5 Books 1 Week: My Very Ambitious TBR

Hey guys! I’m really excited because I’m going to be a free person next week! I don’t know how it works in the States, but in Colombia we have a Holy Week during Easter and that means is a free week for almost everyone. I have a lot of uni work to do (Homework, papers, mid-terms to get ready for) during that week, but I will still have a lot of time to read, that’s why I decided to set a very ambitious tbr and try to read as much as I can next week.

Here are the books I will try to read or at least start next week:

1.When the Moon was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore

To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. Roses grow out of Miel’s wrist, and rumors say that she spilled out of a water tower when she was five. Sam is known for the moons he paints and hangs in the trees, and for how little anyone knows about his life before he and his mother moved to town. But as odd as everyone considers Miel and Sam, even they stay away from the Bonner girls, four beautiful sisters rumored to be witches. Now they want the roses that grow from Miel’s skin, convinced that their scent can make anyone fall in love. And they’re willing to use every secret Miel has fought to protect to make sure she gives them up. 

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I have been meaning to read this one for a long time, but lately I want to read it even more because I want to read more magical realism and learn a bit more about the history of this genre and the connection between it and latinamerican authors. Anyway I’m buddy reading this with Sinead @Huntress of Diverse Books.

2. A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Shwab  

Kell is one of the last travelers–magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes connected by one magical city. There’s Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, and with one mad King–George III. Red London, where life and magic are revered–and where Kell was raised alongside Rhy Maresh, the roguish heir to a flourishing empire. White London–a place where people fight to control magic and the magic fights back, draining the city to its very bones. And once upon a time, there was Black London. But no one speaks of that now.

Officially, Kell is the Red traveler, ambassador of the Maresh empire, carrying the monthly correspondences between the royals of each London. Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, servicing people willing to pay for even the smallest glimpses of a world they’ll never see. It’s a defiant hobby with dangerous consequences, which Kell is now seeing firsthand.

Fleeing into Grey London, Kell runs into Delilah Bard, a cut-purse with lofty aspirations. She robs him, saves him from a deadly enemy, and finally forces Kell to spirit her to another world for a proper adventure. Now perilous magic is afoot, and treachery lurks at every turn. To save all of the worlds, they’ll first need to stay alive.

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I have been meaning to read this for the longest time, but my history with Victoria Shwab kind of got in the way of my reading it. I have read 2 books by her: I really liked one and DNF’ed another, so I even when I was really interested in the premise of this book I wasn’t sure if I was gonna like it or not. Now that the last book came out, I decided that I definitely want to give this series a chance because I have heard great things about it.

3. A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire #3) 

Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, victim of the sorceress who holds him in her thrall. Young Robb still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world. And as opposing forces manoeuver for the final showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost limits of civilization, accompanied by a horde of mythical Others—a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords

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This book is over a thousand pages, of course I’m not planning on reading it in one week and not when I’m trying to read another 4 books in that week. But I really want to continue with this series, so my goal is to read at least 300 pages of this next week.

4. Better at Weddings Than You by Mina V. Esguerra

 Daphne Cardenas is the best wedding planner around, and everyone knows it. That’s why her friend Greg hired her as an emergency replacement one month before his wedding—because he fears his fiancée Helen is falling for the guy they first hired for the job.

Aaron Trinidad is new to the wedding industry but years of conference planning and loads of charm make him good at it. Really good at it. Planning the wedding of his friend Helen should be easy, and it is. To be unceremoniously fired isn’t good for his new career, but the chance to learn from the best might be the silver lining.

Aaron and Daphne have chemistry, but there’s history with Helen that at least one other person considers a threat. Who’s the planner who can fix this impending disaster? 

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I have an ARC of this books and the official release date is April 15th, so I want to try and read and review it before it comes out.  I’m not ure it’s gonna be possible, but I do want to try. I have never read anything by Mina V. Esguerra, but I have heard great things about her books, so I want to read something by her.

5. The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Somewhere within our crowded sky, a crew of wormhole builders hops from planet to planet, on their way to the job of a lifetime. To the galaxy at large, humanity is a minor species, and one patched-up construction vessel is a mere speck on the starchart. This is an everyday sort of ship, just trying to get from here to there.

But all voyages leave their mark, and even the most ordinary of people have stories worth telling. A young Martian woman, hoping the vastness of space will put some distance between herself and the life she‘s left behind. An alien pilot, navigating life without her own kind. A pacifist captain, awaiting the return of a loved one at war.

Set against a backdrop of curious cultures and distant worlds, this episodic tale weaves together the adventures of nine eclectic characters, each on a journey of their own. 

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I didn’t particulary want to read this until recently, I had heard about it but I didn’t really know what this was about.  Last week, I saw someone talk about it on Booktube and I finally payed atention to what this was about and sicne  I have been wanting to read more Sci-Fi, I’m really excited to read it now.

That’s it! I’m pretty sure I’m not reading all of them in one week, but I’m excited to try!

Have you read any of this books? What did you think about them? Which one should I read first?  Let me know in the commets! 

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