Happy Sunday to our fellow book-lovers and Happy Canada Day to all of our Canadian friends!
We here at The Book Hookup hope you’ve managed to squeeze in a great book or two this week, but maybe you haven’t had the chance. Perhaps you’ve been too busy, possibly the books we rec’ed this week didn’t quite catch your eye, or just maybe you’ve been having trouble deciding which lucky one gets to earn the coveted currently reading slot on your Goodreads shelf.
Never fear, though; we’ll always be here to whisper in your ear and put you on the perfect path to the right book. To help you along, each Sunday we’ll spotlight a particular genre and tell you about few books that are flying off the racks (real or virtual) at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
This week’s What’s Hot Spotlight is:
Fairy Tales, Myths, & Fables
- At B&N:
Cinder (Lunar Chronicles #1) by Marissa Meyer
***Bestseller in Young Adult***
From Publisher: Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, the ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. . . .
Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.
Jag and Ana reviewed this title, it can be found here.
Shadow and Bone (The Grisha Trilogy #1) by Leigh Bardugo
***Bestseller in Young Adult***
From Publisher: Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.
Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.
Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha…and the secrets of her heart.
The Girl of Fire and Thorns (Fire and Thorns #1) by Rae Carson
***Bestseller in Young Adult***
From Publisher: Elisa is the chosen one.
But she is also the younger of two princesses, the one who has never done anything remarkable. She can’t see how she ever will.
Now, on her sixteenth birthday, she has become the secret wife of a handsome and worldly king—a king whose country is in turmoil. A king who needs the chosen one, not a failure of a princess.
And he’s not the only one who seeks her. Savage enemies seething with dark magic are hunting her. A daring, determined revolutionary thinks she could be his people’s savior. And he looks at her in a way that no man has ever looked at her before. Soon it is not just her life, but her very heart that is at stake.
Elisa could be everything to those who need her most. If the prophecy is fulfilled. If she finds the power deep within herself. If she doesn’t die young.
Most of the chosen do.
- At Amazon:
Evergreen (Mer Tales #2) by Brenda Pandos
***Bestseller in Young Adult***
From Publisher: A kingdom on the brink of war.
A king on the fringes of insanity.
A family running for their lives.Ash and Fin’s only desire is to be together and dive into their happily ever after, though their conflicting worlds work to pull them apart. Neither is ready to convert to the other’s life: become a human or a mer. Little do they know that somewhere in Natatoria a secret holds the fine fabric of everyone’s lives together. If the truth is discovered, Ash and Fin will no longer have the luxury of waiting. They’ll be forced to choose. But will it be for loyalty or love? Or will someone else make the choice for them if they can’t decide?
Enter the watery world of treachery, greed, and the binding mer kiss as the story continues with Evergreen, book two of Mer Tales.
The Enchantress (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel #6) by Michael Scott
***Bestseller in Young Adult***
From Publisher: The sixth and final book in the New York Times bestselling series The Secrets of the Nicholas Flamel—The Enchantress
The two that are one must become the one that is all. One to save the world, one to destroy it.
San Francisco:
Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel have one day left to live, and one job left to do. They must defend San Francisco. The monsters gathered on Alcatraz Island have been released and are heading toward the city. If they are not stopped, they will destroy everyone and everything in their path.But even with the help of two of the greatest warriors from history and myth, will the Sorceress and the legendary Alchemyst be able to defend the city? Or is it the beginning of the end of the human race?
Danu Talis:
Sophie and Josh Newman traveled ten thousand years into the past to Danu Talis when they followed Dr. John Dee and Virginia Dare. And it’s on this legendary island that the battle for the world begins and ends.Scathach, Prometheus, Palamedes, Shakespeare, Saint-Germain, and Joan of Arc are also on the island. And no one is sure what—or who—the twins will be fighting for.
Today the battle for Danu Talis will be won or lost.
But will the twins of legend stand together?
Or will they stand apart—
one to save the world and one to destroy it?
UnEnchanted (An Unfortunate Fairy Tale #1) by Chanda Hahn
***Bestseller in Young Adult***
From Publisher: Mina Grime is unlucky, unpopular and uncoordinated, that is until she saves her crushes life on a field trip, changing her High School status from loser to hero overnight. But with her new found fame brings misfortune in the form of an old family curse come to light. For Mina is descended from the Brothers Grimm and has inherited all of their unfinished fairy tale business. Which includes trying to outwit a powerful Story from making her it’s next fairytale victim.
To break the fairy tale curse on her family and make these deadly occurrences stop, Mina must finish the tales until the very Grimm end.
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Thanks for stopping by, and be sure to check back in tomorrow to find out which books kept the Litbrarians company this weekend.
Happy Reading!
