Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly link-up hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.
This week’s list is the Top Ten Books I’ll Have in My Beach Bag/Would be Great Beach Reads. Well, I live in Montana. That means no where near a beach, of any sort. Instead we have mountains. I love our mountains. Here are some books that prominently feature mountains. In other words, here are my mountain reads.
Frostbite by Richelle Mead Rose loves Dimitri, Dimitri might love Tasha, and Mason would die to be with Rose…
It’s winter break at St. Vladimir’s, but Rose is feeling anything but festive. A massive Strigoi attack has put the school on high alert, and now the Academy’s crawling with Guardians—including Rose’s hard-hitting mother, Janine Hathaway. And if hand-to-hand combat with her mom wasn’t bad enough, Rose’s tutor Dimitri has his eye on someone else, her friend Mason’s got a huge crush on her, and Rose keeps getting stuck in Lissa’s head while she’s making out with her boyfriend, Christian! The Strigoi are closing in, and the Academy’s not taking any risks… This year, St. Vlad’s annual holiday ski trip is mandatory.
But the glittering winter landscape and the posh Idaho resort only create the illusion of safety. When three friends run away in an offensive move against the deadly Strigoi, Rose must join forces with Christian to rescue them. But heroism rarely comes without a price…
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Seven Quick Takes is a weekly link-up hosted by This Ain’t The Lyceum.
This is my first time linking-up.
I had an interesting week compounded with a headache which started last Friday and is just starting to go away. I have tried just about everything and now it is finally deciding to go away!
This week has also been the last full week of the school year. Only eight more days left! I might be more excited than my students. I know we all need the break.
Speaking of breaks. We have a three day weekend. Thank you, Memorial Day. After all of the stuff that went down this week, I definitely need this long weekend.
The Friday 56 is a weekly meme hosted by Freda’s Voice.
The Jewel by Amy Ewing The Jewel means wealth. The Jewel means beauty. The Jewel means royalty. But for girls like Violet, the Jewel means servitude. Not just any kind of servitude. Violet, born and raised in the Marsh, has been trained as a surrogate for the royalty—because in the Jewel the only thing more important than opulence is offspring.
Purchased at the surrogacy auction by the Duchess of the Lake and greeted with a slap to the face, Violet (now known only as #197) quickly learns of the brutal truths that lie beneath the Jewel’s glittering facade: the cruelty, backstabbing, and hidden violence that have become the royal way of life.
Violet must accept the ugly realities of her existence… and try to stay alive. But then a forbidden romance erupts between Violet and a handsome gentleman hired as a companion to the Duchess’s petulant niece. Though his presence makes life in the Jewel a bit brighter, the consequences of their illicit relationship will cost them both more than they bargained for.
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