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Goal 366/300 books





PIFM:
January The Lost Apothecary; Beasts and Beauty
February The Kiss Quotient
March Daughter of the Moon Goddess
April Ariadne
May Survive, The Inadequate Heir
June I Kissed Shara Wheeler
July - none
August - Chasing Daisy
September - none
October The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
November Signal to Noise
December Just Like Magic

Challenges:

Yearly
- A-Z Challenge 26/26
- Trope Bingo 25/25
-Genre Bingo 25/25
- TBR Jar 32/32
-Tackle that TBR Vol 5 52/52

Half-year
- January June Bingo 25/25
-July December Bingo 25/25

Quarterly
- January - March series challenge 6/5 series
- Build a Bouquet - April to June 6/6

Statistics:

Genre
Fantasy: 76
Mystery/Thriller: 16
Romance: 110
Sci-Fi: 21
Historical: 14
YA Fantasy: 26
Horror: 14
YA Other: 9
Non-fiction: 36
Other: 22

Author
Male: 77
Female: 267
unknown/other: 3

Type
Hardcopy: 18
Ebook: 205
Audio: 46


Length
<200 pages: 30
201-500 pages: 260
501-999 pages: 55
1000+ pages:


Star rating
5 - 20
4 - 165
3 - 125
2 - 35
1 - 3

Series to finish :

Outlander (7/9)
The Sword of Truth (4/15)
The School for Good and Evil (5/6)
Realm Breaker (1/3)




Series to be continued this year once the next instalment is released


Series to be continued when the next instalment comes out (not this year or date not set)
Crescent City (2/?)
The Witchlands (4/5)
A League of Extraordinary Women (3/4)
Heartstopper (4/5)
The Last Hours (2/3)
Mistborn (7/10)
Aurelia Ryder (1/?)
Shamanborn (2/3)
Empire of the Vampire (1/3)
The Stormlight Archive (4/10)
Reckless (4/5)
The Plated Prisoner (4/5)
The Archived (2/3)
A Court of Thorns and Roses (4/6)
A Song of Ice and Fire (5/7)
The Book of Dust (2/3)
Alex Stern (1/2)
Villains (2/3)
Legacy of Orisha (2/3)
Gentlemen Bastards (3/7)
The Iron Covenant (1/3)
Alpha & Omega (6/?)
Six of Crows (2/3)
The Guild Codex: Warped (3/4)
The Kingkiller Chronicle (2/3)
Dark Shores (3/4)
Elantris (1/2)
Warbreaker (1/2)
Vespertine (1/?)
The Iron Widow (1/2)
Little Thieves (1/2)
Witches Steeped in Gold (2/3)
Skyward (3/4)
The Language of Magic (1/?)
Castles in Their Bones (1/?)
Monsters (1/?)
Blood and Ash (4/6)
The Black Witch Chronicles (4/5)
Red Rising Saga (5/6)
Between Earth and Sky (2/3)
The Radiant Emperor (1/2)
The Witches of Thistle Grove (2/3)
Twin Crowns (1/?)
The Bridge Kingdom (3/5)
Meant to be (2/?)
The Talents Trilogy (1/3)
The Bellamy Sisters (1/3)
Deathless (2/3)
London Calling (2/4)
Married to Magic (3/4)
Mercy Thompson (13/?)
Thursday Murder Club (3/4)
Defy the Night (2/3)
Violet Made of Thorns (1/2)
Burning Kingdoms (2/3)
The Singing Hills Cycle (3/4)
Briardark (1/2)
Foul Lady Fortune (1/2)
The Bloodsworn Saga (2/3)
Legendborn (2/?)
The Atlas (2/3)
The Regency Vows (3/4)
Flesh and Fire (2/3)

