Romance Readers Reading Challenges discussion

Let's reflect on the best and worst of the previous month's books.....

I know I can get so focused on what is next that I forget about all the wonderful books I read for the previous month's challenges! There were some holidays last month, but also spring break for some. I got lots of reading done amidst the craziness, did you?

Did you find some gems? DNF a few? Find your new book boyfriend or a heroine who personifies TSTL? Come on, we all want to know!

You know, it's funny - I would have said I didn't have any five stars from the previous month, lots of fours though. But when I looked at my ratings I find I gave three books five stars! Those three were:
Drawn Together by Lauren Dane
Servicing the Target by Cherise Sinclair
What You Need by Lorelei James

Both Drawn Together and Servicing the Target had characters from earlier in the series that you wouldn't imagine as heroines and when they were you just loved them. I think that is what pushed them up in the ratings for me. I love when an author can make me love a character I didn't even like before! What You Need was such a departure from the author's usual style, that I wasn't expecting it. So it sort of took me by surprise how much I enjoyed it.

I had lots of four star books too - I did read 24 books in March, but only a couple that didn't quite measure up and that was mostly because they were shorter. All in all, a very good and busy month!

I read 30 books in March and had quite a few really good ones.

5 Star Books:



2 really good RS books with great characters, suspenseful plots that kept me on the edge of my seat and a great romance. Also two paranormal books from a couple of my favorite series. You can't go wrong with Kate & Curran and Mercy & Adam.

4.5 Star Books:



A wonderful RS with a really creepy bad guy and a super hot hero. A fun and entertaining sports romance and a historical romance that I really enjoyed.

I also had quite a few 4 star books. (the ones that stood out) are

Wow, your 30 makes my 24 seem puny... =P

Looks like some good ones though!

You had what looks like a great reading month, Danielle.

My favorite read of March was . I really enjoyed every minute of it!

My second favorite was . It was because of the Random List Challenge that I even picked this one up. It was really good and I'm definitely going to continue with the series.

Worst: The Maker of Saints I am still reading this book. i just can't seem to concentrate on it but I am not a quitter lol.

Best: Cinder This was on my shelf since it was release. I bought it at a Scholastic book sale. I love this spin on the Cinderella story and I MUST find Scarlet.

Fran wrote: "My favorite read of March was . I really enjoyed every minute of it!"

That one was so sweet!

The best book series I read in Mar was definitely . I'm still trying to get my head around it. It's a book I will not forget in a hurry!

, , were all fantastic 5 star reads too!

The biggest surprise was . 4 short books, all free on Ibooks. I really enjoyed it.

The worst was , , . All Kindle freebies. The only thing they had going for them is the fact I cleared 3 books from my kindle app!

One 5 star read The Wicked Wallflower by Maya Rodale fabulous regency romp.

My one star read The Mad Mistress by Sorcha MacMurrough regency but way too modern. Set in 1812. One example: When talking marriage the hero suggested if it didn't work out they could get a divorce.

I had two 5-star reads in March:

- Actually 4.5 stars rounded up because the audiobook was fun.

- A continuation of this hilarious series.

My least favorite was:

- It's in the Play-by-Play series that I've been loving, so it was very disappointing to find this one only a 3-star read.

Here are all of my 5 star reads of March. It was a good reading month in that regard:



I really loved all these books, and as most of them are series, I'm really looking forward to continuing them all :)

Most disappointing books:


The Murder Pit was sort of flat to me.
I've also never been the biggest fan of the Rosie Project (I know I'm in the minority there), but thought I'd check book 2 out since it's not like I hated Rosie Project at all, it was just only a 3 star read for me. Book 2 was unnecessary though in the series. Everything I didn't like in the first book was sort of multiplied in the second one.
As for Insurgent, my main complaint is the main character. I just feel like slapping her around the head all the time. I'm not looking forward to Allegiant, because I've heard a lot of bad things about it, but I will finish the trilogy!

Can't say it was the best month ever but I had a couple of good books:
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The rest were average ones, including , which I found just OK. At least I advanced 3 series: Jack Reacher, Spymasters & The Others.

Oh I had lots of DNFs too (around 4.) But I'm being philosophical about those. At least they're out of my TBR!

Sandra wrote: "The only thing they had going for them is the fact I cleared 3 books from my kindle app!..."

Hahaha - I often feel like that is SUCH an achievement! It's almost worth a 1 or 2 star read ;)

I really enjoyed , so much that I went back and reread and have put on my 'to reread' list :D

I also loved . I love that world that Andrea Speed has created.

My other 5 star read was . I am yet to read a Rowan Speedwell book that I haven't loved.

The biggest disappointment for me was - I rated it 3.5 stars, but the whole series is just dropping off for me :(