Sunday Post (#32): Weekly recap

"The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead." 

✿ What I read this week ✿


❄ The Accident Season by Moïra Fowley-Doley 
❄ King of Scars (Nikolai Duology #1) by Leigh Bardugo 
❄ His Majestys's Dragon (Temeraire #1) by Naomi Novik
❄ The Art of Taxidermy by Sharon Kernot 
❄ Beau & Bett by Kathryn Berla


✿ Reviews ✿

❄ Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell 
❄ An Ember in the Ashes (An Amber in the Ashes #1) by Sabaa Tahir


✿ Memes ✿

❄ Top Ten Tuesday: Characters I'd like to switch places with

❄ Can't Wait Wednesday: The Best Boys by Mary Weber
❄ Stacking the Shelves 

✿ Around the blogosphere and elsewhere ✿

❄ Spring Reading Bingo at Pretty Deadly Reviews 
❄ Leaving Neverland - a new documentary about Michael Jackson


✿ What else I've been up to this week ✿

1. This week has been pretty uneventful - just working and making a proper dent in TBR-list. Business as usual!

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✿ Have a lovely Sunday! ✿

Can't-wait Wednesday #1: To The Best Boys by Mary Weber

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read.

This week, I can't wait for

To The Best Boys 

by Mary Weber

Description from Goodreads

Every year for the past fifty-four years, the residents of Pinsbury Port receive a mysterious letter inviting all eligible-aged boys to compete for an esteemed scholarship to the all-male Stemwick University. Every year, the poorer residents look to see that their names are on the list. The wealthier look to see how likely their sons are to survive. And Rhen Tellur opens it to see if she can derive which substances the ink and parchment are created from, using her father’s microscope.

In the province of Caldon, where women are trained in wifely duties and men are encouraged into collegiate education, sixteen-year-old Rhen Tellur wants nothing more than to become a scientist. As the poor of her seaside town fall prey to a deadly disease, she and her father work desperately to find a cure. But when her Mum succumbs to it as well? Rhen decides to take the future into her own hands—through the annual all-male scholarship competition.

With her cousin, Seleni, by her side, the girls don disguises and enter Mr. Holm’s labyrinth, to best the boys and claim the scholarship prize. Except not everyone’s ready for a girl who doesn’t know her place. And not everyone survives the maze.

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Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy 
Pages: 352 

Expected Publication: March 19, 2019

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

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I have a weakness for cross-dressing, I love it (for example Lila Bard in A Darker Shade of Magic). And on top of that, To The Best Boys also sounds like it could have a dark whimsicality to it. This novel has all the good ingredients: a desperate need and desperate measures. I won't complain about the all-male university either, I'm sensing cute enemies!