Chaotic Summertime TBR
Being a mood reader means I never really know what’s on my TBR long term. However here are a few of the books I’m hoping to finish/read by the end of the summer. We shall see — come September — what other reads inevitably got in the way.
Zodiac Academy 7-9
Oh my gosh this series. It started out as a fun, trashy side read. Then consumed my life for a month and now I’ve either burnt out or the storyline is just lacking something for me. I’ve started book 7 but I cannot stay focussed on it at all. Yes I could just DNF the series but I’m so close to the end. I see the light people.
Babel 📖
I started this a couple weeks ago because I had a hold on the audiobook at the library and it happened to pop up right before a long drive. Let me tell you it has completely derailed all the reading I planned to do on vacation. I actually have a physical copy but I left it at home not thinking I was planning to read it. Hindsight is 20/20 but thankfully I managed to download the ebook to my phone after the audiobook lapsed. This book is fucking good if I didn’t have to be a mom durning the day I would have finished it by now. Not now kids mom is reading. This is my first R. F. Kuang book and has easily convinced me to buy everything she writes forevermore.
The Bridge Kingdom⚔️
Okay I bought this at an event because someone said it gave Throne of Glass vibes. Then at the book store I saw the full series with their pretty colours and I’m nothing if not a sucker for pretty, cohesive, series covers. I absolutely do judge books by their cover you can’t change my mind on that. Now IF this is as good as I think it will be I may have to read the rest of the series immediately — because I know how I am — so this very well could single handedly derail my summer reading TBR. BUT if it’s good I don’t care.
A Wizard of Earthsea
I’m just trying to be a fan girl while on my break from the pod so I must keep up with Queen Marissa & Tay as they go through Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea series. The first book episodes are out now anywhere you listen to podcasts!
Persuasion 💜
This is solely for our 2AM Book Club. I’ve never read Jane Austin before so I’m slightly intimidated but I do feel like it’s my duty as a reader to read some of the classics now and again. @Marissa this one’s for you!
Quicksilver
Speaking of the classics I just gotta see what the hype is about. I’m fully expecting this to be another young not-like-other-girls girl meets dark shadow daddy mate story but like also I’m not that mad if it is. Maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised or maybe I can rant about it on The Book Jar pod OR maybe both. Don’t hate on me for being exactly like other girls.
The Spell Shop 🪄
I found this on book outlet and it sounded cozy and cute and maybe like a fun side quest for the Queens of Fantasy pod. Will report back.
She Who Became The Sun
I had really high hopes for this book but maybe I wasn’t in the right mood or it just isn’t for me. It’s been on pause for a couple months and I’m ready to come back to it and finish. I might have put it down right before it was about to pick up. Plus I already own the second one so I can jump right into it if I feel the need to finish the duology.
The Phoenix King 🐦🔥
The author popped up in a suggested follows section on Instagram and really sold me on her book right away. Kudos to her reels, they worked — not hard to convince me to read a book but that’s beside the point. PLUS the next book comes out this year so if I really love it I do not have to wait long to continue on. Which — as someone who reads very fast — is a bonus.
Fanfics I’ve Downloaded
The Quidditch Pitch & Oops! I Joined The Good Guys
Because have to feed my Dramione obsession every so often — lest it consume my life. I also have a few fanfics I’ve got on my phone. It’s not really a question whether or not I’ll finish these the real question is whether I’ll get sucked into a rabbit hole of fanfiction that makes me physically incapable of living my regular life. It’s a fine line I walk truly. Can you tell I have a problem.
If you were expecting this to be a cute list of beach reads then apologies for the chaos. Like I said before, mood reader. There’s no rhyme or reason I’m just going off vibes. Normally I never even make a list this all came about because I saw a cute curated bookstagram post idea on Pinterest and I thought how can I make that my own. Anyways, do tell, have you read any of these? Do you want too? Also what fanfics are we reading? (Don’t actually tell me I don’t need to add more to my list… kidding TELL ME.)