Welcome to Litsy!

I was sick at the beginning of the month so I have not done my final drawing yet, I will draw the final #NoShameReadathon22 winner on Sunday Dec 18!

I hope everyone who participated had fun exploring new genres! #NSR22

Just finished the tagged for the #nsr22 Grimdark category. Absolutely loved it!! This & Hundred Thousand Kingdoms are easily my favorites for fantasy.

Anyone have a suggestion for a quick read in the Sword & Sorcery category? I‘d love to finish the fantasy section by the end of year.

For Sci-fi, I read these 2, plus a ton of Ruby Dixon‘s sci-fi romances which don‘t really seem to fit these categories. Might finish 1 more if I get a chance🤷‍♀️

#nsr22 update

Finished the mystery category with these four titles. While I really loved all of these, Murder in G Major was an unexpected favorite.

I only managed one title in the horror categories, Bunny for a thriller which I very much enjoyed. I generally don‘t read a lot of horror books though so this was always going to be a hard one. And most of year I turned towards feel good romance titles instead.

Catching up on some #nsr22 updates!

Finished the tagged book at the end of November to complete the romance category. It was a low pick… it wasn‘t as dark as I thought it would be and while I wanted to find out how it ended, it was just sort of forgettable afterwards.

I actually read a TON of romance this year so I probably could have filled some of these categories several times over.

Favorites were Love Con & Perks of Loving a Wallflower 💖

I‘m a sucker for urban fantasy & really enjoyed this different take on vampires. I loved how Moreno-Garcia plays with the common myths assigning different parts to different types of vampires in her world. I thought the idea that they evolved into different subspecies with various characteristics from various parts of the world was well thought out & executed. Aztecs + vampires 😍

I also enjoyed the noir feel and the various viewpoints …⬇️

I can‘t believe this was Jemisin‘s debut! I can see the early threads of her Broken Earth series in this one — the writing style and the way she weaves different characters and pieces together in a way that gives you a hint of what‘s coming while still leaving space for surprises. Loved this world and the gods and Yeine. I‘m excited to see where she takes this in book 2!

5⭐️ finished just in time to add it to my #AuldLangSpine list @monalyisha

I enjoyed this YA #Slasher #Horror well enough. I can see why people are loving this, but personally, I didn‘t connect with any of the characters. Maybe I‘m too old to connect with the teens? Maybe I don‘t hate teens enough to connect with the baddies? IDK, but this was a so-so read for me. There was only one moment that had me cheering. Though bloody, the chill factor is low. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Maybe slashers just aren‘t the horror sub genre for me? #NSR22

Repost for @Nessavamusic

I will be doing my final #NoShameReadathon22 drawing the first week of December, so tag your genre reads! I personally have 2 yet to read, Western and Inspirational, which I think I‘m going to combine with a KU book, as neither am I super excited about. #NoShameReadathon23 info coming soon! #NSR22

I will be doing my final #NoShameReadathon22 drawing the first week of December, so tag your genre reads! I personally have 2 yet to read, Western and Inspirational, which I think I‘m going to combine with a KU book, as neither am I super excited about. #NoShameReadathon23 info coming soon! #NSR22

#NSR22 #NoShameReadathon22
Set in a darkly magical world, full of monsterous terrors. People send their children to the hungry halls of the Scholomance only a fraction of them will return from. But some survivors are better than none. Naomi Novik kept me guessing at where this was all going from book to book and delivered a fantastic conclusion to this #Fantasy trilogy! I loved this engrossing juxtaposition of #Grimdark horror and grudging hope.