After doing lots last week I feel like this week has been very quiet and boring. I haven't done anything really. I had plans to meet a friend Saturday but he cancelled on me last minute. It was a little annoying but I found something else to do instead. Now we're meeting next week but it'll only be a couple of hours because I'm dog sitting next weekend and don't really want to leave Milo home alone for hours.

My week was mostly work focused otherwise. I've had lots to do and there looks to be a meeting I might have to go to in a couple of weeks in person. We'll see what comes of it anyway but that really has been all I've done outside of watching TV and even then I've just had it on in the background while I scroll on social media. I probably need to get out more or find a new book to read. I'm in a weird rut I just don't know what I want to be doing. I think that's probably why I made my impulse purchase, but that comes into my Saturday adventures.

As my Saturday plans got cancelled, I ended up going shopping for a few bits that I needed to buy and while I was at it, I ended up buying Ring Fit Adventure. It was a bit of an impulse buy as I'd seen a TikTok which made it look really fun that morning and I'd seen it second hand for a decent price. It was in the original box, and I won't lie, it's been fun but it's a genuine workout. Nintendo has definitely progressed in its fitness games to make it feel like hard work. I probably won't be able to play in long stretches because I am far too unfit for that but I'm enjoying it so far. Hopefully, it's not one of those things I play for a couple of weeks and get bored with. The exercises are tough! I am someone who likes to have a game to keep me motivated with arbitrary trophies and goals. There's a reason I've got such a long streak on Duolingo although I wouldn't claim to have achieved any kind of language fluency. I've done 2 days so far and I'm doing it on the easiest setting and it makes me sweat! I didn't expect it but why not hop onto the workout everyone seemed to be doing in the pandemic? Also, the money I spent on this is far cheaper than joining a gym and I'm much more likely to use it. With that logic, I'm basically saving myself money.

I then watched Eurovision Saturday night. I always love Eurovision, it's the best for the total mix of music. I loved Moldova; they deserved their high audience vote numbers. It was tense with the voting as the UK hasn't done so well in forever! We didn't win but we came second, that's a far cry from our usual bottom of the table finish. I was glad to have beaten Spain because I thought their song was terrible, no shade if you liked it but it's 100% not my taste in music. I suppose I can see it had pop appeal at least. I'm pleased for Ukraine, though. It's good that it shows support is with them, I know they were the favourites going in. I just hope the UK can do even half as well next year, we might learn our lessons from this year's show and actually choose a good act and a catchy song and everyone reacts to that. 

What I've been reading

I'm in a weird mood at the moment and don't really fancy reading much. I've finished a few books and have enjoyed them, but I just don't feel like I'm in the right mood for reading right now. The Intimacy Experiment and The Right Swipe were both really good, I enjoyed them and I loved the stories, but once I finished I've not been in the right mood for any book I've started. I also listened to The AI Who Loved Me finally and that was great too but again, no idea what I want to read next. I hope I'll figure it out soon but I think I might be in a gaming mood. I'll see how it goes.

New To Me

I've not figured out what I'm spending my gift card on yet so no new purchases, not even when I went shopping (but that was a close thing). I've got it narrowed down to 7 books. Why are decisions so hard?

How was your week? Has anyone else played Ring Fit Adventures? Hopefully, it doesn’t kill me off with exercise. And what do you do when you’re just not in a reading mood?

I know there are certain things which put me off a romance book. There are certain tropes or elements to a book which I see and instantly think I won’t enjoy a book. A switch just goes in my brain and I fully nope out. Even with amazing reviews, it takes a lot to convince me to read and I really do have to talk myself into reading. It can be something big or just a minor detail but it’s amazing how quickly I can change my mind when I see it’s part of the story. I realised it was time to look at the stupid things which put me off books and remind myself of the brilliant books I’ve read which feature them. It’s time to prove to myself I shouldn’t be so judged and that I am frequently an idiot and should know better by now.

Friends to lovers

Look, I know plenty of people will love this trope but I just find it a little dull. I don’t know what it is about it because I appreciate some secret pining in a book as much as the next person but I think maybe I hate that the other person doesn’t see what’s right in front of them, you know? Or both of them don’t realise they’re in love and then I just want to bang their heads together. Whatever it is, it’s one of the romance tropes I think I actively avoid picking up and I know I frequently mention in comments to people that this isn’t one of my favourite tropes.

