Hett i hyllan vecka 14 / 2025

Så här skriver Monika om Hett i hyllan:

Jag bara gissar nu, men jag tror inte jag är ensam om att ha en del böcker i hyllan som stått där i evinnerliga tider. Är det inte dags att de där, halvt, bortglömda böckerna får ta lite plats och synas? Jo, det tycker jag. Verkligen. Därför kommer de, en efter en, att dyka upp här varje torsdag under rubriken Hett i hyllan. Lite lagom tvetydigt, eller hur? Vad har du för dolda skatter i hyllan? 

Denna vecka plockar jag fram en bok från bokhyllan som är en deckare, en genre jag inte läser så mycket längre men när jag gör det väljer jag ofta någon från en serie jag redan håller på att läsa ur som den här med Kommissarie Knutas och hans kollegor från Gotland.

När högsäsongen på Gotland står för dörren hittas en kvinna mördad i Lummelundagrottan. Kvällen före hade hon deltagit i en mörkertur i grottan. Hur kunde mördaren slå till under turen? Kommissarie Knutas leder utredningen och fallet visar sig ha kopplingar till ett grottmysterium i Norrland många år tidigare. Den höggravida Karin ger sig dit på eget bevåg och hamnar mitt i ett livsfarligt drama.

Manga jag läst första kvartalet 2025

Jag har läst några manga det här första kvartalet och jag tänkte att jag slår ihop mins recensioner av dem i ett inlägg. Det är flera av e serier jag redan har/håller på att läsa som jag läst vidare i. En ny påbörjad. Och de flesta gillar jag de har fått tre av fem i betyg allihop förutom Spyxfamily och den sista som har fått 4 av fem möjliga. 

 An action-packed comedy about a fake family that includes a spy, an assassin and a telepath!

Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the betterment of the world. But when he receives the ultimate assignment—to get married and have a kid—he may finally be in over his head!

The Forgers look into adding a dog to their family, but this is no easy task—especially when Twilight has to simultaneously foil an assassination plot against a foreign minister! The perpetrators plan to use trained dogs for the attack, but Twilight gets some unexpected help to stop these terrorists.

Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the betterment of the world. But when he receives the ultimate assignment—to get married and have a kid—he may finally be in over his head!

Anya Forger has been trying her best to befriend Damian Desmond, the son of the powerful Ostanian political leader Donovan Desmond, but her attempts have been constantly rebuffed. Despite the setbacks, Anya is determined to gain access to the Desmonds’ inner circle and even devises a new plan—acing her midterm exams to earn stella stars! Can the academically challenged Anya pull off this feat for the sake of world peace?

Love is already hard enough, but it becomes an unnavigable maze for unassuming high school student Taichi Ichinose and his shy classmate Futaba Kuze when they begin to fall for each other after their same-sex best friends have already fallen for them.

Toma’s older brother, Seiya, asks Taichi to find out why Toma doesn’t want to go to college. On the day of Toma’s release from the hospital, Taichi still hasn’t found a way to broach the subject with Toma. Meanwhile, Futaba discovers Taichi’s birthday is coming up, and she decides to invite the group to a fireworks festival so they can all celebrate.

THE GREAT DETECTIVE OF THE INNER PALACE IS BORN...?!

Maomao, a young woman trained in the art of herbal medicine, is forced to work as a lowly servant in the inner palace. Though she yearns for life outside its perfumed halls, she isn't long for a life of drudgery! Using her wits to break a "curse" afflicting the imperial heirs, Maomao attracts the attentions of the beautiful Jinshi and is promoted to attendant food taster. But Jinshi has other plans for the erstwhile apothecary, and soon Maomao is back to brewing potions and...solving mysteries?!

An unexpected love quadrangle with a dash of unrequited love as two classmates, a boy and a girl, begin to fall for each other when each of their best friends have already fallen for them.

It’s the last year of high school, and love is in the air. Romantic feelings that have been building up over years of friendship come to light. When Taichi’s classmate Futaba asks him to help her confess to his best friend, Toma, it sparks the catalyst that begins the sweet and heart-wrenching journey of their third and final year of high school.

