Heyhey, BookNerds!✌💜
December has come to an end, and the year is now over – I hope you all had a safe and great reading year! This year I predominantly read fantasy books. However, I also managed to diversify my reading by including more non-fiction and general fiction, as well as having a few mystery/thrillers in the mix! I also managed to hit my goal for reading more inclusive reads.
What I Read!
Book Reviews!
- Book Review: The Poppy War (The Poppy war #1), by R. F. Kuang – 4.75 Stars
- Book Discussion/Book Review: The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, by Philip Zimbardo.
- Book Review: We Lie With Death (The Reborn Empire #2), by Devin Madson – 5 Stars
- Book Review: The Mask Of Mirrors (Rook And Rose #1), by M. A. Carrick – 4.5 Stars
- Mini Book Review: The Betrayals, by Bridget Collins – 2.5 Stars
- Short Book Discussion/Book Review: Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman
- Mini Book Review: Gideon The Ninth (Locked Tomb Tilogy #1), by Tamsyn Muir – 3.5 Stars
- Book Review: Six Of Crows (#1), by Leigh Bardugo – 4.75 Stars
- Series Book Review: ACOTAR, by Sarah J Maas; Feysand’s Story – ~4.5 Stars
- Book Review: The Priory Of The Orange Tree, by Samantha Shannon – 4.75 Stars
- Book Review: The Unbroken (Magic Of The Lost #1), by C.L. Clark – 4.75 Stars
- Book Review: The Shadow Of The Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga #1), by John Gwynne – 4.75 Stars
- Mini Book Review: In The Ravenous Dark, by AM Strickland –3.5 Stars
- Mini Book Review: Threadneedle (The Language Of Magic #1), by Cari Thomas – 3.75 Stars
- Double Mini Book Reviews; The Wicked King & The Queen Of Nothing, by Holly Black. (The Folk Of The Air Book Review.)– ~4.5 Stars
- Book Review: The Dragon Of Jin-Sayeng, (Chronicles Of The Bitch-Queen) by KS Villoso – 5 Stars
- Book Review: The Jasmine Throne (Burning Kingdoms #1), by Tasha Suri – 5 Stars
- Book Review: She Who Became The Sun (The Radiant Emperor #1), by Shelley Parker-Chan – 5 Stars
- Book Review: For The Wolf (Wilderwood #1), by Hannah Whitten – 4 Stars
- Series Book & TV ShowReview: The Grisha Trilogy/Shadow and Bone, by Leigh Bardugo – 4 Stars
- Book Review: The Wild Court (The Coming of Aed #3), by EG Radcliff. – 5 Stars
- Mini Book Review: Velvet Was The Night, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia – 3 Stars
- Book Review: A Radical Act Of Free Magic (The Shadow Histories #2), by HG Parry – 4.5 Stars
- Book Review: Skin Of The Sea, by Natasha Bowen – 4 Stars
- Book Review: A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn #1), by P. Djèlí Clark – 4.75 Stars
- Book Review: Legacy Of Light (The Legacy Trilogy #3), by Matthew Ward – 4.5 Stars
- Book Review: The Devil Makes Three, by Tori Bovalino – 4 Stars
- Mini Book Review: One Of Us Is Lying, by Karen M. McManus – 2 Stars
- Book Review: The Bone Ship’s Wake (The Tide Child #3), by RJ Barker – 5 Stars
- Book Review: The Quicksilver Court (Rooks and Ruin #2), by Melissa Caruso – 4 Stars
- Mini Book Review: Gilded, by Marissa Meyer – 4 Stars
- Book Review: The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire #2), by Andrea Stewart – 4.5 Stars
- Book Review: The Liar’s Knot (Rook & Rose #2), by M.A. Carrick – 5 Stars
I read a lot of great reads this year- but you can check out my TOP READS of 2021 here:
Blog Posts!
- January 2021 TBR!
- Closing The Chapter #BookTag
- WWW Wednesday (06/01/2021)
- WWW Wednesday (13/01/21)
- Series I Want To Continue In 2021!
- WWW Wednesday (20/01/21)
- Continuing Book Series I Am Looking Forward To In 2021.
- WWW Wednesday (27/01/21)
- February 2021 TBR and Update!
- Resolutions BookTag
- The Outstanding Blogger Award
- BBNYA! Book Blogger’s Novel Of The Year Award.
- Liebster Award! Part ???
- March TBR 2021
- The Fellowship Of The Ring #BookTag
- Books On My Library Wishlist (Part 3!)
- Bookish Things And Thoughts (Part 7!)
- April TBR 2021!
- June Wrap Up 2021
- The Mid-Year Book Check-In Tag
- Disability Pride Month – Discussing Tropes and Rep!
- August 2021 TBR
- The Fantasy Tropes Book Tag
- Let’s Talk About … Tropes!
- The Bookworm’s BookTag!
- Three Bookish Things Booktag
- Piano Playlist #BookTag
- Bookish Things And Thoughts (Part 8)!
- Recent Favourite MC’s!
- Halloween Creatures Book Tag
- September 2021 Wrap Up
- October 2021 Wrap-up
- Never Have I Ever #BookTag
- What’s On My Netgalley Shelf?
- Down-Memory-Lane December & December TBR
- #DownMemoryLaneDecember Wrap-Up #1
- My Top 10 Books of 2021!
Blog Tours!
- #UltimateBlogTour & Mini Book Review: Bad Habits, by Flynn Meaney – a fun and quirky book that was definitely an enjoyable read. Many thanks to @The_WriteReads for a spot on the Ultimate tour!
