WWW Wednesday 6.5.24

This weekly meme is hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words and all you need to do to participate is answer the following three questions.

What are you currently reading?

This is a dark enemies to lover romance that I’m enjoying. I’m about 25% through and I’m curious what could possibly happen in the remaining 75%.

What have you recently finished?

I gave B is for Burglar, The Ex Hex and Look in the Mirror four stars. I will have a full review for Look in the Mirror next month, closer to its publication date.

I did not rate and I do not recommend Dead Inside. It is an extreme horror novel that I’m not even sure why it was written. I love horror because I think it’s fun to be scared and I don’t mind when author’s push the boundaries but this book had no boundaries. And was just gratuitous with no overall theme.

I gave five stars to A Dowry of Blood and Butcher and Blackbird. Both had amazing writing with characters that I loved. Check the trigger warnings for both! And I highly recommend the audio for both but especially Butcher and Blackbird.

What do you think you’ll read next?

I’m still hoping to read The Tearsmith soon but it’s getting close to the time when my bookclub meets so I need to start our June book.

A mindbending, relentlessly surprising thriller from the author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy. 

Jason Dessen is walking home through the chilly Chicago streets one night, looking forward to a quiet evening in front of the fireplace with his wife, Daniela, and their son, Charlie—when his reality shatters.

“Are you happy with your life?”

Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. 

Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. 

Before a man Jason’s never met smiles down at him and says, “Welcome back, my friend.” 

In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.

Is it this world or the other that’s the dream? 

And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could’ve imagined—one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe.

Dark Matter is a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human–a relentlessly surprising science-fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we’ll go to claim the lives we dream of.