#read in march

[slaughter-books]

Day 30: JOMPBPC: Read In March

My March, 2023 reading wrap-up! ❤️

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #read in march #march 2023 #reading wrap up #the lost ryu #emi watanabe cohen #it looks like us #alison ames #dungeon club #roll call #molly knox ostertag #xanthe bouma #ophelia after all #racquel marie #scattered showers #rainbow rowell #project hail mary #andy weir #beautiful books #amazing authors #lgbt+ #bookish #scooby doo #i love books

[sixofravens-reads]

March Reading Wrap-Up!

This was a much better month than February! I read 9 books (!!), wiped some oldies off my TBR, and only DNF'd one book.

Read

Through a Brazen Mirror - Delia Sherman (started in Feb.)

The Obelisk Gate - N. K. Jemisin

The Stone Sky - N. K. Jemisin

Dragons of Spring Dawning - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison

Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata

Ordinary Monsters - J. M. Miro

We Are Bellingcat - Eliot Higgins

Blackfish City - Sam J. Miller

DNF'd

Under the Whispering Door - T. J. Klune

Currently Reading

The Night Eaters vol 1: She Eats the Night. - Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda

#march wrap up #read in march #featuring my beer of choice tonight bc i was too lazy to find a more aesthetic bookend

[booksandrandomfandoms]

JOMP day 30

Read in March

Not too bad, finished up a few series, crushed some challenges, had a lot of laughs 👍

#book photo challenge #jompbpc #justonemorepage #day 30 #read in March #wrap up

[princessofbookaholics]

My March reading was great! Coincidentally read a lot of green books 💚 My favorites of the month were Five Little Pigs and Didn't See That Coming. I'm still looking for a 5 star but no luck this month. Here's the wrap up:

Silent Parade ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Five Little Pigs ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Mistletoe and Mr. Right ⭐⭐⭐

Home Field Advantage ⭐⭐⭐

Ask for Andrea ⭐⭐

The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Once Upon an Eid ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Murder Road ⭐⭐⭐

Every Last Secret ⭐⭐⭐

Didn't See That Coming ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Ward D ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Last Night ⭐⭐⭐

#books #booklr #book #reading #read #bookworm #reads #bookaholic #bookaddict #march wrap up #read in march 2024 #read in march #2024 reads

[handsomepear]

"Incredibly subtle" metaphor for capstilism

#bookblr #reading #patrick ness #metaphor #sarcasm #readin #read in march

[thebookwormsnook]

A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen

I'm so excited everyone!!! This is my first review on this blog and I received a few warm welcomes. Thank you very much! I'm finally getting around to writing this review because I've been so busy with work and school. It's very exhausting. But with that being said, here's my review on A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen.

Overview:

⭐⭐⭐⭐

4 out of 5 stars!

A Fate Inked in Blood was a great book and it was an amazing book to start off my hobby again! It has action. It has a strong female protagonist. It has romantic tensions. A few steamy scenes closer to the end (if that's something you like). It has magic. It has Norse mythology. It had every component that captured and held onto my attention. The story was very well written and for most of the time, I couldn't wait to go home from work and pick it up again. I'll try to keep the spoilers to a minimum in case y'all also want to read the book. So...why not 5 stars? I felt like the pacing for ~400 pages was well done but I feel like there were sections that were either really slow or really fast. I love the fact that the book is in first person. It really helps with the immersion but I feel like we weren't really able to learn about Freya's love interest, Bjorn, more than the superficial level. There is no other depth beside the tension that they shared together. BUT before you discredit this book, the writing for Bjorn's character was intentional as we come to find out who he really is at the end of the story. If you find yourself interested in details above, then you might want to read this book.

Book (Physical copy):

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

4 out of 5 stars!

The physical 1st edition copy of this book is absolutely beautiful. The cover art on the jacket is so beautiful and it's one of the things that first intrigued me into reading the synopsis. The jacket is 3D in certain sections and patterns on the front.

