Monday, March 3, 2025

*Top Ten Tuesday* Things Characters Have Said



Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Joood - Hooligan of Platypire reviews bossed me into doing this, so I guess this is a thing I do now. 

This week’s theme is things characters have said. This is a horrible topic for me, because I don't typically highlight quotes in books, even when I'm reading on my Kindle, and the few times I have, I don't remember what books I highlighted, so I can't just easily go back and find some things I actually have highlighted. But, this past Saturday I went to a book faire and a local brewery and bought several new books, so I'm going to feature some quotes from my new books. They will likely not be at all profound, because I'm literally turning to a random page and picking a line or two to quote. Let's go. 


"When she gets engaged, she gets celebratory, and buys all her friends classy meals and takes us shopping." - page 124
Quaint Creatures: Magical & Mundane by Andrew D Meredith


"I always have damned sand in my hair." - page 315
The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco
(This was a blind date with a book purchase, so I did not meet Rin Chupeco.)


"Seriously, he wants you to ignore fireworks for a book?" - page 184
Jingle in July by H.N. DeFore


"Well, let's see what she has in store for us this time." - page 82
Witch, Please by Mandy Maree and LJ Burkhart


"Prince, I cannot have other people touching my things." page 66
Song of the Deep by C.H. Lyn


"I'm just wondering where he might be staying." - page 264
Unborn Rising by Tracey Barski
(I did not meet Tracey, but this book is part of a duology where the other book is written by C.H. Lyn, whom I did meet.)


"I would ask that you tell those you know of our service and cordiality." - page 313
Deathless Beast by Andrew D. Meredith
(I bought all four books in this series.)


"What are you going to do when I cut my hair?" - pages 61
Spooky Cat Stories by C.H. Lyn


"And your state champions in the advanced pairs argumentation division: from Braselton Preparatory Academy, Justyce McAllister and Sarah-Jane Friedman!" - page 81
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
(This was another blind date with a book and I did not meet Nic Stone.)


"I had just arrived and...it was...I was not at my best." - page 144
Hope and Lies by C.H. Lyn

You may notice that some of the authors were featured more than once, and that's because I bought from more than one series they write, and they were billed as different genres. I also simply did not buy books from 10 different authors at the event, or I wouldn't have doubled up on any of them. Did any of my very randomly selected quotes make you want to read any of these books? 

What are some of your favorite quotes from literature? If you're stopping by from the linkup, please be sure to drop a link to your post below so I can return the visit when I have time. - Katie 


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*Review* Santa Overboard by Carolyn McBride

 

Genre: Holiday Romance
Published: September 24, 2024
Pages: 214


‘Twas the night before Cruisemas…

Katie Young is embracing her new life in a charming riverfront town in Virginia. With her devoted friends, the Beach Bonfire Babes, a budding romance with a swoon-worthy scientist, and her college-age daughter baking up holiday traditions in their cozy river house, the season promises to make up for past struggles.

As captain of the town’s Christmas boat parade, Katie can’t wait to ferry Santa to the dock on her new boat. But when plans go off course and Santa takes an unexpected dip, Katie and her trusty crew navigate the stormy seas of midlife in the best way they know how—with their favorite foods, a cocktail or two, and a dash of holiday magic.

Brimming with laughter, the natural beauty of the Potomac Shores, and yummy holiday recipes, Santa Overboard is a quick read that delivers the perfect Christmas gift: a second chance at a forever love.

For the backstory on Katie and the Beach Bonfire Babes, check out Carolyn McBride’s The Cicada Spring, the first book in her Potomac Shores series.



I received the audiobook version of this through Netgalley. This is my honest review. 

I was looking for a short, quick holiday read, and on that score, this book delivered. It did not give me any serious holiday magic though, so it really just felt like a book set around the holidays rather than a holiday book. 

One of my big issues with this book is Katie. on the surface, she's fine, but for being a whole adult in her peak mid-life crisis years, she acts like the world revolves around her at times, and she should've grown out of that by now. For instance, she basically decides her current relationship should be over because her middle-aged divorced boyfriend tells her he will be away over the holiday, like he does every year because his kids spend the holiday with his ex, and she immediately interprets that as he doesn't want to spend that time with her. Like grow up lady. 

