The end of year survey was created by Jamie @ The Perpetual Page-Turner Past surveys 2011 end of year survey 2012 end of year survey 2013 end of year survey 2014 end of year survey 2015 end of year survey 2016 end of year survey 2017 end of year survey 2018 end of year survey 2019 end of year survey (Wow, I didn’t realize I’d been doing it every year for my whole blogging career!) 2020 Reading stats Number of books […]
Sadly, there aren’t a whole lot of books I’m super excited about coming out this year :( I usually have 16 choices and have trouble cutting it down to that! This year I struggled just to pick 12. I’m still excited for all of these, but the only ones that I’m really dying to get my hands on are the first line of books. Weird. Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff – A NEW JAY SERIES, YASSSS. The Aurora […]
A few years ago I saw Cristina @ Girl in the Pages post about her 5 star reading drought (which was originally inspired by Lauren @ Bookmark Lit’s post here), and I thought it was such a great post, so I did one of my own! It was really interesting to see what me 5 star reads looked like for last year, so I decided I want to start doing it every year! 5 star books of 2020 This number […]
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl I’m combining my Novel Heartbeat Awards with Top Ten Tuesday again this year! Top ten books of 2020 *doesn’t include re-reads Top 5 science fiction Top 5 high fantasy Top 5 urban fantasy Top 3 contemp/mystery/thriller Best Horror Top 5 audiobooks All of these were re-reads! (Ten Thousand Doors and Aurora Burning are on both lists because I loved them so much I listened to them after reading haha!) […]
Oath Taker by Audrey Grey Series: Kingdom of Runes #1 Published by Starfall Press (5.23.2019) Genres: High Fantasy, Young Adult Format: eBook, 317 pages Source: I own it Light magic is forbidden. Dark magic spells death. Haven has both. After the Prince of Penryth saved her from captivity, seventeen-year-old Haven Ashwood spends her days protecting the kind prince and her nights secretly fighting the monsters outside the castle walls. When one of those monsters kidnaps Prince Bell, Haven must ally with Archeron Halfbane and […]
A Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter Series: The Burning #1 Published by Orbit (7.16.2019) Genres: Adult, High Fantasy Format: Hardcover, 544 pages Source: Library The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable fight for almost two hundred years. Their society has been built around war and only war. The lucky ones are born gifted. One in every two thousand women has the power to call down dragons. One in every hundred men is able to magically transform himself into a bigger, stronger, […]