2023 started off well for me, as I finished my TBR and read 22 books in total. I think a lot of this came from The Story Graph’s January Pages challenge, which inspired me to read at least a page every day. It allowed me to make time for myself and reading again. Also, I got a mega haul of some amazing books – thank you so much to the publishers for sending me these!

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Recent Reads:

• #84
• #85

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Reviews:

• Tell Me No Lies, The Whispering Muse & She is a Haunting
• This Book Kills
• Every Gift a Curse; Friday, I’m in Love & The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
• The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels; The Pledge & The Shadow of Perseus
• The Black Queen

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Haul:

Usborne sent me a finished copy of This Book Kills by Ravena Guron and a very cool package to celebrate its release, as well as You Think You Know Me by Ayaan Mohamud. The lovely Candy Ikwuwunna at Penguin sent me A Dark Inheritance by H. F. Askwith, while the incredible Harriet Dunlea and Hannah Love at Scholastic sent me This Time It’s Real by Ann Liang and A Game of Life or Death by Triona Campbell.

Rob Richardson at Melia sent me Enter the Body by Joy McCullough and Bethan Thomas at Macmillan sent me The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas.

Finally, my preorder of The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett arrived (not pictured) and I treated myself to a copy of The Midnight Game by Cynthia Murphy.

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Netgalley Haul:

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• Friday, I’m in Love by Camryn Garrett
• The Shadow of Perseus by Claire Heywood
• Song of Silver, Flame like Night by Amelie Wen Zhao
• The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro
• One for All by Lillie Lainoff
• Clara & Olivia by Lucy Ashe
• Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones
• Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter
• This Is The Way The World Ends by Jen Wilde
• Freeze by Kate Simants
• Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee
• Let’s Play Murder by Kesia Lupo
• At Midnight 
• Seven Faceless Saints by M. K. Lobb
• The Pledge by Cale Dietrich
• Where Darkness Blooms by Andrea Hannah