Waiting on Wednesday #230: The Rosewood Hunt by Mackenzie Reed and Unholy Terrors by Lyndall Clipstone

Hello everyone! "Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, that is hosted by Breaking the Spine and the purpose of this event is that we spotlight upcoming releases of books that we are excited for!  This will also tie into Wishful Ending's Can't Wait Wednesday post!

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This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selections are:

Unholy Terrors

By: Lyndall Clipstone

Expected Publication Date: October 17th, 2023

Buy on:   Amazon (Kindle)

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A bloodstained tale of a girl torn between her vows and her heart, where falling in love may be the deepest sin of all…

Everline Blackthorn has devoted her life to the wardens—a sect of holy warriors who guard against monsters known as the vespertine.

When a series of strange omens occur, Everline disobeys orders to investigate, and uncovers a startling truth in the form of Ravel Severin: a rogue vespertine who reveals the monsters have secrets of their own.

Ravel promises the help she needs— for a price. Vespertine magic requires blood, and if Everline wants Ravel to guide across the dangerous moorland, she will have to allow him to feed from her.

It’s a sin for a warden to feed a vespertine— let alone love one— and as Everline and Ravel travel further across the moorland, she realizes the question isn’t whether she will survive the journey, but if she will return unchanged. Or if she wants to.

Another horror themed novel that has lots of forbidden romance, which is what I really like!  Can't wait to check this book out!

The Rosewood Hunt

By: Mackenzie Reed

Expected Publication Date: October 31st, 2023

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Lily Rosewood dreams of taking over her family's company one day. Her grandmother, Rosewood Inc's current chair, has always encouraged her, and Lily can't wait for Gram to teach her everything she needs to know to run the business.

But then Gram dies suddenly, and Lily's world is upended. When it's revealed that Gram's quarter of a billion dollar fortune is missing, Lily can't fathom what her future will hold now.

Even in death, Gram has a few tricks up her couture sleeve. A last letter from her with a cryptic clue sends Lily and three other teens on a treasure hunt that could change their lives forever-if they can survive it. And if they pull it off, they may be rewarded with more than just money. But they're not the only ones hunting for Gram's treasure, and soon the hunt becomes more dangerous than they ever could have imagined.

Irresistible intrigue, captivating suspense, a swoony friends-to- rivals-to-lovers romance, and heartbreaking betrayal drive this thrilling debut novel to its explosive end.

Wow!  A mystery in finding the missing money!  This book has really grabbed my interest!

So, what upcoming books are you looking forward to?  Please respond below!

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[ANALYZING SONIC THE HEDGEHOG COMICS] Sonic the Hedgehog: Issue 9 (IDW Comics)

 

Title: Sonic the Hedgehog

Issue: #9

Writer: Ian Flynn

Artist:  Tracy Yardley

Series: IDW

Previously Reviewed: Issue 1 |  Issue 2 |  Issue 3 |  Issue 4 |  Issue 5 |  Issue 6  | Issue 7 | Issue 8

Wow!  It's been awhile since I last reviewed a Sonic comic, hasn't it?  Well, now we are reviewing issue 9 of the IDW series and this time, Sonic and his friends are going up against Neo Metal Sonic!

In this issue, Metal Sonic (now known as Neo Metal Sonic) succeeds in taking over Angel Island and the Resistance spend most of the issue trying to figure out a way to defeat Neo Metal Sonic.  Once they figured out a plan, the Resistance starts going all out on Neo Metal Sonic, until Neo Metal Sonic gets his hands on the Master Emerald...

So, here it is folks!  The first issue in this series where all of the characters that we were introduced to all come together to defeat a great evil!  So, for the first eight issues, we just mostly spent time on Sonic meeting up with his friends and also making new allies along the way.  But this issue has all of Sonic's friends and new allies come together for the first time to defeat Neo Metal Sonic and it was quite an impressive issue!  I loved seeing the relationships between all of the characters in this issue and there were many moments I liked, such as of course, the banters between various characters like Blaze and Amy, Sonic and Tails, Vector and Knuckles (was really hoping they made a call back to Vector and Knuckles being apart of the Chaotix together in the past) and we even get to see newcomer Tangle interact with Silver and the Chaotix as they play cards together!  I always love it whenever we get to see the relationships between these characters and Ian Flynn does a fantastic job at writing the relationships between these characters.

Another thing that I really liked about this issue was the artwork by Tracy Yardley. Tracy Yardley's artwork is as usual a pleasure to look at and I especially loved the fight sequences and the various displays of each character's powers, especially Blaze the Cat's powerset as she uses her fire abilities to take down enemies and of course, Amy Rose using her hammer to take down enemies.  The action sequences are highly stylized and they really bring on the energy of this issue.

The only "minor" problem that I had with this issue was that I wish that Shadow the Hedgehog had more moments with the other characters besides Rouge (and there's a reason for that, which I will get into in later issues), but I won't go too far into that sentiment just yet.

Overall, I give this issue a rating of:

Overall, while I wish there were more moments between the characters who don't normally interact with each other, I still had a lot of fun with the action sequences here and I can't wait to see how the heroes will take down Neo Metal Sonic!

