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. Mine has been ok so far, I’m almost done with my christmas shopping and if the weather holds I hope to finish the decorating as well. After that I can relax and just enjoy the time to read.

This week’s pick is one I have featured before, but it was a while ago. But I have picked it again because it is getting a new fancy hardcover release next year and it looks so pretty I couldn’t help but pick it again. Plus it is the last book in the World of the White Rat series that I haven’t yet read.

Swordheart by T. Kingfisher

Originally published: November 2018

New Edition: February 25, 2025

Summary:

Halla has unexpectedly inherited the estate of the wealthy distant uncle she’s been caring for for the past decade. Unfortunately, she is also saddled with money-hungry relatives full of devious plans for how to wrest the inheritance away from her.

While hiding in her bedroom to escape her family, Halla inspects the ancient sword that’s been collecting dust on the wall since before she moved in. On a whim, she pulls it down and unsheaths it—and suddenly a man appears in her bedroom. His name is Sarkis, he tells her, and he is an immortal warrior trapped in a prison of enchanted steel.

Sarkis is sworn to protect whoever wields the sword, and for Halla—a most unusual wielder—he finds himself not fending off grand armies and deadly assassins but instead everything from kindly-seeming bandits to roving inquisitors to her own in-laws. But as Halla and Sarkis become closer, they overlook the biggest threat of all—the sword itself.

I am hoping to read this one sometime this month. Or possibly listen to it, or maybe both. We shall see. In the meantime,