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 a super busy weekend so I just decided that I would stick to my theme of winterish books for this week’s post. This week’s pick is a book is the fourth book in a series that I have yet to read. I’m not sure I will get around to reading it anytime soon. It has been so long since I read the other three that I am pretty sure I won’t remember much. I vaguely remember having this issue when I read the third book, which makes me hesitate to pick this one up. I would really like to finish the series, I do have fond memories of liking the the first two books and want to know what happened.
Winterkeep (Graceling Realm #4) by Kristin Cashore
Publication Date: January 19, 2021
Summary from Goodreads:
Four years after Bitterblue left off, a new land has been discovered to the east: Torla; and the closest nation to Monsea is Winterkeep. Winterkeep is a land of miracles, a democratic republic run by people who like each other, where people speak to telepathic sea creatures, adopt telepathic foxes as pets, and fly across the sky in ships attached to balloons.
But when Bitterblue’s envoys to Winterkeep drown under suspicious circumstances, she and Giddon and her half sister, Hava, set off to discover the truth–putting both Bitterblue’s life and Giddon’s heart to the test when Bitterbue is kidnapped. Giddon believes she has drowned, leaving him and Hava to solve the mystery of what’s wrong in Winterkeep.
Lovisa Cavenda is the teenage daughter of a powerful Scholar and Industrialist (the opposing governing parties) with a fire inside her that is always hungry, always just nearly about to make something happen. She is the key to everything, but only if she can figure out what’s going on before anyone else, and only if she’s willing to transcend the person she’s been all her life.
I really love that cover and I really do have good memories about the series. I just might have to focus on reading the whole series sometime next year I think. Especially because there is a fifth book that came out in October. I think the fourth and fifth books are more or less standalones set in the Graceling world, but I still think I would like to start at the beginning again. I don’t know, I will just have to see how things work out and my mood in the coming months.
Until Next Time….
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