What I Read In September 2024

I'm a little late with last month's reading round-up as a nasty cold has been holding me hostage, but I can finally hold my head off the pillow again, so let's catch up.

I read a little less in September than in July and August, but I don't think I did too badly. I finished eight books and began two more, and a few of them were pretty chunky. And I loved almost everything that I read, so at least it was a quality reading month.

Here's what I read in September.

September Reading Stats:

📖8 books completed.

📖4 hardbacks.

🎧4 audiobooks

📖 2052 pages (4139 pages including audiobooks).

🎧 85 hours 3 minutes listened at 1.1x speed.

📖 6⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reads!

📖1⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖14 books acquired. (4 audiobooks, 10 hardbacks).

📖 5 books preordered. (5 hardbacks).

I Read:

📖Glint by Raven Kennedy. 5⭐

📖Gleam by Raven Kennedy. 5⭐

📖Glow by Raven Kennedy. 5⭐

📖Sing Me to Sleep by Gabi Burton. 2.5⭐

🎧Crescent City House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas unabridged. 5⭐ (Reread).

🎧Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas unabridged. 5⭐ (Reread).

🎧Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas unabridged. 4⭐ (Reread).

🎧The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J. Maas unabridged. 5⭐ (Reread).

And I Started:

📖Fear the Flames by Olivia Rose Darling.

🎧Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas. (I was just an hour and a half from the end, but didn't finish before the month was up as I fell asleep while I was trying to finish it)! (Reread).

Favourite Reads: Probably Gleam by Raven Kennedy, with Glow a close second. I'm loving The Plated Prisoner series so much right now, and these books, which see Auren beginning to push back and fight for her freedom after being kept in a gilded cage and abused for her powers for ten years, have been the best yet. I sobbed my eyes out at Gleam, especially during the mutilation scenes, and actually had to put the book down for a while to rock in a corner because it upset me so much... but they're also really funny, and I love how Auren's relationship with Slade evolved. They're not easy reads as they focus on a lot of confronting topics like physical and emotional abuse, rape, imprisonment, and mutilation- and they feature some spicy scenes, too- so please check trigger warnings before reading. 

Favourite Listens: All of the audiobooks I listened to in September were amazing. I loved hearing House of Flame and Shadow brought to life, especially the ACOTAR cross over and Ruhn and Lidia scenes. I also began a Throne of Glass reread (in publishing order this time), and particularly enjoyed reliving Heir of Fire. Violent, long-haired, moody, who-did-this-to-you?, fussing Rowan Whitethorn just hits differently. The Assassin's Blade was also really fun as an audiobook, but Sam's death still killed me. I don't think it will ever get any easier to experience. His is the saddest book death ever.

Least Favourites: It was definitely Sing Me to Sleep by Gabi Burton. I found the story really flat, monotonous, and repetitive from start to finish. While I liked Hayes, the MMC, Saoirse, the FMC, was very hard to love, and I was just so bored. There might have been a siren song singing me to sleep as I dozed off reading it a few times.

Have you read any good books lately?

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