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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.

Dark Romance

eBook, Paperback

November 14, 2025 by Eva Simmons

Blurb to come but this will be Patience’s story and the final Sigma Sin book.

I’ve loved this series since Saint. It’s well written, it’s dark, and it’s sexy. I’ll admit Patience is my least favorite of the four roommates but I’m looking forward to the author turning that around with Revere!

Will you be checking this book out? What upcoming releases are you looking forward to?

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish and currently hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl.

This week’s TTT is a genre freebie and I’m listing my favorite romantic suspense books / suspense books that have a romantic subplot.

What did you pick for this week’s prompt? Have you read any of these?

This week I’m linking up to It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? Hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date!

#IMWAYR is a weekly meme started on J Kaye’s blog and now hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date.

Today is my birthday!!

I ended up DNFing this one. It’s about 3 women who have been publicly “cancelled” who play a prank on a couple that stole their parking spot in the Hamptons and then the male half of the couple goes missing. I got pretty sick of all of the author’s references to Covid and the shutdown and the main character’s reason for being cancelled is because she yelled at people on the subway platform for not wearing face masks then overreacted when an African American male said something to her and told him she was calling the police before having a screaming meltdown (the FMC is Chinese American). It was like let’s throw all this hot button soup onto the page and call it a book. The missing guy was almost an after thought and I DNF’d just under 50%.

This one on the other hand I finished early last week and it gave me a book hangover that I’m just getting over. I need more books with the vibes of this series and can’t wait for the spin-off series!

I’m about 25% into this audiobook. I don’t love it as much as the author’s previous duology but I can see it having the same loathe to love vibes. I do love the gargoyle though!

Reading two fantasy books at the same time.. oh my! That’s unusual for my but I was hooked from the first page of this one and I’m enjoying it so far.

I feel like I’ve been waiting so long for this one to release and then to make it to the top of the Libby audiobook hold list for my library. I’m hoping to start it later this week.

What are you reading and loving this week? Have you read any of these?

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.

Hey Book Blogger Friends! How was your week?

I just realized that even though I posted in July, I forgot to do The Sunday Post since the end of June… still getting back into blogging and trying to schedule everything

Anyway, tomorrow, August 4th is my 33rd birthday and I’m leaving for a small getaway to celebrate this afternoon.

I’m planning lots of rest, nature hikes, reading in the reading nook of the B&B I’m staying at, and working on one of my novels. I need this break.

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? – 30 June 2025

WWW Wednesday: 16 July 2025

Can’t Wait Wednesday: 13 Months Haunted!

Thursday Musings: How My Reading Tastes Have Changed Over Time

First Line Friday: 18 July 2025

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? – 21 July 2025

Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books Set in the UK

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? – 4 August 2025

Top Ten Tuesday: Genre Freebie – Favorite Romantic Suspense Books

Can’t Wait Wednesday: Revere by Eva Simmons

Thursday Musings: Reading on Vacation – pack the kindle or the book stack?

First Line Friday: 8 August 2025

Stacking the Shelves: 9 August 2025

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish and currently hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl.

This week’s TTT is about books set in a specific time or place. I’m taking the easy way out and picking 10 books set in the UK…or so I thought until I had to start looking where books were set

What did you pick for this week’s prompt?

This week I’m linking up to It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? Hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date!

#IMWAYR is a weekly meme started on J Kaye’s blog and now hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date.

I really loved this one! I loved the twist at the end, the story definitely kept me going. I have another ebook by this author on my kindle and I’m definitely bumping it up my TBR!

I’ve tried this one in hardback and audiobook and DNF’d it both times. As much as I would like to like this book it’s just not for me.

I just started this one. I loved the first book but I’m a bit confused… in the first book I had the impression that Lincoln and his late wife were so in love and her death was so hard on him and now it’s like… they were on the brink of divorce and she never loved him??

I’m about 30% into this one and it’s not bad so far. I think I see where the big mystery is headed but I could be wrong. Either way I thought the cover was cool and I love the tie-in to Alfred Hitchcock.

This one has been on my TBR for a while and I recently saw that my library has the audiobook edition.

What are you reading and loving this week? Have you read any of these?

This week I’m joining First Line Friday. First Line Friday is a weekly meme hosted by Carrie @ Reading is My Superpower! So grab the book nearest you, your current read, or the book on top of your TBR stack and share the first line.

My pick this week is…

In this follow-up to #1 New York Times bestselling author Ruth Ware’s multi-million copy mega-hit The Women in Cabin 10, Lo Blacklock returns to attend the opening of a luxury hotel, only to find herself in a white-knuckled race across Europe.

When the invitation to attend the press opening of a luxury Swiss hotel—owned by reclusive billionaire Marcus Leidmann—arrives, it’s like the answer to a prayer. Three years after the birth of her youngest child, Lo Blacklock is ready to reestablish her journalism career, but post-pandemic travel journalism is a very different landscape from the one she left ten years ago.

