Can’t Wait Wednesday 5/18/22

 

 

Can’t Wait Wednesday/Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Wishful Endings and was previously hosted by Breaking the Spine.   It was created to show off a future release that you are excited for.

Review of 99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne (ebook)

 

99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne

Crush: a strong and often short-lived infatuation, particularly for someone beyond your reach…

Darcy Barrett has undertaken a global survey of men. She’s travelled the world, and can categorically say that no one measures up to Tom Valeska, whose only flaw is that Darcy’s twin brother Jamie saw him first and claimed him forever as his best friend. Despite Darcy’s best efforts, Tom’s off limits and loyal to her brother, 99%. That’s the problem with finding her dream man at age eight and peaking in her photography career at age twenty—ever since, she’s had to learn to settle for good enough.

When Darcy and Jamie inherit a tumble-down cottage from their grandmother, they’re left with strict instructions to bring it back to its former glory and sell the property. Darcy plans to be in an aisle seat halfway across the ocean as soon as the renovations start, but before she can cut and run, she finds a familiar face on her porch: house-flipper extraordinaire Tom’s arrived, he’s bearing power tools, and he’s single for the first time in almost a decade.

Suddenly Darcy’s considering sticking around to make sure her twin doesn’t ruin the cottage’s inherent magic with his penchant for grey and chrome. She’s definitely not staying because of her new business partner’s tight t-shirts, or that perfect face that’s inspiring her to pick up her camera again. Soon sparks are flying—and it’s not the faulty wiring. It turns out one percent of Tom’s heart might not be enough for Darcy anymore. This time around, she’s switching things up. She’s going to make Tom Valeska 99 percent hers.

Top Ten Tuesday 5/17/22

 

 

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.   You can find each week’s topic on her site.

This week’s topic is books I was so excited to get, but still haven’t read.

I feel  like this list could be huge.  I just looked through my shelves and picked some random ones.  A lot are sequels.  The books are in no particular order.

Blog Tour for Twelfth by Janet Key (promo)

 

 

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Twelfth by Janet Key.  This tour is being hosted by TBR and Beyond Tours.

 

Twelfth by Janet Key

Genre: Middle Grade Mystery Historical

Publishing Date: May 17, 2022

Goodreads Monday 5/16/22

 

 

Goodreads Monday was hosted by Lauren’s Page Turners.   It’s now hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog.  All you have to do is show off a book from your TBR that you’re looking forward to reading.

It’s getting hard to remember which ones I’ve done already, so I’m sorry if you see a book pop up on these more than once.  It will happen.  Probably a lot.

April 2022 Book Haul

 

I actually didn’t buy a ton of books in April.  Most of my purchases were kindle deals, so I definitely spent less.

 

Physical:

 

Auction win and sent by author:

Down The TBR Hole #238

 

Down The TBR Hole is a meme created by lost in a story that revolves around cleansing your TBR of all those books you’re never going to read and sort through it all to know what’s actually on there.

Most of you probably know this feeling, your Goodreads TBR pile keeps growing and growing and it seems like there is no light at the end of the tunnel. You keep adding, but you add more than you actually read. And then when you’re scrolling through your list, you realize that you have no idea what half the books are about and why you added them. Well that’s going to change!

It works like this:

• Go to your goodreads to-read shelf.
• Order on ascending date added.
• Take the first 5 (or 10 (or even more!) if you’re feeling adventurous) books. Of course, if you do this weekly, you start where you left off the last time.
• Read the synopses of the books
• Decide: keep it or should it go

I am going to remove sequels for books when I haven’t read book one.  They may or may not get added back later.

Since I was to all the recent books, I decided to go back to the beginning of my TBR and  remove a lot of older books I kept the first time around.

Blog Tour for Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed (earc review)

 

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed.  This tour is being hosted by TBR and Beyond Tours.

 

Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed

Genre: Young Adult Mystery Thriller

Publishing Date: May 10, 2022

Anticipated June 2022 YA Releases

 

There are quite a few books coming out in June (this isn’t all of them).  These dates were taken from Goodreads, so it’s possible something could have changed.

*read

%arc to read

$preordered

Blog Tour for Dead End Girls by Wendy Heard (promo)

 

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Dead End Girls by Wendy Heard.  This tour is being hosted by TBR and Beyond Tours.

 

Dead End Girls by Wendy Heard

Genre: Young Adult Thriller

Publishing Date: May 10, 2022