READ AROUND THE RAINBOW ~ At the Top of My TBR #RAtR

It’s the last Friday of the month and you know what that means! It’s ᖇEᗩᗪ ᗩᖇOᑌᑎᗪ TᕼE ᖇᗩIᑎᗷOᗯ time!

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This month’s topic is…

What’s at the top of my TBR?

So what is at the top of my TBR right now?

M/M wise, Corpse at Captain’s Seat: An M/M Cozy Mystery by Josh Lanyon is near the top of my list. I kinda want to wait for the audiobook to release so I can bounce between the ebook and audiobook, but I might not be able to hold out much longer.

It’s book 8 in the Secrets and Scrabble series, which I adore. It’s pretty much a lite, cozy parallel of the Adrien English series, which is one of my all-time faves. I might do a sped up re-listen to the first 7 books as a refresher before getting to it. Or maybe just the last book or two.

Another that I bought a couple months ago, but I’ve elevated to the top of my TBR is They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera. The premise is pretty morbid, but also fascinating, and I was pretty much hooked after reading the preview. It’s book 1 in the Death-Cast series, and chances are high I will continue on to book 2 in the series after reading the first one.

Otherwise? Honestly, I’ve been bouncing between two hard SciFi series that have nothing to do with M/M, but I can pretty much guarantee they’ll get prioritized because I’m loving them both.

The first of those Sci-Fi series is the Bobiverse series by Dennis Taylor, in which Bob, an engineer, signs up for something along the lines of a cryogenic program, then gets hit by a bus and dies. When he wakes up a century later, he discovers he’s actually been “replicated,” and his mind is basically a software matrix without any of his body left for it to reside in, and he’s owned by the government.

As the series title implies, he ends up escaping that slavery and re-replicating himself multiple times to spread out across the galaxy. He’ll find friends and foes out there, and it’s an exciting adventure as he navigates it all from the POVs of both Bob-1 and his various replicants.

I’ve just finished the first four books in that series, and that’s all that’s out so far, but I see a fifth book, Not Till We Are Lost, will be out early in September, so that’ll be queue’d up in my TBR pretty much immediately once it’s available.

The other series I’ve been reading is the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown. It has six books that I think are broken into a pair of trilogies. It’s about a futuristic society in which humanity has spread throughout the solar system, and a strict hierarchy has developed with everyone born into a color caste. Red is at the bottom, and the story is told in the POV of one red who turns the whole system on its ear. The character development in the first trilogy is amazing.

I just finished that first trilogy, and the next three books, starting with Iron Gold, are at the tippy top of my TBR. I’m super excited to read what happens next!

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WEBRING ~ Read Around the Rainbow!

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