January & February Reading Wrap Up in my 2024 Reading Journal! (reviews & stats) 📚📈

I was very pleasantly surprised by this book I really enjoyed it wasn't perfect I ended up giving it four stars there were definitely a couple things about it that I felt nitpicky about but overall this was a much better book than I expected it to be

auta witch just did not work for me as well as her other work I think part of it is that it's aimed at a younger audience and does feel quite young but it also just felt a little aimless to me and I honestly just found myself quite bored

my two favorites on this page were probably Bean Henry and Czech and mate both of which could have had a higher rating If I Were A different kind of person than I am it's it's less so issues with the books themselves that landed them at three stars and more so that they aren't exactly my cup of tea

Divine Rivals was very close to getting five stars really it was just how abrupt the ending was that lowered my rating but I really loved it and I'm definitely going to keep reading in the series

it was just incredible I thought it was beautifully written explored so many themes that are so deeply relevant right now and I would highly recommend it I thought it was gorgeous

hellbent was a little less satisfying for me a little less tightly plotted a little more Meandering repetitive just lacking focus a bit so for me it was more of a three star read but still a very enjoyable read

I gave this book three stars it was very forgettable for me and felt very young for my taste it just didn't really do what I would want it to do with the Thematic content with the characters it had with the world it had established

this one was just very blah to me it's a very hodg Podge transition book there are too many characters having their stories wrapped up or progressed in a way that felt rushed and spread too thin

it's much slower in its Pace it's much more tender almost and I really enjoyed it but I definitely went into it with the wrong expectations or I went in with expectations set from the first installment which makes sense but that's not what the second book was trying to do so it took me a while to kind of reset my expectations and then I ended up really enjoying it

ninth house very much pleasantly surprised me it also got four stars

the Mammoth Hunters is still a great book in a lot of ways but has a very frustrating love triangle miscommunication Trope at the center that is dragged out for far too long and is very irritating but it's made up for by so many Incredible characters and beautiful relationships and interactions that I adore

this book in particular is incredibly boring and repetitive I gave it three stars because there are some really interesting characters and groups of people that we meet in this book that I really enjoy

I loved these characters I loved the central narrative about these books and the ways that reading these same books and discussing them brought all these different characters together it was just beautiful and I loved it so I give it five stars

the first book in the series and then the second one which is the Valley of the horses are by far the two best books in the series in my opinion they're my two favorites they both get five stars from me all day every day they are definitely not perfect books but I adore them

it was a three star read for me it did some interesting things it catched me engaged but there were areas where I felt it was lacking and it didn't quite deliver what I was hoping for going into it