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! I hope your week is off to a good start. This week’s pick is another anticipated read for the first quarter of the year. I mostly picked this one because I was in a purple mood, and you can’t get much purpler than this cover and of course the dragon. This is the second book in a duology and I really enjoyed the first book, Dragonfall, so I am really excited to get my hands on this one in a few months.

Emberclaw by L.R. Lam

Publication Date: March 4, 2025

Summary from Goodreads:

The final book in a new romance epic fantasy duology, in which long-banished dragons, revered as gods, return to the mortal realm.

Arcady faces their greatest heist yet: posing as a noble student at the arcane University of Vatra. When the University announces the reinstatement of archaic trials of magic, the ever-penniless Arcady seizes the chance. If they win, they not only prove their worth, but the scholarship will give them more time to unlock secrets and reveal, once and for all, that their grandsire was not the Plaguebringer. Yet grief still leaves Arcady broken, and when they close their eyes, they dream of a certain dragon.

Everen, once the hope of dragons, is now hated by his kind. When he is eventually released from his prison, the Queen is clear: while he may help protect the island from wraith attacks, he is no longer a prince of the realm. As he struggles to find his place in Vere Celene, visions of the past, the future, and tantalizing glimpses of Arcady still haunt him. If he steers the wrong path through fate’s storm, he may never be able to create a future where both humans and dragons live in harmony.

Arcady soon realizes that to survive the rising threats from both their old life and their new one, they must use every trick at their disposal—even magic stolen from a dragon they thought dead. And as time runs out before an ancient danger awakens, Everen must fight his way back to Arcady, earn their forgiveness, and learn what it truly means to be an Emberclaw.

I’ve been checking Netgalley on a regular basis hoping this one would show up as available, and when I checked today it finally was. I’ve made a request for it, so hopefully I will be able to read it before March. But I am also ok with the wait. Have any of you read the first book? Let me know in the comments. Until next time…