GoodReads Monday

This weekly meme was started by @Lauren’s Page Turners. It is now being hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog. To participate, choose a random book from your GoodReads TBR and show it off. Which sounds easy enough until you have to decide how to choose that book! I think I will use a different way each week, like picking a color or number of pages. I will let you know each week how I chose the book and then something interesting about it, like how it ended up on the list or why I want to read it. Got it? Okay let’s get started.

This week’s book was suppose to start with the letter ‘Q’, but I have nothing on my Want to Read shelf starting with that letter. So we are jumping to the letter ‘R’. I had lots of good ones to choose from but I finally settled on this because of the stunning cover.

The Ruined by Renee Ahdieh

The Beautiful # 4

Publication Date: December 5, 2023

Summary from Goodreads:

The stunning conclusion to the instant New York Times bestselling quartet that began with The Beautiful.

The Sylvan Vale and the Sylvan Wyld are at war. Now that the unsteady truce between them has been broken, lines must be drawn. In an effort to protect the weakened Winter Court, Bastien rallies powerful allies and friends in New Orleans to come to their aid.

Meanwhile, under protection alongside her injured mother in the Summer Court, Celine is uncertain of whom to trust. She cannot get word to Bastien, and does not understand why he has not returned. When she realizes war between the fey courts is imminent, she journeys with Ali in an effort to find the time traveling mirror and change their fate.

But when Celine’s rivals realize Bastien has rallied his allies in the mortal world, they decide to take the fight to him.

I have read and enjoyed the other novels in this series and I am looking forward to seeing how it all ends. I loved the New Orleans setting and the Fae world as well. The characters are also a lot of fun and there has been quite a few romances that I was rooting for and hope they get their happily ever afters in this final book. All of the covers for this series have been stunning, but I think this one is my favorite.