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Mask of Shadows  by Lindsey Miller Publication Date: August 29, 2017 Pages: 384 (hardcover) Genre: Young Adult My Goodreads Rating: 1.5-2   Stars Goodreads Synopsis:  Sallot Leon is a thief, and a good one at that. But gender fluid Sal wants nothing more than to escape the drudgery of life as a highway robber and get closer to the upper-class―and the nobles who destroyed their home. When Sal steals a flyer for an audition to become a member of The Left Hand―the Queen's personal assassins, named after the rings she wears―Sal jumps at the chance to infiltrate the court and get revenge. But the audition is a fight to the death filled with clever circus acrobats, lethal apothecaries, and vicious ex-soldiers. A childhood as a common criminal hardly prepared Sal for the trials. And as Sal succeeds in the competition, and wins the heart of Elise, an intriguing scribe at court, they start to dream of a new life and a different future, but one that Sal can have only ...

Yay, my first Top Ten Tuesday (a weekly topic provided by The Broke and the Bookish )! This week's (July 7th) topic is Top Ten Hyped Books I've Never Read - yikes! There are a lot of books I've never read, but also a lot of books that I will never-ever-ever-in-a-thousand-years read, so this is a mixture of those things.       I read plenty of chick-lit, but these never tickled my fancy I guess.  I know, I KNOW. Don't judge me. Look, I'm waiting for it to be complete, okay?  Series with a lot of books aren't something I can do anymore in my old age. ;)   I stole this one from Linz at A Bookish Sinister Kid . I started it a while back, but couldn't get into it, even though plenty of my friends loved it.  Lastly, a trilogy that a lot of people loved but really just isn't for me. Instead of naming it, here's a picture of the guy who is in the movie. But the picture is from one of my favorite television shows, n...