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February Wrap-Up aka best reading month ever! ✨

Happy March lovelies!

I hope that you’re all well. My sweet, dear February is behind us and it was the best month ever. I had a great quiet birthday and I read 8 books which I gave 4 or 5 stars to! So only amazing books! I also have three all-time favourites and read some of my most anticipated releases of the year so it was an overall success! I hope March continues to treat me well and I wish all of you a great (reading) month!

I have managed to read 8 books this month which is great for my reading goal; I’m now 14/70 with three books ahead of schedule. My favourite books were Legendborn, A Court of Silver Flames and Act Your Age, Eve Brown! All of these books made me ugly cry in a good an dbad way and I love them so much!

5 stars

Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert ★★★★★. This book holds a dear place in my heart for everything it represents in terms of representation. I have never been more drawn to a romance couple; Eve and Jacob, were *clenches fist* SO CUTE. I cried when I received an ARC for this book. I’m so so so happy.

A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J Maas ★★★★★. I had neevr read this before can you believe it? I didn’t have time to reread the whole ACOTAR series so this book was a nice transition into ACOSF and a great way of remembering the dynamic between the Inner Circle.

A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J Maas ★★★★★ This book. This book. This book. Character development? Perfect. Female empowerment? Sublime. Love interest? To die for. I loved this.

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn. ★★★★★ I have never enjoyed reading a book this much in my entire life. Never. This is what dreams are my of. I can die happily, my dreams have been answered.

4 stars

The Princess Trap by Talia Hibbert. ★★★★ .WOW a fun, cute and sexy romance! Talia Hibbert knows the way to my heart.

The Traitor Queen by Danielle L. Jensen ★★★★. This was a satisfying and great conclusion to the story and i had a great time reading it!

Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert ★★★★★. How refreshing this story was! A coming of age with a Black main character? Yes, please!

Birthday Girl by Penelope Douglas ★★★★★. I read a dark! Kylo Ren fanfic once and my life has never been the same. Douglas is known for writing dark romances and I wanted to see what the hype was about. Worth it!

Favourite posts by fellow bloggers

A Guide to Audiobooks by Jayati @It’s Just a Coffee Addicted Bibliophile. Jayati wrote an amazing post on audiobooks and I just really loved it!

From Blood And Ash: Book Review by Hundreds&ThousandsHundreds & Thousands of Books. I love this reveiw because even though this book was great, I didn’t love it as much as I wanted to and it was nice to see a review that felt the same way about a certain character…

What to Read After Bridgerton byAnne @ The Lit Bitch. Let’s face it, after watching the TV show we all asked this question and Anne came up with a great list of books to read! A lifesaver.

The Shadows Between Us // Review by April Lee @ Booked Till MidnightBooked Till Midnight. You know when a review is so good it makes you by the book? Yes, well this definitely happened and April is to blame.

This month’s hopefuls!

So this is my birthday haul! I received many gift cards and of course I decided to spend that money in books! Since I’m going on a book buying ban, I’m hoping to read most of these in the following weeks!

Any book I should read first? Let me know!!

As I said, I had an amazing month! It wasn’t easy everyday and I started school again, but it was my birthday month and Black History month and Valentine’s Day (aka people celebrating romance novels) and I just felt so much love!! My (twin) sister and I both bought nice dresses to wear at home, we ate a delicious cake and we sang 22 by Taylor Swift the whole day! It was perfect. If you’re wondering what the white thing that’s under my dress, it’s a bad that is meant to cover my second degree burn! I tried curling my hair and this happened; I’m the clumsiest person ever. Bella Swan, who?

Goals

  • Work on my WIP everyday. Now this is something I really struggled with this in February and I really hope I make a dent or even finish a first draft this month!
  • Not purchasing any book (except Act Your Age, Eve Brown)
  • Read at least 8 books this month
  • Finish Empire of Storms which I have been reading since december.

What did you do last month? What did you enjoy reading? Let me know in the comments!

Karla xx

28 thoughts on “February Wrap-Up aka best reading month ever! ✨

  1. Ahh so glad to hear you had such a great February, Karla!! Ahh yes ACOFAS was such a sweet read, finally they’re getting some peace… and I’m thrilled to hear about how much you loved ACOSF, I need to get to that one soon… And Legendborn!! Such an empowering read indeed. The Gilded Ones is amazing, I hope you enjoy it! Happy March! 😀

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    1. Yes, I loved ACOFAS because they were all safe and together 🥰 ohh so excited for you to read ACOSF!! I’m so happy you also enjoyed Legendborn! I need book 2 ASAP!! And can’t wait to the The Gilded Ones 😍 thank you for commenting and happy March to you too 💕

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  2. Ooooh you should TOTALLY read Cemetery Boys first. I loved that book and I cannot wait for Thomas’s next book, Lost in the Never Woods!!! It comes out this month!
    I’m glad you had such a great month! Birthday book hauls are amazing, I’m really hard to buy gifts for so I just always end up with a lot of books and book gift cards haha.
    I’m glad that you had such an amazing month and I hope that March is awesome as well! Wishing you the best for this upcoming month 🙂

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    1. Yes, I’ve only heard amazing things about Cemetery Boys; and I didn’t know the author had another book coming out 😱 Haha yes, I’m always disappointed by other gifts too; books are a sure thing 😂 Thank you so much and I wish you an amazing month too 🥰💕

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  3. KARLA YOU ARE GORGEOUS! 😍😊 It sounds like you had such an amazing birthday and an amazing month! Ooo I read A Little Life years ago, I was not prepared for the heartache, so be prepared! I have Cemetery Boys on my shelf too!!
    Happy March! 💞📚

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    1. Meghan!! Thank you SO MUCH 🥺❤️ Haha yes everyone says that I should get ready but I don’t think I ever will 😭😭 Oh can’t wait to see what you think once you read it too! 🥰 Happy March to you too ❤️

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  4. omg thank you so much for sharing my post!!! ahhh i’m so glad you decided to get a copy!!!! i might be slightly biased, but i think you should pick the shadows between us up first haha, truly it is a delight and i hope you’ll enjoy!!! cemetery boys is also a joy and so is you should see me in a crown!!! ahhh they are all fantastic, and i’m too indecisive to offer better input!!
    glad you hear you had an amazing birthday and month!!!! best of luck with your goals for march!!!

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  5. Gorgeous post! This is a brilliant idea, and having your birthday in a month where you only read 4 and 5 star books is a pretty great coincidence… hope you had a good day 😌 Aw thanks so much for mentioning my post, I dont say this much, but that *certain character* deserves more hate haha. I’m currently reading a kingdom of flesh and fire and ahh I’m very conflicted about my feelings for him. It’s a tricky one!

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    1. Yes; it made me so happy! I’m going to read Kingdom of Flesh and Fire and I hope to finally understand the hype around him… I just don’t get it 😂 Can’t wait to hear your final thoughts! 🥰

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  6. I NEED to read Traitor Queen after Bridge Kingdoms ending?!?!? Also have been meaning to pick up Penelope Douglas and heard Birthday Girl is ANGSTY!! Looks like you had an awesome reading month 🙂

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    1. Yesss that ending?? I was HEARTBROKEN!! Such a wonderful duology!! Haha yes it was angsty but not that much? It was definitely bearable!! Hope you enjoy the rest of March and that you have a great reading month! 🥰💕

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