Jessi's bookshelf: all en-US Tue, 15 Apr 2025 18:40:06 -0700 60 Jessi's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Raven Scholar (Eternal Path Trilogy #1)]]> 212174157 From an electrifying new voice in epic fantasy comes The Raven Scholar, a masterfully woven and playfully inventive tale of imperial intrigue, cutthroat competition, and one scholar’s quest to uncover the truth.

Let us fly now to the empire of Orrun, where after twenty-four years of peace, Bersun the Brusque must end his reign. In the dizzying heat of mid-summer, seven contenders compete to replace him. They are exceptional warriors, thinkers, strategists—the best of the best.

Then one of them is murdered.

It falls to Neema Kraa, the emperor’s brilliant, idiosyncratic High Scholar, to find the killer before the trials end. To do so, she must untangle a web of deadly secrets that stretches back generations, all while competing against six warriors with their own dark histories and fierce ambitions. Neema believes she is alone. But we are here to help; all she has to do is let us in.

If she succeeds, she will win the throne. If she fails, death awaits her. But we won’t let that happen.

We are the Raven, and we are magnificent.]]> 656 Antonia Hodgson 152933988X Jessi 0 to-read 4.47 2025 The Raven Scholar (Eternal Path Trilogy #1)
author: Antonia Hodgson
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average rating: 4.47
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]]> Warbreaker 1268479
Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren's capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as breath that can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people.

By using breath and drawing upon the color in everyday objects, all manner of miracles and mischief can be accomplished. It will take considerable quantities of each to resolve all the challenges facing Vivenna and Siri, princesses of Idris; Susebron the God King; Lightsong, reluctant god of bravery, and mysterious Vasher, the Warbreaker.]]> 688 Brandon Sanderson Jessi 4 currently-reading 4.29 2009 Warbreaker
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2009
rating: 4
read at: 2018/06/28
date added: 2025/04/01
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]]> Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3) 209439446
Now Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit, luck, and strength, but she will do anything to save what she loves—her dragons, her family, her home, and him.

Even if it means keeping a secret so big, it could destroy everything. They need an army. They need power. They need magic. And they need the one thing only Violet can find—the truth. But a storm is coming...and not everyone can survive its wrath.]]> 527 Rebecca Yarros 1649374186 Jessi 3 adult, epic-fantasy, romance 4.18 2025 Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
author: Rebecca Yarros
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2025
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/01
date added: 2025/04/01
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]]> The Lost Metal (Mistborn, #7) 23947089 Return to #1 New York Times bestseller Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn world of Scadrial as its second era, which began with The Alloy of Law, comes to its earth-shattering conclusion in The Lost Metal.

For years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Set—with his late uncle and his sister among their leaders—since they started kidnapping people with the power of Allomancy in their bloodlines. When Detective Marasi Colms and her partner, Wayne, find stockpiled weapons bound for the Outer City of Bilming, this opens a new lead. Conflict between the capital, Elendel, and the Outer Cities only favors the Set, and their tendrils now reach to the Elendel Senate—whose corruption Wax and his wife, Steris, have sought to expose—and Bilming is even more entangled.

After Wax discovers a new type of explosive that can unleash unprecedented destruction and realizes that the Set must already have it, an immortal kandra serving Scadrial's god, Harmony, reveals that Bilming has fallen under the influence of another god: Trell, worshipped by the Set. And Trell isn't the only factor at play from the larger Cosmere—Marasi is recruited by offworlders with strange abilities who claim their goal is to protect Scadrial . . . at any cost.

Wax must choose whether to set aside his rocky relationship with God and once again become the Sword that Harmony has groomed him to be. If no one steps forward to be the hero Scadrial needs, the planet and its millions of people will come to a sudden and calamitous ruin.]]> 507 Brandon Sanderson 0765391198 Jessi 5 4.46 2022 The Lost Metal (Mistborn, #7)
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/31
date added: 2025/03/31
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]]> <![CDATA[Heat of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #3)]]> 124936017
After her disastrous coronation, Diem finds herself at the center of the conflict between the Descended and the Guardians. With her newfound friends and the man she’s falling for on one side, and the mortals she has vowed to protect on the other, Diem must walk a careful line to save the people she loves� even from each other.

The mystery of her unusual heritage begins to unravel, sending Diem and Luther on an unexpected journey across the realms. The answers may hold the key to winning the war, but finding them will require her to face painful truths about her mother, her bloodline, and her fate.

Meanwhile, the Crowns have set Diem in their sights. Some could be her greatest allies—while others want her dead. To end their oppressive reign, Diem must sort friend from foe and risk it all to build an army of her own.

But a powerful figure in the north has plans that could change everything...

Heat of the Everflame is the third book in The Kindred's Curse Saga, a four-book epic fantasy romance series that follows our fiesty, bad*ss heroine Diem Bellator in her fight against injustice, her struggle to survive in a royal palace full of betrayal and intrigue, and her journey of self-discovery and finding true love. This slow burn, enemies-to-lovers series is perfect for fans of unique magic systems, dragons and other mythical creatures, angst and romantic tension, and hilarious banter. This book will appeal to fans of plot-heavy, character-driven romantasy such as A Court of Thorns and Roses, Throne of Glass, From Blood and Ash, Gild, Shadow & Bone, and The Serpent & the Wings of Night.]]> 1026 Penn Cole Jessi 4 4.27 2023 Heat of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #3)
author: Penn Cole
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/12
date added: 2025/03/12
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]]> Confess 22609310
For once, Auburn takes a chance and puts her heart in control, only to discover that Owen is hiding a huge secret. The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything Auburn loves most, and the only way to get her life back on track is to cut Owen out of it—but can she do it?]]> 306 Colleen Hoover 1476791457 Jessi 5 4.14 2015 Confess
author: Colleen Hoover
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2015
rating: 5
read at: 2015/05/03
date added: 2025/03/01
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]]> <![CDATA[Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)]]> 203578847 The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive―the iconic epic fantasy masterpiece that has sold more than 10 million copies, from acclaimed bestselling author Brandon Sanderson.

Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future of Roshar on the line. The Knights Radiant have only ten days to prepare―and the sudden ascension of the crafty and ruthless Taravangian to take Odium’s place has thrown everything into disarray.

Desperate fighting continues simultaneously worldwide―Adolin in Azimir, Sigzil and Venli at the Shattered Plains, and Jasnah at Thaylen City. The former assassin, Szeth, must cleanse his homeland of Shinovar from the dark influence of the Unmade. He is accompanied by Kaladin, who faces a new battle helping Szeth fight his own demons . . . and who must do the same for the insane Herald of the Almighty, Ishar.

At the same time, Shallan, Renarin, and Rlain work to unravel the mystery behind the Unmade Ba-Ado-Mishram and her involvement in the enslavement of the singer race and in the ancient Knights Radiants killing their spren. And Dalinar and Navani seek an edge against Odium’s champion that can be found only in the Spiritual Realm, where memory and possibility combine in chaos. The fate of the entire Cosmere hangs in the balance.]]> 1344 Brandon Sanderson 1250319188 Jessi 5 audiobooks, epic-fantasy 4.36 2024 Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/18
date added: 2025/02/18
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]]> <![CDATA[Hard Is Not the Same Thing as Bad: The Perspective Shift That Could Completely Change the Way You Mother]]> 63906868
Bestselling author Abbie Halberstadt helps women see how God can use the everydayĚý trial s of motherhood to radically transform how they view hardship and grow them toĚý become more like Jesus.

“Why me, Lord?�
Ěý
Amid the toddler tantrums, the mealtime melees, and the backseat blowups, have you found yourself asking God that same question? Maybe even screaming it into a couch pillow? You’re not alone.
Ěý
Your most trying moments as a mother can quickly spiral into discouragement, hopelessness, and sometimes even resentment toward God or your family—partly because our culture has conditioned us to believe that anything this hard ł¦˛ą˛Ô’t possibly be good for us.
Ěý
Abbie Halberstadt, author of the bestselling M Is for Mama , shares scriptural wisdom and lessons learned from her own challenges as a mama of ten to help shift your perspective on the hardships of motherhood and of life, in general.
Ěý
When you begin to see struggles as a necessary part of God’s plan for your spiritual growth, you can discover supernatural peace and purpose, even when you’re down in the deepest trenches of motherhood.
Ěý]]> 240 Abbie Halberstadt 0736986758 Jessi 0 currently-reading 4.31 Hard Is Not the Same Thing as Bad: The Perspective Shift That Could Completely Change the Way You Mother
author: Abbie Halberstadt
name: Jessi
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]]> <![CDATA[Burn of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #4)]]> 220145036
In Lumnos, Realm of Light and Shadow, the Crowns are gathering. Caught between two deadly foes, they must form an unlikely alliance to save their people.

But the Crowns have a secret—and a heart without its mate will burn the world down to fulfill its fate.

Hatred reigns. Hope seems lost. With the future in darkness, can a flame emerge to bring the light?]]> 550 Penn Cole 3911244118 Jessi 0 to-read 4.27 2026 Burn of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #4)
author: Penn Cole
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.27
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]]> <![CDATA[Glow of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #2)]]> 124935969
The threat of war has arrived at Diem’s doorstep, along with a new discovery that could save her people. To use it, she must survive the next thirty days by forming a devil’s bargain with the people she hates most: the royal family of House Corbois.

But as she dives into the world of the Descended elite, Diem quickly realizes good and evil aren’t as simple as they seem. Old prejudices are challenged, and new loyalties blur the line between friend and foe.

Meanwhile, her mother is still missing, and the secrets she left behind can no longer be ignored—and neither can the Guardians and their demands. Caught between an old flame and a sizzling new spark, Diem must confront the truth about who she is and what she wants before time runs out.

War is coming, and dangerous enemies wait on all sides.. but the most deadly battle Diem faces may be the one for her heart.

Glow of the Everflame is the second book in The Kindred's Curse Saga, a four-book fantasy romance series. This book will appeal to fans of plot-heavy, character-driven romantasy such as A Court of Thorns and Roses, Throne of Glass, From Blood and Ash, Gild, Shadow & Bone, and The Serpent & the Wings of Night.]]> 637 Penn Cole Jessi 4 4.36 2023 Glow of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #2)
author: Penn Cole
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/01
date added: 2025/02/01
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]]> Brimstone (Fae & Alchemy, #2) 222139748 Duty. Blood. Honour. Power.

Saeris Fane doesn't want power. The very last thing she needs is her name whispered on an entire court's lips, but now that she's been crowned queen of the Blood Court, she's discovering that a queen's life is not her own. A heavy weight rests upon her shoulders.

Her ward - and her brother - need her back in her homeland . . . but the changes that have strengthened Saeris have also made her weak. Born under blazing suns, Saeris will surely die if she makes her way home through the Quicksilver. Which means that, once again, she must send someone else in her stead . . .

'Keep your mouth shut. Stick to the shadows. And for the love of all seven Gods, do NOT crack any jokes.'

Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate has defeated armies and survived all manner of horrors, but traveling back to Zilvaren with Carrion Swift might just be the death of him. The male just will not shut up. Hidden dangers await them down the narrow alleyways of the Silver City. Unfolding secrets pose impossible threats. Fisher must wrangle the smuggler and accomplish his goals quickly if he wants to see his mate again.

A darkness falls across Yvelia. The realm and their friends are in danger. Together, Saeris and Fisher will pass through fire and brimstone to save them.]]> 624 Callie Hart 1538774224 Jessi 0 to-read 4.29 2025 Brimstone (Fae & Alchemy, #2)
author: Callie Hart
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.29
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]]> <![CDATA[Spark of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #1)]]> 123471760 When old secrets catch fire, everything will burn.

In a mortal world colonized by the gods and ruled over by the Descended, their cruel offspring, Diem Bellator yearns to escape the insular life of her poor village.

