Worst Books of 2022

These are the books that I just didn’t quite enjoy this year! I definitely tried to be more honest with my reviews and give more 1 and 2 stars if I wasn’t all that into a book rather than just giving it a three like I usually would. I definitely didn’t actively hate any of these book they just weren’t my style and taste!

This Coven Won’t Break by Isabel Sterling

Our Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

All’s Well by Mona Awad

Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

Girls of Fate & Fury by Natasha Ngan

Gods & Monsters by Shelby Mahurin

Vicious Spirits by Kat Cho

Book Series I’ve Completed in 2022

These Witches Don’t Burn duology by Isabel Sterling

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These Violent Delights duology by Chloe Gong

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The Ravens duology by Kass Morgan & Danielle Paige

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Serpent & Dove series by Shelby Mahurin

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Girls of Paper and Fire series by Natasha Ngan

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Daughter of the Pirate King duology by Tricia Levenseller

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The Shadow Game series by Amanda Foody

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Malice duology by Heather Walter

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Shadow & Bone series by Leigh Bardugo

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Six of Crows duology by Leigh Bardugo

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Gumiho duology by Kat Cho

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The Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Clown in a Cornfield duology by Adam Cesare

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Vicious Lost Boys series by Nikki St. Crowe

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King of Scars duology by Leigh Bardugo

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The Four Horsemen’s series by Laura Thalassa

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All of Us Villains duology by Amanda Foody & Christine Lynn Herman

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Book Series I’ve Completed So Far

I’ve been trying hard to finish off series this year as there are so many I want to read but I was in the middle of quite a few and didn’t want to get muddled. So I thought this was a good time to look back at what series I have managed to complete so far in 2022!

Series I have completed so far this year are:

These Witches Don’t Burn duology by Isabel Sterling

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These Violent Delights duology by Chloe Gong

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The Ravens duology by Kass Morgan & Danielle Paige

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Serpent & Dove series by Shelby Mahurin

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Girls of Paper and Fire series by Natasha Ngan

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Daughter of the Pirate King duology by Tricia Levenseller

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The Shadow Game series by Amanda Foody

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Malice duology by Heather Walter

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Shadow & Bone series by Leigh Bardugo

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This Coven Won’t Break Review

*Spoilers Below*

Hannah Walsh just wants a normal life. It’s her senior year, so she should be focusing on classes, hanging out with her best friend, and flirting with her new girlfriend, Morgan. But it turns out surviving a murderous Witch Hunter doesn’t exactly qualify as a summer vacation, and now the rest of the Hunters seem more intent on destroying her magic than ever.

Hannah kind of got on my nerves for the majority of this book. I just feel like she didn’t learn from any of her mistakes from the previous book in this duology. Letting her emotions get the better of her and making rash decisions that end up not helping her in any of the situations she gets herself into. Also the fact that she is so dismissive of her mother after just loosing her dad and focusing so much on getting revenge for his murder rather than trying to deal with the emotions she is obviously trying to smother down resulting in her magic being temperamental.

I liked the fact that we actually get an explanation about what happened in New York with those casters and the blood witch which caused Hannah and Veronica to break up. Also the fact that this was the scenario that set off the chain of events was a nice surprise and tied everything together which was gratifying. It’s just the fact that Hannah always thinks that she is the cause for everything, if she didn’t follow Veronica that day in New York none of this would of happened and just takes all the guilt and blame for it when I feel like it just wasn’t the case at all. I enjoyed how Veronica called her out on not trying to heal the emotional trauma that they went through and just continued to throw herself into danger unnecessarily.

I feel like the plot does evolve and the stakes definitely got higher in this instalment. It was fast paced and it just felt like we were always on the move with Hannah. But again I just wish we would of got to see more of an insight into the coven and the lessons Hannah gets with her grandmother. I liked that we see how the difference between the clans and how their magic works and the way they merge with each other when they all work together.

I originally gave this book a three but upon reflection I wasn’t all that impressed or surprised throughout this book. Hannah just felt a little too juvenile and even though I was interested in what was happening I just felt like this story could of made so much more of an impact on me if the build up was a little more slower. It felt a little rushed in the end and is kind of forgettable.

⭐️2/5 stars Just ok, didn’t love it.

Recent Additions to my Kindle

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is the most recent additions to your collection. I haven’t been buying a lot of physical books in the last year or so because my shelves are pretty much at capacity at the moment and I don’t have the space to expand upon my collection right now (also books are expensive lol). But I have been accumulating a lot of eBooks and reading more and more on my kindle lately so I have amassed quite a bit of a TBR on there.

These are the last 10 eBooks I’ve added to my kindle:

Jade City by Fonda Lee

We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Berry

The Storm of Echoes by Christelle Dabos

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong

Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller

The Camelot Betrayal by Kiersten White

This Coven Won’t Break by Isabel Sterling