Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Meant to Read in 2023 but Didn’t Get To

 Join in the Top Ten Tuesday fun! Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

Oh, there was a lot! But these were the top ten I really thought I would read but didn't:

1. Dark Ambitions

2. Red Rose Bouquet

3. In Spotlight and Shadow

4. A Most Peculiar Circumstance

5. Blue Skies Tomorrow

6. Garden of the Midnights

7. Memory Lane

8. The Crushing Depths

9. The Letter Tree

10. A Dance in Donegal

Weekend Wrap-up: January 21st

 

 

It’s Monday! What are you reading? is hosted by Book Date.

Another good week of reading. We had fresh snow twice this week which was new for these born southern hemisphere family now living in the norther hemisphere.

Finished

(Reviews can be found under Book Review tag)

Currently reading

Next up:

Keeping it small since reading was very slow this last month:

What are you reading this week?

Blog Posts Recap:

Here is my past week's Blog Posts.

Top Ten Tuesday

Can't Wait Wednesday

Book Spotlight Fridays!

Saturday Series Discovery

Adding to the Bookshelf:

Which Avid Reader do not add to their shelves! I try to limit mine to review books since I have so many owned on my TBR to read.  So did I add to my shelf this week? 

One ARC this week:

Book Spotlight Friday! A Stranger's Game

Book Beginnings and Friday56

Book Beginnings is a weekly meme hosted by Rose City Reader that asks you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you're reading. Friday 56 is hosted by Freda's Voice and asks you to grab a book (any book), turn to page 56 or 56% in your e-reader and share a non-spoiler sentence or two.  First Line Friday is a weekly meme hosted by Reading is my Superpower that asks you to share the first sentence of the book you're reading.

Colleen Coble introduced me to the genre Christian Romantic Suspense, and since then she remains a favourite auto buy author.  

A Stranger's Game

About the book:

A gripping new stand-alone novel from USA TODAY bestselling romantic suspense author Colleen Coble.

A wealthy hotel heiress.

Torie Bergstrom hasn’t been back to Georgia since she was ten, but she’s happy to arrange a job for her best friend at one of the family properties on Jekyll Island.

A suspicious death.

When Torie learns that her best friend has drowned, she knows this is more than a tragic accident: Lisbeth was terrified of water and wouldn’t have gone swimming by choice.

A fight for the truth.

Torie goes to the hotel under an alias, trying to find answers. When she meets Joe Abbott and his daughter rescuing baby turtles, she finds a tentative ally.

But the more they dig, the more ties they find to Torie’s mother’s death twenty years before. Someone will risk anything—even more murder—to hide the truth.

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Book Beginnings

Victoria Bergstrom almost forgot to breath at the beauty of Georgia's Jekyll Island.

Friday 56

Dread curled through Torie's spine, and she couldn't breathe.

My thoughts so far

Enjoying this one filled with danger and action and mystery.

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Review: Aftermath

Aftermath by Lisa Harris
My rating: 💛💛💛

This was a good conclusion to the series.

I liked how the characters had to face emotions they might have ignored in order to survive all the challenges when the grid was down.

Review of Prequel 

Review book 1: Survival  

Review book 2: Hunted

Review book 3: Frequency

Review book 4: Deception

Review book 5: Shattered 



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About the book:

What happens when the lights come back on?Some had called the attacks on the country by the Realm a second civil war, and Chase Beckett agreed. What he’d seen first-hand had turned into the largest and most destructive conflict on US soil since that era. Not only had the organized group behind the damage taken down the grid and infostructure, they’d also continued to raise havoc across the country.But just because the good guys had finally won and the power was finally coming back on, didn’t mean that the chaos that had erupted across the country had vanished. No. That was going to take time. And for the McQuaid family, it was going to take everything they had to survive the lights coming back on.

About the author:

LISA HARRIS is a Christy Award finalist for Blood Ransom and Vendetta, Christy Award winner for

Dangerous Passage, and the winner of the Best Inspirational Suspense Novel for 2011 (Blood Covenant) and 2015 (Vendetta) from Romantic Times.

She has almost forty novels and novellas in print. She and her family work as missionaries in southern Africa. Lisa loves hanging out with her family, cooking different ethnic dishes, photography, and heading into the African bush on safari. Visit Lisa’s website to learn more.

Review: Expired Secrets

Expired Secrets by Lisa Phillips
My rating: 💛💛💛💛

A gripping story filled with action and suspense in Savannah and Tate’s journey to solve murders.

Both characters were strong but still vulnerable due to their past.