Series finished this year :
Dream Team (4/4)
The Beautiful (3/3)
The Other Side of the Sky (2/2)
The World Between Blinks (2/2)
Renegades (3/3)
The Kiss Quotient (3/3)
Tea Dragon (3/3)
What if It's Us (2/2)
Dangerous Damsels (2/2)
Falling Kingdoms (6/6)
The Henna Artist (2/2)
Pandava (5/5)
Binti (3/3)
Fever (5/5) (intial series)
Sundown (6/6)
The Whistler (2/2)
Fractured Fables (2/2)
The Broken Earth (3/3)
The Bellinger Sisters (2/2)
Bridgertons (8/8)
Firefly Lane (2/2)
These Hollow Vows (2/2)
Hidden Legacy (6/6)
Green Bone Saga (3/3)
Ready Player One (2/2)
The Inheritance Games (3/3)
Once Upon A Broken Heart (2/2)
There's Something About Marysburg (3/3)
All Souls (3/3)
The Guild Codex: Unveiled (4/4)
The Ex Hex (2/2)
Six Crimson Cranes (2/2)
The Scholomance (3/3)
Fix-It Witches (3/3)
Kingdom of the Wicked (3/3)
Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery (3/3)
It Ends With Us (2/2)
Malice (2/2)
Dreamer Trilogy (3/3)
Graceling (5/5)
The Celestial Kingdom Duology (2/2)
Gilded (2/2)
Well Met (4/4)
Gearbreakers (2/2)

Good luck Laura!

Good luck Laura! Especially on finishing/catching up on series!

Thank you guys ❤️

All the best :)

Wow! It's quite a challenge! Good luck :)

Thank you all!

Belated January round-up:

Nice looking reads there Laura! Any major stand outs?

Brittany wrote: "Nice looking reads there Laura! Any major stand outs?"

I really loved the Singing Hills cycle and Beyond the End of the World

Ooh what'd you think of the Renegades series and Serendipity??

I enjoyed the Renegades series! It was fun.

Like most anthologies Serendipity was a bit hit and miss with some of the stories but overall super cute!

February wrap-up:



Finished the A-Z character challenge!

Series finished:
The Kiss Quotient (3/3)
Tea Dragon (3/3)

You've already finished the A-Z challenge?? Awesome job, Laura! You have a lot of great looking books! Which was your favorite? Is there a contemporary you read this month that you would recommend?

Liliana wrote: "You've already finished the A-Z challenge?? Awesome job, Laura! You have a lot of great looking books! Which was your favorite? Is there a contemporary you read this month that you would recommend?"

I think House of sky and breath was probably my favourite for the month!

Contemporary books - From Lukov and Act Your Age Eve Brown were rereads and they’re both great! One Night on the Island was great as well!

Awesome stats Laura!

Yeah? House of Breath and Sky was good? So is Maas using the same kind of tropes or doing something different especially with her love story this time around? I haven't decided whether I am going to read the series yet.

How are you liking the Plated Prisoner series? Also how was Castles in their bones? I'm curious about that one.

Similar king of tropes for House of Sky and Breath but a bit more grown up I would say? Deals a lot more with Grief and depression etc. Also the ending absolutely blew my mind she’s doing something very different than th this series.

The Plated Prisoner series was alright - the first book was not great but people had warned me of that so I stuck with it - although parts of it are very much reminiscent of ACOMAF so it’s alright

I actually rather enjoyed castles in their bones! I’m curious to see where the story will go

Thank you! I think I will get around to reading it then. I do love her books.
Good to know, I have read a couple books by the author and enjoyed them so was curious about Plated Prisoner.
Yay! I plan on trying to listen to it

Ah, yes. Sarah J. Maas. I have not read any of her books 😅 Glad to hear you enjoy them though! And I'll definitely be checking out those contemporaries you mentioned! They sound fun!

March Round-Up:

Favorites? As always you have soo many on your read list that I want to get to soon! I wanna as how they were or read your reviews but I'm scared to hah!

Oooh you have a nice range of books! How was Darkfever? I had that book on my tbr FOREVER but have never gotten to it 😅

@Heather I think my favourites this month were All My Rage and Gallant!


