February 2025 Wrap-Up

Personal Highlights from this month:

  • Miss B started her job and she is loving it.
  • Miss R got her diagnosis—unspecified ADHD, an attachment disorder, and an unspecified anxiety disorder. Her therapist is adjusting her therapy sessions to follow the suggestions of the psychiatrist.
  • BK traveled to Minnesota and got to enjoy -2 to -14-degree weather. To say he wasn’t a fan is an understatement.
  • Mr. Z has his heart set on MIT for college. But he is also interested in a college that solely focuses on computer science in Salt Lake City, any of the UNC campuses, App State, and Western Carolina.

Blog/Reading Highlights from this month:

  • I read two books in The Zemnian Series (Wolf Island and The Singing Shore I: Sea and Song). I have read (and reviewed) two other books in the series—The Breathing Sea I: The Burning and The Breathing Sea II: Drowning. I am slowly working through this series and will return to see if the other 7 books will either be free or put on KU.
  • I read books 1 and 5 of The Starlight Chronicles. I am waiting for the rest of the series to either become free (unlikely) or show up on Kindle Unlimited (a better chance of this happening)
  • I read books 0.5 and 1 of the Hellions Ride series. Like the previous books I mentioned above, I will wait for the rest of the series to become free or go on Kindle Unlimited.
  • I finished the Waldegrave Series by A.L. Tyler (3 books). I was on the fence about the series. I couldn’t decide if I liked it or was bored with it. In the end, it was a combination of the two.

Books I Read:


Books I bought (unless otherwise stated, books were free at the time of purchase):

Keep My Secrets by Stephanie Julian (from BookBub)

Beauty and the Professor by Skye Warren (from BookBub)

Museum of Magic by Beth Revis (from BookBub)

Meet Me Under the Mistletoe by Stacey Kennedy (from my TBR)

A Lot Like Christmas by Kait Nolan (from my TBR)

Alien Mercenary’s Heart by Mina Carter (from my TBR)

Werewolves Only by Carrie Pulkinen (from Angel’s Book Nook)

He Ain’t Lion by Celia Kelly (from my TBR)

Bound to Submit by Laura Kaye (from my TBR)

When Kings Rise by Vi Carter (from BookBub)

A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie (from my TBR)

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (from my TBR)

Zoe Baird: Pathogens and Popstars by Michael Ball (from BookBub)

Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne (from The Wee Writing Lassie)

Raised to Kill by Evangeline Anderson (found by going down a rabbit hole )

Heather by Chris Keniston (from my TBR)

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (from my TBR)

The Big Four by Agatha Christie (from my TBR)

The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie (from my TBR)

Finding Love in Forgotten Cove by Karice Bolton (from my TBR)

One Fine May by Courtney McCaskill (from BookBub)

Her Big City Neighbor by Jackie Lau (from my TBR)

Crushing on You by Jen Trinh (from my TBR)

Craving the Fight by L.P. Dover (from my TBR)

Shadow Magic by Donna Grant (from my TBR)

Ivy & Bone by R.L. Perez (from my TBR)

Reckless by Susan Kiernan-Lewis (from BookBub)

The Fall Rush by Abby Jimenez (from Chonky Books)

By His Rule by Tracy Lorraine (from BookBub)

Unbroken by Melody Grace (from BookBub)

All This Time by Annabelle McCormack (from my TBR)

Feel the Heat by Kate Meader (from BookBub)


Goodreads Giveaway Wins

Our Last Wild Days by Anna Bailey

Clear Your TBR 2025—February

Prompts I finished in February


An Unexpected Ending


Read as a book club book


Related to Halloween (Spooky book? Witches and Wizards? If it has something to do with Halloween, you can use it)


A 5 Star Read


Based in a country you want to visit

Scotland

Main character’s name is in the title

MC’s name is Samantha Smith, nicknamed Sam

WWW Wednesday: February 5th, 2025

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme Sam hosts at Taking on a World of Words.

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?

What did you recently finish reading?

What do you think you’ll read next?

Here is what I am currently reading, recently finished, and plan to read from Thursday to Wednesday.

Let me know if you have read or are planning on reading any of these books!!

Happy Reading!


What I am currently reading:

“Confess!”
Patrick Lahm is down on his luck. Late for his book signing, out of gas and stuck in a storm. He hitches a ride to the Kurtain Motel where he is forced to spend the night. The small motel seems harmless enough at first, but as the night drags on, Patrick and the other guests slowly begin to realize there is a lot more to their temporary lodging than meets the eye.

Something evil is at work at the Kurtain Motel; something that creeps into the deepest, darkest corners of your mind and tugs at the chords of sanity until they finally break. On the longest night of his life, Patrick soon finds out that there is a reason why skeletons are kept in closets. He realizes that your sins always find a way to catch up with you, no matter how hard you try to run.

Welcome to the Kurtain Motel, where all your nightmares come true.


What I recently finished reading:

Eli likes uncomplicated. Kill the Vampire Coven Master, save the little girl, simple and uncomplicated. That changes with a phone call. Life gets complicated quickly when Eli finds out that he has to work with his most dangerous foe, a beautiful demon succubus. When Good and Evil have to work together against a common enemy, Eli has to wonder, who’s going to put the knife in his back, his enemies, or his allies.


What I plan on reading next:

Olson lives in a city that has been sealed from the outside world. He’s an Eleven Year and close to citizenship. His life is upended when one of the few adults who cares about him commits suicide – or so it appears at first. While investigating, Olson meets a girl named Natalie snooping around his school. He soon learns that one of her friends died under similarly mysterious circumstances. Together, they start looking for answers, and end up discovering the city’s darkest secrets.

Love isn’t always pretty. Sometimes you have to break the thing you love in order to put the pieces back together again.

“Life is all about choices. Do I want pizza or a hamburger for dinner? Should I wear a red skirt or blue slacks to work? Do I take a million dollar check and divorce the love of my life to keep my baby brother out of jail? In case you’re wondering, I took the check. Now my ex is back in my life. He’s still angry and…he’s my new boss.”

Pretty Broken Girl is the passionate retelling of a marriage gone wrong.

From the boardroom to the bedroom, Dakota Atwell and Samuel Seaforth are locked in a battle of wits and desire. One of them will break. One of them will pay. Both of them want to win. Neither of them expects to fall in love…again.

This is Book 1 of a five book series. It contains adult language, adult situations, and hot steamy sex with a HFN ending. Although it can be read as a standalone, it will be much more enjoyable when read with the other books in the series.

When Seventeen year old Winter Merrill made a bargain with the mysterious Secret Keeper, she knew there were rules. The most important one, the next time you have a secret, you will not be able to tell it….even if you try. What she didn’t know is that her next secret if not told, would destroy her life and the life of Liam, the only boy she ever loved. Can Winter find a way out of the dark bargain that binds her tongue or will her deal with the Secret Keeper bring devastating consequences unimaginable even to her?

Finley Reeves is the queen of bad mistakes. Fresh off a bad divorce, she decides to rebuild her life from the ground up – starting with a fixer-upper that’s got more leaks than the Titanic. Deciding to tackle this project alone might be her biggest mistake of all…. That is, until Noah Thompson shows up at her front door like a knight in a shining tool belt and makes her an offer she’d be crazy to refuse.

Noah’s sexy, rugged, and good with his hands, but Finley swears she doesn’t need his help – in the basement, or in the bedroom. Can this unlikely couple build a future together? Or will this be one fixer-upper that is better off left alone?