IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MOE ABOUT MY WEEKLY WEDNESDAY POSTS HERE IS WHERE I EXPLAIN THEM A BIT MORE: WEDNESDAY WEEKLY #1
AUDIOBOOK(S) READ
The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager (SCRIBD)
GOODREADS SYNOPSIS
Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their tiny cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. The games ended when Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out of the cabin in the dead of night. The last she–or anyone–saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips.
Now a rising star in the New York art scene, Emma turns her past into paintings–massive canvases filled with dark leaves and gnarled branches that cover ghostly shapes in white dresses. The paintings catch the attention of Francesca Harris-White, the socialite and wealthy owner of Camp Nightingale. When Francesca implores her to return to the newly reopened camp as a painting instructor, Emma sees an opportunity to try to find out what really happened to her friends.
Yet it’s immediately clear that all is not right at Camp Nightingale. Already haunted by memories from fifteen years ago, Emma discovers a security camera pointed directly at her cabin, mounting mistrust from Francesca and, most disturbing of all, cryptic clues Vivian left behind about the camp’s twisted origins. As she digs deeper, Emma finds herself sorting through lies from the past while facing threats from both man and nature in the present.
And the closer she gets to the truth about Camp Nightingale, the more she realizes it may come at a deadly price.
Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp (SCRIBD)
GOODREADS SYNOPSIS:
Best friends Corey and Kyra were inseparable in their snow-covered town of Lost Creek, Alaska. When Corey moves away, she makes Kyra promise to stay strong during the long, dark winter, and wait for her return.
Just days before Corey is to return home to visit, Kyra dies. Corey is devastated―and confused. The entire Lost community speaks in hushed tones about the town’s lost daughter, saying her death was meant to be. And they push Corey away like she’s a stranger.
Corey knows something is wrong. With every hour, her suspicion grows. Lost is keeping secrets―chilling secrets. But piecing together the truth about what happened to her best friend may prove as difficult as lighting the sky in an Alaskan winter…
AUDIOBOOK(S) READING
99 Red Balloons By Elisabeth Carpenter (SCRIBD)
GOODREADS SYNOPSIS:
Two girls go missing, decades apart. What would you do if one was your daughter?
When eight-year-old Grace goes missing from a sweetshop on the way home from school, her mother Emma is plunged into a nightmare. Her family rallies around, but as the police hunt begins, cracks begin to emerge.
What are the secret emails sent between Emma’s husband and her sister? Why does her mother take so long to join the search? And is Emma really as innocent as she seems?
Meanwhile, ageing widow Maggie Taylor sees Grace’s picture in the newspaper. It’s a photograph that jolts her from the pain of her existence into a spiralling obsession with another girl – the first girl who disappeared…
PHYSICAL BOOK(S) READ
Did I Mention I Love You by Estelle Maskame (won a copy from twitter)
GOODREADS:
When sixteen-year-old Eden Munro agrees to spend the summer with her estranged father in the beachfront city of Santa Monica, California, she has no idea what she’s letting herself in for. Eden’s parents are divorced and have gone their separate ways, and now her father has a brand new family. For Eden, this means she’s about to meet three new step-brothers. The eldest of the three is Tyler Bruce, a troubled teenager with a short temper and a huge ego. Complete polar opposites, Eden quickly finds herself thrust into a world full of new experiences as Tyler’s group of friends take her under their wing. But the one thing she just can’t understand is Tyler, and the more she presses to figure out the truth about him, the more she finds herself falling for the one person she shouldn’t – her step-brother.
Throw in Tyler’s clingy girlfriend and a guy who has his eyes set on Eden, and there’s secrets, lies and a whole lot of drama. But how can Eden keep her feelings under control? And can she ever work out the truth about Tyler?
Did I Mention I Love You is the first book in the phenomenal DIMILY trilogy, following the lives of Eden Munro and Tyler Bruce as they try to find their way in an increasingly confusing world.
PHYSICAL BOOK(S) READING
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (bought a copy from Barnes & Noble)
GOODREADS SYNOPSIS
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Book One of the Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.
Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.
It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.
One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.
Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.
Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar’s niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan’s motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.