All three of these books featured people who were friends who then developed something more. I admit, Wait for It is neighbours to acquaintances to friends to lovers but you get what I mean. I’ve actually read that book a couple of times and really enjoyed it both times I’ve read it. Then there’s Take a Hint, Dani Brown where Dani and Zafir had been friends and then Zaf gets Dani to pretend to be in a relationship and the book snowballs from there. I suppose I may have enjoyed that romance so much because a fake relationship really is my ultimate romance trope but the book wouldn’t have worked if Dani and Zaf hadn’t been friends first. And finally, there is Go Deep by Rilzy Adams. I remember putting off reading that book because it was a friends to lovers romance but it was so good! It’s not very long but it totally hooked me and I never expected it to.

Celebrity romances

My issue with romance books which involve celebrities is not that they're bad. It's that they give me flashbacks to the cringe fics that were written about celebrities which were usually reader insert fics. I’m talking about those ridiculous fics written on Quizilla that I absolutely devoured during my teen years. They were terrible and it was always some girl who didn’t realise she was pretty and then a total insta-love romance. I don’t know what I was thinking but I know they have migrated to being on Wattpad and Tumblr and various sites since then. So when I see a celebrity romance book I always take that minute to question if I’m going to be relieving the fiction of my youth.

I can actually think of a whole list of books I could mention to fit this theme. I’ve read a surprising amount of celebrity romance… maybe I’ve not moved so far past my cringe teen reading after all? My obvious choice was the Stage Dive series since I have literally just finished it where each of the guys from the band gets their own book. But why stop at just guys in bands? Let’s not forget the brilliant romance that was One Night With the Sexiest Man Alive by Ainslie Paton. I absolutely loved that romance (and haven’t finished the rest of the series). I was there for the romance between the Hollywood star and the manager of an event he attended. It was brilliant, loved every second of it and would happily read it again. Then there’s Olivia Dade’s books Spoiler Alert and All The Feels, both feature actors from a Game of Thrones-esque show and I was totally hooked on them. And these are just a handful of celebrity books I’ve read. So what I need to remind myself is I secretly love this in romance and I need to get over myself and start reading more instead of talking myself out of buying for no apparent reason.

Royal romance

Maybe it’s because I’m British so don’t have the same fascination with the royal family that US readers do? Maybe it’s simply something about me that means I don’t get drawn into royalty and secretly want to be a princess or something. Whatever the reason, I am not drawn to royal romances. In fact, if I see mention of royalty in a book summary I am probably going to be put off because I just don’t care for it. Unless I’m reading a fantasy then I honestly couldn’t care less what’s happening with royalty. Even in historical romances, I’d much rather read a romance featuring the gentry rather than one which featured royalty. I know the gentry are in a similar situation of a title acquired by birthright rather than an earned title but I think because there are more of them I just accept it? Who knows, whatever it is royalty puts me off. I guess I’d rather read about people who have earnt their position instead of people who are simply born into their life… although I might descend down a whole topic of privilege if you let me so maybe I should stop?

Who hasn’t read and enjoyed Red, White and Royal Blue? I remember buying myself a copy when I was in New York and I seriously almost didn’t buy but I’d seen people saying good things and I had FOMO. Also, I have to treat myself to romance books in the US as it’s only been in the past few months UK publishers acknowledge there’s a big market for them. Anyway, I totally loved the book and wanted to force it on everyone I knew even though there was royalty in it. It was just fun and easy to read. Let’s not forget about Alyssa Cole’s Reluctant Royals series as well. I don’t think there was a bad book in the whole series and I would happily recommend any one of them to others. I should probably get over my dislike of royalty and read more books featuring them. I probably won’t but at least I know there are good books out there.

What have I learnt after looking over things I avoid in romance books? I avoid things for no good reason and need to get over myself. After all, I know there are romantic tropes I love (I’m looking at you fake relationship tropes) which I always buy and yet there are plenty of bad books which feature that trope as well. It’s all about the writing and I should trust the reviews more and not just assume I won’t like it straight off the bat. I know myself and what I like reading… but I also know I am way too quick to jump to conclusions sometimes as well.

Are there certain tropes and themes in books which can put you off reading or which you actively avoid? And can you think of any books I’ve not mentioned that fit the above that I should check out? I might have read them but it’s time to get over myself.

I Kissed Shara Wheeler – Casey McQuiston

Published: 12th May 2022

Source: Netgalley

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary Romance, LGBTQ+

My Rating:

From the bestselling New York Times bestselling author of Red, White and Royal Blue and One Last Stop comes a debut YA romantic comedy about chasing down what you want, only to find what you need . . .

