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.

I love December! I love all of the holiday lights on houses and the snow in the mountains. It is such a fun time. But I especially love curling up in front of the fire on a cold winter day or night and reading while sipping hot chocolate! For this week’s pick I decided to look for books with a winter theme. I think you will like the one I found.

Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea #1) by H.M. Long

Publication Date: July 11, 2023

Summary from Goodreads:

Mary Firth is a Stormsinger: a woman whose voice can still hurricanes and shatter armadas. Faced with servitude to pirate lord Silvanus Lirr, Mary offers her skills to his arch-rival in exchange for protection – and, more importantly, his help sending Lirr to a watery grave. But her new ally has a vendetta of his own, and Mary’s dreams are dark and full of ghistings, spectral creatures who inhabit the ancient forests of her homeland and the figureheads of ships.

Samuel Rosser is a disgraced naval officer serving aboard The Hart, an infamous privateer commissioned to bring Lirr to justice. He will stop at nothing to capture Lirr, restore his good name and reclaim the only thing that stands between himself and madness: a talisman stolen by Mary.

Finally, driven into the eternal ice at the limits of their world, Mary and Samuel must choose their loyalties and battle forces older and more powerful than the pirates who would make them slaves.

Come sail the Winter Sea, for action-packed, high-stakes adventures, rich characterisation and epic plots full of intrigue and betrayal.

I have seen some good reviews for this one and I always love a good pirate story. I also usually enjoy weather related magic systems so this should be a good combo for me. I’ve already put it on hold at the library, so depending on how quickly it gets to me I might be able to read it this month. Until next time….