Mid Year Book Freakout Tag

Picture1Harriet Tubman Live in Convert is my only 5 star so far in 2025

Picture2Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear by Seanan McGuire

Picture3Cursebound by Saara El-Arifi

Picture4Katabasis by R.F. Kuang

Picture5I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones – The premise was good but the delivery was a bit disappointing!

Picture6 Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman – the hype was actually worth it!

Picture7Chandler Baker

Picture8Xaden did it for me!!

Picture9Satara was unhinged and so much fun!

Picture10None so far

Picture11Seeing terrible characters get what they deserve makes me happy!

Picture12Haven’t read one yet but I would love to see an adaptation of Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson!

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For the seventh year in a row my favourite posts are my monthly stats!

January Stats     |     February Stats    |   March Stats    |   April Stats 

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I just love this cover so much!

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Prediction Book Tag 🏷

I did this tag a few years ago now and thought why not revisit and do some predictions for 2025!

All of these prompts are your predictions for your…

Picture1Kills Well With Others by Deanna Raybourn

Picture2The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

Picture1Bride by Ali Hazelwood – I think I’m either going to love this or hate it

Picture2I really loved Lettle so I can’t wait to see what happens with her in this book!

Picture4Harriet Tubman Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen – I loved this book and need it for my collection!

Picture5Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave by Elle Cosimano

Contradictions Book Tag

I decided to revisit this book tag from a couple years ago that I thought was soo fun! This was originated by  Daniela at Only If For a Page on BookTube.

A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid – Fantasy is my favourite genre but this book was just a bit meh for me.

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears – I very rarely read autobiographies but this was super interesting!

I was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones – I love a good slasher but this one was too long and meandering.

Quicksilver by Callie Hart – the Damsel in Distress tropes is one of my least favourites but this iteration did it for me!

I think this was my least favourite of the Wayward Children’s series so far!

I didn’t really like The Ten Thousand Doors of January but Starling House was great!

Chlorine by Jade Song

Guillotine by Delilah S Dawson – there is so much more that could of been done with this cover

Birthstone Book Tag 💎

The Rules:
  • Mention the creator (me- Leslie @ Books Are The New Black ) and link back to me so I can see your post!
  • Pick 5+ book covers that match the current month’s Birthstone.
  • HAVE FUN!
  • Nominate people if you want!

The Last 10 Books Tag

I’ve been redoing tags that I did the last few years just to see how they compare so I figure why not continue on and do this one!

Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward

Eldest by Christopher Paolini

The Darkness Within by Tricia Levenseller

Chlorine by Jade Song

I don’t annotate books ever so none…

Aurora’s End by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

Took this on holiday and left it at the hotel 😢

I beat my original copy of this book up 😆 So for my reread this year I got a new one!

Argued with my brother that he should read this!

Went to 2 different bookshops to find this book but was never in stock… had to end up ordering online!