Bookish Kas

In September, I finished the Off-Campus and Briar U series to wait for the arrival of The Legacy. The sister series have booked with a variety of tropes, so if you don't like a book, it's okay because you are likely to find at least one book that you end up loving.

September is gone, and Halloween month is here but before I get into spooky book recs, I am going, to sum up, all the books I read in September.   I started reading off-campus, thinking I would try to finish it off by the release, but after finishing it, I fell into this hole where I thought I was going into a reading slump, so trying to crawl back up the slump, I actually went into a reading spree.   1. THE OFF-CAMPUS and BRIAR U SERIES BY ELLE KENNEDY The first book series I finished in the first week of September is the Off-Campus/ Briar U series by Elle Kennedy. The Legacy, the ultimate ending to the Off-Campus series, was released on 21st September. Off-Campus has 5 books (including The Legacy), while its sister series Briar U has 4. It'd be one of those series of standalone where if you do not like a single book, you don't have to give up on the series because you will find another one with a trope you absolutely love. If you want the whole review on the Off-Ca...

  Publishing Date - 1 November 2021  Author - M.L Blackbird  Genres - Urban Fantasy   Potential Trigger Warnings - Violence, Death.

There's nothing wrong with being a Lizard either, unless you were born to be a Hawk.  AUTHOR: Leigh Bardugo SYNOPSIS:   Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee. Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold, and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling. Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha . . . and the secrets ...

Flirting with evil will be the ruination of her soul. Goodness is much easier to corrupt than it is to hold on to. And for Natasha, a woman reeling from the pain of losing a loved one, evil is all the more tempting. Luck or misfortune spirits Natasha away to the foreign Court of Velaris in a quest for a suitor but instead secures her a place among Velarian royalty. Craving revenge, Natasha makes use of this opportunity to enact her plans as she navigates the lush court where aristocracy is a double-edged blade. But when she befriends her soon-to-be husband Mikhail, the Beloved Prince, Natasha makes a deadly mistake. She captures the attention of debonair Darkling Prince, a villainous man meant to ascend the Velarian throne. Enamored, the Darkling Prince charms Natasha, and soon the two feel a forbidden emotion captivate their stoic, scabrous hearts. But with the existence of a violent rebel group capable of cataclysmic damage, there is little time for love. With war brewing amidst the ...