'[A] razor-sharp, intensely compassionate, subversive, sweet, electrifyingly romantic knockout of a book.' Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda

A month before graduating from Willowgrove Christian Academy, the principal’s perfect daughter, prom queen Shara Wheeler, kisses Chloe Green and vanishes.

On a furious hunt for answers, Chloe discovers she’s not the only one Shara kissed. There’s also Smith, Shara’s long-time sweetheart, and Rory, Shara’s bad-boy neighbour with a crush. Thrown into an unlikely alliance, Chloe, Smith and Rory follow Shara’s trail of annoyingly cryptic clues, and Chloe starts to suspect that there might be more to this small town – and to Shara – than she thought.

Fierce, funny, and frank, Casey McQuiston’s I Kissed Shara Wheeler is about breaking the rules, getting messy, and finding love in unexpected places.

I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This in no way affected my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

I hadn't seen anything about Casey McQuiston releasing a YA book but when I saw I Kissed Shara Wheeler up on Netgalley I couldn't help but submit a request for it. I'm glad I did but I didn't enjoy it as much as I hoped. This one was definitely a mood reading issue because I forced myself to read it ready to review in May.

As I said, mood reading definitely meant that it took me far longer to feel invested in this book. I did want to know more about Shara Wheeler's Gone Girl style disappearing act and find out what happened but it also felt a little tedious and made me completely dislike her by the time she came back. Although, I wasn't Chloe's biggest fan either so maybe it was right they ended up together as they definitely deserved each other. But the fact I didn't like the two by the end did mean I felt totally uninvested in their romance. I do believe it was deliberate making them both so difficult to like as Chloe herself said she liked unlikable characters and the romantic interest being someone awful in the books she read. There was definite intent there and it was good to see characters who weren't 100% likable being the main characters but it's not particularly what I like to read about.

There were plenty of things which were done well in this book though. The main one was the brilliant and diverse cast of characters. McQuiston is excellent when it comes to writing her characters, which is why I was surprised I didn't end up liking the MCs in this one. I'd felt more invested in Rory and Smith's relationship than anything else. I also felt horrible for Chloe's friends who she began to completely ignore in her obsessive quest to find out where Shara went. But the characters were all definitely complex, even the MCs. I do think the ending where they were all brought together at graduation did work and I liked how they all inhabited different social groups within school and Shara did manage to bring them together even though that wasn't completely the intent behind it all (or not the main one).

The other thing I was impressed by was how she wrote two characters who should be unlikeable, Chloe and Shara, and still made me feel invested in their stories. Shara was the most popular girl in school, she should have been a total mean girl (and she could be viewed in that way to some degree) but I still could see why Chloe was obsessed with her (the both of them went way too far in being invested in the others life. They were basically made for each other). And Chloe could often be a bad friend, she became totally focused on Shara to the let her friendships fall to one side as she pursued the mystery of Shara. I liked that it wasn’t ignored she behaved badly but instead her friends called her out on it and they overcame it all because they realised there were more important things happening. What I’m saying is McQuiston perfectly delivered complex characters who were dicks but also who were kind and caring and how often can you say an author does that without making you hate the character?

This, sadly, won’t be a favourite read for me. But I did enjoy myself once I finally got into the story. Sadly mood reading has a lot to answer for and I do wonder if I might have rated it a touch higher if I’d read it at the right time. but if you want a YA LGBTQ+ novel which has a diverse cast of characters then you should check this out.

Have you read this book, do you agree with my thoughts?

Another last-minute Sunday post from me. I'm usually drafting these posts on a Friday night or on Saturday but it's been a busy week and I've not had the time or motivation at the right time so you get me half asleep on a Sunday morning instead, isn't that exciting for you?

As I said, it's been a bit of a busy week this week. Monday was a bank holiday so I spent the day watching TV, reading, and doing a few boring chores. Nothing exciting but stuff which needed to be done. I'm glad it was a more relaxed day as I ended up working late Tuesday for month end and was absolutely exhausted and that was really how my working week proceeded: busy. I did get some good work news, or two pieces actually. I am on contract and we were advised of our contract extensions this week and I got told that I'm being made a permanent member of staff so more job security for me! There's no difference to my contract or anything like that I just don't have to go through the regular contract renewal meetings which will be nice. I've been trying to be made permanent ever since I started and came close to getting it a couple of times but internal politics meant it didn't happen. Every single one of my managers (of which I've had many at the new place) has fought for me with HR and with senior management to have more permanent roles approved so I'm happy it all finally worked out. After getting that news we were then told the company will be offering an additional payment to all staff because of the current financial climate. Apparently, it’s because they couldn’t have accounted for the rapid rise in the cost of living in January when we get our usual incremental pay rise so they’re doing a one-off payment instead. The taxman will get most of it but it was still a wonderful piece of news and I’m already mentally spending that money.

