So it has been a good four years since I have truly blogger anything book related. I've updated a few times but it hasn't been anything major. Last year was the first year I actually got some reading done. I read 75 books and 52 of those were ARC's or books that I picked up for reviewers on my team but never read myself (I've been trying to clean off my kindle of ARC's and DOC's).
Anyways, last year I typed up a list of around 500 DOCs on my kindle. I originally started with the A's and then moved to the oldest files. So it's a mix of oldest and alphabetical order. I cut out the strips and put them in a container. I would pull out three or four titles at a time add them to my kindle and use text to speech to listen to them while I worked. A lot were DNF's for me because like I said I got them for members on my review team and honestly my taste in books has changed a bit so really some of them given different timing may have had different reviews. However, once I finished them I deleted them from my kindle in order to clear up space. Anyways, below is a list of the NetGalley/ARC books I read last year:
The Girls of the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine
All The Promises We Break by Brenda Benny
Ashes by Gail Haris
The Angel Knights (reread and forgot) by Mary Ting
The Best Friend Bargain (Kisses in the Sand) by Robin Bielman
Hold On Tight by Serena Bell
Breaking The Cowboy's Rules by Leslie North
The Bright & The Pale by Jessica Rubinkowski
Before We Were Blue by E.J. Schwartz
The Billionaire's Betrayal by Carmen Falcone
Permanent Ink (A Something to Celebrate Novel) by Laura Simcox
Bath Bomb: Forbidden Bad Boys by Clara Leigh
Hindsight by Christy Cousineau
Pretty Smart Girls: Lace Up by Shae Ross
Beauty and the Bull Rider by Victoria Vane
Bad Romance by Jen McLaughlin (forgot and reread)
Bloodbound by Amalie Howard
Along the Indigo by Elsie Chapman
Miss Spelled by Sarah Belle
Pretty Reckless by Jodi Linton
Biker Baby by Penny Dee
Blood Countess: A Lady Slayers Novel
Broken Lives by Teresa Devereux
My Paper Heart by Magan Vernon
All Shook Up by Chelsey Krause
Undercover With The Hottie by Juli Alexander
Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide
Best Friends Through Eternity by Sylvia McNicoll
The Art of Not Breathing by Sarah Alexander
Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan
Battle of the Jacobite Rebellions
All The Wrong Shelves by Felicia Blaedel
The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennett by Bernie Su & Kate Rorick
Ace of Spades by Sandra Owens
Backstage Pass by Olivia Cunning
Contractually Yours by Connie Cox
The Best Week That Never Happened by Dallas Woodburn
The Arctic Fury by Greer Macallister
The Accidental Engagement by Maggie Dallen
Anything But Easy by Susie Tate
Alpha's Revenge by N. J. Walters
All Fired Up by Lori Foster
Before The Crown by Flora Harding
Becoming the Dragon by Alex Sapegin
John Brown's Women: A Novel by Susan Higginbotham
Vows of A Mobster by Eva Winners
All I Ask By Tamara Lush
All I Want by Tamara Lush
All I Know by Tamara Lush
Girls of Summer by Lois Browne
Broken Lives: A Social Worker's Tale by Teresa Devereux
Winning Nia by Morgana Bevan
However, this year I also found a new favorite genre in dark romance and reverse harem. The darker the book the better in my book. I also have a couple new favorite author as you'll be able to tell by the list of other books read lol. Some of these I found on BookTok and bought the first book and ordered the rest of the series same day I started reading them. Others were random books I thought looked interesting so I ordered them. Some I listened to via Prime Reading at work but a lot are actual book format. So here are the other 23 books I read last year:
Zodiac Academy: The Awakening by Caroline Peckham & Suzane Valenti
Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck (yearly reread)
Lilac by B. B. Reid
Taunt Her by Caitlyn Dare
Huge X2 by Stephanie Brother (reread on a long road trip via Alexa Auto lol)
Brutal Lies by Nora Cobb
Tiger's Quest by Colleen Houck (yearly reread)
The Ritual by Shantel Tessier
Ryan Rule by Sadie Kincaid
Ryan Redemption by Sadie Kincaid
Ryan Renewed by Sadie Kincaid
Ryan Retribution by Sadie Kincaid
Ryan Reign by Sadie Kincaid
Axel by Harper Sloan
Cage by Harper Sloan
Spiteful Lies by Nora Cobb
Undeniable by Madeline Sheehan (partially reread on a long road trip via Alexa Auto)
Unbeautifully by Madeline Sheehan (reread on long road trip via Alexa Auto)
Beck by Harper Sloan
The Death Club by Caroline Peckham & Suzane Valenti
Society of Psychos by Caroline Peckham & Suzane Valenti
Hooked by Emily McIntire
Dark Fae by Caroline Peckham & Suzane Valenti
The Sainthood: The Complete Series by Siobhan Davis
Make Me Lie by C. R. Jane & May Dawson
Crooked Crows by Elena Lawson
Ryan Christmas by Sadie Kincaid
The Complete Handymen Series by Faith Everly
The Sinner by Shantel Tessier
I look forward to increasing my reading goal to 75 and seeing how far over that I can go this year. As of now I'm already 2 books ahead of schedule and have several going right now as well. I also splurged and added Kindle Unlimited to my kindle so I can continue series I started on Prime Reading. I also bought books to complete several series I've been dying to read all the way through for Christmas and have been a little lax on my Colleen Hoover reading list lately so this year is about reading series that I already own and well just taking more time to just relax and enjoy a good book!!
As for this blog I probably won't do reviews as my job doesn't leave much time for that but maybe some cover reveals and release tours. I will also try to do a monthly post where I list what I completed that month for both DOC books and well any other books read. I look forward to being more active on here and please if you have any book recommendations please drop a comment. If you want to know what I thought of a book listed above drop a comment.
