May Wrap Up

 Happy June!

Where in the heck is time going. And is it fall yet. We've just barely hit 80 degrees F here, and I'm already over it. I am just not good with warmer weather as time goes on. Hopefully we won't get too hot this summer and get a good bit of rain.

I read quite a bit in May and it's been one of my best reading months this year so far. I also funnily enough read only two genres, as you'll see below. I had a lot of fun binging paranormal romance at the end of the month for the Love in the Night Readathon. I've been wanting to read more paranormal lately and this was just what I needed to get me in the mood! As always books are listed in order read below after all my stats. 

May 2021

25 books read for 7,349 pages

💗 I averaged 0.72 books a day
💗 The average page count per book is 320.94
💗 The page ranges I read were 2 less than 100, 4 in the 100s, 3 in the 200s, 14 in the 300s and 2 in the 400s
💗 20 of the books I read were for clubs/readathons

💗 4 of my books were diverse reads

💗 I read 5 new authors

💗 I owned 4 of the books read in paperback and added 18 to my wishlist

💗 I read 4 books in paperback and 21 in ebBok

💗 I read in the following decades: 1 in the 1980s, 1 in the 1990s, 4 in the 2000s, 18 in the 2010s and 1 in the 2020s

💗 My average rating was 4.44
🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎 - 13 books
🍎🍎🍎🍎 - 10 books
🍎🍎🍎 - 2 books

💗 17 books were historical and 8 were paranormal romances

1. Scandalous Desires by Elizabeth Hoyt 🍎🍎🍎🍎

2. Thief of Shadows by Elizabeth Hoyt 🍎🍎🍎🍎

3. Lord of Darkness by Elizabeth Hoyt 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎

4. Duke of Midnight by Elizabeth Hoyt 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎

5. Darling Beast by Elizabeth Hoyt 🍎🍎🍎🍎

6. Dearest Rogue by Elizabeth Hoyt 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎

7. Sweetest Scoundrel by Elizabeth Hoyt 🍎🍎🍎🍎

8. Duke of Sin by Elizabeth Hoyt 🍎🍎🍎🍎

9. After Midnight by Teresa Medeiros 🍎🍎🍎🍎

10. Once Upon a Moonlit Night by Elizabeth Hoyt 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎

11. Once Upon a Christmas Eve by Elizabeth Hoyt 🍎🍎🍎🍎

12. Duke of Pleasure by Elizabeth Hoyt 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎

13. Duke of Desire by Elizabeth Hoyt 🍎🍎🍎🍎

14. Once Upon a Maiden Lane by Elizabeth Hoyt 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎

15. Then Came You by Lisa Kleypas 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎

16. Cold-Hearted Rake by Lisa Kleypas 🍎🍎🍎🍎

17. Fires of Winter by Johanna Lindsey 🍎🍎🍎

18. Marrying Winterborne by Lisa Kleypas 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎

19. The Vampire Who Loved Me by Teresa Medeiros 🍎🍎🍎🍎

20. Deal with the Demon by Chase Verity 🍎🍎🍎

21. A Kiss for Solstice by Elizabeth Allyn-Dean 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎

22. A Warlord Wants Forever by Kresley Cole 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎

23. Mating the Huntress by Talia Hibbert 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎

24. Pleasure Unbound by Larissa Ione 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎

25. Peace, Blood, and Understanding by Molly Harper 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎

💗 I finished my Maiden Lane binge this month and had a couple favorites there. I also finally got to start my Ravenels reread and also read a new Lisa Kleypas. I think those were my favorite reads along with A Kiss for Solstice. It just really hit me as you can tell from my review and I really wish that Elizabeth Allyn-Dean would write more. Side note, I also realized I read a lot of Elizabeths (not just this month, but in general). Maybe I'm drawn to that name? I'm also really happy to end the month with Molly Harper and have really missed her writing. It makes me want to go on a binge of her books.

How did your reading this month go? I hope you found some new favorites as well! As we move into June I've added a couple more summer readathons that seem to be easier prompts to match with contemporary reads. I also have the Mafia Romance Readathon this weekend, so I'm looking forward to that. I'm pretty sure my reads won't be in just two genres this month. At the very least I have my couple book clubs that'll be different than what I already have planned. We'll see where my mood takes me!

Bookishly Yours,

Stasi🍎