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.
Happy Monday everyone! This week’s pick is a book that I was recently approved for on NetGalley. It is the long awaited sequel to one of my favorite books from 2022. It has been a long wait for many. I doesn’t come out until early July, so still a bit of a wait, but I am sure it will be just as good as the first one.
The Undermining of Twyla and Frank by Megan Bannen
Publication Date: July 2, 2024
Summary from Goodreads:
The entire town of Eternity was shocked when widowed, middle-aged Twyla Banneker partnered up with her neighbor and best friend, Frank Ellis, to join the Tanrian Marshals. Eight years later, Twyla and Frank are still patrolling the dangerous land of Tanria, the former prison of the Old Gods.
Twyla might look like a small town mom who brings cheesy potatoes to funerals and whips up a batch of cookies for the school bake sale, but her rewarding career in law enforcement has been a welcome change from the domestic grind of mom life, despite the misgivings of her grown children.
Fortunately (or unfortunately) a recent decrease in on-the-job peril has made Twyla and Frank’s job a lot safer … and a lot less exciting. So when they discover the body of one of their fellow marshals covered in liquid glitter–and Frank finds himself the inadvertent foster dad to a baby dragon–they are more than happy to be back on the beat.
Soon, the friends wind up ensnared in a nefarious plot that goes far deeper than any lucrative Tanrian mineshaft. But as the danger closes in and Twyla and Frank’s investigation becomes more complicated, so does their easy friendship. And Twyla starts to realize that her true soul mate might just be the person who has lived next door all along…
Doesn’t that sound like so much fun! I loved the first book set in the world, The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy, and I am positive this will be just as wonderful. The world these two books take place in, was one of the most interesting worlds I’ve ever read. I don’t think you have to have read the first book to enjoy this one, but you have the time till this one to do so, so get to it! Until next time…
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