Waiting On: My Funny Demon Valentine by Aurora Ascher & Book Recommendation: The Merciless by Danielle Vega @dvalentinebooks

This weeks Waiting On is by the actor of Sanctuary of the Shadow which unfortunately I didn't enjoy but this one sounds really good.  So I am excited to check it out!!  

This weeks Recommendation is one that I have read and DIE HARD LOVED!! If you love those old 80s horror movies then The Merciless is so for you!! 

Wating on: The Warbler by @sarahbethdurst & Recommendation: The Queen of Blood by @sarahbethdurst

Welcome to this weeks Waiting On and a Recommendation!! I hope that you enjoy this post and really check out these books with the links below.  So this week I can not wait to get to The Warbler by Sarah Beth Durst!! I have loved her adult books since I read The Queen of Blood forever ago and the fact that this is another fantasy from her I am hyped!!!  This book comes out March of 2025 so I hope you check it out!!  

So as for the recommendation of course I had to toss in The Queen of Blood!! If you haven't read these you should do that now!!  All of them are out and I hope that this series comes back with vengeance and gets super popular because I need more books set in this world!! So read it and love it!!! PLEASE!! 

Wating on & Recommendtions with @emilyrathbooks @tillie_cole

Welcome to my new weekly post where I give you one book I am waiting for and one book that I recommend.  

#BookRecommendations: Such Pretty Flowers by @kl_cerra @randomhouse

“Get it out of me.”

It was the last message Holly received from her brother, Dane, before he was found cleaved open in his fiancée’s lavish Savannah townhouse. Police ruled his death a suicide sparked by psychosis, but Holly can’t shake the idea that something else must have happened... Something involving another message he sent that night, the one that mentioned a “game” his fiancée, Maura, wanted to play…

Determined to discover the truth, Holly begins to stalk Maura—a magnetic, black-eyed florist with a penchant for carnivorous plants. But what begins as an investigation quickly veers into a darker fixation, one that lures Holly into the depths of Maura’s world: Savannah high society, eerie black roses, and a whisper of something more sinister. Soon, Holly is feeling a dark attraction to the one woman she shouldn’t trust. As Holly falls deeper for Maura and her secrets, she’s left with only one choice: find out what happened to Dane... before she meets the same fate.

A woman investigating her brother's apparent suicide finds herself falling for her prime suspect—his darkly mysterious girlfriend—in this edgy Southern gothic thriller.

This Weeks #Book Recommendations

Welcome to this weeks book recommendations!! Each week we will be sharing 3 books our reviewers loved so much we have to share them again!! 

#BookRecommendations: A Deal with the Elf King (Married to Magic, #1) by @EliseKova

Synopsis: Perfect for fans of A Court of Thorns and Roses and Uprooted, this stand-alone, fantasy romance about a human girl and her marriage to the Elf King is impossible to put down!

The elves come for two things: war and wives. In both cases, they come for death.

Three-thousand years ago, humans were hunted by powerful races with wild magic until the treaty was formed. Now, for centuries, the elves have taken a young woman from Luella's village to be their Human Queen.

To be chosen is seen as a mark of death by the townsfolk. A mark nineteen-year-old Luella is grateful to have escaped as a girl. Instead, she's dedicated her life to studying herbology and becoming the town's only healer.

That is, until the Elf King unexpectedly arrives... for her.

Everything Luella had thought she'd known about her life, and herself, was a lie. Taken to a land filled with wild magic, Luella is forced to be the new queen to a cold yet blisteringly handsome Elf King. Once there, she learns about a dying world that only she can save.

The magical land of Midscape pulls on one corner of her heart, her home and people tug on another... but what will truly break her is a passion she never wanted.

A Deal with the Elf King is a complete, *stand-alone novel*, inspired by the tales of Hades and Persephone, as well as Beauty and the Beast, with a "happily ever after" ending. It's perfect for fantasy romance fans looking for just the right amount of steam and their next slow-burn and swoon-worthy couple.

#BookRecommendations: Books that will make you cry!

Welcome to todays meme post!  Today we are talking about book recommendations.  Today we're going to share with you a few older titles that will knock your socks off and we'll make you cry so bad.  So make sure to have tissues on hand! 

Make sure to click the covers to be taken to Amazon! 

#BookRecommendations with @katbaldwin and the Stranje House Series!!

This week I don't have just one book for you but four of them!! Kathleen Baldwin's series Stranje House has been one of my all time favorites since it first came out!! I love Kathleen's writing and her stories and I am so excited to get my hands on the next book in the series!! 

#YearOfEpicReads Read A Book about an Anti Hero via @EpicReads

This week its all about Anti Heres!  We chose Furyborn! The stunningly original, must-read fantasy of 2018 follows two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world...or doom it.

#BookRecommendation: The Grace Year by @kim_liggett @WednesdayBooks

Synopsis: Survive the year.

No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden. 

In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood. That’s why they’re banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive. 

Sixteen-year-old Tierney James dreams of a better life—a society that doesn’t pit friend against friend or woman against woman, but as her own grace year draws near, she quickly realizes that it’s not just the brutal elements they must fear. It’s not even the poachers in the woods, men who are waiting for a chance to grab one of the girls in order to make a fortune on the black market. Their greatest threat may very well be each other. 

