Crossposting my comment from booknook. If I can remember to keep this up for every "Wednesday Reading Progress" that would be great or maybe every other week. I don't normally post comments on Goodreads just ratings so this might be a good way to remember my feelings about a particular book/author. Please note that I mainly read Romance books, other genres are usually secondary.

In this case, some of my thoughts were already posted in a previous post.


Currently Reading:
+ A Mannequin for Christmas by Timothy Janovsky, bought it because it was Timothy Janovsky and I've loved several of his books and also for my love of the 1987 Mannequin movie (plus its sequel). I'm enjoying it so far, but it's taking me longer to read it since I'm only reading it at work.
+ Voidwalker by S.A. MacLean, really enjoying this one, I would have been done this ages ago but I didn't want it to end. I'll probably finish it this month though. I think I'm in the last part of the book.
+ Game Changer by Rachel Reid, I have the audiobook version and the accent that the voice actor does for Kip is horrible? Or like, just makes me cringe so I kinda keep backing out of it. I have read all the other books so they were fine and I love them, and I hate that I can't get through this book. I love Scott/Kip's episode in the Heated Rivalry show & I wanted more of them. I'm probably going to have to get my hands on a physical copy of that book to get through it.
+ Knot Her Shot by Ari Wright, a Kindle why choose romance that I bought forever ago and just now got around to it? So far it basically sucks. I like tiny parts of it? And I'm powering through it since I really don't want to start the year DNF anything but it's a battle. I'm so close to being done too.
+ What If... Wanda Maximoff and Peter Parker Were Siblings? by Seanan McGuire, So far not bad? But I'm not in very far though, only reading it a few times a week for the last month.
+ Meg by Steve Alten, mostly because I really liked the movie and it was picked out for me by a bookclub. I am not really enjoying it though, it's a little too dry for me and it can't hold my attention (I haven't even gotten to point where they actually dive yet although he just arrived at the location). I'm going to try again maybe after watching the movie, maybe that might help? I think I'm more into movie/show horror genre than the book horror genre I guess.

Just Finished:
+ Jingle Spells by Emily Grimoire, a MF Christmas Witch book that I really hoped I'd enjoy a lot more than I did. I feel like it was way to long. And had a lot of annoying moments that made me walk away from the book a few times (I started this back in November or December). I think it was too long? And I don't normally say that about a book. There was just a lot of secondary characters and a lot of different plots, that if they cut back on some of them I think I might have enjoyed this more. Minus the forgetting spell. Also there's no clear reasoning behind the hate between withes & magicians? It's a trilogy and it's apparently book 2 of it, so maybe I missed some plot points in Book 1, but I don't really want to read it honestly - that sister didn't seem very likeable.
+ Blizzards and Bastards by C.M. Stunich (reread technically, re-started the reread in December and just finished), a why choose FMMMM Christmas book with lots of Christmas puns and curse words & tropes. I liked it so much back in December that I immediately started listening to it again (I have the audiobook - I LOVE THE DUET STYLE). Is it cheesy? Yeah. Is it highly unlikely to ever happen/unrealistic? Yes. Should the FMC have been aged up from 22? Yeah, definitely (I think besides her age and her horrible family are basically the only things I dislike, but you kinda are meant to hate her family). But I like it, and I'll probably listen to it again. Oh and fair warning that although it's basically said outright (or heavily implied) in the book that all the men are also implied to be in a relationship with each other - it's not actually shown in the book. Would I read a sequel? Yes. Am I going to check out the author's other works? Yes... but I'm not sure if I'll like them as much but we shall see. This book definitely isn't for anyone though, it has mixed reviews on Goodreads.

Finished within the last week:
Get Frosted by Amy Aislin & Silent Knight by Beth Bolden - basically a MM Hallmark Christmas small-town low stakes book series that takes place in the same town all by different authors. I wanted to like them a lot more than I actually did.

I feel like Get Frosted was the better out of the two? Would I probably grab the books in the series? Maybe? I liked the small-town romance and the setting and most of the characters. I do feel like Silent Knight was the weaker one out of the two, mostly because the author kept referring to her MAIN characters thoughts as their friends and that was so freaking annoying. I can understand doing that maybe once, but it's basically EVERY single time until the very end. Also the writing was not great? Not sure how to describe it, but both seemed off a little bit. Also Get Frosted seemed to be a closed-door book while Silent Knight was smuttier of the two? Not sure how the rest of the series is.