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.
I had toyed with the idea of looking ahead to books I am looking forward to reading next year, but instead I think I will take a look back. So for the next few weeks I will be featuring books that came out this year, but I have not yet had a chance to read. I actually did pretty good this year, but there are still a few I missed that I hope to get to soon.
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi
Publication Date: February 14, 2023
Summary from Goodreads:
Once upon a time, a man who believed in fairy tales married a beautiful, mysterious woman named Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada. He was a scholar of myths. She was heiress to a fortune. They exchanged gifts and stories and believed they would live happily ever after—and in exchange for her love, Indigo extracted a promise: that her bridegroom would never pry into her past.
But when Indigo learns that her estranged aunt is dying and the couple is forced to return to her childhood home, the House of Dreams, the bridegroom will soon find himself unable to resist. For within the crumbling manor’s extravagant rooms and musty halls, there lurks the shadow of another girl: Azure, Indigo’s dearest childhood friend who suddenly disappeared. As the house slowly reveals his wife’s secrets, the bridegroom will be forced to choose between reality and fantasy, even if doing so threatens to destroy their marriage . . or their lives.
Combining the lush, haunting atmosphere of Mexican Gothic with the dreamy enchantment of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride is a spellbinding and darkly romantic page-turner about love and lies, secrets and betrayal, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive.
I think this one got a lot of hype around the time of its publication date, which is how it landed on my list. I think since then, I started to see a lot of mixed reviews, so it sort of slipped off the radar for awhile. I think I might just give it a chance though, it sounds really interesting and I have been a bit more into gothic tales of late.
Have any of you read this one? What did you think? Let me know in the comments!
Until next time….
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