The Sunday Post is hosted by Kimba Caffeinated Book Reviewer.
I went up to San Jose this week, so I wasn’t around much. I did get some reading in, though.
My goal was to read 95 books this year, but I already passed that. Believe me, I’m completely shocked by this.
I did participate in the Wicked Wildfire Read-a-thon and reached my goal of six books.
On the Blog
- Red by Kate SeRine – Review.
- Beautiful Oblivion by Jamie McGuire – Review.
- On the Rocks by Sawyer Bennett – Review.
Books Read
How to Handle a Heartbreaker by Marie Harte
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James – I reviewed it on Goodreads
Just Like Fate by Cat Patrick & Suzanne Young
Servants of the Storm by Delilah S. Dawson
Books Acquired
Books link to Goodreads/Amazon
For review:
Review Consideration:
Purchased/Freebies:
Top four were/are free. The rest (except If I Stay) were on sale at one time during the week. The entire Kate Daniels series was, but I only grabbed the first three.
Hope you have a great week!
Nice haul indeed. I got the House of Four Winds as well. I love getting freebies as well.
Grace
Hmm, I look forward to your thoughts on FSOG. I haven’t read it, but someone gave it to my youngest and she thought the writing was horrible and stopped at about a hundred pages. The movie trailer looks kind of hot though!
I only did a little quick review n GR. It wasn’t very good. I want to flog Ana myself just because she was so annoying. lol
Ooh I loved Searching for Someday by Jennifer Probst. I hope you enjoy it too.
I read your review of FSOG. I personally liked the series but Ana does get on my nerves as well. I guess it’s one of those books you either love or hate.
I hope you have a great week.
Sharon
Yeah, I’ve heard SfS is pretty good, so I look forward to reading it.
I must be one of the few who has no interest in FSOG book or film! Just not my genre I’m afraid! Still life would be boring if we all loved the same things so I hope you like it.
I wasn’t interested either, so I have no idea why I read it. And no, I nowhere near loved it.
Congratulations on passing your reading goal mark! 🙂 I’m being reminded of the Kate Daniels a lot these past few days. It’s like the universe is really telling me to get the first book right now. I’ll check the book out the next time I’m at a bookstore, after I’ve replenished my book fund. LOL 🙂
Thanks, Camille. :)I hope to start the series soon since I FINALLY have some of the books.
Beautiful Oblivion is one of those books that I waited for FOREVER and I wanted to love it, but I couldn’t. It was just too flawed for me. I’m not entirely sure I’ll ever actually review it, not because I am concerned about my opinion being unpopular, but because I don’t like to write ranty reviews. I loved Beautiful Disaster, liked Walking Disaster and pretty much loathed A Beautiful Wedding. I’m not sure I’ll continue on with the Maddox Brothers series.
On a positive note, however, Searching for Someday was great! (I loved the sequel, Searching for Perfect, even more though!) I loved If I Stay (and, again, the sequel!) and The Hazards series is fun and sexy.
Happy reading!
I haven’t read any of Travis or Abby’s books and don’t plan to. BO was good, but had major issues.
Yay I can’t wait to read those books then!
I downloaded The Hazards of Skinny Dipping. Thanks for the heads up.
I hope it’s good!
I’m off to check out your FSoG review. I haven’t read it and probably won’t. You got a lot of books and they look good. Congrats on making your goals! Woo hoo!
You won’t miss anything if you don’t read it. And thanks! 🙂
Oooo a trip! Hope yall had a good time. And dayum! That rocks. Excellent reading there 🙂
Yeah, it just made me want to move back to the Bay Area. I lived there are 2 years and loved it.
Oh I hope you like the hazards of skinny dipping. I just read the 3rd book and really enjoyed it! It is a fun series. How did you like 50 shades of grey? And darn you christy! Chasing Beautiful is free and looks good! You are not good for my book habit.
50 Shade … meh. I did a quick little review on GR, but that’s all.
I hope THoS is good!
Yay for the Andrews books! I have the two first in your list but I need to finish the pirate book. Happy reading!
I’m pretty excited to start the series.
I’m going to have to go look at the FSoG review! I was a bit underwhelmed by it but it did make for a fun book club meeting! Looks like you got some great books this week! Have a great week!
lol – Now that would’ve been a fun book club meeting.
