Dark Fantasy & Dark Romance | Weekly Reading №134
Ich konnte seit letzter Woche Lore beenden. Alles in allem ein gutes Buch, mit viel Spannung und tollen Wendungen. Doch für ein Young Adult – Buch war es eindeutig ZU gewalttätig und viel ZU lang. Denn neben vielen echt blutigen Szenen waren mir auch zu viele Lückenfüller drin, die die Handlung unnötig in die Länge gezogen haben.
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Welches Buch liest du gerade und auf welcher Seite bist du?
Ich lese gerade The Throne of Broken Gods von Amber V. Nicole und bin auf bei 4/772 (1%).

Series: Gods & Monsters #2
Published: 18. January 2024 by Headline Eternal
Format: Paperback, 772 pages/minutes
Genre: Dark Fantasy, Enemies to Lovers, Gods, High Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Vampires
ISBN-13: 9781035414536
Language: English
Audience: Adult
Shelve: Currently Reading
Link to Goodreads
WHERE THERE ARE GODS, THERE ARE ALSO MONSTERS . . .
When I burn this world to embers, and you paint me as the villain, remember,
I really did try to be good . . . once.Dianna is hellbent on revenge. As the last shred of her humanity is ripped from her, she decides to embrace her monstrous side and set the worlds alight.
Samkiel alone refuses to believe that she has become the monster that everyone else sees, and he'll do anything in his power to save her from herself, even if it means losing her.
With every realm now at risk from Kaden's army, and a myriad of new threats on the horizon, Samkiel can't afford to let his guard down. And as Dianna's thirst for blood only increases, he is running out of time to save them both . . .
Don't miss the first book in this series, THE BOOK OF AZRAEL and look out for Book 3 coming soon . . .
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Ich lese gerade Wonder von Evelyn Flood und bin auf Seite 36/258 (14%).

Series: Forbidden Fairytales #3
Published: 29. August 2024 by Independently Published
Format: Kindle Edition, 258 pages/minutes
Genre: Contemporary, Dark Romance, Fairy Tales, Retelling, Reverse Harem
ASIN: B0CW16LBY2
Language: English
Audience: Adult
Shelve: Currently Reading
Link to Goodreads
Red tilts her head, a question in her eyes. “He’s quite mad, you know.”
I don’t bother to hide the smirk that stretches my lips, showing her my teeth. “All the best people are.”I wasn’t expecting to find a man whilst drowning my sorrows and hiding from my responsibilities in the filthiest bar in the city.
Hatter is elusive, beautiful… and sad.
Tempting enough to make me throw my usual caution aside and steal him.
Just for a night.
One night, to help us both forget.I expected him to leave me. But I didn’t expect the invitation he left behind.
Wonder.
The most exclusive club in the city. Always moving, never discovered, and impossible to enter without permission. So naturally, I stole it. Except Wonder isn’t quite what the whispers say. Once you enter, you can’t leave without permission.
Red runs Wonder with an iron fist, a calculating mind and possession in her gaze. And when I find myself in the middle of Red’s games, I’ll need to use every skill I have to keep me and the men around me alive.
She likes to collect broken things. Maybe I’m the most shattered of them all.
But Hatter, Buck, Aiden, Kayden and Chess won’t let me fall. They shine a light on my nightmares, offering a shield against the grief that haunts me even as I rip theirs apart in return.
Red thinks she’s facing Alyss Lidell.
I’m much, much more than that.
This is a standalone contemporary, why choose retelling of Alice in Wonderland with five morally grey men and an FMC who fights for what she wants.
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Ich höre gerade The Songbird & the Heart of Stone von Carissa Broadbent und bin bei 11h 23min/13h 44min (83%).

Series: Crowns of Nyaxia (Audible Audio) #3
Narrator: Aiden Snow, Amanda Leigh Cobb
Published: 19. November 2024 by Podium Audio
Format: Audible Audio, 824 pages/minutes
Genre: High Fantasy, Romance, Vampires
Language: English
Audience: Adult
Shelve: Currently Listening
Link to Goodreads
In the descent to the underworld, a bride of the sun must choose between the light of her redemption… or a dark love that defies the gods themselves
Mische lost everything when she was forcibly Turned into a vampire – her home, her humanity, and most devastating of all, the love of the sun god to whom she had devoted her life. Now, sentenced to death for murdering the vampire prince who Turned her, redemption feels impossible.
But when Mische is saved by Asar, the bastard prince of the House of Shadow with a past as brutal as his scars, she’s forced into a mission worse than execution: a journey to the underworld to resurrect the god of death himself.
Yet, Mische’s punishment may be the key to her salvation. In a secret meeting, her sun god commands her to help Asar in his mission, only to betray him… by killing the very death god she’ll help resurrect.
Mische and Asar must travel the treacherous path to the underworld, facing trials, beasts, and the vengeful ghosts of their pasts. Yet, most dangerous of all is the alluring call of the darkness – and her forbidden attraction to Asar, a burgeoning bond that risks invoking the wrath of gods.
As her betrayal looms, the underworld closes in and angry gods are growing restless. Mische will be forced to choose between the redemption of the sun or the damnation of the darkness.
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Wie lautet der erste Satz auf deiner aktuellen Seite?
It had been twenty thousand, one hundred and sixty minutes since she left, and I had counted every single one.

I keep the plain black mask on as I stride toward the door of the seemingly empty warehouse.
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Was willst du unbedingt zu deinem aktuellen Buch loswerden?
The Throne of Broken Gods
Heute Morgen zum Kaffee habe ich das Buch aufgeschlagen und die ersten Seiten gelesen. Wieder zurück in die Welt von Onuna zu reisen und Diana und Samkiel’s Geschichte weiter zu verfolgen, ist grandios. Anfang des Monats habe ich ja den ersten Band beendet, der mich richtig umgehauen hat. Bei der Dicke des Buches glaube ich allerdings nicht, dass ich es diesen Monat noch beenden werde. Und wenn mich das Buch bis zur Hälfte begeistern kann, werde ich auch den dritten Band direkt einziehen lassen. 😍
Wonder
Das ist der dritte Band der Forbidden Fairytales Collection und die Geschichten können getrennt voneinander gelesen werden. Nachdem ich das Buch begonnen hatte, ist mir aufgefallen, dass ich das falsche eBook geöffnet hatte. Da ich eigentlich mit dem zweiten Buch weitermachen wollte. Hier handelt es sich um eine Dark Romance Story, die vage eine Art Retelling zu Alice im Wunderland ist.
The Songbird & the Heart of Stone
Während mich die ersten beiden Bände der Crowns of Nyaxia noch wirklich gut gefallen haben, weiß ich aktuell nicht, was ich von diesem dritten Band halten soll. Zum einen ist die Stimmlage der Sprecherin für Mische echt nervig, da sie verdammt viel Gejammere reinlegt. Die Sprecherin hat mir bei den anderen beiden Bänden eindeutig besser gefallen.
Auch habe ich bei bereits 83% des Hörbuches noch keine Zugang zu den beiden Hauptprotas gefunden. Deswegen weiß ich nicht, ob ich hier auch das Buch lesen werde.

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