You’re helping me choose my next read!
Hello awesome people and welcome to a slightly different post from the ones you’re used to.
As my days are getting busier and busier and I have almost zero free time, I don’t want to start a book that I’m not going to absolutely ADORE. So, you’re going to help me pick my next read, because… Well, if I can’t trust my bookish friends, then who can I trust?
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Without any further ado, let’s see the nominees!
1. TEARS OF FROST (HEART OF THORNS, #2), BY BREE BARTON
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“The electric second book in the Heart of Thorns trilogy explores the effects of power in a dark magical kingdom—and the fierce courage it takes to claim your body as your own.
Mia Rose is back from the dead. Her memories are hazy, her body numb—but she won’t stop searching. Her only hope to save the boy she loves and the sister who destroyed her is to find the mother she can never forgive. Pilar is on a hunt of her own. Betrayed by her mother, and plagued by a painful secret, she’s determined to seek out the only person who can exact revenge. All goes according to plan… until she collides with Prince Quin, the boy whose sister she killed.
As Mia, Pilar, and Quin forge dangerous new alliances, they are bewitched by the snow kingdom’s promise of freedom and opportunity. But with the winter solstice drawing near, they must confront the truth beneath the glimmering ice, as lines between friend, foe, and lover vanish like snowflakes on a flame.”
I was blessed and lucky enough to get an early ARC of this beauty from Bree herself and I’ve been slowly reading the sequel of one of my favourite books of 2018, mostly because I’m taking notes while reading it and because I want to give some good feedback to Bree. But, truth be told, this is indeed a MASTERPIECE! The world-building is phenomenal, the diversity and the representation is heartwarming to say the least, and the plot twists are from an entirely different universe!
2. TRULY DEVIOUS (TRULY DEVIOUS, #1), BY MAUREEN JOHNSON
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“Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. “A place” he said, “where learning is a game.”
Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of murder, signed with the frightening pseudonym, Truly Devious. It became one of the great unsolved crimes of American history.
True-crime aficionado Stevie Bell is set to begin her first year at Ellingham Academy, and she has an ambitious plan: She will solve this cold case. That is, she will solve the case when she gets a grip on her demanding new school life and her housemates: the inventor, the novelist, the actor, the artist, and the jokester. But something strange is happening. Truly Devious makes a surprise return, and death revisits Ellingham Academy. The past has crawled out of its grave. Someone has gotten away with murder.”
This is something completely out of my comfort zone, as I rarely read mysteries and thrillers, but this book gives me Harry Potter slash Hercule Poirot kind of vibes, so I would love to give it a go. I just want it to be EPIC, otherwise this might be one of the very few books I’m gonna DNF in my entire life.
3. WICKED FOX (GUMIHO, #1), BY KAT CHO
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“A fresh and addictive fantasy-romance set in modern-day Seoul.
Eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung has a secret–she’s a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox who must devour the energy of men in order to survive. Because so few believe in the old tales anymore, and with so many evil men no one will miss, the modern city of Seoul is the perfect place to hide and hunt.
But after feeding one full moon, Miyoung crosses paths with Jihoon, a human boy, being attacked by a goblin deep in the forest. Against her better judgment, she violates the rules of survival to rescue the boy, losing her fox bead–her gumiho soul–in the process.
Jihoon knows Miyoung is more than just a beautiful girl–he saw her nine tails the night she saved his life. His grandmother used to tell him stories of the gumiho, of their power and the danger they pose to humans. He’s drawn to her anyway.
With murderous forces lurking in the background, Miyoung and Jihoon develop a tenuous friendship that blossoms into something more. But when a young shaman tries to reunite Miyoung with her bead, the consequences are disastrous . . . forcing Miyoung to choose between her immortal life and Jihoon’s.”
I’ve been deliberating whether I should pick this one up from the day I received my July FairyLoot box. But I’ve been reading so much fantasy lately and everything started to feel kinda blurry and so similar to one another. So, my issue is this: will this be one of the many fantasy novels out there and the Korean mythology will make it even harder for me to be fully invested in this book, or it’s going to be unique and the kind of Urban Fantasy novel I’ve been dying to read for quite some time?
Which book do you guys suggest I pick up next and why? I’m not in a specific genre mood, I just want the book to be… unputdownable!
Thank you all for stopping by once again, and for helping me choose which book to read next.
I love you all to Pluto and back, and I want you to know that I don’t take your presence here for granted! It’s because of you that I’m trying to come up with new content and that I keep writing here.
I look forward to reading your thoughts and suggestions in the comment section below.
Till next time… Toodles!
