August 2014 – Monthly Review
This month I read 25 books. You can see the reviews for all of them, which ones were my favorite, etc. below.
The reading challenges I am participating this year were all updated as well.
Hope you all had a great month of reading!
I started the following series:
- Burn for Me (Hidden Legacy, Book 1) by Ilona Andrews (4.5/5 stars)
- The Magic Thief: Book One by Sarah Prineas (5/5 stars)
- A New Darkness (Starblade Chronicles, Book 1) by Joseph Delaney (4/5 stars)
- The Clockwork Dagger by Beth Cato (5/5 stars)
- Omens (Cainsville, Book 1) by Kelley Armstrong (4/5 stars)
I finished the following series:
- Ruin and Rising (The Grisha Trilogy, Book 3) by Leigh Bardugo (4/5 stars)
- The Kraken King Part VIII: The Kraken King and the Greatest Adventure (The Iron Seas, Book 4.8) by Meljean Brook (4/5 stars)
My Favorite Books of the Month Were:
- Burn for Me (Hidden Legacy, Book 1) by Ilona Andrews (4.5/5 stars)
- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (5/5 stars)
- The Getaway God (Sandman Slim, Book 6) by Richard Kadrey (5/5 stars)
- The Magic Thief: Book One by Sarah Prineas (5/5 stars)
- The Clockwork Dagger by Beth Cato (5/5 stars)
- Silver Shadows (Bloodlines, Book 5) by Richelle Mead (5/5 stars)
- Illusions of Fate by Kirsten White (4.5/5 stars)
- Vinland Saga Vol 2 by Makoto Yukimura (5/5 stars)
Here are the stats on the reading challenges I am participating in:
– Series Reading Challenge (20/12 books) complete!
– Ebook Reading Challenge (58/50 books) complete!
– Chunkster Reading Challenge (13/20 books)
– Graphic Novel Reading Challenge (69/24 books) complete!
– Audio Book Reading Challenge (20/25 books)
– Fairy Tales Retold Reading Challenge (10/12 books)
– You Read How Many Books? Reading Challenge (198/200 books)
– 100 Books in a Year Reading Challenge (104/100 books) complete!
The full list of books that I read this month are shown below.
1. Burn for Me (Hidden Legacy, Book 1) by Ilona Andrews (4.5/5 stars)
2. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (5/5 stars)
3. Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby (4/5 stars)
4. Death of a Rocket Boy (Rust, Book 3) by Royden Lepp (4/5 stars)
5. Ruin and Rising (The Grisha Trilogy, Book 3) by Leigh Bardugo (4/5 stars)
6. The Getaway God (Sandman Slim, Book 6) by Richard Kadrey (5/5 stars)
7. The Magic Thief: Book One by Sarah Prineas (5/5 stars)
8. How the White Trash Zombie Got Her Groove Back (White Trash Zombie, Book 4) by Diana Rowland (4/5 stars)
9. Claymore Vol 12 by Norihiro Yagi (4/5 stars)
10. A New Darkness (Starblade Chronicles, Book 1) by Joseph Delaney (4/5 stars)
11. The Wrenchies by Farel Dalrymple (3/5 stars)
12. The Clockwork Dagger by Beth Cato (5/5 stars)
13. Shattered (Scorched, Book 2) by Mari Mancusi (4/5 stars)
14. No Such Thing as Dragons by Philip Reeve (3/5 stars)
15. Omens (Cainsville, Book 1) by Kelley Armstrong (4/5 stars)
16. Of Monsters and Madness by Jessica Verday (3/5 stars)
17. Nick and Tesla’s Super-Cyborg Gadget Glove by Bob Pflugfelder, Steve Hockensmith (4/5 stars)
18. The Undertaking of Lily Chin by Danica Novgorodoff (4/5 stars)
19. Silver Shadows (Bloodlines, Book 5) by Richelle Mead (5/5 stars)
20. Illusions of Fate by Kirsten White (4.5/5 stars)
21. Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty by Christine Heppermann (2.5/5 stars)
22. The Kraken King Part VIII: The Kraken King and the Greatest Adventure (The Iron Seas, Book 4.8) by Meljean Brook (4/5 stars)
23. Soulless The Manga: Book 3 by Gail Carriger and Rem (4.5/5 stars)
24. Vinland Saga Vol 2 by Makoto Yukimura (5/5 stars)
25. The Whispering Skull (Lockwood and Co, Book 2) by Jonathan Stroud (4/5 stars)