#readingwrapup

May Reading Wrap-Up & June TBR! 📚☕

Here is a quick look at what I reviewed: 🕵️‍♂️ Origin by Dan Brown (Langdon #5!) 🏥 Locked Box by Stephanie A. Miles 🌲 The Growing Dark by Mike Kraus & Aiden Cross 🐺 Volk by D. Werkmeister

What gets you out of your reading slump? It’s been a slow year for me so far in terms of reading. I found reading a few nonfiction books helped recalibrate my joy in reading. I’m back now, and looking for all those new ways authors present a romance. Some people ask if I ever get tired of reading all romance. For the most part, I don’t. Perhaps an occasional slump here or there. I don’t…

I was on an extreme novella trip since basically January which peaked my reading to 22 books in February (I think), which made me so intimidated by longer books that I barely scratched at my physical tbr, which is overall quite silly and embarrassing. Good news though, June got me back into reading mostly books between 300 and 500 pages, so perhaps I am finally properly literate again. (Novellas are very great and I love them but it had the weird effect of making me scared of longer books, which I couldn't just let happen.)

(This doesn't sum to 9 books because two were on audio, both betweeen 8 and 15 hours, which is storygraph's middle segment.)

In June, I completed six books :)

Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch: I loved this book so much. I bought it on recommendation from my favorite Booktuber Merphy Napier, who gushes over it. The only thing I disliked was the language. It was rather coarse.

Oceans of Mercy by Mallory Ford: I enjoyed this one. Friends to lovers, one of my favorite tropes. The mystery took a back seat to the romance, which wasn't my favorite, but it wasn't a deal breaker.

The Maid in the Mansion by Fiona Grace: I hated this book. It started out okay, but took forever to get to the murder mystery. Once the murder finally did happen, the falsely accused trope made its appearance and I despise that trope. I read one page a day until I finished it because that's all I could stand to read at a time.

No Other Place on Earth by Sheillagh Herrera: I loved this book. It made me cry several times. Sometimes, happy tears, much more often sad tears. A bittersweet, happy ending.

Last of the Mohicans by James F. Cooper: I liked this book okay, but it was way too long. The plot points repeated themselves several times and the characters were too similar and I kept confusing them.