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It sounds crazy, but by the middle of April, I had read 6 books, and I read 7 books in total for April. Now to be fair, 2 of them were DNFs, 2 of them were audiobooks, and 3 of the ones I did finish by April 15 I had started sometime in March, or even February. It’s a nice contrast to March, when I only finished 2 books.

Purchased

Magic Under Glass by Jackie Dolamore

Nimira is a music-hall performer forced to dance for pennies to an audience of leering drunks. When wealthy sorcerer Hollin Parry hires her to do a special act – singing accompaniment to an exquisite piano-playing automaton, Nimira believes it is the start of a new life. In Parry’s world, however, buried secrets stir.

Unsettling below-stairs rumours abound about ghosts, a mad woman roaming the halls, and of Parry’s involvement in a gang of ruthless sorcerers who torture fairies for sport. When Nimira discovers the spirit of a dashing young fairy gentleman is trapped inside the automaton’s stiff limbs, waiting for someone to break the curse and set him free, the two fall in love. But it is a love set against a dreadful race against time to save the entire fairy realm, which is in mortal peril.

When I was going through my shelf clean up recently, I realised I had the sequel to this book but for some reason didn’t own the first one. So I just had to track it down, even though it’s long been out of print. I finally got it!

Monthly Wrap Up

Book Stuff

Number of books read: 7
- Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment #2) by Rebecca Ross (see review link below)
- Saviour by Eliza Renton (no review)
- Blood Bonds (The Bonds That Tie #3) by J Bree (no review)
- Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee (DNF – see my notes on Goodreads)
- Kingdom of the Cursed (Kingdom of the Wicked #2) by Kerri Maniscalco (DNF – see my notes on Goodreads)
- Dust Spells by Andrea Lynn (see review link below)
- Cross to Bear (Ursa Shifters #5) by Sam Hall (no review)
Finished a series: Letters of Enchantment by Rebecca Ross, maybe Ursa Shifters by Sam Hall???
Started a series: no
New to me authors: Eliza Renton, Emery Lee,
Favourite book: Dust Spells by Andrea Lynn