October Witchy Reading Challenge 2026

 Hi My loves

It's another chance to get some fun books read off my shelf. I looking at doing a challenge instead of a specific reading list since I want to give myself a lot of options:  I did something like this a few years ago and thought this would be a good way to work my way through the Paranormal shelves. Here are the prompts:

•  Samhain is a time for honoring your ancestors... so once again, pick a book that features your heritage.
•  This Sabbat is a time when the veil is thinnest, pick a book that features communing with the dead... (ghosts or mediumship or necromancy)
• We are heading into the darkest part of the year... Pick a book that promises to be dark & twisted.
• Witches often make offerings to spirit guides or gods... Pick a book that involves a pantheon of deities! 
• Dancing round the bonfire is a Samhain tradition... pick a book that has fire on the cover.
• Many celebrate the Sabbat as Halloween and dress up, post a picture of your costume and share it. 

Previously did this as part of a readathon on twitter. Previous Post

A few other prompts from challenges I have seen 

• Read a book with Skull on it
• Is Set in The Woods
• A Book That Scared You
• Characters Celebrate Halloween
• Characters are Witches
• Witches are in the book
• Ghosts appears
• Set in a Magical World
• Book has a cat in it
• Title contains a spooky number (13, 6)
• Has a scene in a graveyard
• Black Cat appears (on the cover, in the book)
• Creepy setting 
• Raven/ Crow on the cover or in the book
• Fave Witchy Read
• Spell in title
• Orange covered book
• Set in Autumn
• Cover with a night sky
• Character wears a disguise
• Character wears a Halloween costume
• Begins with an "O"
• Witch as the protagonists
• Has a full moon on the cover
• Has a pumpkin on the cover
• Spell goes wrong
• Book has a missing character
• Books have non human or 1/2 human as a character
• Published in October
• Set in a haunted house

Let me know what you're reading this season and I can't wait to show you the wrap up.

Do you have any books to recommend that fit these prompts?? What are you looking forward to reading this season??

Can't Wait Wednesdays (Waiting On Wednesday) (2026) Under Fire by Brenda Jackson #WaitingonWednesday

Originally hosted by: Jill over at Breaking The Spines.  However, the Breaking The Spines blog is no longer hosting the prompt, there is a new one called Can't Wait Wednesdays hosted by Wishful Endings. Same premise of sharing books we can't wait to get our hands on. This is a weekly book lust prompt, asking for us to share our absolute can't wait to get our hands on a copy, books. Swing on over to find out how to participate and to see what others are sharing. 

Adult Fiction/ Romance / Erotica

Title:  Under Fire (the Defenders Book 1) by Brenda Jackson

Synopsis

Meet Locke Dangerfield, Shogun Duke and Macayle Wasilla, the surrogate sons of Sheppard Granger. POWER…..PASSION…PROTECTION…

The law firm of Dangerfield, Duke, and Wasilla is not only committed to proving its clients are innocent of all charges, but also to ensuring the guilty party is brought to justice…while managing emotional conflicts for women who intend to change their lives forever.

Locke Dangerfield is determined to prove his client is innocent, even if he has to bring down the bad guys in several government agencies to do so. What he hadn’t counted on wa
s that former Special FBI Agent Hollis Calloway, the woman he hires to assist in the murder investigation, would be a distraction.

Due Date: October 27, 2026

Print:  ebook, paperback, and audiobook

Pages: 

Publisher: Brenda Jackson
Status:  I have Pre-Order/Will Borrow From Library/ Contemplating
Where to Get It: Brenda's Bookshop
Why I'm Excited:

I haven't been reading alot of romance in the last few years because I had gone back to school and was hyper focused on it and the coursework. However, one thing I'm always going to do is collect my favorite authors, Brenda is a auto-buy for me. I absolutely loved the Granger Series  which this is connected to. I'm highly anticipating and since the pre-orders opened on Sept 10th, I made sure to get mine in there as well.  

Make sure to check out the Granger series: 

Are you getting any of these?? What's on your book lust list?? Share in the comments down below!!

Happy Lusting

Book #Review: Archangel's Eternity (Guild Hunter #18) by Nalini Singh #ArchangelsEternity #NetGalley.#GuildHunter

Elena and Raphael return for the hauntingly poignant conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh’s genre-defining Guild Hunter series A thousand years.

