5 Star Predictions for 2025 ...

While none of these came out in 2025.  They are still books I think will be 5 star reads and I want to read them this year. 

1. A Curse for True Love 

    the final book in the Once Upon a Broken Heart series trilogy by Stephanie Garber.  I have put this one off long enough.  Out of fear it won't live up to the first two book and I just don't want the series to end. 

2. Celestial Monsters 

    the final book in the Sunbearer duology by Aiden Thomas.  This was on most anticipated list for 2024. I loved the first one. 

3. Phantamsa

    book one in the wicked games series, I want to know what all the hype is about. 

4. Somewhere Beyond the Sea

    the sequel to the House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune, the first book was so wonderful and I can't wait to be back in that world. 

5. When the Moon Hatched  

    book one in the Hatched series by Sarah A Parker, another book I want to know does it live up to all the hype. 

Of course there are others like Quicksilver, which I am currently reading, Rewitched, A Darker Shade of Magic, the Honey Witch, The Nightmare before Kissmas, just to name a few.  All of which are on my priority list and some more.  Will do another more detailed post another time.  

Will do a follow up post at some point and see how I did. 

 

Guess what I did the last day of 2024 ? .....

I rearranged my books. lol  I am still double stacked on more shelves then I like but its all I can do for now.

I unhauled 26 books either because I am no longer interested in them or I have them on my kindle. lol

Break down of books are as follows
56 Romance 
37 Paranormal Romance
29 YA Romance
2 New Adult Romance, 124 total Romance

1 Historical
3 Literally Fiction
20 Thrifted

27 Fantasy
96 YA Fantasy
4 Urban Fantasy, 127 total Fantasy

32 Horror all but 5 are Anne Rice
117 Middle Grade
9 Anthologies

It is so relaxing organizing books lol I still need to do my comics and my graphic novels. lol

        

 

First Book of 2025 ...

 

Quicksilver by Callie Hart

624 pages, Kindle Edition, enemies-to-lovers, Romantasy

Quicksilver contains depictions of graphic violence/adult situations and is therefore recommended for readers 17+. For a full list of tropes and TWs, please visit the author's website. (taken from Goodreads)

With the tag line "Do not touch the sword. Do not turn the key. Do not open the gate."  How can you not want to read this book lol 

I started reading and listening to this one through Audible last night. I am 55 pages in, which is 4 chapters I think, and I am really liking it.  I think things will start to pick up once she gets tangled up with the Fae. I am liking the narrator as well. The listening time is 20 h, 41 m. 

Review to come once finished  

2025 Reading Goals ....

In December I had a clear cut way I wanted to tackle my TBR for 2025 but now I am not so sure. 

I am going to do the Goodreads challenge of 52 books for the year and the kindle challenges throughout the year.  Those ones are fairly easy.

As for the Always Fully Booked reading challenges, I think their are 5 or 6 of them.  The LiterALLy BOOKish Book Club challenges, they have two main ones thought the year and then different ones each month.  I was thinking about only doing the main reading challenges from Creating and Co.  I am only printing them out this year.  Trying to save some money.  Then their are the YouTube reading challenges from Bree - 4 paws and a book, Steph loves and Rainy blue reads.  Plus any that pop up through out the year. This is were things get confusing and are a bit more work.

But now I wanted to mood read more, but I know if I don't have some type of structure or way to decided what to read I will be indecisive. I created a Candy Land TBR game to help with deciding what books to read by using reading prompts from this years challenges. But I haven't done the leg work to do TBR's slash ideas for the prompts yet.  Usually I am ahead of the game but I got discouraged when I didn't get my planner on time due to the Canada Post strike.  I have it now but I am so behind and not in the mood now lol 

I know I wanted to cut back on the reading challenges and I have but by the looks of this list not as much as I had hoped. The two main ones are the AFB challenges where I have bought the planner and still want to use it and the LiteraLLy Bookish group.  The YouTube ones are new and really wanted to do them last year but didn't have the time. The ones that are all year, don't bother me as much as the ones that are only a month. sigh

What started this was Jaysen -Ezeekat and Brittany love reading, both from YouTube, have decided to simplify there reading goals and I really liked what they came up with.  Jaysen is doing 5 categories and Brittany is just going with the flow so she can do more YouTube challenges. 

Maybe I will just take January off and just read what I want and see what happens.  Regroup at the end of the month and plan for February.   Decisions Decisions lol