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2024 WRAP UP

જ⁀➴ goals

❀ reading goal: (160/150) - increased from 80 ✔️
❀ finish 10 series (14/10) ✔️
❀ read 40 books off my physical tbr (71/40) ✔️
❀ read a debut author ✔️
❀ read a book by an Australian author ✔️
❀ learn to dnf books!!! (1) ✔️
❀ read at least 5 thriller books (14/5) ✔️
❀ read a classic (0/1) ❌

જ⁀➴ stats:

✎ total 5 star reads: 17
✎ total dnf's: 1
✎ total arc's read this year: 32
✎ most books read in a month: 26
✎ least books read in a month: 7
✎ average books read a month: 13
✎ average rating: 3.5 stars (according to gr)
✎ number of buddy reads: 14
✎ most read genre: romance
✎ number of pages: 60,473

જ⁀➴ TOP 24 READS OF 2024

1. the great alone
2. the women
3. a thousand splendid suns
4. funny story
5. firefly lane
6. the lion women of tehran
7. the things we leave unfinished
8. one true loves
9. the entire boys of tommen series
10. empire of storms / kingdom of ash
11. As long as the lemon trees grow
12. magnolia parks series
13. the serpent and the wings of night
14. The nightingale
15. after I do
16. the seven year slip
17. the emperor
18. how to end a love story
19. the stars are our witness
20. daisy jones and the six
21. all my love
22. the dixon rule
23. heartless / reckless
24. from air

જ⁀➴ honourable mentions:

♡ love and other words
♡ kiss the sky
♡ come break my heart again
♡ the rule book
♡ carrie soto is back
♡ the four winds
♡ learn your lesson

જ⁀➴ top 3 series

1. boys of tommen
2. throne of glass
3. magnolia parks + addicted/calloway

The above completely consumed me this year. I couldn't leave any of them out.

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જ⁀➴ monthly journal:

👙 january: 👙

books read:

➸ the housemaid - 4 stars
➸ love and other words - 4 stars
➸ the things we leave unfinished - 5 stars
➸ the love hypothesis - 3 stars
➸ the rule book (arc) - 4.5 stars
➸ magnolia parks - 4 stars
➸ exodus (br) - 1 star

total: 7
favourite: the things we leave unfinished
least favourite: exodus

🏖️ february 🏖️

books read:

➸ daisy haites - 4 stars
➸ magnolia parks: the long way home - 5 stars
➸ an education in malice (arc) - 3 stars
➸ the predator (br) - 4 stars
➸ assassin's blade (br) - 4 stars
➸ daisy haites: the great undoing - 3.75 stars
➸ it's complicated (arc) - 2.5 stars
➸ you and me on vacation - 3.75 stars
➸ fathomfolk (arc) - 2.5 stars

total: 9
favourite: magnolia parks: the long way home
least favourite: it's complicated

🧡 march 🧡

books read:

➸ a touch of darkness - 3.5 stars
➸ the inmate (arc) - 3.5 stars
➸ magnolia parks: into the dark (br) - 4 stars
➸ the reaper - 4.5 stars
➸ a feather so black (arc) - 3.5 stars
➸ heartless - 4.5 stars
➸ the housemaid's secret - 3.75 stars
➸ the seven year slip - 4.5 stars
➸ their's for the night - 3 stars
➸ the great alone - 5 stars
➸ bunny (br) - 3 stars

total: 11
favourite: the great alone
least favourite: bunny

🍃 april 🍃

books read:

➸ how to end a love story (arc) - 5 stars
➸ the saviors (br) - 4 stars
➸ the foxglove king - 3.75 stars
➸ the hemlock queen (arc) - 4 stars
➸ one of us is dead - 4 stars
➸ the emperor - 5 stars
➸ wild love - 2.75 stars
➸ the stars are our witness (arc) - 4.5 stars
➸ learn your lesson - 4.5 stars
➸ funny story - 5 stars
➸ a letter to the luminous deep (arc) - 3 stars
➸ all my love (arc) - 4.5 stars

total: 12
favourite: how to end a love story / the emperor / funny story 😅
least favourite: a letter to the luminous deep

🍂 may 🍂

books read:

➸ when we lied (arc) - 3.5 stars
➸ the nightingale - 4.5 stars
➸ the score - 3 stars
➸ the many lies of veronica hawkins (arc) - 2.5 stars
➸ revelry - 3 stars
➸ the graham effect - 4 stars
➸ the dixon rule (arc) - 4.5 stars
➸ pulse (arc) - 3 stars
➸ a game of fate - 2.5 stars
➸ the clique (arc) (br) - 2.5 stars
➸ a touch of ruin - 2.75 stars
➸ twisted hate - 2 stars
➸ then she was gone - 3 stars

total: 13
favourite: the nightingale
least favourite: twisted hate

🥶 june 🥶

books read:

