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Monthly Roundup: October 2017



October! What a busy month for me! My sister visited and then I had a couple very busy work weeks, but I still got a LOT of reading done! Though I guess this is actually becoming fairly average for me.

All in all, I read 10 books this month! I've now read 90 out of my goal for 100 for the year! Let's take a look:
  1. Invictus - Ryan Graudin (4.5 stars)
  2. The Tiger's Daughter - K. Rivera Arsenault (2 stars)
  3. The Last Namsara - Kristen Ciccarelli (4 stars)
  4. Even the Darkest Stars - Heather Fawcett (3.5 stars)
  5. House of Shadows - Nicola Cornick (4 stars)
  6. Artemis - Andy Weir (4.5 stars)
  7. Angelfall - Susan Ee (4 stars)
  8. World After - Susan Ee (3 stars)
  9. End of Days - Susan Ee (3 stars)
  10. Forest of a Thousand Lanterns - Julie C. Dao (3.5 stars)

I read a lot of ARCs from NetGalley this month (most of which were October releases), including The Tiger's Daughter, The Last Namsara, House of Shadows, and Artemis. Angelfall and the subsequent two books were a fun new series find! EtDS was from my September FairyLoot and it was a beautiful story of exploration, and FoaTL was from the October FairyLoot box. And of course, Invictus had been high on my "most anticipated" list and definitely delivered.


In November, I'm looking forward to my Stormlight Archive reread, just in time for OATHBRINGER!!! I have been waiting three years for this book (ever since I finished Words of Radiance) and Sanderson never fails to deliver truly incredible and mind-blowing stories. So November will see me mostly fangirling over that. Those three books will together be over 3000 words!


What have you read this month? What are you looking forward to in November?



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