Here is what I read/posted/bought in August.
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
Ignite the Magic by Donna Grant
Books Reviewed:
The Shadow Girls by Alice Blanchard—review here (3 stars)
Ride for Glory by Ann Hunter—review here (4 stars)
Gone Tonight by Sarak Pekkanen—review here (3 stars)
The Gullfather: Birdsy Seagull: Vol 1: A Seahawk Situation—review here (4 stars)
Stalking Around the Christmas Tree by Jacqueline Frost—review coming October 17th
Overdue or Die by Allison Brook—review coming October 10th
A Clue in the Crumbs by Lucy Burdette—review here (4 stars)
The Hundred Loves of Juliet by Evelyn Skye—review here (4 stars)
Dark Corners by Megan Goldin—review here (4 stars)
Assault: Girl With a Knife by James T. Hogg—review here (4 stars)
Mister Magic by Kiersten White—review here (4 stars)
California Golden by Melanie Benjamin—review here (4 stars)
A Killer in the Family by Gytha Lodge—review here (4 stars)
Spin a Black Yarn by Josh Malerman—review here (4 stars)
North of Nowhere by Allison Brennan—review here (4 stars)
The One That Got Away by Charlotte Rixon—review here (2.5 stars)
In the Wick of Time by Valona Jones—review coming October 17th
Marry Me by Midnight by Felicia Grossman—review here (4 stars)
Unexpecting by Jen Bailey—review here (3 stars)
One Night by Georgina Cross—review here (3 stars)
The Body in the Back Garden—review here (4 stars)
A Dragon’s Dyne by Brett Salter—review coming September 5th (4 stars)
Reading Challenges:
July
Scavenger Hunt TBR Book Challenge (find a book with the same amount of pages as the last book and read it)—Woman Scorned
Scavenger Hunt (a book translated from another language)—Anxious People
Popsugar Reading Challenge 2023 (a book with “Girl” in the title)—The Fireproof Girl
2023 TBR Toppler (a book over 500 pages)—The Yellowstone Conundrum
2023 Monthly Themes (books in the heat/summer)—What Happened at the Lake
2023 Reading Challenge (a book with a yellow cover or yellow title)—A Worse Secret
2023 ABC Challenge (G)—Girl with No Fingerprints
Romanceopoly 2023! (Adult or New Adult friends to lovers)—Anything for Love
2023 TBR Prompts (longest book on my TBR)—The Needle House
August
Buzzword Reading Challenge 2023 (body-related words: the body itself or body-related works like heart, skin, liver, flesh…etc)—Broken Heart Syndrome
2023 Sami Parker Reads Title Challenge (a book with a wild animal in the title. Common companion animals like dogs, cats, ferrets, fish, snakes, lizards, and horses do not count)—The Wolf Within
Cover Scavenger Hunt 2023 (a heart)—Lost Shadows
The StoryGraph Reads the World (South Africa)—The Warning Bell
The StoryGraph’s Genre Challenge (a nonfiction history book about an LGBTQIA+ issue or person)—Gender Queer
Beat the Backlist 2023 (fairy/folktale you haven’t heard before)—Splintered
Scavenger Hunt TBR Book Challenge (find another book with a title that has the same amount of letters as the last book and read it)—The Beginning
Scavenger Hunt (a book from my least favorite genre that I might like)—the sun and her flowers
Popsugar Reading Challenge 2023 (a celebrity memoir)—Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Books I bought:
Bite Me by Lisa Renee Jones
My Favorite Night by Claudia Burgoa
Tales from a Magical Teashop: Stories of the Tea Princess Chronicles by Casey Blair
Mercury’s Shadow by P.J. Garcin
Sensibly Wed by Kasey Stockton
Runaway Love by Melanie Harlow
Home Game by Lisa Suzanne
Spooning My Chuchunya by Marilyn Barr
Veronique’s Journey by Patti Flinn
The Bond by Robin Kirk
Constantine: A History by Donna Grant
Moon Kissed by Donna Grant
Where Lost Girls Go by B.R. Spangler
One Man by Lisa Renee Jones
Intrigued by Z.L. Arkadie
Shopaholic on a Honeymoon by Sophie Kinsella
Just for Show by Tawna Fenske
When You Return to Me by Dana Morton
The Prince’s Prisoner by Quinn Blackbird
Engelstatt by Samuel Church
Wormwood by D.H. Nevins
It’s in His Kiss by Bria Quinlan
Stay by Chelsea Camaron
Bunny Hearts Bear by V. Vaughn
That’s Why the Lady is a Tramp by Merry Farmer
The Fairy Tale Bride by Kelly McClymer
Duke Looks Like a Groomsman by Valerie Bowman
Il Padrone by Leigh Kenzie
Seaside Sweets by Melissa Chambers
Mystery of the Tea Cup Quilt by Jodi Allen Brice
Herbs and Homicide by Carly Winter
Dancing with Danger by Kerrigan Byrne
Killing Time by K.J. Waters
The Doctor by Nikki Sloane
