One more reading post this week. If you're a newsletter subscriber, you've already read this story.
I joined another reading challenge in July, one that started in January and goes for the full year, so I am scrambling to get caught up.
Also, some of the prompts have me going, Um, what do I read for this one? Luckily, StoryGraph lets me check what other people recorded for the prompt and that's how I ended up reading Nora Roberts' The Awakening.
Not only do I need a book that fits the prompt, but it also either needs to be on my eReader already, or the library has to have it. My library had the Nora book and I didn't have to wait to get the book. It was available! Yea!
I didn't realize this was the first book in a three book fantasy (with romantic elements) series. I'm really more of a romance girlie than fantasy. I'm not even a huge fan of most romantasy, although that has a large part to do with how dark most of the ones I tried were. I don't do dark anymore. I don't enjoy it. There is one series that's romantasy that I have absolutely loved, but it's humorous.
But I digress. Anyway, I read The Awakening and then I hit the ending and I was like OMG! I immediately checked out the next book in the series, which also was immediately available at my library. I devoured The Becoming, even staying up way too late to read. I started reading again the next morning, and as soon as I finished the second book, I went to check out the third (and final) book of the series.
And discovered my library didn't have it.
Did you hear my scream echoing through the world?
What kind of sadistic librarian buys the first two books in a three book series and doesn't buy the third (and final) book? That's just cruel!
I live near Atlanta and Georgia has a statewide library lending program, so I went on there looking for the final book. I found it, but the wait list is five weeks. FIVE WEEKS! I want to read it now!
So far, I've checked the Libby app like fifty gazillion times, hoping to get it early. I want to finish this series now, not next month.
And I got lucky. After one week, the hold became available. As I'm writing this, I'm 53% into The Choice by Nora Roberts.
