Hello, friends! 🌻 I forgot it was Monday and I didn’t have a review or any other post prepared for today. I’ve been slacking with reviews and I don’t have the energy to write anything off the top of my head today and none of the… many tags that I’ve bookmarked have caught my eye. I wanted to still post something though and after much searching, I landed on a tag that I haven’t done since April 2021, and that’s the #5OnMyTBR tag!
#5OnMyTBR is a weekly meme that was originally created by E @ The Local Bee Hunter’s Nook! This bookish meme gets us to dig even further into our TBRs by simply posting about five books on our TBR! You can learn more about it and find past and upcoming prompts here. On that note, I’m just going to get straight to it. ✨


Today’s prompt is:
WOODS
I’ve taken a bit of liberty with today’s topic and I’m combining books that have the word “wood(s)” in the title, books that have covers with “woods-y” vibes, or books that I kind of know revolve around woods-ish. I mean, it works, right? They are all on my TBR and I definitely can’t wait to read them! 😂


In A Dark Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
📖 SYNOPSIS
Nora hasn’t seen Clare for ten years. Not since the day Nora walked out of her old life and never looked back.
Until, out of the blue, an invitation to Clare’s hen party arrives. A weekend in a remote cottage – the perfect opportunity for Nora to reconnect with her best friend, to put the past behind her.
But something goes wrong.
Very wrong.
And as secrets and lies unravel, out in the dark, dark wood the past will finally catch up with Nora.

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
📖 SYNOPSIS
For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—is a chilling presence she can’t seem to live without.
Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human… until the cold makes him shift back again.
Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It’s her wolf. It has to be. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human—or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever.

Godkiller by Hannah Kaner
📖 SYNOPSIS
Enter a land of gods and monsters, soldiers and mercenaries, secrets and wishes—the explosive #1 internationally bestselling fantasy debut in a new trilogy for fans of The Witcher and Gideon the Ninth.
Gods are forbidden in the kingdom of Middren. Formed by human desires and fed by their worship, there are countless gods in the world—but after a great war, the new king outlawed them and now pays “godkillers” to destroy any who try to rise from the shadows.
As a child, Kissen saw her family murdered by a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing them and enjoys it. But all this changes when Kissen is tasked with helping a young noble girl with a god problem. The child’s soul is bonded to a tiny god of white lies, and Kissen can’t kill it without ending the girl’s life too.
Joined by a disillusioned knight on a secret quest, the unlikely group must travel to the ruined city of Blenraden, where the last of the wild gods reside, to each beg a favor. Pursued by assassins and demons, and in the midst of burgeoning civil war, they will all face a reckoning. Something is rotting at the heart of their world, and they are the only ones who can stop it.

The Luminaries by Susan Dennard
📖 SYNOPSIS
Hemlock Falls isn’t like other towns. You won’t find it on a map, your phone won’t work here, and the forest outside town might just kill you…
Winnie Wednesday wants nothing more than to join the Luminaries, the ancient order that protects Winnie’s town―and the rest of humanity―from the monsters and nightmares that rise in the forest of Hemlock Falls every night. Ever since her father was exposed as a witch and a traitor, Winnie and her family have been shunned. But on her sixteenth birthday, she can take the deadly Luminary hunter trials and prove herself true and loyal―and restore her family’s good name. Or die trying.
But in order to survive, Winnie must enlist the help of the one person who can help her train: Jay Friday, resident bad boy and Winnie’s ex-best friend. While Jay might be the most promising new hunter in Hemlock Falls, he also seems to know more about the nightmares of the forest than he should. Together, he and Winnie will discover a danger lurking in the forest no one in Hemlock Falls is prepared for.
Not all monsters can be slain, and not all nightmares are confined to the dark.

Bone Crier’s Moon by Kathryn Purdie
📖 SYNOPSIS
Bone Criers have a sacred duty. They alone can keep the dead from preying on the living. But their power to ferry the spirits of the dead into goddess Elara’s Night Heavens or Tyrus’s Underworld comes from sacrifice. The gods demand a promise of dedication. And that promise comes at the cost of the Bone Criers’ one true love.
Ailesse has been prepared since birth to become the matriarch of the Bone Criers, a mysterious famille of women who use strengths drawn from animal bones to ferry dead souls. But first she must complete her rite of passage and kill the boy she’s also destined to love.
Bastien’s father was slain by a Bone Crier and he’s been seeking revenge ever since. Yet when he finally captures one, his vengeance will have to wait. Ailesse’s ritual has begun and now their fates are entwined—in life and in death.
Sabine has never had the stomach for the Bone Criers’ work. But when her best friend Ailesse is taken captive, Sabine will do whatever it takes to save her, even if it means defying their traditions—and their matriarch—to break the bond between Ailesse and Bastien. Before they all die.

Have you read any of these books or are they also on your TBR?

Beautiful book covers!
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This is a fun meme. I haven’t read any of these, though I believe I own Shiver. I love the woodsy covers. My TBR is hurting for woods. The closest I get are trees – The Witch is Back could pass.
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I own the Shiver trilogy and I really need to get on to reading it 😂
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I’ve read the last two! I think both were good.
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I liked Shiver. That was a fun YA trilogy. I’ve got a “woods” recommendation for you. You should read Sorrow by Tiffanie DeBartolo.
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I love the Shiver series 💜
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I’ve only read Shiver years ago, but I remember it being a very atmospheric book!
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