Her mother’s sudden disappearance—and the discovery of a dangerous secret about her past—offer Diem an unexpected opportunity to enter the dark world of Descended royalty and unlock the web of mysteries her mother left behind.

With the dying King’s handsome, mysterious heir watching her every move, and a ruthless mortal alliance recruiting her to join the growing civil war, Diem will have to navigate the unwritten rules of love, power, and politics in order to save her family—and all of mortalkind.

Spark of the Everflame is the first book in The Kindred's Curse Saga, a four-book fantasy romance series. This slow burn, enemies-to-lovers epic is perfect for lovers of magic, dragons, angst, and banter and will appeal to fans of books like A Court of Thorns and Roses, From Blood and Ash, Gild, and The Serpent & the Wings of Night.]]> 438 Penn Cole Jessi 3 epic-fantasy 4.20 2023 Spark of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #1)
author: Penn Cole
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/15
date added: 2025/01/15
shelves: epic-fantasy
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]]> <![CDATA[Keeping 13 (Boys of Tommen, #2)]]> 146943394 667 Chloe Walsh 1728299985 Jessi 3 adult, audiobooks, romance 4.51 2018 Keeping 13 (Boys of Tommen, #2)
author: Chloe Walsh
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.51
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/01
date added: 2025/01/01
shelves: adult, audiobooks, romance
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]]> The Listeners 56988057
January 1942. The Avallon Hotel & Spa has always offered elegant luxury in the wilds of West Virginia, its mountain sweetwater washing away all of high society’s troubles.

Local girl-turned-general manager June Porter Hudson has guided the Avallon skillfully through the first pangs of war. The Gilfoyles, the hotel’s aristocratic owners, have trained her well. But when the family heir makes a secret deal with the State Department to fill the hotel with captured Axis diplomats, June must persuade her staff—many of whom have sons and husbands heading to the front lines—to offer luxury to Nazis. With a smile.

Meanwhile FBI Agent Tucker Minnick, whose coal tattoo hints at an Appalachian past, presses his ears to the hotel’s walls, listening for the diplomats� secrets. He has one of his own, which is how he knows that June’s balancing act can have dangerous consequences: the sweetwater beneath the hotel can threaten as well as heal.

June has never met a guest she couldn’t delight, but the diplomats are different. Without firing a single shot, they have brought the war directly to her. As clashing loyalties crack the Avallon’s polished veneer, June must calculate the true cost of luxury.]]> 400 Maggie Stiefvater 0593655508 Jessi 0 to-read 4.06 2025 The Listeners
author: Maggie Stiefvater
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> The Seven Year Slip 62926938 An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate…only to discover he lives seven years in the past, in this witty and wise new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics.

Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it.

So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon. The last one is silly and obviously metaphorical, but her aunt always told her that you needed at least one big dream to keep going. And for the last year, that plan has gone off without a hitch. Mostly. The love part is hard because she doesn’t want to get too close to anyone—she isn’t sure her heart can take it.

And then she finds a strange man standing in the kitchen of her late aunt’s apartment. A man with kind eyes and a Southern drawl and a taste for lemon pies. The kind of man that, before it all, she would’ve fallen head-over-heels for. And she might again.

Except, he exists in the past. Seven years ago, to be exact. And she, quite literally, lives seven years in his future.

Her aunt always said the apartment was a pinch in time, a place where moments blended together like watercolors. And Clementine knows that if she lets her heart fall, she’ll be doomed.

After all, love is never a matter of time—but a matter of timing.]]> 336 Ashley Poston Jessi 0 to-read 4.18 2023 The Seven Year Slip
author: Ashley Poston
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1)]]> 146943294 626 Chloe Walsh 1728299950 Jessi 3 adult, romance 4.45 2018 Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1)
author: Chloe Walsh
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.45
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/24
date added: 2024/12/24
shelves: adult, romance
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Ballad of Smallhope and Pennyroyal]]> 209004601 From the globally bestselling author of the Chronicles of St Mary's and Time Police series - the origin story of bounty hunters Smallhope and Pennyroyal.

Meet Lady Amelia Smallhope, for whom there is no problem that can't be solved by a drink and a think.

And Pennyroyal, for whom there is no problem. Ever.

Everyone's favourite bounty hunters. Sorry - recovery agents. No bad guy they can't handle. No expense account too flexible. No adventure too outrageous.

Join them as they settle scores, break every rule in the book and take the world by storm.

Fasten your seatbelts. The timeline doesn't know what's hit it.]]> 468 Jodi Taylor 1035415925 Jessi 4 4.67 2024 The Ballad of Smallhope and Pennyroyal
author: Jodi Taylor
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.67
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/23
date added: 2024/12/23
shelves: addicting-series, audiobooks, sci-fi
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]]> <![CDATA[Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1)]]> 217536270
In the land of the unforgiving desert, there isn't much a girl wouldn't do for a glass of water.

Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen's reservoirs for as long as she can remember.

But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone.

When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently re-opens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice and snow. The Fae have always been the stuff of myth, of legend, of nightmares... but it turns out they're real, and Saeris has landed herself in the middle of a centuries-long conflict that might just get her killed.

The first of her kind to tread the frozen mountains of Yvelia in over a thousand years, Saeris mistakenly binds herself to Kingfisher, a handsome Fae warrior, who has secrets and nefarious agendas of his own. He will use her Alchemist's magic to protect his people, no matter what it costs him . . . or her.

Death has a name. It is Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate. His past is murky. His attitude stinks. And he's the only way Saeris is going to make it home.]]> 624 Callie Hart 1538774194 Jessi 4 epic-fantasy, romance 4.30 2024 Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1)
author: Callie Hart
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/12
date added: 2024/12/12
shelves: epic-fantasy, romance
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]]> Funny Story 194802722 A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.

Daphne always loved the way her fiancé, Peter, told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it... right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.

Which is how Daphne begins her new story: stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.

Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned-up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?

But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex... right?]]> 400 Emily Henry Jessi 0 to-read 4.21 2024 Funny Story
author: Emily Henry
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> The Ministry of Time 199798179 A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all:

In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats� from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time.

She is tasked with working as a “bridge�: living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as �1847� or Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so he’s a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her calves, surrounded by outlandish concepts such as “washing machines,� “Spotify,� and “the collapse of the British Empire.� But with an appetite for discovery, a seven-a-day cigarette habit, and the support of a charming and chaotic cast of fellow expats, he soon adjusts.

Over the next year, what the bridge initially thought would be, at best, a horrifically uncomfortable roommate dynamic, evolves into something much deeper. By the time the true shape of the Ministry’s project comes to light, the bridge has fallen haphazardly, fervently in love, with consequences she never could have imagined. Forced to confront the choices that brought them together, the bridge must finally reckon with how—and whether she believes—what she does next can change the future.]]> 339 Kaliane Bradley 1668045141 Jessi 0 to-read 3.54 2024 The Ministry of Time
author: Kaliane Bradley
name: Jessi
average rating: 3.54
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Bands of Mourning (Mistborn, #6)]]> 18739426
The Bands of Mourning are the mythical metal minds owned by the Lord Ruler, said to grant anyone who wears them the powers that the Lord Ruler had at his command. Hardly anyone thinks they really exist. A kandra researcher has returned to Elendel with images that seem to depict the Bands, as well as writings in a language that no one can read. Waxillium Ladrian is recruited to travel south to the city of New Seran to investigate. Along the way he discovers hints that point to the true goals of his uncle Edwarn and the shadowy organization known as The Set.]]> 455 Brandon Sanderson 146686267X Jessi 5
Mistborn continues to be one of the best series I have read... ever. After the tragic ending of Shadows of Self I was itching to get going on this entry. Though I had to read a certain Empire of Storms first.

There's nothing more I can say here that I haven't said before. Sanderson is phenomenal and this world is one of the best. The story was gripping all the way through, and I can't wait for the final installment of this Mistborn Era.]]> 4.42 2016 The Bands of Mourning (Mistborn, #6)
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/07
date added: 2024/12/07
shelves: addicting-series, audiobooks, epic-fantasy
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This year has been a very fantasy heavy year for me (couldn't handle anymore simpering YA, alphaness PNR or contemporary reads.)

Mistborn continues to be one of the best series I have read... ever. After the tragic ending of Shadows of Self I was itching to get going on this entry. Though I had to read a certain Empire of Storms first.

There's nothing more I can say here that I haven't said before. Sanderson is phenomenal and this world is one of the best. The story was gripping all the way through, and I can't wait for the final installment of this Mistborn Era.
]]> <![CDATA[Lights! Camera! Mayhem! (The Chronicles of St. Mary's #14.6)]]> 209154677
TEMPORA, THE TIME TRAVELLING TOURIST

Starring Astrid Gustafsson as Helen of Troy - 'the face that launched a thousand ships' (Homer)

With Dirk Thrust as Achilles - 'demi god and hero' (Homer)

And the Wooden Horse as Himself - 'easily the least wooden performance from anyone participating in this particular travesty' (Dr Maxwell)

Watch and weep as this epic tale unfolds...

It's drama, darling! In this year's festive tale, the nation's favourite film producer, Calvin Cutter, returns to darken the doors of St Mary's once again...]]> 100 Jodi Taylor 1035416530 Jessi 0 to-read 4.56 2024 Lights! Camera! Mayhem! (The Chronicles of St. Mary's #14.6)
author: Jodi Taylor
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.56
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[And the Rest Is History (The Chronicles of St Mary’s, #8)]]> 31213373
No one knows quite how, but Peterson has persuaded Dr Foster to marry him.

No one knows quite how, but Markham’s marital status remains unknown.

Certainly no one knows quite how a twelve-foot-high teapot could mysteriously materialise on the South Lawn, but it does.

But they do know that Clive Ronan is back.

They do know that he hates them and that this time he has good cause. And they do know that he will bring death and destruction in his wake.

Follow the disaster magnets of St Mary’s from the Egyptian desert to the Battle of Stamford Bridge, from Hastings to the Sack of Constantinople, and from tragedy to triumph and back again, in this, the eighth book in The Chronicles of St Mary’s.]]> 376 Jodi Taylor 1597809063 Jessi 5
Sad I have to take a three month break as I wait for the next one. ]]> 4.38 2017 And the Rest Is History (The Chronicles of St Mary’s, #8)
author: Jodi Taylor
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2024/11/28
date added: 2024/11/28
shelves: addicting-series, historical, sci-fi
review:
Looooooooooooooove. It’s darn near the perfect series that could happily go on forever. Not at all stale and still as funny, heartbreaking and Page-turning as ever.

Sad I have to take a three month break as I wait for the next one.
]]> <![CDATA[Shadows of Self (Mistborn, #5)]]> 16065004
Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.

When family obligations forced Waxillium Ladrian to forsake the frontier lands and return to the metropolis of his birth to take his place as head of a noble House, he little imagined that the crime-fighting skills acquired during twenty years in the dusty plains would be just as applicable in the big city. He soon learned that there too, just being a talented Twinborn � one who can use both Allomancy and Feruchemy, the dominant magical modes on Scadrial � would not suffice.

This bustling, optimistic, but still shaky society will now face its first test by terrorism and assassination, crimes intended to stir up labor strife and religious conflict. Wax, his eccentric sidekick Wayne, and brilliant, beautiful young Marasi, now officially part of the constabulary, must unravel the conspiracy before civil strife can stop Scadrial’s progress in its tracks.]]> 376 Brandon Sanderson 0765378558 Jessi 5
Epic read.]]> 4.27 2015 Shadows of Self (Mistborn, #5)
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2015
rating: 5
read at: 2024/11/25
date added: 2024/11/25
shelves: audiobooks, epic-fantasy, sci-fi, speculative
review:
What started out as a simple story in Alloy of Law, has become infinitely more complex. This amazing world Sanderson has created is even bigger then what was established in the original trilogy. He isn't just continuing to play in a world already built, he is still building it. I can honestly say I've never read anything like this. And yes, the rest of the story is phenomenal, love the characters and the plot was heavily layered this time around. The ending is tragic and leaves you needing the final book NOW.

