Well here it is, nearly the end of the reading year.

What a great reading year it has been.  So many fabulous books released and so many good books devoured by us bloggers/readers!

I published a post earlier on in the year about my favourite books from the 1st half of 2017 and you can read that here.

Below are my favourite books from the 2nd half of 2017 (not necessarily released then, I just read then!):

El Diablo by M Robinson

See my review here.

 

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Eye Candy Anthology – various.  It’s not often an anthology would make my best list but the authors and the stories from my favourite series made this a total hit with me!

See my review here.

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The Affiliate by KA Linde

See my review here.

 

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Twist by Kylie Scott

See my review here  

 

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Scandalous by LJ Shen

See my review here 

 

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Warcross by Marie Lu

See my review here. 

 

El Santo by M Robinson

See my review here. 

 

Roar by Cora Carmack

See my review here.

 

 

Well this was my year!

Tell me about the best books of 2017 for you…

Wow October flew by!

It was my sons birthday month and we had 3 days of celebrations (what it’s like to be young!) and also was a very busy month in work so I didn’t get much reading in as I would have liked to.  Anyway, no negative nelly here so on we go to my books!

Craving Lily by Nicole Jacquelyn

See my review here 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 

 

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Sick Fux by Tillie Cole

See my review here 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 

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The Consort by KA Linde

See my review here 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 

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Loving Storm by Carian Cole

See my review here 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 

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Lawless by Janeen Ippolito

See my review here 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 

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Ruthless King by Meghan March

See my review here 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 

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Hooking Up by Helena Hunting

See my review here 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 

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The Bodyguard by CD Reiss

See my review here 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧and a half!

 

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Roomies by Christina Lauren

See my review here 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 

 

Sommersgate House by Kristen Ashley – see my review here 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo – see my review here 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Genuine Fraud by E Lockhart – see my review here 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Corrode by Ella Fields – see my review here 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 (Sorry for my change in format! I am trying something out!)

What I want to read & news!

My news – well I added a discussion post about whether anyone actually reads monthly wrap ups as I have noticed interest dwindling.  For November I will be trialing making more of my weekly posts and not doing a monthly wrap up.

November is here so it’s the start of my read my tbr quarter! Here are the books I want to read in November..wish me luck!

What books did you read in October?

Link up your posts in the comments so I can have a nose!

 

                                           So here we are at the end of September!

School started back on the 5th for our household so spent some time getting back into that routine but we settled back in quickly!

Was a good reading month for me. I was signed off by my doctor with suspected herniated cervical discs (not my first rodeo!) so I managed to read a lot of books (21!), mainly arcs as I have been blindly signing up for them!

Fallen Heir by Erin Watt

My Review 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 

Devil by Ker Dukey

My Review  🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 

Broken Shelves (Unquiet Mind #3) by Anne Malcom

My Review 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 

Road to Nowhere by M Robinson

My Review 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 

Gravity (Gravity #1) by AB Bloom

See my review here. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 

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Velocity (Gravity #2) AB Bloom

See my review here. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 

See my review here. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 

 

Most Of All You by Mia Sheridan

See my review here. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 

Fired by Cora Brent

See my review here. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 

See my review here. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 

 

Seducing the Defendant by Chantal Fernando

See my review here.  🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 

Scandalous by LJ Shen

See my review here. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 

Twist by Kylie Scott

See my review here. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 

Craving Trix by Nicole Jacquelyn

See my review here. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧and a half!

 

Craving Lily by Nicole Jacquelyn

See my review here. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 

Unraveling Destiny (Fae Chronicles #5) by Amelia Hutchins

See my review here.  🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 

I actually did a series re-read of The Fae Chronicles (4 previous books) in preparation for book 5 being released but I didn’t add these on.  You can see my post here with my reviews.

 

Wow that was a great reading month for me!

I have 4 arcs to read in October and it’s also a crazy time in work so I haven’t made a reading list as I am going to read what I can from my tbr if I have the time.

Hope the reading month has been good to you.

Link up your posts in the comments!

 

Autumn is nearly here! My favourite time of year. Leaves changing colour and falling and a nice crisp temperature! Was a great reading month for me!

