A detailed look at last week’s reading habits: 17 books read, where all but two were by Ruby Dixon – it’s the month of alien sci-fi romance! – and three debut novels I want to read.
Updates
| Last Week’s Blog Updates | Last Week’s Goodreads Reviews |
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| 📖 Weekly Wrap: June 28th to July 4th | None last week! |
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Weekly Review
What I’ve Read This Week
Key: 🔁 re-read | ❌ DNF | 📜 from my Up Next shelf | 📲 eARC
- Steph’s Outcast (Icehome, #14) by Ruby Dixon ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Loved by Liam (ABC Corp, #3) by Melanie Moreland 📲 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Barbarian’s Hope (Ice Planet Barbarians, #11) by Ruby Dixon ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Barbarian’s Tease (Ice Planet Barbarians, #16) by Ruby Dixon ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- The Barbarian Before Christmas (Ice Planet Barbarians, #16.5) by Ruby Dixon ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Barbarian’s Beloved (Ice Planet Barbarians, #17) by Ruby Dixon 🔁 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Barbarian’s Treasure (Ice Planet Barbarians, #19) by Ruby Dixon ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Ice Planet Holiday (Ice Planet Barbarians, #5) by Ruby Dixon ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Barbarian’s Choice (Ice Planet Barbarians, #12) by Ruby Dixon 🔁 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Barbarian’s Bride (Ice Planet Barbarians, #20) by Ruby Dixon ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Barbarian’s Heart (Ice Planet Barbarians, #10) by Ruby Dixon ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Lunatics (Vengeance, #2) by M. Sinclair ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Barbarian’s Prize (Ice Planet Barbarians, #6) by Ruby Dixon 🔁 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Barbarian’s Mate (Ice planet Barbarians, #7) by Ruby Dixon 🔁 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Klutz: Phoenix Down (But Did You Die?, #1) by Sedona Ashe ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Barbarian’s Valentine (Ice Planet Barbarians, #17.5) by Ruby Dixon 🔁 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Barbarian’s Taming (Ice Planet Barbarians, #9) by Ruby Dixon 🔁 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
My Reading Progress
Get the Book: 🇨🇦
I received my advance copy of Loved by Liam by Melanie Moreland last week and already finished it! Despite knowing how it would end, thanks to the previous book in the ABC Corp series about Liam’s brother, it is a captivating and adorable romance. As I predicted, I loved Liam as a Hero – he was so confident and sure of Paige! I’ll admit my rating (3.75-stars) did reflect my current reading mood; I wanted to read Loved by Liam, but I wasn’t 100% into the sweet romance genre. I’m sure I’ll re-read this in the future, and it’ll be a solid 4.5-stars.
All that being said, I’m planning on posting my review during the book’s release week. Loved by Liam is out on Thursday, July 29th, so I’ll probably post earlier in the week. 😊
If you’ve been paying attention to the books I’ve been reading these past few weeks, you’ll notice Ruby Dixon has completely taken over my book’s read for July. Last week I caught up on all the books I hadn’t yet read from her Ice Planet Barbarians series and, of course, re-read a few favourites 😅.
Lucky for me, the latest book in her Icehome series, Steph’s Outcast, released on Sunday! It was as awesome as I knew it would be – I love the single dad romance trope. However, best of all was how Ruby finally acknowledged how odd it is that everyone on this ice planet is straight! Also, the Heroine for this book, Steph, is bisexual. I grinned my way through this book!
Get the Book: 🇨🇦
Up Next Shelf Progress
A reminder: my Up Next Shelf is comprised of all the unread books I want to read and have purchased.
None this week!
Want to Read Updates
You will like Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia if you appreciate:
✨ Historical Fiction
✨ Non-linear storytelling
✨ this blurb, “a kaleidoscopic portrait of betrayals–personal and political, self-inflicted and those done by others–that have shaped the lives of these extraordinary women.”
✨ exploring complex mother-daughter relationships
You will like The Other’s Gold by Elizabeth Ames if you appreciate:
✨ Debut novels
✨ Literary Fiction
✨ Polarizing reviews
✨ Exploration of terrible mistakes and what people are willing to forgive
✨ Friendship
The Upcoming Week
To Be Read
I’m STILL plodding away at I Hate Men by Pauline Harmange. Despite being a very short book, I’m annotating the heck out of it, which means my reading time is doubled since I’m very slow at annotating.
I’ve temporarily DNF’d Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay. I’ll pick it up again soon, but I wasn’t feeling the essay format. #MoodReader
I mentioned last week that I’m going to read Reclaiming Our Space by Feminista Jones. I’m hoping to start it this weekend after my paper is submitted on Friday 😊.
To Look Forward To This Week
After reading and ADORING Tessa Bailey’s The Sweetest Fix, I was on the hunt for another swoony, opposites-attract romance… and, of course, Tessa Bailey had one releasing in July. In fact, It Happened One Summer came out yesterday, July 13th! (Also, the fact that it’s inspired by Schitt’s Creek – gimme!)
Yet another book to buy immediately after my self-imposed book buying ban is over le sigh.
Tessa Bailey is back with a Schitt’s Creek-inspired rom-com about a Hollywood “It Girl” who’s cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town… where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn’t belong.
Blurb of It Happened One Summer
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