The narration was pleasant enough and I didn't find myself bothered by the opposite gendered voices. 

Overall I give Santa Overboard 2.1974 out of 5 stars. - Katie 


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Carolyn McBride, a seasoned boater, has always been drawn to the water, and Virginia’s Potomac River is the stunning backdrop in her Potomac Shores series. Like Carolyn, her characters are grandmothers, mothers, wives, daughters, friends, pet lovers...and boat captains. Her holiday novella, Santa Overboard, is told through the eyes of a female boat captain as she restores her inner compass on a rollicking yet poignant cruise of second chances. The first book in the series, The Cicada Spring, is a poignant and heartwarming novel for women who are ready to rewrite their own stories and discover the strength that lies within.

Carolyn writes about the places she lives and loves, from South Florida's Intracoastal Waterway to Virginia’s Occoquan River. A former editor and columnist for National Geographic Traveler and graduate of the College of William and Mary, she is completing an MFA in fiction writing.

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Sunday, March 2, 2025

*Review* The Taekwonderoos: Rescue at Rattling Ridge by Michael Panzner


 Genre: Children's 3-8 years
Published: November 10, 2023
Pages: 40


Come Join the Adventure!

Hop into an action-packed adventure with George, Brianna and Jackson, kangaroo friends who are masters of taekwondo. When they spot a frightened joey trapped at the top of treacherous Rattling Ridge, the three Taekwonderoos spring into action, using their kicking, jumping and spinning skills to navigate cliffs, boulders and ravines on a daring rescue mission. This thrilling tale of bravery celebrates how courage, quick-thinking, and teamwork can overcome any challenge.

Purple Dragonfly Book Award (Honorable Mention), Picture Books 6 & Older


I received a copy of this book through Netgalley. This is my honest review. 

This is a story about kangaroos that are martial arts experts, and they find themselves needing to rescue a joey from a very high bluff. The danger seemed somewhat unrealistic to me, and their solutions to the problem seemed absurd. I think I would struggle to read this book more than a couple times because it just didn't seem realistic enough to me. 

The illustrations were very solid and colorful. Overall I give The Taekwonderoos: Rescue at Rattling Ridge 3.0286 out of 5 stars. - Katie 


Amazon


Michael Panzner is a long-time freelance writer who's always been a child at heart. Inspired by the countless stories he's shared with his children and grandchildren, Michael crafts tales designed to entertain, spark the imagination, and instill values like kindness, courage, empathy and perseverance. Having lived and worked in various locales, including the U.S. Northeast, North Carolina, and London, England, Michael now resides in Tampa, Florida, with his wife, Catherine.

Lora Look is an illustrator with a master's degree in fine art. She has dedicated 12 years of training (art school, college, university) to having the skills necessary to create beautiful illustrations and achieve the best results for her authors. When she draws, she imagines children with family or friends flipping through the pages of a book, looking at the pictures, and immersing themselves in the magical world of colors and words. She hopes she makes the world a better place.
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*Review* The Midnight Club by Christopher Pike

 

Genre: YA Horror
Published: September 20, 2022
Pages: 223


From the author of The Wicked Heart and The Immortal comes a beautiful and haunting novel about a group of five terminally ill teenagers whose midnight stories become their reality.

Rotterham Home was a hospice for young people—a place where teenagers with terminal illnesses went to die. Nobody who checked in ever checked out. It was a place of pain and sorrow, but also, remarkably, a place of humor and adventure.

Every night at twelve, a group of young guys and girls at the hospice came together to tell stories. They called themselves the Midnight Club, and their stories could be true or false, inspiring or depressing, or somewhere in-between.

One night, in the middle of a particularly scary story, the teenagers make a secret pact with each other, which says, “The first one who dies will do whatever he or she can do to contact us from beyond the grave, to give us proof that there is life after death.”

Then one of them does die...


I borrowed the audiobook of this from my library. This is my honest review. 

I wish I'd read the book before watching the series on Netflix. While significant changes were made for the series, I feel like they enhance the story and helped it to feel more cohesive. But being familiar with the series made that my expectation. So I really just wish I'd gone into this without those expectations. 

