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My Books This Week


The first book I finished this week was Accidentally On Purpose by Jill Shalvis. This came out a couple weeks ago and is the third book in the Heartbreaker Bay series. Any book by Jill Shalvis is an automatic read so I was very surprised to find that I had somehow missed the second book in this series. Not only did I miss the second book but the second one The Trouble With Mistletoe is going to be a movie. So, guess I need to get on reading that. The author does have a handy list on her blog for keeping all of these straight here. I will need to reference that in the future. I really enjoyed this book and love the setting that has been created for this series. Elle and Archer have a history that goes back to her being a teenager in trouble and him being a rookie cop. Now they work in the same building with him having his own security company and her being the building manager. Being pushed back into each others lives has meant that they will spend more time together and be unable to hide their true feelings.

The second book that I read this week was The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. As you can tell from the picture this is a library book that has been very well loved over the years. This has been on my to be read list since I finished Caraval last summer. They do both have a similar feel. This is a love story that is filled to the brim with magic. Two magicians are set up in a competition when they are children and do not really know much about what is going to happen. The competition becomes a traveling circus that keeps getting bigger and more magnificent as the two magicians fall in love. The story is not just about the magicians but all of the others in and around the circus that become a part of their story. This was beautifully written and I have already purchased my own copy because I know I will want to reread it again soon. The author also has a bunch of wonderful short stories on her blog that you can find here.

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