2020 Wrap-up and 2021 Plans

Welp, here we are at the end of the year! I thought, as a way of doing a bit of a wrap-up of the amount of books I’d read this year, I’d select a few of my favourites, in case anyone wanted a quick run-down. Please do click through to my full reviews if you wanted explanation for them!

(These are in the order I read them, not ranked by favourite-ness. 12 because months in a year?? And also I couldn’t narrow it down to 10.)

1. The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

2. Jade War by Fonda Lee

3. The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

4. A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown

5. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

6. You Should See Me In A Crown by Leah Johnson

7. Harrow The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

8. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

9. Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust

10. Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko

11. The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

12. The House In The Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

Definitely there were lots more really good books I read this year, but these were the ones that took hold and WOULD NOT let go months later!

Now, onto 2021 - which I keep by the way typing as 20201 because my brain apparently is bad at processing numbers.

I plan to continue going with book reviews, but in a less structured way. Instead, every week I will take stock of what I’ve read. If that number is 0 books, then so be it! That’s okay. It’ll take some of the pressure off of myself to finish quickly.

And, in the spirit of getting ready, here are some of my most-anticipated releases for 2021! (Again, in no particular order)

1. Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee

2. One Last Stop by Casey Mcquiston

3. The Unbroken by C.L. Clark

4. She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

5. The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

6. A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell

7. The Witness For The Dead by Katherine Addison

8. The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna

9. Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell

10. The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

11. Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard

12. Under The Whispering Door by TJ Klune

I will, er, try to hit all twelve of these in 2021. I am sometimes not great at keeping on top of new releases (as you can probably tell from my list of favourites).

See you all next year!