July Wrap Up

Pardon me for taking so long to wrap July up and send it to the past, but reviews, Lily Calloway's birthday and all sorts of other stuff took residence in the must-do-asap pile so wrap up had to be left untouched for a while. Better late than never, right? July totally flew by! I spent my time mostly at work, but during the few moments I wasn't in our downtown office, I was either reading at home, eating strawberries and cherries, enjoying sunshine, seeing Bastille live, having fun at my friend's BBQ or relentlessly looking forward to the publication of Thrive. I also interviewed four bloggers this month: Sam, Amber, Melanie and Jeann. Now it's August. It's mah birthday soon! You're all welcome to stop by at the end of August and I'll offer you chocolate cake, cupcakes and all sorts of other delicious things :) Anyhow, seeing as you're here to hear (read) about the books I read and reviewed in July, let's get down to business!

(click on the covers for the links)

  

   

    

Books read in total? 14. I was secretly aiming for 15, but since Rashika and I started Shooting Scars so late into the week and I didn't have time to fly through it, it was left to 14. Which is not bad at all, if you ask me. No DNF books either, so I'd say it was a pretty fantastic month reading wise.

Lowest and highest ratings... only one book was worthy of 5 stars (with an overall rating of 4.5) for me. There were a couple of 2 star ratings, 3 to be exact, and the lowest of them had an overall score of exactly 2.0 out of 5.0.

Book boyfriend of the month... without a doubt Connor Cobalt (Addicted and Calloway Sisters series). If any of you thought it was going to be someone else? *unfriends you everywhere*

Ok, ok. Just kidding, but still. It should have been obvious without me even having to say it. No matter that he wasn't even the one with his own POV in Thrive. Nope. He just has this power over me. I can't help it *shrugs* He's my one and only, basically. There are multiple honorable mentionings this month though. In the order of reading: Kaidan (Sweet Evil trilogy), Owen (Elemental Assassin series), Kit (Come Back to Me), Ethan (Boomerang series), Peter (To All the Boys I've Loved Before duology). So you see? Success in the category of book boyfriends. Even Stiles is happy!

Love triangles? Um. The past couple of months have been triangle free, but not so lucky in July. Although I didn't mind all of them, that's to be said. Would I have preferred the books to be without them? Yea, sure! But it suited all of these stories. Even the one I didn't love so much *eyes the first one* There were 3 in total and I've ranked them as follows:

1. Into the Deep by Samantha Young (high)
2. To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han (complicated)
3. Grave Witch by Alex Craft (mild)

Suck and sweet? There are two sweets this month, actually. First is that Thrive finally came out. It was pretty much perfection. It had Connor Cobalt. It had my OTP of OTPs (team Coballoway!). I cried. I laughed. I swooned. I felt allllllll the feels. I loved it! The second sweet is that I almost managed to read 5k pages. In total, I read 4643 pages in July. That's pretty good, right? As for the suck.. it's so hard to come up with one O_______O Um. Um. Um. The love triangles? The not reaching 5000 pages? IDK. This is tough, you guys! July was good to me.

What I'm planning on reading this month... Not great in following my plans even though making all sorts of lists and plans is totally my thing. I didn't get to read Racing Savannah last month, but planning to read it in August. In addition to that, I'm buddy reading (a re-read for me) Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood with Nick and Rashika, and I'll also try and read Fire with Fire by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian which Amber has raved about endlessly. She said that our ship from book one two years ago is finally legit in the sequel, sooooo.. I couldn't be happier :) I've been putting it off for so long since I knew that there's a huge cliff at the end of it, but since Ashes to Ashes is here soon, I can finally get around reading it :)

  

(stealing this idea from Jas and Rach from The Readers Den :))

Summer is all about reading outside and there were quite a few nights where I got to relax on our terrace and just read. One night though, I was craving for ice cream while reading To All the Boys I've Loved Before and this picture happened. Vanilla ice cream and self-made raspberry jam? Divine!

What were your favorite books last month? Any new book boyfriends I should know about? (Or any old crushes returning to the pages you were reading?) ;) How many books did you read? What are you planning on reading this month?