Karen's Choice - Books

Title:  The Wicked King Author: Holly Black Published: January 8, 2019 Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Pages: 336 Sypnosis: You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring. The first lesson is to make yourself strong. After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her and made herself the power behind the throne. Navigating the constantly shifting political alliances of Faerie would be difficult enough if Cardan were easy to control. But he does everything in his power to humiliate and undermine her even as his fascination with her remains undiminished. When it becomes all too clear that someone close to Jude means to betray her, threatening her own life and the lives of everyone she loves, Jude must uncover the traitor and fight her own complicated feelings for Cardan to maintain control as a mortal in a Faerie world. Review:...

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by  Sam @ Taking On a World of Words . All you have to do is answer the three Ws, which are listed below.  Feel free to post a link to your blog post or leave a comment if you do not have a blog. The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading? Yes, I am still reading this one. This has been a long month for me.  I needed a break from A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire and decided to start in The Wicked King. It is pretty good so far.  What did you recently finish?  This is the last book I read, but I recently finished reading the first half of   Paityn Parque's second book, the sequel of Madness.  What will you read next? I will definitely read this book next, really looking forward to reading a book and not on my kindle. I love my kindle, but I miss holding a book, and it is also a lot easier to annotate in books.  I am, for some reason, really struggling with the format of blogger, the pictures keep jumping ...

Title: Before the Coffee Gets Cold  Author : Toshikazu Kawaguchi Published: September 19th, 2019 Publisher : Picardo Summary:  In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In  Before the Coffee Gets Cold , we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know. But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold. Review:  I had to check Goodreads before writing this review, ...

Hello  WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by  Sam @ Taking On a World of Words . All you have to do is answer the three Ws, which are listed below.  Feel free to post a link to your blog post or leave a comment if you do not have a blog. The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading? Currently reading the sequel to From Ash and Blood, this book is longer than the first. I'm currently loving it just as much as the first book and really looking forward to finishing it. What did you recently finish?  I recently finished this gem of a book, and I'm super excited to review it. I absolutely loved it and finished the book after 4-5 hours of intensive reading. This book is definitely worth the hype it is getting.  What will you read next? Depending on my mood, I will either be reading One of Us is Lying or The Wicked King. I think I'm leaning more towards The Wicked King, but that might change after I finish A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire. What are you currently...

Title: The Cruel Prince  Author: Holly Black Published: January 2nd, 2018 Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Summary: Of course, I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever. And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe. Jude was seven when her parents were murdered, and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences. As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, she discovers her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed. But as betrayal threatens to drown the ...

Title: Madness  Author: Paityn Parque Published: August 11th, 2021 This book was given to me for a review request.  Summary:  Death is not an escape. One night Ezra Adkins is brutally murdered in her own home. As she was dying, she expects to wake up in the afterworld. She was wrong. She loses consciousness and awakens into a horrific game of kill or be killed. Players can be killed an infinite number of times, but the only permanent way out of the game is their actual death by suicide. Players in the game ruthlessly hunt each other for points, while others kill for fun. Most players have given up on finding an escape from the game and spiral into insanity, killing without reason. It’s mayhem. Ezra soon learns who to trust and who to hunt down. But as she falls deeper into the game, she starts to lose herself as the bodies pile up. The line blurs between what she’s always known to be right and wrong. Metal will clash. Blood will spill. Minds will break. And before it’s...

  Hello  WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by  Sam @ Taking On a World of Words , all you have to do is answer the three Ws which are listed below.  Feel free to post a link to your blog post or leave a comment if you do not have a blog. The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading? Currently just started to read Madness by Paityn E.Parque, this book was given to me as a review request. The athour is only 15 years old and so far I'm very impressed by how well written and planned the book is. I'm excited to see how the plot will continue to devoled and the characters.  I'm still reading this book... I like it a lot, but I recently caved in and bought a kindle. This means I'm currently super obsessed with it and therefore have only read on my kindle the last weeks. I will finish this book eventually.  What did you recently finish?  I finished The Cruel Prince. I really liked it and I'm looking forward to reading the sequel. The review for this bo...