The pages are foiled in a blue color and it definitely adds so much personality to the book. The book cover itself is a white color with an emblem (Freya's hand tattoo?) embossed into it. Again, it's a beautiful book for your library.

I think my only dislike for this book is the color choice for the book cover. There are a lot of times where I've wanted to take the jacket off of the book because it kept slipping but I really couldn't or I was just scared to. White is pretty...pretty tough to maintain. Especially, when you want to take the book out in public to read. Nonetheless, I don't regret my purchase.

Romance:

⭐⭐⭐⭐

4 out of 5 stars!

"You are mine, Born-in-Fire. Even if only the two of us know it."

I just want to say: if you love romantic tension, this is your book! Anytime Freya and Bjorn were in close proximity, I felt giddy. I was always on the edge of my seat with all the tension stuffed in ~400 pages. Freya is the "wife" (wife is a very loose term as their marriage is of convenience and legality?) of Jarl Snorri, Bjorn's biological father. Their love is taboo since she is a legally married woman and his father's wife. Their love isn't one that's rushed or even forced. There was always an attraction between each other since they first met. I think there are moments in the beginning of the story where Freya was a little too jealous over someone she barely knows. They have a few moments where they finally touch and kiss each other which builds to the tension.

For the spice lovers, you might be a tad bit disappointed. Once Freya and Bjorn...get together. It feels like the ~300 pages of tension were for nothing because it almost seems like the author did not want to write them being together. The writing was rushed during this scenes and this is where I feel like the book should've been ~500 pages because what was the point of all that tension just to lose it in a few pages.

Romantic tension: 5/5

Spice: 3/5

Plot:

⭐⭐⭐⭐

4.5 stars out of 5!

I think the plot is amazing. The romance isn't the biggest part about the book, it's Freya's journey from being a fish wife to a warrior. Freya not only experiences the glory of becoming what she's always wanted to become but she also experiences and pays the price of being a warrior. This is where I love the 1st person perspective. We followed Freya's story in Freya's perspective and we experienced what Freya did "in real time" so when the end of the book comes around, we (the reader) are just as shocked and confused as Freya is in the moment. The book ends in a cliffhanger and I am waiting in anticipation for any news about the next book (even though this book came out in February).

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In conclusion, I think it was a great read and great first book back into reading for fun. If you read it, let me know your thoughts.

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ANYWAYS, I'm so happy I got my first review out on my blog. It took some time but I finished. I'm currently reading Dune and I have a few books in my "To Read" list.

Currently reading: Dune by Frank Herbert

Next in Queue: Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli

Favorite song at the moment: Deceptacon by Le Tigre

THANK YOU FOR READING!!!!

#book review #bookblr #book reading #books #books and reading #goodreads #book lover #read in march #Spotify #book recommendations #book reccs

[sol24]

Read in March

#sol rants #i'm glad my mom died #jennette mccurdy #once upon a time in hollywood #quentin tarantino #η αγάπη άργησε μια μέρα #Λιλή Ζωγράφου #ninth house #leigh bardugo #the dream of a ridiculous man #white nights #fyodor dostoevsky #a game of thrones #grr martin #books #book tumblr #read in march

[unadulteratedfunmusic]

#books #ya books #young adult books #march wrap up #read in march

[femcelgirlie]

the girlies reading

#coquette #girl blogger #girlblogger #reading #twilight #bella swan #little woman 2019 #jo march #rachel green #rory gilmore #gilmore girls #anne with an e #breakfast at tiffany's #the queens gambit #elizabeth bennet #pride and prejudice #kat stratford #10 things i hate about you

[why-the-heck-not]

makes a to do list. gets too stressed to start on it before it’s waaaaay to late (ohno!!)

