Welcome to WWW Wednesday! This meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived on Taking on a World of Words. Just answer the three questions below and leave a link to your post in the comments for others to look at. No blog? No problem! Just leave a comment with your responses. Please take some time to visit the other participants and see what others are reading. So, let’s get to it!
- What am I currently reading?
- What did I just finish?
- What am I reading next?
Currently Reading
I love the main character from A Curious Beginning, and I’m still reading the book when I have a moment. And I read The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence while I was on the cruise, so I’m looking forward to starting book 2 – The Book That Broke The World – today!
Daytime book (physical book)
- Genre: Mystery
- Pages: 337
- Publisher: Berkley
- Publication Date: March 12, 2024
The New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries returns once more to Victorian England and introduces intrepid adventuress Veronica Speedwell….
London, 1887. After burying her spinster aunt, orphaned Veronica Speedwell is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry—and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as with fending off admirers, Veronica intends to embark upon the journey of a lifetime.
But fate has other plans when Veronica thwarts her own attempted abduction with the help of an enigmatic German baron, who offers her sanctuary in the care of his friend Stoker, a reclusive and bad-tempered natural historian. But before the baron can reveal what he knows of the plot against her, he is found murdered—leaving Veronica and Stoker on the run from an elusive assailant as wary partners in search of the villainous truth.
Nighttime book (digital book)
- Genre: Fantasy
- Pages: 384 pages
- Publisher: Berkley
- Publication Date: April 9, 2024
Two people living in a world connected by an immense and mysterious library must fight for those they love in the second book in a new trilogy from the international bestselling author of The Book That Wouldn’t Burn.
The Library spans worlds and times. It touches and joins distant places. It is memory and future. And amid its vastness Evar Eventari both found, and lost, Livira Page.
Evar has been forced to flee the library, driven before an implacable foe. Livira, trapped in a ghost world, has to recover the book she wrote—one which is the only true threat to the library’s existence—if she’s to return to her life.
While Evar’s journey leads him outside into a world he’s never seen, Livira’s path will taker her deep inside her own writing, where she must wrestle with her stories in order to reclaim the volume in which they were written.
The secret war that defines the library has chosen its champions and set them on the board. The time has come when they must fight for what they believe, or lose everything.
Just Finished
I should have finished She’s Not Sorry by Mary Kubica last night, and I will try to update this post when I get the chance. But I can say this – She’s Not Sorry really took me by surprise in all the best ways but then I always love a Mary Kubica thriller.
- Genre: Psychological Thriller
- Pages: 352
- Publisher: Park Row/HTP Books
- Publication Date: April 2, 2024
An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient’s frightening past in this chilling thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Local Woman Missing and Just the Nicest Couple.
Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom to a teenage daughter and working as a full time nurse. While on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, having jumped from a bridge and plunging over twenty feet to the train tracks below.
But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin pushed and if so, by whom and why?
Meghan has always tried to stay emotionally detached from her patients, but this time, she mistakenly lets herself get too close until she’s deeply entangled in Caitlin’s and her family’s lives. Only when it’s too late, does she realize that she and her daughter could be the next victims.
Reading Next
I don’t know what to expect with either The Enchanting Case of Spirits or Granite Harbor but I do think they both look good. It was the paranormal aspect of The Enchanting Case that drew my attention and Celadon Books surprise sent me Granite Harbor, so I’m curious.
Nighttime Book (digital book)
- Genre: Paranormal Romance
- Pages: 368 pages
- Publisher: Berkley
- Publication Date: April 9, 2024
When a fortieth birthday celebration leads to a ghostly visitor, four friends find themselves navigating surprising mysteries and spiritual hijinks, in this clever debut from Melissa Holtz.
Alyssa Mann isn’t adventurous, not since her husband died and she found herself the single mom of a teenage daughter. But there’s no way to avoid celebrating the big 4-0, so when her best friends drag her out for drinks and a tarot reading, she throws caution to the wind and decides to see what the spirits have to say. It’s all fun and games, until she wakes up the next morning with a wicked hangover—and a ghost perched on the edge of her bed.
