We’re back with another Sundays in Bed With… meme! This meme dares to ask you what book has been in your bed this morning and is hosted by Midnight Book Girl. Come share what book you’ve spent your time reading in bed or wish you had time to read today!
This Sunday I’ve spent my time in bed with Trade Me by Courtney Milan. This author has been on my TBR for a while now but this is my first book by her and so far, it’s a really strong start and I’m so glad to be enjoying this. 😃 I just hope that the feeling endures, lol!
I usually have these community posts as part of my monthly wrap-ups but the end of November was a tiny bit overwhelming so I didn’t have time to sort through my bookmarks for the posts. So I’ve decided to dedicate a separate post this month so I can still share the posts I read in November! ✨💜
I don’t even know where November went because it passed in a literal blink. How are we already in the last month of 2023 and can someone tell me how I can make time slow down a little? It’s been a stressful month with my anxiety skyrocketing thanks to work activities and I know the feelings won’t let up until at least mid-December when projects end and accounts close. 😮💨 Wish it was here already! The highlights for November include:
My older (and only) brother got married! 🎊
We gained a new sister in the family! 🌸
I caved and finally bought Fae Farm and it was the best decision cos I’m obsessed with this cosy game! 🎮
We’re back with another Sundays in Bed With… meme! This meme dares to ask you what book has been in your bed this morning and is hosted by Midnight Book Girl. Come share what book you’ve spent your time reading in bed or wish you had time to read today!
It’s another Sunday in bed not knowing what I want to be reading. I finished my last read this morning and I think I might continue my cautious progress on Song of Silver, Flame Like Night. But I also have a script that I need to memorize by tomorrow when I am starring in a video shoot for my office so I’ll likely be obsessing over that. 🙃
Four months after the explosion at the Garden, a place where young women known as the Butterflies were kept captive, FBI agents Brandon Eddison, Victor Hanoverian, and Mercedes Ramirez are still entrenched in the aftermath, helping survivors in the process of adjusting to life on the outside. With winter coming to an end, the Butterflies have longer, warmer days of healing ahead. But for the agents, the impending thaw means one gruesome thing: a chilling guarantee that somewhere in the country, another young woman will turn up dead in a church with her throat slit and her body surrounded by flowers.
Priya Sravasti’s sister fell victim to the killer years ago. Now she and her mother move every few months, hoping for a new beginning. But when she ends up in the madman’s crosshairs, the hunt takes on new urgency. Only with Priya’s help can the killer be found—but will her desperate hope for closure compel her to put her very life on the line?
⚠️CONTENT/TRIGGER WARNINGS
Paedophilia, incest, rape & sexual assault, eating disorder, PTSD, suicide, blood & gore depiction, murder, stalking
TL;DR:The second book in The Collector series was engaging and horrifying and I was hooked from the first page. It’s not very fast-paced but I loved the characters and their relationships, and I appreciated how the author explored all their trauma, grief, loss and means of coping. I loved the Sravasti women and rooted for these badasses the whole way through. Recommended for those who enjoy thrillers featuring serial killers and likeable but flawed characters.
Happy Friday book lovers! We’re back with another First Lines Friday, a weekly featurefor book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?Here are the rules:
Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
Finally… reveal the book!
First lines:
“The Last Kingdom had been brought to its knees, but the view was mighty fine from here.”
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