Booking Ahead/Weekly Wrap Up
27 July 2025
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Tags: Book Reviews, Booking Ahead, Books, Caffeinated Book Reviewer, reading, Sunday Post, TBR, Weekly wrap up

Books read this week:
It’s been quiet on the blog and I’ve missed one of my weekly wrap ups so today will be a double. Basically, I’ve had hip replacement surgery and so have been a little out of action. I think everything is going well though and I’ve certainly been doing lots of reading so let’s take a look at the books I’ve picked up recently.
I completed and really enjoyed The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig – the audio book was very good. I also finished and, again, really enjoyed It Was Her House First by Cherie Priest. I read My Ex, the AntiChrist by Craig DiLouie which was another very good read that I enjoyed the style of storytelling and I completed Another Fine Mess by Lindy Ryan. I picked up and read about 50% of The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw – this one didn’t work for me and I’ve decided it’s a DNF. I really wanted to complete it but seriously I can’t. It’s just not my style. Finally I’ve managed to complete Fateless by Julie Kagawa – action packed and enjoyable if a little generic. This means I’ve completed my July reads and can move onto August review titles. Woot. (Although I need to press on with reviews now to catch up).
Next Week’s Reads:
I think I’ll pick up The Bone Raiders by Jackson Ford and I also have the audio version of The Dead Husband Cookbook by Danielle Valentine.
Reviews Posted:
- The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst
Outstanding Reviews
- Shield of Sparrows by Devney Perry
- Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
- The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
- It Was Her House First by Cherie Priest
- My Ex, the AntiChrist by Craig DiLouie
- The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw
- Fateless by Julie Kagawa
That’s it for me this week, what have you been up to? Any good books to shout out about. Let me know.









Good luck healing from surgery, Lynn! I’m looking forward to your thoughts on a bunch of these😁
Well, I have finished the Dead Husband’s Cookbook and it was a total banger.
Lynn 😀
I am glad the surgery went well, I hope you’re feeling good too! I am looking forward to The Bone Riders too, I hope to get to it soon!! 🤞
I look forward to reading your thoughts.
Lynn 😀
Glad to hear your surgery went well and that you’ve had plenty of reading time.
Well done on DNFing too, I’m still trying to master the art of it (but I think I’m getting a bit better :D)
I really try not to DNF but sometimes I just know if I don’t I’ll stop reading completely.
Lynn 😀
Looks like on the whole you had more good reads than bad. But I am with you on Hellebore. I came close to dnfing as well, but it picked up near the middle and it was a fast read. Still, I felt it was pretty mid.
Yeah, it really didn’t work for me in any way. But otherwise I had some good reads.
Lynn 😀