It’s official! Taichi and Futaba are a couple, and Taichi excitedly breaks the news to Toma. But things quickly grow awkward between the two friends, and Toma becomes more distant. Meanwhile, Toma’s friend Mami starts to get on Taichi’s case about Toma’s change in attitude. But there is more to this girlie girl than meets the eye…

The space between worlds (#1) av Micaiah Johnson

 Born in the dirt of the wasteland, Cara has fought her entire life just to survive. Now she has done the impossible, and landed herself a comfortable life on the lower levels of the wealthy and walled-off Wiley City. So long as she can keep her head down and avoid trouble, she's on a sure path to citizenship and security - on this world, at least.Of the 380 realities that have been unlocked, Cara is dead in all but 8.Cara's parallel selves are exceptionally good at dying - from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn't outrun - which makes Cara wary, and valuable. Because while multiverse travel is possible, no one can visit a world in which their counterpart is still alive. And no one has fewer counterparts than Cara.But then one of her eight doppelg ngers dies under mysterious circumstances, and Cara is plunged into a new world with an old secret. What she discovers will connect her past and future in ways she never could have imagined - and reveal her own role in a plot that endangers not just her earth, but the entire multiverse.

Bokomslag och beskrivning av bokens handling hämtad från Bokus.

Den här boken har jag vetat om länge och tänkt att läsa lika länge. Nu blev det av då jag har tänkt att se och läsa de flesta science fiction böcker jag har hört talas om det skista. Mest för att jag vill det och för att se hur de är då jag själv skriver en science fiction berättelse.

Denna var väl intressant då den gällde att det är flera parallellvärldar det handlar om och att en hel del är samma och upprepas i dem och huvudkaraktäern försöker få en rätsida på dem så att de blri "bra" världar att leva i för hennes  familj och vänner. Men sedan kan jag inte säga att den helt fall mig i smaken, något saknas men jag kan inte riktigt säga vad. Jag ville ha mer, men ändå kändes histiorien avslutad även om det var första delen i en serie så ???

Vad jag läste, såg och hörde på under vecka 13 / 2025

 

Den här veckan har jag väl fått till att läsa en hel del, sedan kanske inte det blivit i de böcker som jag räknar sidor i som fysiska böcker och ljudböcker. Utan jag har läst en hel del på nätet som Webtoons och Manga/Manwha (tror det stavas så).

Har förutom sett på lite youtube sett på några TV-serier som The night agent (3 avsnitt), Outlander (2 avsnitt) och Shetland (1 avsnitt).

Har sedan förutom lyssnat på musik förutom ljudbok.

I veckan har jag även fått till lite skrivande och redigerande av mina manus, men behöver ta tag i det mer, så förhoppningsvis kan jag få till mer de veckor som kommer.

Vad jag läste dag för dag:

24/3

26 sidor ur Red seas under red skies av Scott Lynch (ljudbok)

64 sidor ur Att förhandla med de döda av Maragret Atwood

25/3

85 sidor ur Red seas under red skies

72 sidor ur Att förhanda med de döda (utläst)

26/3

45 sidor ur The space between worlds ur Micaiah Johnson

75 sidor ur Criminal intentions av Cole McCade (ljudbok)

27/3

42 sidor ur Red seas under red skies

22 sidor ur Velocity weapon av Megan O`Keefe

28/3

46 sidor ur Red seas under red skies

93 sidor ur Velocity weapon

29/3

41 sidor ur Red seas under red skies

41 sidor ur The space between worlds

30/3

54 sidor ur Red seas under red skies

53 sidor ur The space under worlds 

Sammanlagt denna vecka

antal sidor 642

antal böcker 1

antal lyssnnade ca timmar 8

Sammanlagt mars

antal sidor 6308

antal böcker 20 (21)

antal lyssnade ca timmar 60½

Sammanlagt februari

antal sidor 4762

antal böcker 13

antal lyssnade ca timmar 30

Sammanlagt januari

antal sidor 35 050

antal böcker 21

antal lyssnade ca timmar 41½

Sammanlagt 2025

antal sidor 45 867

antal böcker 60 (61)

antal lyssnade ca timmar 160½

April - TBR: Tome infinity & beyond readathon

 

Det här var en readathon som jag har deltagit i tidigare så jag blev glad att se att den skulle återkomma nu i april, speciellt sedan jag i slutet av förra året både fick en sådan smak av att läsa science fiction böcker och köpte en hel del. Så efter att ha slått med en tärning för två böcker i varje del av kartan så har jag nu valt de här böckerna att läsa.

