The Wicked King By Holly Black

I purchased this book from Half Priced Books to read with my bestie @mycornerforbooksand. All opinions are my own. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟👑The Wicked King👑 by Holly Black. Ok so given the title I knew Cardan was a jerk and he was a jerk in book 1 but I had high hopes because Jude had him bound by Faerie rules, and for a while she held her own as strong willed Jude does. However, in a moment of weakness following her capture, feeling lovesick, and her twin sister being the cruelest sister in the galaxy she was duped yet again. Now Cardan sits on his throne and she is sorting her next plan of action. All I can say is The Roach and The Bomb better have a plan cause life is about to get real in Faerie! I was so mad at the end of this one I almost threw the book…..almost, but I have to save it because book 3 comes out in January, so it will sit on my shelf until then. Review also posted on Instagram @borenbooks, Library Thing, Goodreads/StacieBoren, Twitter @jason_stacie, Amazon, and my blog at readsbystacie.com

The Wrong Guys by Tom Wells and Richard A Leo

My husband purchased this book for me from Amazon to read. All opinions are my own. 🌟🌟🌟🌟The Wrong Guys by Tom Wells and Richard A. Leo. OH MY GOODNESS I CAN’T EVEN TELL YOU HOW SCREWED UP THIS BOOK IS! One murder/rape victim is found by her husband in their apartment after he returns home from cruise. The neighbors, the cops, the husband, his family, no one had any clue what was going on but once Investigator Ford is handed the case 8 men will be arrested and all 8 will confess but thing is, only one of them could have done it only one DNA sample matched. So why were 5 of them convicted? Because there is no system that could have saved them. After hours of interrogation forced confessions kept 4 innocent people in prison for more than 7 years. This case is the biggest injustice of the judicial system I have ever seen. I can not believe this is impossible. Review also posted on Instagram @borenbooks, Library Thing, Goodreads/StacieBoren, Twitter @jason_stacie, Amazon, and my blog at readsbystacie.com

My Family’s Survival by Aviva Gat

I purchased this book from Amazon to read. All opinions are my own. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 My Family’s Survival by Aviva Gat. This Historical book was an amazing tale of survival during WWII. While everyone has heard stories of the Jews of Germany and the horrors they survived there were so many more countries with so many more Jews that no one who didn’t experience it would think it was unreal. This family not only survived, they stayed together. David and his wife Honda, their three children, Abi, Sarah, and Yossi, with David’s sister Rachel managed to stay one step ahead of the Nazis. Beginning in a small village called Butla in Poland, through Hungary, and Romania they hold onto one another for strength and survival when the times get rough. This incredible true story is how the Schwartz family managed to survive and thrive during the war. It is a story of true luck and true faith in family. Review also posted on Instagram @borenbooks, Library Thing, Goodreads/StacieBoren, Amazon, Twitter @jason_stacie and my blog at readsbystacie.com

March Wrap Up

I’m wrapping up March with 15 books! While you are doing your wrap up posts for the month do you ever feel like, “I should have read more” ? I do. I mean 15 isn’t a terrible number but I my personal goal is 4 books a week……Im not close. Not yet….but I have faith and will continue to read until I reach that goal! I have reached it before I know it’s possible, just need to be more consistent. Do you set yourself these goals too or am I the only crazy person that does this? Undead and The City by K. E. Radke, The Dark Vault by Victoria Schwab, Five Feet Apart by Rachel Lippincott, The Hawaiian Discovery by Wanda Brunstetter, Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake, The Princess Saves Herself In This One by Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn’t Burn In This One by Amanda Lovelace, The Mermaid’s Voice Returns In This One by Amanda Lovelace, 12 Strong by Doug Stanton, Heart of a Champion by Jennifer Freeman, The Cursed Series by Rebecca Donovan, One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake, Enchantee by Gita Trelease, The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, and Two Dark Reigns by Kendare Blake.

Two Dark Reigns by Kendare Blake

I purchased this book from Amazon to read with @popthebutterfly readalong. All opinions are my own. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟Two Dark Reigns by Kendare Blake. After learning the history of the Island of Fennbirn, we read about an epic battle that lead to a poisoner queen crowned and two sisters not crowned by an escape default. Our crowned queen continues with strange behavior on the island while at the mainland her sisters are fighting to find normalcy and one is having nightmares about The Blue Queen of the island that will lead her to answers she must discover. The most meant to protect the island is stronger than ever and killing it’s own people causing some anxiety among the islanders which leads Jules to make some decisions of her own about an uprising. So when the escaped queens return to the island everything they have known to be true is coming undone. I can not wait until book 4 comes out! Review also posted on Instagram @borenbooks, Library Thing, Goodreads/StacieBoren, Amazon, Twitter @jason_stacie and my blog at readsbystacie.com

