I finally read all the books I needed to for this blog post! I went through Goodreads, TikTok, and Instagram and picked two books from each app to add to my TBR. I ended up choosing the first book that I came to that I owned, except for two exceptions. It could not be a new series… unless it was one I wanted to read this year anyways and I could veto a book if I didn’t think I could handle it. I ended up with quite a few five stars during this experiment and a few meh books. Hope you enjoy!
Goodreads:
My books from Goodreads were The Midnight Library by Matt Haig and A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas.
- The Midnight Library: When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change. The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren’t always what she imagined they’d be, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger. Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live?
- I really wanted to like this books and I didn’t. A lot of people love it and I just felt it was okay. I didn’t like Nora and felt myself skimming through a lot of her lives…
- A Court of Mist and Fury: Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she’s now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds she performed to save the lives of Tamlin and his people. As her marriage to Tamlin approaches, Feyre’s hollowness and nightmares consume her. She finds herself split into two different one who upholds her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court, and one who lives out her life in the Spring Court with Tamlin. While Feyre navigates a dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms. She might just be the key to stopping it, but only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future-and the future of a world in turmoil.
- I had started this book last year and while I was really enjoying it, I put it down. I finally finished it and can’t wait to start the next book!
TikTok:
My books from Tiktok were Twisted Love by Ana Huang and Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
- Twisted Love: Alex Volkov is a devil blessed with the face of an angel and cursed with a past he can’t escape. Driven by a tragedy that has haunted him for most of his life, his ruthless pursuits for success and vengeance leave little room for matters of the heart. But when he’s forced to look after his best friend’s sister, he starts to feel something in his chest: A crack. A melt. A fire that could end his world as he knew it.***Ava Chen is a free spirit trapped by nightmares of a childhood she can’t remember. But despite her broken past, she’s never stopped seeing the beauty in the world…including the heart beneath the icy exterior of a man she shouldn’t want. Her brother’s best friend. Her neighbor. Her savior and her downfall. Theirs is a love that was never supposed to happen-but when it does, it unleashes secrets that could destroy them both…and everything they hold dear.
- I loved this! I could not put it down and read most of it in a day. I loved the romance and can’t wait to continue this series.
- Daisy Jones & The Six: Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. Her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend, Camila, finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road. Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend. The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting novel, written as if it were the oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies.
- It took me over half the book to really start enjoying this, but once it hooked me I really enjoyed it. This is told in interviews which I loved. The ending even made me cry.
Instagram:
For Instagram, my books were Deep End by Ali Hazelwood and The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata.
- Deep End: Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A Junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on getting into med school and on recovering from the injury that almost ended her career. She has no time for relationships—at least, that’s what she tells herself. Swim captain, world champion, all-around aquatics golden boy, Lukas Blomqvist thrives on discipline. It’s how he wins gold medals and breaks records: complete focus, with every stroke. On the surface, Lukas and Scarlett have nothing in common. Until a well-guarded secret slips out, and everything changes. So they start an arrangement. And as the pressure leading to the Olympics heats up, so does their relationship. It was supposed to be just a temporary, mutually satisfying fling. But when staying away from Lukas becomes impossible, Scarlett realizes that her heart might be treading into dangerous water…
- I loved this book so much! I could not put it down and would have read it all in a day if I could have… This is definitely Ali’s spiciest book and I can’t wait to see what she comes out with next.
- The Wall of Winnipeg and Me: Vanessa Mazur refuses to feel bad for quitting—she knows she’s doing the right thing. The thankless job of personal assistant to the top defensive end in the National Football Organization was always supposed to be temporary. She has plans for her life, and none of them include washing extra-large underwear one more day for a man who could never find it in him to tell her good morning, congratulate her on a job well done, or wish her a happy birthday—even when she was spending it working for him. The legendary “Wall of Winnipeg” may be adored by thousands, but after two years Van has had enough. But when Aiden Graves shows up at her door begging her to come back, she’s beyond shocked. Mr. Walled-Off Emotions is actually letting his guard down for once. And she’s even more dumbstruck when he explains that her job description is about to become even more outrageous: something that takes the “personal” in personal assistant to a whole new level. What do you say to the man who is used to getting everything he wants?
- I loved this! I couldn’t stop reading and the slow burn was everything. This book had me giggling and screeching with every moment the two characters were together. I loved every minute of it and need more books from this author.
Those are the books social media chose for me! I normally could have done this whole post in a week, but with work and some of the books being either chunky or slow, it did take me longer than I had hoped. I hope you enjoyed this and if you want me to do some other reading experiments like this, let me know! Until next time.