Leslie and I are planning a group read for Dungeon Crawler Carl starting in January 2026! Find more details on Leslie’s page or at the end of this post!

Hello, hello and welcome back to another episode of WWW Wednesday, a weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Taking On A World of Words, which means I’ll be answering these questions:

1. What did you read last?
2. What are you currently reading?
3. What will you read next?

Since last week I’ve managed to finish 3 books—one of which was a novella.

Killers of A Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn ★★★★☆
I just finished this on the train ride home and it was such a fun time! I loved Billie and her gang of senior women assassins. I loved following them on their journey from the past as they’re taught to be some of the most lethal assassins in the world to getting older, retiring, and then being forced to keep doing what they do best. They’re flawed, sometimes messy, but so human. Billie was such a great main POV—I loved her to bits! While the ending wasn’t at all surprising, it was still satisfying. Don’t underestimate seniors, especially when you train them to be madly proficient killers. 😉

All My Hexes (Pine Gulch Ever After #0.5) by Hazel Mack ★★★★☆
This was a fun little prequel novella that made me very excited for the first book in the Pine Gulch Ever After series. Hazel Mack’s monster romance series are super fun, sexy AF, and overall, a very good time!

The Impossible Fortune (The Thursday Murder Club #5) by Richard Osman ★★★★☆
Slipping back into the mystery with these seniors was beyond easy. While the mystery itself was admittedly a bit lackluster, I loved getting more personal interactions and involvement with those who mean the most to certain characters in the TMC. I’m really happy that Osman said he’ll be continuing this series because I quite love these characters a whole lot! 💜

• Royal Assassin ⇢ 34% ⇢ I’ve been making (very) slow but steady progress with this read! She’s a chonkster at close to 800 pages and the action has slowed considerably at this point in the book, but I’m still enjoying the depth we’re getting on the characters, politics, and the magic.
• Death in the Spires ⇢ 18% ⇢ I started this over the weekend when I couldn’t quite settle on a book to read. I made decent progress but I had to do a lot of re-reading of sections cos I kept zoning out. It’s definitely not the book but my brain because I’ve been so distractible! I want to continue though cos I’m curious to see whodunit.
• Crier’s War ⇢ 47% ⇢ I had grand plans to finish this book over the weekend but then I did close to zero reading… 🫣 I’ve fallen behind on this as Leslie and Julie have already finished, but at least Ali and I are on the same page! 😂 Hoping to either finish it sometime during the week or more likely the weekend!

I got sent the eARC of Canterbary’s latest just a few days before the pub date, so I didn’t get the chance to read it yet. But I think I’ll prioritize that next and whatever else my mood calls for!

Join our big group read for Dungeon Crawler Carl in January 2026!

Even before we finished the seventh book in September, we already knew we wanted to do a bigger re-read of the series in the lead up to the eighth book coming out in 2026! We also figured this would be really fun reading in a bigger group, so that’s what we’re doing! We’ll start in January and read roughly 1 book per month to prepare for the release of the next book later in the year! We’re hosting it on Instagram so leave a comment below or message me (@dinipandareads) or Leslie (@booksarethenewblack11) over there if you’d like to join.
🧨 GET EXCITED, CRAWLERS! 🧨

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