#it’s not even funny or like maybe it’s so ridiculous that it is idk #the deadline is today #I had 2 weeks and I have barely done anything #and now I’m going to return it late and it will be a miracle if it’s any good #why did I do this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #studyblr #bookblr #booklr #books #study #reading #aesthetic #read #book #chaotic academia #dark academia #march 2024 #2024

[slaughter-books]

Day 30: JOMPBPC: Read In March

My beautiful March, 2024 reading wrap-up! 🩵

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #read in march #march 2024 #reading wrap up #girls like girls #hayley kiyoko #unordinary #uru-chan #state of fear #michael crichton #the voyage of the dawn treader #the silver chair #the chronicles of narnia #c.s. lewis #silver linings #katrina nannestad #beautiful books #amazing authors #lgbt+ #bookish #storm #ororo munroe #i love books

[shisasan]

𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟷𝟶, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶-𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

#kafka #literature #quotes #march #march 10 #dark academia #franz kafka #words #academia #quote #lit #books #books and libraries #reading #quote of the day #bookworm #book quotes #prose #booklr #bibliophile #excerpt #light academia

[booksandrandomfandoms]

JOMP day 30

Read in March

Here is my March wrap up

Technically only at 90% on Ava Arcana but I’m going to finish it tonight so I’m counting it

Also read young renegades before lore Olympus… but the stack kept falling apart

Once I finish Ava arcana I’ll have read 50 books this year which is half of my goodreads goal

#book photo challenge #jompbpc #justonemorepage #day 30 #read in March

[princessofbookaholics]

I didn't have any bad books this month but you don't see the number of books I DNF'd on here which were a lot! I struggled with reading in general this month but I'm happy I found some great books by the end. Waking Gods just put me in a slump and I don't think I'll be continuing that series anymore. Redeemed and Local Woman Missing were my favourites of the month! Here's the wrap up:

Redeemed ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Waking Gods ⭐⭐⭐

Wonderland ⭐⭐⭐

Set on You ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

You're Invited ⭐⭐⭐

While Time Remains ⭐⭐⭐⭐

That Kind of Guy ⭐⭐⭐⭐

What a Match ⭐⭐⭐

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Night Shift ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Local Woman Missing ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

So That Happened ⭐⭐⭐⭐

#books #booklr #book #reading #read #bookworm #reads #bookaholic #bookaddict #read in march #read in march 2023 #march wrap up

[crescentfool]

reunion 🌸

#persona 3 #persona 3 spoilers #minato arisato #makoto yuki #ryoji mochizuki #aigis #ryomina #lizzy does art #HELLO EVERYONE!!! march 5th is upon us again so i bring... my contribution for this year. my third year drawing for it! #i made the thumbnail for this a few weeks after last year's graduation day #i thought it would be fun to lean into the ryominaigis angle of graduation day (you could read this as minato/aigis if you like- #but i feel like most people would read it as ryoji/minato) #IN ANY CASE working on this made me very emotional over this game :') (specifically minato) #i really enjoy how p3 ends it's such a nice way of wrapping up the narrative's messages and themes #working on this. minato's kindness was at the forefront of my mind throughout the piece #and i really wanted to capture how. ultimately it was his decision to sacrifice himself- to do the great seal #while to an outsider's perspective it is. sad that minato passes. i think becoming the seal is something that minato- #actively welcomes. in the same way that death (ryoji) is a comfort to him because death was housed in him for Ten YearsTM #AND I ALSO GOT REALLY SAD OVER AIGIS TOO. i still get fucked up over how in fes's animated cutscene for 3/5 they portray- #her as human and not drawing the robot parts so i wanted to do something smilar here... #but also i am very sad on aigis's behalf because she discovers her humanity through minato and realizes what she- #wants to do and then. well. minato is like. he's ready to pass on (even if he's scared) and im like. OH MY GOD THIS TRIO GETS ME MESSED UP #this was more coherent in my head LOL BUT ough i like drawing p3 and working through my feelings about it... #anyway! happy (in quotations) march 5th. i love this game to bits. it's so fun to draw for this day every year and see how i've improved #if you've read all this thank you :) lizzy appreciates you all very much. mwah! <3

[mistressemmedi]

If Merlin does actually come back I just know Tumblr will become a radioactive war zone. Every man (gn) for themselves

#rightfully so #merlin #anyways the merlin fandom has produced some of the best fanfiction out there #loaded march is still the best series I've ever read