Most of the stories the kids tell in the book really pale in comparison to what we get in the series, probably because in the book they are expected to tell a story every night where in the series they rotate with at most two people telling a story in any given night. There are also more major characters in the series than the book, which makes the rotation more necessary. 

I don't know that I'd say you can just skip the book and watch the show instead. You'll get the overall big picture points that way, but enough has been changed that they're almost two different stories. 

Overall I give The Midnight Club 3.7845 out of 5 stars. - Katie 


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Christopher Pike is a bestselling young adult novelist and has published several adult books as well—Sati and The Season of Passage being the most popular. In YA, his Last Vampire series—often called Thirst—is a big favorite among his fans. Pike was born in Brooklyn, New York, but grew up in Los Angeles. He lives in Santa Barbara, California, with his longtime partner, Abir. Currently, several of Pike’s books are being turned into films, including The Midnight Club, which Netflix released as part of a ten-part series. The Midnight Club also draws from a half dozen of Pike’s earlier works. Presently, The Season of Passage is being adapted as a feature film by Universal Studios while Chain Letter—one of Pike all-time bestselling books—is also being adapted by Hollywood. At the moment, Pike is hard at work on a new YA series.
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*Platypire Read-A-Thon* March 2025


This year is flying by and we're already in March. I made good progress on my reviewing goals and my Netgalley feedback percentage in February, and I'm really hoping to continue that progress in March. I could feasibly finish posting reviews for the children's books that I read last year but failed to review in a timely manner. Then I just have to decide if I want to get more children's books to help my Netgalley feedback percentage or take a break from them to focus on reading some of the longer books I also already have through Netgalley. What do you think I should do? Anyway, let's see what books I'm hoping to read in March. 

Reviewed
Read
Currently Reading
To Be Read

Reviewed

Read

Currently Reading

The Big Sugar by Mary Logue (August '24) 1%
The Princess Bride by William Goldman (August '24) pg 7
Lizzie by Edward Rand (August '24) 18%
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi (August '24) pg 208
Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (August '24) 22%
Hitler's Aristocrats by Susan Ronald (August '24) 37%
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (August '24) pg 66
Scarlet City by Rebekah Haas (August '24) pg 21
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (August '24) 17%
Credence by Penelope Douglas (August '24) 1%
You Like it Darker by Stephen King (August '24) 5%
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (August '24) Pg. 171
By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult (August '24) 6%
Dune by Frank Herbert (September '24) Pg. 15
When We Flew Away by Alice Hoffman (September '24) 9%
The Magus by John Fowles (October '24) Pg. 162
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson (October '24) 14%
Five Brothers by Penelope Douglas (October '24) Pg. 12
'Tis the Damn Season by Fiona Gibson (December '24) 41%
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (January '25) 21%
Quicksilver by Callie Hart (January '25) 9%
The Book that Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence (February '25) 23%
Filthy Rich Vampire by Geneva Lee (March '25) Pg. 3

