Every first Wednesday of the month, I’ll be posting a roundup of the month just gone, including discussing books read that month, challenge progress, and a summary of all posts for the month.
Last month I read a total of fifteen books: Zeroes (Zeroes #1) by Scott Westerfeld, The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black, Stolen Songbird (The Malediction Trilogy #1) by Danielle L. Jensen, Sorcerer to the Crown (Sorcerer Royal #1) by Zen Cho, The Young Elites (The Young Elites #1) by Marie Lu, Talon by Janet Lee Carey, Dangerous Days in Elizabethan England by Terry Deary, The Just City (Thessaly #1) by Jo Whalton, An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes #1) by Sabaa Tahir, The Graces by Laure Eve, The Winner’s Curse (The Winner’s Trilogy #1) by Marie Rutkoski, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, The Dark Days Club (Lady Helen #1) by Alison Goodman, Knight’s Shadow (Greatcoats #2) by Sebastien de Castell and The Demon King (The Seven Realms #1) by Cinda Williams Chima.
December was definitely a great reading month! Most of what I read came from the library, stuff that I’d ordered in especially so I was excited for all of it. However, my standout books have to be The Demon King, Knight’s Shadow and The Just City. The Demon King felt like a classic fantasy novel, and just completely and utterly drew me in. Knight’s Shadow was a fantastic follow up to Traitor’s Blade, and The Just City was just so unique and really appealed to my archaeology and ancient history loving self.
Challenge progress:
- I managed to recruit all heroes and defeat all villains for the DC vs Marvel Challenge in 2016, so I’m pretty pleased with myself. 2017 sees the Justice League vs Teen Titans reading challenge, this time hosted by Wayland. I don’t think I’ll be quite as determined to recruit/defeat everyone this time round, as it did sort of take over my reading in 2016. But I’ll see what I can do! I won’t keep track of my progress on the blog, just on our Goodreads group.
- I read 137 books towards my Goodreads goal of 100, so went well over. Even more for 2017? 😉
Currently reading:
Rinn Reads 
Great picks! The Demon King was one of my favorites read in 2016. Wow, 137 books?! That’s amazing! Nice job.
Thanks, I had a lot of time towards the end of the year to read a lot more 🙂 But I still see so many people on GR with 300 books a year, no idea how they manage it!
137 books is amazing; 300 books is insane, haha. Lots of audiobooks maybe?? Anyway, good to hear you had some time to chill and enjoy at the end of the year. I ended up copying you for the last two weeks of December 😅
At least it gave me enough time to finish Way of Kings! *fist pump*
It could be! And yessss! I still need to read Way of Kings…
Wow! That’s an incredible number of books for one month! Very impressive. Congrats on going way over your reading goal too 🙂
Thanks 😀 I had a lot of time in December, haha!
Ooh Malice has a nice cover. And 15 books is awesome! I kinda wanted to read The Darkest Part of the Forest, that one always jumps out at me. One of these days…
It does, but as of yet I’ve barely touched it and have just read everything else!