YA Addicted Book Club discussion

Goal: 336/300

January:


February:


March:


April:


May:


June:


July:


August:

September:


October:


November:


December:

Challenges

A-Z Challenge 26/26
finished 8/19/22
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TBR Jar: 32/32
finished 11/8/22
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Tackle That TBR, Vol. 5: 52/52
finished 11/16/22
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Stats

Genre
Fantasy: 11
Mystery/Thriller: 39
Romance: 48
Sci-Fi: 8
Historical: 22
Horror: 3
Non-fiction: 19
Comics/Graphic Novels: 41
YA Fantasy: 31
YA Romance: 39
YA Other: 44
Other: 31


Author
Male: 77
Female: 245
Other: 14


Length
<200 pages: 42
201-500 pages: 278
501-999 pages: 15
1000+ pages: 1


Star rating
5 - 39
4 - 157
3 – 91
2 - 44
1 - 5

Series to finish:
Dimple and Rishi (1/3)
Every Day (1/3)
Faith Herbert Origin Story (1/2)
Outlander (4/9)
Odessa Jones (1/2)
Loveboat, Taipei (1/2)
Six Crimson Cranes (1/2)
Tokyo Ever After (1/2)
Legendborn (1/2)
Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery (2/3)
The Celestial Kingdom Duology (1/2)


Series to be continued this year once the next instalment is released:
Death-Cast (1/2)
Bright Falls (1/3)


Series to be continued when the next instalment comes out (not this year or date not set):
Saga (9/?)
What Beauty There Is (1/2)
One of Us Is Lying (2/3)
Bromance Book Club (4/6)
The Radiant Emperor (1/2)
Primas of Power (2/3)
Meant to Be (2/3)
Finlay Donovan (2/3)
Simone Breaks All the Rules (1/2)


Series finished this year:
Paper Girls (6/6)
Scott Pilgrim (6/6)
Sheets (2/2)
Aunties (2/2)
Grim Reaper (2/2)
The Avant-Guards (3/3)
Darius the Great (2/2)
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (3/3)
Uncured (2/2)
K-Pop Confidential (2/2)
Pet (2/2)
A Song Below Water (2/2)
Boyfriend Material (2/2)
Renegades (3/3)
The Shameless Series (2/2)
These Witches Don’t Burn (2/2)

Looks great Brianna. Best of luck with your challenges!

Thats a lot of books! How did you like Homicide and Halo-Halo, Gods of Jade and Shadow and Circe? Good luck with all the challenges!

Elena wrote: "Thats a lot of books! How did you like Homicide and Halo-Halo, Gods of Jade and Shadow and Circe? Good luck with all the challenges!"

Homocide and Halo-Halo was okay. Arsenic and Adobo was waaaay better in my opinion.

Gods of Jade and Shadow was good but Death was sooo boring to me. He had very little personality.

Circe was amazing! It's easily in my top 10 reads of the year.

May Round-Up:

Wow! Great month. Favourite book?

How was Loveless? That's on my June hopefuls list.

Ohh so many good reads! What's you think of Madeline Miller's books? I read The Song of Achilles a while back and really loved it! I have yet to read Circe though.

Brittany wrote: "Wow! Great month. Favourite book?"

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine would have to be my May favorite. It wasn't at all what I expected it to be, and I was hooked! I read it in two hours.

Kayleigh {K-Books} wrote: "How was Loveless? That's on my June hopefuls list."

It's not my favorite Oseman book but it's still pretty good! I loved the ace/aro representation.

Liliana wrote: "Ohh so many good reads! What's you think of Madeline Miller's books? I read The Song of Achilles a while back and really loved it! I have yet to read Circe though."

It was interesting! I'd heard so much about The Song of Achillies and Circe but didn't really want to read them. I regret it so much because I loved them! Circe is my personal favorite.

I was slow at crossing books off my tbr this month.

June Round-Up:

So many interesting books you've read this month. How were The Gilded Ones and Tidesong?