Solar frontier (beginner)
4.  Wormhole - Read a book under 300 pages

To be taught, if fortunate - Becky Chambers

2. Planet nebula - Read a book with a colorful cover (har två förslag, får se vilken jag läser)

(Red Mars Kim Stanley Robinson) /The blue beuatiful world - Karen Lord

Nebula expanse (intermediate)

4. Time dilation - Read a book that plays with time (time travel, dual timelines, etc.)

The sparrow - Mary Doria Russell

6. Starlight relay - Read a book that has been highly rated or recommended by other readers

Empire of silence - Christopher Ruocchio

Cosmic rift (advanced)

3. Solar eclipse - Read a book with morally gray characters or an antihero

Pandora´s star - Peter F Hamilton

5. Supernova - Read a book that has been on your TBR forever and is about to explode off your bookshelf

Zone one - Colson Withead

Sedan har jag planer på att läsa dessa böcker tillsammans med Evelina

• Världen runt - Kamerun -  Tålamod - Djalil Amadou Amal

• VÅR av Ali Smit
• Ministeriet för tid - Kaliane Bradley
• Furiously happy Jenny Lawson

Och de här biblioteksböckerna innan jag måste lämna tillbaka dem.

• Red Mars
• The sparrow
• Pandora´s star
• Kontakt - Carl Sagan
• Metro 2033 - Dimitrij Ghlucovskij
• The apothecaray diaries vol 2 och 3 - Hyuga Natsu
• Universums olösta gåtor - Lawrence Krauss
• Ett universum ur ingenting - Lawrence Krauss
• Den största berättelsen hittills - Lawrence Krauss
• Yona the dawn vol 4 och 5 - Mizuho Kusanagi
• Tokyo Ghoul vol 1 - Ishidia Suy
• Fruit basket vol 3 - Natsuki Takaya
• Seven days - Benio Tachibana
• Kamisama kiss vol 1 - Julietta Susuki
• Infinity gate - Mike Carey
• Arrival - Ted Chiang
• Hyperion - Dan Simmons
• In deep waters - F T Lukens
• The turn of the key - Ruth Ware

Att förhandla med de döda: En författare om skrivandet av Maragret Atwood

 

Vilken är författarens roll? Att vara profet? Hovnarr? Ett slags Konstens överstepräst? Eller ligger i rollens kärna kanske i första hand en uppgift att bära vittnesbörd om den samtida verkligheten? Med denna centrala fråga i fokus ser Margaret Atwood tillbaka på sin egen barndom och sin karriär som författare och granskar samtidigt de metaforer som andra skönlitterära författare och poeter har använt för att förklara - eller ursäkta - det som de sysslar med. Hon synar kritiskt i sömmarna de dräkter som författare genom tiderna ansett det lämpligt att ikläda sig och de roller som de har valt att spela.

Skildringen av de både levande och döda författare som Margaret Atwood valt att syna balanseras hela tiden av anekdoter från hennes egna erfarenheter som författare i hemlandet Canada och på den internationella arenan. Det lätta anslaget skymmer på intet sätt hennes allvarliga syn på såväl syftet som nöjet med att skriva, och inte heller hennes stora kunskaper om myter och traditioner i västerländsk litteratur.

Bokomslag och beskrivning av bokens handling hämtad från Bokus.

Om den inte var igenom helt så bra som jag hade hoppats så fanns det vissa partier jag gillade mer än andra att läsa om både att skriva och läsa böcker. 

Romance/erotik jag läst under första kvartalet 2025

 Ibland måste jag bara välja att lyssna (läsa) på inte så fina böcker som andra, utan jag tar en bra underhållnigen genom att lyssna på romance (erotik) berättelser då och då. Men det är ju inte så att jag behöver göra ett enskilt blogg-inlägg för varje, så här kommer en sammanslagning av dem.

Betyg 4 av 5

BRADY

Our quick hellos are followed by drawn out goodbyes.

What started out as one fun night turned into a regular thing none of us ever planned for.

