Hey guys! What's up? It's Lainey and today I am doing my March wrap-up. I had a very
successful reading month. I read six books out of my goal of four. Also going
to be including my TBR as well as my currently reading for the month of April here.
The first book that I read was a romance book on audio and that is Sins
of Sevin by Penelope Ward. I know Penelope Ward is a very successful
romance author so I wanted to try out one of her books. Tried out this one
because it was free through the Romance Package which I have on Audible. It's
like $7 for the month in addition to the audible membership, which
is kind of annoying, but since I read so many audiobooks, or
listened to so many romance audiobooks, to me it's worth it. Anyway. I rated it a
2 out of 5. It's like... I wasn't quite sure how I felt about it, but I thought a 3
was too high, but I didn't hate it. It's surrounding a very conservative
religious family. They set up this young man, Sevin, with their daughter Elle. When he
comes and meets them, he kind of starts falling in love with the sister instead.
And it's like this big, long messy kind of relationship over a span of several
years. So I just didn't know if I liked it or not. By the time I finished it, I was
just like, rushing to finish it. Didn't really care anymore about the characters.
I think that kind of came down to the fact I just didn't care about either of
the hero or the heroine. Second book that I read this month was a reread for me
and I'm just so glad I reread it and that is a Amour Amour by Krista and Becca
Ritchie. I actually listened to this book on audio, but I do have the physical copy
because I read it back in 2014 I think? 2015? One of those years whenever it came
out and I love this book. Like, this is my favorite New Adult book that I've ever
read. And I kind of was interested to reread it to kind of see how I still
felt about it. After I finished it, I went to what I rated it when I-- when I
first read it and I rated it a 5 out of 5 and I was like, "I still think that it's a
5 out of 5 star read." This book takes place in Las Vegas surrounded by, kind of
like a Cirque de Soleil type company. Thora, who's the main character. Loved
Thora. Like, Thora is my favorite New Adult hero--heroine. She's the best.
Mostly because like, I really felt connected to her both times I read it.
Though there's been a span of years, I'm like, not the same person that I was
when I first read this, but I still felt like those same feelings of such
relatability that I have towards Thora and I still feel that way towards her.
She's an aerial artist. She kind of leaves the last year of college behind to go
audition for the circus, essentially, in Las Vegas. It's this whole journey of her
becoming better at what she does. Like, she's already good, but she knows that
she's just average and average isn't good enough in this kind of setting. So it's
showing how much she works hard to obtain her dreams, and I just like really
loved the message that it had in the book. And of course, the hero Nikolai and
he's like the best. I love him as well. And what I like most about him is he's
very supportive. He's such a supportive boyfriend when they start
getting together. I love Krista and Becca Ritchie, they're my favorite New Adult
authors. I loved the Addicted series, the Calloway sister series.
I still have Long Way Down and Some Like It Perfect to go before I move on to the
next section of that whole saga and this takes place in the same world as that
series .So, there's like, cameo references to the Calloway sisters in this book and
their dudes. And I realized this when I was reading this book and
the next book that I read, which is also a Krista and Becca Ritchie book. I think
their greatest writing strength is the way they develop their cast. I mean, this
book is told in first-person point of view with Thora. I fell so in love with
all the side characters and they're so well developed. Which I think is
really hard to do in a first-person narrative because you're seeing them
through, you know, her eyes only. Krista and Becca Ritchie do such a phenomenal job
of making you fall in love with the side characters. I'll go on to say that
they're personally my favorite authors that write side characters really well.
I highly highly recommend this book and all of their books basically, but this
one is definitely my favorite Krista and Becca Ritchie book and I listened to this
one because I wanted to read Infini, which is the second book in the series.
And this one follows one of Nikolai's brothers, Luka and I absolutely loved it.
Again, it's just like the side characters make the story so much more special.
Especially because we've seen most of these side characters in the first book.
Luca and Nikolai come from such a huge Russian-American family, so there's a
whole bunch of cousins and their brothers and their sister,
Katya. I really love them I just want a book on all of them. I would read them
and love them. I'm like, gushing about the series right now. But the second book
follows kind of friends to romance, but kind of not?
I don't know. I did like the second book, not as much as I liked the first book.
Second one was a good, solid continuation of the series. I would say that there are
trigger warnings in the second book for depression and bulimia, so that is just
an FYI if that makes you uncomfortable. Also my favorite part about this book is
that the couple is actually an interracial couple. Luka is obviously
white, or Russian-American and then the heroine, Bailey, she's mixed. So she's
half black and half white. So I really liked that. And then I read my favorite
book of the year I feel like so far. It's gonna be really hard to top it. An Ember in
the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir. Oh my god. Why was I sleeping on this book for so
long? And I've had it since it came out. I was reading it so slow because I loved
it so much. I loved all the characters. I loved Elias, I love Laia and I love
Helene so much. So excited to continue on. I'm so excited for the third book.
One thing that I loved most about this book was how well Sabaa Tahir writes first
person present tense. I was so impressed with it because I think it's really hard
to write first person present tense. Mainly because I think it's really hard
to write that way. She writes it is just so... flowy. It just flows so well, it's so
pleasant to read. I love the world-building in this book and the
characters were phenomenal, and I liked how dark it got. Like this is a pretty
dark book for a YA, I feel like. The next book that I read this month was
Midnight Rescue by Elle Kennedy. This is, I think, don't quote me on this. I think this is Elle
Kennedy's first series that she wrote. I'm not quite sure, but I rated this a 2 out
of 5. Like, it was just ok. Did I like it more than I liked Sins of Sevin? Yes, a
whole lot. This book is very much like an action movie and that was one of the
things that I really liked about that. It's a very fast pace. Basically this
assassin, Abby, she intentionally blows her cover to the point where her handler--
or her boss of the assassins... girl assassins... is like, "I need some help
getting her out," because she doesn't know if she blew it on purpose or not.