- Spotlight and #Blogtour, #BBNYA! Rangers Oath (Fall Of Radiance #1), by Blake Arthur Peel. From last years BBNYA, I took part in the blog tour for this finalist!
- #Spotlight, #Blogtour #BBNYA – Stay Mad, Sweetheart, by Heleen Kist. Another 2020 BBNYA blogtour for another brilliant finalist!
- #Spotlight #BBNYA2020 Winner: #TheLoreOfPrometheus, by Graham Austin-King.. And I had to take part in the blog tour for the Winner of BBNYA 2020!
- Cover & Title Reveal: Coming Of Aed #3, by EG Radcliff (#StoryTellersOnTour, @sot_tours). A big thank you to SOT Tours for the spot on the tour for the cover reveal of The Wild Court, by EG Radcliff. and absolutely phenomenal finale to a brilliant trilogy.
- Mini Book Review & Social Media Blast: The Beautiful Ones, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. A social media blast/tour was so much fun to do! Thank you to JoFletcherBooks for the spot for this beautiful read.
- #BlogTour and Mini Book Review: Mirrorland, by Carole Johnstone. Another excellent WriteReads tour that had me on the edge of my seat, this gripping and twisty thriller was so much fun.
- #UltimateBlogTour and Mini Book Review: Shards Of Earth, by Adrian Tchaikovsky. And the WriteReads hits again with a phenomenal sci-fi blog tour for this ragtag team filled space adventure.
Book Post!
From the wonderful publisher, Nazia, at Orbit Books – I received and reviewed an ARC of Book Review: The Shadow Of The Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga #1), by John Gwynne!
The wonderful Nazia at Orbit Books also sent me an ARC of The Justice Of Kings, by Richard Swann. I have yet to read this one but it sounds so amazing!
BBNYA 2021!
Of course I cannot forget to mention we held the amazing BBNYA (Book Blogger’s Novel of the Year Award) again this year, which is associated with the brilliant foliosociety and TheWriteReads! This year I was a team leader and pannelist and got to read so many amazing books, and added so many more to my tbr! To find out more about BBNYA – which is an annual event – head over to my page here: BBNYA! Book Blogger’s Novel Of The Year Award and check out the official website: https://www.bbnya.com/home.
With so many amazing enteries and Finalists, we were all waiting excitedly with our eyes wide open for the announcement of the winner! Very well deserved, the amazing May Day, by Josie Jaffrey took the top spot in the competition! Head over to BBNYA’s official twitter (below) to see all the top ten – you may even add a few of these amazing indie authors to your own tbr 👀😉
BBNYA had some pretty amazing Semi-finalists this year too – and we had such a fun time doing spotlight blog tours for all of them! I took part in 7 of the spotlightours (you can see them below) but there were so many more by all the amazing BBNYA team and pannelists!
- #BBNYA Spotlight! Beneath Cruel Fathoms, by Anela Deen (#TheWriteReads) [17/9/21]
- #BBNYA Spotlight! A Facet For The Gem, by CL Murray (#TheWriteReads) [17/9/21]
- #BBNYA Spotlight: May Day, by Josie Jaffrey [#TheWriteReads] (13/9/21)
- Spotlight Tour! #BBNYA – The Part About The Dragon Was (Mostly) True, by Sean Gibson! ( #TheWriteReads) [23/8/21]
- Spotlight Tour! #BBNYA – The Nine, by CG Harris (#TheWriteReads) [23/8/21]
- Spotlight Tour! #BBNYA – Vampires of Moscow, by Caedis Knight! (#TheWriteReads) [22/8/21]
- Spotlight Tour! #BBNYA – Voice Of War, by Zack Argyle (#TheWriteReads) [20/8/21]
BBNYA! Book Blogger’s Novel Of The Year Award.
Stats!
Goodreads Reading Challenge: https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/24899799 – So I only set a goal of 50 books this year but hit that a few months ago, so I decided to up my goal to 75 books. Somehow, despite uni work absolutely destroying me 😂😅I managed to clear my goal and read around 80 books this year!! I actually read over 80 if you include the Manga series I read, which I foolishly forgot to add to my goodreads!
So, aside from Manga, I read 38,405 pages and 80 books!
The shortest book on this year’s list was Coraline, by Neil Gaiman (only 162 pages), and the longest book I read was Tian Guan Ci Fu, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (a whopping 2,050 pages!) On average though, the books I read were around 480 pages each.
According to GR, the most shelved book I re-read was The Hobbit (surprise surprise!) and the least shelved but absolutely amazing May Day by Josie Jaffrey!
On average this year I rated books at around 4.2 stars – pretty decent!
Other stats include:
- Hitting 2600 (2636) followers on twitter!
- Gaining 232 GR friends!
- Moving over the 500 mark for my blog following!
- Getting 264 followers on Instagram (though I have abandoned it a tad…)
- Currently (temporarily…) holding a 94% feedback ratio on Netgalley!
Phew! That was a big post! I had quite a fun year with a lot of truly amazing reads that I completely fell in love with.
How was your 2021? Did you find any new favourite reads? Let me know. Here’s to a 2022 full of brilliant reads for you all!
KBbookreviews 
I enjoyed Grisha trilogy and queen of nothing this year too.
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Glad you enjoyed them as well! 💜
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You read so many great books! I also enjoyed The Bone Shard Emperor and The Liar’s Knot.
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Thank you! Glad you ejoyed them too!!
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