TBR Stack April 2022

March Recap

Before we dive into April’s TBR stack, let’s look at what I read in March!

In March I read twelve books: six audio books, five ebooks, and one physical book. I also DNF’d one ebook.

• Magpie’s Fall by Allison Pang (3 stars)
• The Diviners by Libba Bray (re-read, 4 stars)
• Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs (re-read, 5 stars)
• Desperate Duchesses by Eloisa James (3 stars)
• Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs (re-read, 4 stars)
• Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (re-read, 4 stars)
• The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood (4 stars)
• Dracula by Bram Stoker (4 stars)
• Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs (re-read, 4 stars)
• Bacchanal by Veronica Henry (2 stars)
• Zodiac Academy: The Awakening by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti (DNF, 1 star)
• The Thing Beneath the Stairs by Heather Elizabeth King (5 stars)
• River Marked by Patricia Briggs (re-read, 4 stars)

So for March I read another four books as a part of my Mercy-verse re-read and eight of the remaining books were on my TBR list for the month.

Library Run

This month I plan to pick up quite a few books from the public library for various reading challenges.

• Snow Like Ashes by Sara Raasch – This will be a re-read since I want to continue the series. I’ll also be using it as a part of the Creating Camelot Readathon hosted by Creating & Co. It will also fulfill a prompt for the It’s Only a Game Reading Challenge by Creating & Co.
• The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan – Believe it or not I have never ready any Percy Jackson novels. I feel like I’m a bit behind the curve with them. So I figured now was as good a time as any to start reading them. It will fulfill prompts for two reading challenges: Into the Bookverse 2022 Reading Challenge, and the Creating Camelot Readathon.
• Legendborn by Tracy Deonn – This is the group read choice for the Creating Camelot reading challenge. Though it’s been on my want to read list for a while.
• Spin Me Right Round by David Valdes – I added this book to my TBR stack to fulfill prompts for multiple reading challenges as well, including the 2022 Popsugar Reading Challenge and the Spring Reading Challenge from Creating & Co.
• Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn – I picked this one up initially for a prompt in the 2022 Popsugar Reading Challenge, but it will also nicely fit a prompt in the Creating & Co. Spring Reading Challenge.
• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao – Iron Widow was added to my TBR stack as a part of the 12 Challenge but it will also fulfill a prompt for the 2022 Popsugar Reading Challenge.
• Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo – I initially picked out this book to read for the 2022 Popsugar Reading Challenge, but it will also fulfill a prompt for the Creating & Co. Spring Reading Challenge.

Shop My Shelves

The rest of the books I plan to read this month are ones I own (whether new to the TBR stack or not).

• A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor by Kathryn Moon – This is a carry over from March’s TBR stack.
• Deceived by the Gargoyles by Lillian Lark – This is another rollover from March’s TBR stack.
• Shadow Fall by Erin Kellison – Yet another book from March’s list.
• 3 Months to No. 1 by Will Coombe – I swear this is the book that never ends. I am absolutely determined to finish it this month so that it doesn’t show up on any other monthly TBR stack posts!
• Ladycastle by Delilah S. Dawson – This was a birthday gift from my brother over a year ago now (maybe two). One of my goals to get my reads down to a manageable stack is to work my way through all of the comics I own, whether I use them as a part of a reading challenge or not. However, I will be using this for both the It’s Only a Game Reading Challenge, and the Creating Camelot Readathon.
• Wayward Vol. 1: String Theory by Jim Zub – This has also been sitting on my comics shelf for a while so I added to the monthly TBR stack as a part of the Creating Camelot Readathon.
• Bound in Stone by Stefanie Simpson – Have to add on yet another monster fucker book for the month that is not a carryover from March’s TBR stack. So that means this one! Which is also fulfilling prompts as a part of the Into the Bookverse Reading Challenge, as well as the It’s Only a Game Reading Challenge.
• Ace of Shades by Amanda Foody – This will be a re-read, but I want to tackle the whole series this time instead of waiting. I’m also using it for prompts in three different reading challenges: the Level Up Reading Challenge, the It’s Only a Game Reading Challenge, and the 2022 Popsugar Reading Challenge.
• Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse – I had wanted to read this one last year but never fit it in. So I used it to fulfill prompts in the Into the Bookverse Reading Challenge, and the 2022 Popsugar Reading Challenge.
• These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong – This will be a re-read for me as a refersher for the second book in the duology. It will also fulfill a prompt for the 2022 Popsugar Reading Challenge and for the Creating & Co. Spring Reading Challenge.