Sheer panic sends her running to get help from Nick West, the (very attractive) detective who lives next door. When he finds no one inside, Alyssa has to accept that she really did see a ghost. As the dearly departed keep appearing, Alyssa and her friends do their best to learn how to control her newfound power. Trading insults with ghosts, tracking down family heirlooms, and getting closer to the skeptical but helpful Nick is more fun than Alyssa imagined. But when looking into one ghost’s past reveals unexpected—and unwelcome—facts about Alyssa’s late husband’s death, she discovers she just may be in over her head.
Daytime Book (physical book)
- Genre: Mystery
- Pages: 320 pages
- Publisher: Celadon Books
- Publication Date: April 30, 2024
Isabel, a single mother attempting to support her family while healing from her own demons, finds herself in the middle of the case when she begins working at the Settlement. Her son, Ethan, and Alex’s daughter, Sophie, were best friends with the victim. When a second teenager is found murdered, the body left in the same manner as the first victim, both parents are terrified that their child may be next. As Alex and Isabel race to find the killer in their midst, the town’s secrets—past and present—begin bubbling to the surface, threatening to unravel the tight-knit community.
In scenic Granite Harbor, life has continued on—quiet and serene—for decades. That is until a local teenager is found brutally murdered in the Settlement, the town’s historic archaeological site. Alex Brangwen, adjusting to life as a single father with a failed career as a novelist, is the town’s sole detective. This is his first murder case and, as both a parent and detective, Alex knows the people of Granite Harbor are looking to him to catch the killer and temper the fear that has descended over the town.
At once a page-turning thriller and a captivating portrait of the social fabric of a small town, Granite Harbor evokes the atmosphere of HBO’s Mare of Easttown with a villain reminiscent of Thomas Harris’s Silence of the Lambs.
A small town in coastal Maine is shaken to its core by a serial killer in this crime novel from Peter Nichols, bestselling author of The Rocks
What are you reading? Do you love it?
23 responses to “WWW Wednesday | Books I Am Reading This Week – March 20, 2024 #wwwwednesday #ReadersCommunity #BookTwitter #BookLover”
As someone on the lookout for a solid quirky paranormal book, An Enchanting Case of Spirits looks fantastic.
I’m looking forward to reading it 💕
I read a Curious Beginning last year and really liked the character of Veronica. I haven’t managed to pick up any of the others though.
The character is so independent and so unapologetic- I definitely feel a kinship to that mindset 😇
Reading whilst cruising sounds great, hope you had a good time!
It was a happy place for me 💕
An Enchanting Case of Spirits sounds so cute! I’m gonna have to add that one to my TBR!
I’m curious to read it for sure!
I also enjoyed the main character in A Curious Beginning but I’m afraid I wasn’t overly thrilled with how this first book in the series ended. I hope you like it more than I did.
Now you have me intrigued.
I hope you enjoy your current reads! I am hoping to finish The Rom-Commers today.
Did you like it?
It was good but a bit disappointing.
Several of these have me intrigued, and I love the cover for Granite Harbor.
I just started reading The Perfect Sister from Net Galley. So far it’s good with some hiccups.
It’s a gorgeous cover. It photographs stunningly! I did a photo from the cruise ship of it and it’s my favorite photo of the whole bunch. I hear it’s very good and surprisingly creepy.
I am SO happy that you are enjoying Veronica!!! <3 It’s such a fun series. 🙂
She’s definitely a woman after my own heart 😇
The Book That Broke the World sounds interesting. Happy reading!
I’m echoing Jacquie, The Book that Broke the World sounds fantastical, right up my alley, but it looks like there’s one before that in the series? Even more. Noice!
That’s great news about the Kubica book and Granite Harbor looks so good! Hope you’re having fun💜
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Something we have in common is that we both read a wide variety of genres. All of these look good!