It’s been a millennium since Elena’s fateful first meeting with Archangel Raphael. She has survived war and loss, experienced beauty and cruelty. But no matter what, she has always held on to her mortal heart, as she and Raphael have held on to each other. Passionate and vibrant, they’ve built a life that has stood the test of time, growing ever stronger with each turn of the sun.

But change is coming—of a magnitude they could have never imagined—and it will forever alter the trajectory of their existence.

Even as they grapple with the cataclysmic shift in their personal lives, the Cadre of Ten, which has maintained a hard-won peace for centuries, begins to simmer with dangerous fault lines. The specter of madness looms in one archangel, the promise of war burns between two others, and in darkness far from mortal and immortal eyes stirs an ancient, slumbering power.

Suddenly, the future is terrifyingly uncertain . . . at the very moment that Elena and her archangel need to protect a treasure infinitely more precious than eternity.

Book Title: Archangel's Eternity (Guild hunter #18)

Author: Nalini Singh |Website| Twitter| Facebook| Instagram| Bookbub | Goodreads

Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group

Genre: Sci-Fi Fantasy, Romance
Series/Standalone: Series Finale Book 18
Format: eBook, Audiobook, 

Cost: $9.99

Pages:  448

How I got it: ARC & Purchased

Purchase: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Bookshop.Org Mahogany Books (Complete Your Series)
Publication Date: May 05, 2026
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Trigger/ Content Warnings: Discussion of immortality and Death

Excerpt (on author site) 

Okay my loves I'm going to start this off by being so honest with you. I have been deep into school for the past two years and the only reason I stayed sane as a reader was re-reading this and her other series and anything new Nalini wrote. I have re-listened to the series like a million times. (If you haven't heard the audiobooks and you like audio I HIGHLY recommend it).  And to read this one you need to bring tissues.  If you have read this series at all then you know Nalini writes so much emotion into her books and this finale ain't no different. In fact I think it was even more emotional (at least for me) than all the others and some of the others definitely made me cry or tear up. 

I absolutely ugly cried reading this book. Knowing it was the last in this iteration of the series made me sob. I'm also an older sister, so even writing this thinking about living a thousand years without my sisters by my side would absolutely do me in. But ohhh the adventures Elena has had.  I have read this series so many times and each time I re read I find another thing to love about the series, but the discussion about family and what makes family really made me love this even more.  Getting to see some of the characters as they developed and grew, even some surprises from the the other books, oh how I loved each page. 

It being the end of an era, she had so many threads to wrap up. I cried for the characters we got and for the ones we didn't. I cried when Elena and Raphael had their discussion on what they would do should the worst happen. It took me four days to read this because I wasn't ready to let them go or to have anything happen to my favorite characters. So much change has already happened in the world and the new adventures these two go on is so worth reading and being apart of. 

It definitely made me wonder what the world would look like in 400 years and then I thought of the part of Coco where the dead talk about the part that you fade when the last person who remembers you dies. And I just balled my heart out.  

"When there is no one left in the living world who remembers you, you disappear from this world. We call it the final death"   COCO (the movie)

We are here because Raphael made the right choice on that roof top, I just think of what would have happened had he not chosen correctly how differently this world would be. We wouldn't have had the parings (my favorite being Naasir and his Mate in Archangel's Enigma) and adventures we did, new powers wouldn't have risen, and should they not have then the Mantle would have fallen, and so too would it all.  I do hope we see more from the world because there are so many other stories, we could have like what happens to the Healer, do anymore sleepers awaken, can we get the stories from the new batch of warriors of course it wouldn't be from Elena's and Raphael's POV but that's fine. I just want more. 

Even if we never see this world again this was a fantastic conclusion to the Guild Hunter Series and if you haven't read the series I highly recommend.  For now, I will say Goodbye for now Habibti, Goodbye for now Archangel

 ★★★★★

Did I add the book to my personal library??

Absolutely!!! A Must Have

Series In Order

Guild Hunter:

• Angels' Blood
• ArchAngel's Kiss
• ArchAngel's Consort
• ArchAngel's Blade
• ArchAngel's Storm
• ArchAngel's Legion
• ArchAngel's Shadows
• ArchAngel's Enigma
• ArchAngel's Heart
• ArchAngel's Viper
• ArchAngel's Prophecy
• ArchAngel's War
• ArchAngel's Sun
• ArchAngel's Light
• ArchAngel's Resurrection
• ArchAngel's Lineage
• ArchAngel's Ascension
• ArchAngel's Eternity 

RECOMMENDATIONS

• Psy-Changling Series by Nalini Singh

Happy Reading my loves,