We're an Open Book
It’s that time of year where we crunch the numbers from the books we’ve reviewed on this blog in 2019. We keep track using a review tracking spreadsheet in Google Sheets and turn it into an infographic on Canva. This isn’t indicative of all our reading because the romance blog has its own stats and there are books we’ve read that haven’t been reviewed.
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I can’t believe the Perpetual Page-Turner has been doing this for a decade! You can find the questions on her blog here. For this I’m also including books from this blog and my romance blog, Romance and Sensibility.
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414 pages | Simon & Schuster | Historical Fiction| Release Date: 04/24/18
It’s sort of fitting that I read this book at the end of the year because the end of this book was such a letdown. Bellwether is a blend of historical and contemporary fiction revolving around the Wilde Family and their lasting legacy in small-town Millbank, NY …
HarperTeen | Fantasy | Release Date: 09/03/2019
Okay, is it just me or is this one of those books in the YA book world that people either really love or really don’t like? I feel like the other books series that fall into this category are Daughter of Smoke and Bone and The Raven Cycle. I like a polarizing book so I had to check this one out.
I started this having no idea what it was about, I just knew it was a YA fantasy and was stirring up some controversy. As I was reading (listening on audio) my interested was piqued as we enter Cesarine, an opulent city forged in a land once ruled by witches—who have been ruthlessly conquered by the religious and devout Le Blanc royal family.
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