4/115 📚Wild Dark Shore ✒️Charlotte McConaghy ⭐4/5 Haunting and atmospheric - it played like a movie in my head. Was it perfect? No. But I still really enjoyed it and found it hard to put down. I can already see this getting a screen adaptation! 🖋️📚⚡📚💙

Need to get out of this reading slump 🥲 Any new(ish) release recs? 🪐📚🌶️📚⏳📚💡📚⚡📚🖋️📚💙

3/115 📚Kissed by the Gods ✒️Caty Rogan ⭐2/5 🌶️2/5 Can't believe I'm saying this, but it would've been better without the romance (if you could even call it that) Almost dnf'ed at 75% but skimmed on because saw someone say the plot twist/cliffhanger was cool (it wasn't) Temu Fourth Wing 🤗 🪐📚🌶️📚💙

2/115 📚We Who Will Die ✒️Stacia Stark ⭐2/5 🌶️1/5 Ugh. Remind me not to trust goodreads reviews because wtf was this? Someone said it's a 6/5 ⭐ read?? Did we read the same book? Because this was bland af and made no sense. The characters had the depth of a puddle. 🌶️📚🪐📚💙

1/115 📚107 Days ✒️Kamala Harris ⭐5/5 You could've had this and yet you chose a convicted felon who can't string a coherent sentence together? 🤦 1st book of 2026, already behind schedule... 💡📚💙

My top 12 books of 2025! - Words Of Radiance - Dungeon Crawler Carl (whole series) - Promise Me Sunshine - The Wedding People - Rose in Chains - My Friends - The Correspondent - The Shattered King - Deep End - Not Quite Dead Yet - The Names - Atmosphere 🪐📚🌶️📚🖋️📚⚡📚⏳📚💙

2025 reading wrap up! Alas, I did not reach my 125 book reading goal, but got close! My reading tastes have definitely broadened last year - read more sci-fi, literary, and historical fiction, alongside my standard roms and fantasy. Also discovered a new favourite series! DCC ily ❤️ 🪐📚🌶️📚🖋️📚💡📚⏳📚💙

December reading wrap up! Read some good books last month but I did go into a reading slump towards the end. My highest average rating this year 😅 #storygraph #currentlyreading #booksky 🪐📚🌶️📚🖋️📚💙

120/125 📚The Death-Made Prince ✒️Lisette Marshall ⭐3/5 🌶️2/5 I seem to be in the minority on this one but I just didn't really get it? Was confused a lot. The writing wasn't very clear imo. The rune magic system was pretty cool though. 🌶️📚🪐📚💙

119/125 📚Halfway to the Grave ✒️Jeanine Frost ⭐4/5 🌶️2/5 Saw this pop up on libby and decided to take a trip down memory lane. This series was my gateway drug to adult paranormal romance 15 years ago, so it holds a special place in my heart. The narrator's British accent was shocking though.. 🪐📚🌶️📚💙

118/125 📚Phantasma ✒️Kaylie Smith ⭐2/5 🌶️3/5 I personally don't get the hype. The writing was messy, the trials were boring, and parts of the story didn't even make sense. I would've wanted higher stakes and tension. Completely lost interest at around 60% but pushed through. 🌶️📚🪐📚💙

117/125 📚Clash of Claws ✒️Elizabeth Dear ⭐4/5 🌶️2/5 Doesn't matter that I've read this type of story 100 times before - give me a why-choose romance, with a badass heroine in an academy setting, and I'll eat it up every time. Revolutionary? No. Entertaining? Yes. 🌶️📚🪐📚💙

116/125 📚The Shattered King ✒️Charlie N. Holmberg ⭐5/5 🌶️1/5 Yess. This is what I'm talking about! I've come to the realisation that slow-burn and yearning is what I long for in books, and this had exactly that. Add an interesting magic system and great characters and we have a winner! 🌶️📚🪐📚💙

115/125 📚The Names ✒️Florence Knapp ⭐4/5 A great novel exploring the "what ifs" in life - how something as simple as a different name could change the course of your life. Amazing debut! 🖋️📚💙

114/125 📚Arcanist ✒️Marie Mistry ⭐2/5 🌶️3/5 Considering how much I enjoyed the first book, I'm pretty disappointed. This one fell flat completely. It was all very underdeveloped and underwhelming. Felt nothing for any of the characters except the Arcanaeum itself. 🌶️📚🪐📚💙

