2022 ONTD Reading Challenge discussion

Super late wrap-up post, so if you haven't already shared what you read this month please feel free to leave a comment here!

I ended up picking Scoundrels as the most fitting for the theme, and this book was one of those 0,99£ sale deals that end up absolute positive surprises.

I loved how throughout the book the main characters just stuck by each other through the most horrific events, giving grudging compliments and respect, and on the surface despising each other but never leaving the other.

It's also one of those rare gems, where the humour is absurd and offensive, but just turns it around, and all the rampant classism, sexism, jingoism and just-about-everything-ism that goes with the territory of upperclass, expensively educated gentleman spy warheroes, is dropped squarely on the main characters being two thick plonkers who teeter on a cosmic balancing act between success and karma catching up with them.

It's not perfect, but I enjoyed it, and trust me, I'd rather go get some wisdom teeth pulled than watch 20 minutes of any given Adam Sandler film!

I read Code Name Verity for this challenge and I am not ok. It was really well written and my heart is broken.

Going over the past months of the challenge to see what I missed, and saw that I never updated what I read for June: Starry Eyes by Jenn Bennett. It's a teen romance about best friends. Not my favourite by Bennett but pretty good for YA.

I finally finished The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and it was adorable and lovely. Told exclusively in letters and telegrams, it's the story of an English author directly post-WWII who begins corresponding with the residents of Guernsey, an island in the English Channel that was German occupied during the war.