WWW Wednesday | May 31st

Here I am, back with another WWW Wednesday. Read the full post to see what I’m reading, and don’t hesitate to participate! I’m back! I’m excited to start blogging and reading more.

This format was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived by Sam at Taking on a World of Words.

To participate, you just have to answer these questions:

  • What are you currently reading?
  • What did you recently finish reading?
  • What do you think youโ€™ll read next?

What are you currently reading

I am currently reading Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. I have heard so many good things about this boo, I swear it’s everywhere. I’ve seen it a thousand times on BookTok as well as on Bookstagram!

Synopsis

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

But when youโ€™re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away…because dragons donโ€™t bond to โ€œfragileโ€ 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 motherโ€™s daughterโ€”like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.

Sheโ€™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.


What did you recently finish reading

I finished the The Fiancee Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur. It was a little disappointing. I expected something more from this promising synopsis.

Synopsis

Tansy Adamsโ€™ greatest love is her familyโ€™s bookstore, passed down from her late father. But when it comes to actual romanceโ€ฆ Tansy canโ€™t get past the first chapter. Tired of her stepfamilyโ€™s questions about her love life, Tansy invents Gemma, a fake girlfriend inspired by the stunning cover model on a bestselling book. Theyโ€™ll never actually meet, so whatโ€™s the harm in a little fib? Yet when real-life Gemma crosses Tansyโ€™s path, her white lie nearly implodes.

Gemma van Dalen is a wild child, the outcast of her wealthy family, and now the latest heir to Van Dalen Publishing. But the title comes with one tiny condition: she must be married in order to inherit. When Gemma discovers a beautiful stranger has been pretending to date her for months, she decides to take the charade one step furtherโ€”and announces their engagement.

Gemma needs a wife to meet the terms of her grandfatherโ€™s will and Tansy needs money to save her struggling bookstore. A marriage could be mutually beneficial, if they can fool everyone into thinking itโ€™s a love match. Unexpected sparks fly as Tansy and Gemma play the role of affectionate fiancรฉes, and suddenly the line between convenient arrangement and real feelings begins to blur. But the scheming Van Dalen family wonโ€™t give up the company without a fight, and Gemma and Tansyโ€™s newfound happiness might get caught in the falloutโ€ฆ


I’ll be reading A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross!

Synopsis

Jack Tamerlaine hasnโ€™t set foot on Cadence in ten long years, content to study music at the mainland university. But when young girls start disappearing from the isle, Jack is summoned home to help find them. Enchantments run deep on Cadence: gossip is carried by the wind; plaid shawls can be as strong as armor, and the smallest cut of a knife can instil fathomless fear. The capricious spirits that rule the isle by fire, water, earth, and wind find mirth in the lives of the humans who call the land home. Adaira, heiress of the east and Jackโ€™s childhood enemy, knows the spirits only answer to a bardโ€™s music, and she hopes Jack can draw them forth by song, enticing them to return the missing girls.

As Jack and Adaira reluctantly work together, they find they make better allies than rivals as their partnership turns into something more. But with each passing song, it becomes apparent the trouble with the spirits is far more sinister than they first expected, and an older, darker secret about Cadence lurks beneath the surface, threatening to undo them all.


What are you reading? Let me know in the comments!

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