Hah – did everyone else blink and miss January or was it just me?  I’ve been so busy.  Work is a bloody pest and every weekend has just been chaos.   And next weekend I’m off to Iceland – which I’m really excited about.  Anyway, my January in review (with a few reviews still to come):

Books read: (with links to reviews)

1. Defender by GX Todd (Voices #1)
2. Chimes at Midnight by Seanan McGuire 
3. Naamah’s Kiss by Jacqueline Carey 
4. Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire
5. Rosewater – 
6. Caraval by Stephanie Garber
7. Dawn Study by Maria V Snyder 
8. The Grey Bastards – currently reading
9. Department Zero by Paul Crilley
10. Deadlight Jack by Mark Onspaugh – review to follow
11. The Black Wolves of Boston – review to follow

Last month’s covers are here.

Backlist books

None this month.

Unfinished series completed:

Dawn Study by Maria V Snyder

Books Bought: – showing restraint this month

1. Authority (The Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 2) by Jeff VanderMeer
2. Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth
3. The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth

Review Books: (with links to Goodreads)

1. Rosewater by Tade Thompson
2. Blood Upon the Sand by Bradley Beaulieu
3. The Ninth Rain (The Winnowing Flame Trilogy 1) by Jen Williams
4. The Darkhaven Novels (3) – Windsinger by Smith, A. F. E.
5. The Turn by Kim Harrison
6. The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi

My Cover Compare this month.

 

I prefer the second cover – both are quite dramatic and really quite different but on balance I would probably pick up the second book.

Events:

Backlist Backburn is an end of month event organised by Lisa at Tenacious Reader. If you’ve caught up on any of your backlist then call over and link up.   I find this a good incentive to dust off some of my books.

Top Ten Tuesday at The Broke and Bookish (every Tuesday)

Waiting on Wednesday is an event hosted by Breaking the Spine where every week we get to shine the spotlight on a book that we’re looking forward to.

The Friday Face off by Books by Proxy

Friday Firsts is a weekly event hosted by Lisa at Tenacious Reader. which is a great way to let everyone know the first sentence and first impressions for your current read.

SPFBO  – Ten finalists (details here).  Books read: Outpost, Shadow Soul and Paternus review of The Grey Bastards complete – review to follow

Readalongs:

1. Readalong for Naamah’s Kiss by Jacqueline Carey – completed
2. Readalong for Chimes at Midnight (Toby Daye Book 7) by Seanan McGuire – completed

Classic Clubs read:

Unfortunately none this month but I’ve bought a copy of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall which I’m really looking forward to.