What I'm Reading Tuesday

     Okay! Welcome to another edition of "What I'm Reading Tuesday," A long forgotten day of the week where I share what I'm reading that week and how I'm feeling about the books. This week I am kind of excited because I'm reading a couple books that I am LOVING.

Splintered by AG Howard is an Alice in Wonderland retelling. We all know AG Howard for Roseblood, but I found this gem browsing through Goodreads. It's a trilogy, the other other two books are called Unhinged and Ensnared. Alyssa is a relative of Alice Liddell, the woman who inspired Lewis Carrol's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The curse of hearing everything in the world around you speak has come upon each woman in the family line as soon as they get their first period. Alyssa has held it together, creating art with the creatures that are speaking to her, silencing them in a cruel, but beautiful, way. Alyssa's mother, however, did not fair so well. She is in a mental institution that Alyssa and her father visit every week to see her mother. That's as far as I've gotten in the book right now, but I'm really enjoying it.



     I have been waiting for this book forever. Everybody was raving about it but neither of my digital libraries had it and my local library didn't have it, so I asked them to get it. And they did! Really quickly too! (They also got Hunting Prince Dracula by Kerri Maniscalco and Cruel Prince by Holly Black, but we'll talk about those when I start reading them.) My library is actually really great about getting books that I recommend, I think that they're glad to have someone utilizing the building so often and so eagerly. I just finished chapter six last night and I am already loving it! Definitely check it out if you're into horror/murder mystery type books.



King's Cage by Victoria Aveyard is the third book in the Red Queen series (book 4 comes out this year) and I will say, it's been a rough one. I have been "reading" this book since November 13th and I feel like Mare is excessively whiny and overly dramatic, which is sad because I really enjoyed books 1 and 2. I still want to finish it because I want to know what happens, it just might take me a while to get there.