MegansReadingWorld

Autumn 🍂, Rainy days 🌧️, Tea ☕, chocolate 🍫, Listening to music 🎧, Reading 📖 and of course buying books 📚🛍️ - a few of my favourite things

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Spark of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #1)

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At the Bottom of New Lake (Warmer, #6)

Sonya Larson

A girl growing up in Cape Cod explores the collectible debris of a once-perfect world she’s too young to remember. But as the past resurfaces, so do old questions about her place in society. To Chinese American teenager Chuntao, New Lake is a beautiful haven where she can hunt for treasures once swallowed up by a big flood. But when she’s caught scavenging by her biology teacher, a woman whose own past has been swept away, Chuntao is faced with an imponderable Which world was better—the ideal one she never knew or the destroyed one that now belongs to her? Sonya Larson’s At the Bottom of New Lake is part of Warmer, a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by today’s most thought-provoking authors. Alarming, inventive, intimate, and frightening, each story can be read, or listened to, in a single breathtaking sitting.

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MegansReadingWorld

Apr 22, 2026

2.0

Enjoyment: 2.0Quality: 2.0Characters: 2.0Plot: 2.0

Part of Amazon Originals short stories series Warmer. A 2⭐ for me, just couldn't get on with the writing of this one unfortunately.

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Falls the Shadow (Warmer, #5)

Skip Horack

A North Carolina combat vet finds himself far from home on the front lines of an environmental battle to save the planet in an award-winning author’s provocative story of a twenty-first-century Wild West. Joel Dunbar, the last branch of an Appalachian family tree, accepts a mysterious invitation from a billionaire plutocrat to attend a conservation expo in San Francisco. The rock star environmentalist has startling plans for the future and a caveat for don’t ask too many questions, and don’t divulge any answers. But when Joel befriends a rebellious eco-friendly Arizona rancher, he’s roped into a new kind of war, with new kinds of casualties. Skip Horack’s Falls the Shadow is part of Warmer, a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by today’s most thought-provoking authors. Alarming, inventive, intimate, and frightening, each story can be read, or listened to, in a single breathtaking sitting.

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Falls the Shadow (Warmer, #5)

Skip Horack

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MegansReadingWorld

Apr 22, 2026

3.5

Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 3.5Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.5

Part of Amazon Originals short stories series Warmer. Interesting concept, so far my favourite in the series. 3.5⭐

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There's No Place Like Home (Warmer, #4)

Edan Lepucki

In a climate-ravaged future, it’s not easy to grow up. One girl is trying her best in a story about global catastrophe and personal chaos, by the New York Times bestselling author of California. Thirteen-year-old Vic is of the Youngest Generation, fixed in prepubescence after a catastrophic environmental degradation. She’s also her father’s favorite student. But when he takes his own life, the perennially ingenuous Vic wants to understand why. As she sets out on her quest, Vic begins to learn that family isn’t something you’re born with—it’s something you build. Edan Lepucki’s There’s No Place Like Home is part of Warmer, a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by today’s most thought-provoking authors. Alarming, inventive, intimate, and frightening, each story can be read, or listened to, in a single breathtaking sitting.

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MegansReadingWorld

Apr 22, 2026

2.0

Enjoyment: 2.0Quality: 2.0Characters: 2.0Plot: 2.0

Part of Amazon Originals short stories series Warmer. Don't think the writing or the story in general was for me. The characters were rather annoying and I couldn't really connect with any of them. 2⭐

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MegansReadingWorld

Mar 10, 2026

5.0

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0

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5⭐, actually you know what more like 6⭐ or dare I say it 10⭐. If I could give 10 it would be that.

I enjoyed every minute of this book. This book had me giggling and kicking my feet the whole time.

Adam 🫶🏻 I loved his moodiness, I loved his sarcasm and I loved how even from the start you could tell he cared about Olive.

Olive - I honestly have never related to a character in a book so much in my life. Not the whole science thing, but her chaoticness, her penchant for stumbling over words and rambling a little and this quote "Talking on the phone is the hardest, most stressful thing in the world, and I can't do it with the nice lady who schedules my dental cleanings, let alone with Adam Carlsen" - girl same!!

Honestly this book is god tier for me and Ali Hazelwood I think you've made your way into my favourite authors category!!!

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MegansReadingWorld

Apr 22, 2026

3.0

Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.0

Part of Amazon Originals short stories series Warmer. Interesting read. 3⭐.

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Controller (Warmer, #3)

Jesse Kellerman

What happens when temperatures flare between a mother and son? A few degrees make all the difference in this New York Times bestselling author’s blazingly chilling story of psychological terror.It’s the hottest winter on record, but Raymond’s demanding, bedridden mother doesn’t mind. She likes it warm. Lately, however, control over the thermostat has become a nasty struggle. And each morning that she’s still alive is a suffocating new challenge for Raymond. How high can the mercury climb before he boils over?Jesse Kellerman’s Controller is part of Warmer, a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by today’s most thought-provoking authors. Alarming, inventive, intimate, and frightening, each story can be read, or listened to, in a single breathtaking sitting.

