Just taking you on my reading 😁 #21

Books included 👇🏼

Scoundrel Of My Heart, No Rest For The Wicked, Origins, Crash Out

Sunday

👏🏽 🙌🏽 still have 1 book 📖 👇🏼

Scoundrel Of My Heart

TBR done ✅ 🙌🏽

White Hot

2 weeks after Burn For Me

Monday

White Hot

Crashed Out

River asks a favor 😏 and 👊🏼🤯

Twisted Love

Remembered I’m not done YET 🤦🏼‍♀️

Origin

⚾️⚾️ Watcher’s 👅⚾️⚾️⚾️ (6)

Read to here

Tuesday

White Hot

Twisted Love

Thursday

Twisted Love

Friday

Twisted Love

Walking In A Witchy Wonderland

⚠️ Read at your own risk! Short story collection (my memory 😍🤬)

Read half of this Christmas 🎄 2021, with the new one dropping next week (5/24) wanted to read this before 😁 Listened in the car 😏

  • PR contest for Garrison Media
    • Livvy Savoie 🤬 Gareth Blackwater 😍 Gareth attracted to Livvy 😏
    • Victor flirting with Livvy
      • Gareth 🤬
    • Semifinalists selected
      • Livvy, Gareth, Willard Thompson and win competition 🙌🏼
      • Grima have telepathy 😏
    • Jingle Spells
      • Jingle Spells: Nico and Violet laugh their way through their first babysitting adventure. But laughter turns to lust when Nico’s “dad” vibes tug on Violet’s maternal heartstrings.
        • After Witches Get Stitches (2 years after charmed tatoos)
          • Evie & Mateo have 15 month old triplets (Diego, Celine, Joaquin)
            • Evie & Mateo going to a NYE party 🎉
            • Nico volunteers to be a stay at home dad 😊😍
              • ⚾️ ⚾️ Nico’s 🤚🏽 ⚾️⚾️⚾️
  • Bewitch You A Merry Christmas 🎄
    • Evie’s POV
      • Evie, Mateo, Alpha 😍 Itching to be alone 😏
      • ⚾️ ⚾️ mateo’s 🤚🏽 & 👅⚾️⚾️⚾️ couple shirts 👕 👚 😍
    • Dev & Isadora 😊😍
      • Curse 🤬 that Mr. Marcus Romano needs Evie to break
    • Party for Violet and Clara
      • Drinking 🥴
  • Rockin’ Around The Hexmas Tree
    • Dev & Isadora 😊😍
      • ⚾️ ⚾️ Devraj’s 🤚🏽 & 👅 ⚾️⚾️⚾️ Devraj bites her 😏
      • ⚾️⚾️⚾️
    • After Don’t Hex And Drive, before Witches Get Stitcht
    • Family Christmas party 🎊
      • White elephant 🐘
        • Snow globe
          • Love spell meant for Violet-Nico
            • Shop warming gift 🎁 😏
      • Past between Ruben & Jules
        • Tease them 🤬
      • Tease Henry Blackwater (Geim) & Clara 😏
  • Jingle Bell Jock
    • 1st ever M/M romance: Charlie & JJ (Jeremy) 😍 best friends
      • Lost cause 🥲
      • In their 30s
    • Thomas Bailoy flirting with Charlie
      • NYE party 🎉
      • JJ sees 🤬 The thought of Charlie dating someone else… 💭 🤔
        • JJ confiding in Isadora
        • Plan for a secret 🤐 date 🤫
          • Devraj overhears 😏
          • JJ plans to tell Charlie how he feels 😍
          • England-Scotland trip ✈️
            • 5 months later 😍
          • Kiss 😘 ⚾️ Charlie says Thomas’ name 💔
            • Charlie 🙋‍♂️ Why?
              • Charlie broke up with Thomas 👌🏼
            • ⚾️⚾️ JJ’s 👅 ⚾️⚾️⚾️
Ended up reading the entire collection 😇

Technically read it out of order 😏 Glimpses of the sisters 😍 like an epilogue for Mateo-Evie, Isadora-Devraj, and Violet-Nico 😍 Tease Livvy-Gareth 😏 Tracking sisters (since that’ll be a book 😍) 1) Evie 2) Isadora 3) Violet 4) Livvy 5) Jules 6) Clara

