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The books I got this week.

Sunday Post hosted by Kimba at Kimba The Caffeinated Book Reviewer, and Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews.

Crewel (Crewel World #1) by Gennifer Albin (ARC)

Eve and Adam by Katherine Applegate & Michael Grant (ARC)

The Shadow Society by Marie Rutkoski (ARC)

Madly (Madly #1) by M. Leighton (A novellete; FREE on Amazon)

Death and the Girl Next Door (Darklight #1) by Darynda Jones (ARC)

The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle (ARC)

Immortal Lycanthropes by Hal Johnson , Teagan White (ARC)

Thank you Macmillan, St. Martin's Press, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for the review copies!

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

The book/s I have read the past week, and the book/s I plan to read throughout the week.

hosted by Shiela at Book Journey

Last week, I finished reading:

Rift by Andrea Cremer
Madly by M. Leighton

I was very eager to read Rift as I am a big Cremer fan. I just love how she handled the love triangle in the Nightshade Series. I myself couldn't choose between Ren and Shay. I am leaning towards Team Ren, however. Anyhoo, I read Rift expecting similarities with Nightshade. I was pleasantly surprised that the plot is really very different from Nightshade. Yes, there were still some commonalities, but the setting, the atmosphere, the characters, and even the language is different from the earlier works. And it was so RICH in history! I loved it!

Now moving on to Madly... It's about mermaids and it's a novelette. Anyway, I never really liked mermaids. There are only one (or maybe two AT THE MOST) mermaids books that I liked. All the rest just didn't do it for me. Madly is no exception. The novelette was interesting, but it wasn't interesting enough for me to get the full-length version of the book.

This week, I plan to read:

Crewel by Gennifer Albin
Eve and Adam by Katherine Applegate & Michael Grant (IF I'm lucky enough to finish Crewel and everything that life demands me to finish.)

I have a feeling that I will have a very difficult time reviewing Crewel. It's a dystopian story about girls who have the ability to "weave" the world, and are taken by the authorities from their families. It has the same theme as Wither with respect to the view that women are inferior to men, but the plot is more complex.