The Sunday Post is hosted by Kimba Caffeinated Book Reviewer.
I survived St. Patrick’s Day! Everyone else is okay too. It was definitely the worst day out of the week, though. The rest were just hunky dory with plenty of sunshine.
I had problems getting on a few blogs last week and I don’t know why. It kept saying there was a server error when I’d try to visit certain blogs, but things seem to be going smooth now.
I signed up for the Clean Sweep ARC Challenge that’s hosted by Kim & Kristin in May. I always participate in this one and the TBR Challenge. However, I totally spaced on the TBR Challenge this month. I saw the posts for it and Kim talking about it, but my mind was too scattered. Bummer. I won’t miss the ARC Challenge, though.
On the Blog
- Magic Shifts by Ilona Andrews (review) – Can’t get enough of these characters!
- Kaleidoscope Hearts & Pucked (double review) – One good and one meh.
Books Read
- The Dirty Secret by Kira A. Gold – It was alright.
- Waylaid by Kim Harrison – A fun and super quick read.
Books Acquired
For Review:
Test Drive is a spin-off series of The McCauley Brothers, which I loved. The other two look interesting. Dream House was a surprise in the mail and came with candy that I immediately ate. Eating candy that comes in the mail from strangers! YOLO! 😀 If I die, blame Atria publishing.
Purchased:
Got Moon Called on audio and will finally listen to it. The last two were freebies.
Watching
We’re a couple episodes into the 4th season of Bates Motel and it’s so good! I love the twists and how everything has played out throughout the previous seasons. Craz-y!
Listening
Love me some Demi.
Have a great week!
St. Patty’s Day was windy and cool here, but a good day otherwise. I’ve been thinking of Moon Called too, might start that series soon.
That Demi Lovato song is a good one.
I am glad you are keeping track of things on NetGalley…I needs the Harte book!!!
I was just contemplating the TBR challenge. I am almost ready to schedule May posts, so I’ll have to see what I have on my iPad, otherwise I have heaps of Paperbacks from publishers to read…. We’ll see! 😀
No worries! I completely blanked on my last BINGO card. It was pitiful. I am challenged-out, but working my tail off on books! Kind of the “shoot first, ask later” kind of thing – “read, read, read, sort out challenges later.” Happy reading!
The cover on that Marie Harte cover though! *-* I want it just for that!
Haha to eating the random candy in a book package! I hope it was good candy.
I hope you enjoy all these books this week!
Happy reading!
I got Dream House this week, too! I was quite surprised. It looks like it might be a really good read. I don’t usually do mystery/suspense/thriller books, but I’m intrigued by this one. And the package with all the blue things was super cute, too.
I hope you enjoy it and the others!
I want some more of the taffy! lol.
Oh, what happened on St Patrick’s Day that made it a relief you survived it? I hope all is okay.
More good books as usual and Bates Motel looks interesting. It’s not on free-to-air here in Australia so not sure if / when I’ll see it, but I hope to, as long as it’s not too TOO creepy!
There’s been terrible incidents in my family (some deadly) on various St. Patrick’s Days over the past few decades. So it’s nice when nothing happens.
I love St. Patrick’s Day. Okay…really I just love corned beef & cabbage but I always make sure to have some on hand for St. Patrick’s Day. This year it was too busy to have much fun but I still ate well. By the way, I would totally eat candy from strangers in the mail. I would do it quickly before anyone else in the house saw and I would have to share. Enjoy your new books and have a great week!
I love participating in challenges, but sometimes, I tend to kind of gloss over some of them as well… I have two books I should read in March for the HW challenge, so we’ll see how that goes.
Your new books look great, Christy, I need to check out the freebie audios… even if I have a ton of audios I haven’t listened to yet.
Have a fantastic week ahead and happy reading.
Hey, you survived Thursday. That’s all we ask. By the way, what day did the candy arrive? It wasn’t Thursday, was it?
