March was better than February in terms of overall life enjoyment, but I still need to get my butt in gear for overall health and wellness. I've been so lazy lately. My place needs cleaned, I need to get to the gym, and I'm spending too much money on books. It's all just a big train wreck. I really just need a nice week-long staycation to get some things around my house done, but that's not looking possible anytime soon.
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 March
I read nine books in March, which was crazy! But, I was working out less, so I was obviously reading more. Ha ha. I only read two ebooks this month: Sparking Fire Out of Fate by Brigid Kemmerer (Libby) and Our Rogue Fates by Sarah Glenn Marsh (NetGalley). The rest were all physical books off my TBR. That means I knocked seven books off of my TBR shelves! Huzzah! The physical books included A Restless Truth and A Power Unbound by Freya Marske, The Starlight Heir by Amalie Howard, and the first two books in the Legacy series and the first two books in the Lady of Darkness series both by Melissa K. Roehrich. I'm currently bingeing her series at the moment.
Books Bought/Received in March
I knew March would be bad. There were sooooo many special edition sales. And so many things were being released. It was awful for my wallet. Once again, I have to slow down. I'm not sure how, but I have to. Once ApollyCon is done, I might need a reset for book-buying. I'll try to think of something for May. In total for March, I purchased 31 books and received 11 titles for review or from preorders that I'd already paid for in previous months.
The 11 books I received included three ebook review copies: The Summer King by JLA, A Viper Among Kings by Sydney Olivia, and Dhampira by Amy Pennza. They also included my February FairyLoot sub books, Half City and Weavingshaw, as well as their edition of Slaying the Vampire Conqueror, Fallen Stars, and Dire Bound. My luxe edition of Zodiac Academy 3: The Reckoning arrived as well, and I used trade credit to get a paperback copy of Lights Out from my local bookstore. I almost forgot, my Lilac Library edition of Quicksilver also came in.
Now, for what I bought in March. I only received eight of the 31 books I purchased. All of those six purchases were Barnes & Noble preorders except one. The lone book was the Kindle edition of Tempest of Wrath and Vengeance by Melissa K. Roehrich. I ordered it because it wasn't available on Libby, sadly, and my special edition preorders won't arrive until summer. The other five books consists of Dream of You by JLA, Lightguard by Hayley Turner, Hunt the Villain by Rina Kent, The Traitor Queen by Danielle L. Jensen, and Mother of Death and Dawn by Carissa Broadbent.
As for the remaining 23 books, they include so very many preorders. Like it's insane how much I preordered. The only good thing is that many of these are on payment plans, otherwise I would have spent an even crazier amount of money. The preorders/books that haven't arrived yet consist of the FairyLoot edition of The Ballad of Falling Dragons, The Last Starborn Seer FairyLoot Adult March book, the author edition of Tortured Souls, the author edition of The Witch Collector, the Aurora Crate editions of books three and four in the Legacy series, the first three books in the Lady of Darkness series from FairyLoot, A Tapestry of Fate from FairyLoot, the German editions of Blood and Ash 1-3, the Locked Library editions of the Nevernight series, The Black Jewels trilogy from Moonlight Book Box, and the Black Dagger Brotherhood Books for Days Crate set.
Currently Obsessed With
I actually watched a lot of stuff over the past month, including Project Hail Mary in theaters, the entirety of Bridgerton season four, the start of Invincible season four, Daredevil: Born Again season two (the first episode), and I'm back on my Grey's Anatomy watch. I still just turn it on when I eat meals mostly. I also started The Mighty Nein, but I don't think I'll finish it before my Amazon Prime free trial expires. It didn't grip me enough to keep watching right away.
April TBR
My TBR has slightly changed for once. That's exciting. I'm still reading The Wren in the Holly Library by K.A. Linde. I'm also still reading Lore by Alexandra Bracken and The Courting of Bristol Keats by Mary E. Pearson. I very much need to start To Cage a Wild Bird by Brooke Fast and finish Blood Bound by Ellis Hunter, which I'm a couple of chapters into. Those two are NetGalley eARCs. I have a few other NetGalley ARCs, but those are the immediate ones. I'd also like to read Lights Out by Navessa Allen and Servant of Earth by Sarah Hawley, as there are FairyLoot editions going on sale in April. I'm continuing my Melissa K. Roehrich read-through as well. I'd love to be able to finish the entire Lady of Darkness series in April and then read the rest of the Legacy series in May, if possible.
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Okay, well, that's the month of March, plus some April sneak peeks, all wrapped up into one post. Do you have a wrap-up post for last month? If so, share in the comments!
