Book Beginnings on Friday & The Friday 56

Book Beginnings on Friday & The Friday 56

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I'm currently re-reading the first in the series so I can read the rest of the current books. 

A Court of Thorns and Roses 
by Sarah J. Maas 
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Feyre's survival rests upon her ability to hunt and kill – the forest where she lives is a cold, bleak place in the long winter months. So when she spots a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she cannot resist fighting it for the flesh. But to do so, she must kill the predator and killing something so precious comes at a price ...

Dragged to a magical kingdom for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. Feyre's presence at the court is closely guarded, and as she begins to learn why, her feelings for him turn from hostility to passion and the faerie lands become an even more dangerous place. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever.

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The Forest had become a Labyrinth of snow and ice. 

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"You're hardly more than skin and bones," she said, her fingers luxurious against my scalp.
"Winter does that to poor mortals, " I said fighting to keep the sharpness from my ton. 

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Book Blogger Hop & Book Beginnings on Friday & The Friday 56

Book Beginnings on Friday & The Friday 56

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My Current read is: 
Starcrossed 
by Jody Morse & Jayme Morse 
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Synopsis
The fence around the compound isn't there just to keep people out. It's to keep people in. 

My sister deserves to have the wedding of her dreams, not an arranged marriage to some random werewolf. But our Alpha father is trying to force her into marrying someone she doesn't love, someone she doesn't even know. 

The worst part? She's agreeing to do it so I won't have to. 

I have to figure a way to get her out of this. A way that won't end up getting myself killed in the end. 

It isn't just werewolves I need to worry about... 

Dodging danger isn't the easiest thing to do lately, after having a run-in with a new kind of evil - one that I never knew even existed until I met Jax. 

And my friends? 

It's hard to say which ones I can trust.

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“What do you mean our dad is forcing you to get married?” My question came out louder than I’d meant for it to, my voice echoing all around us. 

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An hour later, we were sitting at the long dining room table with Jax’s entire family. I was seated between Jax and Mila, with Bash sitting across from me, Ace and Elias diagonal to me, and Hudson and Caleb were seated at each end of the table. I wasn’t used to eating with so many people. Usually, it was just Mom, Zoe, me, and sometimes Blair.

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Book Blogger Hop

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This week's Question: 
Do you read hardcovers with the dust jacket on or off? Why or why not?

Answer:

I love to read hardcover's but I always take the dust jacket off. I'm scared in my house something will happen to it. However, recently my husband took one off to read and it ended up smashed. Thankfully my husband doesn't read very much and when he does it's on his tablet. 
What about you? 

Book Beginnings on Friday & The Friday 56

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My Current read is: 
Beauty's Beasts
by L.C. Hibbett 
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Beauty is a beast...  

Izzy doesn't suffer fools and she doesn't take prisoners, so when one of the local mobs takes her father captive, she'll stop at nothing to free him. Even if that means taking on the mysterious men of Blackwood Forest herself.

But when Izzy enters the lair of the beasts, she discovers saving her father isn't as simple as it seemed, and saving herself from Alexander Blackwood and his pack is going to be even harder...

The Poison Court Saga is a collection of standalone urban fantasy fairy tale retellings with a reverse harem twist. The novels are set in L.C. Hibbett's Wicked Witch universe and each novel tells the backstory of a different secondary character from the Wicked Witch's series. Catch up with the characters from this novel again in Wicked Destiny (release date October 2017). 

Recommended reading age: 18+ due to scenes and language of an adult nature.

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"I'd rather choke on my own vomit." I shoved past my sisters and started rifling through the pile of mail lying on the cluttered table in the dining room. 

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My eyes widened and my mouth fell open, but the reflection in the mirror remained still and calm. I lifted my hand slowly; the girl in the glass didn't move a muscle. I squinted at the glossy surface and took a tentative step forward. 
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Book Beginnings on Friday & The Friday 56

Book Beginnings on Friday & The Friday 56

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My Current read is: 
The Darkest Corner
by Liliana Hart 
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New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Liliana Hart’s first book in her suspenseful Gravediggers series, featuring an elite group of mysterious men who might be dead to the world, but are also tasked with saving it—and no one can ever know.

The Gravediggers aren’t exactly what they seem. They’re the most elite of the world’s fighting forces—and all they have in common is that they’ve been betrayed by the countries they’ve died for. Because they are dead. To their country, their military, and their families.

Sometimes the dead do rise...

Solomon Lange is a dead man walking. A former black ops agent, he was disavowed and stripped of all honor before being recruited as a Gravedigger. But his honor and good name no longer matter, because no one knows he’s alive, and he’ll never get the recognition he deserves. His mission is simple: save the world or die trying. And for God’s sake, don’t ever fall in love. That’s a rule punishable by death. The kind of death a man can’t be brought back from.

