Annie's Updates en-US Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:32:01 -0700 60 Annie's Updates 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Review3196989695 Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:32:01 -0700 <![CDATA[Annie added 'The Midnight Heir: A Magnus Bane Story']]> /review/show/3196989695 The Midnight Heir by Cassandra Clare Annie gave 5 stars to The Midnight Heir: A Magnus Bane Story (Hardcover) by Cassandra Clare
bookshelves: shadowhunters-timeline, all-the-stories-are-true
Rereading everything Shadowhunters before the Spring 2026 Release of The Last King of Faerie2025

Rereading while waiting for Chain of Thorns.

Oh Jamie what has happened to you? Hope to find out in Chain of Gold #tidreadalong 2020. ]]> Review6472915002 Mon, 28 Apr 2025 08:01:12 -0700 <![CDATA[Annie added 'Death in a Stately Home']]> /review/show/6472915002 Death in a Stately Home by Sara Rosett Annie gave 5 stars to Death in a Stately Home (Murder on Location #3) by Sara Rosett
bookshelves: jane-austen-250
I really enjoy this series with it's overall love of Jane Austen. Like the coziness of the location. Mystery always keeps me guessing. Also they're not super long. You can finish in a couple of days. ]]> GiveawayRequest705402224 Sat, 26 Apr 2025 08:22:45 -0700 <![CDATA[<a href="/user/show/22237394-annie">Annie</a> entered a giveaway]]> /giveaway/show/411814-slow-dance Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell
50 copies available, ends on May 10, 2025
Enter to win ]]> Review2421566299 Thu, 24 Apr 2025 18:26:20 -0700 <![CDATA[Annie added 'Every Exquisite Thing']]> /review/show/2421566299 Every Exquisite Thing by Cassandra Clare Annie gave 5 stars to Every Exquisite Thing (Ghosts of the Shadow Market #3) by Cassandra Clare
bookshelves: summer-reading-2018, shadowhunters-timeline, all-the-stories-are-true
3X Rereading everything Shadowhunter before Spring 2026 release of The Last King of Faerie.

2X Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Summer Reading Challenge - Take Pride - Read a Book Written by a LGBTQIA Author or Featuring a LGBTQIA Character

1X Ever since Magnus Bane first mentioned her, I've always wanted to read Anna's story:
"It felt like watching Will’s niece, brash, laughing, cheroot-smoking Anna Lightwood—one of the few Lightwoods he had liked."
Look forward to reading more about her whenever The Last Hours Trilogy is finally published. Loved seeing Isabelle's Ruby Necklace make an appearance.
June Summer Reading Challenge
Take Pride

#tidreadalong before Chain of Gold - February 18th ]]> Review2378452195 Thu, 24 Apr 2025 18:14:07 -0700 <![CDATA[Annie added 'Cast Long Shadows']]> /review/show/2378452195 Cast Long Shadows by Cassandra Clare Annie gave 4 stars to Cast Long Shadows (Ghosts of the Shadow Market, #2) by Cassandra Clare
bookshelves: shadowhunters-timeline, all-the-stories-are-true
3X Rereading everything Shadowhunter before Spring 2026 release of The Last King of Faerie.

2X Wasn't quite the ending I was expecting, but I look forward to future big books featuring this bunch of 'Shadowhooligans'. 😂 Always lovely to see Will and Jem. Even a glimpse of Catarina! 💙
#tidreadalong


1X Read as a whole - Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy ]]> Review3195314900 Thu, 24 Apr 2025 18:08:28 -0700 <![CDATA[Annie added 'Nothing but Shadows']]> /review/show/3195314900 Nothing but Shadows by Cassandra Clare Annie gave 5 stars to Nothing but Shadows (Tales from Shadowhunter Academy, #4) by Cassandra Clare
bookshelves: shadowhunters-timeline, all-the-stories-are-true
3X Rereading everything Shadowhunter before Spring 2026 release of The Last King of Faerie.

2X Wow! I had forgotten how good this story was.
#TID Readalong for release of Chain of Gold

1X Read as a whole - Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
]]> Review3195299864 Thu, 24 Apr 2025 18:02:33 -0700 <![CDATA[Annie added 'The Whitechapel Fiend']]> /review/show/3195299864 The Whitechapel Fiend by Cassandra Clare Annie gave 5 stars to The Whitechapel Fiend (Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, #3) by Cassandra Clare
bookshelves: shadowhunters-timeline, all-the-stories-are-true
3X Rereading everything Shadowhunter before Spring 2026 release of The Last King of Faerie.

2X #TID Readalong before release of Chain of Gold. I'd forgotten how gruesome the Jack the Ripper part was. Enjoyed seeing Tessa and her family.

1X Read as a whole - Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy ]]> Review6059053717 Wed, 23 Apr 2025 10:58:17 -0700 <![CDATA[Annie added 'Corpse in the Chard: Light-Hearted Cosy Crime Whodunnit Unravels In A Quirky Cotswold British Village']]> /review/show/6059053717 Corpse in the Chard by Anna A Armstrong Annie gave 4 stars to Corpse in the Chard: Light-Hearted Cosy Crime Whodunnit Unravels In A Quirky Cotswold British Village (The FitzMorris Family Mysteries) by Anna A Armstrong
bookshelves: england, spring
"if she was a murderer it would be a bit like discovering that Mary Berry had a dark side."

Fun and cozy mystery! Liked all the gardening and food bits. ]]> Review1727153567 Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:09:11 -0700 <![CDATA[Annie added 'The Enchanted April']]> /review/show/1727153567 The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim Annie gave 3 stars to The Enchanted April (Kindle Edition) by Elizabeth von Arnim
bookshelves: audio-counts-too, spring
My original review from 2017: I want to spend a month in Italy. Love all the descriptions of flowers.

This time not so much. Maybe it was because I listened to audiobook, I found the characters annoying. [spoilers removed]

So I'm bumping my stars down from 5 to 3. I think it was the flowers that caused me to rate so high. Who knows maybe I'll read in another 8 years and see if my opinion changes again. ]]> Review7350728399 Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:53:01 -0700 <![CDATA[Annie added 'The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet: A Sapphic Regency Historical Romance of Forbidden Love']]> /review/show/7350728399 The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Lindz McLeod Annie gave 4 stars to The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet: A Sapphic Regency Historical Romance of Forbidden Love (Austentatious Book 1) by Lindz McLeod
bookshelves: arcs, miss-mary-bennet, jane-austen-250
I really like when authors take side characters and give them a main story. I've never given any thought to what would have happened to Charlotte if Mr. Collins died so this was interesting. Also left me wondering 'Who gets Longbourn?'

Mary Bennet of this story is totally different from original. Found it a little hard to believe that she changed that much, but I can go with it. One thing did bother me. Charlotte writing her sister and asking if their aunt's companion was more than a 'friend'. Charlotte is way too practical to put something so scandalous, for the time, in a letter. A letter that could have been lost or anyone could have read.

All and all a sweet love story that I enjoyed. Happy to have read ARC but not one I would buy for my All Things Austen shelf. ]]>