Monthly Roundup: April 2017

April was a great month for reading! I read a total of 10 books:

Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver (3.5 stars)
Crocodile on the Sandbank - Elizabeth Peters (reread) (5 stars)
Strange the Dreamer - Laini Taylor (5 stars)
City of Miracles - Robert Jackson Bennett (4.5 stars)
Daughter of the Pirate King - Tricia Levenseller (4.5 stars)
Dumplin' - Julie Murphy (3.5 stars)
Daughter of Smoke and Bone - Laini Taylor (4 stars)
Nefertiti - Michelle Moran (3 stars)
Given to the Sea - Mindy McGinnis (2.5 stars)
Quest of the Kings - Robert Evert (2 stars)

Well, this month certainly had some incredible quality books! I got to read three highly anticipated novels from this year and oh man they did not disappoint! I LOVED Daughter of the Pirate King from the first chapter and can't wait for the sequel. Robert Bennett perfectly finished his Divine Cities trilogy with City of Miracles. And now I have to go read everything Laini Taylor has written because I LOVED Strange the Dreamer.

Next month the book I'm most excited about is A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas!!! It comes out right before my birthday, while we're on holiday!

I've also subscribed to the FairyLoot book box, and my first box contained the book Given to the Sea by Mindy McGinnis. I'm about 99% positive their book for May will be Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh, said to be a mix of Mulan mixed with 47 Ronin, so I'm hoping that lives up to expectations!

The May Selection for the Book Club is The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. It's had a lot of buzz and I'm really looking forward to reading it.

What have you read this month? What are you looking forward to in May?

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Monthly Roundup - January 2017

In January I read 6 books, which is keeping with the pace I need in order to read 80 books this year. 1) The Reader - Traci Chee (3 stars) 2) Wayfarer - Alexandra Bracken (3.5 stars) 3) Windwitch - Susan Dennard (3.5 stars) 4) The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead (3 stars) 5) Behind the Throne - K. B. Wagers (5 stars) 6) Queen of Shadows - Sarah J. Maas (4 stars) I say that's a pretty good start to 2017! I recently started a new job, so posts have slowed while I rediscover the work/life balance, but overall I really enjoyed the books I read this month and would recommend them all (especially Behind the Throne !!! Gahh!!! Review coming soon!). My TBR pile for February is a mile long, but I'm especially excited for A Conjuring of Light, the conclusion to the Shades of Magic series by V. E. Schwab. I've also got the February Book Club pick, Daring Greatly by Brené Brown, and I'll finally finish up Empire of Storms , the latest book in Sarah

Ensnared

Ensnared by Rita Stradling I received a free ARC of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis ( from Goodreads ) "Alainn’s father is not a bad man. He’s a genius and an inventor. When he’s hired to create the robot Rose, Alainn knows taking the money is a mistake. Rose acts like a human. She looks exactly like Alainn. But, something in her comes out wrong. To save her father from a five year prison sentence, Alainn takes Rose’s place. She says goodbye to the sun and goes to live in a tower no human is allowed to enter. She becomes the prisoner of a man no human is allowed to see. Believing that a life of servitude lies ahead, Alainn finds a very different fate awaits her in the company of the strange, scarred recluse." Review The premise sounded very interesting: Beauty and the Beast retelling in the near-future with robots and AI. But it really really fell flat. I read the first few chapters, then put it down for a couple of months .

Arcanum Unbounded

Arcanum Unbounded - Brandon Sanderson Synopsis A collection of Sanderson's "short" stories and novellas set in his Cosmere universe. Review It's no secret that Brandon Sanderson is one of my favorite authors. His writing is stupendous, his stories are incredible and his plot twists are mind-blowing. Rarely can I figure out exactly where the story is headed, but I am always exceptionally pleased when I get there! Sanderson isn't as known for his "short" stories. Probably because they aren't short. Two of them in this collection clock in around 40k words, which is approaching the line between a novella and a novel. A few of the stories ( The Emperor's Soul, Sixth of the Dusk, Shadows for Silence ) can be read with no knowledge of his other books, and would perhaps be a good introduction to his writing. Those ones you can get individually or are published in other anthologies. I myself had already read a few of the stories, but withi

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