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Monthly Roundup - January 2018


Well, I certainly started off the year with a bang! Even though I got home from our holiday and went straight back into working and life, I still had enough time to read quite a bit! It was great having my library card reactivated. SO MANY BOOKS! And for FREE! I check out ebooks through Overdrive and they just arrive on my Kindle. Technology is truly amazing.

I read a total of 12 books this month! If I keep up that pace I'll definitely overshoot my goal of 100 books this year.
  1. The Red Pyramid - Rick Riordan (3 stars)
  2. Lola and the Boy Next Door - Stephanie Perkins (3.5 stars)
  3. Retribution Rails - Erin Bowman (4.5 stars)
  4. Mother's Milk - Rachel Hunt Steenblik (4 stars)
  5. The Macedonian - Nicholas Guild (3.5 stars)
  6. The Battle of the Labyrinth - Rick Riordan (4 stars)
  7. Warcross - Marie Liu (4 stars)
  8. The Last Olympian - Rick Riordan (4 stars)
  9. The Lost Hero - Rick Riordan (4 stars)
  10. The Son of Neptune - Rick Riordan (4 stars)
  11. The Mark of Athena - Rick Riordan (4 stars)
  12. The House of Hades - Rick Riordan (4 stars)

Well, there's obviously a theme here! I started the Percy Jackson series at the end of last year, and now I'm reading EVERYTHING by Rick Riordan! I finished the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, now I'm almost done with the Heroes of Olympus series. Then there's a couple others after that! I also started the Egyptian gods one, and finally got the second and third books from the library!

I also finally read Warcross and a review is coming soon! Basically this month was just really good for quality books!

My TBR for February includes a lot of ARCs from NetGalley, plus a couple others I've been waiting to get my hands on for awhile!

What did you read this month?
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