The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy | 
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GondorGirl I really enjoyed this one! The world building was interesting and the characters were charming. I hope she writes other books in this setting. 2w
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pickMy first book read for #AuldLangSpine & @Laughterhp ‘s list. I loved this book which reminded me of You‘ve Got Mail only set in a western/fantasy world. Both Hart & Mercy were great characters as were their friends & family. Sweet, funny, & a bit spicier than I was expecting-not a bad thing., I was both tearing up & smiling.
I purchased it as a Kindle Deal but it might have languished in my TBR without the #ALSpine nudge, so thanks to Mikala! 🤗
pickMy third #AuldLangSpine 😁📚.
A fantasy romance that gets quite spicy, and there are dogs!
Mercy is an undertaker in her family‘s business, and Hart is a marshal who‘s job it is to deliver bodies from the field.
They don‘t like each other from day one, until they accidentally end up secret pen pals, and even then it‘s doubtful.
There are a bunch of neat characters and some zombie-ish creatures, and I thought this was fun.
Great on audio!
#manicmonday #letterU @cbee @Librariana
📚 The Undertaking of Heart & Mercy; Underground Railroad
✍️ Gabrielle Union; Louis Alberti Urrea
🍿 Underworld; (the) Untouchables
🎤 U2 UB40
🎶 Umbrella (Rihanna) Unholy (Sam Smith)
Better late than......you know.
#WondrousWednesday
1️⃣ Fantasy You‘ve Got Mail (tagged book at least so far!)
2️⃣ Sadly, no. I have no talent for languages
3️⃣ Either Can‘t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne, Paper Cuts by Ellery Adams or Murder at Haven‘s Rock by Kelley Armstrong (I can‘t pick just one! 📚)
Play if you want to & haven‘t yet! 🤗
My New Year‘s Day bookish plans are to finish Improbably Yours, started last night & to get further into the tagged book which I started this morning. It‘s the first of the #AuldLangSpine books from @Laughterhp that I plan to read & 2 chapters in I‘m enjoying it. 🤗
What are your bookish plans for today?
pickFor a book featuring many reanimated corpses and frequent appendix stabbings, this was surprisingly quirky and sweet. I loved the characters and stayed up way too late to finish the story... worth it!
Very excited to go through my #AuldLangSpine list from @Laughterhp & find the first 2 rows pictured are on my #TBR & I already own them or will by Jan! (Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow is in my Dec #BOTM box)
The bottom row weren‘t on my #TBR but I will seek them out as they sound like books I‘ll really enjoy. The remaining 8 books (not shown) are still possibilities as I‘m a moody reader.
Thank you @monalyisha for another great pairing!🤗
November was probably one of my better reading months comparatively as far as quantity goes. Quality started off strong then kind of tanked after Earthsea though. I was a little overly ambitious with my expectations though so I didn't meet any of my goals lol. All 7 were physical books but two were library loans. I also managed to cross three titles off my bookspin backlog. Overall I'm pleased and disappointed at the same time.
#NovemberWrapUp
#BookReport
Pretty solid reading week. Of the two the tagged was my favorite.
#WeeklyForecast
My goal is to hit my 140 pages a day which may or may not mean finishing something.
pickI really enjoyed this. The world felt unique and interesting without being overly complicated and I liked watching Hart and Mercy find each other despite having known each other for four years.
I think the tagged book was my favorite read of October. I read a lot in October, but not a lot of books that I loved.
Let‘s see what November & December bring!
#BookReport
Managed to finish A Wizard of Earthsea this week and make a good dent in the tagged.
#WeeklyForecast
My goal this week is to finish Hart and Mercy and then move on to Tombs of Atuan. I'd like to finish Tombs this week as well but I'm trying to be more realistic with my goals.
so-soThat was an emotional rollercoaster I was not anticipating! I really loved this one. Set in a western border town edged by zombies, a love story unfolds. An enemies to lovers read, but filled with fantasy elements. I loved the juxtaposition of not having cell phones but having toaster pastries. The world Bannen has built is similar to our own but also completely foreign.
The characters were lively and I was apparently attached b/c I am 😭😍
pick“Another death-themed #standalone #fantasy #romance, yay!”, I thought when I started, but it turned out death is just the background here, a fancy worldbuilding gimmick. Instead, this is about putting yourself out there, for other people to see—and potentially judge—and about communicating with those close to you. Plus, it‘s a fun #enemiestolovers romance. Overall, recommended.
