Six For Sunday – April – The Viper-inspired ones
Six for Sunday (#SixForSunday) is a weekly meme hosted by Steph over at A Little But a Lot. The prompts for each week are up well in advance and they are a great way to share your love of all things book.
4th – Books with snakes on the cover/in the title
11th – Magical books
18th – Fictional islands you’d like to visit
25th – Characters who would make great ships captains
Decieved: House of Sin #2 by Elizabeth Naughton
Contemporary Romance
Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38089406-deceived
Synopsis
Some doors were never meant to be opened…
I made a fateful mistake. I should never have peeked behind the doors into his forbidden world.
But I did, and now I’m a prisoner. Trapped by the man I thought loved. The man I once foolishly trusted. The man who, despite his lies and deception, I continue to crave.
He can melt my resolve with one rough, whispered demand, and I feel myself giving in to the desire he still stirs inside me. And yet, if I want to survive, I must find a way to escape. Because if I don’t, I’m afraid I’ll be consumed by a shadowy world that will ultimately destroy me.
Lost forever in his wicked House of Sin…
Snake Heart by Lindsay Buroker
Fantasy / Steampunk
Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29326807-snake-heart
Synopsis
Tasked with an impossible mission, hunted by the very people he wants to protect, Yanko White Fox is the only one who can save his nation from famine and anarchy. Armed only with his fledgling skills as a wizard and accompanied by allies he’s not sure he can trust, he must track down an ancient relic before his enemies find it first. But countless obstacles stand in the way, including his mother. The deadly and infamous pirate Snake Heart cares nothing for the family—or the son—she abandoned, and wants the artifact for herself.
Closer to the Chest by Mercedes Lackey
Fantasy
Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28534084-closer-to-the-chest
Synopsis
Herald Mags, the King of Valdemar’s Herald Spy, has been developing a clandestine network of young informants who operate not only on the streets of the capital city of Haven, but also in the Great Halls and kitchens of the wealthy and highborn. In his own established alternate personas, Mags observes the Court and the alleys alike, quietly gathering information to keep Haven and the Kingdom safe.
His wife Amily is growing into her position as the King’s Own Herald, though she is irritated to encounter many who still consider her father, Herald Nikolas, to be the real King’s Own. Nonetheless, she finds it increasingly useful to be underestimated, for there are dark things stirring in the shadows of Haven and up on the Hill. Someone has discovered many secrets of the women of the Court and the Collegia— and is using those secrets to terrorize and bully them. Someone is targeting the religious houses of women, too, leaving behind destruction and obscene letters.
But who? Someone at the Court? A disgruntled Palace servant? One of the members of the Collegia? Someone in the patriarchal sect of the god Sethor? Could the villain be a woman? And what is this person hoping to achieve? It isn’t blackmail, for the letters demand nothing; the aim seems to be the victims’ panic and despair. But why?
Mags and Amily take steps to minimize the damage while using both magic and wits to find the evildoer. But just as they appear to be on the verge of success, the letter writer tires of terror and is now out for blood.
Mags and Amily will have to track down someone who leaves few clues behind. They must thwart whatever plans have been set in motion, and quickly—before terror turns to murder.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
YA Fantasy
Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15881.Harry_Potter_and_the_Chamber_of_Secrets
OK so technically it’s a Basilisk but it looks pretty snake like on this cover! I don’t mind admitting that I really enjoyed this series.
Synopsis
Ever since Harry Potter had come home for the summer, the Dursleys had been so mean and hideous that all Harry wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he’s packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange impish creature who says that if Harry returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.
And strike it does. For in Harry’s second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor and a spirit who haunts the girls’ bathroom. But then the real trouble begins – someone is turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possible be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects… Harry Potter himself!
Nathan by Elin Peer
Contemporary Romance
Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50899493-nathan
OK, a slight cheat here with no snake visible. However snakes were a very significant part of the plot, and had been used to mentally torture the hero when he was a child.
Synopsis
I’ve only got 5 books to share this week, as I prefer to feature books I have read or own, and can’t think of a sixth book. Do you own books with snakes on the cover or in the title?
I had completely forgotten about the snakes on the cover of Closer to the Chest. I had to resort to google to find my sixth one although I had actually read it. I haven’t read that Lindsay Buroker series so might look it up.
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