Will I manage to read 12 more books before the end of the year to reach my 2025 Reading Goal? Only time will tell. Any recs for books you couldn't put down? Preferably under 400 pages. 🌶️📚🪐📚🖋️📚💡📚💙

113/125 📚The Correspondent ✒️Virginia Evans ⭐5/5 Didn't think I'd be into a story told entirely by letters but here I am. This was lovely. The characters were great. Even got a tear out of me. I'd recommend the audiobook! 🖋️📚💙

Reading wrap up for November! I've either been very mean with my ratings, or I've just not read many good books lately... What's been everyone's favourite book last month? #storygraph #booksky #currentyreading 🌶️📚🪐📚💡📚🖋️📚💙

112/125 📚Rain of Shadows and Endings ✒️Melissa K. Roehrich ⭐2/5 🌶️2/5 Reddit was raving about the Legacy series so I pushed through this first book, but I just don't get it. It was 700 pages of repetitive back and forth. The characters were awful. Character development, where? No thanks. 🌶️📚🪐📚💙

111/125 📚Tourist Season 🌶️Brynne Weaver ⭐4/5 🌶️3/5 Had a good time with this one! Thought it was a standalone, so was getting worried about pacing and character development, but I'm glad the story's not over yet! Will be continuing with the series. 🌶️📚💙

110/125 📚Mate ✒️Ali Hazelwood ⭐3/5 🌶️3/5 For some reason this series doesn't do it for me like Ali's other books. Loved it to start with but the pacing seemed off. I do seem to be more critical of books lately so could just be that. 🌶️📚🪐📚💙

109/125 📚Terror at the Gates ✒️Scarlett St Clair ⭐2/5 🌶️2/5 My god, this was boring. Didn't understand the plot nor the world building. I can't really tell you anything about the characters except that the MMC's personality (if I can call it that) was not consistent. 🌶️📚🪐📚💙

108/125 📚A Forbidden Alchemy ✒️Stacey McEwan ⭐4/5 🌶️1/5 Had a reading slump - made the mistake of starting 3 different fantasy books at the same time. This one's been decidedly the best, but it still took me 2 weeks to finish. Love the Colsons! Nina's decision making - not so much... 🌶️📚🪐📚💙

107/125 📚In The Dream House ✒️Carmen Maria Machado Usually love memoirs narrated by the author, but this narration made me want to dnf several times. I didn't really like this book, regardless. The flowery prose was not for me and I didn't feel like I got to know the author at all. 💡📚💙

106/125 📚Shadows So Cruel ✒️Liv Zander ⭐2/5 🌶️3/5 Not a fan of the last 20% of this book. There was no need for all that. Having now finished the duology I've realised I still don't fully understand the magic system. Might just be me. 🌶️📚🪐📚💙

105/125 📚The Bewitching ✒️Silvia Moreno-Garcia ⭐3/5 Perfect time of year for a witchy story. Took a while to get into but I ended up enjoying all 3 POVs. As far as horror books go, this wasn't very scary - more of a thriller/mystery with supernatural elements. 🖋️📚🩸📚⚡📚💙

104/125 📚Feathers So Vicious ✒️Liv Zander ⭐4/5 🌶️5/5 I can't in good conscience give this book 5⭐ because some scenes were unnecessary fucked up, but not gonna lie, I ate it up. I went in blind, but definitely check TWs if picking this up - won't be for everyone. 🌶️📚🪐📚💙

Reading wrap up for October! Have I been harsh with my ratings or did I just pick up a lot of shit books? 🤔 #storygraph #booksky #currentlyreading

103/125 📚The Travelling Cat Chronicles ✒️Hiro Arikawa ⭐3/5 Read this to complete a challenge. Not bad but not really my thing either. I think a lot might've been lost in translation - it felt quite stilted. 🖋️📚💙

102/125 📚My Friends ✒️Fredrik Backman ⭐5/5 I'm not crying, you're crying. Fredrik's storytelling in this book was incredible. I never knew where it was going. Beautifully written with wonderful characters. Definitely will end up in my top 10 reads of 2025. 🖋️📚💙

101/125 📚Nocticadia ✒️Keri Lake ⭐4/5 🌶️4/5 Perfect time of year for a gothic dark academia romance. Really enjoyed the plot and myseries in this one. 🌶️📚💙

