I've got a lot of books planned to read for this month. More than normal, but most of them are novellas. For book club this month we're reading The Will of the Many, which I just finished a reread of so, I won't be reading it again but I'll be starting the second book, The Strength of the Few this month.
Reading for NetGalley-
The Shippers by Katherine Center
One of the hottest, fastest-rising rom-com
stars delivers her latest swoon-worthy novel about a destination wedding
on a cruise ship.
After a whole lifetime of being bad at
love, JoJo Burton decides to solve her intimacy issues once and for all
at her sister’s destination wedding on a cruise ship. With the help of a
little pop psychology, she diagnoses herself with a fixation on the
neighborhood guy who was her her first crush and first kiss (and who
just happens to be a newly-divorced wedding guest ), and she decides to
woo him during the cruise for some long-delayed closure. Only problem
is, her sister’s a little busy being a bride at the moment—so JoJo ropes
in her childhood bestie, Cooper Watts, to be her wing man. Cooper: who
RSVPed no, but then showed up, anyway. Cooper: who left town without a
word four years earlier and moved to London. Cooper: who was, if she’s
honest, the worst heartbreak of JoJo’s life. It’s bliss for her to see
him again, and it’s agony, too—and the more they team up for Project
Conquest, the more she obsesses over questions she can’t bring herself
to ask.
Shipboard antics ensue in this witty, heart-tugging,
childhood-friends-to-lovers romance—as JoJo and Cooper fake flirt, slow
dance, share a cabin, sing duets, treat sunburns, get jealous, rescue
each other over and over, and finally, at last, figure it all out in the
most blissful, swoony, romantic way.
No one does summer romance
quite like Katherine Center. THE SHIPPERS will take readers on the
cruise of a lifetime in a story awash with romantic longing, top-notch
banter, long-held secrets . . . and true love rediscovered.
-This month is sci-fi month for the monthly reading challenge so I decided to not only read Platform Decay but I decided to do a reread of the whole series in chronological order. I won't post the covers and descriptions of all the books in the series but there are 8 in total with most of them being novellas.
Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries #8) by Martha Wells
Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in
the next installment in Martha Wells' bestselling and award-winning
Murderbot Diaries series.
Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good.
Having
volunteered to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realises that it will
have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know.
Including human children. Ugh.
This may well call for... eye contact!
Another NetGalley read that works for sci-fi month.
The Blindside (Planetside #5) by Michael Mammay
Colonel Carl Butler charges back into
the world of military crisis, corporate malfeasance, and intergalactic
mystery in the action-packed fifth Planetside novel from science fiction
master Michael Mammay.
Carl Butler has returned to his
home planet from the moon Taug and is looking forward to some rest and
relaxation. But following two mysterious deaths connected with the Taug
mission, he realizes that the intruders that recently set off his home’s
security system might be looking to add him to the death toll.
Having
been Butler’s muscle on numerous missions, Mac is no stranger to
getting involved with mysteries that should be none of his business. So
when the daughter of one of his gym members goes missing, he offers to
help. Mac assumes she’s a simple runaway, but the case turns out not to
be so clear-cut. Wondering if these strange occurrences are somehow
related, Butler—along with Mac, Ganos, and the rest of his small
crew—once again finds himself neck deep in intrigue.
As the clues
for the various cases begin to intertwine, Butler sees the hand of an
old enemy at work, and…well…he’s never been one to sit back and wait for
something to happen. Gathering the team, he heads off across the galaxy
to confront his suspects head-on.
But this time, they’re waiting for him.
-I'll be reading this one if I have time.
An Ordinary Sort of Evil (A Rip Through Time #5) by Kelley Armstrong
New York Times
bestselling author Kelley Armstrong returns to Victorian Scotland in the latest in the genre-blending Rip Through Time series.
Modern-day
homicide detective Mallory Mitchell has grown accustomed to life in
Victorian Scotland after travelling 150 years into the past into the
body of a housemaid. She’s built a new life for herself. Even though she
works as an assistant to forensic-science pioneer Dr. Duncan Gray and
Detective Hugh McCreadie, she considers them true friends. And with Gray
in particular, perhaps, someday, something more.
Late one
night, Gray and Mallory are summoned urgently to the home of Lady Adler,
a patron of Gray’s undertaking business, and they assume there's been a
death in the household. But instead, they arrive in the midst of a
seance with a ghost demanding Gray's presence. The ghost is Lady Adler's
former maid, who had gone missing but now requests that Gray
investigate her murder. Although Gray and Mallory are skeptical, they
agree to look into the matter, whether she's dead or alive. But unsure
if there's been a murder or not, unable to call out the medium as a
fraud, and concerned for the fate of the young maid, Gray and Mallory
are once again drawn into a mystery much more puzzling--and more
dangerous--than it first seems
Reading with the Mystery Book Club-
Seams Like Murder (Grace Designs #1) by Tilly Wallace
There are two things that can’t talk—moving pictures and dead showgirls…
1920,
Wellington, New Zealand. Grace Devine is poised to build her thriving
dress design business as the twenties begin to soar. But when a
fashionable client is murdered, suspicion falls on Grace as the last
person to see Agatha alive.