The chateau on the shores of Lake Geneva is everything Lo’s ever dreamed of, and she hopes she can snag an interview with Marcus. Unfortunately, he proves to be even more difficult to pin down than his reputation suggests. When Lo gets a late-night call asking her to come to Marcus’s hotel room, she agrees despite her own misgivings. She’s greeted, however, by a woman claiming to be Marcus’s mistress, and in life-or-death jeopardy.

What follows is a thrilling cat-and-mouse pursuit across Europe, forcing Lo to ask herself just how much she’s willing to sacrifice to save this woman…and if she can even trust her?

And the first line is…

In my dream, I was trapped. Locked in a cell, deep underwater, where no one could hear my cries.

I actually love when books open where characters are dreaming about past traumas.

Do you ever look back at your Goodreads or StoryGraph reading history and think, “in 200x I used to read a lot of this genre but I don’t anymore”…? I know I do. Do you ever look back at how your reading has evolved over time? Allow me to take you on a little walk into my reading past…

In the 5-6th grade I read a steady stream of Goosebumps, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and I tore through the Heartland books long before it was ever a tv show. While I was still pretty much a scaredy cat and the Goosebumps books sometimes gave me nightmares I was definitely entering my spooky loving era. I also read a lot of adult books my grandmother left lying around the house like Mary Higgins Clark mysteries.

Ah, my paranormal romance era. This was pretty much all I read in my teens. (Although I also was a sucker for Nora Roberts, Lisa Jackson and Mary Higgins Clark still… again, my grandmother left them lying around. Oh – and Jackie Collins which was the “dirtiest” books I read at that time and now seem tame compared to some of the books I read )

My twenties were really my try-everything era. I read a lot of YA still but also NA romance, I tried sci-fi and fell in love with Jennifer L. Armentrout’s writing, my first “fantasy” read was The Sweetest Spell which was a gateway to the Great Hunt Duology by Wendy Higgins and ACOTAR by Sarah J Maas before dipping into Game of Thrones. For a while I mostly read fantasy until it started to get repetitive.

Ah, the current era. These days I’ve mostly left fantasy behind, although I’m of course hooked on the Fourth Wing books and really into Rachel Gillig’s writing to make a couple. But mostly I love thrillers, mysteries, dark romance, and contemporary romance. Some of my favorite authors are Ruth Ware, Lucy Foley, Rachel Hawkins, Catherine Cowles, Eva Simmons, and Elsie Silver although I still read old favorites like Nora Roberts, Lisa Jackson, Agatha Christie, and Dawn Kurtagich.

How do you feel your reading tastes have evolved over time? Do you still enjoy the same genres you did 10 years ago? The same authors?

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.

Horror/Thriller, Standalone

eBook, Hardcover, 384 Pages

August 12, 2025 by Dutton

From Dead Eleven author Jimmy Juliano, a twisty, edge-of-your-seat novel about a unique haunting in the early 2000s

Piper Lowery, a public library clerk in charge of liaising with the local middle school, can tell right away there’s something strange about the new girl in eighth grade. Avery Wallace won’t touch any kind of technology, not even the computers at the library, and her mother comes to school with her every day, refusing to leave her side—not even when Avery uses the restroom.

And then there are the rumors, the whispers Piper hears from kids in the hallway and parents around Avery’s mother is a witch. Her sister and father were killed by something supernatural. A strange virus killed them.

Seeing how isolated and lonely Avery is, Piper befriends her but quickly realizes it might just be the worst decision she’s ever made. Because there’s something dark inside Avery Wallace, and it’s spreading . . .

I thought Dead Eleven was an interesting read and this one sounds equally intriguing. I like that in Dead Eleven the author created an island that was frozen in the 1990s and now this book is set in the early 2000s.

Will you be checking this book out? What upcoming releases are you looking forward to?

This week I’m linking up to WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words!

WWW Wednesday was created by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and was taken over by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. To participate answer the 3 W’s:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

I’ve been in a mixture of rereading favorites and checking out new releases lately…

I’m about 50 pages in and loving the setting so far. It’s making me long to travel internationally and hating myself that I have to wait until 2027.

This is my current audiobook pick and I’m about 40% in and completely absorbed in the story. Can’t wait to see who the killer is!

I loved this one! I think my Alex might be my second favorite book boyfriend in this series after Saint/Kole and I’m excited to read the final book in the series!

This was a reread for me and I think I liked it even more the second time around!

This is another ARC read and it’s not out until April 2025. All I can say is if you like thrillers inspired by true stories, you need to have this one on your radar!

I tried reading this one in hardcover once before and couldn’t get into in so I decided to give it a try in audiobook. My hold just came in so I better finish up Hello, Juliet.

What are you reading and loving this week? Have you read any of these?