May Wrap Up & June TBR | 2024
This is a very late wrap up but May was a busy month and the start of June seems to have flown by. I did manage to get through a few books last month, and I had a lot more success with the books I had chosen and there were a few that I genuinely enjoyed.
Stats for my May Wrap Up
- Books finished – 12
- DNF – 1
- New reads – 12
- Rereads – 0
- Pages read – 4746
Lessons in Chemistry
There is something special about this book. I adored the characters and the way that the story was constructed. It handles really difficult issues without ever feeling like it’s preaching or shoving it down your throat.
⭐⭐⭐⭐1/2
Icebreaker
This wasn’t a bad book, I just don’t think I was the right audience for it. I didn’t particularly enjoy the characters, and the epilogue drove me mad.
⭐⭐⭐
- Lore by Alexandra Bracken – ⭐⭐⭐
- Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus – ⭐⭐⭐⭐1/2
- Fathomfolk by Eliza Chan – ⭐⭐⭐
- Icebreaker by Hannah Grace – ⭐⭐⭐
- The Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Girl in the Ice by Robert Bryndza – ⭐⭐⭐
- The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Switch by Beth O’Leary – ⭐⭐⭐
- Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson- ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Night Stalker by Robert Bryndza – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Wolfsong
This is such a beast of a book and it’s taking me a little while to get through at the minute. The writing style is a little disjointed and distant. It’s definitely not my favourite TJ Klune, but we shall see where it leads.
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
I love Friends, and this one has been on my radar for a little while, so wanted to jump into it. I really love Matthew Perry so this should be an interesting read.
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.
June TBR
I feel like I have finally hit my stride and I’m finally enjoying reading again. I’m hoping for great books for this month, there is a lot going on so need stuff that will hold my attention! Fingers crossed that these choices will do that, especially seeing as it’s a fantasy heavy month.
- She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
- The 52 Book Club’s 2024 Challenge – 34. Set in a landlocked country
- Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson
- The 52 Book Club’s 2024 Challenge – 18. An apostrophe in the title
- Popsugar Reading Challenge – 39. A fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author
- The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
- Popsugar Reading Challenge – 49. Set in a city starting with the letter “M”
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
- The 52 Book Club’s 2024 Challenge – 17. Nominated for The Booker Prize
- Popsugar Reading Challenge – 17. A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list
- Wolfsong by TJ Klune
- The 52 Book Club’s 2024 Challenge – 27. By a neurodivergent author
- Popsugar Reading Challenge – 45. An LGBTQ+ romance novel
- The Black Prism by Brent Weeks
- A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
What are you planning on reading this month? And did you find any new favourites last month? I would love to know.
I loved Lessons in Chemistry and agree with your Icebreakers review, it was definitely overhyped
I think the ending of Icebreakers made me hate it all the more. I would have loved for them to just be a successful couple without all the rest.
Great wrap up! I’m always pumped if I can read more than 5 books a month. And I definitely agree Icebreaker was not as good as promised. I felt like that book would never end