Rating: R
Where I Got It: Watched at friend's house (I think it was Hulu)
Narrator: Nina Yndis, Maxim RestonTitle: Hot for Slayer
Genre: Paranormal Romance, Short StoryFormat: AudiobookPublished: September 23, 2025Where I Got It: Audible
Narrator: David SuchetTitle: A Warning to the Curious
Genre: Horror, Paranormal, Classic, Short storyFormat: AudiobookPublished: January 1, 1925Where I Got It: Audible
Narrated by: Gary Bennett
Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
Release date: 10-07-25 by Tantor Media
Fantasy/to review
This book takes place during one night of chaos and blood. There are flashbacks, and more to tell about the world and how these two came to be.
Yash is a barbarian princess sent to marry prince Chej to save her kingdom. But he is not all he seemed to be. Lowest of them all, and does he even like women?
But promises are broken. This kingdom never meant to respect borders. And Yash is not the princess she seems to be either. She can become male, and in her country gender and whom people love does not matter. Mostly she is an assassin. She is meant to kill the masters of the towers and set free the spirits they have imprisoned so save her homeland.
So...blood, lots of blood, lots of killing, chaos. Darkness, and she does not give up. While her new husband is the quiet kind sort, he steps up.
It is a lot, that I confess. But it is only 1 book so a lot has to happen for everything to come to an conclusion. And I liked it
Good narration. I mean there are talking bugs, monsters, lots of different people. It all works well
ALONE AGAINST AN EMPIRE.
When Yash of Zeltah arrives in the fortress city of Honaq, she is greeted as a barbarian, a simple pawn. Her marriage to prince Chej has been arranged, they say, to avert war. Yet she knows the truth, for the armies already ravage the land.
A skilled and deadly assassin, there is more to Yash than any might suspect. Before another day can pass, she must defeat the masters of the nine towers—the plagues, magics, and monsters they control, the soldiers they command. Without raising an alarm, she must kill all who oppose her—even the immortal emperor. The lives and souls of Zeltah, the people and the land upon which they live, all depend on it.
Narrator: Andi Arndt, Zachary WebberTitle: Worst Wingman Ever
Series: Valentine's Day #1
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Novella, Short StoryFormat: AudiobookPublished: January 23, 2024Where I Got It: Audible
Author: Abby Jimenez
Narrator: Julia Whelan, Connor CraisTitle: The Fall Risk
Series: Valentine's Day #2
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Novella, Short StoryFormat: AudiobookPublished: March 1, 2025Where I Got It: Audible
Author: Rachel Aaron
Narrator: Vikas AdamTitle: A Dragon of a Different Color
Series: Heartstrikers #4
Genre: UF, ParanormalFormat: AudiobookPublished: July 28, 2017Where I Got It: My shelf (Audible)
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B's pick: Best cover, and you have to look closely! |
Happy October!!!
Let's do an update from July to today. Oct-Dec is our last push to finish our goals!
Goodreads - Read 100 out of 140 books. Fell a wee bit behind because of my vacations this summer/spring. But we'll catch up. The holidays are always great reading times!
Romance Reading Bingo - Only 4 boxes left to check!
2025 Library Love Challenge - Summer Semester (May 1st - Aug 31st). 14/12 books. Went over! Yayy! Per the math we saved $140.40.
2025 #Audiobook Challenge - 42/75+ books. Eeeee. Not sure if I'll be able to beat this goal. This was an ambitious goal for sure, but I wanted to try! Might have to shove in some short stories to help get to at least 75.
Cloak and Dagger Reading Challenge - 26/16-25 books. Yayy! went over the total. Next year I may go up a level.
Here is the bonus book...#26 ;)
2025 #TBRChallenge - Do the monthly prompts! So far 9 for 9. On track!
Published: February 25, 2025 by Orbit
Fantasy/borrowed
Jenny Greenteeth lives in her lake. She cleans her lake, she eats fish, if a person falls in yum, if a kid drowns...well then she got a daughter to become a new Jenny. And centuries pass, until a witch falls in...
Temperance has the misfortune to live in a bad time, and there is a new priest who is an ahole and gets the congregation into a frenzy and there goes Temperance into the lake.
But in the end Jenny does not eat her, and they become allies. Because something is wrong in that village.
There is an adventure, a quest, more Fae/fairies/creatures to meet, and real friendship blooms between a hag and a witch.
I enjoyed it. Though it was rather too cozy, sometimes I like cozy, sometimes I want blood. You never know.
Beneath the still surface of a lake lurks a monster with needle-sharp teeth. Hungry and ready to pounce. Jenny Greenteeth has never spoken to a human before, but when a witch is thrown into her lake, something makes Jenny decide she’s worth saving.
Temperance doesn’t know why her village has suddenly turned against her, only that it has something to do with the malevolent new pastor. Though they have nothing in common, these two must band together on a magical quest to defeat the evil that threatens Jenny’s lake and Temperance’s family – as well as the very soul of Britain.
Narrator: Vikas AdamTitle: No Good Dragon Goes Unpunished
Series: Heartstrikers #3
Genre: UF, ParanormalFormat: AudiobookPublished: August 5, 2016Where I Got It: My shelf (Audible)