Marie Harte, huh? More TBR? Mmmmm, “I might Rabbit, I just might”…. 🙂
Oooh I don’t remember which day. That would’ve been funny if that’s how I died on St. Patrick’s day .. poisoned candy from strangers.
When you’re ready sounds interesting. Great haul, happy reading and have a great week.
I’m doing the TBR challenge but am not doing it very well. This month has kicked my booty! I loved Moon Called and that entire series. Somehow I got behind in a book though, and need to catch up ASAP! 😀 Enjoy your new books and happy reading!
I hope you enjoy Moon Called. I thought you had read that series? You survived St. Paddy’s day, hooray for you. We had a quiet day, no partying for us now that we have kids. Boring, right? Eating candy from strangers, haven’t you learned anything from Joe?
Looks like you have some great new books. Love the look of the cover of ‘Test Drive’! Sigh…
I haven’t heard about Bates Motel before. Sounds interesting.
Have a great week and Happy Reading! 😉
My St. Patty’s wasn’t fab either. Had a challenging work day and I was exhausted by the time I got home. No energy to even open a bottle of beer for beer’s sake.
Happy week ahead!
A promise of fire looks really cool
Awesome haul of books. I hope you love all of them. They look terrific.
Grace @ Books of Love
We skipped St Patrick’s Day this year because it just wasn’t going to happen but I’m going to do a do over sometime next week because I love the St. Patrick’s Day food! It’s fun to celebrate my Irish ancestry. Hope all is okay with you! You got some fantastic books! I’m curious about Dream House – especially since it came with candy! Have a great week!
We had a terrible storm for St. Patrick’s Day. It didn’t crimp my night as I planned to stay in anyway. Dream House looks fun. A new author for me too! Have a lovely week.
Don’t really celebrate St. Paddy’s day, so I’m unscathed. 🙂
Have a great week, Christy!
Sorry your St. Patty’s Day was no good! I’ve never actually celebrated, so mine just went by uneventfully like every other day lol.
I am loving the red and black on that Alpha cover! I don’t even know what it’s about, but I want it! (Ok I just read the blurb lol, and it is a pretty interesting premise. I’m curious now…)
Glad you survived Thursday. 😉 I missed the TBR challenge too because I just knew I would suck it. 🙁 Maybe I should push myself and do the ARC? I only have a couple to read so it can’t be that bad right?
I ate candy that came with an unsolicited review book. LOL Guess the lesson didn’t sink in with me, either.
Doing the ARCs challenge, too. Good luck!
Enjoy your haul! I need to get that Magic Stars.
I go Magic Stars too! Good so far. Though I should have read the book before it first. Oh well.
I signed up for the Clean Sweep ARC Challenge too! I don’t why I think I’m not going to like Motel Bates 🙂 Glad you did. Maybe I should check it out. Dream House sounds great! creeeepy candyyyy 🙂
I’ve never heard of the Bates Motel series, but assuming it’s a spin off from the Psycho movie? I don’t think it screens here in Australia so will have to try to hunt it down. Good luck with the challenge! I need to sign up to clean mine out too. Might give me the motivation to read more ARC editions I’ve got on my Kindle and shelves without skipping them and reading more new releases. Have a fabulous week of reading Christy <3
Last week I had a stressful week too, hope this week goes much better. Enjoy your new books!
Bates Motel looks super creepy. I hope you have fun with all of your new books, I’ve heard great things about the Moon Called series and Bates Motel looks super creepy!
HaHa I got hershey kisses in the mail with an ARC. I don’t know if I ate them or not. LoL I’m still alive though so if I did, it wasn’t poisoned.
We celebrate St. Pat’s here in a different way from most people. We don’t get drunk and drink green drinks. It’s pretty much an Irish Thanksgiving where we make a bunch of Irish food and desserts and we stuff ourselves silly. I’m hoping to finish off the last of the leftovers tonight. >.< LoL
Thank you for drawing my attention to the cover delight that is Test Drive!!!
It was so weird when the blogs went down like that. I had a TON that kept giving me errors that were on both wordpress and blogger. Glad yall survived the week!