January 2025

I don’t always feel like writing a full review for everything. I was inspired by Modern Mrs. Darcy’s Quick Lit posts and decided to do something similar as a way to briefly discuss the books I read in a month but don’t write full reviews for.

My January 2025 reading started off well! I read 12 books in January, plus one DNF. I’ve reviewed a bunch of my January reads here already:

The Secret Hours, Mick Herron;

It Had To Be You, Eliza Jane Brazier;

Gin & Daggers, Donald Bain;

Sucker Punch: Essays, Scaachi Koul; and

Dungeon Crawler Carl, Matt Dinniman.

The DNF was an e-ARC of Love on Paper by Danielle Parker, which I really tried to get into, but neither the romance nor the mystery element held my attention.

Here are my thoughts on the rest of my January reads:

Cat + Gamer, Volume 4 and Cat + Gamer, Volume 5, Wataru Nadatani (purchased) – 5⭐

These two volumes show Riko bringing a second cat into her home, and it was so much fun to see how she and Musubi adjusted to this change! I love this series so much that I’m putting off reading the next volume, which is the last one on my shelf until I get my hands on the next one.

The Last Session, Julia Bartz (e-ARC) – 2⭐

I am so sad that I didn’t enjoy this, because I loved her book The Writing Retreat. But this felt like such a convoluted story and I just could not buy into any of it, unfortunately.

Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books, Nina Freudenberger (purchased) – 4⭐

This was full of beautiful bookish pictures and was an interesting read. If you’re looking for a coffee table book for a book lover in your life, you can’t go wrong with this one!

Midnight is the Darkest Hour, Ashley Winstead (purchased) – 2.5 ⭐

This is another that I wanted to enjoy, after really enjoying her previous book, but didn’t.

The God of the Woods, Liz Moore (purchased) – 4⭐

This was a really slow start for me but once I got pulled into it, I couldn’t put it down!

What have you been reading lately?