50 pages in and already cried multiple times. Fredrik, what are you doing to me?? #currentlyreading My Friends by Fredrik Backman 🖋️📚💙

100/125 📚Careless People ✒️Sarah Wynn-Williams A trillion dollar company being shady? You don't say. Hard to rate this one. Although I knew FB was toxic, I didn't realise the extent of it. Am I shocked? No. I do think the author is missing some self-awareness of her own complicity though. 💡📚💙

Reached my 2025 pages goal! #storygraph 🌶️📚🖋️📚🪐📚💙

99/125 📚A Photo Finish ✒️Elsie Silver ⭐3/5 🌶️3/5 My 10th Elsie Silver book! Not my favourite but still had a good time. 🌶️📚💙

98/125 📚Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil ✒️V.E. Schwab ⭐4/5 🌶️1/5 Toxic lesbian vampires? Say less. The pacing of the story felt very slow to me but I was hooked pretty much throughout. Beautifully written. Very similar vibes to Addie LaRue. 🖋️📚🪐📚🌶️📚💙

97/125 📚Lies of my Monster ✒️Rina Kent ⭐1/5 🌶️4/5 Aaaaaand that's enough of that. The FMC turned into an idiotic doormat - couldn't believe she was written by a female author tbh. 🌶️📚💙

96/125 📚Blood Of My Monster ✒️Rina Kent ⭐3/5 🌶️4/5 It's been a while since I've read a Mafia romance and the Mulan-esque premise drew me in. It did lack in areas and the FMC's decision-making was a little flawed at best, but I gobbled it up nevertheless. Onto book 2! 🌶️📚💙

95/125 📚Fake Skating ✒️Lynn Painter ⭐3/5 🌶️1/5 Cute YA story but wish authors would stop using "Honey" as a pet name 🤢 gives me the ick every time. 🌶️📚💙

Is there a way to filter out ads and self-promotion posts on the #booksky feed? All about authors getting that bag but it's getting a little much. I want to see more reviews and actual recommendations!

94/125 📚Metal Slinger ✒️Rachel Schneider ⭐1/5 🌶️2/5 Plot twists are only fun if they make sense. 🪐📚🌶️📚💙

Reading wrap up for September! #storygraph #currentlyreading 🌶️📚🪐📚💡📚🖋️📚

93/125 📚The Devils ✒️Joe Abercrombie ⭐2/5 For a book that had a lot happening, nothing really happened. I really wanted to like this, but it felt extremely repetitive. Half of the book was filler and at no point did it hook me. Ended up skimming the last 30%. 🪐📚💙

92/125 📚If It Makes You Happy ✒️Julie Olivia ⭐4/5 🌶️2/5 A cosy, small town romance with perfect autumnal vibes. It very much read like a 90s rom-com in the best possible way. Nothing new or revolutionary but definitely hit the spot 👌 🌶️📚💙

91/125 📚Write Me For You ✒️Tillie Cole ⭐1/5 I was so ready for a sad story, but I couldn't get past the cringe. The HEA chapters completely lost me and I ended up skipping them altogether. For what was supposed to be a deep, profound story, everything was actually very surface-level. 🌶️📚💙

90/125 📚Blurred Lines ✒️Lauren Layne ⭐3/5 🌶️2/5 A cute little best friends to lovers number - one of my favourite tropes if done right. This one was okay but had a LOT of miscommunication which gets old fast. It was a quick, easy read though, and it got me out of a reading slump. 🌶️📚💙

89/125 📚Everything Is Tuberculosis ✒️John Green This was a really great, informative book about a subject I knew nothing about. The Green brothers could literally write/talk about anything and I'd be sat. John did a fantastic job with this one. 💡📚💙

Spoiler-free thoughts on The Devils? #currentlyreading 🪐📚💙

88/125 📚Wild Card ✒️Elsie Silver ⭐3/5 🌶️3/5 Entire series was a bit of a miss for me but the Ex's Dad trope persuaded me to read this last book. Can't say I'm glad I did - it was all pretty mid. Where was the chemistry?? Hopefully the tv adaptation will be better. 🌶️📚💙

87/125 📚My Favorite Bad Decision ✒️Elizabeth O'Roark ⭐2/5 🌶️2/5 My least favourite of her books thus far. All the characters were annoying and had zero redeeming qualities. Seemed like a different author wrote it. Not interested in continuing the series. 🌶️📚💙