Hello I have started this weekly meme, which is called Finding Friday and is more or less copied from  Breaking the Spine . Sadly her's weekly meme is no longer active and I will therefore start my own.  Basically, this will be a weekly meme that  spotlights upcoming releases that I am eagerly anticipating. The highlight of the week is:  Title: Rock Paper Scissors Author: Alice Feeney Publication day: September 7th, 2021 I have always liked thrillers ever since I was young and read the Robyn series if anyone knows about it. Either way, I'm really looking forward to being able to buy it, some people have already gotten it, but unfortunately, I'm not one of them.  Summary:  Think you know the person you married? Think again… Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face b...

  Hello  WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by  Sam @ Taking On a World of Words , all you have to do is answer the three Ws which are listed below.  Feel free to post a link to your blog post or leave a comment if you do not have a blog. The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading? Currently reading The Cruel Prince by Holly Black, this was a booktok recommendation. So far, I like it, though I'm not used to enemies to lovers or bully romances, so I must say that I do not know how I'm ever gonna like the male lead. I currently hate him so much... I'm still reading this book... I like it a lot, but I recently caved in and bought a kindle. This means I'm currently super obsessed with it and therefore have only read on my kindle the last weeks. I will finish this book eventually.  What did you recently finish reading? Yes, booktok does influence me a lot. I recently read and reviewed this book, which I very much enjoyed. If you are interested in my review (...

Title:  From Blood and Ash Author:  Jennifer L. Armentrout Publisher:  Blue Box Press Published:  March 30th, 2020 Pages:   454 Summary:  A Maiden… Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy’s life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to experience pleasure. Waiting for the day of her Ascension, she would rather be with the guards, fighting back the evil that took her family, than preparing to be found worthy by the gods. But the choice has never been hers. A Duty… The entire kingdom’s future rests on Poppy’s shoulders, something she’s not even quite sure she wants for herself. Because a Maiden has a heart. And a soul. And longing. And when Hawke, a golden-eyed guard honor bound to ensure her Ascension, enters her life, destiny and duty become tangled with desire and need. He incites her anger, makes her question everything she believes in, and tempts her w...

Hello I will be starting this weekly meme, which is called Finding  Friday and is more or less copied from  Breaking the Spine . Sadly her's weekly meme is no longer active and I will therefore start my own.  Basically, this will be a weekly meme that  spotlights upcoming releases that I am eagerly anticipating. The highlight of this week is:  Title:   Gilded Author:  Marissa Meyer Expected publication : November 2nd, 2001 Honestly, just read the summary it speaks enough on its own. Marissa Meyer has been one of my favorite authors for a very long time. I fell in love with the Lunar Chronicles and honestly can't wait for this one to be published.  Summary:   Long ago cursed by the god of lies, a poor miller's daughter has developed a talent for spinning stories that are fantastical and spellbinding and entirely untrue. Or so everyone believes. When one of Serilda's outlandish tales draws the attention of the sinister Erlking and his undead h...

Hello I will be starting this weekly meme, which is called Finding  Friday and is more or less copied from  Breaking the Spine . Sadly her's weekly meme is no longer active and I will therefore start my own.  Basically, this will be a weekly meme that  spotlights upcoming releases that I am eagerly anticipating. The highlight of this week is:  Title: Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow Author: Christina Henry Expected publication : September 28th, 2021.  Summary:   Everyone in Sleepy Hollow knows about the Horseman, but no one really believes in him. Not even Ben Van Brunt's grandfather, Brom Bones, who was there when it was said the Horseman chased the upstart Crane out of town. Brom says that's just legend, the village gossips talking. Twenty years after those storied events, the village is a quiet place. Fourteen-year-old Ben loves to play Sleepy Hollow boys, reenacting the events Brom once lived through. But then Ben and a friend stumble across the...

Hello and welcome to the second WWW Wednesday on this blog!  WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by  Sam @ Taking On a World of Words , all you have to do is answer the three Ws which are listed below.  Feel free to post a link to your blog post or leave a comment if you do not have a blog. The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading? Currently reading Red Rising by Pierce Brown. A review will be up soon, but let me just say, this book is amazing. I really love it so far. The plot reminds me of Hunger Games meets The Red Queen meets Ender's Game. I have always been a huge fan of those types of books since I was a teenager. The Red Rising is a bit more on the mature side, but still suitable for young adults to read. What did you recently finish reading? I finished this book last month, so a book review is already published. To sum it up, I liked it a lot. It's a well-written plot with amazing well-thought-out characters. The author has definitely put a lot of effort...