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End of 2025 Wrap Up!

Happy Friday bookish People! I hope you are all having a wonderful day today. It is 2026 and that means I can finally do a big wrap up of 2025.

Best book of the year: Capturing the Devil by Kerri Maniscalco – the final book in the Stalking Jack the Ripper series.

Worst book of the year: The Veiled Kingdom by Holly Renee

Most Read Author: Helena Dixon (The Miss Underhay mystery series) – 16 books!

Amount read in each genre: Crime – 54/Fantasy – 45

Average star rating: 3.9 stars

How many books by male authors: 11

How many books by female authors: 88

Reading goal: originally it was 50, but I managed to pass that in July so I upped it to 75, which I also passed.

How many books did you read: 99

How many pages did you read: 33,970

Longest book: Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

Shortest book: Graveyard Shift by M L Rio

Best book covers of 2025: Us In Ruins, An Enchantment of Ravens, In Want of A Suspect, Fate of the Argosi, The Mythmakers

New book boyfriends: Rook from an enchantment of ravens – a Fae Prince of course, Inspector Sebastien Bell from Irina Shapiro’s Tate and Bell mysteries – a man who is not cowed by a woman’s intelligence, Gluttony from Throne of Secrets, Arbuthnot Swift from Murder by Candlelight – a bit lazy and sometimes careless but excellent at solving mysteries, Duke Max from The Agency for Scandal, and of course, the one and only Xaden Riorson from Fourth Wing. He is up there with the best.

Monthly Wrap Ups

December Wrap Up!

Happy Friday bookish people! I hope you are all having a good day today, and Happy New Year! For this, my first post of 2026, I am bringing you the usual monthly wrap up for December, but later in the month I will be sharing an all-encompassing 2025 Wrap Up that covers genres, favourite books etc. Check back later for that if you are interested.

December was a month that felt insanely busy and yet, I couldn’t tell you what I spent the month doing, it is all just a blur. Plus, I was sick for the whole month with different things. Hopefully January will be better.

From my December TBR:

  • Murder at the Orpheus Theatre by Irina Shapiro – I did read this.
  • Pages and Co: Tilly and the Lost Fairytales by Anna James – I did read this.
  • The Dog Sitter Detective: Christmas Tails by Antony Johnston – I read this too.
  • Miss Beeton’s Murder Agency by Josie Lloyd – I did start to read this but unfortunately, I ended up DNF’ing it quite early on. I did not enjoy the writing style of this book and I struggled to be able to tell which time period it was set in.
  • Traitor’s Legacy by S J Parris – I did read this.
  • Fearful by Lauren Roberts – I did read this.
  • Death and the Harlot by Georgina Clarke – I did not read this.
  • Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards – I did read this.
  • A Quiet Life in the Country by T E Kinsey – I did read this.

So, from my TBR I read 7 books from my TBR, DNF’d 1 and I did not manage to read 1. Overall, that’s pretty good, even though I did not complete my TBR. Outside my TBR, I read The Austen Christmas Murders, The Mythmakers by Tamzin Merchant, Murder at Christmas, A Dangerous Train of Thought by Faith Martin and, I FINALLY read Queen of Shadows by Sarah J Maas.

That means, in December, I read a total of 12 books and I DNF’d 1.

What did you read in December? What did you think of the books you read?

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July Book Releases!

Happy Friday bookish people! How are you all doing today. It is July which means it is time to share details of some of the books releasing in July!

Den of Liars – 1st July

The Mythmakers – 3rd July

The Killer Question – 4th July

A Deadly Night at the Theatre – 7th July

The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy – 8th July

Soulgazer – 8th July

The Enchanted Greenhouse – 15th July

A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping – 17th July

The Nightshade God – 18th July

Not Quite Dead Yet – 22nd July

Arcana Academy – 22nd July

Between These Broken Hearts – 22nd July

Silvercloak – 24th July

Immortal Consequences – 29th July

Wrath of the Dragons – 29th July

Defy Me – 31st July

Thorns And Fire – 31st July