July 2020 Book Haul

Book of the Month Picks

  

This month I got three books, but not exactly all of the ones that I wanted. I really wanted to get both Riley Sager's books as add-ons this month since I loved Final Girls I wanted to complete Sager's book collection but I thought What You Wish For would've been a selection for the month! I was so shocked when I didn't see it there and I thought maybe the spoilers were wrong this month, however, it was there for an add-on so I got it and The Last Time I Lied as add-ons this month, and for my main selection, I, of course, went with Head Over Heels. The only thing I know about Head Over Heels is that it's my usual genre I tend to always love, and figure skating! Hello, this is right up my ally I  just never heard of it or even really looked into it. To be fair I didn't really look at any of the other selections for this month since I really wanted the two add-ons and I needed a book in order to get them. I can't wait to jump into all of these! This is also my birthday month so I feel like it's okay to splurge, but I don't know why I didn't get an add-on credit. I've always had trouble with stuff like this when it comes to Book of the Month so I'm going to have to reach out to them, which always takes forever so hopefully the last Sager book will be my free birthday book. We'll see next month.

eBooks

         

I first got That Boy by Jillian Dodd. It sounds really cute it is the first in the series, and it was on sale so of course, I grabbed it when I could. I'm hoping to find a new obsession to read on my kindle and this one might sound really good. I haven't had an eBook obsession since After, and I couldn't read that series fast enough. 

Then I picked up this weird book, I'm a Therapist and my Patient is Going to be the Next School Shooter by Dr. Harper. This book is really short, it's kind of like a novella that has a bunch of short stories in it. It's another one that I saw on Facebook but people were talking about it versus it being an ad that just popped up in my face over and over. It sounds interesting and like I said it is really short. I haven't been much in a reading mood lately so I'm hoping something short like this will be the right thing that I need. I have been doing really good about buying eBooks and so I felt like I can splurge on this one and we'll see how it goes. 

I love when I get a book that's on sale such as The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan and just being so captivated that I cannot put it down or even stop reading it! Which is what happened with it. I loved it so much that I had to pick up the second one as soon as it came out and you can see what I thought of it over here. I made a whole post on them and so far they are the only things that I even read in July. 

As always I picked up a lot of extra ebooks since Bookbub knows how to pull me in! So I picked up The Bride Test by Helen Hoag, it was a Book of the Month pick a couple months ago and I've never read a Hoag book but I've been curious. Whenever a book comes out that gets a lot of controversies and it seems like no one can decide if it is good or not I get intrigued and want to form my own ideas, which is what happened with the Kiss Quotient. Technically I should've started with that book but this one was only $1.99 so I grabbed it. I'm a huge Scooby-Doo fan, I can't even tell you how many times I've already watched Scoob, and I've even tried reading Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero because of the scooby-doo aspects. But I just couldn't get into it. So I'm hoping Daphne and Velma by Josephine Ruby will be a better fit! Funny story I almost bought Ghosting: A Love Story by Tash Skilton and Sarvenaz Tash but I ended up putting it back and then the next day Bookbub had it listed! So I couldn't walk away from the deal and it was either $1.99 or $2.99. Not all of my eBooks have a reason why I buy them sometimes it's late at night I can't or refuse to sleep and a book pops up that I think sounds good so I grab it which is what happened with We Just Clicked by Anna Bell. Don't Read the Comments by Eric Smith I've been curious about it for a while and like most of the other books I saw it on sale and grabbed it. I definitely got a lot of eBooks this month but altogether I spend less than $50, and it would've been less than $30 if I didn't buy a couple brand new books but I needed to read the Royal Heir as soon as possible. 

Birthday Book Haul

I've been in such a reading slump this month, but it is my birthday month so we went out to the bookstore! I haven't been there in forever and I was so excited to visit. I had such a hard time finding anything which is due to my reading slump not the fact that there wasn't anything. I was lucky enough to find a couple books though! I ended up getting 4 books and I even started reading one, and I'm really into it! 

    

To be honest I wasn't sure which comic I was going to get but I knew I was going to get something. I really wanted to read the Avatar: The Last Airbender comics but my bookstore never has them and to be completely honest I hate buying comics brand new I tend to get them from Thriftbooks, but my husband really wanted to buy me some books for my birthday and as soon as I saw the Umbrella Academy I knew I had to get it. I've been hooked on this show ever since season 1 came on on Netlfix and have been really wanting to read it since the new season is taking FOREVER! So my bookstore had it and we got it. This is actually the book I've been reading so there won't be a post on it, however, I think I should do a post soon on my comic book collection since it's starting to actually get pretty big. 

Elin Hilderbrand has really become one of those authors that I just instantly get, thanks to Book of the Month. However, I was so bummed that 28 Summers wasn't a pick for Book of the Month! I ended up getting it at the store, and I knew I was going to get it since I love this author so much! Again I want to get into it but I just have been in a reading slump so it's hanging out on my bookshelf right now. 

Love, Life, and the List by Kasie West and The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson are in the same boat for me. I'm curious about both of these authors and I have been really wanting to try them. I actually already have another book by Matson but I haven't read it yet, but I've been really curious about The Unexpected Everything since it came out because I love the cover so I had to get it. Both of these were on sale too so it helped push me over the edge and get them. 

Forever Summer by Nora Roberts is something that I just found while shopping at Target the other day and I just had to pick it up! First I normally hate books that have multiple books inside of it like this one, however, this book is by Nora Roberts who is one of my all-time favorite authors AND it's about royals! If you read my review on the Royal We then you know I'm a sucker for anything Royal like this and just could not put it down. I can't wait to give this a go! Book shopping really helps me get out of the book slump and so fun. Now this one was actually really hard for me to tag into this post since it wasn't coming up. I actually have a couple more royal books like this I can read and maybe even make a post about them as a whole. I think it would be fun and interesting to see them in a ranking like that.