Best of April

 

May!! 

Here are our bests of last month!

Best Book of the Month:

Blodeuedd -  Birdbox by Josh Malerman

"Best book was hard because I read several great ones, but Birdbox made me scared so it wins."

Carole - Southern Bred and Dead by Angie Fox                

"This was fabulous. One of my faves of the series methinks!"

Best Movie of the Month:

Carole - Godzilla x Kong - The New Empire (2024)

"Shocked by how much I actually liked this!"

Blodeuedd - Sing 2 (2021)

"I never watch any movies so I guess Sing 2 is the winner cos it is the only one I remember."

Best TV show of the Month:

Blodeuedd - Monk

"We have been binging on Monk all of April"

Carole - FallOut (2024)

"Sooo stinkin' good."

Best Cover of the Month:

Blodeuedd's pick

Carole's pick

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4/30/2024 Social Media: Where can you be found these days?

I am on facebook, which I really do not use. I tried bluesky and threads, but I do not have the patience for it. I am on tiktok but ugh it is time consuming and I only watch crap.

What I do like is instagram cos I liked photos :=)

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Carole´s Monday: Longbourn - Dragon entail

Author: Maria Grace

Narrator: Benjamin Fife

Title: Longbourn -Dragon Entail

Series: Jane Austen's Dragons #2

Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal, Historical Fiction, Romance, Retellings

Format: Audiobook

Published: April 21, 2017

Where I got It: Audible

Summary: 

Darcy thought his problems were over when Pemberley hatched and successfully imprinted on humans. But baby dragons prove far more difficult than any dragon lore prepared him for. Only Elizabeth Bennet's notes offer him any help. When his imperious Aunt Catherine takes matters into her own hands, things take a turn for the worse and Pemberley’s life hangs in the balance. He desperately needs more of Elizabeth’s help, but she ignores all of his requests.

Elizabeth, though, has problems of her own. After the Bennet family dragon sent Pemberley away, life at Longbourn was supposed to return to normal and Elizabeth get on with the all-important business of marrying the heir to her father’s estate. Except that he is the last man in the world whom she could ever be prevailed on to marry—a bumbling, addle-pated dragon-hater who demands she gives up the dragons she lives for.

Can she, with the help of her dragon friends, find her way back to Pemberley before they both suffer their fate from the Dragon Entail?

Review:

Okieee I had to read book 2 right away. The last book left me needing more. I needed to see what was going to happen to our lovely cast. 

Darcy and Elizabeth thought everything was done and over with. Back to normal life. Darcy has his baby dragon and Elizabeth is going to (eventually) marry Mr Collins. However, life is never simple especially with dragons. 

I really enjoyed this one. I liked it more than book 1. I felt like I understood more about this world. Yes, we are still learning, but I felt like I had a grasp and there wasn't info-dumping here. Yayy!

Things between Darcy and Elizabeth FINALLY move forward. We get to see them go from enemies, to friends, and maybe JUST maybe more? Feelings, especially when the truth is all laid out, are blossoming. Yayy!

Mr Collins needs to be shipped away to some remote island where he can live alone. UGH. Unbearable man. Honestly...this version is top 5 of the worst Collins. 

Lady Catherine and Anne are unbearable too. Normally I pity Anne, but this version she is a little snot. Send these two with Collins so they can live together. 

I'm so glad to see Mary getting some love in this version. She is normally ignored and a super background character, but we get to see her more. Love that for her!!! I feel bad at a certain point at the end......but if she's happy......let it be. 

Now, I did switch up to the audiobook because I had an extra credit and I had no idea what to get and this popped up as a recommended so why not. The narrator was fine. The dragon voices grated on my nerves at first, BUT I did get used to them. Yes, I get why they had to use voice effects essentially but still.....it took a minute to warm up to them. Especially the higher up voices like April. *eye twitch*

THAT ENDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG OMG. Now I need to read book 3. Hahahaha. Damn these cliffhangers. 

All-in-all I did enjoy this one much more than book 1. However, I was 50/50 on the narration. I liked the people voices, but it took some time to get used to the dragon voices. I might switch back to the ebook/physical book. We'll see. 

I'll stamp this with 4 stars. 

ONE WORD SUMMARY: Better

Challenge(s):
- Audiobook #20

Three nights with a scoundrel by Tessa Dare

Series: Stud Club (#3)

Format: 362 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published: February 1, 2022 by Ballantine Books (first published 2010)

Historical romance /own

The only Dare book that I had not read, but now I have caught up and there are no more.

Lily is mourning her brother. Now she is left all alone. She is also deaf and her brother always helped her out at times in society settings.

Julian was her brother´s friend and he is obsessed with finding the person who killed Leo. So it is also a murder mystery as he is trying to hunt down the killers and the why. He is also a bastard and not of their class.

He will help her find a husband. She wants him as her husband. Sparks fly, danger closes in, and he will also slowly realise that he can not live without her. Silly men, not knowing what they need.

It has been ages since I read the other books in the stud club. This is also one of her earlier series. So it took me almost 10 years to finish this series, oops, but this last one was harder to get a hold of.

A fun Dare as always

The bastard son of a nobleman, Julian Bellamy is now polished to perfection, enthralling the ton with wit and charm while clandestinely plotting to ruin the lords, ravish the ladies, and have the last laugh on a society that once spurned him. But after meeting Leo Chatwick, a decent man and founder of an elite gentlemen’s club, and Lily, Leo’s enchanting sister, Julian reconsiders his wild ways. And when Leo’s tragic murder demands that Julian hunt for justice, he vows to see the woman he secretly loves married to a man of her own class.

Lily, however, has a very different husband in mind.  She’s loved Julian forever, adores the man beneath the rakish façade, and wants to savor the delicious attraction they share—as his wife. His insistence on marrying her off only reinforces her intent to prove that he is the only man for her. Obsessed with catching a killer, Julian sinks back to the gutters of his youth, forcing Lily to reach out with a sweet, reckless passion Julian can’t resist. Can her desire for a scoundrel save them both—or will dangerous secrets threaten more than their tender love?