We are doing book reviews a little bit differently this year! Mostly because I just haven’t had the time to sit down and write my thoughts out on all the books, but also partly because I feel like sometimes it’s good to switch things up a bit. I’ve found lately that I don’t always have a lot to say about a book- sometimes that’s because I find it’s just average and I don’t have a lot of thoughts (a lot of this was fine- which I don’t feel like I should really waste your reading time on that) OR it’s because my thoughts are conflicted (which lends itself to a whole other situation).
So, this year we are going to look at my reading wraps up in a quarterly perspective. I’m going to rapid fire list the books that I’ve read along with my rating and then I’ll review the one’s that I have the most to say about at the end (I’m trying to do a couple I love, a couple I didn’t particularly care for…). I read a total of 19 books with an average 3.27 rating.
Alright, let’s give this a go and see what happens…
For Whom the Belle Tolls by Jaysea Lynn 4 Stars
You Wanna Be on Top? A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America’s Next Top Model by Sarah Hartshorne NR
Before We Came by Sloane St. James 2 Stars
Indigo Ridge by Devney Perry 3 Stars
Valentine’s Slay by Navessa Allen 2 Stars
Most Eligible by Isabelle Engel 3 Stars
Bonds of Hercules by Jasmine Mas 3 Stars
Wolf.e by Paisley Hope 3 Stars
Brutal Billionaire by Laurelin Paige 3 Stars
The Influencers by Anna-Marie McLemore 3 Stars
Fifty-Fifty by Steve Cavanaugh 4 Stars
Body Check by Elle Kennedy 3 Stars
Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman 5 Stars
Savage Hearts by J.T. Geissinger 3 Stars
A Tongue So Sweet and Deadly by Sophie St. Germain 2 Stars
Mistakes Were Made by Lucy Score 4 Stars
A Tongue So Sweet and Deadly by Sophie St. Germain 2 Stars We will start with my least favorite of the quarter. It wasn’t that this was bad, it was just that it didn’t do…anything. It wasn’t original, there wasn’t depth, and when there was the potential to do…well anything, it shirked away from the hard choice and just went easy. I wished the author had taken a chance to really do some things that were out of the ordinary options, but she stuck with a copy/paste formula that was very disappointing.
The Heir Apparent by Rebecca Armitage 5 Stars I loved this book. We are looking at royalty and aristocracy, but from a…unique viewpoint. We are following someone forced back into the fold, trying to decide if she wants this life, this responsible, if she can handle it, OR if she wants to renounce it all and live a quieter life. I highly recommend this one, even if it’s not in your normal wheelhouse.
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman 5 Stars If I had to pick a standout favorite of the quarter, hell probably of the year, it’s this book and series right here. This is just downright good fun. There is never a dull moment and the number of times I laughed while reading was too many to count. I highly recommend- in fact I’ve been pushing it on everyone I know, and I really hope we will one day see a TV adaptation. Read it!!!!!
A Cuppa Cosy 