It’s now the start of the 3rd month of the year and I still haven’t read any books from my Beat the Backlist challenge.  And it’s my own fault!!  I can’t stop requesting arcs…….and March isn’t any different! I’ve promised myself that May, June and July will be months just for my tbr!!!

Here are the books I want (and need!) to read in March (if you click on the cover it will take you to the blurb on Amazon):

Never Contented Things by Sarah Porter

Knights Lady by Bella Jewel

Wicked Saints by Emily A Duncan

Also, ones currently without pre-order/covers are:

Tristan by Cora Brent

Kiss and Break Up by Ella Fields

Enthralled by Gianna Darling

If I can get a couple of my tbr reads in there I’ll probably go for

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

The Storm Crow by Kalyn Josephson

 

What are you reading in March?

I hope it’s a great month for you!

Stacking The Shelves is hosted at Tynga’s Reviews & Reading Reality. It’s all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

After my total overspend in January, I tried to be good….and it worked out (although I’m still sobbing over the fact that I haven’t got King of Scars yet but as its £10 and I need to pull my spending back a bit, I’ll need to wait to get it)!

Free by Kristen Ashley

Take Me with you Nina G Jones

The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic

The Fever King by Victoria Lee (Kindle first read)

Only Work, No Play by Cora Reilly

Kill Switch by Penelope Douglas

Bennett Mafia by Tijan

Twisted Pride by Cora Reilly (beta and no cover yet)

 

What books did you get in February?

Oh I had grand plans!

See my grand plans here on my opening post! Unforts my plans were railroaded by my inability to actually write down what arcs I have arriving!

But I did read 4 out of the 7!!!

Enchantee by Gita Trelease

Slayer by Kiersten White

The Wicked King by Holly Black

Shadow of the Fox by Julia Kagawa

 

Did you take part?

How did you do?

Do you have seasonal reading habits?

This is something that has intrigued me for a while so I decided to take to Goodreads to see if I had any seasonal reading habits. In my mind I thought I did so I wanted to actually see if I was right.

Summer

I thought I would’ve got more of my reading done in summer…sitting in the garden/on the beach/in the park reading pages aplenty but that wasn’t the case.

But if I think about it, I spend most of my summer busy, be it on holiday or out doing stuff with my son enjoying the weather (and wearing him out!) so this was my least number of books read in any year.

Autumn and Winter

I’ve clubbed these 2 together as they were my most productive seasons it seems. Autumn and Winter seem to be when I get the majority of my reads in.

I thought that nights get darker earlier and it’s cold…and there is nothing like snuggling up with a hot coffee reading a book!

Spring

I thought this would be a slow season for reading but it’s not as slow as summer but not as good as Autumn/Winter.

My guess is that maybe things are starting to ramp up outside the house as the weather is better or maybe I’m experiencing a bit of burn out?

Do you think you are a seasonal reader?

What seasons do you read more books in do you think?

“I’ve done far worse than what I went to prison for.

She has no idea how bad this can get.”

Doesn’t that make you want to read? I loved Damon from the get go so this was a no brainer for me!

Title: Kill Switch

Series: Devils Night #3

Author: Penelope Douglas

WINTER

Sending him to prison was the worst thing I could’ve done. It didn’t matter that he did the crime or that I wished he was dead. Perhaps I thought I’d have time to disappear before he got out or he’d cool off in jail and be anything but the horror he was.

But I was wrong. Three years came and went too fast, and now he’s anything but calm. Prison only gave him time to plan.

And while I anticipated his vengeance, I didn’t expect this.

He doesn’t want to make me hurt. He wants to make everything hurt.

DAMON

First thing’s first. Get rid of her daddy. He told them I forced her. He told them his little girl was a victim, but I was a kid, too, and she wanted it just as much as I did.

Step two… Give her, her sister, and her mother nowhere to run and no fuel to escape. The Ashby women are alone now and desperate for a knight in shining armor.

But that’s not what’s coming.

No, it’s time I listened to my father and took control of my future. It’s time I showed them all—my family, her family, my friends—that I will never change and that I have no other ambition than to be the nightmare of their lives.

Starting with her.

She’ll be so scared, she won’t even be safe in her own head by the time I’m done with her. And the best part is I won’t have to break into her home to do it.

As the new man of the house I have all the keys.

I don’t really know where to begin.

This book did everything to me. I’m not even sure I can describe my feelings….but here goes….

The hopelessness, the sadness, the betrayal, the most beautiful thing I have ever read in my life. I felt utterly helpless in places. The despair I felt. Omg. I have never felt this many strong emotions reading a book! ‘Don’t let me go.’

Oh flipping heck. The emotion. The shock. The revelations. We come to learn all about Damon. All of it. And it is heartbreaking. It will gut you.

That crescendo from 70%, it feels like I held my breath the whole way to the end.

Damon.

Winter.

‘You’re different than them. Different than my friends. Different than Ari. Different than my parents, my sister, and every woman. You see everything.’