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.

Happy Monday everyone! Hope your week is off to a great start! I was looking through my 2024 new releases list wondering what books were coming out in the next couple of months and I decided that these would be great for this weekly post. The book I choose for this week is one I have some mixed feelings about, which I will talk about in a minute. But first the book.

Sweet Nightmare by Tracy Wolff

Calder Academy #1

Publication Date: May 7, 2024

Summary from Goodreads:

The scariest school on earth
Is about to experience real fear…

Most schools are about being the best. This school? It’s about being the worst. Calder Academy is where the rogue paranormals go. The ones who break the rules or lose control. And when that happens for vamps, werewolves, witches, and dark fae? It gets pretty freaking scary.

I should know. Because I’m trapped here.

Look, every seventeen-year-old girl thinks their mom is a tyrant. But mine just happens to run Calder Academy, which paints a giant target on my back. The way I make it through these dark halls is by steering clear of the things—and kids—who go bump in the night.

Especially Jude Abernathy.

But when a freak storm hits our isolated island, I’m stuck without a backup plan. The power is gone. The lights are out. And our worst nightmares are suddenly real—and out for blood.
Now the only way to survive is to align myself with one evil to avoid the other.

And the only thing worse than the idea of getting close to Jude? Secretly loving every minute of it.

Sounds good right? So why the mixed feelings? For those of you familiar with the Katmere Academy books; Crave, Crush, Covet, Court, Charm, and Cherish you will know that this is a spin off series set in the same world. But luckily not the same characters. I loved the first few books of the Katmere series, but by the end I was pretty sick of Grace, so I am looking forward to having a new main character. Then there is the fact that when this new series was announced, I , like many people, thought it was going to be about Remy. Remy is a minor character who deserves his own book. Also at some point the book was called Sweet Vengeance which is now the title of the third book? So call me a bit confused, and all of this gives me mixed feelings about this book. But I am still willing to give it a chance, all 600 pages of it (yikes!). Luckily if it is similar to the other books, those 600 pages fly by pretty quickly.

Have you read any of the Katmere books? Are you excited for this new series? Are you as confused as I am about the whole thing? Let me know in the comments. Until next time…