The Turquoise Reading Room

📖 Project Hail Mary 📖 by Andy Weir

Oh boy, I am so excited for the movie adaptation of this book to come out next month! Not just because it stars Ryan Gossling, but because this is a fantastic story! 🎬

I loved everything about this book. The nerdy but funny MC. The science. The fake science 😉 The space stuff. A character I won't spoil ❤️🪨. The jumping back and forth in time narrative. Everything! If you haven't read this book? I highly encourage you to now, before the movie is released. Because we readers know, the book is always better! This is also a great audiobook.

Rating:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spice: Just talk. No actual scenes.
Language: 🤬

📖 Wild Love 📖 by Elsie Silver

"That journal entry is fascinating, but all wrong. I was at home when you called that night. And I broke every speed limit to get to you."

Despite the beat up library copy pictured here, I listened to Wild Love on and it was 🤌. Dare I say, Zachary Webber has the hottest narrative voice and that made picturing Ford Grant's character that much better 😍

This is the 1st novel in the Rose Hill series and it's a good one. I like romance books with real stories and realistic characters. This fits the bill perfectly.

Ford is on the outside, a very attractive billionaire and entrepreneur. On the inside he's quiet, loyal, and full of compassion. Rosie Belmont is the younger sister of Ford's best friend, Weston. Rosie's suddenly unexpected return to Rose Hill is concerning, but when another much younger girl shows up on Ford's doorstep, his world is thrown into chaos.

I really liked this book. The characters are great and the story arc has substance. It is heavy on the spice and spicy language, so I wouldn't reccomend it to teenagers. There's a small trigger warnings for SA too 💔

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spice: 🌶🌶🌶🌶
Language: 🤬🤬🤬🤬

📚 Quicksilver 📚 by Callie Hart

I've been on a romantasy binge lately so after I finished the current ACOTAR series, I picked up Quicksilver. It's everywhere and the second book, Brimstone, has just recently been released.

Quicksilver is absolutely right up romantasy alley. It's got magic, an FMC discovering her worth, a hot MMC with a shady background, fantasy realms, fae, vampires, and cute pets 🐕. Couldn't ask for more than that! The story is good and moved at a great pace, so I was never bored. The various supporting characters were interesting and funny. I always appreciate that 😀

There's a lot of spice in this book. Like some really detailed heavy spice 😱 But thats not the main theme of the book, which is good. I think I'll wait a bit before reading the next book though. I like to mix up my genres now & then for something different!

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spice: 🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶
Language: 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