Now lets breakdown the books:
1) Winter White: Jen Calonita
This is the 2nd book in the Belles series, I also read it via audio. The voices were the same as Belles and I really liked them. They fit the characters very well. The book overall was a bit annoying, there wasn't enough going on for it to be as long as it was. What story that was there was good, the usual family and friends drama I like reading, but it was drug out too much.
Challenges: Backlist
2) My True Love Gave to Me: multiple authors
I looked forward to this book since I first heard about it over a year ago. I was so excited to start it and I was extremely disappointed when I read it. The stories just didn't grab me. Many of them I stopped half way thru and went to the next because I just couldn't finish them.
Challenges: Backlist, Rock My TBR, Bingo
3) Beastly: Alex Flinn
Alex Flinn was my first retelling and now I want to read all her books. Beastly is my 2nd of hers. It was different than I expected but still enjoyable. I knew it was a retelling of Beauty and the Beast but didn't expect it to be so much from the Beast POV. I really enjoyed seeing his side of the story. One thing I like about retellings is placing the characters as they make their entrance to the story. The characters were spot on in Beastly!
Challenges: Backlist, Rock My TBR, Bingo
4) The Dead House: Dawn Kurtagich
I really didn't think I would like The Dead House so I put off reading it for months. Once I started I couldn't put it down! The format is so cool, and the story was so twisted and dark but interesting. I was guessing the whole time as to what happened. My only issue is I had a problem keeping up with the time line because the jumping around but it wasn't so bad it hurt the story. And that could just have been me.
Challenges: Rock My TBR, Bingo
5) Scarlet: Marissa Meyer
My friends have told me I needed to read Scarlet since I finished Cinder, but I kept putting things in front of it. All I have to say is "Why did yall make me wait so long to read this one?". While reading I'll think I figured something out then everything would change, one thing after another, so exciting. I really love the overlap between Cinder and Scarlet, it was done so well that the stories just meshed. I was afraid with the swapping POVs it would make the story hard to follow but it was the perfect mix.
Challenges: Backlist, Bingo
I didn't complete a series for the A Series A Month Challenge but I'm okay with that. I figured I would miss a couple months, just makes something to work toward next month!
Holiday Bingo
I did really well with the Holiday Bingo card that covered Dec-Feb. I ended up with 8 bingos! Here is my card
And the books:
- Little Earthquakes: Jennifer Weiner
- Forever Princess: Meg Cabot
- Royal Wedding: Meg Cabot
- Let It Snow: mulitple authors
- Fangirl: Rainbow Rowell
- My Secret Boyfriend: Lurlene McDaniel
- And We Stay: Jenny Hubbard
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Laini Taylor
- Jessica Darling's It List 2: Megan McCafferty
- This Song is Not for You: Laura Nowlin
- Dumplin: Julie Murphy
- Awake: Natasha Preston
- Once: Anna Carey
- Rise: Anna Carey
- Belles: Jen Calonita
- Etiquette and Espionage: Gail Carriger
- Saga Volume 1: Brian K. Vaughan
- My True Love Gave to Me: multiple authors
- Beastly: Alex Flin
- The Dead House: Dawn Kurtagich
- Scarlet: Marissa Meyer
WOW you did amazing on the Holiday Bingo! I have Fangirl, DOSAB, This Song is Not For You, Dumplin, Awake, and Belles on my TBR. It looks like you had an amazing reading month- kudos to you!
ReplyDeleteThanks! It was a decent month, not my best. The Bingo card covered 3 months and I am very proud of it.
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