Best book this month?
I read Daughter of the Moon Goddess as well. How did you like it? Oh! And what did you think of The Maid?

Thoughts on Postmortal? I remember reading it a while back, but I don't think I ever finished it for some reason

Elena wrote: "So many interesting books you've read this month. How were The Gilded Ones and Tidesong?"

The Gilded Ones was okay. I think I was expecting more, but it was still good.

Tidesong was cute! I loved the art style and the main characters are adorable.

Brittany wrote: "Best book this month?
I read Daughter of the Moon Goddess as well. How did you like it? Oh! And what did you think of The Maid?"

Darling Girl was hands down the best book I read in June. It was so good!

I was a bit bored with Daughter of the Moon Goddess. I just couldn't get into it.

I thought Molly, the main character in the maid, was a little naive until the end.

I get that with Daughter of the Moon Goddess, I struggled with the relationships in that one.
Molly is Neurodivergent so I liked seeing things from a different type of brain perspective but yes, sometimes I had trouble with wanting to yell at her

Awesome to know about Darling Girl, I do enjoy a good Peter Pan retelling. Have you read

July Round-Up:

I spy some Lumberjanes in there and those are some good comics.

I thought the Flatshare was cute what did you think? Oh! And what did you think of Firekeeper's Daughter?
Also looks like a good month. Any stand out books?

What'd you think of Shatter Me? I read it years ago and remember loving it! But even so, I don't plan on reading the rest of the series 😅

Brittany wrote: "I thought the Flatshare was cute what did you think? Oh! And what did you think of Firekeeper's Daughter?
Also looks like a good month. Any stand out books?"

the flat share is cute! and firekeeper's daughter is so powerful! i think about it almost daily.

finlay donovan was a stand out for me! i didn't think i would like it but it exceeded my expectations by a lot

Liliana wrote: "What'd you think of Shatter Me? I read it years ago and remember loving it! But even so, I don't plan on reading the rest of the series 😅"

i loved it too and i started unravel me and lost all motivation to read the rest. there's nothing wrong with the book; i just didn't care to finish.

That seems to be a common feeling with Shatter Me. I read book 1 and have no intention of continuing either.


Nice about Finlay Donovan exceeding your expectations!

Brittany wrote: "That seems to be a common feeling with Shatter Me. I read book 1 and have no intention of continuing either.

I wonder why that is..

August Round-Up:

Any favourites?

What did you think of the Marissa Meyer books? I personally really enjoy them

Brittany wrote: "Any favourites?"

Liliana wrote: "What did you think of the Marissa Meyer books? I personally really enjoy them"

@Brittany, Legendborn and Seven Days in June were my favs of August!

@Liliana, I love them! I always went back and forth about reading them, but I'm glad I finally did. I really like Nova!

September Round-Up:



Faves for the month: The Mirror Season and All That's Left in the World

Great reading month as always! What'd you think of The Boyfriend Project? That one sounds fun!

Great month! How was Tokyo Ever After?

@Liliana It was cute! I'm not in a rush to finish the series though
@Brittany, I really loved it! I can't wait to read the next one once I get my hands on it

October:


October was very very busy for me, so I didn't read much at all.

How was the Stephen King book?

How did you like the Dancing book?

@Liliana, it was so good! I'm an overthinker and I always have so many unanswered questions after finishing a book. But King left little to no room for that. There was so much going on, and it was wrapped up so well.

@Elena, it was okay. I didn't really like the plot, but I love how the main character and her love interest interact. It gets a bit sad at the end, but it's a bit predictable.

November:


Fave books of November: Someday, Maybe & Other Birds

December:


Fave books of December: Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie, She Gets the Girl, Long Past Summer

I finished all my challenges this year, but I didn't finish all the series I wanted to. I'm pretty happy with what I've read for 2022 though.

Nice job on finishing all your challenges! That's awesome!

Thats fabulous that you finished all the challenges! Always the new year for series catch up :)