To Be Read

Songlight by Moira Buffini (September '24)
The Stone Witch of Florence by Anna Rasche (September '24)
Crow Moon by Suzy Aspley (September '24)
The False Pawn by A.E. Asavi (September '24)
Camp Lanier by Sylvester Barzey (September '24)
Nightbirds by Kate J. Armstrong (September '24)
The Thirteenth Child by Erin A. Craig (September '24)
Sunderworld, Vol. 1 by Ranson Riggs (September '24)
Lonely Places by Kate Anderson (October '24)
The Kiss of the Nightingale by Adi Denner (October '24)
Potions and Proposals by Kate Callaghan (October '24)
Legend of the White Snake by Sher Lee (October '24)
Gentlest of Wild Things by Sarah Underwood (October '24)
This Girl's a Killer by Emma C. Wells (October '24)
My Husband the Murderer by Charlotte Barnes (November '24)
Killing Me Soufflé by Ellie Alexander (November '24)
A Tale Told by Traitors by Renee Dugan (November' 24)
A Story Spun in Scarlet by Renee Dugan (November '24)
Whirly World by Brandon Jones (November '24)
Try Not to Die in a Dark Fairytale by Mark Tullius and Evan Baughfman (November '24)
House of Marionne by J. Elle (November '24)
The Mirror by Nora Roberts (November '24)
This Will Be Fun by E.B. Asher (November '24)
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan (December '24)
Xmas Break by J.E. Rowney (December '24)
Tis' the Season for Secrets by Kate Callaghan (December '24)
A Christmas Wish on Arran by Ellie Henderson (December '24)
Madrigals and Mayhem by Elizabeth Penney (December '24)
Christmas at Glitter Peak Lodge by Kjersti Herland Johnsen (December '24)
Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret by Benjamin Stevenson (December '24)
Flopping in a Winter Wonderland by Jason June (December '24)
Christmas is All Around by Martha Waters (December '24)
This is Not a Holiday Romance by Camilla Isley (December '24)
The Tanglewood Bookshop by Lilac Mills (December '24)
Snow is Falling by Sarah Bennett (December '24)
Gate to Kagoshima by Poppy Kuroki (January '25)
The Legend of Meneka by Kritika H. Rao (January '25)
A Language of Dragons by S.F. Williamson (January '25)
Star-Crossed Egg Tarts by Jennifer J. Chow (January '25)
The Rival by Emma Lord (January '25)
The Empress by Kristin Cast (January '25)
No Place Left to Hide by Megan Lally (January '25)
The Starlight Heir by Amalie Howard (January '25)
Sleep in Heavenly Pizza by Mindy Quigley (January '25)
Circe by Madeline Miller (February '25)
Phantasma by Kaylie Smith (February '25)
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (February '25)
The Night Ends With Fire by K.X. Song (February '25)
The Antlered King by Marianne Gordon (February '25)
The Locke Institute: Books 1&2 by A.R. Witham (February '25)
The Otherwhere Post by Emily J. Taylor (February '25)
The Viscount St. Albans by Natania Barron (February '25)
The Two Hungers of Prince Fierre by Darcy Ash (February '25)
The Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows (February '25)
A Happy Beginning by B.A. Richards (February '25)
All Better Now by Neal Schusterman (February '25)
Unhallowed Halls by Lili Wilkinson (February '25)
Identikill by K.R. Alexander (February '25)
Coup de Grace by Paul Centeno (February '25)
One House Left by Vincent Ralph (March '25)
Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane (March '25)
None of This is True by Lisa Jewell (March '25)
One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig (March '25)
Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett (March '25)
James by Percival Everett (March '25)
The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis (March '25)
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (March '25)
Fog and Fireflies by T.H. Lehnen (March '25)
Colliders by Steve Foley (March '25)
Countdown by Johan Ottosen (March '25)
eMortal by Steve Schafer (March '25)
Tales from the Otherworlds by Various Authors (March '25)
Odin's Child by Siri Pettersen (March '25)
Daughters of the Fatherland by Jericho J Johnson (March '25)
Woman of Wolves by Jess McFarlane (March '25)
Kingdom of the Two Moons by Alexandra Thomashoff (March '25)
The Black Shards by Had Phillip (March '25)
The Secrets We Save by Del E Fox (March '25)
Killer Potential by Hannah Deitch (March '25)

I feel like I added extra books from Netgalley this month, but most of them are audiobooks, so they're also pretty much guaranteed to move from the TBR section of the list before the month is over. I fully expect to get a lot of audiobooks listened to this month, even if I don't end up doing much reading with my eyeballs. A couple of my book club books I also have as audiobooks through the library, which is going to help me out in March too. I would still like to get a fair amount of eyeball reading done this month too, but that's going to be secondary to doing things that will help boost my Netgalley feedback percentage even more I think. How many books do you think I'll get read in March? - Katie 

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*Platypire Read-A-Thon* February Results


February has come to and end, and that means I've got to update y'all on how my reading and reviewing went throughout the month. I did a great job at getting reviews posted to the blog (and also making a dent in my review backlog). And even though I didn't read as many books in February as I did in January, I've gotten reviews written for most of the books I've finished this year as well, which is going to help me out with knocking out the review backlog, because I'm at least not adding to it at the moment. But let's see how my reading and reviewing went, shall we?

