June 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.
June was a good reading month! I finished 11 books, and have already reviewed a bunch of them here on the blog:
Die Hot With a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity, Sable Yong;
This Book Will Bury Me, Ashley Winstead;
Julie Chan Is Dead, Liann Zhang;
Strange Houses, Uketsu;
The Ghostwriter, Julie Clark;
Kill Your Darlings, Peter Swanson; and
Burn After Reading, Catherine Ryan Howard.
I also DNF’d one book (Imposter Syndrome by Joseph Knox) because it just wasn’t grabbing me. Here are my thoughts on everything else I read in June!
The Last Room on the Left, Leah Konen (library) – 4⭐
This was a fun, tense, engaging read. It had some great creepy moments and kept me guessing, and I couldn’t put it down.
James, Percival Everett (owned) – 4⭐
This was an excellent, moving read. I loved reading a familiar story from a different perspective.
A Girl Walks Into the Forest, Madeleine Roux (library) – 3.5⭐
This was a dark, unique fantasy and I never really knew where the story was going to go.
The Last Flight, Julie Clark (library) – 3.5⭐
After The Ghostwriter, I wanted to go back and read Julie Clark’s other books. I liked this, but I couldn’t help comparing it to The Ghostwriter, and in that respect I thought this came up short in terms of plot, tension, and writing.
What have you been reading lately?
