Update: It's OBVIOUSLY not February 1st anymore. It's actually closer to the end of the month. You know what happened? I started putting this together and then I realised that I was accidentally putting my January 2025 reads instead of my December 2024 reads, and it was about 3am and I ran out of steam. I kinda just konked out and then work got bonkers. And if you're wondering why and haven't seen, this was the reason. It's actually been an exciting time.
Here's what I read in December 2024. Better late than never, right? Really, really late. Soz!
![]() A Guardian For Christmas |
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![]() Catnapped: A Pawsitively Purrfect Christmas |
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![]() A Very Stalker Christmas |
![]() Submission |
![]() Novak Raven |
![]() Blackwing Dragon |
![]() Rebel Revenge |
![]() He Sees You When You're Sleeping |
![]() Zinnia |
![]() Amaryllis |
![]() Praise Me: President |
![]() Hard Knocks |
![]() The Dangerous One |
![]() The Hero She Deserves |
![]() Visions & Shadows |
![]() Dune (Goodreads Challenge) |
![]() A Discovery Of Witches (reread & Goodreads Challenge) |
![]() It Started With Paris 🎧 (book club read) |
![]() A Christmas Carol 🎧(book club read) |
![]() Wine Sense: The Art Of Appreciating Wine |
![]() Viral Justice (reread - original release) * Link it to preorder |
![]() Beauty and the Boss |
![]() Death Defiant |
![]() Daddy's Wild Girl |
![]() False Start |
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Looking back, it seems that I read a bit more than I thought I did in December which was odd cos December was supposed to be a quiet month as I had intended to have a holiday, but didn't. C'est la vie, oui?
Some awesome audiobooks to kick things off. I love Toni Anderson's Cold Justice series and just adore when Alex Parker pops up in every book. We are doing the first book in the series for book club later in the year, so I will relisten to the audiobook later in the year to prepare for that. Am actually really looking forward to that. Funnily enough, I've gotten pretty far into the series and didn't even realise it. I got through Cold Malice and A Cold Dark Promise. Both excellent. Toni Anderson's books are very full-on, so I often need a break between books, but also want to keep racing onto the next book. They're kinda dark and intense though, so I can only listen to two in a row before needing a break. There's only so many serial killers and sex traffickers a girl can take. Am still obsessed with Eric G Dove's voice which makes the audiobooks just wonderful.
Aside from that, there were some rereads for work (I'm editing a book for a rerelease) and also for a Goodreds challenge. I don't think I'm going to make much of an effort to do the Goodreads challenges each year? Quarter? It's too much effort and a lot of the books fall outside what I usually read, so it's not worth the effort for me. No, no. I read enough. I do not need to expand my horizons, thank you very much. That said, I did do a reread of A Discovery Of Witches by Deborah Harkness and it's still freaking brilliant.
Other standouts included Jessa Kane's Praise Me: President, TS Joyce's Novak Raven and Blackwing Dragon (of course!), Anna Hackett's The Hero She Deserves (I confess to being obsessed with Sawyer's biceps!! And I think this is my favorite book of the series, probably also because of Sawyer's biceps), and Jayne Castle's Amaryllis and Zinnia. I'm saving the last book in the series for later.
On a final note, Death Defiant by Charlotte Chaos. Could she have possibly put even less effort into that cover than she did? I know, it's a little snarky of me, but I did take a chance on the book since the blurb sounded interesting. Still... that cover...
How did you go with your reading? Read any good books last month?
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Not many books read in December, unusually
ReplyDelete1 The Mirror by Nora Roberts. Lost Bride Trilogy 2. USA, Maine, Massachusetts
2 The Hero she Deserves by Anna Hackett. Unbroken Heroes #4. USA, California/Hawaii
3 Darn Knit All by Evie Mitchell. All Access #3. New Zealand, Italy
4 The Last Secret of the Temple by Paul Sussman. Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Germany
5 Moody's Grumpy Holiday by Lane Hayes. USA, California
6 Spaceside by Michael Mammay. Planetside 2. Space
7 Catseye by Andre Norton. Space
8 False Evidence by Rachel Grant. Evidence Series #12. USA, Maryland
9 Falling Awake by Jayne Ann Krentz. USA, Indiana, N Carolina, California
Gill
Hey, you're busy having fun for the summer. That's perfectly okay. Still a decent list. Some people don't even read that many books in a year!!
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