Reviewed
Read
Currently Reading
To Be Read

Reviewed

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Your Amazing Brain by Jessica Sinarski
Starry Night by D.P. Conway
25 Days by Per Jacobsen
The Little Regent by Yewande Daniel-Ayode
The Blue Bowl by Flo Leung
Baby Bank by Sarah Robinson
Rumie Goes Rafting by Meghan Marentette
Flood and Fury by Matthew J. Lynch
Vandemere by Kimberley D. Tait
One Giant Leap by Thao Lam
After Alice by Gregory Maguire
Our Woolly Bear by Katie Arthur
Crossed by Emily McIntire
Giraffe and Jackal Are Friends (Again!) by Mary Mackenzie and Lisa Robinson
My First Dino-Swimming by Lisa Wheeler
The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman
Zion Learns to See by Terence Lester
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
Have You Seen Mikki Olsen? by Alex Macdonald
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
If I Were a Fungus by Gaia Stella
Nava by D.P. Conway
Are You a Sleepy Monster by Guilherme Karsten
Hexed by Emily McIntire
Crossing in Time by D.L. Orton
Bobby and His Hobby by Shlomo Goldman
Twelve Days by D.P. Conway
The Hare-Shaped Hole by John Dougherty
A Wish For Christmas by Courtney Cole
When Dinosaurs Walked the Earth by Sean Taylor and Zehra Hicks
The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison
Wreck the Halls by Tessa Bailey
Crow Helps a Friend by Andrea Fritz
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Lucas the Spy Cat by Samantha Shannon
Snow Place for Murder by Diane Kelly
From the Moon I Watched Her by Emily English Medley
Jake the Growling Dog by Samantha Shannon
When Oceans Rise by Robin Alvarez
Farty Pants by Eric Geron
Don't Touch That Oscar by Lois Hoffman
Amish Christmas Mystery by Samantha Price
There Are No Dragons in This Book by Donna Lambo-Weidner
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Dino-Earth Day by Lisa Wheeler
A Court of Sugar and Spice by Rebecca F. Kenney
Big Sister, Long Coat by Nelly Buchet
Christmas at Corgi Cove by Annie England Noblin
I Love You by Mary Murphy
The Night House by Jo Nesbo
The Rock in My Throat by Kao Kalia Yang
The Wrong Daughter by Dandy Smith
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
Awesome Dawson Has Big Emotions by Julia Cook and Dr. Rebecca Chow

Read

The Party by Natasha Preston (December '24)
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor (January '25)
Amish Vampires in Space by Kerry Nietz (January '25)
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros (January '25)
Ex Marks the Spot by Gloria Chao (January '25)
This Cursed House by Del Sandeen (February '25)
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty (February '25)
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams (February '25)
The Rhino Keeper by Jillian Forsberg
Shades of Mercy by Bruce Borgos
The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson
Need by Joelle Charbonneau
Black Earth by Timothy Snyder

Currently Reading

The Big Sugar by Mary Logue (August '24) 1%
The Princess Bride by William Goldman (August '24) pg 7
Lizzie by Edward Rand (August '24) 18%
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi (August '24) pg 208
Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (August '24) 22%
Hitler's Aristocrats by Susan Ronald (August '24) 37%
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (August '24) pg 66
Scarlet City by Rebekah Haas (August '24) pg 21
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (August '24) 17%
Credence by Penelope Douglas (August '24) 1%
You Like it Darker by Stephen King (August '24) 5%
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (August '24) Pg. 171
By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult (August '24) 6%
Dune by Frank Herbert (September '24) Pg. 15
When We Flew Away by Alice Hoffman (September '24) 9%
The Magus by John Fowles (October '24) Pg. 162
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson (October '24) 14%
Five Brothers by Penelope Douglas (October '24) Pg. 12
'Tis the Damn Season by Fiona Gibson (December '24) 41%
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (January '25) 21%
Quicksilver by Callie Hart (January '25) 9%
The Book that Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence (February '25) 23%