Waiting on Wednesday #229: Ghost Roast by Shawnelle Gibbs and Shawnee Gibbs and All These Sunken Souls by Circe Moskowitz

Hello everyone! "Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, that is hosted by Breaking the Spine and the purpose of this event is that we spotlight upcoming releases of books that we are excited for!  This will also tie into Wishful Ending's Can't Wait Wednesday post!

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This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selections are:

Ghost Roast

By: Shawnelle Gibbs and Shawnee Gibbs

Expected Publication Date: October 10th, 2023

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An exciting paranormal adventure that blends lost histories, first crushes, and the impossible task of fitting in with the cool kids when your dad is a ghost hunter. Perfect for fans of THE OKAY WITCH and ANYA'S GHOST.

The fact that this graphic novel is similar to "Anya's Ghost" is enough to get me to read this graphic novel!  I really loved reading "Anya's Ghost" years ago and I've been dying to read another horror graphic novel again!

All these Sunken Souls

By: Circe Moskowitz

Expected Publication Date: October 17th, 2023

Buy on:  Amazon (Kindle)

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The stories in All These Sunken Souls explore horror through a blend of genres—from the thoughtful to the terrifying—as the reader wanders farther and farther from reality.

By delivering a multitude of profound nightmares, this YA horror anthology by established and debut authors contains something for every horror fan—and for anyone who dares to open these pages. From haunted Victorian mansions, temporal monster-infested asylums, ravaging zombie apocalypses, to southern gothic hoodoo practitioners, the anthology features stories from Kalynn Bayron, Donyae Coles, Ryan Douglass, Sami Ellis, Brent Lambert, Ashia Monet, Circe Moskowitz, Joel Rochester, Liselle Sambury, and Joelle Wellington.

All These Sunken Souls tackles a genre that historically has tokenized and exploited Black characters and opens discussion on how horror translates into the current time we live in.

Wow!  It's been awhile since I last read an anthology book and this set of horror stories sounds really interesting to me!

So, what upcoming books are you looking forward to?  Please respond below!

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Top Ten Tuesday #102: Top 10 Reading Goals for 2023 (or I hope I can actually do these goals)!

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This week's top 10 Tuesday topic is Top 10 Reading Goals for 2023!

WOW!  2023 is almost over and I still haven't completed most of my reading goals for this year....BUMMER.... Anyway, I wanted to point out my reading goals for 2023 and I want to see if I could complete some of these goals by the end of the year!

So, here are my top 10 Reading Goals for 2023 (in no particular order of course)!

1. Read 50 Books

So, my biggest reading goal this year is to read up to 50 books.  So, for the past few years, I haven't been reading that much lately because I've been so busy with Twitch and YouTube and I also have been dealing with my Beta Reading Service as well.  So, that left me with less time to read than I wanted.  I don't know if I could read 50 books by the end of this year (especially since it's October already), but I'm going to try to do the best I can!

2. Getting more funds to buy more books

So, you guys may have noticed that I have been talking a lot about trying to earn money to buy more books because I don't have a job at the moment and I'm trying to get my online services to take off.  So, what I'm really hoping for this year is to be able to earn enough funds to be able to buy more books that I can review for this blog.  So, if you would like to help support me, you can support me through my:

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3. Get back to NetGalley

Honestly, I haven't been on NetGalley for years and I really want to go back to NetGalley and try to get my percentage ratio up to at least 80%.  I've always wanted to get my ratio up and I'm hoping that I can read more books from NetGalley to achieve that.

4. Read More Books from my TBR List

So, I have a lot of books in my TBR list and it's getting backed up day by day.  So, hopefully at some point, I can start reading some books from my TBR pile and be able to get my TBR pile down to a low number.

5. Not forcing myself to read books

Now, when I say that I'm trying not to force myself to read books, I mean that if I am too busy with another activity, then I'm not going to force myself to read a book when I got so many other things to finish first.  The reason why I haven't been reading as much as I used to was because I've been so busy with other things that I just didn't have time to read any books.  But I never forced myself to read books if I'm too busy with other things because then it would feel like my enjoyment from whatever book I read will be taken away because I was forced to read a book that I wasn't ready to read. 

6. Grow my Book Blog

So, I have been blogging for over 10 years now and I wanted to continue to grow my book blog.  So, I'm trying to get more involved with my book blog and try to have at least over 1,000 followers for my book blog!

7. Build my Bookshelf

So, the number of books I've been getting is getting larger and my bookshelf is getting smaller.  So, I've been trying to build a new bookshelf that would hold all of the books that I've been getting.  So, that's going to take some time.

8. Get back to putting more Book photos on Instagram

So, I've been off of Instagram for awhile now because I've been so busy with my Twitch and YouTube accounts and I've been having lots of problems trying to keep consistent with my Instagram account.  So, I'm hoping to rectify that situation by the end of 2023.

9. Start Reading the Books that were sent to me

So, I got a lot of books from various authors over the years, but I was never able to read those books.  So, I'm going to try to start reading the books that the authors had sent to me at long last.

10. Start Reading more of the recent books

So lately, I've been reading mostly books that were released years ago and while that's not bad at all, I've been having trouble trying to keep up with the recent books that have been released because I'm still behind on my TBR list.  So, I'm hoping to take off some more books from my TBR list so that way I can make more room for some of the newer books being released.

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