Not only did I have positive work news but I also won a competition! I want to preface this with the fact I never win anything. I am just not lucky like that, I think the last time I won a book competition was about 5 years ago or something crazy so I am insanely excited. It was Nick's competition for reaching 10k and I currently have my book choices narrowed down to 14 so hopefully, in another few days, I'll actually buy some.

Outside of work I've also been busy seeing friends. I went to see The Lost City on Wednesday after work with a friend and it was brilliant. It was far funnier than expected. I didn't totally believe the chemistry between Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum but I believed it enough for the film to work. Then Friday I went to a friend's house for drinks, takeaway, and board games. Sadly, it ended up only being a couple of us as a couple of my other friends pulled out last minute but we still had fun playing Treasure of the Pharaohs and a couple of card games. I'm glad I went as Treasure of the Pharaohs was my favourite game as a kid, I don't know anyone else who owns this board game but it was one my nan had probably owned since my uncle and dad were kids. It's stupidly fun and in surprisingly good condition. It would have been better with more of us playing, though. I won the card game we played as well. I stayed out far later than intended and was very tired yesterday.

Before anyone asks, I didn't spend Saturday hungover, I only got 5 hours sleep but forced myself to go shopping. I'd done a click & collect order at Waterstones for their edition of the new Holly Black book so I knew I had to go out otherwise I'd miss out on that book as it's sold out online. I actually placed the order Saturday morning when I woke up stupidly early with the sun as I knew if I did that I’d have no choice but to go out. I can never motivate myself to go to the shopping centre when I could just do to the supermarket instead so it was a form of reward for not being lazy. I’m glad I did as I got a few things I’d been meaning to buy forever for the house but more importantly, it meant I looked around a couple of home shops looking for a sofa for the conservatory. I was actually getting ready to go home when I went into Marks and Spencer to look at their home section.

I don’t know what motivated me to go in as I never usually shop in M&S but I’m so glad I did as found two sofas in there which were comfortable. I’d been drawn to a two-seater pink sofa which ended up not being that comfortable but I decided to test out the two next to it as all three were available in 7 days, insanely fast for a sofa. Those two sofas next to it were far more comfortable. I’m leaning towards one over the other but I’m awaiting fabric swatches to arrive in the post so I can see them in my conservatory lightning. I’d vowed I wouldn’t get another grey sofa since it’s rather boring but I might end up with a grey sofa and have to throw a lot of colourful stuff on it to mask that.

What I've Been Reading

It's not been a great reading week, probably because I've been so busy. I finally DNFed Dirty this week. I accepted I wasn’t feeling it and it was time to move on. I only bought that one because I wanted to read the second book anyway so here’s hoping that one works better when I finally read it. I finished A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and really enjoyed it second time around, though. I started Good Girl, Bad Blood pretty much straight after. It definitely was a much darker second book but I was hooked but now I've been reading a couple of pages a day of As Good as Dead and I'm finding it harder to get hooked on this third book. I think it's partially because Pip is in a very different place than in the first two books and the tone is much darker. I'm hoping to spend some time reading today so I can move on to a lighter book next.

New To Me 

So far, I've only bought one book and that is Book of Night by Holly Black. As I said, I saw this book available for click and collect on the Waterstones website Saturday morning and decided to treat myself, but also it worked as motivation for me to go to the shopping centre near me. It's not that far away but it's still a long bus ride and it's just easier to go to the supermarket instead so I have to use a reward system as motivation. I'm glad I did as the Waterstones edition is so pretty so hopefully, the book is good as well.

How has your week been? Am I the only one who has been rushed off of their feet? And do you have to reward yourself to motivate yourself to do certain things you don't want to do or are you normal?

Where the hell did April go? It felt like it start two seconds ago and then it was May. 2022 is flying by and it's crazy. I don't think I like it. It's the first year in a while things have started to feel normal (to some degree anyway) and I think it's going to pass me by before I know it.

