❄️ january reading ❄️
It’s time for another wrap-up/haul post and some reading statistics!
It’s time for the first recap post of the year! I wanted to change things up a little, but when it came down to it, I couldn’t actually think of much to change! 😂 I did get rid of a couple of statistics charts that felt unnecessary, though, and changed some color schemes around. I’ve also changed the formatting here at the beginning of the post, so let me know what you think!
✨ month at a glance ✨
- books completed: 15
- books DNFed: 0
- avg rating: 4.1
- avg pages read per day: 175
- best book(s): Waltzing with Witches, A Court of Silver Flames
- worst book(s): Bookshops & Bonedust, Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries
✨ ratings ✨
(each title link will direct you to my review for more thoughts!)
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🎁 review copy
💞 buddy/group read
🔁 re-read
🎧 audiobook
🫙 TBR jar
🗓️ 2024 TBR
❄️ seasonal TBR
- My Roommate is a Vampire // Jenna Levine 💞🎧
- Horror House of Perversion // Carl John Lee
- The Vet // Candace Nola
- A Court of Silver Flames // Sarah J. Maas 💞🎧
- The Shining // Stephen King 💞🎧
- Waltzing with Witches // Hazel Mack 💞
- The Halloweeners // J.H. Reynolds 🎧
- Blurred Lines // Andi Jaxon 🫙
- Clown in a Cornfield // Adam Cesare 💞🗓️❄️
- The Caretaker // Cass Clarke 🎁
- The Unicorn Killer // Candace Nola 💞
- I Found Christmas Lights Slithering Up My Street // Ben Farthing
- The Shuddering // Ania Ahlborn 💞🎧
- Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries // Heather Fawcett 🎁💞
- Bookshops & Bonedust // Travis Baldree 🎁💞🎧
nothing this month!
nothing this month!
✨ hauls ✨
I’m on a book ban, but pre-orders and book boxes don’t count, plus I’m allowing myself to make a couple of exceptions each month, so… it’s not much of a ban, is it?! 😂
- Sons of Darkness // Gourav Mohanty (B&N edition)
- Throne of the Fallen // Kerri Maniscalco (Fairyloot edition) (READ)
- House of Flame and Shadow // Sarah J. Maas (B&N edition) (CURRENTLY READING)
- The Invocations // Krystal Sutherland (Evernight edition)
- The City of Stardust // Georgia Summers (Fairyloot edition)
- Gothikana // RuNyx (B&N)
- What the River Knows // Isabel Ibanez (kindle sale)
- Carrie // Stephen King (kindle sale)
The Netgalley and Edelweiss gods truly smiled upon me, because I got review copies of quite a few VERY highly anticipated releases! 😍 I also got new horror novellas (and a collection) from some beloved authors!
- In the Valley of the Headless Men // L.P. Hernandez (ARC)
- Recreational Panic: Stories // Sonora Taylor (ARC)
- Butcher & Blackbird // Brynne Weaver (eARC)
- Scissor Sisters // Rae Knowles & April Yates (eARC)
- Cranberry Cove // Hailey Piper (eARC)
- The Undermining of Twyla & Frank // Megan Bannen (eARC)
- It’s Only a Game // Kelsea Yu (eARC)
- A Sorceress Comes to Call // T. Kingfisher (eARC)
How was your month? What was your favorite book you read or hauled, or what was something nice that happened in your life?
— destiny ♥
Dini @ dinipandareads
February 8, 2024Great wrap up! Looks like a pretty awesome start to the year 😍 I’m only a little bit jealous about your early copy of Twyla & Frank. Only just a bit, haha 😂 It’s one of my highly anticipated reads and I can’t wait to get my hands on it. I hope you love it and have a wonderful February!
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
February 9, 2024Thank you Dini! Aww no 😂 I wish I could share it with you! I hope we both love it (though I’m sure we will)! ♥♥ happy February, friend!
mistysbookspace
February 8, 2024We had the exact same average rating for January. We also had 3 of the same 5 star books. I had one more 5 star which was Throne of the Fallen. Now you know why I was having such a difficult time picking my favorite book of January and I still haven’t picked it yet 😂
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
February 9, 2024That’s awesome!!! But also, yes, I can totally see why 😂 I couldn’t pick between the 2 I put as my favorites, there was just no way.
Jenna @ Falling Letters
February 11, 2024Ooh, those are some popular titles you’ve got in your 2 and 2.5 star rating section, haha. I haven’t read either – I picked up Emily Wilde at one point but quickly put it down again cos I didn’t care for the structure or style.
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
February 15, 2024I know, it’s always a little nerve-wracking to give poor ratings to multiple popular books at once! 😅 yeah, if you didn’t care for the beginning of Emily Wilde, I don’t expect you’d care for the rest of it either unfortunately!
Caro @ bookcheshirecat
February 18, 2024Glad to see that you liked My Roommate is a Vampire, it’s such a fun, paranormal book 🥰 I need to finally catch up with Crescent City, because I’m seeing the third book everywhere 😂
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
February 20, 2024It was SO cute! I’m so glad I picked it up 😀 and yes, you totally should, the series has been sooo good!