September Wrap-Up

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Hello Hello! How are you?

We are already in October, the weather has completely changed, we have the fire on and I try to snuggle under blankets with books when I’m not running around and doing a hundred things for university!

I didn’t have the greatest reading month in September unfortunately, I suppose university was just so hectic that I just couldn’t read as much as I wanted, but I still managed to read some of the books from my September TBR.

In September, I was able to read a total of 7 books, which isn’t too bad all things considered and I hope that I can read at least the same amount or more in October! If you’d like to see what books I want to read in October, you can find my TBR post here.

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BOOKS READ

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My Favourite Books of the Month

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The Inheritance Games (#1 The Inheritance Games) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes – 4 stars

You may wonder why I’m adding this book this part of this post as it didn’t get 5 stars from me, but I loved this book so much and had such a fun time reading it that I just had to add it. I read this book for the #UltimateBlogTour organised by Dave from @The_WriteReads, it is a YA mystery and this genre is fast becoming one of my favourites at the moment. It is full of mystery, riddles, puzzles, some really cute guys and a really great main character, you can check out my review for it here!

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Postscript (#2 P.S. I Love You) by Cecelia Ahern – 5 stars

And my second favourite book of the month was Postscript by Cecelia Ahern. I read P.S. I Love You a few years ago and adored it, so when I got an email asking me if I wanted to read and review the sequel, I just couldn’t say no. It’s not my usual genre, but I really like reading some contemporaries at times and this was just a great book to snuggle under a blanket with. I will warn you though, bring tissues, lots of them. You can read my full gushing review for it here.

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September Books

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The First of Shadows (#1 The Riven Realm) by Deck Matthews – 3 stars

This was another blog tour organised by Dave from @The_WriteReads that I participated in last month, it wasn’t my favourite mainly because the actual full novel is in fact a novella, and personally, that is just way too short in my opinion for a fantasy, verging on epic fantasy. I thought that it had so much potential though, and the author was kind enough to provide us with a bind-up of the trilogy, so I’m going to continue it to find out more! You can find my review for it here.

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Clockwork Prince (#2 The Infernal Devices) by Cassandra Clare – 4 stars

Continuing the Shadowhunter mission with Fiona from Fi’s Bibliofiles, in September we managed to read the 5^th book (in the order we are tackling them). This one dipped again at the start and then just took off at the end, I still love the setting, but that ending nearly made me cry and scream and throw the book across the room, wow, so many things happened!! I still haven’t picked up the last book in this trilogy, but I’m sure we will get to it soon and I can’t wait to see how this series ends! You can find out all about this book here, but beware, there are spoilers!!

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The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky – 4 stars

Wow, this was such a brilliant, unique, complex, mind-boggling book and totally out of my comfort zone! I do read science fiction fairly often but I’ve never read anything like this. I think I would describe it as alternate evolutionary science fiction with some great characters, a very unique and intelligent plot! I will say that you have to be focused, well I did anyway, I really enjoyed it, you can read my incomprehensible blathering here.

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Keeper of the Lost Cities (#1 Keeper of the Lost Cities) by Shannon Messenger – 4 stars

This book was the September BOTM pick for our Middle Grade Marvels book club! This has been on our nominations board from the start and I could have jumped for joy when it was picked in the poll on our Twitter! I have wanted to read this book for years and I really enjoyed it! This whole world and plot were just so interesting, there are a lot of things missing but I know they will come along in the next books and I can’t wait to read them! I should be able to get a review up in the next weeks, so keep a lookout!

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Vultures (#1 Shadow Twins) by Luke Tarzian – 3.5 stars

And the last book I read in September was yet again, can you guess? For a blog tour organised by Dave from @The_WriteReads *applause*! Again, this wasn’t one of the best books I read this month and the main reason that it was this star-rating was because there were a lot of things lacking for me personally. I need detail, context, backstory, character development and world-building in my fantasies, and this just didn’t give me what I expected. I still enjoyed it though and you can read my review of it here.

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I didn’t have the best of month star-ratings wise, but I did read some very interesting books, I was quite surprised by a few of these and it’s actually probably one of my most diverse months genre-wise!

Guess what? Noly and I still haven’t finished a Hype-A-Thon book, BUT we are working on it and I’m sure we will be able to finish at least 1 of the books in October, we have some really exciting ones to read for #AtmosphericOctober and I can’t wait!

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September Reading Stats

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Number of books: 7

Number of pages: 2,857 pages

Star ratings:

3 stars: 1 book

3.5 stars: 1 book

4 stars: 4 books

5 stars: 1 book

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Average rating: 3.92⭐

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Genres: 1 YA mystery, 2 fantasies, 1 YA fantasy, 1 science fiction, 1 romance and 1 MG fantasy.

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Well, probably not my best month this year, but I’m not mad at it either! I have started a few (oops) October books and I’m very much looking forward to reading them all!

That’s all for now, I hope you enjoyed this post, see you soon, stay safe,

Ellie xx