August Wrap Up

Apologies for the late upload. Work has me consumed all my time and energy.

Total Number of Books: 13
Total Number of Pages: 4,550
Physical: 6
eBooks: 3
Audiobooks: 4
Favorite (New) Reads of the Month: Six More Months of June by Daisy Garrison AND The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren

Physical:

This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Six More Months of June by Daisy Garrison – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Summer She Went Missing by Chelsea Ichaso – ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell – ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Ballad of Darcy & Russell by Morgan Matson – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I enjoyed This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune so much more than her last release. I thought Lucy and Felix had great chemistry and I enjoyed following their journey. I was so pumped for a new Rainbow Rowell book—especially an adult romance—but Slow Dance was just bland. It was incredibly slow and everything just felt average. I kept reading hoping something would happen, but nahh. I’m always pumped each year when a new Christina Lauren book comes out and The Paradise Problem was no different. Taking place on this island made the book feel incredibly atmospheric—I wanted to be chillin’ in a little hut on that island. I loved that Anna and West always felt like they were on the same team. They hardly knew each other, but they always had each other’s backs.

eBooks:

Until Next Summer by Ali Brady – ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
The Wedding People by Alison Espach – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Break-Up Pact by Emma Lord – ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

I have loved every single one of Emma Lord’s YA books, but her adult romance debut, The Break-Up Pact, was a disappointment. Her characters were kind of dull and the whole story was just bland. She should stick to YA.

Audiobooks:

First Love by Lilly Dancyger – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Sunrise Nights by Jeff Zentner & Brittany Cavallaro – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Men Have Called Her Crazy by Anna Marie Tendler – ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Did I Ever Tell You by Genevieve Kingston – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Sunrise Nights by Jeff Zentner & Brittany Cavallaro was really sweet! It was a take on the Before Sunrise movie series from Richard Linklater and I think they did a wonderful job capturing the same kind of magic. I am a massive John Mulaney fan so of course I would read the memoir from his ex-wife. Men Have Called Her Crazy by Anna Marie Tendler follows her as she checks in to a treatment center for her depression and everything in her life that got her to that point. I think she needed more distance from her time in treatment to be able to offer more reflection.