New Purchases to the TBR Stack

I may have gone a bit overboard with eighteen new books to my library. But at least I’m sort of zooming through the ones I own right now?

• The Secret of Dragonhome by John Peel – I could write an essay on this book. It was a purchase back in 1998 (when I was in elementary school) during Scholastic Book Fair week. And it was pretty much my gateway into fantasy of all types. I still have the copy I bought back in 1998, but it’s taped together because I’ve read it so much that it started falling apart. So I felt like I had to get it on Kindle. I will be reading this one this month for prompts in various reading challenges. And just because I want to.
• Elemental: Shadows of Otherside by Whitney Hill – Urban fantasy own voices by a black author? Hell yeah!
• Handjob for Mortals by Dani Harem – What can I say? I’ve been in a bit of a paranormal smut kick, and this was a 99 cent buy.
• The Slayers of Dragonhome by John Peel – I don’t plan on reading this for the month of March, but it’s getting adding to the TBR pile meaning it will show up probably sometime next month. It is the second book in the Dragonhome series and I have never read it before.
• The Siege of Dragonhome by John Peel – The final book in the Dragonhome series that I have also never read. It is also getting added to the TBR meaning it will also probably show up as a read for next month.
• The Emerald Tablet by JM Hart – This was one of those freebies Amazon offers that sucked me right in.
• Girls of Might and Magic by Various Authors – This was an anthology I saw cross my feed on Goodreads and it looked intriguing. I love anthologies beacause it helps introduce me to new authors I might like without having to completely dedicate myself to one of their books immediately.
• Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris – This has been on my “want to purchase” list for a while, and one of my co-workers was raving about it when we had some time to BS at the end of a meeting and I figured why not grab it?
• Steampunk Fantasy Adventures by Various Authors – As I just mentioned, I quite enjoy anthologies of novellas and/or short stories. However, this one ups the ante with five full-length steampunk fantasy novels! I’m looking forward to it!
• Cleopatra’s Dagger by Carole Lawrence – I’m pretty sure this one was the Amazon First read for the month of March. It was the only one that even mildly piqued my interest.
• The Goddess and the Crane by Cailee Francis – A sapphic shifter romance novella? HECK. YES. In my cart it went!
• Teach Me by Olivia Dade – This is one of the books I plan to read this month for challenge prompts, including ones in the It’s Only a Game Reading Challenge, and the Creating & Co. Spring Reading Challenge.
• Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong – As I mentioned earlier, I plan on re-reading Our Violent Delights (the first book) as a part of challenges, but also just so I could get into this one. I’m so excited! I despise Romeo and Juliet, but this retelling is so much fun so far!
• Love, Laugh, Lich by Kate Prior – Like I said, I’ve been in a bit of a paranormal smut kick.
• Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray – I made sure to pick this audio book up so that I can add it into my rotation between Patricia Briggs’ books. I’ve also heard that the rest of the books in The Diviners series are even better than the first. So I’m looking forward to it!
• Whispers in the Woods by K.C. Carmine – Another shifter romance novella. I like supporting authors that come across my Twitter feed, but also have interesting options, okay? Also LGBTQIA2S+ rep in this one!
• The Love Con by Seressia Glass – I stumbled on this one through Goodreads and it looks SUPER cute and fun!
• Queen of Shades by Eli Hinze – Another Amazon freebie that screamed “grab me!”. So I did.
• The Druid by Jeff Wheeler – This was my choice from the Amazon First reads for April. Not sure when I’ll get to it, as I’m not particularly in a high fantasy mood as of late.