April Wrap: a shockingly good month for reading?!

Another month is over, so it’s time for another wrap-up!

Completed Reads:

EMOJI KEY:
✨ = review copy | ? = reread | ? = buddy read
? = audiobook | ? = Kindle Unlimited
? = graphic novel/manga/comics | ? = poetry
? = POC rep | ? = LGBTQ+ rep | ? = disability and/or MI rep | ? = fat rep

Ellyn invited me to join her in challenging ourselves to read 30 books in 30 days for April, and I can’t believe it, but not only did I manage to complete the challenge, I even surpassed it by 1! It involved a lot of graphic novels and short reads, but that’s still way more reading than I’ve done in any month so far this year, so I am REALLY proud of myself! ?

In order from best to worst…

• Clap When You Land
  ✨??? | ?????
• Guarding Temptation
  ✨??? | ?????
• Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
  ?????
• Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1
  ✨?? | ?????
• Medicine Man
  ?? | ?????
• Camp Spirit
  ✨??? | ?????

• Eat, and Love Yourself
  ✨??? | ?????
• They Called Us Enemy
  ??? | ?????
• Alpha & Omega
  ?? | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• The Bromance Book Club
  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Bone Parish, Vol. 2
  ?? | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Dead as a Doornail
  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Theirs for the Night
  ? | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act
  ???? | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• The Last Halloween: The Children
  ✨??? | ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Ghosted in LA, Vol. 1
  ✨???? | ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• The Red Pyramid
  ???? | ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Goosebumps: Download and Die!
  ??? | ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Always Human
  ????? | ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Moon Called
  ??? | ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Ghost Hunters Adventure Club and the Grande Chateau
  ? | ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• A Thief in the Nude
  ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Definitely Dead
  ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• The Crossroads at Midnight
  ✨???? | ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• The Guild, Vol. 1
  ??? | ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Karen’s Witch
  ✨?? | ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Desperate Measures
  ?? | ⭐⭐⭐?
• Happily Ever After & Everything in Between
  ✨?? | ⭐⭐⭐
• Chew, Vol. 1
  ?? | ⭐⭐⭐
• How I Survived
  ✨?? | ⭐⭐
• How to Survive a Horror Movie
  ⭐⭐

DNFs…

1. 55 Slightly Sinister Stories
   Not what it was marketed as, boring, bland, and poor writing.
   
2. House of Penance
   Boooooooring.
3. You Died: An Anthology of the Afterlife
   Too triggering, and mediocre at best, tbh.

Watched this Month:

• Beauty and the Beast (2017) | ? | ⭐⭐⭐⭐?
  Still amazing. ♥
• The Evil Dead (1981) | ? | ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  Also still amazing, in the worst possible way, kind of. ?

Listened to this Month:

• The Amazing Devil
  If you didn’t know that Joey Batey, AKA Jaskier from The Witcher, has a band, now you know, and you’re welcome, because they’re incredible. I’ve listened to them every single day for weeks now and I’m ridiculously obsessed.

Played this Month:

• Animal Crossing
  Nope, not slowing down any time soon…
• World of Final Fantasy
  I’ve never gotten into any “capture”-type games before (Pokemon, Monster Hunter, etc.), but this is phenomenal! I don’t like the genre of games usually, but I feel like this is really well-done, plus it features so many classic FF characters from other games, and I love the easter eggs.

My Favorite Posts of the Month:

• I actually didn’t post anything “fun” this month — I think I only published 7 posts total, and 4 of them were weekly wraps. ?

Videos of the Month:

(click the thumbnails to see the videos!)

My Favorite Posts from OTHER Bloggers This Month:

• Marie wrote a review of THE PERFECT ESCAPE that made me so excited to pick up my (overdue, eep) eARC of it!
• Laura gave us an AMAZING list of shows to binge-watch!
• Jess wrote a review of KINGS OF THE WYLD that addressed the only fear that had been holding me back from this super hyped book, and made me 10x more excited to read it. (We stan books with NOT misogynistic old dudes!)
• Corey wrote a gushing ROLLING IN THE DEEP review that made me want to binge it all over again.
• Alana’s review of MY DARK VANESSA made me even MORE nervous to read it… but in a good, “I need this right now” kind of way.
• Sumedha reviewed THE BROMANCE BOOK CLUB and basically, I don’t even need to review this book now because Sumedha said it all for me?!
• Tay filled out the super cute Animal Crossing: New Horizons book tag, and this is totally at THE top of my “tags to do” list now.
• Kat published a SUPER insightful post about SEO, which I am woefully ignorant about, but really need to work on!
• Kathy wrote a HOUSE OF EARTH AND BLOOD review that made me even more excited to read it, and I didn’t even know that was possible until now.
• If I hadn’t already been looking forward to this Slytherin romance, Kal’s perfect review of THE SHADOWS BETWEEN US would have been all I needed to sell it to me!
• Sarah mixed a super positive review of MY DARK VANESSA with an amazing collection of quotes that has me feeling all kinds of feels.
• Ellyn came up with a list of books that need to be made into TV shows, and frankly, it’s flawless and I want to email it to Netflix 3,000 times until they make each and every one.
• Ari gushed about some books she wished she’d had a teen and legit made me choke up, so naturally, you need to go read it and get emotional, too (duh).
• Kal also talked about what she annotates in books, and not gonna lie, I kind of want to write in all my faves now?

— destiny ♥

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