When I think back on it April seems to have been busy. I started the month on a hen do and with friends. I then got covid and spent a copious amount of time at home and working and blogging and generally just doing stuff so I didn't go crazy at home. And then it closed with me being social, seeing friends and family, and going to the office. It really was a month that was very much about seeing people and doing things. I suppose that means I shouldn't complain too much as I was doing things which made me happy… apart from getting covid. That sucked, but at least it aligned perfectly with when I didn't have a lot of plans so I didn't feel like I missed at on too much stuff. The highlights was definitely going to Liverpool and just having a laugh. We did our ridiculous Britney dance class and ate food and had drinks and just enjoyed ourselves. We went to a comedy club and did get picked on a little by some of the comedians, but it was just fun. I missed doing stuff like that and so, even though Liverpool is most definitely where I got sick, it was totally worth it.

Music of the Month

I actually discovered this song watching the season finale of Peaky Blinders and I listened to it on repeat for a while. I don’t know what it is that’s caught my attention with it but something did.

What I Read

4 stars

3-3.75 stars

I only read 13 books in April. my reading is obviously flagging. But it’s cool because I still read a lot of books I enjoyed. There weren’t any 5 star reads either. I obviously never managed to settle on exactly where my mood lay when it comes to reading.

Reading Challenges

2022 Monthly Key Word Challenge

April - Race, Now, Chose, While, Stop, Burn, Red, One

I really love challenges like this for making me look at the books I won and think which ones might fit the theme. For April it forced me to finally read One Last Stop and I am not mad about it. I think I'd have read it eventually but it's been on my shelf since last year and it was time to read a physical book.

Buzzword Reading Challenge

April - A book with LITTLE or BIG in the title

I once more turned to my physical books and my unread bookshelf to choose a book for this challenge as none of the books on my kindle inspired me and I saw The Little Shop of Happy Ever After by Jenny Colgan just waiting to be read. It's been on my shelf so long I couldn't even tell you when I bought it but I am so glad I did read it because it was such a charming story. Jenny Colgan delivers charming stories set throughout the UK which always have me ready to move to wherever they're set. I don't know why I haven't read more books from her as they really are charming. I probably would have never got around to reading this book if it wasn't for the reading challenge so I think I will take up more of these in the future where I force myself to read books I own.

Beat the Backlist

I'm flagging in conquering the prompts on this one. I am halfway through, I've now completed 26 prompts but I think the ones left are the difficult ones. I am proud the majority of my reads qualify for this challenge though. I've only read 5 books which were published in 2022 out of 69 I've finished at the end of April. That's pretty impressive, right?

What I Blogged

Sunday Summary // 10th April 2022

March 2022 Wrap Up

Sunday Summary // 17th April 2022

Why don’t I read what I buy?

What I loved about the Penelope Blue trilogy

Sunday Summary // 24th April 2022

Battle Royal // I Loved It But I Wanted More Romance

TV/Film Highlights

There are three shows which stand out as highlights for me in April. I watched a lot of TV because I had covid but two of the shows I actually finished at the very start of April and those were Peaky Blinders and Ted Lasso. My song of the month was actually in the Peaky Blinders finale. I have to say, I expected a little more from the final season of Peaky Blinders, those characters had so much more story left but I understand wanting to finish a series without dragging it out. I know I'll still see plenty of Peaky Blinders themed stuff around Birmingham anyway, the city has fully embraced having a show based there. I swear, some people have made the show their personality. The other show I finished right at the start of the month was Ted Lasso and I am obsessed. I am ready to rewatch the first two seasons all over again because that's how good it was. I can't wait for more and it might have convinced me to carry on my AppleTV+ subscription longer than originally planned. And the final show of April is obviously going to be Business Proposal. I watched it in the space of a week and loved it.

I have just one film for the month and that is CODA. It weirdly felt like a YA book when I was watching, which is probably a really weird thing to say but it had a strong family element, a romance, and a teenagers quest to achieve her dream. It has all the stuff you'd usually see in a YA book so there you go. It was really good, I watched while I had covid which may have been an error as it was at the stage where I was really congested and struggling to breath and it then made me cry which made everything worse, especially as I watched it just before going to bed. Definite error on my part.

How was your April? Anyone else feel like the time is flying by this year? maybe it’s just because we’re out doing things a bit more compared to the past couple of years?

