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January 26, 2023
📖 Book Review: Hot Vampire Next Door Seasons 2-3 by Nikki St. Crowe
Hot Vampire Next Door Season 2 by Nikki St. Crowe
Blurb:“Be a good girl for me, Mouse.”
Secrets are starting to come out about my past and the only thing that feels real anymore is my annoyingly hot vampire neighbor, Bran Duval.
He made me a promise to help me uncover my past, but I didn’t know those promises included the heat of his touch. Bran and I don’t always see eye to eye, but when we’re alone together in the dark, everything feels right, even if some of the things he does to me might be so very bad.
As my Pledge draws nearer, and more secrets come out, I can’t help but wonder: who am I? Or better yet, what am I?
Blurb:One of the scariest vampires in Midnight Harbor loves me.
I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing, but I’m not going to look too closely at it. Not when secrets are coming out about my past and a rival vampire is hellbent on not only possessing me, but my sister too.
If I want to survive the secrets and plotting, I’m going to need Bran Duval by my side. Having him in my bed is just a bonus.
My Review:I’m combining my review for Hot Vampire Next Door Seasons 2 & 3 as I read them back to back. In them we continue to follow Jessie as she begins to learn her true heritage and gets more and more involved with Bran as her Pledging draws ever closer.
I devoured these books and immediately continued the story on Kindle Vella. I love the spicy scenes between Jessie and Bran. We also get more of the pack leader, Cal who rivals my love for Bran. And also more of Bran’s brother Damien and Jessie’s sister Kelly and I’m so excited that they have their own Kindle Vella prequel story for me to check out.
If you like urban fantasy / paranormal books with vampires, werewolves, fae, and witches and if you like spicy reads I definitely recommend this series either in kindle/audiobook/paperback or in its original Kindle Vella form. But prepare to become addicted!
As always, check the author’s website for TW.
.54.5/5 Knives
January 24, 2023
Can’t Wait Wednesday… Four Found Dead
Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released.
Four Found Dead by Natalie D. Richards
Standalone, Thriller
ebook, Paperback
May 2, 2023 by Sourcebooks Fire
Blurb:At the movie theater where Jo works, the last show has ended. But the nightmare is just beginning.
Tonight, Tempest Theaters is closing forever, the last remaining business in a defunct shopping mall. The moviegoers have left, and Jo and her six coworkers have the final shift, cleaning up popcorn and mopping floors for the last time.
But after an unexpected altercation puts everyone on edge, the power goes out. Their manager disappears, along with the keys to the lobby doors and the theater safe, where the crew’s phones are locked each shift. Then, the crew’s tension turns to terror when Jo discovers the dead body of one of her co-workers.
Now their only chance to escape the murderer in their midst is through the dark, shuttered mall. With its boarded-up exits and disabled fire alarms, the complex is filled with hiding places for both pursuer and pursued. In order to survive this night, Jo and her friends must trust one another, navigate the sprawling ruins of the mall, and outwit a killer before he kills again.
Why I Want to Read Four Found Dead:Setting: movie theater in an out of business mall, a locked door mystery, just everything about this book is right up my alley! So excited for this one!
Will you be checking this one out? What upcoming releases are you looking forward to?
January 23, 2023
First Chapter, First Paragraph, Tuesday Intros: The Girl Who Survived
First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Socrates Book Reviews where you share the first paragraph of one of the books that you are currently reading. Each week bloggers will choose a book or books of the week (which will be one of the books that you are currently reading) and that book will take part in this book blog meme.
My book of the week is: The Girl Who Survived by Lisa Jackson
First Chapter, First Paragraph:Creeeaaak!
Kara’s eyes flew open.
What was that?
She squinted into the darkness.
“Don’t say a word.”
She started to scream.
Hmm… sounds like an intriguing start, right?
Teaser Tuesday:Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Ambrosia @ The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
Teaser:Frantic, breathing hard, she searched the forest, eyes straining against a curtain of snow, heart clamoring in terror as she saw shadows moving between the trees.
Blurb:In this deviously volatile, deliciously creepy thriller from the #1 New York Times bestseller, the lone survivor of a brutal family massacre must uncover the awful truth about the fateful night that left her forever marked…
Has she already had her last chance to be the final girl?
