Hi my bookish lovelies, I hope you are all getting into the Christmas spirit, can you believe it’s December already?! I honestly feel like I just blinked and the months flew by. Since I finally got some time to read again (man has it been a struggle for my time management this year), I decided it was time for another WWW-Wednesday meme. For those who don’t know WWW-Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam from Taking on a World of Words where anyone who wants to participate answers three questions about what books you are currently reading, just finished and want to read next.
What are you currently reading?
We Set the Dark on Fire
Tehlor Kay Mejia
At the Medio School for Girls, distinguished young women are trained for one of two roles in their polarized society. Depending on her specialization, a graduate will one day run a husband’s household or raise his children, but both are promised a life of comfort and luxury, far from the frequent political uprisings of the lower class. Daniela Vargas is the school’s top student, but her bright future depends upon no one discovering her darkest secret—that her pedigree is a lie. Her parents sacrificed everything to obtain forged identification papers so Dani could rise above her station. Now that her marriage to an important politico’s son is fast approaching, she must keep the truth hidden or be sent back to the fringes of society, where famine and poverty rule supreme.
On her graduation night, Dani seems to be in the clear, despite the surprises that unfold. But nothing prepares her for all the difficult choices she must make, especially when she is asked to spy for a resistance group desperately fighting to bring equality to Medio. Will Dani cling to the privilege her parents fought to win for her, or to give up everything she’s strived for in pursuit of a free Medio—and a chance at a forbidden love?
What did you recently finish reading?
The Blood Spell
C.J. Redwine
Blue de la Cour has her life planned: hide the magic in her blood and continue trying to turn metal into gold so she can help her city’s homeless. But when her father is murdered and a cruel but powerful woman claims custody of Blue and her property, one wrong move could expose her—and doom her once and for all. The only one who can help? The boy she’s loathed since childhood: Prince Kellan.
Kellan Renard, crown prince of Balavata, is walking a thin line between political success and devastating violence. Newly returned from boarding school, he must find a bride among the kingdom’s head families and announce his betrothal—but escalating tension among the families makes the search nearly impossible. He’s surprised to discover that the one person who makes him feel like he can breathe is Blue, the girl who once ruined all his best adventures.
When mysterious forces lead to disappearances throughout Balavata, Blue and Kellan must work together to find the truth. What they discover will lead them to the darkest reaches of the kingdom, and to the most painful moments of their pasts. When romance is forbidden and evil is rising, can Blue save those she loves, even if it costs her everything?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Nevernight
By: jay Kristoff
In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.
Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined.
Now, Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic—the Red Church. If she bests her fellow students in contests of steel, poison and the subtle arts, she’ll be inducted among the Blades of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the vengeance she desires. But a killer is loose within the Church’s halls, the bloody secrets of Mia’s past return to haunt her, and a plot to bring down the entire congregation is unfolding in the shadows she so loves.
Will she even survive to initiation, let alone have her revenge?
*I know that this was on my last WWW list as well, but I just haven’t gotten to finishing it yet, and it is really really good so I want to give it time!
Le the know what you think of my list, and I would love to hear your current reads as well!
Great post and a great list of books and We Set the Dark on Fire looks and sounds absolutely fantastic I can’t wait to see your review on that book. Thank you so much for sharing your awesome post.
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The Blood Spell sounds amazing!
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I really liked it!
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Your choices all look fab. Plus I’d not heard of them before.
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ohhh all of these books look so interesting!! And that cover of CJ Redwine; looove it! I’ve only read one book by this author yet – the Snow White retelling – and I really liked it. I need to buy more of this author soon! And I still haven’t finished nevernight yet but what I’ve read so far; Loved it! Loooooved it! Hope you’re going to like it as well! Happy reading!
More on what I’m reading is to be found in my WWW article over on the blog http://melissasfandomworld1.wordpress.com
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Ooooh, such exciting reads! I LOVE Nevernight so I definitely hope you get to pick it up in the coming week! 🙂
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I haven’t read any of these, but hope you enjoy them!
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These books look so amazing! I’ve picked up a few books on writing I’m reading at the moment 🙂
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All of these sound super interesting. I’ve seen lots of good things about Nevernight but I’ve not heard of the other two.
Gemma @ http://www.gemmasbooknook.blogspot.com
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Great selection! I love the covers ♥
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I agree – time is flying and December seems to be going even faster than November
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Nevernight looks REALLY good…the cover is also spectacular!
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I am really loving it so far!
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I hadn’t heard of these before, hope you enjoy(ed) them!
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Those book look interesting – not a genre I normally read but always open to new suggestions!
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I haven’t read any of these, but they do look tempting. Enjoy! Here’s MY WWW POST
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