Here is what I read/posted in April.
As always, let me know if you have read any of these books and (if you did) what you thought of them.
Books I Read:
Books I got from NetGalley:
Books I got from Authors/Indie Publishers:
Giveaway Winners
Books Reviewed:
The Witch and the Vampire—review here
Prince of Typgar: Nurjan and the Monks of Meirar—review here
Read to Death at the Lakeside Library—review here
Dirty Laundry by Disha Bose—review here
Body Count by SM Thomas—review here
Prince of Typgar: Nujran and the Corpse in the Quadrangle by Krishna Sudhir—review here
Wings Once Cursed and Bound by Piper J. Drake—review here
No Time to Breathe by Lori Duffy Foster—review here
Another Chance at Happiness by Dani Phoenix—review here
Tales from the Box, Volume 1 by Weston Kincaide—review here
Pieces of Me by Kate McLaughlin—review here
Where Coyotes Howl by Sandra Dallas—review here
Bait by D.I. Jolly—review here
Missing by Amy Kulp—review here
How to Best a Marquess—review here
This Delicious Death—review here
Reading Challenges:
2023 Monthly Themes (Continue a series or reread an author already read this year): Claim My Baby—Finished 3-31-23
Romanceopoly 2023! (Read a book where the main character works at or owns a bar)-About Love—Finished 4-1-23
Buzzword Reading Challenge 2023 (words in the title related to emotions, from happy to sad, smile to frown, pride to rage)—P.S. I Hate You—Finished 4-3-23
2023 Sami Parker Reads Title Challenge (a book with one of these words in the title: Sunny, Bright, Cloud or Rain): Brightest Shadow—Finished 4-6-2023
Cover Scavenger Hunt 2023 (a flower): A Spirited Manor—Finished 4-7-2023
The StoryGraph’s OnBoarding Reading Challenge 2023 (read one of the first 10 books you added to your to-read pile): The Night Swim—Finished 4-8-2023
The StoryGraph Reads the World 2023 (Italy): Find Me—Finished 4-10-2023
The StoryGraph’s Genre Challenge (a biography about someone you don’t know much about): Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot—Finished 4-11-2023
Beat the Backlist 2023 (take place primarily in winter or a cold region): Tainted—Finished 4-19-2023
Scavenger Hunt TBR Book Challenge (go to the acknowledgments of the last book you read for this prompt. What name did you first see? Find a book written by an author with that name): Frost Burn—Finished 4-20-2023
Scavenger Hunt (Book I found that day): Delicate Ink—Finished 4-20-2023
Popsugar Reading Challenge 2023 (a book by a first time author): The Fifth Floor—Finished 4-21-23
2023 TBR Toppler (continue a series): Ten Thousand Lies—Finished 4-22-23
2023 Reading Challenge (book that has been on my TBR for the longest time): Purple Death—Finished 4-23-23
2023 ABC Challenge (D): Descendants—Carrying over to May
2023 TBR Prompts (A BookTok Favorite): The Song of Achilles—Carrying over to May
Wow, you had an amazing reading month, Jolie.
I did!! Some of these books were short or else I wouldn’t have been able to read as much as I did.