A Goodreads Hot Summer Mysteries
All her life, she’s been the girl who survived. Orphaned at age seven after a horrific killing spree at her family’s Oregon cabin, Kara McIntyre is still searching for some kind of normal. But now, twenty years later, the past has come thundering back. Her brother, Jonas, who was convicted of the murders has unexpectedly been released from prison. The press is in a frenzy again. And suddenly, Kara is receiving cryptic messages from her big sister, Marlie—who hasn’t been seen or heard from since that deadly Christmas Eve when she hid little Kara in a closet with a haunting, life-saving command: Don’t make a sound.
As people close to her start to die horrible deaths, Kara, who is slowly and surely unraveling, believes she is the killer’s ultimate target.
Kara survived once. But will she survive again? How many times can she be the girl who survived?
What do you think? Would you read this book?
Top Ten Tuesday: 10 New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2022
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish and currently hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl.
Top Ten Tuesday: 10 New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2022This week’s TTT is all about authors new to us that we discovered in 2022. If you didn’t read books by 10 new authors, share new-to-you authors whose books you added to your TBR in 2022. Get creative, if needed!
1. Kiersten Modglin
2. Erin Sterling
3. Ruby Dixon
4. Jade Presley
5. Nikki St. Crowe
6. Emma Hamm
7. Abigail Owen
8. Sulari Gentill
9. Penelope Douglas
10. Wendy Webb
What were some new-to-you authors you discovered in 2022? Were any of mine on your list?
January 22, 2023
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? – 23 January 2023
#IMWAYR is a weekly meme started on J Kaye’s blog and then was hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at The Book Date.
Hey Bookdragons! How was your reading week last week? I finished two books, struck out on a couple, and started yet one more…
What I Read Last Week: Hot Vampire Next Door Seasons 2-3 by Nikki St. CroweCurrently Reading:The Girl Who Survived by Lisa Jackson
Next Read:Daughters of the Lake by Wendy Webb
Have you read any of these? What are you reading this week?
January 21, 2023
The Sunday Post: Nail Appointments, Snowstorms, and Travel Planning
The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. See rules here: Sunday Post Meme.
Nail Appointments, Snowstorms, and Travel PlanningHey Bookdragons! Happy Sunday! How was your week? I finally kicked last week’s strep throat to the curb.
This week I squeezed in time to get my nails done and have a much needed day out with my mom. I’m now sporting gorgeous red nails and enjoyed shrimp fajitas and a trip to Starbucks on the way home.
I got my self-care day in just in time because then Wednesday night into Thursday our so far mild winter yielded a snowstorm. Walking home when the wet, heavy snow is up to your ankles is no fun at all. I’m ready for spring and summer!
Speaking of spring and summer, I spent part of Thursday loosely planning out my trips for the year with some potential dates. I’m hoping to revisit Charleston in late April, visit friends and family in Nashville in September, and take a third trip with my mom either to Las Vegas or somewhere we’ve both never been in November or whenever I can get my days off approved. I’m really excited to put these plans into action because I love to travel.
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? – 16 January 2023
First Chapter, First Paragraph, Tuesday Intros: What Lies in the Woods
Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Bookish Goals for 2023
Can’t Wait Wednesday… With My Little Eye
Book Review: The Midnight Club by Cynthia Murphy
The Friday 56: What Lies in the Woods
Book Blogger Hop: How many books are on your “to be read” list?
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? – 23 January 2023
First Chapter, First Paragraph, Tuesday Intros: A Flicker in the Dark
Top Ten Tuesday: 10 New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2022
Can’t Wait Wednesday… Four Found Dead
Book Reviews: Hot Vampire Next Door Seasons 2-3
The Friday 56: A Flicker in the Dark
Book Blogger Hop: Do you use social media to keep up with your favorite authors?
Reviews I Enjoyed This Week:
Caffeinated Reviewer: How To Sell A Haunted House By Grady HendrixBook’d Out: The Drift by C.J. Tudor
Novel Suspects:
Light Mysteries: What to Read After Watching Glass Onion
Non Bookish Blog:
January 19, 2023
Book Blogger Hop: How many books are on your “to be read” list?
Book Blogger HopThe Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Jennifer @ Crazy-For-Books in March 2010 and ended on December 31, 2012. With Jennifer’s permission, Billy @ Ramblings or a Coffee Addicted Writerrelaunched the hop on February 15, 2013. Each week the hop will start on a Friday and end the following Thursday. There will be a weekly prompt featuring a book related question. The hop’s purpose is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, befriend other bloggers, and receive new followers to your own blog.
January 20-26, 2023Question of the Week:How many books are on your “to be read” list?AOTW:On Goodreads: 23
On my active TBR shelf: 15-20
Unread Books on my Shelf: 100+
What about you? How many books would you guess are on your TBR?