Epic read.
]]> <![CDATA[Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)]]> 75513900 She is the very thing he’s spent his whole life hunting.
He is the very thing she’s spent her whole life pretending to be.

Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya—the exceptional, the empowered, the Elites.

The powers these Elites have possessed for decades were graciously gifted to them by the Plague, though not all were fortunate enough to both survive the sickness and reap the reward. Those born Ordinary are just that—ordinary. And when the king decreed that all Ordinaries be banished in order to preserve his Elite society, lacking an ability suddenly became a crime—making Paedyn Gray a felon by fate and a thief by necessity.

Surviving in the slums as an Ordinary is no simple task, and Paedyn knows this better than most. Having been trained by her father to be overly observant since she was a child, Paedyn poses as a Psychic in the crowded city, blending in with the Elites as best she can in order to stay alive and out of trouble. Easier said than done.

When Paeydn unsuspectingly saves one of Ilyas princes, she finds herself thrown into the Purging Trials. The brutal competition exists to showcase the Elites� powers—the very thing Paedyn lacks. If the Trials and the opponents within them don’t kill her, the prince she’s fighting feelings for certainly will if he discovers what she is—completely Ordinary.]]> 523 Lauren Roberts Jessi 0 to-read 4.17 2023 Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
author: Lauren Roberts
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/11/22
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Variation 210482187 New York Times bestselling author of Fourth Wing comes a new contemporary romance about the summer a celebrated dancer returns home and unearths years of family secrets with the Coast Guard rescue swimmer she never forgot.

Elite ballerina Allie Rousseau is no stranger to pressure. With her mother’s eyes always watching, perfection was expected, no matter the cost. But when an injury jeopardizes all she’s sacrificed for, Allie returns to her summer home to heal and recover. But the memories she’s tried to forget rush in and threaten to take her under.

As a Coast Guard rescue swimmer, Hudson Ellis knows that hesitation can mean the difference between life and death. He’s always prided himself on being in the right place at the right time, especially when it came to Allie Rousseau…until the night he left for basic. After the biggest regret of his life, the secrets he keeps mean he can never be with the one woman he wants more than his next breath.

When Hudson’s niece shows up on Allie’s doorstep, desperate to find her birth mother, Allie finds herself in an unimaginable position. Allie and Hudson’s past and present might be endlessly complicated. The thread that tied them to each other all those years ago may have unraveled, but the truth could pull them back together, or drive them apart forever.]]> 459 Rebecca Yarros 1662514697 Jessi 0 to-read 4.20 2024 Variation
author: Rebecca Yarros
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/11/18
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[House of Bane and Blood (Order and Chaos, #1)]]> 195138739
An heiress in the most notorious family in Lynchaven, Camilla Marchese is doing all she can to keep her family’s syndicate, the Iron Saint Railway, from slipping into bankruptcy. When the gorgeous and depraved Nicolai Attano, the leader of a rival family, offers to pay off the Inspector in exchange for her hand, she has no choice but to give up not only her throne—but her name.

Nico has his own motivations for their union beyond maintaining peace with her family. A serial kidnapper known as The Collector has been ravaging the streets of Remnant Row, stirring up mistrust between natives and descendants. If Milla can help restore safety to his streets, he’ll have no need for her or her family’s company. Find the Collector, prevent a war between their sides of the city, and pay off the family debt before she turns twenty-one. If Milla can fulfill her end of the bargain, she’ll walk away with more freedom than she’s ever had before.

But this deal plunges Milla into the city’s dark underbelly where remnant magic and arcane science compete in a deadly game of depravity. When forbidden feelings rise for her new husband and dark family secrets come to light, Milla must discover the truth about her past before it gets them both killed or worse—collected.

Set in a post-industrial age setting on a magical Isle, Peaky Blinders meets the magic system of the Grishaverse in this rivals-to-lovers adult fantasy romance.]]> 432 Alexis L. Menard Jessi 0 to-read 3.99 2023 House of Bane and Blood (Order and Chaos, #1)
author: Alexis L. Menard
name: Jessi
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/11/18
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)]]> 52439531
To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch -- and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a conwoman, and he's determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather's last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive.]]> 386 Jennifer Lynn Barnes 1368052401 Jessi 0 to-read 4.13 2020 The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)
author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/11/18
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Heartless 18584855 Long before she was the terror of Wonderland—the infamous Queen of Hearts—she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love.

Catherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland, and a favorite of the unmarried King of Hearts, but her interests lie elsewhere. A talented baker, all she wants is to open a shop with her best friend. But according to her mother, such a goal is unthinkable for the young woman who could be the next queen.

Then Cath meets Jest, the handsome and mysterious court joker. For the first time, she feels the pull of true attraction. At the risk of offending the king and infuriating her parents, she and Jest enter into an intense, secret courtship. Cath is determined to define her own destiny and fall in love on her terms. But in a land thriving with magic, madness, and monsters, fate has other plans.

In her first stand-alone teen novel, the New York Times-bestselling author dazzles us with a prequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.]]> 453 Marissa Meyer 1250044650 Jessi 0 to-read 4.10 2016 Heartless
author: Marissa Meyer
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/11/17
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)]]> 26032825 Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.

And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.

Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King.

To win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences.

As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, she discovers her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed. But as betrayal threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.]]> 370 Holly Black 0316310271 Jessi 0 to-read 4.01 2018 The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
author: Holly Black
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/11/17
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Better Than the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #1)]]> 55710822 In this rom-com about rom-coms, in the spirit of Kasie West and Jenn Bennett, a hopeless romantic teen attempts to secure a happily-ever-after moment with her forever crush, but finds herself reluctantly drawn to the boy next door.

Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he’s back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar - and maybe snag him as a prom date - even befriend Wes Bennet.

The annoyingly attractive next-door neighbor might seem like a prime candidate for romantic-comedy fantasies, but Wes has only been a pain in Liz’s butt since they were kids. Pranks involving frogs and decapitated lawn gnomes do not a potential boyfriend make. Yet, somehow, Wes and Michael are hitting it off, which means Wes is Liz’s in.

But as Liz and Wes scheme to get Liz noticed by Michael so she can have her magical prom moment, she’s shocked to discover that she likes being around Wes. And as they continue to grow closer, she must reexamine everything she thought she knew about love - and rethink her own ideas of what happily ever after should look like.]]> 356 Lynn Painter 1534467629 Jessi 0 to-read 4.28 2021 Better Than the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #1)
author: Lynn Painter
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/11/17
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Things We Never Got Over (Knockemout, #1)]]> 60060431 Bearded, bad-boy barber Knox prefers to live his life the way he takes his coffee: Alone. Unless you count his basset hound, Waylon.
Knox doesn’t tolerate drama, even when it comes in the form of a stranded runaway bride.

Naomi wasn’t just running away from her wedding. She was riding to the rescue of her estranged twin to Knockemout, Virginia, a rough-around-the-edges town where disputes are settled the old-fashioned way…with fists and beer. Usually in that order.

Too bad for Naomi her evil twin hasn’t changed at all. After helping herself to Naomi’s car and cash, Tina leaves her with something unexpected. The niece Naomi didn’t know she had. Now she’s stuck in town with no car, no job, no plan, and no home with an 11-year-old going on thirty to take care of.

There’s a reason Knox doesn’t do complications or high-maintenance women, especially not the romantic ones. But since Naomi’s life imploded right in front of him, the least he can do is help her out of her jam. And just as soon as she stops getting into new trouble he can leave her alone and get back to his peaceful, solitary life.

At least, that’s the plan until the trouble turns to real danger.]]> 572 Lucy Score 1945631848 Jessi 0 to-read 4.15 2022 Things We Never Got Over (Knockemout, #1)
author: Lucy Score
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/11/17
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Lies, Damned Lies, and History (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #7)]]> 26308512
As Max would be the first to admit, she's never been one for rules. They tend to happen to other people. But this time she's gone too far and everyone is paying the price.

Grounded until the end of time, how can she ever put things right?]]> 397 Jodi Taylor 1910939005 Jessi 5 audiobooks, historical
The tragedy.

Even 7 books in, the peril is still real, the history still fascinating, and the characters still awesome! Things got real tense there for awhile.

Immediately started #8.]]> 4.36 2016 Lies, Damned Lies, and History (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #7)
author: Jodi Taylor
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2024/11/12
date added: 2024/11/12
shelves: audiobooks, historical
review:
Only. One. Book. Left.

The tragedy.

Even 7 books in, the peril is still real, the history still fascinating, and the characters still awesome! Things got real tense there for awhile.

Immediately started #8.
]]> <![CDATA[The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, #4)]]> 10803121
Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history—or religion. Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play a role in this reborn world. Out in the frontier lands known as the Roughs, they are crucial tools for the brave men and women attempting to establish order and justice.

One such is Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn who can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will.

After twenty years in the Roughs, Wax has been forced by family tragedy to return to the metropolis of Elendel. Now he must reluctantly put away his guns and assume the duties and dignity incumbent upon the head of a noble house. Or so he thinks, until he learns the hard way that the mansions and elegant tree-lined streets of the city can be even more dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs.]]> 325 Brandon Sanderson 0765330423 Jessi 5
While not my preferred time period (?) the characters and story continue to be masterfully crafted and executed. Absolutely worth continuing after the original trilogy.]]> 4.20 2011 The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, #4)
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2011
rating: 5
read at: 2024/11/08
date added: 2024/11/08
shelves: audiobooks, epic-fantasy, sci-fi, speculative
review:
How do you categorize a book that is a sequel to an epic trilogy but also moves the progress of the civilization forward to the industrial age? Three hundred years later and much has changed since the final empire, but not Sanderson's epic story telling.

While not my preferred time period (?) the characters and story continue to be masterfully crafted and executed. Absolutely worth continuing after the original trilogy.
]]> <![CDATA[M Is for Mama: A Rebellion Against Mediocre Motherhood]]> 57124438
MamaĚýof tenĚýAbbieĚýHalberstadtĚýhelps women humbly and gracefully rise to the high calling of motherhood without settling for mediocrityĚýor losing their minds in the process.Ěý Motherhood is a challenge. Unfortunately, our worldly culture offers moms little in the way of real help. MamasĚýonly connect to celebrate surviving another day and to share in their misery rather than rejoice in what God has done and to build each other up in hard times. There has a be a better way, a biblical way, for mamasĚýto grow and thrive. ĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚý

As a daughter of Christ, you have been called to be more than an average mama. ĚýAttaining excellenceĚýdoesn’t have to be unsettling but itĚýwill take committed focus and a desire to parent well according to God’s grace and for His glory.Ěý M is for Mama Ěýoffers advice, encouragement,ĚýandĚýscripturally sound strategiesĚýseasoned with a little bit of humorĚýto help youĚýembrace the challenge of biblical motherhood and raise your children with love and wisdom.ĚýĚý Mama, you are worthy of the awesome responsibilityĚýGod hasĚýgiven you. ĚýNow it’s timeĚýto start believing you can live up to it.ĚýĚýĚý]]> 240 Abbie Halberstadt 0736983775 Jessi 5 audiobooks, spiritual 4.52 M Is for Mama: A Rebellion Against Mediocre Motherhood
author: Abbie Halberstadt
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.52
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2024/10/29
date added: 2024/10/29
shelves: audiobooks, spiritual
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)]]> 2767793
Who is the Hero of Ages?

To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the Deepness—the lethal form of the ubiquitous mists—is back, along with increasingly heavy ashfalls and ever more powerful earthquakes. Humanity appears to be doomed.

