March Wrap Up

** Update! I was updating my decades for Shanna which was published in the 1970s for April and realized that I read a 1970s book in March as well! I have updated the decade chart and stats!

 I can't believe we're already into the 2nd Quarter of 2021! It feels like the days themselves are long, but the weeks are flying by. Happy April Fool's Day as well! I'm not really a prankster, but if you are let me know if you've had any fun ones!

So this month there was only one readathon I participated in, the Kindle Clear Out and ended up reading 10 books that week. It was a lot more than I expected, although there were some shorter books. I also finally got to some dark romance, paranormal and sci-fi romance this year. Sci-fi and paranormal are my favorite sub-genres (with historical), so it's weird that I haven't really read either of those so far. There have been a lot of readathons that kept me in other genres though, as well as the book

Like always, each book will be linked to it's review and a few of my charts will be below. Books are listed in order read! Without further ado...

March 2021

23 books read for 6,608 pages

💗 I averaged 1.17 books a day
💗 The average page count per book is 287.30
💗 The page ranges I read were 4 in the 100s, 8 in the 200s, 10 in the 300s and 1 in the 400s
💗 14 were read for clubs and readathons and I had 1 reread

💗 5 of my books were diverse!

💗 I read 4 new authors

💗 I owned 2 of the books and added 13 to my wishlist

💗 The 2 books I read in paperback are the ones I own, the rest were eBooks

💗 The most popular decade was the 2020s with 11; 2010s had 6, 2000s had 4 and 1990s had 1 and 1970s had 1

💗 My average rating was 4.22
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💗 8 books were historical, 6 were dark, 5 were sci-fi, 3 were contemporary and 1 was paranormal!

1. Legendary Warrior by Donna Fletcher 🍎🍎🍎🍎

2. A Dark and Stormy Knight by Kerrigan Byrne 🍎🍎🍎🍎

3. Stripped Bare by Emma Hart 🍎🍎🍎🍎

4. Stranger in My Arms by Lisa Kleypas 🍎🍎🍎🍎

5. Lord Holt Takes a Bride by Vivienne Lorret 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎

6. My Kind of Earl by Vivienne Lorret 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎

7. Randar by Annabelle Rex 🍎🍎🍎🍎

8. Cael by Annabelle Rex 🍎🍎🍎🍎

9. Garrant by Annabelle Rex 🍎🍎🍎🍎

10. Tarkken by Annabelle Rex 🍎🍎🍎🍎

11. Return of the Rogue by Donna Fletcher 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎

12. Her Big City Neighbor by Jackie Lau 🍎🍎🍎🍎

13. His Grumpy Childhood Friend by Jackie Lau 🍎🍎🍎🍎

14. Bound by Honor by Cora Reilly 🍎🍎🍎🍎

15. Seized by Love by Susan Johnson 🍎🍎

16. Bound by Duty by Cora Reilly 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎

17. Bound by Hatred by Cora Reilly 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎

18. Bound by Temptation by Cora Reilly 🍎🍎🍎🍎

19. Bound by Vengeance by Cora Reilly 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎

20. Filthy by Serena Akeroyd 🍎🍎🍎🍎

21. Under the Highlander's Spell by Donna Fletcher 🍎🍎🍎🍎

22. A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎

23. Saving Verakko by Victoria Aveline 🍎🍎🍎🍎

💗 This month was a little easier to pick a favorite with there being mostly 4-star read and fewer 5-star than usual for me. I absolutely adored getting to read more Donna Fletcher and my favorite was definitely Return of the Rogue. I also really loved rereading Lord Holt Takes a Bride and finally getting to My Kind of Earl. It was also fun to get into Cora Reilly's mafia romance so far and my favorite of those was Bound by Vengeance, although Dante and Valentina is my favorite couple. I also finally caved (thanks to Smart Women Read Romance) and started Kresley Cole's Immortals After Dark. This is both exciting but also makes me feel a bit of trepidation since it's such a long series and I know I could binge it super easily. I was also super happy to finally get to the Saving Verakko (it came out in January this year)! The most disappointing is Seized by Love and I'm still so let down by the potential that just felt squandered there. 

How was your March reading? Did you join in the Kindle Clear Out or any of the other book clubs too? I'm excited to move into April and even though the readathons are fun, I'm hoping for a little break so I can do more mood reading. Although I don't have to participate in a readathon if it's posted... but I like to. I do have a few books I really want to read this month, but we'll see what happens.

Bookishly Yours, 

Stasi🍎