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:

Invictus - Ryan Graudin (4.5 stars)
The Tiger's Daughter - K. Rivera Arsenault (2 stars)
The Last Namsara - Kristen Ciccarelli (4 stars)
Even the Darkest Stars - Heather Fawcett (3.5 stars)
House of Shadows - Nicola Cornick (4 stars)
Artemis - Andy Weir (4.5 stars)
Angelfall - Susan Ee (4 stars)
World After - Susan Ee (3 stars)
End of Days - Susan Ee (3 stars)
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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Monthly Roundup - January 2017

In January I read 6 books, which is keeping with the pace I need in order to read 80 books this year. 1) The Reader - Traci Chee (3 stars) 2) Wayfarer - Alexandra Bracken (3.5 stars) 3) Windwitch - Susan Dennard (3.5 stars) 4) The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead (3 stars) 5) Behind the Throne - K. B. Wagers (5 stars) 6) Queen of Shadows - Sarah J. Maas (4 stars) I say that's a pretty good start to 2017! I recently started a new job, so posts have slowed while I rediscover the work/life balance, but overall I really enjoyed the books I read this month and would recommend them all (especially Behind the Throne !!! Gahh!!! Review coming soon!). My TBR pile for February is a mile long, but I'm especially excited for A Conjuring of Light, the conclusion to the Shades of Magic series by V. E. Schwab. I've also got the February Book Club pick, Daring Greatly by Brené Brown, and I'll finally finish up Empire of Storms , the latest book in Sarah

Ensnared

Ensnared by Rita Stradling I received a free ARC of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis ( from Goodreads ) "Alainn’s father is not a bad man. He’s a genius and an inventor. When he’s hired to create the robot Rose, Alainn knows taking the money is a mistake. Rose acts like a human. She looks exactly like Alainn. But, something in her comes out wrong. To save her father from a five year prison sentence, Alainn takes Rose’s place. She says goodbye to the sun and goes to live in a tower no human is allowed to enter. She becomes the prisoner of a man no human is allowed to see. Believing that a life of servitude lies ahead, Alainn finds a very different fate awaits her in the company of the strange, scarred recluse." Review The premise sounded very interesting: Beauty and the Beast retelling in the near-future with robots and AI. But it really really fell flat. I read the first few chapters, then put it down for a couple of months .

Arcanum Unbounded

Arcanum Unbounded - Brandon Sanderson Synopsis A collection of Sanderson's "short" stories and novellas set in his Cosmere universe. Review It's no secret that Brandon Sanderson is one of my favorite authors. His writing is stupendous, his stories are incredible and his plot twists are mind-blowing. Rarely can I figure out exactly where the story is headed, but I am always exceptionally pleased when I get there! Sanderson isn't as known for his "short" stories. Probably because they aren't short. Two of them in this collection clock in around 40k words, which is approaching the line between a novella and a novel. A few of the stories ( The Emperor's Soul, Sixth of the Dusk, Shadows for Silence ) can be read with no knowledge of his other books, and would perhaps be a good introduction to his writing. Those ones you can get individually or are published in other anthologies. I myself had already read a few of the stories, but withi

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