Saturday

Twisted Love

No Rest For The Wicked

Already read this 😁😂😏😇

Hidden Legacies Readalong: Burn For You and White Hot

Just learned of this TODAY 🤗 but already excited 😊 Still have time before the live for Burn For Me 🔥 and White Hot 🥵

Books

  • Burn For Me 🔥 (400)📱
  • White Hot 🔥 (407)📱
  • Wildfire 🔥 (novella)
  • Diamond 💎 Fire 🔥 (novella)
  • Saphire Flames 🔥 (novella)
  • Emerald Blaze 🔥 (novella)
  • Ruby Fever 🤒

Found the books 📚

🌎

  • 5 ranks: minor, average, notable, significant, prime
  • Interkinetics manipulate magical energy, John
    • Pyrokinetics manipulate fire 🔥 , Adam
    • Aquakinetics manipulate water 💦
    • Telekinetics – levetate things
  • Combat magic
There’ll be a reading blog!

Burn For Me

Check-ins/Updates:

Before I begin:

3 of 4 of the hosts of the hidden legacies readalong are booktubers I like watching and bookstagrammers I interact with 🙌🏽 From SBU, know I like the readalong format! 🤗😁 Usually makes my reading experience better 😊 Just missed the IAD readalong… so figured I’d participate than regret later for not participating 

Chapter 6

Met the key players but the start is different from usual begings… 🤔 Not too much interaction between Mad Rogan and Nevada yet… But Adam’s putting the moves on Nevada 😂 Think I’ve got a handle on the set-up: Nevada is a PI and is working on a case involving Mad Rogan (by his nephew) and Adam (acused of murder and arsan).

White Hot

Check-ins/Updates:

Before I begin:

Excited to move onto the series! Haven’t seen much romance YET but getting flirting 😏 

Chapter 6

Already action-packed! Builds on Burn For Me, so the series must be read in order 📝 This story heavily deals with death and trauma. Definitely intrigued to find out more 

The Lion’s Lady Reading Blog

Check-ins/Updates:

Before I begin:

Blurb doesn’t say anything atypical for HR but know its the first book in a spy series 🤞🏼 it’s good 😊 After reading a few, curious how a story’s different YET the same (even in vibes)

Chapter 6

The set up is interesting 🤔 Christina is the Christina from the prologue 🤔 and she is also Princess Christina 👸 Lyon is used to getting what he wants, but Christina enjoys saying no 🙅🏻‍♀️😂🤣 get an interesting set up 🤔 1) marriage stipulation 2) kidnapping plot 🤔 What is Christina trying to do?! Does it have to do with Jessica’s journal?! Is Aunt patricia going to become villainous?! 🦹‍♀️ Only time will tell 🤔 

End of book 📖

Journal entries 🧐 🙌🏽 add to the plot 😊

Found that I still had questions 🙋‍♀️ could have been developed more.. curious how the series goes 🤔

Accidentally Compromising The Duke Reading Blog

Check-ins/Updates:

Before I begin:

Fan of widow romances 😁 1st widower 🤞🏼The kids involvement is usually 😍 and the way the SO (significant other) interacts with them is usually 😍 makes an argument this may involve a second chance romance because, oftentimes, the surviving partner is skeptical 🤨 about finding love again. I enjoy witnessing them be wrong 😍 Reminds me of if The Duke Demands by Anna Harrington in that somewho else’s room is entered and thats where the story begins 😂

Chapter 6

In here we get background information 🧐 Adel is desperate 😱 Not wanting to marry the Earl of Vale 🤬 she plans to break into James Atwood’s room at the Gladstone Houseparty, but mistakenly enters the wrong room 🤦🏼‍♀️ We get a fair amount of context 😊  Last scene, Edmond enters Adel’s room

Chapter 17

Adel integrating into the Rochester family seamlessly 😊 Edmond continues to fight his attraction to Adel. Adel uses her experiences with Adel to help her be a good stepmother to Edmond’s girls 👧👧😇 They’re dynamic reminds me of Sir Philip, With Love ❤️ which I enjoyed despite its sad undertones. Understand Edmond’s reluctance to consummate the marriage now, Mary Ann died in childbirth 🥲 For now, I respect Edmond’s pace 😊

Dreaming Of You Reading Blog

Check-ins/Updates:

Before I begin:

For the historical romance readathon 🙌🏽 also, been wanting to read this series 😇 Met Derek in Lily’s book and I love the friendship between Derek & Lily 🥰

