Book 7 & 8: Part of Your World & Yours Truly

Book 7: Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
Rating: 4/5

I really liked this!! I’m surprised by this because I had some pretty big complaints about all of the other Abby Jimenez books I’ve read (save for maybe the first one?) but this was borderline 5 stars for me. I really liked both the MCs, I love books with small towns, the abuse storyline felt realistic and not just like a plot device, the breakup made sense and so did the reconciliation. Top notch. Good review here.

Book 8: Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
Rating: 3/5

I’m writing this before actually finishing the book because I’m 80% of the way through and I’m SO MAD. I get that miscommunication is a staple in romance novels (one that I really dislike) but the absolutely insane amount of doubling down on wrong assumptions and being so stubborn to not talk to the other person is just maddening! Which is too bad because I liked the majority of the rest of the book. Good thoughts here especially the comment about Jacob’s anxiety going away when he was around Briana.

Book 6: Fourth Wing

Book: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Rating: 4.5/5

I loved this. Objectively, it wasn’t a super well written book (I agree with a lot of this here) but it didn’t matter, it was so engaging I tore through it in a few days (and it’s a pretty long book!) It has the same sort of vibe as ACOTAR and I have an equally bad book hangover. Hopefully the second book doesn’t disappoint! A good review here.

Also, I’m really glad this book was worth it because I paid $16 to read it after hitting up 3 stores to try and find it in person I finally caved and bought the ebook. Trying to figure out how I can get first on the list at the library for book 2 now…

Book 1 – 5

Book 1: When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn

Ah, at least we started the year on a good note!

Book 2: King of Battle and Blood by Scarlett St. Clair
Rating: 2.5/5

So, I read this review and I thought, great, vampire erotica, that’s exactly what I want to read! (that was not meant to sound sarcastic, I genuinely wanted a sexy book). But I was very let down that it wasn’t as sexy as I was expecting. I didn’t hate the book, I thought it was pretty meh with some potential, and definitely less steamy than I was expecting. I put book 2 on hold right away but it took so long to arrive that when it finally did, I didn’t care to read it anymore.

Book 3: Verity by Colleen Hoover
Rating: 3.5/5

This was actually really enjoyable! There’s something about CoHo’s writing that rubs me the wrong way, and it still did in this book, but it was still an enjoyable, entertaining, twisty, weird book! Makes me want to go read more CoHo again!

Book 4: The Year We Hid Away by Sarina Bowen (comfort read)

Book 5: Murder at Haven’s Rock by Kelley Armstrong
Rating: 2.5/5

I thought maybe a new start would make this series enjoyable again but I was pretty let down. Probably time to retire this series.

2022 Summary

Total Books Read: 24

Pages Read in 2021: 9,083

Average Rating: 2.9 (2021: 3.4, 2022 was a baaaad year for books)

5 star: 2 books (8%)
4 star: 5 books (21%)
3 star: 5 books (21%)
2 star: 12 books (50%)
1 star: 0 books (0%)

Type:

Rereads: 5 books (21%)
New Books: 19 books (79%)

Favorite books read in 2022 (first reads only):

The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn
Devil in Disguise by Lisa Kleypas

Honorable Mentions:

N/A (probably all the above would have been HM if I had read some better books haha)

# of books read each month:

January – 5
February – 1
March – 1
April – 1
May – 3
June – 2
July – 2
August – 1
September – 3
October – 2
November – 3
December – 0

Books: 14-24

Book 14: Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
Rating: 2/5

I must have misunderstood what this book was going to be about. I was expecting romance, and it did not really deliver. There was way too much going on and the back story wasn’t quite what I was expecting. Good summary of thoughts here.

Book 15: The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazlewood
Rating: 2/5

This one was a romance, just not one that I cared for. I thought it started off well but I didn’t care at all for the love interest and the sex scene was just so bad and turned me off for the rest of the book. I don’t remember what was so bad about it anymore but it definitely gave the ick.
Good thoughts here and here (minus the sex scene comments).

Book 16/19: The Hawthorne Legacy and The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Rating: 2/5

I think this was just boring? I didn’t love this series as a whole, I don’t think I cared for the mystery or either of the love interests. I don’t remember at all which is probably a bad sign. I even combined both books into this one “review” because they were that unmemorable.

Book 17: The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
Rating: 2/5

Wow was I on a bad string of books or what. I had such high hopes for this, it had excellent rating but it just fell flat for me. I really wanted to like it, and I liked parts of it, I liked the sister and the friend/love interest but I think it went a little off the rails. Good thoughts here.

Book 18: I’ll Meet You There by Heather Demitrios
Rating: 5/5

I had to read a good book at some point this year so a re-read it was! Still love this. So much. I do not tire of re-reading this.

Book 20: It Happened One Wedding by Julie James

Book 21: Love Irresistibly by Julie James

Book 22: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Rating: 2/5

If you go way, way, way back to one of my first posts I wrote I loved this book. How things have changed. It did not hold up at all. It read very immature, it didn’t even seem like she tried to learn French? The romance wasn’t as endearing. I hated the whole reading experience and makes me not want to reread any only books I loved. Basically this.

Book 23: Accidentally in Love by Laura Drewry

Book 24: Prima Donna by Laura Drewry

Books 20/21/23/24 were comfort reads that held up!