In a shocking turn of events: I didn’t complete my January TBR. 😱
Which for those of you who know me personally or from twitter isn’t that shocking. I never finish my monthly TBR lists. However I did come close this month. The only books I didn’t read were: The Young Elites by Marie Lu , Where am I now?& Legend Of Korra:Turf Wars part 2. The first two I started but couldn’t seem to enjoy. Mainly because I am a mood reader and I wasn’t in the mood for either of them. While LOK is a new addition to My February To buy list.
I did managed to read all the other books on my list and more. In January I read a total of 12 books. Five graphic novels and seven novels. All of them apart from, The Cruel Prince, were queer reads and I’m happy to say I enjoyed them. I didn’t DNF or rate any books lower than 3 stars last month and I call that a win.
Let’s talk about what I read.
( 🏳️🌈= queer read( LGBTQIA + main characters)
Good Book but I didn’t love it.★★★☆☆
Style by Chelsea M. Cameron.🏳️🌈
Style is a young adult contemporary novel featuring a high school romance between two girls. Stella who is a cheerleader and Kyle, her complete opposite. I really liked this novel and I felt both the girls where good main characters and worked well together. However I did find it a struggle to read just because of how dominant the romance is to the plot. The whole book was just romance without any subplots to keep me entertained for long. The writing was also hard to get into at the beginning. I liked it but didn’t love it.
Gothic Tales Of A Haunted Love.🏳️🌈
Gothic tales of haunted love is a diverse graphic novel featuring 16 stories of murder, love, loss and betrayal. Some stories were absolutely amazing. I liked how it featured many stories with POC MC’s &/or queer MC’s.However it was limited. Most of the stories were m/f romances and for a graphic novel with haunted in the title I can count on one hand the number of “horror” stories. It had good representation but wasn’t nearly as scary as I expected. Most stories were also way too short to rate; some less than five pages. However I did really like it and still reccomend.
I Loved these books. ★★★★☆
Young avengers is a graphic novel featuring new young adult superheroes known as the young avengers as they try to defeat “mother”. An evil entity who feeds on superpowers and has brainwashed all the adults, including the actual avengers. It’s a super fun comic that features POC MC’s &/or queer characters. Also my favorite anti-hero: Loki. In this volume a new superhero joins the team, David aka Prodigy as the team chase down a villain who has Tom, Wiccan’s brother aka The silver surfer. This volume wasn’t as fun as volume one but still equally enjoyable. Also it broke my heart.
The Young Avengers volume 3.🏳️🌈
The story continues and concludes with the team finally facing “mother”. My heart was in my throat for most of this volume and I swear I nearly cried so many times. I really enjoyed it and I’m sad it’s finished, very interesting conclusion and I hope the writers decide to give us more volumes in the future.
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black.
I really enjoy this novel. I think Holly Black really has a knack for pulling off creepy books with interesting characters. I will admit the only thing I didn’t enjoy about this was the “romance” because it wasn’t romance. It’s abuse and I hope it’s gone by the sequel or I won’t be reading book Number two.
The Abyss That Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie.🏳️🌈
There was a lot I really enjoyed about this book, I mean we had a badass villain, fascinating heroine, lesbian pirates and a giant sea monster with a heart. However my favorite thing of all: the wonderful slow burn f/f romance. However it was a little predictable which was why I rated four instead of five stars. I did really like it though. See me gush in my full review.
Far From You By Tess Sharpe.🏳️🌈
Far from you both ripped my heart to shreds and left me feeling hopeful. This novel had such strong characters. Sophie’s Arc was amazing. She’s one of the strongest heroines I’ve ever read about. Sophie tackles a drug addiction and grief head on throughout the novel all while searching for her best friends killer. The mystery aspect of the novel was a little underwhelming, however the character and relationships makes up for it. Full review up next week.
Down by Contact by Santino Hassell.🏳️🌈
Down by Contact is the second book in The Barons series. It features Simeon Bordeaux, quarterback from The New York Barons and Adrián Bravo, Linebreaker for The New Jersey Predators. It’s an adult queer sports romance that I adored. My full review.
The Edge Of The Abyss by Emily Skrutskie.🏳️🌈
– A great sequel and good conclusion to The Abyss That Surrounds Us. Like book one I loved it. I do wish we had of had more defiant answers near the end but I liked the open ending all the same. I’ll be without a doubt reading more books by Emily Skrutskie very soon.
These books blessed my soul. ★★★★★
Aboard by Liz Jacobs.🏳️🌈
Aboard is a new adult contemporary romance featuring three main characters. Dex, Nik & Izzy. This diverse coming of age novel is to die for and I can’t recommend it enough . Full Review next week.
Fence #3 by Johanna The Mad & C.S Pacat.🏳️🌈
Fence is a sports comic featuring many POC &/or queer main characters. It’s set in an all boys fencing school called Kings Rows and is told mostly from the POV of 16 year old Nicholas Cox as he works to make the schools fencing team, to compete in the national and also deals with rooming with fencing prodigy Seiji Katayama. Okay so that was my formal intro to what the comics are about.
Now for my informal intro– Please read fence because it’s amazing and the team are wonderful and I love all the main characters. Bobby is so precious! Aiden is an ass but I love him so much, Tanner & Kally are couple goals and Nicholas deserves the world. Don’t even get me started on my love for the coach because she’s badass and I love her a lot.
Rock & Riot by Chelsey Furedi. 🏳️🌈
This wecomic was so delightful. Picture this: Grease but better and everyone is queer. Just what I always wanted. I loved this so much. See my full review.
That concludes all the books I read in January.
Personally the month of January was very quiet for me so I didn’t do much however I passed an exam I needed to go back to college and I am over the moon. I’m currently still high on life( just life I swear!) and I’m ready to tackle February. This is a hard month for me normally but I have planned a lot of stuff to keep me busy.
I hope you’ve all had a great month. If you’ve read any of these books and want to chat fell free to message me.
See ya in the next post friends. 💕
The books I loved, liked & hated last month. In a shocking turn of events: I didn't complete my January TBR. 😱
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