Tess Sherman is the only mortician in Last Stop, Texas. She has no idea how Solomon Lange ended up in her funeral home, but she’ll eat her hat if he’s only a funeral home assistant. Solomon is dangerous, deadly, and gorgeous. And she knows her attraction to him can only end in heartache.

Solomon is on a mission to stop the most fatal terror attack the world has ever known—what’s known as The Day of Destiny—a terrorist’s dream. But when he discovers Tess has skills he can use to stop them, he has to decide if he can trust her with secrets worth dying for. And, most important, he has to decide if he can trust her with his heart.

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There was something about the time between three and four o'clock in the morning. When people with good intentions were tucked safely into their beds. 

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She pointed the flashlight over the concrete and noticed the floor was wet with shoe prints, tire tracks, and mud. 
"See, Tess? Not Crazy," she said, feeling vindicated. 
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Book Beginnings on Friday & The Friday 56

Book Beginnings on Friday & The Friday 56

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My Current read is: 
A Week in New York  by Louise Bay 
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Synopsis

Anna Kirby is sick of dating. She's tired of heartbreak. Despite being smart, sexy, and funny, she's a magnet for men who don't deserve her.

A week's vacation in New York is the ultimate distraction from her most recent break-up, as well as a great place to meet a stranger and have some summer fun. But to protect her still-bruised heart, fun comes with rules. There will be no sharing stories, no swapping numbers, and no real names. Just one night of uncomplicated fun.

Super-successful serial seducer Ethan Scott has some rules of his own. He doesn't date, he doesn't stay the night, and he doesn't make any promises.

It should be a match made in heaven. But rules are made to be broken.

A Week in New York is the first in a series of three novellas.


***Not suitable for younger readers due to sexual content and language.***

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"Has he tried to contact you?" 
I could barely hear Leah through the booming of the bass. We were perched on stools at the oh-so-cool bar in TriBeCa and we had to lean in to each other to be heard. 
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What are your plans for the day? Ethan asked me as he came out of the bathroom after his shower. 
"Sleep." I was exhausted. The frequent interruptions to my sleep were welcome, but I could quite happily spend the day in bed snoozing. 

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Book Beginnings on Friday & The Friday 56

Book Beginnings on Friday & The Friday 56

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My Current read is: 

Tangled Web
by Gena D. Lutz
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Xoe Meyers had a normal life. So she was stuck going to high school, and she only had a few friends to call her own. She liked her normal life. Things were about to change though, because there's a new guy in her small town, and he is anything but normal. Before Xoe can say, "Werewolf," her best friend's life is in peril, and Xoe's world is turned upside-down. Then, of course, there's Jason. Xoe doesn't trust him as far as she can throw him, and given that he's a vampire, she'd have to be able to catch him first.

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Present day...

All I wanted was a drink and a couple of shots at my favorite watering hole. Apparently, that was to much to ask. 

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"Where are you? Keri asked. Her voice was low. Serious. I'd be lying if I said the dead tone didn't scare me a little. 
"Okay, this is the part that's probably going to piss you off."
"Spill it."
"I'm about to pull up to Sterling's Mansion."
There was a low growl, then, "Are you insane?"
I nodded even though she couldn't see it. " The jury's still out on that one." 

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Book Beginnings on Friday & The Friday 56

Book Beginnings on Friday & The Friday 56

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I am loving my current read. 

My Current read is: 

Xoe: or Vampires, and Werewolves, and Demons, Oh My!
by Sara C. Roethle
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Xoe Meyers had a normal life. So she was stuck going to high school, and she only had a few friends to call her own. She liked her normal life. Things were about to change though, because there's a new guy in her small town, and he is anything but normal. Before Xoe can say, "Werewolf," her best friend's life is in peril, and Xoe's world is turned upside-down. Then, of course, there's Jason. Xoe doesn't trust him as far as she can throw him, and given that he's a vampire, she'd have to be able to catch him first.

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I stared up at the moon, partially obscured by ominous looking clouds. I brushed a loose flake of ash from my hair as I tried to forget the overwhelming, acrid stench of smoke that had nearly overcome my lungs. 

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While we waited for Lucy to shower, I worried over Lucy's new affliction. I also worried the vampire sitting next to me on the sofa and the werewolf lounging on the love seat. Not to mention that tonight I had to sneak said vampire and werewolf into my house while we waited to be attacked by another werewolf.
 Since when was being a teenager so complicated?
 Don't answer that. 

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Book Beginnings on Friday & The Friday 56

Book Beginnings on Friday & The Friday 56

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I am loving my current read. 

My Current read is: 

Ash
by Jaymin Eve & Leia Stone
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Are you an Ash?

*Increased stamina
*Lack of appetite
*Anger outbursts
*Insatiable thirst
*Beauty & Strength
*Male

Call the hotline if these symptoms come on suddenly!

Turns out Charlie Bennet was all of those things except the last. Don’t let the name fool you, Charlie was all woman and she wanted nothing to do with the ash … until the day she found out she was one.

