Long time no post! Oops.
So I finished 2018 strong with a nice 61 books.
I continued my reading challenge in 2019 and managed to read 122! books. Most of which were not rereads. I doubled the amount of books read!
So we are going to play catch up.
New books that I read are as follows.
I read all four books of Richelle Mead's Dark Swan series.
I am now up to date on Lara Adrian's Midnight Breed series (11 books). I am also now up to date with the related Hunter Legacy series (3 books).
As previously mentioned, I finished Elizabeth Haydon's Symphony of Ages series (2 books).
I am now up to date on L.E. Modesitt Jr.'s The Saga of Recluse series (9 books). I also completed his Imager Portfolio series (9 books).
I finished Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series (15 books).
I finished Cassandra Clare's The Infernal Devices and The Dark Artifices (total of 6 books, 3 in each series).
I finished P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast's House of Night series (3 books).
I am now up to date on JR Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood (4 books) series as well as it's related series Black Dagger Legacy (4 books).
I finished Tina Folsom's Scanguard Vampires series (4 books). Kinda. There was a short prequel to the entire series that I couldn't find until the new year.
I finished Sara Douglass's Darkglass Mountain series (3 books) which is a continuation of her Wayfarer Redemption series (which is 6 books) but is not marketed as connected since there's only a handful of Wayfarer Redemption characters that makes an appearance. More get mentioned, but only like 6 or so are actually in this series.
I tried Kiersten White's And I Darken from her The Conqueror's Saga and did not like it at all. So I have no plans to read the rest of the series.
I then read Alissa Woods's Jaxon from her Riverwise Private Security series, and unless the following books become free or available through the library or Kindle Unlimited, I don't plan on reading them.
And I finally got around to reading Kami Garcia's Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles) and while I did finish it, I wasn't impressed with it so I will not be reading the rest of the series.
Now I mentioned previously that I have acquired a lot of freebies the past few years and so I made a list (like the nerd that I am) of how I can read the other books in the series. So here goes what I've already read for 2020.
I found and read the prequel of Scanguards Vampires by Tina Folsom. Officially done with that series but should probably read the related series at some point.
I read all four of Katharine Kerr's Nola O'Grady series, and it was actually pretty good.
(I re-read Sarah J. Maas's The Assassin's Blade while I was waiting for book four of Kerr's to get to me.)
I acquired Auryn Hadley's The Wolf of Oberhame trilogy bundle and learned that she has a few other series that are available with Kindle Unlimited so I plan on at least trying them.
I read Elizabeth Briggs's Her Elemental Dragons series. Well, I read the first 4 and have no plans on reading the 5 because it is set after the first four and I wasn't too impressed with them. So I have no plans to read the last book.
Ok. Amy Sumida. She has a 30 book series titled Godhunter (which is also the title of the first book). I am now caught up and waiting for book 31. She also has other books available with Kindle Unlimited that I may read.
Aja James's Pure/Dark Ones is really unique and I'm not sure if that's a bad thing or a good thing. I kept with the 12 books and am awaiting the 13th, but the way she writes the "sexy" scenes makes them anything but sexy. But the history surrounding the characters is well written and almost, but not quite, makes up for the awful sex scenes.
Cassandra Clare's Chain of Gold which starts her The Last Hours trilogy was released and I had the privilege to read it and now I'm mad because I have to wait at least a year before the next one is released. #ReaderProblems
Joely Sue Burkhart's Their Vampire Queen series is actually really good and makes up for the series I'm indecisive about. This one is 11 books strong with a 12th coming out soon.
I then mistakenly read Rye Brewer's Redemption which is the start of the League of Vampires series, but this is not a Kindle Unlimited series so I'm not reading the rest of it just yet.
I am now reading Liz Mistry's Unquiet Souls which is 1 of 4 for the DI Gus McGuire series. And it sounded so interesting but it's so dry and it drags on and I will not be reading the other three in the series.
I'm trying to read these books in order as much as possible, I had to wait a few days for Sumida's 30th book to come out but that was fine. Aja James's next book is set to release May 1st and Joely Sue Burkhart's next book is set to release May 4th.
I'm trying to read all the series that are available with Kindle Unlimited right now, but I haven't decided what to read next when I'm done with Liz Misry's book.
But to date (April 11th), I have read 69 books (or in the process of reading book 69). It took me until almost July to read 61, and here I am, having passed that number by the middle of March. A coworker has challenged me to read 183 books this year, which is the equivalent of one book every two days, which I'm ahead of schedule. Which is good because I started Unquiet Souls on April 6th and I've still got about a quarter of it left to read.
Although part of this is my work schedule has been crazy (I am considered an essential employee during this Covid crisis) going back and forth with times so I haven't been able to dedicate the time I previously was to just sit and read. (Just for a reference, I worked 5am to 1:30 on Sunday, 9am to 5:30 on Monday, was off Tuesday and Wednesday, 2:30am to 11 on Thursday and Friday, and 4am to 12:30 today (Saturday). I was originally scheduled 1pm to 9:30 but they scheduled the store to close at 5:30 (since it's Easter) so I now have a paid day off, 8am to 4:30 on Monday, off Tuesday and Wednesday, 3am to 11:30 Thursday and Friday, and then 4am to 12:30 on Saturday. And the following week is just as crazy.)
*Today being the 102nd day of the year means 51 books, so I'm ahead by 18 if anyone cares.*
So if anyone cares, I'm still kicking. I'm still reading. I'm just exhausted because of work and I don't think to post here much but I decided to in case anyone is actually reading these!