As wary clients cancel and business
begins to fail, Grace decides there’s only one way to prove her
innocence and save her career…this seamstress will turn sleuth to find
who really murdered the showgirl.
The more she learns, the more
she uncovers of the darker side of the dead woman’s personality. Agatha
liked to collect secrets and use them against people. But what target
snapped that fatal night? Can Grace stitch together the clues before her
life is torn apart…
Seams like Murder is the first installment in
the Grace Designs mysteries series. These heart-warming historical
mysteries will send you on a unique New Zealand adventure.
Blood Evidence (Cass Leary #5) by Robin James
She’s tough as nails when defending criminals. Can a simple test destroy her resolve?
Defense lawyer Cass Leary believes wholeheartedly in justice for all. So when her deadbeat dad suddenly reappears begging for help, she throws her better judgment out the window. But Cass’s family drama takes a back seat when a new client’s desperate search for her birth parents flips from happy to horrifying.
The adoption investigation hits a dead end, so Cass gives her client a simple at-home DNA kit. However, before she can act on the findings, the attorney’s father gets arrested for a scandalous crime. And as Cass finally follows the trail from the ancestry test, she uncovers a gruesome family tree watered with decades of blood.
Can Cass bring to light the shocking truth of two twisted cases?
Reading at Fantasy Buddy Reads-
The Soulforge (Dragonlance: Raistlin Chronicles #1) by Margaret Weis
A mage's soul is forged in the crucible of magic.
Raistlin
Majere is six years old when he is introduced to an archmage who
enrolls him in a school for the study of magic. There the gifted - but
tormented boy comes to secretly, for they see shadows darkening over
Raistlin even as the same shadows lengthen over all of Ansalon.
As
Raistlin draws near his goal of becoming a wizard, he must first take
the Dread Test in the Tower of High Sorcery. It will change his life
forever.
Pick it For Me book-
How to Walk Away by Katherine Center
Margaret Jacobsen has a bright future ahead of
her: a fiancé she adores, her dream job, and the promise of a
picture-perfect life just around the corner. Then, suddenly, on what
should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she
worked for is taken away in one tumultuous moment.
In the
hospital and forced to face the possibility that nothing will ever be
the same again, Margaret must figure out how to move forward on her own
terms while facing long-held family secrets, devastating heartbreak, and
the idea that love might find her in the last place she would ever
expect.
Other Books-
The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy #2) by James Islington
The Hierarchy still call me Vis Telimus. Still hail me as Catenicus. They still, as one, believe they know who I am.
But with all that has happened—with what I fear is coming—I am not sure it matters anymore.
I
am no longer one. I won the Iudicium, and lost everything—and now,
impossibly, the ancient device beyond the Labyrinth has replicated me
across three separate worlds. A different version of myself in each of
Obiteum, Luceum, and Res. Three different bodies, three different lives.
I have to hide; fight; play politics. I have to train; trust; lie. I
have to kill; heal; prove myself again, and again, and again.
I am loved, and hated, and entirely alone.
Above all, though, I need to find answers before it’s too late. To understand the nature of what has happened to me, and why.
I need to find a way to stop the coming Cataclysm, because if all I have learned is true, I may be the only one who can.
No Good Deed (The Scarsdale Fosters #6) by B.E. Baker
Her entire life, Ardath has wanted to do one
save people in a way no one managed to save her mother. After growing up
without any real family, she wants to spare others from the same fate.
She’s come up with a brilliant plan to save even more lives, if only she
can fund it.
Albert Devonshire the fourth—whose friends call him
Ace—founded a successful gaming company that he loved running. . .until
his dad got sick. When he takes over management of the family-owned
chain of hospitals, he discovers his Dad’s been struggling with dementia
for a while. The business is in shambles, and his mother’s spending
isn’t helping anything.
When a young, beautiful doctor asks for
funding to launch a program she’s clearly passionate about, he hates
turning her down, but he has no choice. They’re one do-gooder program
away from shutting down.
Ardath doesn’t take his refusal very
well, and the more time Ace spends around Ardath, the more he hates
being her enemy, but he can’t let the family empire collapse over yet
another crush. Can Ardath and Ace make peace, or will their duties to
their families set them irrevocably at odds. . .forever?