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

I purchased this book in January @bookofthemonth to read with my bestie @mycornerforbooksand. All opinions are my own. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. MIND BLOWN!!!!!! There are no words to describe this book other than that. I have no idea how to even begin to tell you how wonderful this twisted thriller is! Alicia had the perfect life, she’s an artist, her husband a photographer, they have a home with her studio and one night the while world turns upside down. Her husband murdered, tied to a chair gun lying in the floor and Alicia the only other person in the house. He refusal to speak, not one word, gets her institutionalized in a secure psychiatric hospital. Theo Garber finds her story and is determined he can help Alicia tell the truth. Only the truth is hardly ever what everyone thinks. Review also posted on Instagram @borenbooks, Library Thing, Goodreads/StacieBoren, Amazon, Twitter @jason_stacie and my blog at readsbystacie.com

The Cursed Series by Rebecca Donovan

I received this book in a Giveaway on Instagram. All opinions are my own. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟The Cursed Series by Rebecca Donovan. Everyone Lies, You can only save yourself. Lana and her friends go our on a Friday night and get into the hottest party spot in their small town but everything goes wrong and continues to get worse the entire night and Lana ends up in juvie and refuses to talk in order to save and protect her friends. Her lawyer pulls some strings and Lana instead of serving time in juvie is transferred to a rich private school full of other delinquents just like her but they come from wealthy, privileged backgrounds. Just as Lana is becoming accepted into the new peer group suspicious notes and messages begin to appear and strange things begin to happen around her just as she realizes she may be falling in love with someone completely out of her circle. As secrets begin to emerge the mysteries become thicker than Lana could have ever imagined. Lana doesn’t know who to trust when she is the only one telling the truth. Review also posted on Instagram @borenbooks, Library Thing, Goodreads/StacieBoren, Amazon, Twitter @jason_stacie and my blog at readsbystacie.com

Enchantee by Gita Trelease

I received this book in my February @litjoycrate box and read it with my bestie @mycornerforbooksand. All opinions are my own. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟Enchantee by Gita Trelease. Camille will do anything to save her little sister Sophie from their older brother Alain. Alain has spent his nights gambling and losing, staying drunk and stealing everything Camille could bring in the door from the poor, hard streets of Paris in 1789, but Camille has found a way to work Magic and begins to build a plan to save herself and rescue after meeting a boy with a hot air balloon by chance. Two worlds become so intertwined that Camille begins to feel exhausted with who she is with Magic and who she is without Magic. During the Revolution in France Camille is struggling to save what little family she has left but at every turn there is another obstacle that only Magic can fix until she finally finds a way and plays her Ace to win big. Review also posted on Instagram @borenbooks, Library Thing, Goodreads/StacieBoren, Twitter @jason_stacie, Amazon, and my blog at readsbystacie.com

One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake

I purchased this book from Amazon to read with our reading group by @popthebutterfly readalong. All opinions are my own. Triplets born to the island must fight for the crown. Three queens must battle to the death until one queen is crowned. Arsinoe finds an unknown power that may lead her to victory. Mirabella who was so sure once she would be queen is now questioning the world around her. Katharine the weakest of three in the beginning is now full of fight and rage and something about her is just not quite right. One must be queen, two must die. At the end the book will have you asking yourself wait!??? What just happened? Onto book 3 to unravel the mystery that lies before us. Review also posted on Instagram @borenbooks, Library Thing, Goodreads/StacieBoren, Amazon, Twitter @jason_stacie and my blog at readsbystacie.com

#teamrbkendra ~ read three dark crowns or any in the series

The Mermaid’s Voice Returns In This One by Amanda Lovelace

I purchased this book from Amazon to read. All opinions are my own. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟The Mermaid’s Voice Returns In This One by Amanda Lovelace. The final book of this series is healing and recovery. Even when you are stuck in a place where you can’t find able stop and enjoy the peace. The past is there and will always be but every day you wake up one day further away. Enjoy your present time. Find your voice. No one’s story or pain is like yours and your is like no one else’s be patient, be kind. Victim or Survivor? Some days they are both the same and that’s ok. This one was MER-MAZING! Ahhhhh!!!!! A princess, a witch, and now a mermaid 👑🔥🌊☄this poetry series was an amazing adventure for me. Review also posted on Instagram @borenbooks, Library Thing, Amazon, Goodreads/StacieBoren, Twitter @jason_stacie and my blog at readsbystacie.com