
Yet to Read Some Deadly Fiction
Yet to Read is the weekly meme where I take a look at books on my shelves (physical and digital) that I haven’t gotten around to reading yet and books on my wishlist that I’ve wanted to add to my shelves for a while. I will link these posts up to Can’t Wait Wednesday and Shelf Control, depending on where each week’s post fits best!
For this week’s Yet to Read post, I thought I’d try sharing one book from each because yes, I have enough unread books on my shelves and books I’d love to get my hands on to keep this ongoing for a long while. I am both overwhelmed and overjoyed. Life as a bookworm, am I right?
From the Shelves
I often check the daily deals and sales on Kindle because I figure if I can grab a book I really want to read for 99p or so… it’s worth it. This week I’m in a bit of a magic school mood so I’m highlighting book one of Naomi Novik’s Scholomance series (which really threw me at first as an ex-World of Warcraft player!) – I’ve seen that the second book is releasing pretty soon so perhaps I should get around to this one sooner than later.

Enter a school of magic unlike any you have ever encountered.
There are no teachers, no holidays, friendships are purely strategic, and the odds of survival are never equal.
Once you’re inside, there are only two ways out: you graduate or you die.
El Higgins is uniquely prepared for the school’s many dangers. She may be without allies, but she possesses a dark power strong enough to level mountains and wipe out untold millions – never mind easily destroy the countless monsters that prowl the school.
Except, she might accidentally kill all the other students, too. So El is trying her hardest not to use it… that is, unless she has no other choice.
From the Wishlist
Technically my wishlist choice is 3 books but they are listed as a collection on my wishlist so I’m going with it, and this is the Junji Ito collection. These are collections of horror manga, for those who aren’t familiar and the books are just so beautiful.
0 thoughts on “Yet to Read Some Deadly Fiction”
I haven’t read Deadly Education yet but heard so many good things!
Yes same!
I have not heard of either book. Happy reading!
I need to read something by Novik. Great picks, hope you get to them soon!
Lisa Loves Literature
Big same. I’ve had Temeraire on my shelves for a long, long time and I’ve apparently picked up 2 or 3 of her other books on Kindle. It’s about time, haha.
I’ve read A Deadly Education! It’s very dark, and sometimes made me a little batty with certain plot points, but it still hooked me enough that I plan to read the sequel!
I’m fine with dark usually, we’ll see how I go on the other stuff! Haha
Happy Reading. I have not heard of these books, but I don’t read horror, so no surprise. But, I want to see your reviews when you’re done.
Ooh if you don’t like horror you’d hate Junji Ito!
Deadly Education was a DNF for me, unfortunately. But I know lots of people who loved it!
Oh that’s valid, there are certainly books I’ve struggled with that are commonly beloved! It’d be my first Novik so we’ll see where I fall. 😀
I liked A Deadly Education but haven’t gotten around to reading the second book yet. I hope you like it when you read it too! I really liked Uprooted by the same author. I am not familiar with Junji Ito collection, but those covers are gorgeous. Thank you for sharing!
I hadn’t heard of these weekly memes before! Right up my alley, since I have an entire TBR bookcase … that now has double rows on most shelves. I’m losing the battle!
Your choices sound great. The cover art on those manga books is stunning.
Enjoy!
Sue
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Haha, I know! I daren’t keep too close an eye on what’s on the way while my backlog is so huge.
It really is, and the spines look gorgeous too. They’d look so lovely on the shelves… wistful
Thanks!
I hope you enjoy these. A Deadly Education was unfortunately a DNF for me. I think it was more a case of wrong book, wrong time though because I was trying to read it early on in the pandemic and just couldn’t concentrate on it.
Yeah that’s fair. I have heard a few say it wasn’t their favourite though, so could just be one of those books.