#5OnMyTBR is a bookish meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter’s Nook and you can learn more about it here. It occurs every Monday when we post about 5 books on our TBR.
Another really fun topic from #5OnMyTBR! This one wasn’t hard to find books for at all, as there’s a fair few I have that either mention animals in the title or have animals as the book’s focus, and I do have a number of paranormal romances on my kindle involving shifters, which for this (and only for one book, really), I’m counting.
#5OnMyTBR July 31st: Animals
Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
Format: Hardback
Genre: Fantasy
Age: Young Adult
Shiori, the only princess of Kiata, has a secret. Forbidden magic runs through her veins. Normally she conceals it well, but on the morning of her betrothal ceremony, Shiori loses control. At first, her mistake seems like a stroke of luck, forestalling the wedding she never wanted, but it also catches the attention of Raikama, her stepmother.
Raikama has dark magic of her own, and she banishes the young princess, turning her brothers into cranes, and warning Shiori that she must speak of it to no one: for with every word that escapes her lips, one of her brothers will die.
Peniless, voiceless, and alone, Shiori searches for her brothers, and, on her journey, uncovers a conspiracy to overtake the throne—a conspiracy more twisted and deceitful, more cunning and complex, than even Raikama’s betrayal. Only Shiori can set the kingdom to rights, but to do so she must place her trust in the very boy she fought so hard not to marry. And she must embrace the magic she’s been taught all her life to contain—no matter what it costs her.
Furever Free (Anthology)
Format: ebook
Genre: Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy
Age: Adult
All the best things in life are free…
Furever Free is one of those decadent little pleasures. Filled to the brim with sexy alpha shifters, broody vampires, and more, this collection will tempt your supernatural taste buds with its paranormal romance and urban fantasy short stories.
Come join us, take a walk on the wild side. You have nothing to lose and so much to gain as you delve into these fantastic freebie tales.
Pyotra and the Wolf by Elna Holst
Format: ebook
Genre: Paranormal
Age: Adult
For the space of a breath or two, that wolf had entranced her, mesmerised her, made her believe—the impossible. And that was all it took.
Nothing about this wolf was as it should be.
Pyotra Nikolayevna Kulakova lives in a small Russian settlement in the northern Siberian taiga, where the polar night lasts for a good month out of the year and the temperature rarely reaches above freezing point. Pyotra’s days, too, seem congealed and unchanging, laden with grief, until her baby brother’s close encounter with a tundra wolf upends the lives of the three members of the Kulakov family in one fell swoop.
Pyotra and the Wolf is a queer retelling of Sergei Prokofiev’s symphonic fairy tale, structurally influenced by matryoshka dolls and memory castles. This is a story of darkness and light, love and loss, beast and human. Whichever way the spinning kopek falls.
Format: ebook
Genre: Horror
Age: Adult
There’s a storm brewing in Gallow: angry parents, protests at the school, a new priest up at the church with some very clear ideas on sin… and an unfamiliar face in the cottage on the edges of the village, carving sculptures out of skin and bone.
It’s a powder keg. Even before the protestors start disappearing…
Jodie doesn’t want trouble – just to be left alone to raise her son in peace.
Tanya wants more God and less wickedness in her own son’s studies.
Tara wants to leave her complicated past behind her, if only it would let her go.
And all Jonas wants is to get some work done – and if he can make peace with his father while he’s at it, then so much the better.
But the woman in the cottage and the priest up at the church – they have very different goals in mind. And Jodie and Tanya, Tara and Jonas… they’re about to get caught in the crossfire.
A Street Dog Named Pup by Gill Lewis
Format: ebook
Genre: Contemporary
Age: Middle Grade
Between dog and human there is a special bond. A bond that must never be broken . . .Pup and his boy are inseparable. But both their worlds change forever when Pup is cruelly taken away and abandoned.With nowhere else to turn, Pup becomes a Street Dog – part of a misfit pack fighting for survival on the streets.Pup clings to the hope of one day being reunited with his boy. But as time passes, his hope shrinks. Will he ever know love like his boy’s again?
What kind of animal related books are sitting on your TBR? Have you read any of these, and think I need to hurry up and read one of them already?
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