I can't walk away from Kit and Prescott. Kit is the stern nurturer I need. He's the caretaker, the solid presence. Prescott enables my wild ways. He's someone I can have fun with. They couldn't be more perfect for me.

But come graduation, I have to move across the country, and geography isn't our only obstacle. Being in a relationship with two men isn't good for my public image, my brother's NFL career, or the media frenzy that surrounds my famously queer family.

We have a plan to meet up once a year, but with every reunion, every brief visit, we fall deeper.

There has to be a breaking point, something that will end it for us, or soon it will be impossible to say goodbye at all.

Betyg 3 av 5

Michael Sebastian thought that Curacao would be the perfect place to have a little fun in the sun—and between the sheets. So far, no one has struck his interest, until Sam Anderson walks into the bar. With one look at his tense body and expensive suit, Michael knows that this is a man in need of release. And Michael is more than willing to lend a hand.

Shattered by the most intense sex he's ever had, Sam has to face the facts—one night with a handsome, dominating stranger is all he gets before returning to the closet he's been suffocating in for years. But when Sam starts his new job as the CEO of a failing technology company, he discovers that Michael is one of his new employees.

While Michael is desperate for another night with Sam, he knows he shouldn't get involved with his boss, let alone another man who can't accept who he is. But as they're forced to work together to save the company, the desire sparking between them becomes impossible to ignore.

Contains mature themes.

Betyg 4 av 5

FOSTER

“Look out for Zach and don’t hit on him.”

My brother’s request sounds easy enough. Keep an eye out for his best friend on campus and keep my hands to myself.

Easy.

Even if Zach is a quintessential nerd, who I’ve always thought was cute, I don’t have the time to think with my … stick.

There’s only one stick I should be focused on this year, and that’s my hockey stick. My goal once I graduate is to get an NHL contract.

The last thing I need is a distraction. On or off the ice.

Only, keeping to the rules is harder than I thought it would be.



ZACH

People confuse me.

And no one more than Foster Grant.

I’ve barely spoken two words to him in the whole time I’ve known him, but the second I step foot on campus, he’s impossible to shake.

I can never anticipate his next move. And whenever we’re together, my next move is a total mystery as well.

I want to give in to him, but that might mean coming clean about something I’ve never been bothered about before.

I’m still carrying my V-card.

And I think it’s time to turn it in.

Betyg 4 av 5

EZRA

Partying, dudes, and hockey. What more could a gay NHL player want?

If it weren't for Anton Hayes, my life would be perfect.

Not that he affects my life in any way. At all. That would imply I care what the winger from Philly thinks of me.

Which I don't.

Not even a one-night stand with him can thaw his misplaced animosity toward me.

He says I'm the one with the ego, but he can talk. He rivals me for most egotistical puck boy in the league.

I hate him as much as he hates me. Even if I crave a repeat.


ANTON

When it comes to hockey, I'm all about the game.

I've worked for years to be one of the best in the league, and l've done it without splashing my orientation all over the tabloids.

My hockey image is one I've carefully cultivated, and after one night with Ezra Palaszczuk, I risk it all.

He's cocky, obnoxious, and has an ego bigger than Massachusetts. And okay, maybe he's the sexiest man I've ever known.

We'll never get along. Not when we sleep together. Not even when my possessive streak awakens.

That doesn't stop us from falling into bed together over and over again.

Betyg 3 av 5

Professor Derek Rutledge is hated and feared by all of his students. Strict, reserved and ruthless, he doesn't tolerate mistakes and has little patience for his students.

Shawn Wyatt is a twenty-year-old struggling to provide for his younger sisters after the death of their parents. On the verge of losing his scholarship, Shawn becomes desperate enough to go to Professor Rutledge.

Everyone says Rutledge doesn't have a heart. Everyone says he's a ruthless bastard. Shawn finds out that everyone is right.

He strikes a deal with Rutledge, but unexpectedly, the deal turns into something so much more.

Something all-consuming and addictive.

Something neither of them wants.

Betyg 3 av 5

Alexander Sheldon likes order and control in his life. He isn’t happy when his girlfriend invites another guy for a threesome. Alexander believes in monogamy, and he’s never been good at sharing his things. It doesn’t help that Christian rubs him the wrong way from the beginning.

But what starts as animosity turns into something else. Something unexpected and very wrong.

