Magical Readathon: Orilium - Choose Your Own Adventure: Year In Aeldia 2026, The Boardgame - Announcement & TBR

Happy Sunday everyone! Today I'm sharing my TBR for this year's Choose Your Own Adventure: Year In Adelia, The Boardgame.  This year's round is exactly like last year's (one book per month choose your own adventure style optional bonus challenge to G. @ Book Roast's Magical Readathon).  This time around though I'll just be starting from a different point and taking a different route on my adventure. Without further ado, check out my plans for this new adventure - to begin with we start at Orilium and adventure outward. Each number in a circle refers to the month of the year so you can only move to a larger number, but you can select different letter options depending on the path you have set out on.  

January - Start in the middle of the board and prepare for an adventure! Pick one of the below and stand on the selected tile. January has the same prompt for all number 1 tiles which is Book published in 2024 (well 2025, this time), saying goodbye to last year and preparing for 2025 (2026)! Put your character on one of the below: 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D

My choice: The Silverblood Promise (The Last Legacy #1) by James Logan - I've been meaning to read this for awhile now and kept missing it.  It's time!

February - Pick a direction and work your way towards the number 2 spot. These prompts mainly correlate with your physical shelves and where the books are. 2B West - book from the middle left side of the shelf

My choice: The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros - I've been meaning to try this author for ages now.  This has been on my shelf for way too long.

March - Off to Adventure! 3B - Enjoy solitude (keep to yourself and your own tent, you want to focus and not be disturbed) - book from your own priority TBR

My choice: Gods & Comics by Kat Cho - I got lucky enjoy to win an ARC from Goodreads up this YA fantasy romance.  It will be released on April 21st and I can't wait to read it because the Korean mythology element sounds like a lot of fun.

April - April's book can be part of your Sprint Equinox TBR if you’re participating and it fits both prompts. 4B Find your winter cloak (as the terrain changes you realise the clothes you left with just won't do - you need something much warmer!) - book by an author with a W in their name

My choice: Ashes in the Sun (Burningblade & Silvereye #1) by Django Wexler - This has been collecting dust on my shelf for far too long.

May - 5B - Enter cave (Darkmeadows surface is too harsh so you find the nearest cave and hope it leads deeper in to the intricate Darkmeadow underground network - read a dystopia

My choice: Typhoon (Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead #9) by Wesley Chu - I haven't read or watched anything of The Walking Dead, but this sounds different and cool extension of the story.

June - 6B - Solve traps (turn right, good news - this definitely has to lead somewhere, bad news - someone really tried to make sure not everyone passed because the cave is riddled with traps!) - read a mystery book

My choice: The Undetectables (The Undetectables #1) by Courtney Smythe - This fantasy mystery series opener sounds like it could be a lot of fun to me!

July - 7B - Read whilst on watch (a bit on edge after those traps, who set them up? Best stay on a watch before getting some sleep, good thing you have a great tome with you) - read this book entirely in the PM hours

My choice: Jack of Kinrowan (Jack of Kinrowan #1-2) by Charles de Lint - This duology bind up features both Jack, the Giant Killer and Drink Down the Moon.  It's brand of urban fantasy sounds like it could be fun.

August - 8B - Use Truelight (the darkness here is all consuming, it's dimming your light spells, the torch goes out, even your thoughts are turning against you.  You've read that only Truelight works under these mountains, luckily you've been gifted some and it's time to activate it) - read a book with a world "light" in the title

My choice: Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky - Well, this looks and sounds a bit creepy for this particular prompt. 

September - 9B - Inspect frost (the mountain walls glimmer with an odd frost that is illuminated by your Truelight.  It's a very peculiar type of frost, you've never seen anything like this, it seems to dance and move with you... how odd.  You must collect some investigate later.) - read a book with a light blue cover 

My choice: Celtika (The Merlin Codex #1) by Robert Holdstock - Merlin meets Jason and the Argonauts sounds pretty cool to me.

October - 10B - Meet entry wardens (ah finally, the gates to the Capital of Darkmeadow, but you get stopped by the wardens.  This city has strict entry rules, you'll have to convince them to let you in.) - read a debut novel

My choice: Friend Request by Laura Marshall - I picked up this debut mystery thriller on a whim for a dollar at a thrift store.  Mine is hardback and it's dust jacket is missing, so I guess this is the same edition as the one I have.

November - 11B - Pay with rare books (you have brought your collection of rare tomes you've found n your previous adventures, the one in your hand is from an Ancient Irtheria ruin.  You present it to the warden and they take it away.  You wait to see if this will suffice.  If successful it'll be added to the Great Underworld Library.) - read a book with fewer than 3,000 ratings on a rating app (like Goodreads, StoryGraph, etc.)

My choice: Scourge (Darkhurst #1) by Gail Z. Martin - This has been sitting on my shelf for too long which is a shame because this fantasy horror sounds pretty great.  It only has 262 ratings currently.

December - 12B - Enter the city of Darkmeadow (you've granted access and step through the massive stone gates of Darkmeadow's Capital.  It instantly feels like both a miracle and a home.  Truelight illuminates the stalactites and various imbued crystals in the city walls.  There are magical runes and symbols etched into the stone, protective and functional charms, making sure the air is fresh and energy is sufficient.  It's such a unique set up.  Above all else, it is simply stunning to behold

You are led up to an apartment that was granted for the duration of your stay, with a lush study.  Handed the map of the city to make sure you do not get lost (it would be all too easy!) and importantly, an Entry Pass to the Great Underworld Library.) - read your most anticipated book you have not yet gotten to

My choice: The First Sister (The First Sister Trilogy #1) by Linden A. Lewis - I've heard a lot of great things about this space opera so I'm looking forward to trying it for myself.

Are you participating in this challenge?  Have you read any of these books?  As always, thanks for visiting my blog and perhaps even commenting down below!