To Be Read

Songlight by Moira Buffini (September '24)
The Stone Witch of Florence by Anna Rasche (September '24)
Crow Moon by Suzy Aspley (September '24)
The False Pawn by A.E. Asavi (September '24)
Camp Lanier by Sylvester Barzey (September '24)
Nightbirds by Kate J. Armstrong (September '24)
The Thirteenth Child by Erin A. Craig (September '24)
Sunderworld, Vol. 1 by Ranson Riggs (September '24)
Lonely Places by Kate Anderson (October '24)
The Kiss of the Nightingale by Adi Denner (October '24)
Potions and Proposals by Kate Callaghan (October '24)
Legend of the White Snake by Sher Lee (October '24)
Gentlest of Wild Things by Sarah Underwood (October '24)
This Girl's a Killer by Emma C. Wells (October '24)
My Husband the Murderer by Charlotte Barnes (November '24)
Killing Me Soufflé by Ellie Alexander (November '24)
A Tale Told by Traitors by Renee Dugan (November' 24)
A Story Spun in Scarlet by Renee Dugan (November '24)
Whirly World by Brandon Jones (November '24)
Try Not to Die in a Dark Fairytale by Mark Tullius and Evan Baughfman (November '24)
House of Marionne by J. Elle (November '24)
The Mirror by Nora Roberts (November '24)
This Will Be Fun by E.B. Asher (November '24)
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan (December '24)
Xmas Break by J.E. Rowney (December '24)
Tis' the Season for Secrets by Kate Callaghan (December '24)
A Christmas Wish on Arran by Ellie Henderson (December '24)
Madrigals and Mayhem by Elizabeth Penney (December '24)
Christmas at Glitter Peak Lodge by Kjersti Herland Johnsen (December '24)
Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret by Benjamin Stevenson (December '24)
Flopping in a Winter Wonderland by Jason June (December '24)
Christmas is All Around by Martha Waters (December '24)
This is Not a Holiday Romance by Camilla Isley (December '24)
The Tanglewood Bookshop by Lilac Mills (December '24)
Snow is Falling by Sarah Bennett (December '24)
Gate to Kagoshima by Poppy Kuroki (January '25)
The Legend of Meneka by Kritika H. Rao (January '25)
A Language of Dragons by S.F. Williamson (January '25)
Star-Crossed Egg Tarts by Jennifer J. Chow (January '25)
The Rival by Emma Lord (January '25)
The Empress by Kristin Cast (January '25)
No Place Left to Hide by Megan Lally (January '25)
The Starlight Heir by Amalie Howard (January '25)
Sleep in Heavenly Pizza by Mindy Quigley (January '25)
Circe by Madeline Miller (February '25)
Phantasma by Kaylie Smith (February '25)
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (February '25)
The Night Ends With Fire by K.X. Song (February '25)
The Antlered King by Marianne Gordon (February '25)
The Locke Institute: Books 1&2 by A.R. Witham (February '25)
The Otherwhere Post by Emily J. Taylor (February '25)
The Viscount St. Albans by Natania Barron (February '25)
The Two Hungers of Prince Fierre by Darcy Ash (February '25)
The Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows (February '25)
A Happy Beginning by B.A. Richards (February '25)
All Better Now by Neal Schusterman (February '25)
Unhallowed Halls by Lili Wilkinson (February '25)
Identikill by K.R. Alexander (February '25)
Coup de Grace by Paul Centeno (February '25)

February ended up being a slow reading month for me, with me only finishing 12 books. But I spent one weekend of February on a girl's trip where I did a whole lot of peopling and almost no reading at all, so I'm not mad about only finishing 12 books. I ended up posting more than two reviews per day (on average) and hand wrote 38 chapter book reviews that can be posted in March now. I also got my Netgalley feedback percentage up to 38% from the 33% it started at in February, so I made some real good progress on that front. I'll happily take a reduced number of books finished when the tradeoff is such a dent in my review backlog. Another thing that impacted my reading in February is that I joined a community choir, so I spend two hours every Monday night at choir practice, which definitely cuts into my reading time. So that's where I ended things in February (with The Reading List being misattributed because I finished it yesterday when I was out of the house all day for book club things). Hopefully March is just as good for progress as February was. - Katie 

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