Books Read in March 2025 📚
Kindle Unlimited: 🧡 Forged by Malice by Elizabeth Helen (596 pages) This book was absolutely insane in the best way. I know some reviewers say they can't see how this series can't last seven books, I disagree. I think this series a lot of fun and paced well. I think most of the series will be getting the band together, and then it'll wrap up with showing us how glorious they are and saving the world or whatever together. Looking forward to reading book 4 and then being insanely impatient about the rest of the books coming out. This is why I usually don't start series unless they are done. Wicked Lovely, Ink Exchange, Fragile Eternity by Melissa Marr This is a YA faerie series from the 2000s. I read it for nostalgia only. I was wanting the 2000s supernatural angst and chose a series I read awhile ago and enjoyed. I'm having a blast, and highly recommend picking up old favorites from when you were younger. His Dangerous Bride by Merry Farmer (175 pages) This is the second book in The Brides of Paradise Ranch series. There are two versions of this series the author has written. One with sex scenes (the one I read) and one without. The title for the version of this book that does NOT have sex scenes is Eden: The Dangerous Bride. I really enjoyed reading this second book. I had a lot of fun with the main couple. The first couple from the first book was sweet and wholesome and I really loved them, but Luke and Eden are just more fun in my opinion. They're a little bit wild and bold, and it was more of an adventure to read about their story. I loved Eden's background and her desire to start a new life, and I liked how things weren't neat and tidy with her family. It was refreshing to read about a character who had a real problematic background for once. She was a lot of fun, and a character I would spend more time with. I had a lot of fun reading this, and look forward to reading more books in this series. Merry Farmer is a promised enjoyable author for me at this point. Thank you to Kindle Unlimited for making it so I can read and support as many books of hers that I can without paying extra. If I could, I would physically buy every book of hers that I've ever read.
Owned eBook: 💜 His Perfect Bride by Merry Farmer (181 pages) This is the first book of one of Merry Farmer's many series. This is the second series of her that I have started. I love her writing, it's so fun and refreshing. I enjoyed reading this book. It takes place about ten years after the Oregon Trail in Wyoming. Which was a shift for me because I just got done reading one of her regency based series. This story was wholesome and sweet, and I think it touched well on injury based disabilities, and fire based trauma. Merry Farmer has written two different versions of this series. One version does not have sex scenes included which is called Corva: The Perfect Bride. The version I read is the other which does have sex scenes included. However, I wouldn't consider this story "smut", because there was one sex scene, but it was brief and not very detailed. Still enjoyable, because it fit with the characters well. This is the first book in The Brides of Paradise Ranch series.
Libby Audiobooks: 🩵 The Slippery Slope, The Grim Grotto, The Penultimate Peril, The End by Lemony Snicket I finished my first re-read of The Series of Unfortunate Events. I love this series so much, and I loved the Netflix adaptation of it. This series is clever and informative, and mysterious, and I will always love Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire. As soon as my nieces and nephews are old enough I will be sending them these books to read. Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood My quest to read all of Ali Hazelwood's books continues. I had a lot of fun with reading Love on the Brain. Ali always seems to make a point of how women in S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) are treated unfairly and not taken seriously in comparison to their male coworkers. All of her romances follow the same formula, but that doesn't mean they're not enjoyable. Bee and Levi were fun, and I loved the side characters in this story a lot! This story also showed how important social media plays a role in people's lives and how it helps move things along in professional circumstances too. Ali Hazelwood will always be a slam dunk with me, and I can't wait to read the next book of hers. In the Company of Witches, When the Crow's Away by Auralee Wallace My best friend has finally helped me get into reading cozy mysteries! This was a witchy, small town cozy mystery. Brynn Warren helps her aunts solve the murder of a woman who was staying at their B&B and was found murdered. Brynn is still healing from the death of her husband, and doesn't have access to her witch's powers anymore. Brynn has the gift to see and talk to ghosts - or she used to, but she still believes she can help solve the case. Both of these books were like a breath of fresh air, and I really hope the publisher picks up more books for this series. The way the second book ended.. man, I *need* more books in this series! You hear, Berkley Publishing?! Holes by Louis Sachar Finally. After always loving this movie as both a child and adult, I finally took the time to read this classic. I wanted to when I was a child, and my best friend (yes, same one mentioned from the review above this one) sat the bus next to me reading Holes. She told me how much she loved it and how she thought I would really enjoy it. Sadly, younger me at that point didn't read for fun because reading comprehension was a really struggle. So this was for eight year old me. I loved this book so much, and whoever said the movie was insanely faithful the book was correct. The movie was spot on. The only thing they changed was Stanley being fat the beginning of the story and then losing a bunch of weight. I read they avoided that detail to protect the health of the actor. Good call. This was a lot of fun, and this month has reminded me to read more middle grade books.
Thank you for taking the time to read this! I'll be back to tell you about everything I read in April!
14 Books total read in March