I can’t believe it’s May already! I don’t know where April went, it absolutely flew by and I think May might do the same. I have a busy few weeks in May so I imagine it’ll feel like I’ve blinked and missed it. I do have some exciting things to look forward to though. I’m seeing friends and one of my friends is getting married at the end of the month so that’s going to be amazing!  I think I’m just hoping to have some fun and hopefully take lots of photos.

This week felt like it was over so fast. I was rushed off of my feet with work, I’ve worked over far more than I’m comfortable with and I felt like I could have worked even longer but I’m firm that when I’m WFH I shouldn’t stay on longer than hour and that’s only if I’m trying to wrap up what I’m working on. I know it’ll quiet down next week and I’ll be back to working my hours. I think I also felt rushed because we have another bank holiday in the UK so I’m not working Monday. It means another short week of work, though, hopefully it’s quieter although I have meetings booked in again. I feel like a proper grown up saying I have meetings but I often don’t even need to talk in them.

Apart from work I saw one of my friends and we caught up on life. I don’t think we’d seen each other in person since before I caught covid so it was so nice to chat. It was one of those evenings where you only have a couple of drinks but somehow you’ve found yourself chatting for 4 hours and then you realise you need to get home because you have work in the morning. It was great, I miss evenings like that. I feel like I’ve not really had the chance to do that as much the past 2 years, even when restrictions eased it’s felt like we’ve got to have definite plans to do something rather than just generally catch up.

Apart from work and seeing friends it’s mostly just been home stuff. I’ve got a friend who will finally be collecting the washing machine I’ve been using as a side table in my conservatory. I also spent Saturday being isnanely productive and clearing things from my to do list I’ve been putting off for a while. The only things I didn’t do were unpacking that final box in the spare room, washing the bed sheets, and cleaning the bathroom. I was in one of those moods, I think. I’d woken up and felt in the mood to decorate my living room finally except I’d done none of the things I need to in there and I don’t have the paint or brushes to do that task. I still need to remove wall plugs, fill holes and take down the stupid curtain rail but I think I channelled the energy that wanted to decorate into doing the other chores instead. I did all of my laundry (apart from the bed sheets as there wasn’t room on the washing line). I tidied the conservatory and scrubbed the floor which has needed cleaning for at least a month. I cleaned the hob and sorted the kitchen so I don’t have random carrier bags everywhere. I finally put up the cheap Ikea blinds I’d bought months ago in my bedroom in the hopes I’ll stop waking up with the sunrise. I weeded the garden to try and make it nice to sit in until I sort the gravel. I even planned by May bullet journal spread so I can carry on being organised. And I cleaned the vacuum filter which is always really disgusting and something I should do far more often. As you can see it was a very productive day and I don’t know where all of the energy came from. I still need to remove the wall plugs and stuff in the living room but I know I need to go shopping for supplied before any decorating commences.

God, I’ve realised how boring and grown up I sound being happy I do the household chores. I’ll be sure to balance this out next week by being lazy or getting drunk with my friends or something.

What I’ve Been Reading

I admit it’s been a slow reading week. I finished the Stage Dive series and I Deep wasn’t my favourite of the series so that felt a little draggy but I enjoyed it. I then started reading I Kissed Shara Wheeler but I realised after a couple of chapters I wasn’t quite in the mood for it so I also picked up Dirty, the first in the Dive Bar series that’s a follow up to Stage Dive. Sadly, Dirty has in no way gripped me. I like the characters well enough but I don’t really get the chemistry between the MCs or really care about the romance so I might DNF. I can’t decide if it’s me and my mood reading or the book so if you read and enjoyed Dirty let me know and I’ll place to one side and try again another day. I did finally finish I Kissed Shara Wheeler, I got into the story in the end but I think I cared for the secondary characters more than the MC and her romance. I’ll have a review for it up in the next week or so I’m sure. I then started my reread of A |Good Girl’s Guide to Murder as I decided that’s the kind of book I’m in the mood for. Here’s hoping I enjoy it as much second time around.

New To Me

I only bought the final Stage Dive book, Deep. Otherwise no new purchases for me. There are some new KU borrows but I still might return them without reading so I don’t really want to mention them. I’m trying to stay strong about purchases but I am seriously debating preordering a couple of books, I’m having a think over the weekend as I also want to buy some new clothes in case I go to the office a little more so I might channel the book funds to clothes instead.

What have you been reading this week? Anyone else sometimes get these random bursts of productive energy and power through their entire to do list in one day?