I enjoyed listening to the audiobook which was delivered in an engaging way.

*I listened to the audiobook on Everand.*

Review book 1: Expired Refuge 

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About the book:

She won’t tell him the truth.

He’ll never stop trying to find it.

In this town, Police Detective Savannah Wilcox is the one who uncovers the truth. After a grisly murder occurs, it quickly becomes clear the death is connected to an ongoing investigation. And she’s certain this killer will strike again.

Private Investigator Tate Hudson has some secrets of his own. The prime suspect in a murder just might be the one who’s going to solve the whole case—if he can control the chaos swirling around him.
The clock has expired on both of their secrets, but the truth just might set them free.

Welcome to Last Chance County

About the Author:

A British ex-pat who grew up an hour outside of London, Lisa attended Calvary Chapel Bible College where

she met her husband. He's from California, but nobody's perfect. It wasn't until her Bible College graduation that she figured out she was a writer (someone told her). Since then she's taken the Apprentice and Journeyman writing courses with the Christian Writers Guild, and discovered a penchant for high-stakes stories of mayhem and disaster where you can find made-for-each-other love that always ends in happily ever after.
Lisa can be found in Idaho wearing either flip-flops or cowgirl boots, depending on the season. She leads worship with her husband at their local church. Together they have two children--a sparkly Little Princess and a Mini Daddy--and two bunny rabbits.

Can't Wait Wednesday! Sandcastle Inn

Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings that spotlights and discusses the books we're excited about that we've yet to read. Generally, they're books that are yet to be released. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.

All the covers of the books in this series is so pretty. Looking forward to the next installment in the series comping April 2024. Though this is a series, all books can be read as a standalone.

About the book: Sandcastle Inn

Vienna Price never intended to return for more than a passing visit to Oregon and all the bad memories she'd left behind. But when your career tanks, home is where you go to nurse your wounds and chart a new course. Only temporarily, of course--because as much as she loves her quirky mom, anything more than a short stay would drive them both crazy.

A trip to Oregon isn't in Matt Quinn's plans, either, until a perfectly timed appeal for help arrives from his sister. What better place to decompress after a shattering loss than a quiet, seaside town named Hope Harbor? But R&R isn't on the agenda when he arrives to find his sister's new enterprise on life support.

Vienna, however, may have just the skills needed to resuscitate the foundering B&B--if Matt can convince her to hang around long enough to mend an inn . . . and his heart.

What are you waiting on this week?

Review: To Enchant a Lady's Heart

To Enchant a Lady's Heart by Robin Lee Hatcher
My rating: 💛💛💛

For a novella, the story was well rounded and then characters well developed.

I enjoyed my time in this Victorian era where characters had to face challenges of social expectations versus deciding their own future happiness.

*I listened to this on Everand.*

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About the book:

He has nothing to offer. She has everything to lose.

Despite the dishonorable circumstances of his own birth, Adam Faulkner has never begrudged his half-brother Sebastian's legitimate position as the Viscount Willowthorpe. Having a title and everything that goes with it never mattered to Adam—until “everything” became the hand of Miss Eliza Southwick. Adam knows, as the stable manager at Hooke Manor, he shouldn’t hope to wed a well-born miss. After all, enchanting such a lady’s heart would take a true gentleman…something he is not.

Eliza Southwick loves horses more than society and doesn't care a whit about status or titles. But her father has set his sights on the Viscount Willowthorpe for his future son-in-law and has brought his daughter to Hooke Manor in hopes of arranging a marriage contract. When a spark first kindled during a chance meeting between Eliza and Adam grows stronger, she doesn’t dare tell her father how she feels. He will disown her entirely if she fails to do his will, and the cost of following her heart has never seemed higher.

Can two people from such different walks of life find a way to be together?

About the author:

Robin Lee Hatcher is the author of over 85 novels and novellas with over five million copies of her books in

print. She is known for her heartwarming and emotionally charged stories of faith, courage, and love. Her numerous awards include the RITA® Award, Christy Award, Carol Award, HOLT Medallion, National Reader’s Choice Award, and the Faith, Hope & Love Reader’s Choice Award, and she is also the recipient of prestigious Lifetime Achievement Awards from both American Christian Fiction Writers and Romance Writers of America®. When not writing, she enjoys being with her family, spending time in the beautiful Idaho outdoors, Bible art journaling, reading books that make her cry, watching romantic movies, and decorative planning. A mother and grandmother, Robin makes her home on the outskirts of Boise, sharing it with a demanding Papillon dog and a persnickety tuxedo cat.

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