The Calendar Girls is a monthly blog event that was created by Melanie at MNBernard Books, and Flavia at Flavia the Bibliophile, and is now hosted by Adrienne at Darque Dreamer Reads, and Katie at Never Not Reading. It was inspired by the 1961 classic song by Neil Sedaka and created to ignite fun bookish discussions among readers and bloggers.
So, just like the song, each month a new theme is chosen (participants will get to vote between two choices), and participating bloggers get to choose their favorite book within the theme, or the book they think best fits the theme, to talk about in a blog post on the first Monday of each month.
For today’s post, the theme and my selection are:
Talk Like a Pirate Day:
Favorite Book About Pirates!:
WINNER:
To Kill A Kingdom by Alexandra Christo
Check out To Kill A Kingdom on Goodreads
Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. With the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. Until a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own. To punish her daughter, the Sea Queen transforms Lira into the one thing they loathe most—a human. Robbed of her song, Lira has until the winter solstice to deliver Prince Elian’s heart to the Sea Queen or remain a human forever.
The ocean is the only place Prince Elian calls home, even though he is heir to the most powerful kingdom in the world. Hunting sirens is more than an unsavory hobby—it’s his calling. When he rescues a drowning woman in the ocean, she’s more than what she appears. She promises to help him find the key to destroying all of sirenkind for good—But can he trust her? And just how many deals will Elian have to barter to eliminate mankind’s greatest enemy?
Well, it turns out that I have not read many books featuring pirates. In fact I could only think of To Kill A Kingdom. But that’s okay, because I LOVED To Kill A Kingdom. It features killer sirens and the pirate prince who hunts them and there may be a slow burn enemies-to-lovers in there and seriously, what’s not to love?
What’s your favorite pirate book?
I was honestly surprised by how much I loved To Kill A Kingdom, when I read it I thought I was either going to dislike it or just kinda like it, but I ended up having so much fun reading it! The enemies to lovers trope was done so well.
LINDS!!!!!!!!!!!! SOOO much to talk about with you. Seriously! I’ve just been catching back up (AGAIN!) but we def have to chat sometime. I’ll try catch you on Insta?
I also loved TKAK when I read it, and it was the first book I thought of when I read the subject so now I can’t think of anything else!!! 😀
Hopefully will chat soon!