Having escaped death at the climax of The Well of Ascension only by becoming a Mistborn himself, Emperor Elend Venture hopes to find clues left behind by the Lord Ruler that will allow him to save the world. Vin is consumed with guilt at having been tricked into releasing the mystic force known as Ruin from the Well. Ruin wants to end the world, and its near omniscience and ability to warp reality make stopping it seem impossible. Vin can't even discuss it with Elend lest Ruin learn their plans!]]> 572 Brandon Sanderson 0765316897 Jessi 5
You will not find better, more complete, perfectly packaged world building than the Mistborn world. There were times when I felt that the character development and story were sacrificed for exposition. There are no holes to be found here.

However, I was as swept away as ever and cannot recommend this series enough. Absolutely amazing. ]]> 4.54 2008 The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.54
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at: 2024/10/27
date added: 2024/10/27
shelves: addicting-series, assasins, audiobooks, epic-fantasy
review:
Somebody with a crap ton of talent and money needs to make this series into a trilogy.

You will not find better, more complete, perfectly packaged world building than the Mistborn world. There were times when I felt that the character development and story were sacrificed for exposition. There are no holes to be found here.

However, I was as swept away as ever and cannot recommend this series enough. Absolutely amazing.
]]> <![CDATA[What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #6)]]> 25634043 Join Max in the sixth instalment in the off-the-wall bestselling Chronicles of St Mary’s series by Jodi Taylor.

Max is back! New husband, new job, and a training regime that cannot fail � to go wrong!

Take one interim Chief Training Officer, add five recruits, mix with Joan of Arc, a baby mammoth, a duplicitous Father of History, a bombed rat, Stone Age hunters, a couple of passing policemen who should have better things to do, and Dick the Turd.

Stir well, bring to the boil � and wait for the bang!]]> 418 Jodi Taylor Jessi 0
]]> 4.40 2015 What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #6)
author: Jodi Taylor
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at: 2024/10/26
date added: 2024/10/26
shelves: addicting-series, sci-fi, historical
review:
I'm burning through this series and I know I'll regret it. But I just can't get enough of these sassy 'Giles-like', time traveling historians.


]]> <![CDATA[The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)]]> 68429
The impossible has been accomplished. The Lord Ruler—the man who claimed to be god incarnate and brutally ruled the world for a thousand years—has been vanquished. But Kelsier, the hero who masterminded that triumph, is dead too, and now the awesome task of building a new world has been left to his young protégé, Vin, the former street urchin who is now the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and to the idealistic young nobleman she loves.

As Kelsier's protégé and slayer of the Lord Ruler she is now venerated by a budding new religion, a distinction that makes her intensely uncomfortable. Even more worrying, the mists have begun behaving strangely since the Lord Ruler died, and seem to harbor a strange vaporous entity that haunts her.

Stopping assassins may keep Vin's Mistborn skills sharp, but it's the least of her problems. Luthadel, the largest city of the former empire, doesn't run itself, and Vin and the other members of Kelsier's crew, who lead the revolution, must learn a whole new set of practical and political skills to help. It certainly won't get easier with three armies - one of them composed of ferocious giants - now vying to conquer the city, and no sign of the Lord Ruler's hidden cache of atium, the rarest and most powerful allomantic metal.

As the siege of Luthadel tightens, an ancient legend seems to offer a glimmer of hope. But even if it really exists, no one knows where to find the Well of Ascension or what manner of power it bestows.]]> 590 Brandon Sanderson 0765316889 Jessi 5
I can't recommend this series enough to those who love the genre. ]]> 4.38 2007 The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at: 2024/10/03
date added: 2024/10/26
shelves: addicting-series, audiobooks, assasins, epic-fantasy
review:
These are the books I wanted to read as a kid but never found! That being said even as an adult this is an incredibly fulfilling read. This series has me completely enthralled with its top shelf world building, distinct characters and unbelievable story.

I can't recommend this series enough to those who love the genre.
]]> <![CDATA[The Happy Sales Manager: Drive Sales, Lead Your Team with Ease, and Have Fun!]]> 199027180 Are you frustrated that sales management is harder than selling?
Maybe you are feeling overwhelmed and don’t know where to turn for help? Or maybe you are questioning your decision to become a sales manager in the first place?

In this quick-read and action-focused book, Gretchen Gordon shares the secrets to sales management happiness and success by helping you avoid the common mistakes sales managers make. This book provides the roadmap to drive sales, lead your team with ease, and have fun again.

In The Happy Sales Manager you will

The essentials to master which will make every aspect of your job easierHow to get your team to take responsibility for outcomes without having to babysit themThe secrets to inspiring your sellers to execute to the best of their abilityThe recipe for successfully dealing with underperformersHow to improve the mindsets that might be hindering your successThe Happy Sales Manager turns frustrated sales managers into confident, goal-achieving leaders.
The Happy Sales Manager will help you love your job again and get your life back.
Don’t delay � buy the book today and get your mojo back!]]> 144 Gretchen Gordon Jessi 3 business 4.50 The Happy Sales Manager: Drive Sales, Lead Your Team with Ease, and Have Fun!
author: Gretchen Gordon
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.50
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2024/10/26
date added: 2024/10/26
shelves: business
review:

]]> <![CDATA[A Trail Through Time (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #4)]]> 25877103
Max and Leon are re-united and looking forward to a peaceful lifetime together. But, sadly, they don’t even make it to lunchtime.

The action races from 17th century London to Ancient Egypt and from Pompeii to 14th century Southwark as they’re pursued up and down the timeline, playing a perilous game of hide and seek until they’re finally forced to take refuge at St Mary’s � where new dangers await them.

As usual, there are plenty of moments of humour, but the final, desperate, Battle of St Mary’s is in grim earnest. Overwhelmed and outnumbered and with the building crashing down around them, how can St Mary’s possibly survive?

So, make sure the tea’s good and strong…]]> 379 Jodi Taylor 1910939498 Jessi 5 4.26 2014 A Trail Through Time (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #4)
author: Jodi Taylor
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2014
rating: 5
read at: 2024/10/03
date added: 2024/10/12
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[A Second Chance (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #3)]]> 25877074
The action jumps from an encounter with a mirror-stealing Isaac Newton to the bloody battlefield at Agincourt. Discover how a simple fact-finding assignment to witness the ancient and murderous cheese- rolling ceremony in Gloucester can result in CBC � concussion by cheese. The long awaited jump to Bronze Age Troy ends in personal catastrophe for Max and just when it seems things couldn’t get any worse � it’s back to the Cretaceous Period again to confront an old enemy who has nothing to lose.

So, make the tea, grab the chocolate biscuits, settle back and discover exactly why the entire history department has painted itself blue …]]> 298 Jodi Taylor 191093951X Jessi 5
Love the history, the characters, the fun sci-fi (nigh whovian) elements. Easy to get into and one heck of an enjoyable ride.

Tea please.]]> 4.22 2014 A Second Chance (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #3)
author: Jodi Taylor
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2014
rating: 5
read at: 2024/09/16
date added: 2024/09/27
shelves: addicting-series, audiobooks, historical, speculative
review:
I don't see myself getting old of these books any time soon.

Love the history, the characters, the fun sci-fi (nigh whovian) elements. Easy to get into and one heck of an enjoyable ride.

Tea please.
]]> <![CDATA[Mine to Possess (Psy-Changeling, #4)]]> 8486069 A Psy/Changeling novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Shards of Hope,ĚýShield of Winter, and Heart of Obsidian..."the alpha author of paranormal romance" (Booklist). A ghost returns from a leopard changeling's past, making him question everything - even his base animal instincts...Clay Bennett is a powerful DarkRiver sentinel, but he grew up in the slums with his human mother, never knowing his changeling father. As a young boy without the bonds of Pack, he tried to stifle his animal nature. He failed...and committed the most extreme act of violence, killing a man and losing his best friend, Talin, in the bloody aftermath. Everything good in him died the day he was told that she, too, was dead.Talin McKade barely survived a childhood drenched in bloodshed and terror. Now a new nightmare is stalking her life - the street children she works to protect are disappearing and turning up dead. Determined to keep them safe, she unlocks the darkest secret in her heart and returns to ask the help of the strongest man she knows...Clay lost Talin once. He will not let her go again, his hunger to possess her, a clawing need born of the leopard within. As they race to save the innocent, Clay and Talin must face the violent truths of their past...or lose everything that ever mattered.]]> 353 Nalini Singh 1101207019 Jessi 4 4.22 2008 Mine to Possess (Psy-Changeling, #4)
author: Nalini Singh
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 2010/11/05
date added: 2024/09/26
shelves: addicting-series, paranormal, steamy, adult
review:

]]> <![CDATA[A Symphony of Echoes (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #2)]]> 25876967
In the second book in the Chronicles of St Mary's series, Max and the team visit Victorian London in search of Jack the Ripper, witness the murder of Archbishop Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, and discover that dodos make a grockling noise when eating cucumber sandwiches.

But they must also confront an enemy intent on destroying St Mary's - an enemy willing, if necessary, to destroy History itself to do it.]]> 235 Jodi Taylor 1910939501 Jessi 5 addicting-series, sci-fi
Highly recommend to anyone looking for a hilarious, intriguing read.]]> 4.07 2013 A Symphony of Echoes (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #2)
author: Jodi Taylor
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2013
rating: 5
read at: 2024/09/11
date added: 2024/09/11
shelves: addicting-series, sci-fi
review:
Hysterical! Really fun reads with plenty of wit and interesting historical elements. So glad they're are lots of books in this series. It's refreshingly different than anything I've been reading but is highly approachable.

Highly recommend to anyone looking for a hilarious, intriguing read.
]]> <![CDATA[Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)]]> 68428 What if the whole world were a dead, blasted wasteland?

Mistborn
For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.

Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Then Kelsier reveals his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.

But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets. She will have to learn trust if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.

Brandon Sanderson, fantasy's newest master tale-spinner and author of the acclaimed debut Elantris, dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the prophesied hero failed to defeat the Dark Lord? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises that begins with the book in your hands. Fantasy will never be the same again.]]> 541 Brandon Sanderson Jessi 5
It's very easy to get swept up into this intricate heist story set in the aftermath of a fallen empire ruled by a god-king. It's a long read, but I never felt that it was slow, really it could have been longer.

Cannot wait to get started with the next read in the Mistborn series. ]]> 4.48 2006 Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 2024/09/05
date added: 2024/09/05
shelves: audiobooks, assasins, epic-fantasy
review:
This is my second Brandon Sanderson read and I am officially a HUGE fan. As a longtime LOTR addict, this is right up my alley. Some of the best world building, magic system building and ensemble character development I've read in ages.

It's very easy to get swept up into this intricate heist story set in the aftermath of a fallen empire ruled by a god-king. It's a long read, but I never felt that it was slow, really it could have been longer.

Cannot wait to get started with the next read in the Mistborn series.
]]> <![CDATA[Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)]]> 201182779 Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, must stop a disaster of world-shattering proportions in this exhilarating entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.

In the supernatural realms, there are creatures who belong to winter. I am not one of them. But like the coyote I can become at will, I am adaptable.

My name is Mercy Thompson Hauptman, and my mate, Adam, is the werewolf who leads the Columbia Basin Pack, the pack charged with keeping the people who live and work in the Tri-Cities of Washington State safe. It’s a hard job, and it doesn’t leave much room for side quests. Which is why when I needed to travel to Montana to help my brother, I intended to go by myself.

But I’m not alone anymore.

Together, Adam and I find ourselves trapped with strangers in a lodge in the heart of the wilderness, in the teeth of a storm of legendary power, only to discover my brother’s issues are a tiny part of a problemĚýmuch bigger than we could have imagined. Arcane and ancient magics are at work that could, unless we are very careful, bring about the end of the world. . . .]]> 416 Patricia Briggs 0593439007 Jessi 4 paranormal, speculative 4.36 2024 Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)
author: Patricia Briggs
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2024/08/14
date added: 2024/08/14
shelves: paranormal, speculative
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive, #2.5)]]> 34703445 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, a special gift edition of Edgedancer, a short novel of the Stormlight Archive.

