Friday Reads

Hey there!! HAPPY FRIDAY!! I wanted to share with you what I’m currently reading and just kinda be present somehow on my blog lol. I have other blog ideas that have been sitting on the sidelines because I want to read, workout, and not sit in front of my computer again after doing that all day. But hopefully, I get to those soon. Now let’s get to the books!


39339146._SY475_When Lauren and Ryan’s marriage reaches the breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year apart, and only one rule: they cannot contact each other. Aside from that, anything goes.

Lauren embarks on a journey of self-discovery, quickly finding that her friends and family have their own ideas about the meaning of marriage. These influences, as well as her own healing process and the challenges of living apart from Ryan, begin to change Lauren’s ideas about monogamy and marriage. She starts to question: When you can have romance without loyalty and commitment without marriage, when love and lust are no longer tied together, what do you value? What are you willing to fight for?


img_0004Sarai has lived and breathed nightmares since she was six years old.
She believed she knew every horror and was beyond surprise.
She was wrong.

In the wake of tragedy, neither Lazlo nor Sarai are who they were before. One a god, the other a ghost, they struggle to grasp the new boundaries of their selves as dark-minded Minya holds them hostage, intent on vengeance against Weep.
Lazlo faces an unthinkable choice—save the woman he loves, or everyone else?—while Sarai feels more helpless than ever. But is she? Sometimes, only the direst need can teach us our own depths, and Sarai, the Muse of Nightmares, has not yet discovered what she’s capable of.
As humans and godspawn reel in the aftermath of the citadel’s near fall, a new foe shatters their fragile hopes, and the mysteries of the Mesarthim are resurrected: Where did the gods come from, and why? What was done with thousands of children born in the citadel nursery? And most important of all, as forgotten doors are opened and new worlds revealed: Must heroes always slay monsters, or is it possible to save them instead?
Love and hate, revenge and redemption, destruction and salvation all clash in this astonishing and heart-stopping sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Strange the Dreamer.


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I am reading After I Do via ebook on Scribd and loving it. I am halfway through the book and it is everything I need at the moment. It is personally hitting home and my emotions keep bursting while reading it. Hopefully I get to finish it sometime this weekend. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a genius and she’s so quotable too. There are many highlighted passages already that I want to jot down and return too. I’m happy that I got into this author this year because she definitely knows how to capture a reader with her writing.

I decided to read Muse of Nightmares via audiobook. Side note: this is the sequel to Strange the Dreamer. I have tried reading Muse of Nightmares about three times and cannot get into it. I truly believe that it’s a me problem and not the book due to the fact that I no longer read YA Fantasy. However, I don’t want to easily give up on this book because I loved Strange the Dreamer and I want to know what happens with these characters in Muse of Nightmares. Therefore, I think the audiobook will suit me a lot better. Here’s hoping!

That’s all for today! What are you currently reading or plan on reading? I hope you all have a lovely weekend!!


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The Birthstone Tag

Thank you Sean over at KingdomBookBlog for tagging me!!!

From what I understand of this book tag is that each question is associated with a birthstone of each month. Let’s get started!

  1. JANUARY (GARNET): ASSOCIATED WITH WARDING OFF NEGATIVE FORCES AND DARK ENERGIES – NAME A BOOK WITH THE DARKEST/EVILEST CHARACTER YOU CAN THINK OF
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    Amarantha. Ugh!!!

  2. FEBRUARY (AMETHYST): PURPLE IS ASSOCIATED WITH ROYALTY – NAME A BOOK WITH REGAL QUALITIES… YOU CAN BASE THIS OFF OF CHARACTERS OF CHOOSE THE KING OF ALL BOOKS
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    SLAAAAAAYYYYYYY QUEEEEENNNNNN!

  3. MARCH (AQUAMARINE): WASHED OUT – NAME A ‘WISHY WASHY’ CHARACTER, A CHARACTER WHO IS NOT STRONG OR A FOLLOWER
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    Caleb!!!!

  4. APRIL (DIAMOND): A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH – NAME A BOOK THAT YOU LOVED BUT IS NOT WELL KNOWN
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    Maybe because the book is kind of old, that’s why I don’t see it around but I haven’t seen one booktuber or book blogger talk about this book. NOT ONE!! And I love this book so freaking much.

  5. MAY (EMERALD): SAID TO BALANCE ENERGY – NAME TWO CHARACTERS WHO BALANCE EACH OTHER WELL
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    Day and June ❤

  6. JUNE (PEARL): ASSOCIATED WITH LOYALTY – NAME A CHARACTER WHO IS LOYAL TO THE END
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    HOLIDAY!!!! THROUGHOUT THIS SERIES, THE SPIN OFF AND THE NOVELLAS!! LOYAL TO THE END FOR HER SCHOOL, STUDENTS, AND FAMILY!
  7. JULY (RUBY): BLOOD RED – NAME A BOOK THAT MADE YOUR BLOOD BOIL, ONE THAT MADE YOU ANGRY

    So let me explain to you what happened. I LOVED Nocte (the first book in the trilogy). I enjoyed it so much that I was telling all my friends about it. Then I got to second book and it was ehh alright. But that last book, Lux??? THAT LAST FREAKING BOOK?!?!?!??!?!?! WAS THE WORST THING EVER!!!!! I WAS SO MAD!! I had to tell my friends “DON’T BUY IT!!!!!! CANCEL THE ORDER IF YOU HAVE TOOO!!” It’s horrible, in my opinion.

  8. AUGUST (PERIDOT): PALE GREEN (IT PALES IN COMPARISON TO OTHER GEMS) – NAME A SUPPORTING CHARACTER WHO YOU LIKE BETTER THAN THE MAIN CHARACTER
    scrolls through the read shelf on goodreads and finds nothing
  9. SEPTEMBER (SAPPHIRE): BLUE LIKE THE OCEAN WHICH IS CALMING – NAME A BOOK THAT HAD A CALMING AFFECT ON YOU

    I didn’t feel like I was on the edge of my seat while reading this trilogy. It was just so perfect and cute and heart warming.

  10. OCTOBER (OPAL): IRIDESCENT – NAME AN IRIDESCENT BOOK, THIS CAN BE A BOOK WITH A BEAUTIFUL COVER (SHINY? LOTS OF COLOUR?) OR YOU CAN BASE IT OFF OF A CHARACTER (QUIRKY? COLOURFUL?)
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    IKO!!!!!!!! So quirky and funny!

  11. NOVEMBER (TOPAZ): ASSOCIATED WITH RESILIENCE – NAME A BOOKS WITH A CHARACTER WHO RISES TO THE TOP IN A TIME OF ADVERSITY

    I’m just going to leave that there.

  12. DECEMBER (BLUE ZIRCON): ASSOCIATED WITH FRIENDSHIP – NAME A BOOK WITH A FRIENDSHIP YOU WANT TO BE APART OF
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    Can I be apart of Beth and Jennifer’s friendship and emails?? Pretty please?!?!?!

 

I TAG EVERYONE!!!!!!!!

3 Days, 3 Quotes Tag (Day 1)

A huge thank you to Icebreaker694 for tagging me to do this!

THE RULES:

1. Thank the person that nominated you

2. Post a quote 3 consecutive days

3. Nominate 3 new bloggers every day

“I didn’t know someone could love me like this,” she said. “Could love me and love me and love me without …needing space.”
Lincoln wasn’t asleep. He rolled on top of her.
“There’s no air in space,” he said.

Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

I tag:

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Quillable

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