My favourite books from every month of 2025 (& my lowest rated!) ⭐️ | Bookmas day 12 [vlogmas]

I think that was also the book that frustrated me the most out of any book that I've read this year [gasps] because I just hated all of the tropes in it.

I think it's a really beautiful story of life and death. And I loved it. It made me fall in love with V. E. Schwab.

I love dark romance. I just don't think the dark romance with the comedy aspects work for me. I've not thought about this book once since I finished it.

I love The Right Move, but Caught Up is so fun. I think play along is my favorite though.

I actually found it was quite consistent all throughout and I think by book four I had really bonded and connected with all the characters. So to see the story kind of wrap up and how it set up for the next series in the same world with new characters and stuff. Yeah, hooked.

Clockwork Princess was my highest rated my favorite book. I went and got a tattoo for it.

I did enjoy book one, but book two just fell kind of flat to me. I just don't think Viking fantasy stories are for me.

And these direwolves, we do get communication with them with our characters. So, it's very, very fun.

And I think all their books are really fun. I think if you read Riffborn, Dustbound, The Ascended, the books get better with each one, but then you also have a better understanding of the world and our characters.

I did not understand the hype with book one but I understood it from book two. So, if you did read book one and you're like, m unsure, book two and book three, you will probably change your mind.

I read it thinking it was so hyped up I'd probably enjoy it but not love it. It has consumed my life. It is god tier.

This for me is the perfect romanty. Like, you want romance and plot, but romance is definitely the main point of the story rather than a fantasy series that has a big romance story in it.

I just really struggled to get into this and it was one of those books that I wish that I had dnfed. After I read this, I decided I was going to start dnfing books.

If you love dogs and you have a dog that you were obsessed with and love, you need to you need to read this book. But if you want cozy autominal like aesthetic Gilmore Girl feelings but in a friends to lovers slow slowb burn story with a lot of emotional impact if it makes you happy.

So, if you did read book one and you're like, m unsure, book two and book three, you will probably change your mind. It is phenomenal.

The lowest rated book that I read in November was My Boyfriends Are Monsters, a novella in the scared sexy collection. This is not good. No.

I love The Right Move, but Caught Up is so fun. I think play along is my favorite though.

I did not understand the hype with book one but I understood it from book two.

But the characters feel real. The stories are real. It's a god tier series for me.

And I think all their books are really fun. I think if you read Riffborn, Dustbound, The Ascended, the books get better with each one, but then you also have a better understanding of the world and our characters.

I love The Right Move, but Caught Up is so fun. I think play along is my favorite though.

But again, I think it's like Spark of the Ever Flame. So if you like Spark of the Everflame or you like Dire Bound, read the other.

I actually soft DNF this. I did end up picking up again, but it was a DNF when I first read it, so that was technically my lowest rated.

For Summers on the Reaping, loved it. was giving me book one Hunger Games vibes, you know, OG.

So, again, guilty pleasure read. Not my favorite, but not it wasn't necessarily bad.

The Ascended my favorite book by these authors. You can read this book by itself but I say don't do that at all. Go and read Riffon and Dusbound.

And I did love The Ballad of Songbird and Snakes. Personally, I did really enjoy reading that. I preferred the book to the movie.

So I did still enjoy The Bridge Kingdom. It would just happen to be the lowest rated one and I'm still continuing the series.

My lowest rated book was The Dare by L. Kennedy, which I thought was going to be my favorite in the in the series, but like the last 30% of that book, I don't know what was going on.

My worst book of the month was The Lies of Lena. I will not be continuing with this series in May.

But book two is just fully the most beautiful exploration of emotional development, topics of mental health, conversations about therapy and finding yourself and who are you and watching these two characters, you know, kind of work on making themselves whole so they could potentially come together as one. Oh, it's just it's so beautiful.

This book and these characters have me in a choke hold. One of my favorite tropes.

If you like dark romance, if you like mafia, vampire stuff, and you want a book that's under 300 pages and fast-paced, easy to get into, then sure. I just don't think I connected to either of the characters in this, so it wasn't my favorite.

I went and read the second book and I enjoy it.

And I found that Legacy of Gods were definitely my highest rated of hers and I like her newer published things because the older published things, they're entertaining, but I don't think they're the best. So, it was my lowest rated, but I still enjoy Reena Kent's books and reading them.

I just think YA romance, fantasy romance books are so good for good yearning because again they are younger characters and you kind of really drag out the feelings and just I love coming of age stories as well where characters find themselves and start learning more about who they are. So I thought this was really beautiful.