@Lili Darkfever was quite average but several people have assured me that like many series in that genre it really gets going a couple books in so let’s see!

Oh I see! So you'll stick with the series then? Hopefully it does get better!

I think I’ll read a couple more and see how I feel then!

That makes me SO EXCITED! Tahir and Schwab are two of my absolute faves and both of those are on my April hopeful tbr! Gallant is up as soon as I get through Dead Silence!

HeatherH wrote: "That makes me SO EXCITED! Tahir and Schwab are two of my absolute faves and both of those are on my April hopeful tbr! Gallant is up as soon as I get through Dead Silence!"

Yay! Let me know how you feel when you do! And same here especially Schwab

Looks like a pretty great month!

I loved the Fever series, at least the original 5 anyway. I havent read all the rest only 6 and 7 I think. But I went to the huge release party for book 6 in NOLA with a group of people from goodreads. I think its worth continuing, book 1 was rough for a lot of people.


How was Here's to Us? I was kind of surprised a second book came out.
And did you actually get through all of The Art of War?! How was it?

Fair enough for Darkfever!

Honestly, here’s to us didn’t really live up to the first book!

For The Art of War the ‘classics�� version is only about 300ish pages!

Only being around 300 pages would make reading Art of War much easier.

Good to know about Heres to Us, I probably wont bother then

Honestly I’d say it’s fine to just see What if It’s us as a standalone!

And yes for sure for The Art of War!

Which is what I assumed it was when I finished it!

What did you think of TWOTQ Laura?

Kayleigh {K-Books} wrote: "What did you think of TWOTQ Laura?"

To me it was just alright overall! I’m not as outraged as a lot of people (view spoiler)[ but I do kind of feel like Kieran was just used as a prop, and the storyline felt a bit slow to me (hide spoiler)]

How about you?

TWOTQ spoilers (view spoiler)[ I really loved it. Now I really don't like threesomes/poly relationships in books. Nothing against them, they're just not for me, so I thought I'd have hated the joining but I didn't. I thought it fit actually. I actually preferred all of the parts before Casteel was rescued. I quite controversially don't really like Cas that much. So I loved that before he was rescued, it seemed more plot focused to me which I loved. After he was rescued I felt like it slowed down. It's no where near my fave JLA series. I'm actually more than ready for this series to be over so she can write something new. (hide spoiler)]

Kayleigh {K-Books} wrote: "TWOTQ spoilers [spoilers removed]"

That’s fair! To be honest I’m in the middle - I wasn’t outraged but somehow I wasn’t that into the book either!

Which series is your favourite of JLA’s?

Covenant Series and Harbinger Series are my two favourites. Both are YA but can be considered quite upper YA. I personally think her paranormal romance series are much better than her epic fantasy, though I do prefer the Blood and Ash prequel more than the main series.

April round-up - it was a very productive month!

How did you find Ariadne? And The Nightingale?

I really enjoyed The Nightingale!

For Ariadne, it felt like something was missing. It wasn't bad but it didn't quite hold my attention either!

That's a shame about Ariadne, to be honest, I was kind of feeling the same way before I put it down, but I thought that was more due to my reading slump than anything else! Oh well, we'll see if I go back to it or not.

Glad to hear you enjoyed The Nightingale though!

Lots of great books! How was Tourist Attraction? What are your favourites?

Wow Laura! Great month!
How did you like The Henna Artist?

I wasn’t a huge fan of the Tourist Attraction to be honest- it was just average!


I really enjoyed the Henna Artist! I think that and the Nightingale might have been my favourites for the month!

Great reading month Laura! That's a shame about Ariadne. It sounds so intriguing!

How did you like The No-Show? I absolutely love Beth O'Leary

Thanks Lili!

@Kayleigh - it was good! The twist was quite clever actually

Hey, Laura. Can I use this as a base for myself? I've never done anything like this before and I would love to.