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Boca Raton (Warmer, #2)

Lauren Groff

A mother’s latent fears rise as relentlessly as the Florida seas in a startling story of a planet, and an imagination, under pressure, by the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies. During an eco-friendly cleanup at the beach, Ange finds something horrifying in the brush. The sickening, heartbreaking evidence of an irreversibly changing earth triggers dread about the future for her daughter. But as reasoned worries slide into paranoia, reality itself begins to untether. For Ange, there may be no stepping back from the destructive darkness of her sleepless nights. Lauren Groff’s Boca Raton is part of Warmer, a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by today’s most thought-provoking authors. Alarming, inventive, intimate, and frightening, each story can be read, or listened to, in a single breathtaking sitting.

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MegansReadingWorld

Apr 22, 2026

2.5

Enjoyment: 2.5Quality: 2.5Characters: 2.5Plot: 2.5

Part of Amazon Originals short stories series Warmer. Was an okay read. 2.5⭐

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The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

Jess Walter

Sleet in Mississippi? In March? A crazy ice storm lays waste to the South in a #1 New York Times bestselling author’s invigorating, touching story of one slippery night, an open bar, and total abandon. For three strangers whose paths will cross, the storm hasn’t even reached its peak. Two of them are the kind of climate scientists no one ever listens to in disaster movies. The third, against even icier opposition, has just moved to the Magnolia State to come out. Soon they’ll all be pushed closer to the edge, where the bracing winds of cataclysmic change can be so wildly liberating. Jess Walter’s The Way the World Ends is part of Warmer, a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by today’s most thought-provoking authors. Alarming, inventive, intimate, and frightening, each story can be read, or listened to, in a single breathtaking sitting.

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The September House

Carissa Orlando

A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this compulsively readable, twisty, and layered debut novel. When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price—they couldn’t believe they finally had a home of their own. Then they discovered the hauntings. Every September, the walls drip blood. The ghosts of former inhabitants appear, and all of them are terrified of something that lurks in the basement. Most people would flee. Margaret is not most people. Margaret is staying. It’s her house. But after four years Hal can’t take it anymore, and he leaves abruptly. Now, he’s not returning calls, and their daughter Katherine—who knows nothing about the hauntings—arrives, intent on looking for her missing father. To make things worse, September has just begun, and with every attempt Margaret and Katherine make at finding Hal, the hauntings grow more harrowing, because there are some secrets the house needs to keep.

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Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)

Sarah J. Maas

"A line that should never be crossed is about to be breached. It puts this entire castle in jeopardy—and the life of your friend." From the throne of glass rules a king with a fist of iron and a soul as black as pitch. Assassin Celaena Sardothien won a brutal contest to become his Champion. Yet Celaena is far from loyal to the crown. She hides her secret vigilantly; she knows that the man she serves is bent on evil. Keeping up the deadly charade becomes increasingly difficult when Celaena realizes she is not the only one seeking justice. As she tries to untangle the mysteries buried deep within the glass castle, her closest relationships suffer. It seems no one is above questioning her allegiances—not the Crown Prince Dorian; not Chaol, the Captain of the Guard; not even her best friend, Nehemia, a foreign princess with a rebel heart. Then one terrible night, the secrets they have all been keeping lead to an unspeakable tragedy. As Celaena's world shatters, she will be forced to give up the very thing most precious to her and decide once and for all where her true loyalties lie... and whom she is ultimately willing to fight for.

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Apr 21, 2026

4.5

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.5

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Okay so where to start with this one...

At first I was like hey I'm enjoying this but probably a solid 3⭐. Nothing wrong with that. 3⭐ is still a good rating in my opinion. However we got to about 20%/30% or so and I just got pulled into the book. And my rating completely changed from there!

I barely wanted to put it down and when I did put it down I was thinking about when I could pick it back up again to read it. The chapters tended to end on little cliffhangers so every time I was like just one more chapter and that just repeated 🫣😂

I kept on trying to guess what was about to happen. I seen a couple of things but as usual for me I didn't guess everything.

Really enjoyed this one although one thing I will say I was confused on what genre this was as it does seem to be a mixture of thriller/mystery/contemporary romance with some comedic moments and lines in there too.

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This Story Might Save Your Life

Tiffany Crum

Benny Abbott and Joy Moore host one of the most beloved podcasts in the world. Each week they delight listeners with a different "against-all-odds" survival story, gleefully finding the weird life-affirming humor in near-death experiences. Since their first episode on Joy's own experience with narcolepsy they've been the best friends everyone wants to befriend, and thanks to the meticulous management of Joy's spouse, Xander, they've built a lucrative empire.But then one morning, without any warning, Joy and Xander go missing. The only clue shedding light on the couple's disappearance is the incomplete, previously unseen first draft of Joy's memoir, and no one, not even Benny, can guess how it ends. As the hours tick by and the police zero in on Benny as the prime suspect in Joy and Xander's disappearance, the odds seem increasingly stacked against either of them being found alive. If Benny wants to find Joy in time, and clear his own name, he'll have to solve the highest stakes survival story yet.

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