It all started when infected bats bit a small group of humans and created what are now called vampires. Then, the male vampires knocked up some female humans and the result was a gorgeous race of all male ash. Superhuman freaks that had looks to kill.

Charlie is the first female ash, aka unicorn of the Hive – the gated compound in Portland that the humans have designated to isolate vampires and ash from society.

Problem? The Hive is full and only a select few will be allowed to live there. To live at all, really. If Charlie wants to earn the right to become a citizen of the Hive, she will have to survive the culling – a series of fights to the death. And guess what? Just because she’s a girl doesn’t mean she’ll get special treatment.

Good thing there’s Ryder, the mysterious lead ash enforcer, who seems to always have her back. But when secrets bubble to the surface, it will take more than one guy to save her. 

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Rounding the corner of the path, I pushed myself harder, red and gold fall trees blurring in my peripherals as my legs demolished the last mile of of my run.

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"No!" I screamed. Desperation flooded through me - I would not lose Jayden here today. I would never give up on my friend like that, and I knew he would never have given up on me. I had to make it there in time. 

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Book Beginnings on Friday & The Friday 56

Book Beginnings on Friday & The Friday 56

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I'm honestly not sure about my current book. it's out of my comfort zone but has me captivated. I prefer the black over the white cover. What about you?
My Current read is: 

The SnowFang Bride
by Merry Ravenell 
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Centuries of political games killed most of the female werewolves. Now only a few survive, and the Elders work to change the old ways of thinking.

Winter, the only daughter of the SilverPaw Alpha, finally meets the soul Gaia has chosen for her: Sterling, the cold, demanding, and entirely-too-human Alpha of the tiny SnowFang pack.

Thrust into a world of human wealth for which she was never prepared, Winter must become Sterling's flawless wife and Luna from the moment she arrives. The city is full of threats, both werewolf and human, and Sterling's past is full of secrets best left undisturbed.


When they are betrayed by those closest to them, Winter and Sterling embark on a dangerous game of brinkmanship that will change their lives, and the future of the werewolves, forever.

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The werewolves lacked females. A male with a mate had the goddess Gaia’s favor.
A female without a mate was considered unlucky at best, and exiled at worst.

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“We’re sneaking out,” he confirmed.
“That’s your plan. Damn dangerous. And lousy,” Burian told Sterling.
“So you’ll come downstairs with us and make sure we’re not ambushed in the garage.”

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Book Beginnings on Friday & The Friday 56

Book Beginnings on Friday & The Friday 56

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I'm honestly not sure about my current book. it's out of my comfort zone but has me captivated. I prefer the black over the white cover. What about you?
My Current read is: 

Pennies 
by Pepper Winters
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Freedom. 

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WE WERE ALONE. 
My bedroom had a door.
For the first time in over a year. 

Synopsis

“At 18 I had pennies, but money didn’t make me bold. At 19 I had dollars, but it didn’t dull the pain of being sold. At 20 I had hundreds, but then I met him and was found. At 21 I had thousands, but all I wanted was to be bound.”

“At 23 I had dollars, but life changed and made me rich. At 25 I had hundreds, but it wasn’t enough to stop my killing itch. At 27 I had thousands, but my reputation didn’t set me free. At 29 I had millions, but I met her and could finally see.”

Tasmin was killed on her 18th birthday. She had everything planned out. A psychology degree, a mother who pushed her to greatness, and a future anyone would die for. But then her murderer saved her life, only to sell her into a totally different existence.

Elder went from penniless to stinking rich with one twist of fate. His lifetime of crime and shadows of thievery are behind him but no matter the power he now wields, it’s not enough. He has an agenda to fulfill and he won’t stop until it’s complete.

But then they meet.

A beaten slave and a richly dressed thief. Money is what guided their separate fates. Money is what brought them together. And money is ultimately what destroys them.

She was poor.

He was rich.

Together…they were bankrupt.

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Book Beginnings on Friday & The Friday 56

Book Beginnings on Friday & The Friday 56

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I haven't read a lot in the last week or so due to working on a cross stitch program. 

My Current read is: 
Shadow Bloodlines
by Andrea R. Cooper
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Don't go to school todaday! - Dad.

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Was that a gargoyle Interesting. I mad a not to point it out to Jacqueline when we left. 

Synopsis
I didn’t know I was a shifter until the hunters found me… 

When eighteen-year-old Beth receives a mysterious text from her deadbeat father not to go to school, why should she listen to him now? But when strangers show up in one of her classes hunting her and wanting her dead, she must uncover the truth about why and what exactly she is. 

Amar has been entombed in stone for centuries. He longs for freedom and only the blood of a shifter will set him free. After centuries frozen as a gargoyle, he doubts there are many of his kind left. Yet, Beth rescues him and more than his responsibility to protect her fills him. He must choose between duty and love. 

Before the race of hunters capture her, Beth and Amar must find her shifter dad in order to save all their lives.

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