September 2021 Reading Wrap-Up

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Neon Gods by Katee Robert
(Dark Olympus, book 1)
Rating: N/A – DNF
Review: No
Format: Audiobook
Reading Dates: Aug 19 – Sept 7
Read Count: 0.5
Favorite Thing: Interesting premise
Least Favorite Thing: This book made me feel oogy?

I tried to read this for Katesbookdate‘s patreon book club and… I swear this was almost porn-without-plot, it was barely not that. I felt so uncomfortable the whole time, not about the sex, but about how every single thing – good or bad – brought on a new sex scene. Also…the way he talked to her was shudder inducing.

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The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
(Percy Jackson and the Olympians, book 5)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review:  No
Format:  Audiobook
Reading Dates: Sept 7
Read Count: 3
Favorite Thing:  The oracle!
Least Favorite Thing: Why can’t people just tell other people things?

I probably won’t ever read these books again, but because I feel like I’ve really aged out of them. But it was a nice little throw-back.

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All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
(The Southern Vampire Mysteries, book 7 )
Rating: ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review: No
Format: Audiobook
Reading Dates: Sept 1 – 7
Read Count: 2
Favorite Thing: Telepath Teamup!
Least Favorite Thing: I can’t even think of anything, I take these books as they are lol

So I’ve read this before, physically, but I listen to music or audiobooks while I work now and I needed something fluffy so of course I went for the Sookie Stackhouse books. I’ve been trying to slowly work my way through, but once I start one I just can’t turn it off!

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Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Rating: ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review: No
Format: Audiobook
Reading Dates: Sept 8 – 9
Read Count: 2
Favorite Thing: I love the way everyone talks. No the accents, but like the word choice and the…cadence maybe?
Least Favorite Thing: She’s so painfully selfish, the movie definitely took some of that out.

I love this movie so much, and I have listened to a different audiobook version in the past, but I think this one was better.

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From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
(The Southern Vampire Mysteries, book 8)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review: No
Format: Audiobook
Reading Dates: Sept 10 – 11
Read Count: 2
Favorite Thing: I like that a major real life event was included, makes a fantastical story feel more real.
Least Favorite Thing: Stop, I’m never going to have a least favorite am I?

These books are so relaxing for me. And occasionally quite funny.

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Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
(The Southern Vampire Mysteries, book 9)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review: No
Format: Audiobook
Reading Dates: Sept 12 – 13
Read Count: 2
Favorite Thing: Shifters out!!!!
Least Favorite Thing: How many times is Jason going to be accused of some kind of horrific murder? Examine your life, bro.

Ok, fine, I picked a least favorite thing. Except it’s not even really a least favorite thing, because it’s kind of hilarious?

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Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
(Daughter of Smoke & Bone, book 1)
Rating: ★★★★☆ – really liked it
Review: No
Format: Audiobook
Reading Dates: Sept 15 – 17
Read Count: 3
Favorite Thing: TEETH!
Least Favorite Thing: Special girl is so special.

I had been wanting to reread these, specifically via audiobook, for so dang long! I finally broke down and joined audible just for the time it would take to listen to these books.

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Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor
(Daughter of Smoke & Bone, book 2)
Rating: ★★★★☆ – really liked it
Review: No
Format: Audiobook
Reading Dates: Sept 17 – 20
Read Count: 3
Favorite Thing: Ziriiiiiii
Least Favorite Thing: Mr. White Wolf himself obviously.

You know I’m just now realizing how little the covers have to do with the story…

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The Singer of All Songs by Kate Constable
(The Chanters of Tremaris, book 1)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review: No
Format: Audiobook
Reading Dates: Sept 22 – 23
Read Count: 3
Favorite Thing: I just love the magic style!
Least Favorite Thing: Does she have to love the first man she’s ever met?

Don’t ask me why, but I suddenly became convinced that this was the book I needed to listen to ASAP… Anyway I bought it and I listened and the background sounds were strange…

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Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
Rating: ★★☆☆☆ – it was ok
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: July 23 – Sept 28
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: Uh….I….can’t think of one…
Least Favorite Thing: SHE’S SO INCREDIBLY STUPID I CAN’T HANDLE IT

Could it have taken me any longer to finish this book? Gawd! I honestly did not enjoy it at all. I wanted to, I tried really hard…. Blah.

