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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New York Times bestselling author James Lovegrove’s continues the story of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles, as five years later, another monstrous creature stalks across Dartmoor…

1894. The monstrous Hound of the Baskervilles has been dead for five years, along with its no less monstrous owner, the naturalist Jack Stapleton. Sir Henry Baskerville is living contentedly at Baskerville Hall with his new wife Audrey and their three-year-old son Harry.

Until, that is, Audrey’s lifeless body is found on the moors, drained of blood. It would appear some fiendish creature is once more at large on Dartmoor and has, like its predecessor, targeted the unfortunate Baskerville family.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are summoned to Sir Henry’s aid, and our heroes must face a marauding beast that is the very stuff of nightmares. It seems that Stapleton may not have perished in the Great Grimpen Mire after all, as Holmes believed, and is hell-bent on revenge…

✿ New take on a classic mystery.
✿ A new adventure for everyone’s favorite mystery duo.
✿ Recall the old nostalgia of reading Sherlock Holmes.
✿ Compelling mystery that’ll keep you guessing.

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: 2021 releases.

I’ve done my best to cut back on the books I requested for 2021, knowing that I’d be pretty busy. Yet, there’s still so many books I’m looking forward to, obviously! So here are some of my most anticipated reads of 2021.

               

In 2020, I discovered T.J. Klune’s work, so it’s maybe not a surprise that one of the books I’m most looking forward to this year is his next book, Under the Whispering Door. It sounds like it’s going to be as fabulous as his others, and I’m ready for it!

Do I still need to read book one of Scott Reintgen’s duology? Yes. Is that going to stop me from being excited about book two of his duology coming out? Of course not. The cover for Blood Sworn is every bit as fierce and fantastic as the cover for its predecessor, Ashlords, and it sounds every bit as good, too! I’m saving the first book so I can read them back to back.

Jay Kristoff has a new book coming up, Empire of the Vampire, and … yes. *grabby hands* The end of 2021 is waaaay too long to wait for this! I’m not sure how I’ll make it.

I read the first three books in the A Chorus of Dragons series last year, and I can’t even begin to say how eager I am for book four now, The House of Always. Given the way the other cover/title combinations have worked, I am super freaking curious about this cover and title and how they’re going to come to play in this book!

Speaking of favorite authors having new books … Neal Shusterman has another book coming up! Game Changer sounds vastly different than a lot of his other work, but I’m on board to giving it a try, regardless! Shusterman usually is able to surprise me with his work, which I love!