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Music Monday: Songs I Didn't Think I'd Like, Pt. 5

Happy Monday everyone and welcome back to Music Monday! Let's share some songs we've been enjoying lately!  If you would like to play and I really hope you do, please see the rules and link up below. Rules: Every Monday share a few songs you've been enjoying lately.  It doesn't have to be a specific genre, new, or one of your favorites - just something you'd like to share with others.  If possible, share a music or lyric video of the song and your thoughts on the song(s), artist(s), and/or music video(s). If you would like to participate in Music Monday, please join the link up by sharing your post's url. Jonas Brothers- Sucker - I wasn't interested in the Jonas Brothers the first time around.  Now it's six years later and I'm actually hooked on their new song.  In my defense, when I heard it on the radio for the first time I didn't realize who I was listening to until it ended.  Anyway, it sure is catchy!  Zedd, Maren Morris, Gre...

The Friday 56 (With Book Beginnings): Such Dark Things by Courtney Evan Tate + 50/50 Friday

On Friday's I take part in three weekly link ups - The Friday 56, hosted by  Freda's Voice , Book Beginnings, hosted by  Rose City Reader , and 50/50 Friday is a new weekly link up and it is hosted by  Carrie @ The Butterfly Reader  and  Laura @ Blue Eye Books . For The Friday 56, you choose a book, a book you have just finished, a book you are about to start, your current read, and share a line or a few lines that grab you (but don't spoil anything) from page 56 or 56% of the way through the ebook. Post it and share your post's url on Freda's most recent Friday 56 post. As for Book Beginnings, you share the first sentence or so and your initial thoughts, impressions, or whatever else it inspires, and then link up your post's url with Rose City Reader. Then, for 50/50 Friday, every week there's a new topic featuring two sides of the same coin - you share a book that suits each category and link up on the hosts blogs. Happy Friday everyone!...

Will Haunt You by Brian Kirk (ARC) - Review

❋  ❋  ❋ I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. You don't read the book. It reads you. Rumors of a deadly book have been floating around the dark corners of the deep web. A disturbing tale about a mysterious figure who preys on those who read the book and subjects them to a world of personalized terror. Jesse Wheeler--former guitarist of the heavy metal group The Rising Dead--was quick to discount the ominous folklore associated with the book. It takes more than some urban legend to frighten him. Hell, reality is scary enough. Seven years ago his greatest responsibility was the nightly guitar solo. Then one night when Jesse was blackout drunk, he accidentally injured his son, leaving him permanently disabled. Dreams of being a rock star died when he destroyed his son's future. Now he cuts radio jingles and fights to stay clean. But Jesse is wrong. The legend is real--and tonight he will become the protagonist in an elaborate scheme specificall...

Top Ten Tuesday: Standalone Books That Need a Sequel

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to the Top Ten Tuesday now hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl .  This week's topic is Standalone Books That Need a Sequel.  All of these standalone books on my list totally deserve either a direct sequel or a companion novel.  Regardless, I just want more from these worlds.  Here we go, in no particular order: An Assassin's Guide to Love & Treason by Virginia Boecker Fire & Heist by Sarah Beth Durst Salt by Hannah Moskowitz The Isle of Gold by Seven Jane The Black God's Drums by P. Djeli Clark Murder, Magic, and What We Wore by Kelly Jones Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman Revenge and the Wild by Michelle Modesto Zero World by Jason M. Hough Have you read any of these novels?  What standalone books do you wish had a sequel?  As always, thanks for visiting my blog and perhaps even commenting down below!

Titanshade by Dan Stout (ARC) - Review

❋  ❋  ❋   ❋  ❋ I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Carter's a homicide cop in Titanshade, an oil boomtown where 8-tracks are state of the art, disco rules the radio, and all the best sorcerers wear designer labels. It's also a metropolis teetering on the edge of disaster. As its oil reserves run dry, the city's future hangs on a possible investment from the reclusive amphibians known as Squibs. But now negotiations have been derailed by the horrific murder of a Squib diplomat. The pressure's never been higher to make a quick arrest, even as Carter's investigation leads him into conflict with the city's elite. Undermined by corrupt coworkers and falsified evidence, and with a suspect list that includes power-hungry politicians, oil magnates, and mad scientists, Carter must find the killer before the investigation turns into a witch-hunt and those closest to him pay the ultimate price on the filthy streets of Titanshade. I c...

Music Monday: Captain Marvel (2019)

Happy Monday everyone and welcome back to Music Monday! Let's share some songs we've been enjoying lately!  If you would like to play and I really hope you do, please see the rules and link up below. Rules: Every Monday share a few songs you've been enjoying lately.  It doesn't have to be a specific genre, new, or one of your favorites - just something you'd like to share with others.  If possible, share a music or lyric video of the song and your thoughts on the song(s), artist(s), and/or music video(s). If you would like to participate in Music Monday, please join the link up by sharing your post's url. Happy Monday everyone!  This week I'm spotlighting some of my favorites 1990s songs featured in Captain Marvel (2019) .  I had the opportunity to see the film on Friday night and I loved it.  Brie Larson was great - so was Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Mendelsohn.  Goose, though, is the real MVP of the entire movie.  My song choices are...

The Friday 56 (With Book Beginnings): Suspicious Minds (Stranger Things #1) by Gwenda Bond + 50/50 Friday

On Friday's I take part in three weekly link ups - The Friday 56, hosted by  Freda's Voice , Book Beginnings, hosted by  Rose City Reader , and 50/50 Friday is a new weekly link up and it is hosted by  Carrie @ The Butterfly Reader  and  Laura @ Blue Eye Books . For The Friday 56, you choose a book, a book you have just finished, a book you are about to start, your current read, and share a line or a few lines that grab you (but don't spoil anything) from page 56 or 56% of the way through the ebook. Post it and share your post's url on Freda's most recent Friday 56 post. As for Book Beginnings, you share the first sentence or so and your initial thoughts, impressions, or whatever else it inspires, and then link up your post's url with Rose City Reader. Then, for 50/50 Friday, every week there's a new topic featuring two sides of the same coin - you share a book that suits each category and link up on the hosts blogs. This week I'm spotlig...