Read This Month, January

January

1. Työmiehen vaimo                         ebook,       play             ✦✦✦✦✧
2. Ogre Enchanted                            audiobook                                 ✦✦✦.5✧
3. Little Moments of Love                ebook,   graphic novel    ✦✦✦✦✧

4. Adulthood is a Myth                   ebook,   graphic novel    ✦✦✦✦✧
5. Little White Lies                      audiobook                                ✦✦✦✦✧        REVIEWED
6. Every Heart a Doorway          audiobook                                ✦✦✦✦✧        REVIEWED
7. Daughter of the Pirate King   audiobook                                ✦✦✦✦.5
8. Daughter of the Siren Queen  audiobook (Series Finisher)  ✦✦✦✦.5
9. Archenemies                             audiobook                                ✦✦✦✦✧

Re-Read: Cinder & Ella, Graceling, The Selection series, Alice in Zombieland series

Data:

Male/Female author:
         100 % female
Genre:
         0.56 % fantasy,

         0.33 % comic,
         0.11 % play
Pages:
      2 474 p
Format:
        66.6 % audio books,
        33.3 % e-books
Average:
            3.94 ✦

*For stars and more info check my Goodreads: link*

Read on lovelies,

S

Little White Lies : review

Little White Lies by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

SUMMARY
Sawyer Taft didn't expect her estranged grandmother to show up at her apartment door and offer her a contract to participate in debutante season. When she realizes that immersing herself in her grandmother's "society" might mean discovering the answer to her father's identity and braces herself for a year of makeovers, big dresses, bigger egos, scandalous secrets, and a whole lot of bless you heart.

Goodreads' link to the book!
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When I heard Jennifer Lynn Barnes was releasing a new book I immediately added it to my to read, without even reading the synopsis - just the title. I loved The Naturals series (ignoring the first book) and was hesitant to anticipate it too much, but gladly started the book. But onto the review.

Stars: ✦✦✦✦✧

So as usual, I'll tell 4.0 things I liked about the book and 1.0 thing I didn't like.

So what did I think?

+1 | The characters were well done, with every layer of them thought out and new revelations always there.

+1 | Similar to the previous point, the friendships and all relationships were artfully woven together.

+1 | Simply put, the writing. The dual timeline worked well, unlike lots I've previously read of.

+1  | Probably my main point: anticipation, surprises and as a reader not knowing what would happen - or assuming wrong.

- 1  | The book felt slightly dragged - but the audiobook took care of that (also making it quite interesting with the strong Southern accents).

Read on lovelies,

S

Netflix Book TAG

If you want to check out the Original Tag created by A Darker Shade of Whitney you can watch it by clicking HERE

1. Recently Watched

The last book you finished reading

Last book I read physically:

Season of You & Me

Last audiobook: Archenemies

2. Top Picks

A book/books that have been recommended to you based on books you have previously read

Cuckoo's Calling

3. Recently Added

The last book you bought/got

Archenemies

4. Popular on Netflix

Books that everyone knows about (2 you've read and 2 you have no interest in reading)

Cassandra Clare. I've read TMI and TID but am not interested in TDA

5. Comedies

A funny book

The Idiot Brain

6. Dramas

A character who is a drama queen/king

Umm, don't know!

7. Animated

A book with cartoons on the cover

Eliza and Her Monsters?

8. Watch It Again

A book/book series that you want to re-read

Harry Potter. I feel like that has been a constant want for a while now

9. Documentaries

A non-fiction book you'd recommend to everyone

My favorite is probably Cheaper by the Dozen, but it's not for everyone,

so I'll say The Idiot Brain again

10. Action and Adventure

An action packed book

An Ember in the Ashes

11. New Releases

A book that just came out or will be coming out soon that you can't wait to read

Little White Lies

Read on lovelies,

S

2019 book challenge

TBR challenge

Last updated: December 31st -19, check my 2020 challenge for newer ones.

For the past four years I've done a challenge to get my TBR list down.
Although I've gotten a grip on my TBR, I still want to continue with this to expand what I read.

This is very close to last years one, with a few modifications.


1. Complete 3 series
> Daughter of the Siren Queen, Cinder&Ella, Renegades
2. A book from the GoodReads Choice Awards (2018 link)
> Little Moments of Love
3. A book you meant to read in 2018
> To All the Boys I've Loved Before
4. Someone else picked
> The Vinyl Frontier
5. Released as a movie
> Narnia
6. Award winner
> Adulthood is a Myth
7. A book in Finnish
> Tarinoita Suomalaisista tytöistä jotka muuttivat maailmaa
8.  A really long book (500+ pages)
> Crazy Rich Asians
9. A book by an author you haven't read before
> Daughter of the Pirate King
10. Choose by cover
> Mona Lisas and Little White Lies
11. A book where one of the main characters is royalty
> Ogre Enchanted
12. A book you choose randomly
> Safely Endangered Comics
13. A book published in 2019
> Race Me in a Lobster Suit
14. A Standalone
> The Princess and the Fangirl
15. Genre you don't read enough
> Paw Prints
16. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays)
> The Tough Guide to Fantasyland
17. Non-fiction
> Liquid Rules
18. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold)
> Every Heart a Doorway
19. Classic
> Työmiehen vaimo
20. Science
> Awesome Achievers in Technology

Bonus: Reread 5 books
> Alice in Zombieland series,
> Cinder & Ella,
> The Selection series,
> Graceling

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I will be updating this and crossing things over when I've read them.

Read on lovelies,

S

2019 Anticipated Reads, New Releases and Goals

2019 Anticipated Reads and New Releases

Anticipated reads:
> Daughter of the Pirate King, Levenseller
> Archenemies, Meyer

New releases:
> The Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Virtue, Carter
> Her Royal Highness, Hawkins
> Fame, Fate, and the First Kiss, West
> The Princess and the Fangirl, Poston
> Ember in the Ashes #4, Tahir
> The Bridal Test, Hoang
> Maybe This Time, West
> Soul of Stars, Poston


Goals:

> I used to have the goal of reading a classic every month, but now my goal is more than last year (which shouldn't be hard to do)

> Another goal is to expand what I read

> And lastly to finish more series, since I tend to push the reading of the last book

Read on lovelies,

S

TBR 2019

Last updated: December 31st -19, for newer information check my TBR 2020 post

Like the one for last year (link), these are books I own but haven't read yet...
(I'll be crossing them over, and shall try to keep it updated)

Start of the year: 3 + 2 classics

           Gotten 2018 (the ones I'll try to get to zero by the end of the year)
           ARCs and books sent for review

TBR:

   1. Työmiehen vaimo
   2. Tarinoita suomalaisista tytöistä, jotka muuttivat maailmaa
        3. Archenemies
   4. Need To Know, ebook
   5. Safely Endangered Comics, ebook
   6. Awesome Achievers in Technology, ebook
   7. Mona Lisas and Little White Lies, ebook
   8. Race Me in a Lobster Suit, ebook
   9. The Vinyl Frontier, ebook
   10. Little Witches, ebook

   11. Paw Prints, ebook

       11. Princess and the Fangirl, ebook
       12. Meet Cute, ebook
       13. My Lovely Wife, ebook
   14. Magical Experiments, ebook
   15. Fabulous Monsters, ebook
       16. A Natural History of Dragons

 17. Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot

   18. Sumi-e Painting, ebook

       19. Supernova

CLASSICS:

>1. Andersen 15/99

>2. Aesop's Fables 63/384
> + Jane Austen x4

*For stars and more info check my Goodreads: link*

Read on lovelies,

S