Hey Bookish Peeps!
We have made it to month 9 – Woot! Football has started up and Georgia has experienced the first week of False Fall. It has started my itch to have that below 80 degree weather a constant! And of course I want my spooky season to spark back up already too. Even though a ton of stores have started showing their Halloween stuff on floors. I am not wishing away September, but I am always looking for an excuse to find my spooky decorations and put them up! My ability to withstand the decorating urge is whittling away. Just a handful of weeks then I can decorate! But what’s a “False Fall” some of you, from other places in the world, ask? Well, it is the mean yet beautiful thing Georgia does to us every single year at the end-ish of our summer season.
Georgia likes to give us, people who have been stuck in 95-98 degree heat (with an average 70% humidity) from July-August, a short break from the horrendous heat usually in September. We are given a couple of days where the heat drops in the low 80s and we get to enjoy the outside without melting. Everyone is usually outside playing in the yards, going to the parks, hosting BBQs – even middle of the week -, being friendly with each other since we aren’t burning up. Basically, we all call a truce. Our guard completely drops for the few wonderful days. Then BAM! Georgia laughs. It’s dumb hot. We melt again. Summer is back. And repeat this process until middle of October *cheerily stated with a twitching eye*. No, it isn’t bad enough to cause me to move away. There are too many things I love about this state. However, I think it is a joint agreement that some of the weather choices we get to experience in GA is random!
My goal is to knock out some a chunk of books this month! I’ve got some traveling days upcoming which always means extra time to get some reading done. If you guys have found any new reads that you’ve enjoyed, I’d love to know what they are!
Chat with you guys next month!
Reading Theme: Royalty in the Title
Time to find all of the royal titles in, well, the titles of books this month! It has certainly become a bit cliche for the romance readers out there, but I think a majority of the books I found were romance something. It seems we have been in a swing of titles themes that are either “A Court of ___ and ____” or “Queen/King of _____”. Nothing wrong with this! Especially if you’ve looked at my Read list on Goodreads. I clearly read a bunch of these! It just made finding interesting books for this month super easy! What books did you find that have a royal in the title?
Happy Reading Everyone!
My Reading List for September 2024:
The Queen’s Assassin By Melissa De La Cruz
Caledon Holt is the Kingdom of Renovia’s deadliest weapon. No one alive can best him in brawn or brains, which is why he’s the Guild’s most dangerous member and the Queen’s one and only assassin. He’s also bound to the Queen by an impossible vow–to find the missing Deian Scrolls, the fount of all magical history and knowledge, stolen years ago by a nefarious sect called the Aphrasians.
Shadow has been training all her life to follow in the footsteps of her mother and aunts–to become skilled enough to join the ranks of the Guild. Though magic has been forbidden since the Aphrasian uprising, Shadow has been learning to control her powers in secret, hoping that one day she’ll become an assassin as feared and revered as Caledon Holt.
When a surprise attack brings Shadow and Cal together, they’re forced to team up as assassin and apprentice to hunt down a new sinister threat to Renovia. But as Cal and Shadow grow closer, they’ll uncover a shocking web of lies and secrets that may destroy everything they hold dear. With war on the horizon and true love at risk, they’ll stop at nothing to protect each other.
The Ever King By L.J. Andrews
They stole his crown, so he stole their daughter…
For years Erik, the scarred king of the Ever Kingdom, has thought of nothing but vengeance against the man who killed his father and trapped him beneath the waves, making him a prisoner in his own realm.
Until his enemy’s daughter unintentionally breaks the chains on the Ever, and Erik makes her the unwitting pawn in his vicious game of revenge.
She’s innocent. He’s vicious. But he will take back what he lost, no matter the price. Unless she steals his heart first.
His Majesty’s Dragon By Naomi Novik
Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors ride mighty fighting dragons, bred for size or speed. When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes the precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Captain Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain future – and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature. Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle. For as France’s own dragon-borne forces rally to breach British soil in Bonaparte’s boldest gambit, Laurence and Temeraire must soar into their own baptism of fire.
Prince of Thorns By Mark Lawrence
Before the thorns taught me their sharp lessons and bled weakness from me I had but one brother, and I loved him well. But those days are gone and what is left of them lies in my mother’s tomb. Now I have many brothers, quick with knife and sword, and as evil as you please. We ride this broken empire and loot its corpse. They say these are violent times, the end of days when the dead roam and monsters haunt the night. All that’s true enough, but there’s something worse out there, in the dark. Much worse.
From being a privileged royal child, raised by a loving mother, Jorg Ancrath has become the Prince of Thorns, a charming, immoral boy leading a grim band of outlaws in a series of raids and atrocities. The world is in chaos: violence is rife, nightmares everywhere. Jorg has the ability to master the living and the dead, but there is still one thing that puts a chill in him. Returning to his father’s castle Jorg must confront horrors from his childhood and carve himself a future with all hands turned against him.
The Princess Spy By Laura Larry Loftis
When Aline Griffith was born in a quiet suburban New York hamlet, no one had any idea that she would go on to live “a life of glamour and danger that Ingrid Bergman only played at in Notorious” (Time). As the US enters the Second World War, the young college graduate is desperate to aid in the war effort, but no one is interested in a bright-eyed young woman whose only career experience is modeling clothes.
Aline’s life changes when, at a dinner party, she meets a man named Frank Ryan and reveals how desperately she wants to do her part for her country. Within a few weeks, he helps her join the Office of Strategic Services—forerunner of the CIA. With a code name and expert training under her belt, she is sent to Spain to be a coder, but is soon given the additional assignment of infiltrating the upper echelons of society, mingling with high-ranking officials, diplomats, and titled Europeans, any of whom could be an enemy agent. Against this glamorous backdrop of galas and dinner parties, she recruits sub-agents and engages in deep-cover espionage to counter Nazi tactics in Madrid.
Even after marrying the Count of Romanones, one of the wealthiest men in Spain, Aline secretly continues her covert activities, being given special assignments when abroad that would benefit from her impeccable pedigree and social connections.
