It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? a place to meet and share what you have been and are about to be reading over the week. It’s a great post to organize yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit, comment, and add to your groaning TBR pile! So welcome in everyone. This meme started on J Kaye’s blog and then was hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at The Book Date.
Jen Vincent, Teach Mentor Texts, and Kellee of Unleashing Readers decided to give It’s Monday! a kid-lit focus. If you read and review books in children’s literature – picture books, chapter books, middle-grade novels, young adult novels, or anything in those genres – join them.
What I am Reading Now
My life has been full of half-truths tangled in lies—I’d been to hell and back more times than I could count.
But nothing could have prepared me for the fear in her voice, and then the sight of that building going up in flames.
After the way I treated her, the way I hurt her, I’d earned that pain back tenfold. I deserved to lose the only bit of light in my dark, twisted life.
Neither of us have survived the suffering only to have it end this way and I refuse to believe that our time is done. It can’t be. Because she was made for me—the only good thing that came out of my past.
And the first chance I get, I’m going to make sure she knows exactly what she means to me.
No more lies.
No more pretending.
Just the raw, honest truth.
I can’t live without her and I’ll spend the rest of my life proving to her that she belongs with me.
That the life we were born into might have left us damaged, but it made us stronger.
And when she claims her rightful place amongst us, I’ll be by her side and together we will rule this reckless dynasty.
But first we have to survive…
What I am reading Monday and Tuesday:
I’ve lived my entire life in the shadows…
Sheltered yet painfully aware of the haunting reality of who my family really is.
I’m tired of being the good girl— of doing everything I’m told. Halloween seems like the perfect time to explore my hidden desires.
And that’s exactly how I end up in the arms of a masked mystery guy.
He doesn’t handle me like glass. He takes exactly what he wants and gives me everything I didn’t know I needed— until he vanishes into the darkness leaving me with one burning question…
Who was my mysterious knight that introduced me to the dark side?
She’s the mafia princess he was meant to stay away from.
And he did.
Until that one night when he was able to hide his identity and his darkness under a different kind of mask.
But one taste wasn’t enough.
Only the next time their paths cross, his inner demon is truly exposed.
Can she handle it, or will his darkness send her running back to her castle and smothered life?
Escape Into Reading 