Look at this; I'm here bringing you a 'What I Read' post at the start of the following month, and not at the very end for once! Miracles do happen. Maybe Trump will stop being a raving narcissist next! Or maybe pigs will fly...
Anyway, November wasn't a bad reading month for me. I finished 9 books, and began 2 others, and 5 of them were big beasts over 600 pages. I loved everything I read, and became obsessed with a few of them, so it was one of the most enjoyable months of reading I've had in a while.
This is what I read in November:
Reading Stats:
📖9 books completed, 2 started.
📖4 hardbacks.
🎧5 audiobooks
📖2139 pages (3953 pages including audiobooks).
🎧73.55 hours listened at 1.1x speed.
📖5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reads!
📖3 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📖Average rating: 4.44 stars.
📖Average book length: 624 pages.
📖Average time to finish: 8 days.
I Read:
📖The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst. 5⭐
📖Lightlark by Alex Aster. 3⭐
📖Gold by Raven Kennedy. 5⭐
📖Goldfinch by Raven Kennedy. 5⭐
🎧Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas. 5⭐ (Reread).
🎧Crescent City House of Sky and Breath Part Two (Dramatised) by Sarah J. Maas. 4⭐ (Reread).
🎧Fourth Wing Part One (Dramatised) by Rebecca Yarros. 4⭐ (Reread).
🎧Fourth Wing Part Two (Dramatised) by Rebecca Yarros. 4⭐ (Reread).
🎧Iron Flame Part One (Dramatised) by Rebecca Yarros. 5⭐ (Reread).
And I Started:
📖The Songbird and the Heart of Stone by Carissa Broadbent.
🎧Iron Flame Part Two (Dramatised) by Rebecca Yarros. (Reread).
Although, I began both on the final day of the month, and I didn't get far with either.
Favourite Reads: I have three that I can't possibly choose between: The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst, and both Gold, and Goldfinch by Raven Kennedy.
I told you how much I loved The Spellshop last month, before I'd even finished it, but I'll say it again; I loved this book so much! It was one of the cutest, cosiest, most comforting books I've ever read, full of magic and whimsy, and it's earned a place on my all-time-favourites list. I'm so excited that's there's going to be a prequel.
My other loves of the month were Gold and Goldfinch, the last two books in The Plated Prisoner series- a brilliant dark adult fantasy series I've become completely addicted to this year. I became obsessed with both books, and a week after I finished the last one, I still can't stop thinking about them. They were both action-packed and deliciously tense, empowering and inspiring, and Goldfinch was so devastating that it's annihilated me emotionally. It was sadder than The Ballad of Never After, The Assassin's Blade and Kingdom of Ash combined, and I'm not sure I'll ever recover. Seriously, I sobbed my heart out, and feel like I have second-hand grief from reading it. But, I think being so emotionally affected by a story is a sign of a good book, and I've also added them to my favourites list.
Favourite Listens: The Fourth Wing books were really fun to reread as dramatised audiobooks, but I think I'd have to go with Kingdom of Ash. It's one of my favourite books, and with all the torture, trauma, battles, and emotions running high, it made for an epic listening experience. I might've cried through half of it- especially through the deaths and torture, the battlefield rescue scene, and Fenrys and Gavriel's blood oathes, but it was the perfect end to a fantastic series, and I honestly couldn't love this book or series more.
Least Favourites: I had a pretty strong reading month all round, and enjoyed everything I read, but my lowest rated book was Lightlark by Alex Aster, with three stars out of five. It was a fun read, but it was perhaps a little too predictable, and needed a little more excitement. I'm hoping the worldbuilding, story, and characters develop more as the series goes on. And if Isla doesn't end up with Grim by the end, I'm throwing them all out the window.
Well, those were my November reads.
What was the best book you read in November?
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