Three years ago, Lift asked a goddess to stop her from growing older--a wish she believed was granted. Now, in Edgedancer, the barely teenage nascent Knight Radiant finds that time stands still for no one. Although the young Azish emperor granted her safe haven from an executioner she knows only as Darkness, court life is suffocating the free-spirited Lift, who can't help heading to Yeddaw when she hears the relentless Darkness is there hunting people like her with budding powers. The downtrodden in Yeddaw have no champion, and Lift knows she must seize this awesome responsibility.

]]> 272 Brandon Sanderson 1250166543 Jessi 0 4.15 2016 Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive, #2.5)
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection]]> 28595941
Now for the first time anywhere, stories representing each of these planets, and their fully realized and distinct magic systems, have been collected in a single spectacular volume. Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection brings together tales spanning the known limits of Sanderson's universe--including the never-before-published Edgedancer, a thrilling new novella of the Stormlight Archive--along with charts, illustrations, notes...and secrets.

The Cosmere Collection encompasses six worlds in all, explored across nine astonishing works of short fiction: Sel ("The Hope of Elantris" and The Emperor's Soul); Scadrial ("The Eleventh Metal," "Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania, Episodes Twenty-eight Through Thirty," and Mistborn: Secret History); Taldain ("White Sand"); Threnody (“Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell�); First of the Sun (“Sixth of the Dusk�); and Roshar (Edgedancer).

These exciting tales will catapult you onto an unprecedented journey across a cosmos only Brandon Sanderson could have envisioned. Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection is an indispensible volume no Sanderson fan can do without.]]> 672 Brandon Sanderson 0765391163 Jessi 5 audiobooks, epic-fantasy 4.45 2016 Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.45
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2024/08/09
date added: 2024/08/09
shelves: audiobooks, epic-fantasy
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Warlord Wants Forever (Immortals After Dark, #0.5)]]> 6388558
She eludes him for five years, but he has finally chased her to ground and stolen the jewel which commands her, giving him absolute power over her. While he possesses it, he can make her do anything, and he plans to in order for her to experience firsthand the agonizing, unending lust she'd purposely subjected him to for half a decade. Yet when Wroth realizes he wants more from her and frees her, will she come.

Note: First published in the 2006 anthology, Playing Easy to Get.]]> 163 Kresley Cole Jessi 4 4.04 2006 The Warlord Wants Forever (Immortals After Dark, #0.5)
author: Kresley Cole
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at: 2015/07/13
date added: 2024/08/07
shelves: paranormal, steamy, vampires, adult
review:

]]> The Case for Christ 73186 367 Lee Strobel 0310226058 Jessi 5 audiobooks, spiritual 4.22 1998 The Case for Christ
author: Lee Strobel
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1998
rating: 5
read at: 2024/07/14
date added: 2024/07/14
shelves: audiobooks, spiritual
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Killing Time (The Time Police, #5)]]> 177747758 400 Jodi Taylor 1035404966 Jessi 4 4.62 2024 Killing Time (The Time Police, #5)
author: Jodi Taylor
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.62
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2024/07/05
date added: 2024/07/05
shelves: audiobooks, historical, sci-fi
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Archangel's Lineage (Guild Hunter, #16)]]> 194803871 New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh’s dangerous and beautiful world of archangels, vampires, and mortals has never faced a threat this cataclysmic�

Raphael and Elena are experiencing their first ever year of true peace. No war. No horrors of archangelic power. No nightmares given flesh. Until…the earth beneath the Refuge begins to tremble, endangering not only angelkind’s precious and fragile young, but the very place that has held their most innocent safe for eons.

Amid the chaos, Elena’s father suffers a violent heart attack that threatens to extinguish their last chance to heal the bonds between them and make sense of the ruins of their agonizing shared history.

Even as Elena battles grief, Raphael is torn from her side by the sudden disappearance of an archangel. But worse yet is to come. An Ancestor, an angel unlike any other, stirs from his Sleep to warn the Cadre of a darkness so terrible that it causes empires to fall and civilizations to vanish.

This time, even the Cadre itself may not be able to stop a ticking clock that is counting down at frightening speed…]]> 378 Nalini Singh 0593550013 Jessi 4 4.23 2024 Archangel's Lineage (Guild Hunter, #16)
author: Nalini Singh
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2024/06/14
date added: 2024/06/14
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]]> My Name Is Barbra 105584138
Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in popular music. She has been nominated for a Grammy 46 times, and with Yentl she became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major motion picture. In My Name Is Barbra, she tells her own story about her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn to her first star-making appearances in New York nightclubs to her breakout performance in Funny Girl (musical and film) to the long string of successes in every medium in the years that followed. The book is, like Barbra herself, frank, funny, opinionated, and charming. She recounts her early struggles to become an actress, eventually turning to singing to earn a living; the recording of some of her acclaimed albums; the years of effort involved in making Yentl; her direction of The Prince of Tides; her friendships with figures ranging from Marlon Brando to Madeleine Albright; her political advocacy; and the fulfillment she’s found in her marriage to James Brolin.

No entertainer’s memoir has been more anticipated than Barbra Streisand’s, and this engrossing and delightful book will be eagerly welcomed by her millions of fans.

Barbra Streisand is an American singer, actress, director and producer and one of the most iconic figures in music and film, the only recording artist in history to have earned #1 albums over six consecutive decades. She has received the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the Kennedy Center Honor, the National Medal of Arts, France’s Légion d’Honneur, and America’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She founded The Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai, helping to raise awareness and push for more research into women’s heart disease, the leading cause of death among women. Through the Streisand Foundation, which she established in 1986, she has supported national organizations working on preservation of the environment, voter education, the protection of civil liberties and civil rights, women’s issues, and nuclear disarmament. In 2021 she launched the Barbra Streisand Institute at UCLA, a forward-thinking institution dedicated to finding solutions to the most vital social issues.]]> 1040 Barbra Streisand 0525429522 Jessi 4 4.13 2023 My Name Is Barbra
author: Barbra Streisand
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2024/05/29
date added: 2024/05/29
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]]> <![CDATA[Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)]]> 195820807
Emma hadn't planned that her next assignment as a traveling nurse would be in Minnesota, but she and her best friend agree that dating Justin is too good of an opportunity to pass up, especially when they get to rent an adorable cottage on a private island on Lake Minnetonka.

It's supposed to be a quick fling, just for the summer. But when Emma's toxic mother shows up and Justin has to assume guardianship of his three siblings, they're suddenly navigating a lot more than they expected--including catching real feelings for each other. What if this time Fate has actually brought the perfect pair together?]]> 432 Abby Jimenez 1538704439 Jessi 4 adult, romance 4.35 2024 Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
author: Abby Jimenez
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2024/05/17
date added: 2024/05/17
shelves: adult, romance
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]]> <![CDATA[Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)]]> 61918816 A novel of terrible first impressions, hilarious second chances, and the joy in finding your perfect match.

Dr. Briana Ortiz’s life is seriously flatlining. Her divorce is just about finalized, her brother’s running out of time to find a kidney donor, and that promotion she wants? Oh, that’s probably going to the new man-doctor who’s already registering eighty-friggin�-seven on Briana’s “pain in my ass� scale. But just when all systems are set to hate, Dr. Jacob Maddox completely flips the game . . . by sending Briana a letter.

And it’s a really good letter. Like the kind that proves that Jacob isn’t actually Satan. Worse, he might be this fantastically funny and subversively likeable guy who’s terrible at first impressions. Because suddenly he and Bri are exchanging letters, sharing lunch dates in her “sob closet,â€� and discussing the merits of freakishly tiny horses. But when Jacob decides to give Briana the best gift imaginable—a kidney for her brother—she wonders just how she can resist this quietly sexy new doctor . . . especially when he calls in a favor she ł¦˛ą˛Ô’t refuse.]]> 416 Abby Jimenez 1538704390 Jessi 4 4.29 2023 Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)
author: Abby Jimenez
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2024/05/04
date added: 2024/05/04
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]]> <![CDATA[Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)]]> 58684524
While her ultra-wealthy parents want her to carry on the family legacy of world-renowned surgeons, Alexis doesn’t need glory or fame. She’s fine with being a “mere� ER doctor. And every minute she spends with Daniel and the tight-knit town where he lives, she’s discovering just what’s really important. Yet letting their relationship become anything more than a short-term fling would mean turning her back on her family and giving up the opportunity to help thousands of people.

Bringing Daniel into her world is impossible, and yet she ł¦˛ą˛Ô’t just give up the joy she’s found with him either. With so many differences between them, how can Alexis possibly choose between her world and his?

The New York Times bestselling author of Life's Too Short delivers a refreshingly modern fairy tale perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and Emily Henry.]]> 389 Abby Jimenez 1538704374 Jessi 4 romance 4.26 2022 Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)
author: Abby Jimenez
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2024/04/21
date added: 2024/04/21
shelves: romance
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]]> <![CDATA[You Can't Teach a Kid to Ride a Bike at a Seminar: Sandler Training's 7-Step System for Successful Selling 2nd Edition]]> 63887104
"People make buying decisions emotionally and justify them logically."

That shrewd insight from the first edition of this bestselling book has become a no-brainer among sales professionals. Now, the new edition of classic work that has helped millions of sales professionals take their career to new levels offers critical new insights, information, and tools for success in today's economy.

You Can't Teach a Kid to Ride a Bike at a Seminar, Second Edition retains David Sandler's classic, battle-tested advice on driving personal and organizational success by breaking the rules of conventional selling. And now Sandler Training's CEO, David Mattson, has revisited it to provide additional skills designed for today's highly competitive and more complex sales landscape. With this powerful guide, you'll learn how to:

Take the lead in the "buyer/seller dance"
Get the prospect to do most of the talking
Have a process for answering questions from prospects
Know when a prospect is shopping you, and what to do about it
Move the relationship forward without becoming an unpaid consultant
Master the seven steps of the "Sandler Submarine"
Use LinkedIn as a prospecting and qualifying tool
Establish an "up-front contract," or call roadmap, before your face-to-face meeting
Use online research to turn "cold calls" into warm calls
Sales professionals and teams that follow these principles and others outlined in the audiobook will transform themselves from mediocre performers into selling superstars.

This new edition of You Can't Teach a Kid to Ride a Bike at a Seminar is a potent mixture of Sandler's timeless techniques and best practices from the most effective sales operation today.

]]> David H. Mattson Jessi 4 business 4.00 You Can't Teach a Kid to Ride a Bike at a Seminar: Sandler Training's 7-Step System for Successful Selling 2nd Edition
author: David H. Mattson
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.00
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2024/04/19
date added: 2024/04/19
shelves: business
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Primal Mirror (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #8; Psy-Changeling, #23)]]> 199067471 New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh takes us into a family dark with shadowy secrets, as the world of the Psy hangs on the edge of a final catastrophic collapse�

Daughter of two ruthless high-gradient telepaths, Auden Scott is not the child her Psy parents wanted or expected, even before her brain injury. Her thoughts are scattered, her memories fuzzy—or just terrifyingly blank. The only thing she knows for certain is that she must protect her unborn baby…a baby she has no recollection of conceiving and who draws an abnormal intensity of notice from her dead mother’s closest associates.

Leopard alpha Remi Denier is a man driven by the primal instinct to protect. Protect his pack, protect his allies� and protect the mysterious woman who has become a most unlikely neighbor. With eerie eyes that see too much and a scent that alters in ways disturbing and impossible, Auden Scott is the enemy…but nothing about this strange Psy is what it seems, Remi’s feline heart as fascinated by her as the human half of his soul.

Then Auden asks Remi to help her shatter the wall of secrets that is the Scott bloodline. What they unearth will reveal a nightmare beyond imagination. This time, the battle is to the death…]]> 400 Nalini Singh Jessi 0 to-read 3.97 2024 Primal Mirror (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #8; Psy-Changeling, #23)
author: Nalini Singh
name: Jessi
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/04/13
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]]> <![CDATA[Resonance Surge (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #7; Psy-Changeling, #22)]]> 63200679 Where are the broken? That is the propulsive question that unleashes a world of secrets in New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh’s Resonance Surge . . .