House of Four Winds isn’t my typical read, but I think I’m going to give it a try. I adored Searching For Someday. That is such a good series!
Enjoy your books, Christy!
Yeah, I’ll probably give it a try.
I’m definitely going to read SfS though!
I think a lot of us grabbed Once Perfect! Maybe we should all do a group read, I know Heidi and Kim also grabbed it this week. 😉
The Kate Daniels series is great but I have to warn you, I didn’t love it, really love it, until book three so be warned! In fact, *gasp* I thought the first book was pretty boring…sort of. It drags a little in the beginning and I didn’t like Curan very much. He had to grow on me.
Is there going to be a blog tour for it? I can’t remember. I get mixed up with this and the WG series emails.
That’s fine. I always go into a new UF series not expecting to love the first one, maybe two. They tend to take some warming up to.
I think there is suppose to be one.
I’m not going to say anything about FSOG except to say this: I have zero interest in any of it. lol Congrats on passing your goal already! I’m about on target for my goal of 250. I so want to read Graveyard Shift. I’ve heard it’s funny, so I need to bump it up. Have a wonderful week! 🙂
Haha – yeah, I never thought I’d read it, but it fell in my lap. It really wasn’t worth the time.
250 … damn. I’m wondering if I can get close to 200 since I’ve already hit 100.
I love Searching for Someday and The House of the Four Winds is very Pirates of the Caribbean. I hope you enjoy both and the rest of your new books!
Damn, everyone says they love SfS… guess I need to bump it up.
Congrats on passing your reading goal! Your books look great – enjoy! Have a great week!
Thanks, Yvonne! 🙂
Get you passing your goal already. that’s awesome! I am still like 10 books behind on my challenge, and have been since christmas. 😉 I love the cover for House of the Four Winds. I need to check that book out. I also need to play catch-up with the Kate Daniels series one of these days!
Wow, congrats on bypassing your goal already! That’s awesome. I don’t keep track of how much I read…but I KNOW it’s not near 95. haha
It’s great that you completed your goal! I haven’t updated my GR in months…really have to start doing that soon >.<
Oooh! I love the Kate Daniels series… keen to see what you think!
Have a great week!
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I love your haul! So much 🙂 I think mine go down in the summer so it’s great to see others’. Can’t wait to see your reviews!
OMG, OMG. Okay, I have to calm down. First off, most people say the first book of the Kate Daniels series is not their favorite but still awesome. It’s book 2 when it gets going. So keep at it even if you are not sure. By Magic Strikes I think your uterus will be bowing down to The Beast Lord!!!!
WOAh you read 95 books already, that is amazing! I’ve only read 75 so far but it’s a lot more than I have in previous years. Going to check out your fifty shades review now. I totally agree that the writing was absolutely terrible, and Ana was so annoying I wanted to slap her. She felt like a 14 year old child.
I hope you had loads of fun in San Jose! 😀 And it’s REALLY great that you passed your reading goal for the year *high fives*. I am almost done with mine too so I am pretty happy! 😀
The House of Four Winds sounds FABULOUS and I do hope you’ll review it so I’ll know what to expect :DD
I hope you’ll like Searching for Someday! I read it a while back and I cannot quite remember what I rated it but I thought it was a cutsey read so I hope you’ll enjoy it! 🙂
AND THE KATE DANIELS SERIES! Okay so I am not the biggest fan of the series but they are quite enjoyable and I hope you’ll gobble the series up! 🙂
Great haul, Christy! And I hope you have a FABULOUS week! 🙂
The House of the Four Winds is definitely one I want to read! It looks like you had a great book week!
I was rocking my GR reading challenge and five books ahead of schedule until June rolled around and all the yuck happened now I am four books behind. Still hoping to reach my goal. I am curious about Servants of the Storm everyone wanted that one and it isn’t getting good reviews. I see you are going to read some Kate Daniels, I swear I am going to start it soon.
Yay for already meeting your reading goal!!! Enjoy the new book you got this week.
I’ve had the Kate Daniels series on my TBR list for a while. Wish I’d known they’d gone on sale. I also go The Hazards of Skinny Dipping. And I loved If I Stay. Great week!