March 2023 Wrap Up

On 2023-03-312023-03-30 By JolieIn ARC, Ballantine Books, book review, Crooked Lane Books, Dancing Lemur Press, Del Rey, Independent Book Publisher's Association, Level Best Books, Member's Titles, Minotaur Books, NetGalley, Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, Sourcebooks Casablanca, St. Martin's Griffin, St. Martin's Press, Wednesday Books1 Comment

Here is what I read/posted in March.

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:

**ARC from Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine, Ballantine Books**

**ARC from St. Martin’s Press, St. Martin’s Griffin**

**ARC from St. Martin’s Press, Wednesday Books**

**ARC from St. Martin’s Press, Minotaur Books**

**ARC from Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine, Dell**

**ARC from St. Martin’s Press, St. Martin’s Paperbacks**

Books I got from NetGalley:

**Read Now from St. Martin’s Press, Wednesday Books**

**Read Now from St. Martin’s Press, St. Martin’s Griffin**

**Read Now from St. Martin’s Press, Minotaur Books**

**Invite from St. Martin’s Press, Minotaur Books**

**Wish granted from Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine, Del Rey**

**Invite from Level Best Books, Independent Books Publishers Association, Members Titles**

**Wished granted from Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine, Del Rey**

**Invite from St. Martin’s Press, Wednesday Books**

**Invite from** **Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine, Bantam**

**Wish Granted from Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine, Ballantine Books**

**Limited time Read Now from Sourcebook Casablanca**

**Wish granted from Sourcebooks Casablanca**

Books I got from Authors/Indie Publishers:

Giveaway Winners

**Goodreads Giveaway Winner through William Morrow—Hardcover**

Books Reviewed:

The Things We Do To Our Friends—review here

Too Wrong to Be Right—review here

The Shadow of Theron—review here

Mad Honey—review here

A Paroxysm of Fear—review here

The Last Lap—review here

Mr. & Mrs. Witch—review here

Missing Clarissa—review here

What Have We Done—review here

Off the Map—review here

Solomon’s Crown—review here

For Our Soul—review here

AI—review here

Not That Kind of Ever After—review here

The Fake—review here

Peril in Paradise—review here

Yours Truly, The Duke—review here

Hotel of Secrets—review here

Reading Challenges

Buzzword Reading Challenge (words in the title like secret, secretive, secrets)—A Dangerous Secret—Finished 3-6-2023

2023 Sami Parker Reads Title Challenge (A book with one of these words in the title: Ice, Snow, Flurry, or Blizzard)—Ice—Finished 3-6-2023

Cover Scavenger Hunt 2023 (Food)—The Obituary Society—Finished 3-10-2023

The StoryGraph’s Onboarding Reading Challenge (read a book from your StoryGraph recommendations)—Beautiful Demons—Finished 3-10-2023

The StoryGraph Reads the World (Cuba)—Of Women and Salt—Finished 3-12-2023

The StoryGraph’s Genre Challenge (a sapphic romance)—She Who Became the Sun—Finished 3-22-2023

Beat the Backlist 2023 (about dragons or robots)—The Glow of the Dragon’s Heart—Finished 3-22-2023

Scavenger Hunt TBR Book Challenge (what is the most common letter in the title of the last book you read for this challenge. Find a book with a title that starts with that letter)—Even the Moon has Scars—Finished 3-23-2023

Scavenger Hunt (the prettiest book in your TBR)—The Watchmaker’s Daughter—Finished 3-23-2023

Popsugar Reading Challenge 2023 (A book about a vacation)—The Swap—Finished 3-24-2023

2023 TBR Toppler (the first book in a series)—The Last Artifact—Finished 3-26-23

2023 Monthly Themes (March of the Memoirs)—In the Dream House—Finished 3-1-23

2023 Reading Challenge (A book in a series you already started)—Catching Fire—Finished 3-27-23

2023 ABC Challenge (C)—Contained—Finished 3-6-2023

Romanceopoly 2023 (Killer crescent: read a mystery or thriller of your choosing)—Malevolent—Finished 3-1-23

2023 TBR Prompts (a book written about women in STEM or a book with a strong female lead)—Vicious Delights—Finished 3-28-2023

Bookish Travels—March 2023 Destinations

On 2023-03-30 By JolieIn book review2 Comments

This meme is what it says: Places I travel to in books each month. Books are lovely and take you to places you would never get to. That includes places of fantasy too!!

Bon Voyage!!

Please let me know if you have read these books or traveled to these areas.

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