January is completed! Can you believe it? How has your first month in the year been going? I had a great month. Work has been going solid, family is good, and been doing good with my eating goals and I lost 15 pounds in January, so not too bad there. As far as some new things happening, I did recently start doing Trope Tuesday on Instagram, as well as starting to share all the stepbacks on there. I saved them all on my computer before Goodreads deleted them and planning on slowly getting them over to my highlights on my instagram. I haven’t quite figured out how to implement them on here. My reading was solid at 45 books! My goal was between 40-50 books so I made my goal.

Reading Stats

Acquisitions/Savings

So one of my goals for this year, is to track my acquisitions and see what I am saving through my subscriptions and such. So each month I will be sharing my month’s current savings. Now while part of me would love to purchase everything and keep all of it, and while I do have the money to buy books, its nice to save money when and where I can especially during a recession.

January Totals:

Total Spent: $23.39

Subscription Costs: Libraries, Audible Plus, Anyplay, KU: $28.98

Total Savings: $341.33

Reading Challenges

So, I am not participating in too many reading challenges this year. My focus for the year is the Goodreads (of course), Romanceopoly and a few of the reading challenges on Storygraph. Just simple ones. So below I will be sharing my reading progress with you on these every month.

Goodreads Reading Challenge

I am at 45 books out of 500 and I am 4 books ahead. So far I am doing pretty good with this one.

Romanceopoly Reading Challenge-Under the Covers Book Blog

I am having a blast with this. I convinced a friend “Brianna” who also used to be a book blogger but is now a author, to do this with me. So every saturday night we roll together and its been so fun! So I have completed 26% of the challenge as I have done 9 out of the 39 prompts, although with me doing 2 of these a week, I will most likely get way above 39 especially if I land on a spot more than once. Its why I created a TBR for each prompt lol But I am having such a BLAST playing Romanceopoly this year. If you aren’ t participating, you should be 🙂

Books Read

Top Books of the Month

When Bree Prescott arrives in the sleepy, lakeside town of Pelion, Maine, she hopes against hope that this is the place where she will finally find the peace she so desperately seeks. On her first day there, her life collides with Archer Hale, an isolated man who holds a secret agony of his own. A man no one else sees.

Archer’s Voice is the story of a woman chained to the memory of one horrifying night and the man whose love is the key to her freedom. It is the story of a silent man who lives with an excruciating wound and the woman who helps him find his voice. It is the story of suffering, fate, and the transformative power of love.

I do not have enough good things to say about this one. It was AMAZING! Just the best book ever. Its definitely worth all the hype that it receives! If you haven’t read this book, then you NEED this one in your life. Its endearing, beautiful and heartfelt!

Rowan
I’m in the business of creating fairy tales.
Theme parks. Production companies. Five-star hotels.
Everything could be all mine if I renovated Dreamland.
My initial idea of hiring Zahra was good in theory, but then I kissed her.
Things spiraled out of control once I texted her using an alias.
By the time I realized where I went wrong, it was too late.
People like me don’t get happy endings.
Not when we’re destined to ruin them.

Zahra
After submitting a drunk proposal criticizing Dreamland’s most expensive ride, I should have been fired.
Instead, Rowan Kane offered me a dream job.
The catch? I had to work for the most difficult boss I’d ever met.
Rowan was rude and completely off-limits, but my heart didn’t care.
At least not until I discovered his secret.
It was time to teach the billionaire that money couldn’t fix everything.
Especially not us.

The Fine Print is the first book in a series of interconnected standalones following three billionaire brothers.

this was one of my romanceopoly picks and I really had a blast with this one. One of the best rom com contemporary romances I have read in a long time. And I actually love these illustrations, such a beautiful cover! It was hilarious, sexy banter and just so captivating.

An Orphan’s Throne

Magic has broken free over the Twelve Kingdoms. The population is beset by shapeshifters and portents, landscapes that migrate, uncanny allies who are not quite human…and enemies eager to take advantage of the chaos.

Dafne Mailloux is no adventurer–she’s a librarian. But the High Queen trusts Dafne’s ability with languages, her way of winnowing the useful facts from a dusty scroll, and even more important, the subtlety and guile that three decades under the thumb of a tyrant taught her.

Dafne never thought to need those skills again. But she accepts her duty. Until her journey drops her into the arms of a barbarian king. He speaks no tongue she knows but that of power, yet he recognizes his captive as a valuable pawn. Dafne must submit to a wedding of alliance, becoming a prisoner-queen in a court she does not understand. If she is to save herself and her country, she will have to learn to read the heart of a wild stranger. And there are more secrets written there than even Dafne could suspect…

This was the most perfect fantasy romance I have read in a long while! I absolutely adored everything about it. It was just so much fun to read and had a pacific island feel to the setting. This author is becoming a new favorite for fantasy romance.

Honorable Mentions

I wish I could express how much I adored all of these books and could have added them also in my top favorite and they are really all over the genres here. Definitely most swoony worthy reads that I can’t recommend enough if you haven’t read them!

How was your reading month? Did you have any successes or failures? What book was the most memorable for you? Let me know in the comments below!