Beneath the Truth by Meghan March 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 (My review)

Filthy by Michelle Horst 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 (My review)

Breaching the Contract by Chantal Fernando 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 (My review)

Court of Wings and Ruin 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 (My review)

Cyanide by Ella Fields 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 (My review)

Eye Candy Anthology – various 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 (My review)

Running into Love by Aurora Rose Reynolds 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 (My review)

The Rose and the Dagger by Renee Ahdieh 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 (My review)

Strike by Cora Brent 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 (My review)

The Affiliate by KA Linde 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 (My Review)

I’m getting in a bit of a panic about my ever growing tbr, so for a quick win, I am only going to read books off my tbr that are under 300 pages as I know I can power through them. Yes I am odd! I did look about for a challenge for that but didn’t see one. If anyone knows of one then please let me know.

I have a choice of 9:

I’m not sure I will get through all of them as I also have 8 arcs coming for September and October but I will give it a good go!

And I just wanted to add this in…..

Thank you!!!

How was your August?

Link up to your posts so I can have a nose!

The end of another month. Can you believe it! Before I know it I’ll be putting up my Christmas tree!

So July has been busy and I’ve had a reading slump (but that’s another story!)

So here we go…..

Secondborn (Secondborn Series Book 1)“>Secondborn by Amy A Bartol 🇬🇧 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Half-Blood (Covenant)“>Half-Blood by Jennifer L Armentrout 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

<a href=”http://”>Bad Bad Bad by K Webster 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

El Diablo“>El Diablo by M Robinson 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

The Queen and the Cure (The Bird and the Sword Chronicles Book 2)“>The Queen and the Cure by Amy Harmon 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Easton“>Easton by K Webster 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

August…I have a love/hate relationship with August. Kids are off school for the whole of August. For the first week or so, I love it. Not getting woken up by an alarm, holidays and not having to be anywhere at a certain time.

Then the flip side….no matter what we do, where we go, I know my son will say those dreaded words at least twice a day: ‘I’m bored’. Then I get no reading done. Sigh.

So this is what I want to read in August……but not sure if i will get to read half of them but its good to have goals!

What are you planning to read in August?

What did you read in July?

Link up your posts!

At the beginning of July, I posted 9 books that I wanted to read over the summer. Well I am there! (I haven’t read Hideaway yet but I would sell my firstborn for an arc!)

Here is the original post: https://cjrthebrit.com/2017/07/02/cjrthebrit-my-10-summer-reads/

In no particular order, here is what I thought!

Broken Puppet by Amo Jones 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2034066093

Transcendence by Shay Savage 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 https://cjrthebrit.com/2017/07/01/cjrreview-transcendence-by-shay-savage/

El Diablo by M Robinson 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1828832627

The Queen and the Cure 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 https://cjrthebrit.com/2017/07/16/book-reviewthe-queen-the-cure-by-amy-harmon/

Half blood by Jennifer L Armentrout 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 https://cjrthebrit.com/2017/07/07/book-review-discussion-half-blood-by-jennifer-l-armentrout/

The Goal by Elle Kennedy 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2000661334

The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 https://cjrthebrit.com/2017/07/28/book-review-the-wrath-and-the-dawn-by-renee-ahdieh/

I must admit that I didn’t read My Best Friends Ex. I know, I know! Taboo is one of my faves as I love being shocked but once I read the blurb again I realised I wasn’t as interested as I first thought. But it’s still on my tbr!

I also chose my next reads:

Anyone chose a summer read list? Show me yours!

Wow, the year is flying by, before we know it, it will be Christmas! (Please don’t throw anything at me!!!)

June was a great reading month as well as a heatwave for us, my son had camp and my job was hectic!

 

Read by The Brit in June:

Dark, depraved, stalkery, cringey goodness! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

The bad boy and the good girl whose roles reverse! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Virtual assistant and star hockey player meet in real life! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

 The infamous bad boy gets taken down a peg or two! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

2nd book in the Devils Wolves Series. Two tortured souls trying to make it through life.  🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Can’t say too much as a beta read but if you loved The Silver Swan you NEED to read this!

I read this for a friend. Basically the author had been pushed aside as this book features cheating. You know what? *gets on soapbox* This book was a 5 star read. The story = amazing. The writing = superb. *gets off soapbox**!! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

July is the end of the school year and we are going on holiday for 2 weeks so hopefully I can get some reading in!  I am determined to read some books off my TBR…so here we go!

A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses)

Transcendence

El Diablo [The Devil]: The Good Ol’ Boys Spin Off”

Half-Blood: A Covenant Novel

The Queen and the Cure (The Bird and the Sword Chronicles Book 2)

So that’s my plans for July, what did you read in May?

What are your reading plans for July?