With sharp prose and gritty realism, The Grace Year examines the complex and sometimes twisted relationships between girls, the women they eventually become, and the difficult decisions they make in-between.

#YearOfEpicReads with A Dress for the Wicked by Autumn Krause via @EpicReads

This weeks prompt is to Read a book with a dress on the cover and I chose A Dress for the Wicked!  This book has been on our TBR for a few months so I thought hey it has a dress so why not!  This title is slated as "Betrayal has never been so fashionable than in Autumn Krause’s glamorous debut, perfect for fans of The Belles and The Luxe." Although I've never read the Luxe series I loved the Belles!! So Im excited to see what this book has in store! Let us know in the comments to see which title you are reading this week! 

#YearOfEpicReads: Read a Novella with @laurieannforest

This week I am excited to be rereading a title that I fell so in love with!!!! This title is a bind up of two novellas from The Black Witch Chronicles. And man if you haven't read it you need to now!!!  You guys know me that I don't really care for Novellas for the most part.  But these two are pretty much perfection!!! 

#BookRecommendation: Shifting by @WiggB @WalkerBooksUK

Synopsis: After bouncing from foster home to foster home, Magdalene Mae is transferred to what should be her last foster home in the tiny town of Silver City, New Mexico. 

Now that she's eighteen and has only a year left in high school, she's determined to stay out of trouble and just be normal. 

Agreeing to go to the prom with Bridger O'Connell is a good first step. Fitting in has never been her strong suit, but it's not for the reasons most people would expect-it all has to do with the deep secret that she is a shape shifter. 

But even in her new home danger lurks, waiting in the shadows to pounce. They are the Skinwalkers of Navajo legend, who have traded their souls to become the animal whose skin they wear-and Maggie is their next target.

Full of romance, mysticism, and intrigue, this dark take on Navajo legend will haunt readers to the final page. 

This weeks #AYearOfEpicReads with #SwoonyRomance via @EpicReads & @AmberR_Duell

This weeks prompt for A Year Of Epic Reads is Read a Book that Features a Swoony Romance!  So we have chosen to read Dream Keeper by Amber R. Duell!  

#BookRecommendations: Crown of Coral and Pearl by @mararaewrites

Hello readers!!  I knows its been a good while since I have done one of these. School, kids going back to school, and well just life in general have pretty much taken over.  But this book was to good not to post a recommendation for it!! This one came in the mail and I devoured it about two months before it came out! I could not put it down!!!!!   Make sure to check this one out!! And also Join us this month for #AuthorChat on Sept. 13th at 3pm EST on our Instagram to chat it up with the author!! 

Just click the above icon and make sure to follow us for the latest updates for when we go live! 

#BookRecommendation: The Iron King (The Iron Fey #1) by @jkagawa

Synopsis: Meghan Chase has a secret destiny; one she could never have imagined.

Something has always felt slightly off in Meghan's life, ever since her father disappeared before her eyes when she was six. 

She has never quite fit in at school or at home.

When a dark stranger begins watching her from afar, and her prankster best friend becomes strangely protective of her, Meghan senses that everything she's known is about to change.

But she could never have guessed the truth - that she is the daughter of a mythical faery king and is a pawn in a deadly war. 

Now Meghan will learn just how far she'll go to save someone she cares about, to stop a mysterious evil, no faery creature dare face; and to find love with a young prince who might rather see her dead than let her touch his icy heart.

#BookRecommendation: Hazel & Holly by @SaraCSnider #Giveaway

Today we have one great witchy tale to recommend!! This one has everything you need for one magical ride! 

Make sure to watch Sara C. Snider live interview with #AuthorChat!!  Click Here

#AYearOfEpicReads Siblings with @nickipaupreto Hosted @EpicReads

This week its all about siblings!! To I decided to try Crown of Feathers again for a second chance.  I didn't really care for this one the first time around. But, since it was from an Owlcrate box I always try to give them a second go.  This cover is just so pretty and the creatures in this one really haven't been seen in a lot of books that I have read. So I am going to give it another try! 

#AYearOfEpicReads Mental Health with @MarkDoesStuff Hosted @EpicReads

This week its all about mental heath!  Make sure to join the Year of Epic Reads Facebook Group here 

#BookRecommendation: The Tiger at Midnight (The Tiger at Midnight Trilogy #1) by @swatiteerdhala

Synopsis: Esha is a legend, but no one knows. It’s only in the shadows that she moonlights as the Viper, the rebels’ highly skilled assassin. She’s devoted her life to avenging what she lost in the royal coup, and now she’s been tasked with her most important mission to date: taking down the ruthless General Hotha.

Kunal has been a soldier since childhood, training morning and night to uphold the power of King Vardaan. His uncle, the general, has ensured that Kunal never strays from the path—even as a part of Kunal longs to join the outside world, which has been growing only more volatile.

Then Esha’s and Kunal’s paths cross—and an unimaginable chain of events unfolds. Both the Viper and the soldier think they’re calling the shots, but they’re not the only players moving the pieces. As the bonds that hold their land in order break down and the sins of the past meet the promise of a new future, both rebel and soldier must make unforgivable choices.

Inspired by ancient Indian history and Hindu mythology.

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