Here is what I read/posted/bought in June.
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 Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer—review here (5 stars)
Kill Your Darlings by L.E. Harper—review here (5 Stars)
Her Latent Charm by Dana C. Brentson—review here (4 stars)
The New Mother by Nora Murphy —review here (3 stars)
Skyseeker’s Princess by Miriam Verbeek—review here (4 stars)
A Clue in the Crumbs by Lucy Burdette—review coming August 8th (4 stars)
The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende—review here (4 stars)
Identity by Nora Roberts—review here (4 stars)
The Girls of Summer by Katie Bishop—review here (4 stars)
The Celine Bower Story: Chronicle One by Carly Brown—review here (4 stars)
The Moonshine Messiah: A Mountaineer Mystery by Russell W. Johnson—review here (4 stars)
A Crown of Ivy and Glass by Claire Legrand—review here (4 stars)
Speak of the Devil by Rose Wilding—review here (3 stars)
A Stolen Child by Sarah Stewart Taylor—review here (4 stars)
Sally Brady’s Italian Adventure by Christina Lynch—review here (4 stars)
You Can Trust Me by Wendy Heard—review here (4 stars)
Jam Run by Russell Brooks—review here (4 stars)
How the Murder Crumbles by Debra Sennefelder—review here (3 stars)
Hotel Laguna by Nicola Harrison—review here (4 stars)
A Dream of Shadows by Peter Eliott—review here (4 stars)
What the Neighbors Saw by Melissa Adelman—review here (3 stars)
Forgive or Forget Me by Ann Einerson—review here (3 stars)
Shadowed Deliverance by Reily Garrett—review here (4 stars)
Will They or Won’t They by Ava Wilder—review here (3 stars)
Trust No One by Margaret Watson—review here (4 stars)
May:
Scavenger Hunt (a book turned into a movie/TV show you’ve seen): The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
2023 ABC Challenge (E): Ellipsis by Jacob L. White
Romancepoly 2023! (Read a book where either the cover is blue, black, or silver or it is a winter holiday book): Black Kiss by Dori Lavelle
2023 TBR Prompts (a book that has been turned into a TV series): Lovin’ on You by Fabiola Francisco
June:
Buzzword Reading Challenge 2023 (books with “other” in the title): The Other Side of Goodbye by Ben Follows
2023 Sami Parker Reads Title Challenge 2023 (a book that has the name of a month in the title): Every Day in December by Kitty Wilson
Cover Scavenger Hunt 2023 (a tree): My Dead World by Jacqueline Druga
The StoryGraph’s Onboarding Read Challenge 2023 (Read a book published in the last three years that fits your reader profile): How to Train Your Viscount by Courtney McCaskill
The StoryGraph Reads with World 2023 (Norway): Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval
The StoryGraph’s Genre Challenge 2023 (a popular science book): Factfulness by Hans Rosling
Beat the Backlist 2023 (giving an author a second chance): Spirit of Denial by Kate Danley
Scavenger Hunt TBR Book Challenge (What object did you first see on the cover of the last book. Find another book with the same object on the cover): The Bronzed Beasts by Roshani Chokshi
Books I bought*:
*Normally, there won’t be a lot of books on here. But, I am going through my Goodreads shelves and downloading any free books I am coming across from books already shelved. This is an ongoing project, and I should be done by September.
Let’s Play a Game by Lindsay Murray (free Kindle purchase)
The Girl in the Scarlet Chair by Janice Tremayne (free Kindle purchase)
How to Rope a Wild Cowboy by Anya Summers (free Kindle purchase)
Romancing the Princess by C.K. Brooke (free Kindle purchase)
My Twist of Fortune by Piper Rayne (free Kindle purchase)
Grace on the Horizon by Emma Lombard (free Kindle purchase)
A Girl with A Knife by Alina Rubin (free Kindle purchase)
Stone Heart by Katee Robert (free Kindle purchase)
Dead Draw by Layla Reyne (free Kindle purchase)
A Quest of Heroes by Morgan Rice (free Kindle purchase via BookBub)
In Her Defense by Margaret Watson (free Kindle purchase via BookBub)
Fencing You In by Cheyenne McCray (free Kindle purchase via BookBub)
Strip Search by Erin McCarthy (free Kindle purchase via BookBub)
Bad Night Stand by Elise Faber (free Kindle purchase via BookBub)
Her Morning Star by Violet Cowper (free Kindle purchase via Goodreads newsletter)
Her Venetian Beauty by Violet Cowper (free Kindle purchase via series)
Slashtag by John Cohn (free Kindle purchase via blog post)
White Lines by Tom Fowler (free Kindle purchase via BookBub)
Tempt Me at Midnight by Lauren Royal (free Kindle purchase via BookBub)
Okami by Renee Ahdieh (free Kindle purchase via series)
Danger’s Kiss by Glynnis Campbell (free Kindle purchase via BookBub)
Count Your Blessings by Sharon Sala (free Kindle purchase via series)
The Lightness of Water by Toni Cabell (free Kindle purchase via blog post)
The Final Play by Amie Knight (free Kindle purchase via BookBub)
Reckoning by Shelby Gunter (free Kindle purchase via series)
Opposites Attract by Camilla Isley (free Kindle purchase via series)
Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge (free Kindle purchase via BookBub)
Fireball by Lainey Davis (free Kindle purchase via BookBub)
The Art of Stealing a Duke’s Heart by Ellie St. Clair (free Kindle purchase via BookBub)
Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock (free Kindle purchase via Goodreads newsletter)
P.S. Never in a Million Years by J.S. Cooper (free Kindle purchase via BookBub)
In Too Deep by Mara Jacobs (free Kindle purchase via BookBub)
This is War by Kennedy Fox (free Kindle purchase via BookBub)