Sp, she goes to this guy she has history with and is like, "Hey I need your help getting
this girl out of Colombia." They round up a team and like get her out and then
she's like, "Why the hell did you guys get me out I was like, trying to save these
girls that were being sex trafficked." So then she gets into a kind of like a thing
or whatever with one of the guys... obviously... because that's you know, it's a
romance book. They have to like kind of, work together to help rescue these girls.
There's a lot of perspectives in this book, but I actually did not care about
Abby and Kane at all. I was way more interested in the side couple that they
kept like having chapters cuz I loved that storyline and I think that's why I
rated it kind of lower because I'm like... I'm not even invested in the couple
that's kind of like in the spotlight for this book? I'm glad I read it because
I've been wanting to read the series for a while because it is Elle Kennedy and I
really like Elle Kennedy's books, but it's clear that I like her later books.
Last book that I read this month was Punk 57 by Penelope Douglas.
I've been reading Penelope Douglas's books for a while now. I read Corrupt,
which was my favorite of her books that I read so far, and then I read Bully at
the beginning of January. This one I really, really enjoyed. This one I rated
a four out of five. Basically the premise of the story is back in
elementary school, this boy named Misha and this girl named Ryen, they ended up
being pen pals. They're paired with each other by their teachers so they
started exchanging letters, but then eventually they kind of started doing it
more and more even after they got out of elementary school and they promised each
other that they wouldn't look each other up on social media. There's more of a
mystery aspect to them never meeting and I understood that because like, when you
correspond with someone online even like, when you meet them in real life do they
live up to the hype? So I really liked that aspect of it. Suddenly, he stops
writing her and then she's like, "What's going on?" I'm not saying much else about it
besides the fact that then, this "guy," (it's Misha,) comes to her school and he
doesn't tell her who he is even though he knows who she is. So I'm gonna leave
it at that. I liked the mystery aspect of it. I think
Penelope Douglas does mystery very well because I've liked the mystery aspect in Corrupt.
This also takes place in the Corrupt world because there were cameos from the
boys that are in Corrupt, so I really liked that
that nod. It takes place, you know, their senior year. It's about a couple
months before they graduate from high school and there's just some aspects in
it where I felt like it wasn't really believable? But I think that's kind of
Penelope Douglas's m.o. because I also felt like the same way about that when I
read Bully. That some of these things that were happening in high school
didn't seem very believable for how old they were? But I don't know, who knows.
Maybe that is how teenagers act now. I'm excited to continue more of her books
because I'm liking them more than I'm not liking them, so that's good.
Next I wanted to go into my currently reading. I'm reading four books right now
because I'm an idiot. I don't like reading this many books at once, but here
we are. Since it is Camp NaNoWriMo, I haven't
been able to read a lot of physical books, but I have been listening to a lot
of books just because it's easier for me to listen to a book when I'm at work or
when I'm commuting to work. Currently listening to when Dimple Met Rishi by
Sandhya Menon. I'm enjoying it. I'm probably not gonna rate it more than a
3, but I really like-- I'm really digging it so far. The reason why I'm
listening this book was because I saw it was free through the Romance Package and
I know that the author's gonna be at YallWest, which comes up in May. So I'm
like why not? I'm gonna read it so I can check it off my list, I've read one of
her books. So that's why I'm reading that one. I'm also currently reading Harry
Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I took a break from reading it for like, about a
month, but now I got back into it. I am over halfway through. I am loving it. I'm
excited to finally read the Deathly Hallows though. That's like my goal for
the next few months here. I am also currently reading The Tombs by Deborah
Schaumberg. I've been reading this book for a while because I'm not really
enjoying it as much as I thought I would. I'm not very far into it either, but I'm
reading it for review. But what's putting me off from finishing it is that the
author uses the Romani people slur that starts with a G. So that kind of
makes me uncomfortable because I know it's a slur and what makes me even more
comfortable about it is that there is a note in the back of the book, like an
author's note justifying the means for using the G word in this book for
historical accuracy? And I personally hate that term. Like, you're introducing
magic as canon in 1882 New York so you can't do that and then claim "historical
accuracy" for using a slur. So that's like, my currently
feelings on it, but I'm trying to finish it just so that I can review it.
So... yeah. That's pretty much how I feel about it. And the last book that I'm
currently reading is A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir. I'm only
two chapters into it because Camp NaNoWriMo kind of just like took over my
life, but I need to find some time to get this in because I need to read it.
When I started reading it, I was like getting all the feels again and I was just
getting really overwhelmed by how happy I was that I was reading it that I had
to put it down. I wasn't really planning on going to signings at YallWest, I
wanted like mostly stick with the panels, but I am going to stand in line
for Sabaa Tahir because now I feel like I need to tell her how much I love her
books in person. And then for my TBR, I kind of already did a TBR for what I'm
doing. It's my YallWest TBR. I want to read as many YallWest books as I can
before I get there. The next book in my queue to read is the Children of Blood
and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi. I'm very excited to read this book and
everybody's talking about it and I feel left out that I'm not reading it. That's
it for me. My name is Lainey. I make videos every Monday and Friday on books and
writing and my social media links will be listed down below so you guys can
check me out other places if you'd like. I hope you guys all have a really great
day and I'll see you guys very soon, bye!
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