Monthly Review – July 2016

This month I read 20 books.  You can see the reviews for all of them, which ones were my favorite, etc. below.

Hope you all had a great month of reading !

I started the following series:

• The Sacred Blacksmith Vol 1 by Isao Miura, Kotaro Yamada (4/5 stars)
• Tarnished (St. Croix Chronicles, Book 1) by Karina Cooper (3/5 stars)
• First Grave on the Right (Charley Davidson, Book 1) by Darynda Jones, narrated by Lorelei King (4/5 stars)
• Breath of Earth (Breath of Earth, Book 1) by Beth Cato (5/5 stars)
• The Mystery of the Mechanical Corpse (Lady Mechanika Vol 1) by John Benitez (5/5 stars)
• The Voodoo Killings (Kincaid Strange, Book 1) by Kristi Charish, narrated by Susannah Jones (3.5/5 stars)
• City of the Lost (Casey Duncan, Book 1) by Kelley Armstrong (5/5 stars)

I finished the following series:

• The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home by Catherynne M. Valente (5/5 stars)

My Favorite Books of the Month Were:

• The Steep and Thorny Way by Cat Winters (5/5 stars)
• Rat Queen’s Vol 3: Demons by Kurtis J. Wiebe , Tamra Bonvillain, and Tess Fowler (5/5 stars)
• Breath of Earth (Breath of Earth, Book 1) by Beth Cato (5/5 stars)
• The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home by Catherynne M. Valente (5/5 stars)
• The Mystery of the Mechanical Corpse (Lady Mechanika Vol 1) by John Benitez (5/5 stars)
• City of the Lost (Casey Duncan, Book 1) by Kelley Armstrong (5/5 stars)

Here are the stats on the reading challenges I am participating in:
– Graphic Novel Reading Challenge (50/52 books read)
– New Release Challenge (50/45+ books read) COMPLETE!
– You Read How Many Books? Reading Challenge (143/250+ books read)
– Mount TBR Reading Challenge (53/100 books read)
– Pick Your Genre (Steampunk) Reading Challenge (14/25 books read)
– Flights of Fantasy Reading Challenge (82/100 books read)
– Audiobook Reading Challenge (23/30 books read)

The full list of books that I read this month are shown below.
1. Oddly Normal Vol 2 by Otis Frampton (4/5 stars)
2. Hotter than Hell Edited by Kim Harrison (3/5 stars)
3. The Sacred Blacksmith Vol 1 by Isao Miura, Kotaro Yamada (4/5 stars)
4. Taken (Alex Verus, Book 3) by Benedict Jacka, Narrated by Gildart Jackson (4/5 stars)
5. The Steep and Thorny Way by Cat Winters (5/5 stars)
6. Black Butler Vol 22 by Yana Toboso (4/5 stars)
7. Brightwood by Tania Unsworth (3/5 stars)
8. Soulless by Christopher Golden (4/5 stars)
9. Rat Queen’s Vol 3: Demons by Kurtis J. Wiebe , Tamra Bonvillain, and Tess Fowler (5/5 stars)
10. Tarnished (St. Croix Chronicles, Book 1) by Karina Cooper (3/5 stars)
11. The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home by Catherynne M. Valente (5/5 stars)
12. Sacred Blacksmith Vol 2 by Isao Miura and Kotaro Yamada (3/5 stars)
13. Break in Case of Emergency by Jessica Winters (1/5 stars)
14. First Grave on the Right (Charley Davidson, Book 1) by Darynda Jones, narrated by Lorelei King (4/5 stars)
15. Pandora Hearts Vol 2 by Jun Mochizuki (4.5/5 stars)
16. Breath of Earth (Breath of Earth, Book 1) by Beth Cato (5/5 stars)
17. The Mystery of the Mechanical Corpse (Lady Mechanika Vol 1) by John Benitez (5/5 stars)
18. The Voodoo Killings (Kincaid Strange, Book 1) by Kristi Charish, narrated by Susannah Jones (3.5/5 stars)
19. City of the Lost (Casey Duncan, Book 1) by Kelley Armstrong (5/5 stars)
20. The Sacred Blacksmith Vol 3 by (2/5 stars)