StoneWater bears Pavel and Yakov Stepyrev have been a unit since birth, but now Pavel’s life is veering in a new direction, his heart held in the hands of Arwen Mercant, a Psy empath—and the only man who has ever brought Pavel to his knees.

This is it. A point of irrevocable change. For Pavel . . . for Arwen . . . for Yakov . . . and for another pair of twins whose bond has a far darker history.

A low-Gradient Psy, Theodora Marshall is considered worthless by everyone but her violently powerful twin, Pax. She is the sole person he trusts in their venomous family to investigate a hidden and terrible part of their family history—an unregistered rehabilitation Center established by their grandfather.

Places of unimaginable pain designed to psychically wipe minds, leaving the victims shells of their former selves, the Centers are an ugly vestige of the Psy race’s Silent past. But this Center was worse. Far, far worse. And now Theo must uncover the awful truth—in the company of a scowling bear named Yakov, who isn’t about to take a Marshall at face value . . . especially a Marshall who has turned his dreams into chilling nightmares.

Because Yakov is the great-grandson of a foreseer . . . and he has seen Theo die in an unstoppable surge of blood. Night after night after night . . .]]> 384 Nalini Singh 0593440722 Jessi 3 adult, audiobooks, romance 4.20 2023 Resonance Surge (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #7; Psy-Changeling, #22)
author: Nalini Singh
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2024/04/13
date added: 2024/04/13
shelves: adult, audiobooks, romance
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]]> <![CDATA[Dawnshard (The Stormlight Archive, #3.5)]]> 54511226
When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after trying to reach the storm-shrouded island Akina, Navani Kholin must send an expedition to make sure the island hasn't fallen into enemy hands. Knights Radiant who fly too near find their Stormlight suddenly drained, so the voyage must be by sea.

Shipowner Rysn Ftori lost the use of her legs but gained the companionship of Chiri-Chiri, a Stormlight-ingesting winged larkin, a species once thought extinct. Now Rysn's pet is ill, and any hope for Chiri-Chiri’s recovery can be found only at the ancestral home of the larkin: Akinah. With the help of Lopen, the formerly one-armed Windrunner, Rysn must accept Navani's quest and sail into the perilous storm from which no one has returned alive. If the crew cannot uncover the secrets of the hidden island city before the wrath of its ancient guardians falls upon them, the fate of Roshar and the entire Cosmere hangs in the balance.]]> 171 Brandon Sanderson 193857026X Jessi 4 epic-fantasy 4.39 2020 Dawnshard (The Stormlight Archive, #3.5)
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2024/04/04
date added: 2024/04/04
shelves: epic-fantasy
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]]> <![CDATA[One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)]]> 58340706
Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom of Blunder—she needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient, mercurial spirit trapped in her head. He protects her. He keeps her secrets.

But nothing comes for free, especially magic.

When Elspeth meets a mysterious highwayman on the forest road, her life takes a drastic turn. Thrust into a world of shadow and deception, she joins a dangerous quest to cure Blunder from the dark magic infecting it. And the highwayman? He just so happens to be the King’s nephew, Captain of the most dangerous men in Blunder…and guilty of high treason.

Together they must gather twelve Providence Cards—the keys to the cure. But as the stakes heighten and their undeniable attraction intensifies, Elspeth is forced to face her darkest secret yet: the Nightmare is slowly taking over her mind. And she might not be able to stop him.]]> 399 Rachel Gillig 0316312487 Jessi 0 to-read 4.26 2022 One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)
author: Rachel Gillig
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/03/28
shelves: to-read
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]]> Bride 181350812 A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance.

Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast—again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance between the Vampyres and their mortal enemies, the Weres, and she sees little choice but to surrender herself in the exchange—again...

Weres are ruthless and unpredictable, and their Alpha, Lowe Moreland, is no exception. He rules his pack with absolute authority, but not without justice. And, unlike the Vampyre Council, not without feeling. It’s clear from the way he tracks Misery’s every movement that he doesn’t trust her. If only he knew how right he was�.

Because Misery has her own reasons to agree to this marriage of convenience, reasons that have nothing to do with politics or alliances, and everything to do with the only thing she's ever cared about. And she is willing to do whatever it takes to get back what’s hers, even if it means a life alone in Were territory…alone with the wolf.]]> 416 Ali Hazelwood 0593550404 Jessi 3 4.07 2024 Bride
author: Ali Hazelwood
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2024/03/23
date added: 2024/03/23
shelves: audiobooks, paranormal, romance, vampires
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]]> Love, Theoretically 61326735
Honestly, it’s a pretty sweet gig—until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and broody older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor’s career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. And that same Jack who now sits on the hiring committee at MIT, right between Elsie and her dream job.

Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but…those long, penetrating looks? Not having to be anything other than her true self when she’s with him? Will falling into an experimentalist’s orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice?]]> 389 Ali Hazelwood 1408725797 Jessi 0 4.07 2023 Love, Theoretically
author: Ali Hazelwood
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at: 2024/03/19
date added: 2024/03/20
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]]> The Sunlit Man 60531420 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson―creator of The Stormlight Archive, the Mistborn Saga, and countless bestselling works of science fiction and fantasy―comes this standalone novel showing a rare glimpse of a future Cosmere universe.

Running. Putting distance between himself and the relentless Night Brigade has been Nomad’s strategy for years. Staying one or two steps ahead of his pursuers by skipping through the Cosmere from one world to the next.

But now, his powers too depleted to escape, Nomad finds himself trapped on Canticle, a planet that will kill anyone who doesn’t keep moving. Fleeing the fires of a sunrise that melts the very stones, he is instantly caught up in the struggle between a heartless tyrant and the brave rebels who defy him.

Failure means a quick death, incinerated by the sun� or a lifetime as a mindless slave. Tormented by the consequences of his past, Nomad must fight not only for his survival―but also for his very soul.]]> 447 Brandon Sanderson 1938570391 Jessi 5 epic-fantasy, sci-fi 4.28 2023 The Sunlit Man
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2024/03/07
date added: 2024/03/07
shelves: epic-fantasy, sci-fi
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]]> <![CDATA[House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City, #3)]]> 52857700
Bryce Quinlan never expected to see a world other than Midgard, but now that she has, all she wants is to get back. Everything she loves is in Midgard: her family, her friends, her mate. Stranded in a strange new world, she's going to need all her wits about her to get home again. And that's no easy feat when she has no idea who to trust.

Hunt Athalar has found himself in some deep holes in his life, but this one might be the deepest of all. After a few brief months with everything he ever wanted, he's in the Asteri's dungeons again, stripped of his freedom and without a clue as to Bryce's fate. He's desperate to help her, but until he can escape the Asteri's leash, his hands are quite literally tied.

In this sexy, breathtaking sequel to the #1 bestsellers House of Earth and Blood and House of Sky and Breath, Sarah J. Maas's Crescent City series reaches new heights as Bryce and Hunt's world is brought to the brink of collapse-with its future resting on their shoulders.]]> 835 Sarah J. Maas 1681193094 Jessi 5 4.15 2024 House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City, #3)
author: Sarah J. Maas
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2024/02/25
date added: 2024/02/25
shelves: addicting-series, adult, angels, audiobooks, romance, steamy, urban
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]]> <![CDATA[Fall of Ruin and Wrath (Awakening, #1)]]> 65214365
Long ago, the world was destroyed by gods. Only nine cities were spared. Separated by vast wilderness teeming with monsters and unimaginable dangers, each city is now ruled by a guardian―royalty who feed on mortal pleasure.

Born with an intuition that never fails, Calista knows her talents are of great value to the power-hungry of the world, so she lives hidden as a courtesan of the Baron of Archwood. In exchange for his protection, she grants him information.

When her intuition leads her to save a traveling prince in dire trouble, the voice inside her blazes with warning―and promise. Today he’ll bring her joy. One day he'll be her doom.

When the Baron takes an interest in the traveling prince and the prince takes an interest in Calista, she becomes the prince’s temporary companion. But the city simmers with rebellion, and with knights and monsters at her city gates and a hungry prince in her bed, intuition may not be enough to keep her safe.

Calista must follow her intuition to safety or follow her heart to her downfall.]]> 416 Jennifer L. Armentrout 1250750199 Jessi 0 to-read 3.94 2023 Fall of Ruin and Wrath (Awakening, #1)
author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
name: Jessi
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/02/19
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]]> <![CDATA[Yumi and the Nightmare Painter]]> 60531416 #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson brings us a gripping story set in the Cosmere universe told by Hoid, where two people from incredibly different worlds must compromise and work together to save their worlds from ruin.

Yumi comes from a land of gardens, meditation, and spirits, while Painter lives in a world of darkness, technology, and nightmares. When their lives suddenly become intertwined in strange ways, can they put aside their differences and work together to uncover the mysteries of their situation and save each other’s communities from certain disaster?]]> 480 Brandon Sanderson 1938570375 Jessi 4 4.45 2023 Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.45
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2024/02/18
date added: 2024/02/18
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]]> <![CDATA[Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)]]> 127280062 Torn apart by war. Reunited by love?

Two weeks have passed since Iris returned home bruised and heartbroken from the front, but the war is far from over.

Roman is missing, lost behind enemy lines, with no memory of his past, or Iris. Hoping his memories return, he begins to write again � but this time for the enemy.

When a strange letter arrives through his wardrobe door, he strikes up a correspondence with a penpal who seems at once mysterious� and strangely familiar.

As their connection deepens, the two of them will risk their very hearts and futures to change the tides of the war.]]> 420 Rebecca Ross 1250857457 Jessi 3 audiobooks 3.99 2023 Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)
author: Rebecca Ross
name: Jessi
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2024/02/04
date added: 2024/02/04
shelves: audiobooks
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]]> <![CDATA[Magic Claims (Kate Daniels: Wilmington Years, #2; Kate Daniels, #10.6)]]> 109554429 A new town, new friends, new challenges�. And a new heart-stopping adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling author, Ilona Andrews. Kate, Curran, and Conlan may have left Atlanta for Wilmington, but the usual magic mayhem has also hitched a ride!

Kate and Curran have just settled into their new home and their 'low prolife,' when a local businessman approaches them with an offer they ł¦˛ą˛Ô’t refuse. A mysterious evil has spawned in the nearby forest and is holding a defenseless town hostage. The â€due dateâ€� is rapidly approaching.

It’s exactly the kind of fight the Lennarts ł¦˛ą˛Ô’t resist, not for the prize the town offers, but for the people who will surely die if they ignore it. If they succeed, they’ll be rescuing an entire community and can build a strong new base for their family and the Wilmington Pack. If they fail...well, fail is a four-letter word.

Nothing comes without a price. Now Kate must decide if she has what it takes to pay it.]]> 240 Ilona Andrews Jessi 4 addicting-series, speculative 4.69 2023 Magic Claims (Kate Daniels: Wilmington Years, #2; Kate Daniels, #10.6)
author: Ilona Andrews
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.69
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2024/01/20
date added: 2024/01/20
shelves: addicting-series, speculative
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]]> Defiant (Skyward, #4) 43606308 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes the final book in an epic series about a girl who will travel beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction.

Spensa has made it out of the Nowhere, but what she saw in the space between the stars has changed her forever. She came face to face with the Delvers, and finally got answers to the questions she’s had about her own strange Cytonic gifts.

The Superiority didn’t stop in its fight for galactic dominance while she was gone, though. Spensa’s team, Skyward Flight, was able to hold Winzik off, and even collect allies to help with the cause, but it’s only a matter of time until humanity–and the rest of the galaxy–falls.

