FEBRUARY WRAP UP | 28 books in 28 days | monster romances, novellas, why choose romances! 📚💕✨

Hey everyone, welcome to or welcome back to my blog! Every February I attempt to read a book every single day and I honestly thought I was going to completely fail this month but then in the last few days of the month I had a sudden burning need to binge read a bunch of romance books on my Kindle and then before I knew it, I’d reached 28 in 28 by the last day of the month!

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Quick Stats:

• Pages read: 8,737
• Books read: 28

• Most disappointing book of the month – Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert
• Worst book of the month – When The Farmer Met The City Girl by Jessa Kane
• Most surprising book of the month – Phantom by Greer Rivers
• Best book of the month – Three Swedish Mountain Men by Lily Gold

MONTH	PAGE COUNT	READ COUNT
January	7,796	28
February	8,737	28
t o t a l (s o f a r)	16,533	56

🌻 – Buddy read // 🎧 – Audiobook // 📚 – Library book // 🔁 – Re-read
🌈 – LGBTQIA+ rep // 🟣 – disability rep // ✨ – 2023 release

*Click on the titles for my Goodreads reviews! You can also find my StoryGraph reviews here!

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• Blood Bonds [21/01 – 02/02] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐ – This series is so addicting, oh dear lord.
• Obsidian [04/02] 🎧🔁 – ⭐⭐⭐ – uh, 12-year-old me definitely thought this was better than it actually was.
• Onyx [05/02] 🎧🔁 – ⭐⭐.75 – lol no thanks
• Twisted Lies [06 – 07/02] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐ – I really really thought I was going to love this but it just wasn’t as good as books 2 and 3.
• His to Have [08/02] ⭐⭐⭐ – I have no problems with age gaps, but why did she have to be 21??? She wasn’t even finished uni yet…

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• Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute [09/02] 🎧✨ – ⭐⭐⭐ – Gosh, this was such a letdown. What a shame.
• Final Offer [02 – 13/02] ✨ – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – not me crying at 2am god damn. what a way to end a trilogy!
• Phantom [13 – 14/02] ⭐⭐⭐.75 – High key loved every second of this.
• Rule Breaker [15/02] ⭐⭐.75 – This had some good humour but considering it was the first book in the series, it really felt like I’d missed too much in other characters’ lives to understand what was going on.
• One Percent of You [16/02] ⭐⭐⭐ – That man was so questionable in the beginning holy shit. Luckily for him, he pulled his head out of his ass but it was looking rough for a minute there.

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• Owned by a Sinner [16/02] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐ – I don’t know what it is about this series but I eat these books up like they’re my last meal.
• Jasper Vale [date/02] 🎧✨ – ⭐⭐⭐.5 – This was just so seamlessly enjoyable! I knew from the first chapter that I was going to love these two. No one quite tops Memphis and Knox but Jasper and Eloise come close!
• Radiant Sin [18/02] 🎧✨ – ⭐⭐⭐.5 – This series gets better and better every year!
• Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail [19/02] 🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Absolutely perfect! I just know that the Bright Falls series is going to be a fave of mine that I reread a bunch in the future!
• Three Swedish Mountain Men [20/02] ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – A+ 10/10 fucking fantastic. This was hilarious and Daisy is definitely in the top 3 of my fave main characters of all time!

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• Nanny For The Neighbours [21/02] ⭐⭐⭐.5 – A bit of a slow start but the humour is on point. I don’t know how Lily Gold does it but her books are addictive and so hard to put down!
• Wait For It [20 – 23/02] 🔁🎧 – ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 – i love the zapata romance universe so much nobody touch me rn I’m highly emotional
• A Kiss From A Kraken [23/02] ✨ – ⭐⭐⭐ – A bit too fast-paced and some of the language caught me off guard at the start but this was still a fun time.
• A Kiss From A Demon [23/02] ⭐⭐⭐ – 70 pages of monster smut 👌
• A Found by The Lake Monster [24/02] ⭐⭐⭐ – This was so completely unapologetic and I’ve got to give it props for that.

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• When The Farmer Met The City Girl [24/02] ✨ – ⭐ – Oh no, abso-fucking-lutely not.
• Desire in The Mountains [24/02] ✨ – ⭐⭐⭐ – Some funny moments but unfortunately I’ll have forgotten about this one by the end of the month.
• Ensnared by The Werewolf [25/02] ⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Fun fun fun! I absolutely loved the vibes of this one!
• Stone Heart [25/02] ⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Be gay, do crime
• Theirs For The Night [25/02] ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 – I didn’t realised this was more of a snippet of a full novel, than just a novella. So I guess I’ll be reading the full story at some point and I couldn’t be more excited tbh

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• Hearts In Darkness [26/02] ⭐️⭐️⭐️ – You know what? This actually wasn’t bad at all.
  Triple-Duty Bodyguards [22 – 27/02] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – This was so stressful but it was also so so good! I can’t wait for Lily Gold’s books to come out in audio so I can reread them!
• Forced Bonds [24 – 28/02] 🎧 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Somebody please explain the grip this series has on me.

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🔁 – Rewatch // 🌈 – LGBTQIA+ // ✨ – 2023 release

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• Titanic [19/02] ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – this month I saw Titanic for the first time, at the cinema in 3D no less, and when I tell you I forgot about the bloody iceberg, I FORGOT ABOUT THE BLOODY ICEBERG!

[IF YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT I’M WATCHING WHILE I’M WATCHING, YOU CAN CATCH ME ON LETTERBOXD]

What did you read this month?
Did we read/watch any of the same things?

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