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.

For this week’s choice I am still looking back at all of the lovely books that were published this year, but I have yet to read! So many books, so little time. This week’s pick is one that only recently came to my attention but was released in March. It is a dark academia, with a mystery and is also a young adult book. It sounds really good and might be one I pick up soon.

A Door in the Dark by Scott Reintgen

Publication Date: March 28, 2023

Summary from Goodreads:

Ren Monroe has spent four years proving she’s one of the best wizards in her generation. But top marks at Balmerick University will mean nothing if she fails to get recruited into one of the major houses. Enter Theo Brood. If being rich were a sin, he’d already be halfway to hell. After a failed and disastrous party trick, fate has the two of them crossing paths at the public waxway portal the day before holidays—Theo’s punishment is to travel home with the scholarship kids. Which doesn’t sit well with any of them.

A fight breaks out. In the chaos, the portal spell malfunctions. All six students are snatched from the safety of the school’s campus and set down in the middle of nowhere. And one of them is dead on arrival.

If anyone can get them through the punishing wilderness with limited magical reserves it’s Ren. She’s been in survival mode her entire life. But no magic could prepare her for the tangled secrets the rest of the group is harboring, or for what’s following them through the dark woods…

I just love that cover! I hope the inside lives up to it. A quick perusal of the reviews and it is sort of a mixed bag, but the majority seem to be favorable. This might be a hidden gem waiting to be discovered. I certainly hope so.

Until next time…