YA Addicted Book Club discussion

2023 goal: 333/250 books


January



February



March


April


May


June


July


August


September

October


November


December



Challenges:


Yearly:
- Tackle that TBR 30/52
- Genre 23/25
- Trope Bingo 25/25
- A-Z Challenge 23/26

Quarterly:
- Laugh it up - Jan-March 10/10
- Eurovision - April - June 5/5


PIFM
January What I Carry
February For the Wolf
March Belladonna
April Perfect on Paper
May A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Statistics:

Genre
Fantasy: 123
Mystery/Thriller: 25
Romance: 79
Sci-Fi: 16
Historical: 3
YA Fantasy: 17
Horror: 3
YA Other: 7
Non-fiction: 18
Other: 24

Author
Male: 65
Female: 238
unknown/other: 3

Type
Hardcopy: 15
Ebook: 242
Audio: 45


Length
<200 pages: 22
201-500 pages: 232
501-999 pages: 52
1000+ pages:


Star rating
5 - 13
4 -127
3 - 130
2 - 35
1 - 1

Series to finish :

Outlander (7/9)
The Sword of Truth (4/15)
Realm Breaker (1/3)
Blood and Moonlight (1/2)
Broken Kingdoms (5/9)



Series to be continued this year once the next instalment is released
Talon (1/2)
Mortal Enemies to Monster Lovers (4/5)
The Wild Women of Whitechapel (2/3)
Stay a Spell (5/6)
Knockemount (2/3)
The Edens (5/6)
A League of Extraordinary Women (3/4)
Dark Olympus (4/7)
The Plated Prisoner (4/5)
Dark Shores (3/4)
The Iron Widow (1/2)
Married to Magic (4/5)
London Calling (2/4)
Meant to be (2/?)
The Bridge Kingdom (3/5)
Between Earth and Sky (2/3)
Blood and Ash (4/6)
The Black Witch Chronicles (4/5)
Burning Kingdoms (2/3)
The Hollow Star Saga (2/4)
Godkiller (1/2)

Series to be continued when the next instalment comes out (not this year or date not set)
Crescent City (2/?)
Belladonna (2/3)
Little Thieves (2/3)
Crowns of Nyaxia (2/6)
Letters of Enchantment (1/2)
Flesh and False Gods (1/3)
The Witchlands (4/5)
Heartstopper (4/5)
Mistborn (7/10)
Aurelia Ryder (1/?)
Shamanborn (2/3)
Empire of the Vampire (1/3)
The Stormlight Archive (4/10)
Reckless (4/5)
The Archived (2/3)
Twin Crowns (2/?)
A Court of Thorns and Roses (4/6)
A Song of Ice and Fire (5/7)
The Book of Dust (2/3)
Villains (2/3)
Legacy of Orisha (2/3)
Gentlemen Bastards (3/7)
The Iron Covenant (1/3)
Alpha & Omega (6/?)
Six of Crows (2/3)
The Kingkiller Chronicle (2/3)
Elantris (1/2)
Warbreaker (1/2)
Witches Steeped in Gold (2/3)
Skyward (3/4)
The Language of Magic (1/?)
Castles in Their Bones (1/?)
Monsters (1/?)
The Talents Trilogy (1/3)
Deathless (2/3)
Mercy Thompson (13/?)
Defy the Night (2/3)
Violet Made of Thorns (1/2)
The Singing Hills Cycle (3/4)
Briardark (1/2)
The Bloodsworn Saga (2/3)
Legendborn (2/?)
The Atlas (2/3)
The Stolen Heir (1/2)
Alex Stern (2/3)
The Witches of Thistle Grove (3/4)
Emily Wilde (1/?)
The Bellamy Sisters (2/3)
Maple Hills (1/2)
Adrian X Isolde (2/3)
Amina Al-Sirafi (1/3)
Winner Bakes All (1/3)
The Guild Codex: Warped (4/5)
Stars and Smoke (1/?)
Stardust in their Veins (2/3)
Never a Hero (1/3)
Threads of Power (1/3)
The Scarlet Veil (1/3)
Legends of Thezmarr (2/3)
Awakening (1/3)
The Hurricane Wars (1/?)
Empyrean (2/5)
The Ever King (1/2)
Flesh and Fire (3/4)
Murderbot (8/9)

Series finished this year :
Great Cities (2/2)
The School for Good and Evil (6/6)
The Last Hours (3/3)
The Immortal Orders (3/3
The Regency Vows (4/4)
The War of Lost Hearts (3/3)
Zodiac Academy (8/8)
The Prison Healer (3/3)
Silo (3/3)
Gods and Monsters (2/2)
Bromance Book Club (5/5)
Shadows and Crowns (5/5)
The Reckoners (3/3)
Thursday Murder Club (4/4)
Foul Lady Fortune (2/2)
Air Awakens (5/5)
Lazy Girl's Guide to Magic (3/3)
The Radiant Emperor (2/2)

Looks great Laura! I wish my series list was as short as yours, also love that you have the ones with new books coming out this year on there as reminders

oh yeah, my series list is embarrassingly long lol. Good luck on your challenges Laura!

