It’s time to play “guess that book” and also watch our TBRs weep.

Book Beginnings is hosted by Rose City Reader and is all about the first line of a current/upcoming read. Friday 56 is a meme hosted by Freda’s Voice, where you turn to page 56 (or 56%) in what you’re reading a find a snippet that jumps out at you.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, last orders please.
Seriously, this could be your last ever order…

Have you ever fancied running a pub?
What about two pubs?
And what if they were in different dimensions?

Enter Mark Adams who is in serious need of a pint.

Now the fabled landlord of Peacebattle, he’s the only person who can stop the world from screaming for the rest of time.

But why chose a loser to save the world? What is the truth at the heart of the Binding Brothers’ dark religion and the monsters who thrive in its heart? And will Mark survive long enough to remember the most important advice of his entire career:

Don’t scream.
Whatever you do.
Don’t scream.

✿ Lots of humor and sarcasm!
✿ Urban fantasy mixed with some subtle horror.
✿ A book revolving around bars and barkeeps!
✿ A bit of coming of age for an older protagonist.
✿ Reluctant hero & unprobable odds.

This is a weekly meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter’s Nook meant to take place on Mondays, but since Fridays tend to be my TBR-focused post, I’ve decided to combine them here. Next Monday’s prompt is: friendship.

I’m going to confess that the friendships in the books I read are sometimes strained. Sometimes enemies-to-friends (which is one of my favorite). I don’t think I read anything that doesn’t have some sort of friendship in it, though, honestly? Seems like that’d be a pretty boring book!

               

I actually read Saving Fable earlier this year, and thought it was a really fun, unique read! So I’m really looking forward to Escaping Ordinary, which is book two. Not only is there friendships in this book, there’s found family! Plus, the whole world is based on characters from novels learning how to be proper characters in the hopes of finding a place in a novel of their very own.

I actually have absolutely no idea if there’s friendship in Gods of Jade and Shadow, but I’m assuming there is! Given that the blurb contains the phrase “In the company of the strangely alluring god,” I’m assuming there’s at least friendship, if not something more. Definitely curious about this one, though!

I’m fairly certain that Spellslinger has appeared on one of these lists before, and I still haven’t read it, because I’m … broken? Silly? I don’t even know, guys! I’ve heard so many wonderful things about it, and I’m super eager to actually give it a try! So I’m not sure what the holdup is.

I’ll actually be reading Spellbreaker soon, and I’m pretty darn excited about it. I read my first Holmberg book this year and loved it, so I absolutely jumped on this blog tour! There’s definitely at least romance in this, and I assume one must be friends in order to be lovers? Even in enemies-to-lovers, I’m pretty sure there’s a step of friendship in there somewhere.

Really, this is mostly a reminder to myself that I still need to read The Boy Who Steals Houses. I absolutely love Cait’s writing, but 2020 hasn’t really felt like the year to have my heart ripped out and stomped on, so I keep putting this one off.