A Magical Girl Retires sounds so fun! And I'm glad you liked The Spellshop and The Housewitch, because I have both on my TBR😂 2024 was a strange reading year, like I read a lottttt due to circumstances, but there were also a lot of weird reads😅 I think my favourites can all be summarised as dark/mafia romances, lots of them by Evie Rose, mysteries such as the Veronica Speedwell series, return to manga, and a one or two romantasy books. And of course the standard bulk of PNR novellas, but none of those really stood out🙃 I think my overall favourite of 2024 was Desperate Measures by Katee Robert⭐
I still don't get the criticism of Bride. Lol. But I think you're right, I just accepted this as some sort of Nalini coded world. And I was very here for it! I really hope we get a sequel.
I'm glad you mentioned the accuracy issue 😆 with some of these books. Sometimes I can suspend my disbelief, sometimes the mistakes are so glaring I give up. I'm jealous of your greater ability to suspend disbelief.
I really liked The Spellshop. Cozy definitely works best for me on audio because some of them are just too long or too slow :) Favorites of the year - Books - Only for the Week; The Fox Wife; The Very Irrefular Society of Witches; The Spellshop; A Sorceress Comes to Call; The Teller of Small Fortunes; Tie Me Knot Light Novels - The Abandoned Heiress Gets Rich with Alchemy and Scores an Enemy General! ; The Drab Princess, the Black Cat, and the Satisfying Break-up; Manga/Manwha Villains are Destined to Die; Secrets of the Silent Witch; The Holy Grail of Eris; When I Became a Commoner, They Broke Off Our Engagement! ; I Will Become the Villain’s Poison Taster; The Villainess Captured the Grand Duke; Things I liked well enough to binge Amaranthine Saga; Lola Glass; Nisha Sharma - If Shakespeare were an Auntie; Henri Davenforth; Saint of Steele; Meredith Ann Pierce Darkangel Trilogy; Molly Harper Mystic Bayou; Patricia Briggs Sianim & Mercy; Ilona Andrews Kinsman Universe;
My two surprise favorites of the year were Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao and Me by Elton John. Dear Wendy is about two aroace people befriending each other while having feuding relationship advice Instagrams for their college, and Me is Elton John's autobiography. I really did not expect to love or appreciate these books as much as I did.
Adding some of these to my TBR, I really want to get to In a Jam even though I usually avoid contemporary romance. And excited it's on KU! My top favorites were all sci-fi or fantasy (A Desolation Called Peace, Jade City and The Tainted Cup) but definitely had some romances in there too.
If In a Jam doesn't work totally DNF it but I feel like it takes a lot of contemporary romance stuff I don't always love and makes it different. I'm really excited to try Jade City this year. I have a feeling it will be a series I can't put down 💖💖💖
@@HappyforNow I definitely have high hopes for In a Jam, especially with what you said about 3rd act breakup. I got kind of burned out on them even though I love romance. Hope you love Jade City when you try it! It's some of the best character work I've ever read.
A Magical Girl Retires sounds so fun! And I'm glad you liked The Spellshop and The Housewitch, because I have both on my TBR😂 2024 was a strange reading year, like I read a lottttt due to circumstances, but there were also a lot of weird reads😅 I think my favourites can all be summarised as dark/mafia romances, lots of them by Evie Rose, mysteries such as the Veronica Speedwell series, return to manga, and a one or two romantasy books. And of course the standard bulk of PNR novellas, but none of those really stood out🙃 I think my overall favourite of 2024 was Desperate Measures by Katee Robert⭐
I still don't get the criticism of Bride. Lol. But I think you're right, I just accepted this as some sort of Nalini coded world. And I was very here for it! I really hope we get a sequel.
I'm glad you mentioned the accuracy issue 😆 with some of these books. Sometimes I can suspend my disbelief, sometimes the mistakes are so glaring I give up. I'm jealous of your greater ability to suspend disbelief.
Cuuuuuuuuuute holiday sweater 😍😍😍
I appreciate you populating my TBR like this. So many books that sound so good all in one spot!
(And I don't have Honey so you should actually get your affiliate commissions!)
ooh the magical girl retires sounds so good!
I really liked The Spellshop. Cozy definitely works best for me on audio because some of them are just too long or too slow :)
Favorites of the year -
Books -
Only for the Week; The Fox Wife; The Very Irrefular Society of Witches; The Spellshop; A Sorceress Comes to Call; The Teller of Small Fortunes; Tie Me Knot
Light Novels -
The Abandoned Heiress Gets Rich with Alchemy and Scores an Enemy General! ; The Drab Princess, the Black Cat, and the Satisfying Break-up;
Manga/Manwha
Villains are Destined to Die; Secrets of the Silent Witch; The Holy Grail of Eris; When I Became a Commoner, They Broke Off Our Engagement! ; I Will Become the Villain’s Poison Taster; The Villainess Captured the Grand Duke;
Things I liked well enough to binge
Amaranthine Saga; Lola Glass; Nisha Sharma - If Shakespeare were an Auntie; Henri Davenforth; Saint of Steele; Meredith Ann Pierce Darkangel Trilogy; Molly Harper Mystic Bayou; Patricia Briggs Sianim & Mercy; Ilona Andrews Kinsman Universe;
My two surprise favorites of the year were Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao and Me by Elton John. Dear Wendy is about two aroace people befriending each other while having feuding relationship advice Instagrams for their college, and Me is Elton John's autobiography. I really did not expect to love or appreciate these books as much as I did.
The Spellshop and Just for the Summer made my favourites as well. This is the year I finally read In a Jam!
They both were so fun. Yess please read In a Jam it was truly just so dang good 💖💖💖
Adding some of these to my TBR, I really want to get to In a Jam even though I usually avoid contemporary romance. And excited it's on KU!
My top favorites were all sci-fi or fantasy (A Desolation Called Peace, Jade City and The Tainted Cup) but definitely had some romances in there too.
If In a Jam doesn't work totally DNF it but I feel like it takes a lot of contemporary romance stuff I don't always love and makes it different.
I'm really excited to try Jade City this year. I have a feeling it will be a series I can't put down 💖💖💖
@@HappyforNow I definitely have high hopes for In a Jam, especially with what you said about 3rd act breakup. I got kind of burned out on them even though I love romance.
Hope you love Jade City when you try it! It's some of the best character work I've ever read.
I'm adding these to my list now. ❤ In Izzy, we trust.
🤞🏻 you find some new favorites with them 💖💖💖
I think you’ll like Two Twisted Crowns.
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