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Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor
(Daughter of Smoke & Bone, book 3)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review: No
Format: Audiobook
Reading Dates: Sept 20 – 28
Read Count: 3
Favorite Thing: Things finally happen!
Least Favorite Thing: I wish I could care at all about the main characters’ romance, but the only romances I give a shit about are side characters lol

WHAT DOES THIS COVER HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING??

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In Progress

QuoteNovember 2, 2019October 31, 2019LeeLeave a comment

You’re doing so good, I told myself. I’m so proud of you. You just have to get through this. You can go home in fifteen minutes.
I wondered how many women had given themselves the same lecture: the girl who’d held her head up at a dance where her date was paying attention to another classmate; the woman who’d been passed by for promotion at her job; the woman who had listened to a dire diagnosis and yet kept her face together.

– Charlaine Harris, Dead and Gone, page 243 – 244

Version:
Mass Market Paperback, Read of the Month, Walmart Edition, 310 pages
Published April 2010 by Ace

October 2019 Reading Wrap-Up

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Betrayed by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
(House of Night, book 2)
Rating: ★★☆☆☆ – it was ok
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: September 28 – October 1
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: I’ve been enjoying my casual liveblog of the series.
Least Favorite Thing: Every non-homosexual male she encounters instantly wants to bone her like…why? It better be some magical power because otherwise I refuse to accept it as remotely logical.

Guys I’m just… I’m so…

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Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
(Sookie Stackhouse, book 6)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: October 1 – 3
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: SOOKIE FINALLY FOUND OUT THAT BILL IS TRASH GOD I HOPE THAT MEANS SHE’S DONE WITH HIM NOW
Least Favorite Thing: Do these people have any control over their libidos??

I am really enjoying these books and I get more and more surprised by that every time I finish one lol

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All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
(Sookie Stackhouse, book 7)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: October 3 – 6
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: lol Everything was so ridiculous I loved it so much.
Least Favorite Thing: REALLY THERE’S A BOMB THREAT AND YOU DON’T FIND THE MYSTERIOUS SUITCASE EVEN REMOTELY SUSPICIOUS???

To be honest this book didn’t leave as much of an impression as the others, but I still enjoyed it.

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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
(Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, book 1)
Rating: ★★★★☆ – really liked it
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: October 7 – 8
Read Count: 3
Favorite Thing: Creepy Hollowgast descriptions.
Least Favorite Thing: Stupid movie cover kept making me think about the stupid movie.

I really wish I had a different copy of this book…

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Hollow City by Ransom Riggs
(Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, book 2)
Rating: ★★★★☆ – really liked it
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: October 9 – 12
Read Count: 3
Favorite Thing: They BONDED lol I can’t believe how cute I find that shit.
Least Favorite Thing: The kids met a lot of annoying people/animals in this book.

I totally forgot about the twist at the end! How could I forget that!?

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Chosen by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
(House of Night, book 3)
Rating: ★★☆☆☆ – it was ok
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: October 13 – 17
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: Aphrodite is my problematic fave.
Least Favorite Thing: Three boyfriends. Hey, did you know Zoey has three boyfriends. Zoey has three boyfriends, by the way. THREE BOYFRIENDS.

Literally how many more times did they mention that she had three boyfriends and the publisher was like “please edit some of these out” because they mentioned that shit A LOT.

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Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs
(Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, book 3)
Rating: ★★★★☆ – really liked it
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: October 17 – 22
Read Count: 2
Favorite Thing: STILL JACOBS HOLLOWS
Least Favorite Thing: Jacob’s parents are rude. Like even if he was mentally ill, that is not how you should treat mentally ill people…

Now I can finally get around to reading Map of Days!

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From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
(Sookie Stackhouse, book 8)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: October 23 – 24
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: ERIC REMEMBERS AND NOW HE’S CALLING HER “LOVER” AGAIN AND ALSO I AM TRASH
Least Favorite Thing: I actually can’t think of anything I didn’t like this time around…

I’m enjoying this series more and more the further it gets from being anything like the tv series lol But seriously this junk food series is definitely one I recommend.

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A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris
(Sookie Stackhouse, Novellas)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: October 20 – 24
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: The Christmas one had me dying laughing! What a gift!
Least Favorite Thing: The joke of “Bubba” is getting a bit old…

I hadn’t even realized there were novellas with this series so I had to go back and get them from the library… Oops.

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Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
(Sookie Stackhouse, book 9)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: October 24 – 31
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: lol Accidental marriage.
Least Favorite Thing: Arlene, I think. That kind of hate just strikes me as worse than all the supernatural stuff that happened, especially given their friendship previously.