Thank you @Laughterhp, for putting this on my radar.
4.0/5
One of my final picks for the #spookyseason 👻!
pickFinished this one on Tuesday last week. I loved this book and I hadn‘t even heard of it until I got it as a birthday book! This was set in a different world where there are old and new gods and demigods. Mercy‘s family runs a funeral home. Hart is a Marshall who has to fight zombie like creatures (but they aren‘t zombies). And they unknowingly start writing letters to each other and slowly fall in love.
#teammonstermash #scarathlon2022
Christine! Thanks so much for these books for my birthday!! I haven‘t heard of the tagged book or Bindle Punk Bruja but they both sound right up my alley!!
I want to read them all now!
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Mercy is undertaker and Hart, a warden tasked with killing the undead, is a frequent and reluctant customer, who loathed Mercy from the moment he met her. He finds solace from his difficult life writing letters to an anonymous friend, never realizing that Mercy is the person responding and is just as unaware of who her secret pen pal is.
It's a beautiful book that isn't afraid to acknowledge death. I loved the world building.
#netgalley
1. The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen & You Are Not a Sh*tty Parent by Carla Naumburg
2. A coke because coffee was not doing it today.
3. Dressing my baby up for his first Halloween!
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
“It was always a gamble, dropping off a body at Birdsall and Son Undertakers, but this morning the bride of fortune favored Hart Ralston.“
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
pickKind of ‘You‘ve Got Mail‘ but with zombies and demi-gods.
An utter delight
pickBk4 of September is done! Well. This only came yesterday & I finished it last night. It was brilliant🙌 It‘s a very hard book to describe, it spans a few genres but fantasy romance works I guess. I‘m not a romance reader(at. All.)but totally fell in love with the story, world & characters. And the snark was amazing! Such a unique world, I don‘t think I‘ve read anything like it before(and that‘s saying something).Recommend 5⭐️ #BookspinBingo
📚Adult FairyLoot .. July 2022. It was lost & I just got it. I was meh … but I‘m glad I didn‘t skip. I love the skull flower stenciling on the edge. I‘m intrigued by the summary. Not my usual genre but I look forward to reading
If it isn‘t me, reading a book that I bought this year 😆
Everyone around the pool had their paperbacks out - so I ditched my kindle to join the cool kids 😎
Monthly update for my #2022ReadingBracket. The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy was my favorite August book. It beats my July favorite, The Bodyguard. But it lost up against my May favorite, The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes.
pickEasily one of my favorites of 2022
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#bookreviews #reading #NetGalley #cozyfantasy @orbitbooks
Full review at: https://lostnagoodbook.wordpress.com/2022/08/29/the-undertaking-of-hart-and-merc...
pickI loved this book a lot. It had an enemies to lovers romance between a super tall grumpy, demigod warden and an undertaker who loves her family, great side characters, an interesting fantasy world, and humor. The fantasy worldbuilding is woven into the story. Just overall a lot of fun.
pickHappy (belated) Pub day! I absolutely adore this book!
It‘s very cozy fantasy vibes and showcases an heartwarming and lovely story that pulls at all the heartstrings. The characters, world building, and plot are all just the right balance of angsty and heartfelt with a hearty dose of hopeful.
There was even letters included for a You‘ve Got Mail vibe (my favorite).
I worked yesterday, so my weekend started today. Tonight I'm starting this book.
so-soYou‘ve Got Mail meets Pushing Daisies with spice—I think this will work for a lot of readers but it was just okay for me. Instant physical attraction never works for me, especially in enemies to lovers. I feel like I should have known because I didn‘t like the cover but I heard such great things from other booksellers I decided to give it a try! But all my cons will be pros for other readers so if this sounds good to you, go for it!
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I‘ve been looking forward to this read for a long time, and I was so excited when it finally came! I enjoyed the banter, humor, romance, and characters that this story had and I will definitely have to read it again. My only complaint is that I wish this story never ended.
I received my July Adult Fantasy FairyLoot. It's absolutely gorgeous. I like the cover a lot, but LOVE the foil embossed hardcover. Now I have to decide if I leave the cover on or off?
Oooh - talk about a cover quote!
I hate it when Amazon actually emails me about books that sound perfect for me…
