🌸 March reading 🌸

It’s time for another wrap-up/haul post and some reading statistics!

This post is a little late going up, but better late than never, right? I haven’t felt super motivated to write this post because March was such a disappointing reading month overall, but I did have a few really good reads and some good hauls I wanted to share.

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✨ month at a glance ✨

• books completed: 9
• books DNFed: 1
• avg rating: 4.17
• avg pages read per day: 96
• best book(s): Bride & Empire of the Vampire
• worst book(s): Playground

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✨ ratings ✨

(each title link will direct you to my review for more thoughts!)

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🎁 review copy
💞 buddy/group read
🔁 re-read
🎧 audiobook

• Bride by Ali Hazelwood 🎁💞
• Starling House by Alix E. Harrow 🎁💞🎧
• Belladonna by Adalyn Grace 💞🎧
• Gallant by V.E. Schwab (RE-READ) 💞🔁🎧
• Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff 💞🎧

• In Bloom by Paul Tremblay 🎧
• The Only Safe Place Left is the Dark by Warren Wagner 🎁

• It Waits in the Woods by Josh Malerman

nothing this month!

• Playground by Aron Beauregard 💞

• Cinema Viscera edited by Sam Richard

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✨ hauls ✨

First, look at this picture I got of Echo and my haul stack 🥹 isn’t she precious?

I think this is the best I’ve done since starting my book ban! I’ve reached the point of cancelling most of my standing pre-orders unless they are just EXTREMELY beloved authors or books I’m really excited for, and I’ve started skipping book box months that don’t interest me (I skipped 2 for April!).

• The Prisoner’s Throne by Holly Black (B&N pre-order)
• Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nichole Maehrer (BOGO 50% off B&N)
• Do Your Worst by Rosie Danan (BOGO 50% off B&N)
• Heartstone by Elle Katharine White (audiobook sale)
• Empire of the Damned by Jay Kristoff (Forbidden Planet pre-order & B&N pre-order)

I got a surprisingly large amount of ARCs and eARCs this month, so I’ll split these between physical and digital. I’m so excited about all of these other than A Feather So Black, which I’ve already read (and didn’t finish, sadly!).

• A Feather So Black by Lyra Selene (finished copy; READ)
• Myrrh by Polly Hall (ARC)
• You’ll Leave This World With Your Butt Sewn Shut: And Other Little-Known Secrets, Shocking Facts, and Amusing Trivia about Death and Dying by Robyn Grimm (finished copy)
• A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall (ARC)
• The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields (ARC)
• The Only Way Out is Through by Paul Michael Anderson (ARC)
• All Who Wander Are Lost: Destination Horror Stories by Gemma Amor (ARC)
• Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis (ARC)

• Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch by Codie Crowley (eARC)
• Midwestern Gothic by Scott Thomas (eARC)
• The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love by India Holton (eARC)
• A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston (eARC)
• Morbidly Yours by Ivy Fairbanks (eARC)
• Haunted Ever After by Jen DeLuca (eARC)

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How was your month? What was your favorite book you read or hauled, or what was something nice that happened in your life?

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— destiny ♥

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