlie doesn't know is that the "campers" are just any regular campers, the camp has been rented out by her favorite NBA basketball team and her favorite player is also going to be there. Once Charlie stops fangirling enough to function, she and Reese strike up a friendship after she asks him a series of very odd questions. They fall into a fast and easy friendship finding comfort in each other as they both have some pretty unfortunate things happening in their lives. They quickly move from just friends to something more, and that something more progresses to meaning something. This was a bit of a slow burn romance but I really enjoyed how their relationship progressed.

I think Tijan really handled the very heavy issues discussed in this book with great care and respect.

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Caleb Samuels.

Smug. Irritating. Pain in the … 
After high school, I was content with the idea of never seeing him again.
But as his sister Merilyn’s best friend, it was bound to happen eventually. I just didn’t expect it to be at her wake, where, following a foolish, naive, and completely ridiculous incident, I’m prepared to return to my completely routine life and wash my hands of him forever. Again. 
Unfortunately, Merilyn had other plans.
Even though she traveled the world, her final request is for Caleb and me to recreate our senior year bucket list and take her ashes along for one last adventure.
All the foolish, naive, and—you guessed it—completely ridiculous memories return in an instant.
He tormented me, teased me, kissed me like no one ever had, made me fall for him, and broke me like no one else ever would.
Reliving it all might end with a crash worse than the first.
Or maybe not. 
Maybe the fall would never end.

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J.M. Miller currently resides in Florida's panhandle. When she isn't distracted by social media sites, she writes romance novels that vary in genre from contemporary to fantasy.

Aside from spending time with her family, she loves to travel and will jump at the chance to go anywhere, whenever life allows.

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I asked for his criteria for bed buddies–that's the PG version.

He swore at me and said he didn’t do groupies. And just like that, our friendship was off to a great start.

Reese Forster was the starting point guard for the Seattle Thunder.

Gorgeous. Cocky. Loved by the nation.

He’s also attending preseason basketball training camp where I used to work.

Correction: where I work again, because I was fired from my last job.

And dumped.

And I might have a tiny bit of baggage, but that’s normal. Right?

Reese and I shouldn’t have become friends. We shouldn’t have become roommates.

And we really shouldn’t have started sleeping together … (Except we did.)

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Review: The Sorcery Trial by J.A. Armitage and Claire Luana

The Sorcery Trial by J.A. Armitage and Claire Luana 
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This is a really fun book, I can't wait to see what the rest of the series brings us. There is action, magic, creativity, and the characters are interesting. So far there is no romance, but there is the potential for something to happen in the future and I like that romance is not a driving factor in the plotline.

Jacq Cunninngham has landed herself a role as a gopher on an L.A. movie set in the hopes of one day becoming a stuntwoman. She is learning the ropes and hopefully will move her way up the ladder in Hollywood. When her boss finally lands his big show, Jacq finds herself running errands for all types of Fae and humans as they compete to be contestants on a new type of show, think American Ninja Warrior meets The Amazing Race, meets The Hunger Games but with all manner of Fae creature and with magic. Sounds good right? Jacq isn't interested in the Fae or magic as her sister disappeared after getting involved in a coven several years ago. Jacq is hoping to enter the Fae world in order to find her sister and bring her back, she is hopeful that The Fairy Race is her ticket in to that world and might provide some clue as to where her sister went. Unfortunately, Jacq isn't allowed to participate.

Jacq has a bit of a hero complex, she has to save everyone around her. She wants to save her sister, and when she is presented with an opportunity to save an injured contestant on the show, she finds herself a fan favorite and a contestant. Jacq no intention of using magic, and she doesn't care about winning fan favorite after her initial actions, she just wants to find her sister. She does well in all of the physical challenges, but when she is finally paired with Orin a surly fae who doesn't like anyone and only wants to win things start out rough as the race begins. Orin has his own motivations to win the race. He and Jacq eventually work out their issues and begin to work together.

Overall, this was fast paced and really enjoyable. I thought the characters could have used a bit more development and the world building could have been a bit more descriptive. Jacq is a bit all over the place and I hope we get more development from her in the next books. For a girl who wants to be a stuntwoman and win a game to save her sister, she is extremely irrational and impulsive when it comes to making decisions and she doesn't actually try to win said races. She is constantly stopping to help the other contestants to help them which I like about her, but I can't yet see how that helps her find her sister yet. I'm sure that will become clear as the series unfolds.

Overall I really enjoyed this and I'm very much looking forward to the remaining books in the series. I received an ARC of this book from the author in exchanged for an honest review.  This will be out on July 1, 2019.