➸ butcher and blackbird - 4 stars
➸ four winds - 4.25 stars
➸ fangirl down - 2.5 stars
➸ savour it (arc) - 2.75 stars
➸ come break my heart again (arc) - 4.25 stars
➸ the serpent and the wings of night (br) - 5 stars
➸ beartown - 3 stars
➸ the women - 5 stars
➸ finale (br) - 3.75 stars
➸ powerless - 3.5 stars

total: 10
favourite: the women / the serpent and the wings of night
least favourite: fan girl / savour it

❄️ july ❄️

books read:

➸ dishonestly yours (arc) - 3.5 stars
➸ reckless - 4.5 stars
➸ binding 13 - 5 stars
➸ the unraveling (arc) - 4 stars
➸ cross the line (arc) - 3.75 stars
➸ the au pair affair (arc) - 2.5 stars
➸ frisco (arc) - 2 stars
➸ throne of glass - 3 stars
➸ keeping 13 - 5 stars
➸ one true loves - 5 stars

total: 10
favourite: binding 13 / one true loves
least favourite: frisco

🩵 august 🩵

books read:

➸ carrie soto is back - 4.25 stars
➸ beach read (reread) - 5 stars
➸ six scorched roses - 4 stars
➸ happy place (reread) - 5 stars
➸ wicked serve (arc) - 3.5 stars
➸ saving 6 - 4 stars
➸ redeeming 6 - 4 stars
➸ this time is real - 2 stars
➸ homefront (br) - 4 stars

total: 9
favourite: rereads
least favourite: this time is real

🌸 september 🌸

books read:

➸ crown of midnight - 4 stars
➸ heir of fire - 4.5 stars
➸ queen of shadows - 4.5 stars
➸ the finisher - 3.5 stars
➸ every summer after - 2 stars
➸ the annihilator - 3 stars
➸ taming 7 - 3 stars
➸ empire of storms - 5 stars
➸ tower of dawn - 3 stars
➸ painted scars - 2 stars
➸ every moment since (arc) 3.75 stars
➸ a song to drown rivers (arc) - 3 stars

total: 12
favourite: empire of storms
least favourite: painted scars

🎃 october 🎃

books read:

➸ forever interrupted - 4 stars
➸ seven sleepless nights - 4 stars
➸ blue sisters (br) - 3 stars
➸ night road - 4 stars
➸ king of wrath - 3 stars
➸ how my neighbour stole christmas (arc) - 4 stars
➸ the witch collector - 3.5 stars
➸ part of your world - 4 stars
➸ hopeless - 2 stars
➸ spectacular - 3.75 stars
➸ local woman missing - 3 stars
➸ intermezzo - 4.25 stars
➸ noire moon (br) - 3 stars
➸ this girls a killer (arc) - 4 stars
➸ city of ruin - 3 stars

total: 15
favourite: intermezzo
least favourite: hopeless

☀️ november ☀️

books read:

➸ the pumpkin spice cafe - 2.5 stars
➸ firefly lane - 5 stars
➸ you, with a view - 4 stars
➸ addicted to you - 3.5 stars
➸ ricochet - 4 stars
➸ when the moon hatched - 3 stars
➸ the syndicator - 2.75 stars
➸ from air (arc) - 4.75 stars
➸ addicted for now - 4 stars
➸ cruel winter with you - 2 stars
➸ merry ever after - 1 star
➸ all by my elf - 2 stars
➸ merriment and mayhem - 3.5 stars
➸ only santas in the building - 2.5 stars
➸ the unhoneymooners - 4 stars
➸ not another love song (br) - 3 stars
➸ twisted lies - 4.5 stars
➸ my december darling - 4 stars
➸ the housemaid is watching - 2.5 stars
➸ after I do - 4.5 stars
➸ the housemaid's wedding - 1 star
➸ merry kissmas - 3.5 stars
➸ daisy jones and the six (br) - 4.5 stars
➸ once upon a broken heart - 4 stars

total: 24
favourite: firefly lane
least favourite: merry ever after

🎄 december 🎄

books read:

➸ the christmas blanket - 3 stars
➸ kingdom of ash - 5 stars
➸ the gift - 1 star
➸ evidence of the affair - 4 stars
➸ the lion women of tehran (arc) - 5 stars
➸ the mistletoe motive - 4 stars
➸ resting scrooge face - 3.5 stars
➸ small things like these - 3 stars
➸ blood of hercules (arc) - 4 stars
➸ a little magic - 3.5 stars
➸ powerless - 3 stars
➸ wreck the halls - (dnf 42%)
➸ cash - 4 stars
➸ from blood and ash - 4 stars
➸ the widow's husband's secret life - 3 stars
➸ out on a limb - 4 stars
➸ a thousand splendid suns - 5 stars
➸ tis the season for revenge - 4 stars
➸ wyatt (br, arc) - 3 stars
➸ kiss the sky - 4.5 stars
➸ and every morning the way home gets longer and longer - 4 stars
➸ hothouse flower - 3 stars
➸ the situationship - 3 stars
➸ the exception to the rule - 4 stars
➸ worst wingman ever - 3 stars
➸ as long as the lemon trees grow - 5 stars
➸ beg, borrow and steal (arc) - tbc

total: 26 (excl. dnf)
favourite: kingdom of ash / a thousand splendid suns
least favourite: wreck the halls