The Friday 56: What Lies in the Woods
The Friday 56 is a weekly blog meme hosted by Freda’s Voice. How to participate: Grab a book, any book. Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader. If you have to improvise, that is okay. Find a snippet, short and sweet. Post it, and link up on Freda’s Voice so everyone knows to visit.
This week I’m participating with: What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall
Blurb:
They were eleven when they sent a killer to prison . . .
They were heroes . . . but they were liars.
Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic. Twenty-two years ago, she and her two best friends, Cassidy and Olivia, spent the summer roaming the woods, imagining a world of ceremony and wonder. They called it the Goddess Game. The summer ended suddenly when Naomi was attacked. Miraculously, she survived her seventeen stab wounds and lived to identify the man who had hurt her. The girls’ testimony put away a serial killer, wanted for murdering six women. They were heroes.
And they were liars.
For decades, the friends have kept a secret worth killing for. But now Olivia wants to tell, and Naomi sets out to find out what really happened in the woods—no matter how dangerous the truth turns out to be.
The Friday 56 Excerpt:“So far I’ve managed to bring up your newly ex-boyfriend, your strained relationship with your dad, and that time you almost died. Why don’t you pick the subject?” He suggested and I laughed.
What do you think? Would you read this book?
January 18, 2023
Book Review: The Midnight Game by Cynthia Murphy
The Midnight Game by Cynthia Murphy
Blurb:Rules of The Midnight Game:
Do not turn on the lights.
Do not go to sleep.
Do not leave the building.
When a group who have met on a creepy Deddit thread decide to meet in real life, they only have one plan in mind: they are going to summon the Midnight Man. And once you start the Midnight Game, you must finish it – there’s no other way out! Six strangers. One night. But how many survivors?
My Review:The Midnight Game is a fast-paced novel that will have you holding your breath with anticipation as you furiously turn the pages to see what’s going to happen next.
I love the mixture of text chats/emails and the “webpages” with info on the games as you read the story. I also love that we got to see each character’s perspective – even if some are unreliable narrators.
This was such a fun, eerie read and I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. I almost read it in one sitting and probably would have if I didn’t have to adult 
.
Is The Midnight Man real? Or is there a killer on the loose?
Overall, I loved this book and couldn’t read it fast enough! I’ll definitely be checking out this author’s other books.
My Rating:
5 of 5 Knives!
January 17, 2023
Can’t Wait Wednesday… With My Little Eye by Joshilyn Jackson
Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released.
With My Little Eye by Joshilyn Jackson
Standalone, Thriller
ebook, Hardcover, Paperback, Audiobook, 336 Pages
April 25, 2023 by William Morrow
Blurb:From the New York Times bestselling author of Never Have I Ever comes the hair-raising story of a mother who moves herself and her daughter across the country to lose a dangerous stalker—only to discover that it will take more than distance to escape him.
It started with the letters…
For actress Meribel Mills, disturbing fan mail is part of the price of fame. So when she starts getting creepy letters written in fruit-scented marker she is mostly unphased and diligently files them along with her other messages from unhinged fans. After all, she’s a single mom approaching forty, not the kind of hot young celeb who sparks dangerous obsessions. But there’s something different about Marker Man…
He’s been in her home…
Meribel’s sheets smell of unfamiliar cologne, and objects have gone missing around the house. Plus, the letters have become more perverse, with drawings of a naked Meribel tied up or chopped into pieces. While the police insist that stalkers hardly ever escalate to violence, Meribel has played the dead girl one too many times on TV to risk becoming her in real life. She and her daughter move from Los Angeles to Atlanta for a fresh start—but no distance is great enough.
He’s watching her…
Years of being in front of a camera have given Meribel a superpower—she can feel eyes on her, a creeping sensation like bees inside her skin. And someone definitely has her in their sights. Could Marker Man have followed her all the way across the country?
Who else might be watching—her ex-husband? The lover she left behind in LA? Her new neighbor? Suddenly, every man in her life is a suspect, but she can’t keep herself and her daughter safe from a monster she can’t identify. When the paths of all of these men collide, Meribel will find herself alone in the fight of her life, desperate to protect those she loves as danger closes in from all sides.
Why I Want to Read With My Little Eye:I’ve been wanting to try this author for a while and this one sounds really good. I love thrillers involving actresses as well as books with southern settings and this seems to check both those boxes. I also want to try Mother May I by this author.
Will you be checking this one out? Have you read anything by this author before?