The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.
Speak again the ancient oaths:
Life before death.
Strength before weakness.
Journey before Destination.
and return to men the Shards they once bore.
The Knights Radiant must stand again.
E-BOOK(S) READ
NONE THIS WEEK
E-BOOK(S) READING
Broken Things by Lauren Oliver (eARC from Edelweiss)
GOODREADS SYNOPSIS:
It’s been five years since Summer Marks was brutally murdered in the woods.
Everyone thinks Mia and Brynn killed their best friend. That driven by their obsession with a novel called The Way into Lovelorn the three girls had imagined themselves into the magical world where their fantasies became twisted, even deadly.
The only thing is: they didn’t do it.
On the anniversary of Summer’s death, a seemingly insignificant discovery resurrects the mystery and pulls Mia and Brynn back together once again. But as the lines begin to blur between past and present and fiction and reality, the girls must confront what really happened in the woods all those years ago—no matter how monstrous.
BOOKS ADDED TO MY COLLECTION
- BATMAN BY MARIE LU (KINDLE DEAL)
- COLD FIRE BY JAMES HARTLEY (BLOG TOUR)
- THE REVOLUTION OFJACK FROST (NETGALLEY)
- ANY SECOND BY KEVIN EMERSON (NETGALLEY)
- THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO CHAKRAS BY ATHENA PERAKIS (NETGALLEY)
- FAME FATE AND THE FIRST KISS BY KASIE WEST (EDELWEISS)
I want to get into Brandon Sanderson books as well! Are you going to do a review on it?
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It may take me forever to finish but I do plan on it 🙂 lol
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I need to add Batman to my collection soon!
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Ahhh it’s a great time with the kindle deal 🙂
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nice update girl,
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Thank you 🙂
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I just think the cover for Broken Things is gorgeous. Looks like you had a pretty successful week!
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Not too bad of a week 🙂
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How did you like Before I Let Go? I enjoyed Marieke Nijkamp’s other book, This is Where it Ends, but I’m not quite interested in this particular one.
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I really enjoyed it, it was really different!
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Before I go sounds amazing!!
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Ahhhh it was awesome!!
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99 Red Balloons is definitely the stand out book for me here.
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It’s super good so far
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99 red balloons sounds so good!
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I’m just about done and am really enjoying it!!
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I’ve heard lots of mixed opinions about 99 Red Balloons! Haven’t read it myself yet though xxx
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I’m enjoying the intricacies throughout the book
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I really want to get to the DIMIlY series!
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Ahhh I saw Linda say she was reading it and I’m so glad I jumped in lolol
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Ooh I’ve just started the last time I lied! I’m interested to know what you think of it
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Ahhh yay!!! I will have a review up soon but I had high hopes and was NOT disappointed lol
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Yeay!! It’s very early on for me as in chapter 1 but I have high hopes after final girls
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i have a copy of before i let go, youll have to let me know if its any good
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It was really different, I enjoyed it 🙂
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Ooooh I’m really interested in what you thought/think about Did I Mention I Love You!
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LOVED IT! I’m now trash for this series… I blame Linda!!!
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I love DIMILY!! I really need to finish the rest of the series.
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I’m trash for it, I’m reading the next one and the third is being delivered today 🙈🙈🙈
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I really want go read Before I Let Go.
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It was really good!!!
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You’ve got through so many books!! This is amazing. I hope you liked The Last Time I Lied, I have that on my TBR! I also need to read Before I Let You Go too. 🙂
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I loved it! I’m huge on that author Final Girls was soooo good!!!
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I really need to read some Brandon Sanderson x
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Ahhh everyone does!!
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I loved Before I Go !
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Same it was so worth it!!
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Yay for Scribd because it’s so worth it 😄 and I’m so bad at kindle deals, I just bough like 25 books
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Ahhh I try to limit my kindle and book buying in general… but as usual I fail 😂😂😂
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I think the digital aspect of kindle makes it extra hard for me haha so I kind of just try to forget that they have deals sometimes 😂
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The deals really kill me haha
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Did I Mention That I Love You sounds sooooo good!
Carly xx
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I’m on the second and loving it!!!
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