Defeating them will require all the knowledge Spensa gathered while in the Nowhere. But being Cytonic is more complicated than she ever could have imagined. Now, Spensa must ask herself: How far is she willing to go for victory, if it means losing herself–and her friends–in the process.

The final book in the Skyward series will free humanity, or see it fall forever.]]> 420 Brandon Sanderson 0593309715 Jessi 5 audiobooks, sci-fi 4.28 2023 Defiant (Skyward, #4)
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2024/01/12
date added: 2024/01/12
shelves: audiobooks, sci-fi
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]]> <![CDATA[The Beloved (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #22)]]> 176443921
The daughter of a legend finds the love of a lifetime in this passionate, heart-wrenching installment in J. R. Ward’s #1 New York Times bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series...

Nalla, the blooded daughter of Zsadist, has led a sheltered life. Protected by her father and the Brotherhood, kept away from the deadly war with the Lessening Society, she is chaffing against the walls of the very safety that has ensured her survival. One night, she gives into her restlessness... and finds herself face to face with a male whose inner darkness rivals even that of her sire’s horrific origins.

Nate is a fighter with nothing to lose- and nothing to live for. Tortured in a human lab as a young, then cursed with immortality, he is all vengeance and no purpose because he cares for no one, not even himself. The Brotherhood know this all too well, and following his deliberate violation of the cardinal rule in the war, they declare him a dangerous liability that must be dealt with.

When Nalla and Nate find themselves fighting side by side, daggers aren’t the only things that fly. A sizzling attraction is ignited, except she knows her sire will never accept him- and on his side, Nate has made a secret bargain to end his immortality. As the enemy closes in, and Nalla realizes she must choose between her mate and her sire... what starts with such passion may well end with eternal sorrow and no chance of a reunion, even in the Fade.]]> 432 J.R. Ward 1982180080 Jessi 0 to-read 4.16 2024 The Beloved (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #22)
author: J.R. Ward
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/01/05
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]]> <![CDATA[Christmas Pie (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #14.5)]]> 185132856
St Mary's has never lacked for enemies, but danger has never been closer to home. A state of war has broken out between St Mary's and the Women's Institute - the Raffia Mafia.

Markham, Max, Peterson and Miss Sykes must jump to Restoration London in search of real Christmas pie - the honour of St Mary's is at stake.

At least that how it all begins, but this is St Mary's after all...]]> 100 Jodi Taylor 103541144X Jessi 3 4.45 2023 Christmas Pie (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #14.5)
author: Jodi Taylor
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.45
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2023/12/31
date added: 2023/12/31
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]]> Tress of the Emerald Sea 60531406 #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson expands his Cosmere universe shared by The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn with a new standalone novel for everyone who loved The Princess Bride.

The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stow away on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea. Amid the spore oceans where pirates abound, can Tress leave her simple life behind and make her own place sailing a sea where a single drop of water can mean instant death?]]> 443 Brandon Sanderson Jessi 5 epic-fantasy 4.35 2023 Tress of the Emerald Sea
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2023/12/31
date added: 2023/12/31
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]]> <![CDATA[Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 12 - The Reckoning #3]]> 41184629 24 Christos Gage Jessi 5 comics, vampires 3.96 Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 12 - The Reckoning #3
author: Christos Gage
name: Jessi
average rating: 3.96
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2018/08/03
date added: 2023/12/26
shelves: comics, vampires
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]]> <![CDATA[Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 12 - The Reckoning #2]]> 40859020 With his ownership of Slayer memories, Harth has come from the future to destroy Buffy and all the Slayers, stealing their power for his own. At his side are demons and evil-kind, a massive army that Buffy and the Scoobies weren't expecting. To even the playing field, the gang travels to the future to recruit Fray and learn of their dismal fate--should they fail in this battle against Harth . . .
* The return of Fray!
* The Reckoning will be the culmination of all the Buffy seasons!]]> 24 Christos Gage Jessi 5 comics, vampires 3.97 Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 12 - The Reckoning #2
author: Christos Gage
name: Jessi
average rating: 3.97
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2018/08/04
date added: 2023/12/26
shelves: comics, vampires
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]]> <![CDATA[Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing]]> 59641216
So begins the riveting story of acclaimed actor Matthew Perry, taking us along on his journey from childhood ambition to fame to addiction and recovery in the aftermath of a life-threatening health scare. Before the frequent hospital visits and stints in rehab, there was five-year-old Matthew, who traveled from Montreal to Los Angeles, shuffling between his separated parents; fourteen-year-old Matthew, who was a nationally ranked tennis star in Canada; twenty-four-year-old Matthew, who nabbed a coveted role as a lead cast member on the talked-about pilot then called Friends Like Us. . . and so much more.

In an extraordinary story that only he could tell—and in the heartfelt, hilarious, and warmly familiar way only he could tell it—Matthew Perry lays bare the fractured family that raised him (and also left him to his own devices), the desire for recognition that drove him to fame, and the void inside him that could not be filled even by his greatest dreams coming true. But he also details the peace he’s found in sobriety and how he feels about the ubiquity of Friends, sharing stories about his castmates and other stars he met along the way. Frank, self-aware, and with his trademark humor, Perry vividly depicts his lifelong battle with addiction and what fueled it despite seemingly having it all.

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing is an unforgettable memoir that is both intimate and eye-opening—as well as a hand extended to anyone struggling with sobriety. Unflinchingly honest, moving, and uproariously funny, this is the book fans have been waiting for.]]> 250 Matthew Perry 1250866448 Jessi 4 3.89 2022 Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
author: Matthew Perry
name: Jessi
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2023/12/22
date added: 2023/12/22
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]]> <![CDATA[A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)]]> 17927395
Nor has Feyre forgotten her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court. As Feyre navigates its dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms—and she might be key to stopping it. But only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future—and the future of a world cleaved in two.

With more than a million copies sold of her beloved Throne of Glass series, Sarah J. Maas's masterful storytelling brings this second book in her seductive and action-packed series to new heights.]]> 626 Sarah J. Maas Jessi 4 4.60 2016 A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
author: Sarah J. Maas
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.60
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2023/12/22
date added: 2023/12/22
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]]> <![CDATA[A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)]]> 16096824
Dragged to a magical kingdom for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. Feyre's presence at the court is closely guarded, and as she begins to learn why, her feelings for him turn from hostility to passion and the faerie lands become an even more dangerous place. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever.]]> 419 Sarah J. Maas 1619634449 Jessi 4 4.17 2015 A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
author: Sarah J. Maas
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2023/12/01
date added: 2023/12/01
shelves: epic-fantasy, romance, new-adult, audiobooks
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]]> Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2) 90202302 “The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our humanity.� —Xaden Riorson

Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College—Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky.

Now the real training begins, and Violet’s already wondering how she’ll get through. It’s not just that it’s grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it’s designed to stretch the riders� capacity for pain beyond endurance. It’s the new vice commandant, who’s made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is–unless she betrays the man she loves.

Although Violet’s body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else’s, she still has her wits—and a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules.

But a determination to survive won’t be enough this year.

Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College—and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.]]> 623 Rebecca Yarros 1649374178 Jessi 5 4.33 2023 Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
author: Rebecca Yarros
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2023/11/30
date added: 2023/11/30
shelves: addicting-series, epic-fantasy
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]]> <![CDATA[A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3.5)]]> 31076583 229 Sarah J. Maas 168119631X Jessi 3 3.77 2019 A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3.5)
author: Sarah J. Maas
name: Jessi
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2018/06/24
date added: 2023/11/29
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]]> <![CDATA[Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Riley]]> 28270037 24 Jane Espenson Jessi 5 3.48 2010 Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Riley
author: Jane Espenson
name: Jessi
average rating: 3.48
book published: 2010
rating: 5
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date added: 2023/11/27
shelves: addicting-series, comics, movie-and-tv, paranormal, rock-my-world, romance
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]]> <![CDATA[Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 9 #4]]> 29213236 26 Andrew Chambliss Jessi 4 comics, vampires 4.27 2011 Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 9 #4
author: Andrew Chambliss
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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date added: 2023/11/26
shelves: comics, vampires
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]]> <![CDATA[The Serpent and the Wings of Night (Crowns of Nyaxia, #1)]]> 60714999 Human or vampire, the rules of survival are the same: never trust, never yield, and always � always � guard your heart.

The adopted human daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, Oraya carved her place in a world designed to kill her. Her only chance to become something more than prey is entering the Kejari: a legendary tournament held by the goddess of death herself.

But winning won’t be easy amongst the most vicious warriors from all three vampire houses. To survive, Oraya is forced to make an alliance with a mysterious rival.

Everything about Raihn is dangerous. He is a ruthless vampire, an efficient killer, an enemy to her father’s crown� and her greatest competition. Yet, what terrifies Oraya most of all is that she finds herself oddly drawn to him.

But there’s no room for compassion in the Kejari. War for the House of Night brews, shattering everything that Oraya thought she knew about her home. And Raihn may understand her more than anyone � but their blossoming attraction could be her downfall, in a kingdom where nothing is more deadly than love.

The Serpent and the Wings of Night is the first book in a new series of heart-wrenching romance, dark magic, and bloodthirsty intrigue, perfect for fans of From Blood and Ash and A Court of Thorns and Roses.]]> 504 Carissa Broadbent Jessi 0 to-read 4.30 2022 The Serpent and the Wings of Night (Crowns of Nyaxia, #1)
author: Carissa Broadbent
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)]]> 60784546 After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again�

All eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow wants to do is hold her family together. With a brother on the frontline forced to fight on behalf of the Gods now missing from the frontline and a mother drowning her sorrows, Iris’s best bet is winning the columnist promotion at the Oath Gazette.

But when Iris’s letters to her brother fall into the wrong hands � that of the handsome but cold Roman Kitt, her rival at the paper � an unlikely magical connection forms.

Expelled into the middle of a mystical war, magical typewriters in tow, can their bond withstand the fight for the fate of mankind and, most importantly, love?

An epic enemies-to-lovers fantasy novel filled with hope and heartbreak, and the unparalleled power of love.]]> 357 Rebecca Ross 1250857430 Jessi 4 4.14 2023 Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)
author: Rebecca Ross
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2023/11/06
date added: 2023/11/06
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]]> <![CDATA[Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6)]]> 29227774 Darrow returns as Pierce Brown’s New York Times bestselling Red Rising series continues in the thrilling sequel to Dark Age.

�The measure of a man is not the fear he sows in his enemies. It is the hope he gives his friends.”—Virginia au Augustus

The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains.

But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend.

The worlds once needed the Reaper. But now they need Darrow. Because after the dark age will come a new age: of light, of victory, of hope.]]> 682 Pierce Brown 1473646804 Jessi 5 audiobooks, sci-fi 4.74 2023 Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6)
author: Pierce Brown
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.74
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2023/10/24
date added: 2023/10/24
shelves: audiobooks, sci-fi
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]]> Red God (Red Rising Saga, #7) 61657799 Pierce Brown Jessi 0 to-read 4.50 2025 Red God (Red Rising Saga, #7)
author: Pierce Brown
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)]]> 61431922 Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders...

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.

But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile� humans. They incinerate them.

With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.

She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.

Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.

Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die]]> 665 Rebecca Yarros 1649374046 Jessi 5 4.56 2023 Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
author: Rebecca Yarros
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.56
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2023/10/13
date added: 2023/10/13
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]]> November of the Heart 685606
Jens, pressed into service as a waiter as an elegant family dinner party, overhears Gideon’s lament, and is sure his boatbuilding skills can be put to use on behalf of his employer. Brazenly crossing the boundary between servant and master by offering to design and build a boat that is sure to win the race. Jens incites Gideon’s ire but piques his interest too. With Lorna’s help, he convinces Gideon to finance the project.

Grateful for her intervention yet wary of jeopardizing his chance to build the boat of his dreams, Jens nevertheless is powerless to face of Lorna’s growing interest in the boat and him. He soon finds himself eagerly awaiting her visits to the boatshed, and stars teaching her about the craft of boatbuilding, as well as the craft of love.

