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This month I want to present my monthly reads in a completely different way. So, in my Sabrina Carpenter voice “please, please, please” let me know what you think of this new format!
In the beautifully sunny and blazing hot month of July, I read 15 books and DNF’d 1 book.
In July I read,
6 Romances
4 Historical Fictions/Fictions
3 Romantasies/Fantasies
2 Non-fictions
In 31 days, I consumed 5,006 pages which is an average of 161 pages each day
I bought 2 out of 15 of the books I consumed in July. 9 out of the 15 books were audiobooks I borrowed from Libby. 4 out of the 15 books were library books from my local library.
I read 6 physical books and listened to 11 audiobooks.
The longest book I consumed in July is Love Unwritten by Lauren Asher (#2 of the Lakefront Billionaires series) which is a whopping 551 pages. I borrowed it from the library and took 5 days to read it which is, on average, 110 pages a day. I rated this book 3/5 stars and this book has an average Goodreads rating of 4.15/5 stars. This was a really fast read for me and it was cute. Our love interest and the other half of the dual-POV, Rafael Lopez is SUPER grumpy *we love a grumpy billionaire single dad trope*. The other POV is the lovely Ellie Sinclair who is the definition of a hopeless romantic. The author, Asher, does a phenomenal job of creating characters with depth as she guides us through their budding love story. I liked it a lot!
The shortest book I consumed in July is Powerful by Lauren Roberts (#1.5 in the Powerless Trilogy) which I listened to on the Libby app for 3 days. I rated this book 3.25/5 stars and it has an average Goodreads rating of 4.18/5 stars. This book left me wanting more, which is most likely the intention, however, I wanted more. I loved that Adena was given her own complex love story, but the ending left me feeling undone.
Below is every book I read in July *the page length (the number of days it took me to read the book) my rating of the book (where I got the book from) and the genre of each book
- Icebreaker by Hannah Grace (#1 in the Maple Hills series) *435 pages (3 days) rated 4 (we bought her on Amazon) sports romance/contemporary romance
- The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand *416 pages (1 day) rated 4.25 (Libby) fiction/historical fiction
- Swift and Saddled by Lyla Sage *320 pages (2 days) rated 2 (We bought her on Amazon too) romance
- Honey and Spice by Bolu Babalola *368 pages (3 days) rated 4.75 (Libby) romance/contemporary romance
- The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand (#1 in the Summer in Nantucket series) *384 (4 days) rated 5 stars (Library) fiction
- The Bodyguard by Katherine Center *302 pages (2 days) rated 4.5 stars (Libby) romance/contemporary
- Powerful by Lauren Roberts (#1.5 in the Powerless Trilogy) *192 pages (3 days) rated 3.25 stars (Libby) fantasy/romance/young adult
- The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young *320 pages (5 days) rated 3 stars (library) fantasy/magical realism
- A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir (#4 of the Ember in the Ashes series) *544 pages (4 days) rated 4.95 stars (Libby) fantasy/young adult/romance/romatasy
- Love Redesigned by Lauren Asher (#1 of the Lakefront Billionaires series) *530 pages (6 days) rated 3 stars (Library) romance
- Educated A Memoir by Tara Westover *352 pages (3 days) no rating (Libby) nonfiction/memoir
- Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and what we can do about it by Jennifer Breheny Wallace*320 pages (3 days) no rating (Libby) nonfiction/education
- Love Unwritten by Lauren Asher (#2 of the Lakefront Billionaires series) *551 (5 days) 3 stars (Library) romance
- If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin*307 (3 days) no rating (Libby) fiction/historical fiction
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier *449 (2 days) 5 stars (Libby) fiction/mystery/gothic romance
Thanks for reading! Toodles! See ya next month
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