Love In February 21 Photo Challenge Day 7!

02/07/202101/23/2021 | CJRTB Books

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As you might have seen, I am taking part (and co-hosting!) Love in February 21. Its a photo challenge on Instagram to showcase our favourite romance books!

You can join in on Instagram (we would love that!) and there is a GIVEAWAY at the end of the month – 1 winner will get a book of choice up to 24 USD (Amazon or Book Depository must ship to your country).

Make sure you use the hashtag #loveinfebruary21 and follow us on Instagram. To do this go to my announcement post here and that will take you to who you need to follow!

🌸 AGE GAP ROMANCE 🌸

There are quite a few I could’ve picked here but one of my faves is by Giana Darling. Welcome to the Dark Side is book 2 in The Fallen Men series and follows 36 year old MC President, Zeus and his love interest, Lou who is 17.

What’s your favourite age gap romance?

Love In February 21 Photo Challenge Day 6!

02/06/202101/23/2021 | CJRTB Books

As you might have seen, I am taking part (and co-hosting!) Love in February 21. Its a photo challenge on Instagram to showcase our favourite romance books!

Make sure you use the hashtag #loveinfebruary21 and follow us on Instagram. To do this go to my announcement post here and that will take you to who you need to follow!

🌸 DARK ROMANCE 🌸

I warn you now, this book has some very questionable material in it. It’s dark. Darker than dark.

My review starts off to say that the first 3 chapters ram raided their way into the highest degree of wrongness in my mind. It’s a dark, unconventional love story so be prepared if you are going to read this!

What’s your favourite dark romance?

Love In February 21 Photo Challenge Day 5!

02/05/202102/04/2021 | CJRTB Books

🌸 FLAWED HERO/HEROINE 🌸

So basically Knight is a control freak, egotistical and dare I say it, a bit crazy but totally hawt. Just my kind of man!!!

And also…..*Daddy alert* I warn you now, it’s used in this book but hopefully, like me, you can skip over those parts and enjoy the story!!!

What’s your favourite book with a flawed hero or heroine?

As you might have seen, I am taking part (and co-hosting!) Love in February 21. Its a photo challenge on Instagram to showcase our favourite romance books!

Make sure you use the hashtag #loveinfebruary21 and follow us on Instagram. To do this go to my announcement post here and that will take you to who you need to follow!

Love In February 21 Photo Challenge Day 4!

02/04/202101/23/2021 | CJRTB Books

As you might have seen, I am taking part (and co-hosting!) Love in February 21. Its a photo challenge on Instagram to showcase our favourite romance books!

Make sure you use the hashtag #loveinfebruary21 and follow us on Instagram. To do this go to my announcement post here and that will take you to who you need to follow!

🌸 FORBIDDEN/TABOO ROMANCE 🌸

I am not a person who is easily shocked and I can’t say this book shocked me (in fact I was delighted!!!) but can you imagine this happening in real life?! A priest bumping uglies with a parishioner?!!!

What are your favourite forbidden or taboo romances?

Love In February 21 Photo Challenge Day 3!

02/03/202101/23/2021 | CJRTB Books

As you might have seen, I am taking part (and co-hosting!) Love in February 21. Its a photo challenge on Instagram to showcase our favourite romance books!

Make sure you use the hashtag #loveinfebruary21 and follow us on Instagram. To do this go to my announcement post here and that will take you to who you need to follow!

🌸 HEARTBREAKING/UGLY CRY 🌸

There can only be one choice for me here!

I’m not a person who cries. In fact my friends say I’m dead inside 😂 but A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole made me cry. And not just cry. I’m talking big, fat, ugly, wracking sobs and so many tissues.

What books have made you cry?

Love In February 21 Photo Challenge Day 2!

02/02/202101/23/2021 | CJRTB Books

As you might have seen, I am taking part (and co-hosting!) Love in February 21. Its a photo challenge on Instagram to showcase our favourite romance books!

Make sure you use the hashtag #loveinfebruary21 and follow us on Instagram. To do this go to my announcement post here and that will take you to who you need to follow!

🌸 EPIC LOVE/SOUL MATES 🌸

Hawk and Poppy from Jennifer L Armentrout’s, From Blood and Ash.

I read this in January and was absolutely in love with everything about the book. It’s not often I feel like that!

Of course I jumped straight into book 2, Kingdom of Flesh and Fire and now have the loooooong wait until April for the next installment!

Have you read this series?

Love In February 21 Photo Challenge Day 1!

02/01/202101/23/2021 | CJRTB Books

As you might have seen, I am taking part (and co-hosting!) Love in February 21. Its a photo challenge on Instagram to showcase our favourite romance books!

Make sure you use the hashtag #loveinfebruary21 and follow us on Instagram. To do this go to my announcement post here and that will take you to who you need to follow!

🌸 FAVOURITE ONE TIME PAIRING 🌸

For me this can only be one couple.
I love the author hugely.
I’ve reread this book at least 15 times!
Joker and Carissa from Ride Steady by Kristen Ashley!

Have you read the Chaos series?

Who are your favourite OTP’s?

Closing the Chapter: January 2021

01/31/202101/24/2021 | CJRTB Books

Welcome to Closing the Chapter! I hope you had a great reading month?

Well here we are firmly in 2021 and my first reading update of the year!

Everything is still covidy and we are in lockdown (again) so am still working from home and also now homeschooling as schools are closed. It’s…. ummmm, challenging!!!! We also had some snow so we had a day in the garden building snowmen!

I had an ambitious January tbr so I could start the year off with a bang. I participated in the Off The Grid readathon and did a buddy read with the lovely Sophie at Beware of the Reader and Trisy at Bobos Book Bank which was such fun!

I also wanted to tick some books off my Beat the Backlist challenge and I certainly did that with 7 books read and 1 audiobook listened to!

📚 Physical/E-book

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

See my review here.

Fire Night by Penelope Douglas

See my review here.

From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L Armentrout

See my review here.

Kingdom of Flesh and Fire by Jennifer L Armentrout

See my review here.

Tales from the Hinterland by Melissa Albert

See my review here.

Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa

See my review here.

Skyhunter by Marie Lu

See my review soon!

🎧 Audiobooks

The House on the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

See my review soon!

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

Was a DNF for me for now. I think my issue is with the audio. I think I need to read the actual words so am going to add the physical book to my wishlist and try again.

What did you read in January?

February Reading List!

01/30/202101/21/2021 | CJRTB Books

So this worked well for January. So well in fact that I knew I needed to do myself a February reading list because I have Netgalley and KU reads building up and I want to get ahead of where I am now in the Audiobook Challenge 2021.