It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a meme hosted at The Book Date where bloggers look at what they’re currently reading and what’s up next in their TBR!
So, why did I disappear for a week? Well, I fell ill and didn’t feel up to blogging. That’s basically it. Not all that dramatic, but it did mean I couldn’t go and visit my boyfriend this weekend, and I missed meeting Garth Nix, my favourite author! So it was a pretty crappy week last week.
I’m back now though and determined to do a bit of blog hopping this week to catch up on what everyone has been up to.
Anyway, what have I been reading?
What I Read Last Week
As part of Lauren’s Halloween Read-A-Thon, I read and reviewed horror classic I Am Legend. Whilst it was quite different to the Will Smith film adaptation, I thought the book was actually better overall. Check out my review here!
I Am Legend:
What I’m Currently Reading
I’m still reading my second and final book for the Halloween Read-A-Thon, Dawn Kurtagich’s YA psychological horror The Dead House. It’s been a week since I started it and I’m plodding on, partly because I was ill and didn’t read for three days, and partly because I’ve been a little underwhelmed.
To put it simply, it’s just not scary enough and I think the plot is currently a little all over the place. I have about a quarter of the book left to go so I’ll have to see how it all wraps up. It’s certainly not a bad book, but there’s definitely room for improvement.
Up Next
I had actually been planning on reading V.E. Schwab’s A Darker Shade of Magic but I’m putting that on hold as I remembered I still have an ARC of Gilded Cage to read. I grabbed a physical copy at YALC this year and I was so excited.
The e-book is due for release this December and the paperback in January so I better get round to reading and reviewing to help you guys decide on whether you want to give it a go! I’ve heard great things from other ARC reviewers so far so I have high hopes for this book.
Have you read any of these books? Did you enjoy them? Or do you want to read them? And how has everyone’s week been? I’ve missed the book blogging community!
I can’t wait to hear what you think of The Gilded Cage, as I have an eARC of that also.💁🏻
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Oooh I’m excited to hear what you think of it too! So far, I’ve only seen glowing reviews so I’m expecting great things. I hope you enjoy it!
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Gilded cage has a beautiful cover. 🙂
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It does! Especially the UK cover, I’m not so keen on the gold American one, I prefer the simpler cover. 🙂
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It’s definitely the simpler cover that I liked.
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I’m sorry that you missed meeting Garth Nix, but I hope you are feeling better now 🙂
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Thank you! I was so annoyed I couldn’t meet him but I suppose he’ll tour again in the future and by then I’ll have even more books for him to sign haha! 🙂
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I have a copy of Gilded Cage. I can’t wait to read it. I’m so torn about how long I want to wait to read it since the pub date is February. I was thinking December. I hope you like it. 🙂
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Yeah I’ve been torn too! But I know the ebook is out 1st December so I thought I should probably read my ARC for then. Hope you enjoy it too! 🙂
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I really enjoyed I Am Legend, especially the ending – definitely better than the film version!
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Yes same here! I wasn’t expecting the book to go in that direction and it was really exciting. Glad you enjoyed it too!
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I’m sorry you weren’t well and I’m especially sorry that you missed meeting Garth Nix!!!! That’s awful!
The Gilded Cage is on my TBR and I’m interested to see what you think of it.
Hope you have a better week this week!
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Aww thank you! I was so annoyed but he’ll probably tour sometime again in the future and I’ll have even more books for him to sign then haha! I just started Gilded Cage today and I’m enjoying it. Really liked the opening so fingers crossed the rest of it is good. It’ll be good to hear what you think of it too! And thanks again!
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