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
In this prequel to Auguries of Dawn, thief Aris Sylvain arrives upon the mages’ Isle of Venaris Sheea, determined to locate and steal the legendary Catalyst Stone hidden there. Knowing his daughter’s life hinges completely on his success or failure, he has vowed to do whatever necessary to escape with the Sapphire Stone.
But Aris’s actions do not go unnoticed. Young waterdancer Synna Dacyn, along with fellow mage Villian Anand, are quick to take up his trail, tracking him from the island and into the streets of Tyrell, just days before the city is set to begin its annual Ardin’s Pride festival.
What I am reading Monday and Tuesday:
Sent by Dhanen’Mar’s royal jester, assassin Callan Ashe and thief Tishan Ravare arrive in Veron and find themselves drawn into a storm of political mayhem.
As each dawn brings Veron’s king closer to death, four men vie for the hand of his eldest daughter in hopes of gaining the throne. Upon discovering their own target’s agenda in the affair, Callan and Tishan soon come to realize that the plots they came north to uncover run far deeper than they’d ever imagined.
Summoned by the ancient diviner Danetria Savannon, allies from across Dhanen’Mar gather at the Spindle to confer on the rising peril. With threat of the Catalyst Stones growing more dire, and the deeper motivations of the enemy remaining unknown, those determined to protect the realm begin forming their strategies for defense.
In the royal city of Aralexia, Devlin Alvik continues gathering confederates while attempting to penetrate the enemy’s inner circles. Uncovering numerous threats brewing against the crown, he fears he’s nearly out of time to implement his own schemes, those designed to protect and shield all Dhanen’Mar.
Escape Into Reading 