Chapter 6

A lot has happened already 😮 Really like Sara 😁 Really feel Derek not trying to be attracted to Sara 🥰 Ivo Jenner, 🧟‍♂️. Read him in Devil In Winter, so glad to get more of him 😊

Spring Of Scoundrels Week 5

Book: The Perks Of Loving A Scoundrel

Check-ins/Updates:

Before I begin:

SBU is influential 😏🤗😂😇

Monday: Diary Entry – Chapter 5

Alot to unpack 😊😇 Didn’t get to read The Secret, but, in a general way, traveling somewhere for someone about to give birth 🤔 Whereas The Secret takes place while in transit, TOOLAS takes place at the destination 🤔 Funny 😄 😂 meet cute ☺️ Drunken antics 🥴 The assassination plot was unexpected 🤔 and the exposed boob 😂 Still too early to judge what I think, but I’m intrigued 🤔 

  • Another kidnapping for consistency please 🙏🏾 Wilson ♥️ reminds me of Jeffrey from Fresh Prince 😂 History of twins 🤔 This will come back later I feel… The doctor 🧑‍⚕️ is in 😏 Sad Mary’s Bookish change was a result of Eric’s death ☠️🥲
  • Don’t notice age as much 🤔 but i think she’s 26?! Grant involved in assassination plot 🤔 Only validating suspicions and theories 👆🏼Previously thought the revealed boob was funny 😄 but in front of Dickens?! 😂 It is true… Where is Eleanor’s husband? Pissing meet cute ☺️😂😇
  • The nip slip 😂🤣 West (🤞🏼 spelling’s right). I associate scoundrel behavior with being flirtatious 😂🤣😇😊

Tuesday: Chapters 6 – 12

Yesterday’s chapters conveniently ended with Mary being ruined 😏 😱 It’s a sign the plot is paced well 😊 The way Claire told they’re parents 😂🤣 Realized I like marriage of convenience as a trope 😏 Usually after a scandal 🤣😇 ✊🏽 to Mary for refusing West’s proposal. Got more on page time with Grant 🤔 He IS suspicious 🤨 End of the section was a ball where I suspect more 😂😏 will happen, West is growing more and more attracted to Mary 😍

  • Great summary as always 😊 Claire the morning after 😂🤣 Mary persistent to investigate 🧐 Mouse 🐁🥰😊 Lists 😍🥰 I reacted the same way when West was telling Grant 🙅🏽‍♀️
  • Age is so important in the land of HR

Wednesday: Chapters 13 – 17

They both exploring the assassination plot 🧐 and when Mary goes to a ball, West takes her home 🏡 Carriage shennagans 😂🤣 Mary discovering the next day, the note 😱 and that pushes their marriage of convenience 🙌🏽 The pages dedicated to the wedding night > wedding itself 😂🤣 Mary binds West 😏 West finally sleeps soundly 😴 

  • Carriage 🔥 French letters 🙌🏽 and relinquishing control to Mary 🙌🏽 Hrant is suspicious 🤨 🤔 The fart cushion 😂🤣 Reading together is nice 🥰😁 Liking West A LOT more after these chapters 💡 

Thursday: Chapters 18 – 24

The chapter summaries are super helpful 😊 🙌🏽 Mary the morning after 😏 Ashington being Mary’s brother 😁 Mary and West seriously 🧐 assassination plot, finding out more details 🤨 Nice to be in a new city 🏙 🌆 now 

  • Decided to just finish the book already 😂😍 🤷🏽‍♀️ if its just me but getting 😵‍💫 jumping in and out of the story
  • Thought zi read chapter 23 already but turns out I didn’t 😊🤦🏼‍♀️🤯 Also glad Mary didn’t leave with Eleanor

Friday: Chapters 25 – Epilogue

Finished this Thursday, usually read the chapters morning of the day of 🤔 full on investigation mode, moved to forefront of story (like the plot but also here for the romance). Trip without servants 🤞🏼More danger banging?! 😊😏😂 Not really feeling the scoundrel-ness of West 🤔 With Mary and West splitting up ✊🏽 Holding Carlson by the balls 🙌🏽😂 Danger bang 😂😏😊👏🏽🙌🏽🔥 Really see here how sex can be Thera prayer fota relationship

