One month of 2026 is gone. And boy oh boy, has it been a nightmare. I don't even know what to say anymore. Can the aliens please just come and take us away at this point? It's gotta be better than whatever the heck is going on right now, right? But, in regular day-to-day life news, it's been quiet. Mostly work. I haven't been working out as much as I should, though, since I've been reading more. I need to get back on that. I deleted TikTok, so I think I can still keep my books-read count high even with spending a few more hours at the gym each week. Ha ha.
In this wrap-up,
I’ll list the books I read, the books I reviewed, the books I bought/received,
and my TBR for next month. Now, let’s get this bookish party started!
Books Read in January
I read 13 books in January. Wow! I'm almost halfway to my 30-book Goodreads goal. I can really only blame the number of books I read on my drive to finish the Game Changers series super quickly. I read six of them in less than a month. Of the 13 books I read, 11 were physical copies: Beautiful Venom and Sweet Venom by Rina Kent, The Scorpion and the Night Blossom by Amelie Wen Zhao, the Game Changers series by Rachel Reid, The Wolf King by Lauren Palphreyman, and The Nightshade God. The other two were ebooks. One was the free novella from Jennifer L. Armentrout A Crown of Ruin, and the other was the NetGalley eARC of The Lies that Summon the Night by Tessonja Odette. Only five of the books I read were physical copies I owned before 2026. Those were all the non-Game Changers books.
Books Bought/Received in January
I went nuts. I don't know what happened. I think I'll blame it on the holiday sales and getting a gift card for Christmas. Because it is not good. In total for January, I purchased 17 books and received 12 titles either from receiving review copies or having preorders that I'd already paid for in previous months get delivered.
The 12 books I received include FairyLoot editions of Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross and We Who Will Die by Stacia Stark, the Owlcrate edition of The Fallen and the Kiss of Dusk by Carissa Broadbent, the Inked Pages editions of the first two books in JLA's Flesh & Fire series, the Bad Women Books edition of The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig. For Barnes & Noble orders, I got The Aspect of Essence by Samantha Amstutz and the first two books in the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. I also used by local bookstore trade credit to get Brimstone by Callie Hart, and I received two NetGalley ebooks for review: Nemesis Mine by Amy Archer and The Lies that Summon the Night by Tessonja Odette.
Now, for what I bought in January. I only received 13 of the 17 books I purchased. That included Rings of Fate by Melissa de la Cruz, Wicked and the Spanish edition of FBAA by JLA, If All the Stars Go Dark by S.G. Prince, the last four books in Rachel Reid's Game Changers series, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood, Silver & Blood (B&N), Hollow by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti (WM), Shield of Sparrows by Devney Perry (WM), and the FairyLoot Romantasy book for January, King of Ravens.
As for the remaining four books, they include two FairyLoot preorders, The Night Prince by Lauren Palphreyman and Light Wielder by Rachel Schneider. It also includes my ApollyCon virtual preorder for the FBAA and TWOTQ exclusive editions that I won't get until after the con. Boo. I hate not having tickets this year.
Currently Obsessed With
I am still in my Heated Rivalry phase. I've read all the books, follow the update accounts, read the fanfic, etc. The only thing I haven't done is rewatched the show. Yet. Other than that, I've watched the remaining season two episodes of Wednesday on Netflix, and I just started A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms on HBOMax. Oh, and I'm still slowly watching Grey's Anatomy on Netflix. I think I've only watched maybe an episode once a week, though. It got boring pretty fast. I do not care about Meredith and McDreamy or Liz and her patient. Yuck.
January TBR
I'm still, unfortunately, in the middle of four books I started in 2025. Those are Wrath of the Dragons by Olivia Rose Darling, The Wren in the Holly Library by K.A. Linde, Court of Nightmares by K.A. Knight, and Three Shattered Souls by Mai Corland. I'd also like to read Rain of Shadows and Endings by Melissa Roehrich, Cruel is the Light by Sophie Clark, and re-read Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff. I very much need to finish Our Rogue Fates by Sarah Marsh and start To Cage a Wild Bird by Brooke Fast and Blood Bound by Ellis Hunter. Those three are all NetGalley eARCs.
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Okay, well, that's the month of January, plus some February sneak peeks, all wrapped up into one post. Do you have a wrap-up post for last month? If so, share in the comments!
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