Despite the rigid caste system which keeps them apart, Lorna and Jens are drawn inexorably together, and begin an affair as fresh and innocent as the summer itself. But the repercussions of their passionate idyll soon separate them against their shame to endure loneliness where it is always “November of the heart.”]]> 396 LaVyrle Spencer 051511331X Jessi 3 adult, historical, romance 4.05 1993 November of the Heart
author: LaVyrle Spencer
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1993
rating: 3
read at: 2023/09/18
date added: 2023/09/18
shelves: adult, historical, romance
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]]> Awaited (Wasteland #2) 13247042
Russell Leonard is a centuries-old Guardian who’s lost faith in his purpose. So when he’s charged with procuring the first female Guardian in over two centuries, he can only hope it’s the red-headed beauty who’s been haunting his dreams for months. And if it is, he intends to claim her as his. But when he finds his dream woman, Annabelle is mute and bears no Guardian’s Mark.

He soon realizes she’s been tainted by an ancient evil. Russell must somehow release the secrets trapped within this delicate soul to help her tap into the only weapon powerful enough to silence a millennia-old demon—her voice.

***
This book was previously released as Awaited (Wasteland Series book 2). This version has been updated with a new series name and a complete re-edit.]]> 272 Lynn Rush 1937254216 Jessi 0 to-read 4.38 2012 Awaited (Wasteland #2)
author: Lynn Rush
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/09/04
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]]> <![CDATA[The Good, the Bad and the History (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #14)]]> 63839542
Max needs to get away - fast - and a Brilliant Idea soon leads her to a full-scale uprising in twentieth-century China. If she can come by a historical treasure or two in the process, even better. That is, if she makes it out alive.

Then there's the small matter of Insight - the sinister organisation from the future hell bent on changing History for their own dark ends. Having successfully infiltrated their ranks, Max is perfectly placed to stop them. But she knows her cover will soon be blown - because it's already happened.

Can Max take down Insight before they come after her? The circle is closing, and only one can survive...]]> 478 Jodi Taylor Jessi 5 4.61 2023 The Good, the Bad and the History (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #14)
author: Jodi Taylor
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.61
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2023/08/24
date added: 2023/08/24
shelves: addicting-series, audiobooks, historical
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]]> <![CDATA[Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)]]> 23395680
The year is 2575, and two rival mega-corporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than a speck at the edge of the universe. Now with enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra � who are barely even talking to each other—are forced to evacuate with a hostile warship in hot pursuit.

But their problems are just getting started. A plague has broken out and is mutating with terrifying results; the fleet’s AI may actually be their enemy; and nobody in charge will say what’s really going on. As Kady hacks into a web of data to find the truth, it’s clear the only person who can help her is the ex-boyfriend she swore she’d never speak to again.

Told through a fascinating dossier of hacked documents � including emails, maps, files, IMs, medical reports, interviews, and more � Illuminae is the first book in a heart-stopping trilogy about lives interrupted, the price of truth, and the courage of everyday heroes.]]> 608 Amie Kaufman 0553499114 Jessi 3 sci-fi 4.23 2015 Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)
author: Amie Kaufman
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2015
rating: 3
read at: 2023/08/18
date added: 2023/08/18
shelves: sci-fi
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]]> The Lady's Mine 58389761
New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save.

1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her mind. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather, she has come to claim an inheritance from the uncle she never a defunct newspaper office on a main street overflowing with brothels and saloons, and a seemingly worthless mine. Moved by the oppression of the local miners and their families, Kathryn decides to relaunch her uncle’s newspaper―and then finds herself in the middle of a maelstrom, pitted against Calvada’s most powerful men. But Kathryn intends to continue to say―and publish―whatever she pleases, especially when she knows she’s right.

Matthias Beck, owner of a local saloon and hotel, has a special interest in the new lady in town. He instantly recognizes C. T. Walsh’s same tenacity in the beautiful and outspoken redhead―and knows all too well how dangerous that family trait can be. While Kathryn may be right about Calvada’s problems, her righteousness could also get her killed. But when the handsome hotelier keeps finding himself on the same side of the issues as the opinionated Miss Walsh, Matthias’s restless search for purpose becomes all about answering the call of his heart.

Everyone may be looking to strike it rich in this lawless boomtown, but it’s a love more precious than gold that will ultimately save them all.]]> 450 Francine Rivers 1496447573 Jessi 4 historical, romance 4.12 The Lady's Mine
author: Francine Rivers
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.12
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2023/07/19
date added: 2023/07/19
shelves: historical, romance
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Archangel's Resurrection (Guild Hunter, #15)]]> 58895574 New York Times Bestselling author Nalini Singh takes us into the dangerous, haunting world of archangels…and a love that is legend.

For thousands of years, the passion between Alexander, Archangel of Persia, and Zanaya, Queen of the Nile, burned furious and bright, seemingly without end. But to be an archangel is to be bound to power violent and demanding. Driven by its primal energy, Alexander and Zanaya fought as fiercely as they loved. Locked in an endless cycle of devotion and heartbreak, it is only Zanaya’s decision to Sleep that ends their love story.

Eons later, it is the Cascade of Death that wakens them both. The passion between them a flame that yet burns, Alexander and Zanaya stand together in one last battle against the ultimate darkness. But even a warrior archangel cannot win every war. Alexander’s scream shatters the world as Zanaya falls, broken and silent…only to rise again in a miracle that may be a devastating curse. For is it truly the Queen of the Nile who has been resurrected?

Only one thing is clear: this is the last beat of their passionate, angry dance. The final song for Alexander and his Zani…]]> 396 Nalini Singh Jessi 3 4.03 2022 Archangel's Resurrection (Guild Hunter, #15)
author: Nalini Singh
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2023/06/12
date added: 2023/06/12
shelves: addicting-series, adult, angels, romance
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]]> <![CDATA[Lassiter (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #21)]]> 61295517 Destiny, duty, and desire clash in this epic new novel in J.R. Ward’s #1 New York Times bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series.

Lassiter, the fallen angel, is too good at the savior business. In his new role overseeing the fates of all vampires, he’s influenced outcomes he shouldn’t have—so the Creator is calling him home. But the angel has a reason to stay in Caldwell. He’s bonded with a mysterious female who seemed to appear from out of nowhere...and has powers that defy all reason.

Rahvyn is well aware that she doesn’t belong in the present. And she never intended to stay, for her true place is in the past. Lassiter proves to be undeniable, however, and she lets herself fall for the angel—until a secret he’s been keeping comes out and she fears that for him, it’s not about love, but duty.

As the Omega’s son reestablishes the Lessening Society, and the Brotherhood must resume the deadly war, an unfathomable tragedy occurs. In the aftermath, Rahvyn has to decide whether to stay and help—or save herself from an immortal heartbreak she knows will crush her very soul...]]> 468 J.R. Ward 1982180064 Jessi 3 4.22 2023 Lassiter (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #21)
author: J.R. Ward
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2023/05/17
date added: 2023/05/17
shelves: addicting-series, adult, angels, romance, urban, vampires
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]]> <![CDATA[The Isles of the Gods (The Isles of the Gods, #1)]]> 62562898 464 Amie Kaufman 0593479289 Jessi 0 to-read 3.89 2023 The Isles of the Gods (The Isles of the Gods, #1)
author: Amie Kaufman
name: Jessi
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/05/05
shelves: to-read
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]]> <![CDATA[Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood: Practical Parenting from Birth to Six Years]]> 223797 and many other everyday challenges, then this book is for you! This book is the tool parents of little ones have been waiting for. America's Parenting Experts Jim and Charles Fay, Ph.D., help you start your child off on the right foot. The tools in Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood will give you the building blocks you need to create children who grow up to be responsible, successful teens and adults. And as a bonus you will enjoy every stage of your child's life and look forward to sharing a lifetime of joy with them.]]> 174 Jim Fay 1930429002 Jessi 5 4.12 2000 Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood: Practical Parenting from Birth to Six Years
author: Jim Fay
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2000
rating: 5
read at: 2023/04/26
date added: 2023/04/26
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]]> Reminders of Him 58341222 A troubled young mother yearns for a shot at redemption in this heartbreaking yet hopeful story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover. After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild. Everyone in her daughter’s life is determined to shut Kenna out, no matter how hard she works to prove herself. The only person who hasn’t closed the door on her completely is Ledger Ward, a local bar owner and one of the few remaining links to Kenna’s daughter. But if anyone were to discover how Ledger is slowly becoming an important part of Kenna’s life, both would risk losing the trust of everyone important to them. The two form a connection despite the pressure surrounding them, but as their romance grows, so does the risk. Kenna must find a way to absolve the mistakes of her past in order to build a future out of hope and healing.]]> 335 Colleen Hoover 1542025605 Jessi 4 adult, romance 4.33 2022 Reminders of Him
author: Colleen Hoover
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2023/04/19
date added: 2023/04/19
shelves: adult, romance
review:

]]> <![CDATA[It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us, #2)]]> 60393672 Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas’s side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the “glorious and touching� (USA TODAY) #1 New York Times bestseller It Ends with Us.

Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date.

But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life—and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will hate being in his ex-wife and daughter’s life.

Switching between the perspectives of Lily and Atlas, It Starts with Us picks up right where the epilogue for the “gripping, pulse-pounding� (Sarah Pekkanen, author of Perfect Neighbors) bestselling phenomenon It Ends with Us left off. Revealing more about Atlas’s past and following Lily as she embraces a second chance at true love while navigating a jealous ex-husband, it proves that “no one delivers an emotional read like Colleen Hoover� (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author).]]> 323 Colleen Hoover 1668001225 Jessi 4 adult, romance 3.80 2022 It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us, #2)
author: Colleen Hoover
name: Jessi
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2023/03/21
date added: 2023/03/21
shelves: adult, romance
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]]> When Gracie Met the Grump 62603994
For most people, finding a half-naked superbeing in their yard might be a dream come true.

Unfortunately for Gracie Castro, it’s the exact opposite.

Especially when he’s grouchy, rude, and shows no signs of leaving anytime soon.

But when a hero of mankind needs you, you do what you have to.

Even if it compromises everything you know.

And totally changes your life.]]> 570 Mariana Zapata 1953262023 Jessi 5 adult 3.95 2022 When Gracie Met the Grump
author: Mariana Zapata
name: Jessi
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2023/03/16
date added: 2023/03/16
shelves: adult
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]]> <![CDATA[Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)]]> 23437156 Alternate cover of ISBN 9781627792127

Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he ł¦˛ą˛Ô’t pull it off alone...

A convict with a thirst for revenge

A sharpshooter who ł¦˛ą˛Ô’t walk away from a wager

A runaway with a privileged past

A spy known as the Wraith

A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums

A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes

Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz’s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don’t kill each other first.]]> 480 Leigh Bardugo 1627792120 Jessi 3 audiobooks, young-adult 4.47 2015 Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
author: Leigh Bardugo
name: Jessi
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2015
rating: 3
read at: 2023/03/16
date added: 2023/03/16
shelves: audiobooks, young-adult
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]]> <![CDATA[12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos]]> 30257963 What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.

Humorous, surprising, and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street.

What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have to tell us about standing up straight (with our shoulders back) and about success in life? Why did ancient Egyptians worship the capacity to pay careful attention as the highest of gods? What dreadful paths do people tread when they become resentful, arrogant, and vengeful? Dr. Peterson journeys broadly, discussing discipline, freedom, adventure, and responsibility, distilling the world's wisdom into 12 practical and profound rules for life. 12 Rules for Life shatters the modern commonplaces of science, faith, and human nature while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its listeners.]]> 409 Jordan B. Peterson 0345816021 Jessi 5 audiobooks 3.90 2018 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
author: Jordan B. Peterson
name: Jessi
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2018
rating: 5
read at: 2023/03/08
date added: 2023/03/08
shelves: audiobooks
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