It’s time for the WWW Wednesday meme brought to you all by Taking on a World of Words
What Are You Currently Reading?
GoodReads:
“I refuse to be nothing…”
In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness…
In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. The fate of nothingness received by the family’s clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected.
When a bandit attack orphans the two children, though, it is Zhu Chongba who succumbs to despair and dies. Desperate to escape her own fated death, the girl uses her brother’s identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. There, propelled by her burning desire to survive, Zhu learns she is capable of doing whatever it takes, no matter how callous, to stay hidden from her fate.
After her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule, Zhu uses takes the chance to claim another future altogether: her brother’s abandoned greatness.
LOVING this, so much. Just about halfway through, doing it for the Illumicrate Readalong.
GoodReads:
Bilbo Baggins is a reasonably typical hobbit: fond of sleeping, eating, drinking, parties and presents.
However, it is his destiny to travel to the dwarflands in the east, to help slay the dragon Smaug. His quest takes him through enchanted forests, spiders’ lairs, and under the Misty Mountains, where he comes across the vile Gollum, and tricks him out of his ‘Precious’ – a ring that makes its bearer invisible, and wields a terrible power of its own.
It’s been on my tbr for like over a decade…okay like closer to near 2…but shhhhhhhhhh let’s not talk about my ancientness. Anyway, decided might as well get to it. I’m reading it in tandem with an audiobook of it via Spotify. I adore it thus far.
GoodReads:
In this highly anticipated sequel, Maya and the godlings must return to the sinister world of The Dark to retrieve the one thing keeping the veil between the worlds from crumbling: her father’s soul.
You all hear me screech a lot about Maya and the Rising Dark, well, tonight, Spawn and I started on my eARC of the sequel. So good, only three chapters in and we are loving it! You can still get a hardback copy of Maya and the Rising Dark in my #DiverseUrShelf box via my Etsy store!
What Did You Recently Finish Reading?
GoodReads:
Evangeline Fox was raised in her beloved father’s curiosity shop, where she grew up on legends about immortals, like the tragic Prince of Hearts.
She knows his powers are mythic, his kiss is worth dying for, and that bargains with him rarely end well.
But when Evangeline learns that the love of her life is about to marry another, she becomes desperate enough to offer the Prince of Hearts whatever he wants in exchange for his help to stop the wedding. The prince only asks for three kisses. But after Evangeline’s first promised kiss, she learns that the Prince of Hearts wants far more from her than she’s pledged. And he has plans for Evangeline that will either end in the greatest happily ever after, or the most exquisite tragedy…
*SCREAMS INTO THE VOID* I LOVED THIS
What Do You Think You’ll Read Next?
GoodReads:
Briseis has a gift: she can grow plants from tiny seeds to rich blooms with a single touch.
When Briseis’s aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated estate in rural New York, Bri and her parents decide to leave Brooklyn behind for the summer. Hopefully there, surrounded by plants and flowers, Bri will finally learn to control her gift. But their new home is sinister in ways they could never have imagined–it comes with a specific set of instructions, an old-school apothecary, and a walled garden filled with the deadliest botanicals in the world that can only be entered by those who share Bri’s unique family lineage.
When strangers begin to arrive on their doorstep, asking for tinctures and elixirs, Bri learns she has a surprising talent for creating them. One of the visitors is Marie, a mysterious young woman who Bri befriends, only to find that Marie is keeping dark secrets about the history of the estate and its surrounding community. There is more to Bri’s sudden inheritance than she could have imagined, and she is determined to uncover it . . . until a nefarious group comes after her in search of a rare and dangerous immortality elixir. Up against a centuries-old curse and the deadliest plant on earth, Bri must harness her gift to protect herself and her family.
I got my FL edition of this finally and feel I should just get to it cause I loved Cinderella is Dead.
What are you all reading? What do you hope to read next?
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Looks like some great books for you this week! I’m reading She Who Became the Sun next week! At the moment I am reading a couple of tour books (In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner and Vows of Gold and Laughter by Edith Pawlicki) x
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Oooh!! Those both sound good! I’ll keep an eye for them! I hope you enjoy SWBTS!!
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