End of book 📖

The addition of the crime solving component, though fattening up the plot and story, but affected the romance 🤔 No kidnapping 🙅🏻‍♀️ but there’s danger banging 😏 ⚠️ 

Summary: Mary and West 🥰 overhear an assassination plot for the queen 👸 They work together to save her 🧐 ✊🏽

Historical Romance Readathon

May 9 – 16 #HRRreadathon

June 28-July 4

TBR:

  • The Lion’s Lady by Julie Garwood 📱 GROUP BOOK – spies, Julie Garwood
  • Dreaming Of You by Lisa Kleypas (400) 📱- rag to riches hero, in a series
  • Accidentally Compromising The Duke by Stacy Reid (224) – in a series, clinch cover, single paren)

Line:

  • Rags To Riches – Dreaming Of You by Lisa Kleypas (400)
  • Single parent – Accidentally Compromising The Duke by Stacy Reid (224)
  • Second chance romance – Accidentally Compromising The Duke by Stacy Reid (224)
  • In a series – Dreaming Of You by Lisa Kleypas (400) OR Accidentally Compromising The Duke by Stacy Reid (224)

Strategy:

  • Read ebooks slower 🐢

ReadingI Order:

  1. Accidentallye Compromising The Duke by Stacy Reid (224)
  2. The Lion’s Lady by Julie Garwood 📱 GROUP BOOK – spies, Julie Garwood
  3. Dreaming Of You by Lisa Kleypas (400)

Just taking you on my reading 😁 #20

Books included 👇🏼

No Rest For The Wicked, Origins, Crash Out, The Perks Of Loving A Scoundrel, Scoundrel Of My Heart

Sunday

No Rest For The Wicked

Mother’s Day 🤗

Origins

Read this with my partner while waiting in the car 🚙 😂😇

Crash Out

Read the 1st chapter 😊😆

The Perks Of Loving A Scoundrel

Started it 🤗

Monday

The Perks Of Loving A Scoundrel

Baby coming 🤔 The Secret by Julie Garwood ?!

Dreaming Of You

Start of #HRReadathon 😁

Tuesday

The Perks Of Loving A Scoundrel

Marriage of convenience 🤔

Dreaming Of You

The world 🌎 is scary 😟 😱🤬
Got the Audible audiobook so my Amazon ebook seamlessly 😏

Doctor Strange👨‍⚕️

Watching blog 😉

Wednesday

The Perks Of Loving A Scoundrel

Dreaming Of You

Batman Begins

HBO Max ✌🏽

Doctor Strange made me do it 😂😏😇 Tart from the beginning 😏😋🤪 The League Of Shadows 😱✊🏽 Fox supplier of batman 🦇

Thursday

The Perks Of Loving A Scoundrel

Dreaming Of You

Friday

The Dark Night

HBO Max ✌🏽

Scoundrel Of My Heart

Dreaming Of You

Scoundrel Of My Heart

Accidentally Compromising The Duke

After Monday

Saturday

Accidentally Compromising The Duke

The Lion’s Lady

Group book 📖 for the historical romance readathon 🤗

4 books ✅ 🙌🏽

Doctar Strange And The Multiverse Of Madness

Watched in the theatre with my partner, his diblings, and their significant others (SO)

Trailers

  • Avatar

Watched: May 13, 2022

Duration: 2 hours 6 minutes

Rotten Tomato 🍅 Rating: 75/87% 🍅

Star Rating (of 5): ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Book to movie/show 🍿 : N

Enjoyment 🤗: 🤗🤗🤗🤗

Demerits for 😱

Heat 🔥: 🔥

Mentioned

Rewatchable?: Y

Content warnings:Death of a loved one

The set-up: Steven Strange is helping America stay alive, she is being hunted for her multiverse capabilities 🤔

Key 🔑 Players:

Also included those from Doctor Strange

  • Dr. Steven Strange – neurosurgeon, injured 🤕, sorcerer 🧙‍♂️ Domammu – 🦹‍♂️
    • Mordo
    • Christine – ER doctor 👩‍⚕️
    • Ancient one/Sorceress Supreme- healing ❤️‍🩹 monk of the mystic arts
    • Wong – librarian 📚
  • America Chavez

Important Places 🌎:

Also included places from Doctor Strange

  • Kamer Taj

3-word Summary: In all universes…

Thoughts 💭:

  • Grief