He was never supposed to touch Christian. He was never supposed to feel possessive of the guy. And he most definitely wasn’t supposed to want Christian more than he wants his girlfriend.

It’s a recipe for disaster.

Note: This book contains some M/F/M sex and graphic language.

Betyg 3 av 5

They took too much.
Left too little.
I had nothing to lose...until him.

*****************

~Lana~

I didn't expect him.
I didn't want to fall in love.
But I can't let him go.

Logan Bennett makes the world a safer place.
He's brilliant.
He's a hero.
He locks away the sick and depraved.
But while he's saving lives, I'm taking them. Collecting the debts that are owed to me.

Ten years ago, they took from me. They left me for dead.
They should have made sure I stayed dead.

Now I'm taking from them.
One name at a time.

I've trained for too long.
I've been patient.
I can't stop now.

Revenge is best served cold...

They never see me coming, until I paint their walls red.

Logan doesn't know how they hurt me. He doesn't know about the screams they ignored. He doesn't know how twisted that town really is.

He just knows people are dying.
He doesn't know he's in love with their killer.

No one suspects a dead girl.
And Logan doesn't suspect the girl in his bed.

They're looking for a monster.
Not a girl who loves red.
Not a girl in love.

I'm a faceless nightmare.

At least until I tell them the story they've pretended never happened.

But in the end, will Logan choose them? Or will we watch them burn together?

**Graphic
**Adult language
**Some triggers could be too much for the easily disturbed reader
**Sexual content
**Fucked up moral compass; read at your own risk.

Betyg 3 av 5

They always want to break me, but I'm too strong now. Untouchable.
Or at least I was...until her.

****
LOGAN

I've had tunnel vision for one main goal for so long, that I forgot there was a whole other world just outside. Until Lana.

She's everything I never expected, and I love the fact I can never guess her every move or reaction. It's part of the reason I keep falling. But I also know she shuts me out, hides things from me she feels she can't share.

One day, I hope she trusts me enough to share.

It isn't until my job puts her at risk that I realize just how fierce she is, but it doesn't stop me from doing all I can to protect her. I should walk away to protect her better, but I can't. Instead, I'm forced to find other ways to keep her safe.

I just hope it's enough.

Though she is fierce, she's still fragile...

Right?

Betyg 3 av 5

To kill a monster, you have to be twice as monstrous. To love a monster, you have to share your soul...

Logan Bennett makes me want to have a future not tainted by the constant hunger for revenge. Doesn't mean I can stop. Doesn't mean I want to stop. It just means I want more...one day.

But how do you make a good man love the monster inside you without stripping his soul away as well? He is all the best parts of me right now, resurrecting bits of my heart I forgot could even exist.

He makes me feel something other than cold.

He also thinks I'm weak and fragile. Something I laugh about to myself, while secretly soaking in all his protectiveness and concern.

If anyone touches him, harms him, or even threatens him, then they should probably run. Because his girlfriend is a little bit crazy. They just don't know it yet.

Betyg 3 av 5

To understand the monsters in the world, you have to get inside their heads. It's a dangerous place to be, especially when you start to empathize and lose your own sense of morality.

But that's never happened to me...

I've never felt conflicted on any case. Right is right and wrong is wrong. It's simple. Black and white. There's no such thing as a gray area.

But fuck this case. I don't even know what side I'm on anymore. I don't understand how this town can continue to function without breaking under the weight of all the lies they've spun and lived.

Every time I find a shard of truth, my gut twists, my heart beats faster, and I hate this place a little more. Every time I think I've heard the worst, another truth is dug up from the ashes of more burning lies.

Worst of all, I don't even know who to trust anymore. My head is all messed up.

I pride myself on being impossible to fool.
I'm an expert at knowing when someone is lying to me.
I never believed in being blinded by love...until Lana.

**BE WARNED: Some flashbacks can get intense to readers with a sensitive trigger. Skip the blocks in italics if that's the case.

För hela serien sammanslagen. Den var underhållande. Betyg 4 av 5

Hush, little baby, don't say a word...

Will Logan choose them? Or will we watch them burn together?

It's time to fuck with their minds.
It's time to finish it all.
It's time to paint it all red...

Monsters don't usually wish for happily-ever-afters.