Wrap-up: January 2022

After an eventful month (my computer finally gave up the ghost haha), we’re finally in February. January felt like three months packed into one and I feel like I’m entering February with three days of sleep deficit at least. But oh well. I read 50 books in that time too, I guess.

The key:
🐝 = favourite
🕊️ = reread/rewatch/relisten
☀️ = 4 or 5 stars, highly recommend
☁️ = 3 or 4 stars, enjoyed/had fun reading
🌧️ = 2 or 3 stars, was alright/not for me but someone else might enjoy
🌩️ = 1 or 2 stars, bored out of my mind/it was awful

Books read

We Speak in Storms by Natalie Lund 🌧️
Longshadow by Olivia Atwater ☁️
The Pariah by Anthony Ryan ☁️
The Dark Queens by Shelley Puhak ☁️ [review]
🐝 Good Neighbors by Stephanie Burgis ☀️ [review]

🐝 The Justice of Kings by Richard Swan ☀️ [review]
Activation Degradation by Marina J. Lostetter ☁️
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield ☁️ [review]
Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon 🌧️
Bluebird by Ciel Pierlot 🌧️ [review]

A History of Ancient Britain by Neil Oliver 🌩️
If You Still Recognise Me by Cynthia So ☀️ [review to come]
A Rogue to Remember by Emily Sullivan ☁️
I’m Sorry This Isn’t Porn: And Other Apologies by Verity Ritchie 🌧️
🐝 The Stone House by Yara Hawari ☀️

The Girls on the Shore by Ann Cleeves 🌧️
Battle of the Linguist Mages by Scotto Moore ☁️ [review]
🐝 Wild and Wicked Things by Francesca May ☀️ [review to come]
🐝 Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson ☀️
The Break Up by Charlotte Barnes 🌩️ [review]

Game Changer by Neal Shusterman ☁️
And There He Kept Her by Joshua Moehling ☁️ [review to come]
Every Variable of Us by Charles A. Bush 🌧️ [review to come]
Survive the Dome by Kosoko Jackson ☁️ [review to come]
🐝 Fall of the Argosi by Sebastien de Castell ☀️

Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok 🌧️
Icebreaker by A. L. Graziadei ☁️
Wolf of Mine by C. A. Hall 🌧️
Stories to Sing in the Dark by Matthew Bright ☀️
Our Sister, Again by Sophie Cameron ☀️ [review to come]

🐝 Mad About You by Mhairi McFarlane ☀️ [review to come]
Britain After Rome by Robin Fleming ☁️
Subtle Blood by K. J. Charles ☁️
🕊️🐝 Here’s Looking at You by Mhairi McFarlane ☀️
The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan 🌧️

🐝 They Drown Our Daughters by Katrina Monroe ☀️ [review to come]
Beloved Poison by E. S. Thomson ☁️
League of Denial by Mark Fainaru-Wada & Steve Fainaru ☁️
Oracle Bone by Lydia Kwa ☀️
🐝 Isle of Blood and Stone by Makiia Lucier ☀️

Last Call at the Nightingale by Katharine Schellman ☁️ [review to come]
Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki 🌧️
All That’s Left in the World by Erik J. Brown ☁️ [review to come]
Deal with the Devil by Kit Rocha ☁️
Back to Your Love by Kianna Alexander 🌩️

🕊️🐝 Wrapped Up in You by Talia Hibbert ☀️
A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland 🌧️ [review to come]
Angel’s Blood by Nalini Singh 🌧️
The City of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafón ☁️
The Donut Trap by Julie Tieu ☁️