How the heck is it the end of July?!!?!? I am in stunned shock, because it also means I AM DONE WITH GRAD SCHOOL!! I am just waiting on official grades now, but I’m done! Free!!! Free to be a librarian! (This includes a lot of shelving!)
Anyways….! July was an epic month of reading!
Read Books
| Title | Author | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| Book of Night | Holly Black | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Kill the Queen | Jennifer Estep | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| What Happened to the Bennetts | Lisa Scottoline | ⭐ |
| Protect the Prince | Jennifer Estep | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Crush the King | Jennifer Estep | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| For the Throne | Hannah Whitten | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| The Maid | Nita Prose | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| Abandoned Girl | Lexie Winston | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| Broken Girl | Lexie Winston | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| Capture the Crown | Jennifer Estep | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Tormented Girl | Lexie Winston | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| Her Majesty's Royal Coven | Juno Dawson | ⭐⭐ |
| Shades of Wicked | Jeaniene Frost | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Wicked Bite | Jeaniene Frost | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| The Last Graduate | Naomi Novik | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Sisters of the Snake | Sasha Nanua | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| Wings of Shadow | Nicki Pau Preto | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Brutal Vows | J.T. Geissinger | ⭐⭐ |
| Forging Silver into Stars | Brigid Kemmerer | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| The Merciless Ones | Namina Forna | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| Bravely | Maggie Stiefvater | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| The Guncle | Steven Rowley | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| This Vicious Grace | Emily Thiede | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| The Prince's Poisoned Vow | Hailey Turner | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| The Dead Romantics | Ashley Poston | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| The Drowned Woods | Emily Lloyd-Jones | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| The Echo Killing | Christi Daughtry | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
Read Arcs
| Title | Author | Rating | Publish Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| One Dark Window | Rachel Gillig | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | October 18, 2022 |
| Back to the Garden | Laurie R. King | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | September 6, 2022 |
| The Couple at Number 9 | Claire Douglas | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | August 2, 2022 |
| Belladonna | Adalyn Grace | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | August 20, 2022 |
| Three Kisses, One Midnight | Roshani Chokshi | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | August 30, 2022 |
| The King Will Kill You | Sarah Henning | ⭐⭐⭐ | August 2, 2022 |
| These Fleeting Shadows | Kate Alice Marshall | ⭐⭐⭐ | August 9, 2022 |
ARCs Received
- The Luminaries
- Unseelie
- Queen Among the Dead
- Witcha Gonna Do?
Reading Stats
This month I read: 33 books total!
Fantasy Books – 59%
- 20 total
- 9 Young Adult
- 11 Adult
Mystery/Thriller Books – 18%
- 6 total
- 1 Young Adult
- 5 Adult
Romance Books – 20%
- 7 total
- 1 Young Adult
- 6 Adult
Other Books – 3%
- 1 total
- 1 Adult
On the Blog
Once more, July was me posting reviews of upcoming ARCs! I’m VERY excited to post some of the ones coming out in August!
Around and About
Working on getting myself onto a schedule…is not working. Lore Bookclub will be taking a break in August — then we’ll plan out the fall/winter books we want to read!
My favorite book this month was as tie between This Vicious Grace and Belladonna. I’ve been into more adult books recently, but these are both published as YA. The characters are all 18+ in both, but these two books have a stranglehold on me and I need to know what happens next. My next favorite was probably a tie between One Dark Window/Forging Silver Into Stars/The Prince’s Poisoned Vow. All were stupendous in their own ways.
August Hopefuls
🤷♀️Who knows? Probably finish the Harper McClain series, and read some more book box books.