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Review: Nexus by Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings

Nexus by Sasha Alsberg (Goodreads Author), Lindsay Cummings (Goodreads Author), 

Stephen Dexter (Narrator), Caitlin Davies (Narrator), Nicol Zanzarella (Narrator), 

Jordan Claire Mccraw (Narrator)

, My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I was provided an advanced copy via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I received the ARC approval the day before this was published, so I opted to listen to the audiobook. My review is of the final audio version.

This was much stronger than Zenith, and I'm glad I revisited Zenith prior to jumping into Nexus. As I mentioned earlier, the plot is much more focused in this book where the plot was all over the place in Zenith. Andi and Dex are focused on getting the crew of the Marauder back and defeating Nor and Valen. The girls have fallen victim to the Zenith virus and are under the compulsion of Valen as are most of the citizens of the galaxy. Andi and Dex decide to find and team up with the resistance to fight Nor and Valen, only to find several unexpected allies. I did really enjoy the kind of twist at the end; I like how the story took a turn in a different direction. I overall enjoyed how this closed up the storyline and wrapped up things for the characters.

This doesn't really go into the science behind how the virus works and how the Nexus satellite works. It doesn't really go deep into the science. As a fan of harder sci-fi, I appreciate some explanation of how the science works, but this is one case where you just need to accept that it just works. There are also some fantasy elements that either felt out of place for me or needed more explanation like the ice dragon and the powers given to the Yielded and the Exonians. I’m good with genre blending, but some of it just didn’t work for me. As far as character development goes, the characters stay pretty true to who they were in Zenith.

I do think that having so many perspectives telling the story was unnecessary. I felt that way with the first book as well. I find that multiple perspectives often fall short for me, and that was certainly the case here. Part of the problem was the audio narration; the narrators were often monotone and lackluster. I didn't feel the excitement and emotion that should have been there in the action and emotional scenes.


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He is everything she doesn’t want, so why does she want him so badly?

One week.

Private beach.

Invisible girl.

Jerk-faced bully.

What’s the worst that could happen?

Kaitlyn Parker has no problem being the invisible girl, which is why she finds herself hiding in various cabinets and closets all over her college campus. Despite her best efforts, she can’t escape the notice of Martin Sandeke—bad boy, jerkface bully, and the universe’s hottest, wealthiest, and most unobtainable bachelor—who also happens to be Kaitlyn’s chemistry lab partner.

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June TBR

June is shaping up to be a month of mystery and thrillers.  I used to read a ton of them, but I got away from them for a long time and recently rediscovered my love of them.  I have a ton of ARCs I'm hoping to knock out this month.  I just went through my to be reviewed pile it keeps getting longer.  I also just picked up a ton of books at the library sale.  I need to stop buying new books, but who am I kidding that is never going to happen.

Books/Ebooks/ARCs

• The Dragonet Prophecy by Tui T. Sutherland
• My son is never going to forgive me if I don't read this book.  He just started book 5 of the 2nd Percy Jackson series.  So he's read 10 books and I haven't read the one book he asked me to read in exchange for trying this series.  
• The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs by Katherine Howe
• This comes out June 25th.  This is a paranormal historical fiction from what I can tell.  The synopsis reminds me a bit of The Discovery of Witches and it has some ties to the Salem Witch trials which I find fascinating.  I'm looking forward to reading about this magical family.  
• Teardrop Shot by Tijan
• This is out June 24th and is a sports romance featuring basketball.  If you don't know much of my time is spent on the sidelines of a basketball court.  This is a new adult romance from Tijan and I'm looking forward to it.
• Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
• I've really enjoyed Sager's previous books, so when the opportunity to review this new release due out July 2nd.  I'm a fan of his thrillers and I can't wait to find out what twists and turns he has in store for us in this new book.
• Kingsbane by Claire Legrand
• I was so excited to get approved for an ARC of this.  This is already out, but I'm going to read it anyway because let's be real I want to know what happens next.  This one is pretty long so it will probably be the first book I tackle in June.
• Girls Like Us by Cristina Alger
• This one is due out July 2nd as well.  This is another thriller/mystery.  This one follows a father/daughter FBI team but things get interesting when the father becomes a suspect in a murder.  That's not a spoiler it's in the description of the book.  I'm looking forward to this one too.

Audiobooks

I have a bunch of books I hope to get to this month on audio, but I'm only going to list these 2.

• Nexus by Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings
• I have the ARC of this, but I was able to get the audio from Hoopla.  I've already started it and so far so good.  It is much more focused than Zenith.
• A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis
• I received an ARC of this one too, but I'm next up for the audio so hopefully I can knock this one out.  This is the first book in a mystery/thriller series and I've been really loving those lately.  The synopsis reads like an episode of Criminal Minds which I love.  I'm excited to get to this one.