I‘m a little OCD with my series but slowly working on Outlander and Sword of truth (which I will finish someday I promise!)

And thank you both!

January Round-Up

What did you think of What If?? I read that one last month too! Lol

I enjoyed it! It was definitely entertaining! How about you?

I really enjoyed it too! It was fun but also really interesting! I started the second book yesterday. Lol.

Wow! That's an amazing month. How did you like The City We Became, The Stolen Heir, Hell Bent, Before Coffee Went Cold and Back in a Spell?

@Liliana the sequel is on my list for next month!

@Elena I loved Hell Bent! My first 5 star read of the year!

The City We Became, Before the Coffee went Cold were both solid reads that I also enjoyed a lot!

Back in a Spell was fun, but didn't stand out too much.

The Stolen Heir was quite disappointing for me to be honest - I expected more.

How was Tress?!
Also fabulous looking month

I loved Tress!

March Round-UP - it was a productive month!

March

Wow that was a productive month Laura! How did you find A Day of Fallen Night? And The Sinister Booksellers of Bath? I was kind of on the fence about the first Booksellers book, so I want to know if it's worth reading the sequel!

I somehow found it really hard to get into A Day of Fallen Night? And didn’t enjoy it as much as priory (but I seem to be in the minority here)

For Sinister Booksellers, I enjoyed this one but also enjoyed the first book. I’d say if the first one wasn’t your cup of tea this won’t be either!

Ah okay, that's interesting! I liked Priory, but I had some of the same issues as you had with Fallen Night, I found it a little hard to get into at first so that's something I'll keep in mind when reading Fallen Night.
I didn't hate the Left-Handed Booksellers, I liked the concept and the world, I just felt like everything was a little underdeveloped. I will admit, I wasn't a huge fan of the narrator for the audiobook and she also did the sequel so that has me on the fence about reading it.

That makes sense! Keep me posted if you do end up picking up either of them

Do you recommend any of these books for a sophomore in highschool

I love the monthly update! And actually want to ask about almost all of them :) But will pick the ones I'm more interested in. So how did you like those?
1. A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon
2. Stay a Spell Series
3. The Edens Series
4. Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove
5. Adrian X Isolde Series

@Asher it has a lot of british references so not sure how that translates but I personally really enjoyed The Left Handed booksellers duology - read the second book this month!

@ Elena - feel free to ask about however many you want to!
1. A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon - this was just okay, wouldn't really recommend as I didn't vibe with the characters
2. Stay a Spell Series - these were really fun actually - cute world and characters, if you're in the mood for some light reading would recommend!
3. The Edens Series - my opinions very much varied between the different books - some were alright some I didn't enjoy
4. Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove - I wanted to love this more than I did in the end, not really sure why but didn't 100% vibe with it
5. Adrian X Isolde Series - this honestly felt a lot like Blood and Ash for some reason - still enjoyed them but definitely very reminiscent

Thats okay. I will check it out

Laura ☾ wrote: "That makes sense! Keep me posted if you do end up picking up either of them"

I will definitely read Fallen Night, but it might be a while-I got the physical book from one of Samantha Shannon's signings but it is so massive and not really practical to read on the go, so I'll be listening to the audiobook, but that's almost 39 hours, so I guess it will depend when I'm ready for that behemoth of a listen!

Laura ☾ wrote: "@Asher it has a lot of british references so not sure how that translates but I personally really enjoyed The Left Handed booksellers duology - read the second book this month!

@ Elena - feel fre..."

Thanks a lot! I've just added several of the books you enjoyed to my TBR too :)

Wow what a great month Laura! Absolute favourite book of the month?

Probably the adventures of amina Al sirafi!

Laura ☾ wrote: "Probably the adventures of amina Al sirafi!"

Fair!! I hope we don't have to wait too long for the next book

Me too!

Me three (though I'm not quite done with the first one yet! Almost at the end!).

Slightly belated April round-up

I'm jealous you have read Happy Place already, how was it?? Any standouts from the month?

Honestly I was a little disappointed with happy place - I didn’t really like the MCs and some of the tropes- but I know some other people loved it!

I think Nettle & Bone was my favourite !

Aww thats too bad! I'll still listen to it when I can but Ill try to go in with lower expectations then.

Oh! How was Study of Poisons? And Lives of Puppets?

Ooo I absolutely loved in the lives of puppets!

Study of poisons was just alright to me though

Thats fair, I find those books written in another perspective usually arent as good as I hope.
Lives of Puppets sounds interesting.

Yes! Especially since it’s plot you already mostly know just from another POV!

I do highly recommend In the Lives of Puppets!

What'd you think of Babysitter of the Apocalypse? That one sounds interesting!

It was just a short novella but so far interesting! It’s a prequel to an upcoming series!

I'm trying Under the Whispering Door currently by the same author but Ill put a hold on Puppets. Not sure of the start of this book, listening to the first chapter was almost painful with how the MC is. I think it should get better now though.

It definitely takes a while to get into but I loved Under the Whispering Door in the end!

Okay! Good to know that it takes a bit, I've cranked the speed for now until I get into it more