April Wrap Up & May TBR | 2024
April was my comeback month, and I had such a great reading month this time around. There were some really great reads and I didn’t struggle as much as I did in March, probably because I DNF’d a book and didn’t have to push through.
Stats for my March Wrap Up
- Books finished – 13
- DNF – 1
- New reads – 11
- Rereads – 2
- Pages read – 5041
Before the coffee gets cold
I fell in love with this book and immediately ran out to buy the rest of the series. There is something really whimsical about the writing and storyline. I loved it all. Will definitely be on the favourites list for this year.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Sister, Maiden, Monster
I have no idea what to say about this book other than it made no sense whatsoever and by the end I was just happy for it to be over. Please don’t waste your time.
⭐
The Picture of Dorian Gray
I went into this one wanting something other than what I got, I found it hard to read and genuinely boring. The risk of a slump was something on the near future, so in the bin pile it went.
The Secret History
I was so bored by this story and genuinely, I got over 200 pages in and nothing had happened. I just gave up, I wasn’t even bothered to find out how it ended.
- Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Legendborn by Tracy Dean – ⭐⭐⭐
- XOXO by Christina Lee – ⭐⭐
- Before the coffee gets cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi – ⭐⭐⭐
- Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Sister, Maiden, Mother by Lucy A. Snyder – ⭐
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson – ⭐⭐⭐⭐1/2
- A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan – ⭐⭐⭐⭐1/2
Lessons in Chemistry
I’m genuinely excited to really get into this one, I have heard wonderfully brilliant things. Plus I really want to watch the TV series.
The Tropic of Serpents
Jumping straight into the sequel. I really love the tone of these books and I think they’re going to be easy reading/listening.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter is a comfort read for me and I usually put the audiobook on in the middle of the night when I’m struggling to sleep and need to calm my brain down. It will probably take me a while to get through but it’s like a warm cup of tea.
May TBR
I am just plodding on and there’s no need to fix what isn’t broken. So it’s the same process again. I cannot wait to jump into some of the books on this list.
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
- Popsugar Reading Challenge – 30. A book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary
- The 52 Book Club’s 2024 Challenge – 50. A musical instrument on the cover
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Grams
- The 52 Book Club’s 2024 Challenge – 6. Women in STEM
- Popsugar Reading Challenge – 16. A book set 24 years before you were born
- Icebreaker by Hannah Grace
- Popsugar Reading Challenge – 7. A book about women’s sports and/or by a woman athlete
- Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
- The 52 Book Club’s 2024 Challenge – 10. Told in non-chronological order
- Lore by Alexandra Bracken
- The 52 Book Club’s 2024 Challenge – 20. A revenge story
- The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson
- The Girl in the Ice by Robert Brenda
What are you planning on reading this month? And did you find any new favourites last month? I would love to know.
