The month started a little flat for me and I wasn’t all that motivated in picking up any of the books from my TBR so I once again got swept into a romance/smutty series that was just an easy, fun, entertaining read for me. However, the last few weeks of the month I actually really got stuck into my TBR and managed to finish a couple of series off! I was overall very happy with the amount I was able to get through!
Whiskey Chaser by Lucy Score & Claire Kingsley – ⭐️4/5 stars
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo – ⭐️5/5 stars
Sidecar Crush by Lucy Score & Claire Kingsley – ⭐️4/5 stars
The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary – ⭐️4.5/5 stars
Moonshine Kiss by Lucy Score & Claire Kingsley – ⭐️4/5 stars
Bourbon Bliss by Lucy Score & Claire Kingsley – ⭐️4/5 stars
Gin Fling by Lucy Score & Claire Kingsley – ⭐️4/5 stars
Highball Rush by Lucy Score & Claire Kingsley – ⭐️4/5 stars
Aurora Rising by Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman – ⭐️5/5 stars
Stardust by Neil Gaiman – ⭐️4/5 stars
Percy Jackson and the Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan – ⭐️4/5 stars
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo – ⭐️4/5 stars
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden – ⭐️4/5 stars
Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson – ⭐️4/5 stars
The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden – ⭐️4/5 stars
China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan – ⭐️4.5/5 stars
Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan – ⭐️4/5 stars
The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden – ⭐️4/5 stars
I just completed the third installment in the Percy Jackson and the Olympian’s Series: The Titan’s Curse. I forgot this book existed to be perfectly honest. When I read the title I was thinking to myself which one was that? Once I read the blurb I immediately remembered the story but I completely forgot that it was apart of this series, a little bit telling perhaps… It was overall highly entertaining, but it wasn’t one of my favorites. There was just a few things that I found a little off-putting. Like the fact that Percy’s mum was just completely fine letting him make his own decisions and running off into danger while she was getting cozy with Mr Blowfis. Also the decision that Bianca made and the reasoning behind it. I get that she wanted to be someone other than Nico’s big sister but to just abandon him to people that you don’t know to run off for en eternity as a Huntress bothered me a little bit. Other than that I really enjoyed the direction the plot went with. It was fast paced, action packed and we got a lot more information about the prophecy regarding the child of the big three. I feel like this was a little bit of a filler story that added a lot of context for the books that are to come.
This month I read Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan continuing on in my reread of the entire series. I really enjoyed this book and the way that it progresses from the first. We start to see Percy really stand up and become a little more of the leader that he is meant to be. I love just picking up on subtle foreshadowing moments in these earlier books that become so integral later on in the series; the topic of fatal flaws, the search for Pan and then slowly learning more and more about the major prophecy about one of the children of the big three. And even right at the start of the book Percy getting picked on by the bullies at his school about the photo of Annabeth being his girlfriend. Seeing these little tidbits of information and knowing that they are all going to be explored more in depth in the coming books really excites me and keeps me engaged. I’ve found that the books have been a little shorter than what I remember but there is definitely a lot of action and adventure packed into them! I loved my reread and I can’t wait to continue on with The Titan’s Curse!
Amy Leigh Reads 