Monthly Wrap-Up: April 2025

I was hoping that April would be the month where I would start posting more... anyway, that didn't happen 😂 And I did miss the last couple of days because I was out of town visiting family, soo (I had a blast! I will probably talk a little bit more about it in my next Sunday Post). Anyway, in April I read 5 books again (that's been 5 books every month so far this year 😂). But this month it was 1823 pages, which is about 600 pages more than the previous month, AND also the month where I read the most, so that's progress!

• 4 were full-length novels, and 1 novella
• 2 were part of a series, and 3 were standalones
• I started 1 series, caught up on another, and finished 0 😅
• 3 were finished copies, and 2 were ARCs
• 1 was a physical book, 1 ebook, and 1 was a physical/audio combo
• 1 was a 5-star read, 1 4.5 stars, 1 4 stars, 1 3.5 stars, and 1 3 stars
• 4 were traditionally published, 1 was indie published
• 3 were by a new-to-me author, and 2 were by authors I've previously read
• All 5 were adult books
• 4 were sci-fi, 1 was horror

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Sunday Post #450: A Mini Vacation

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Sunday Post #449: I Thought I Was Getting a Break...

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Review: Cold Eternity by S.A. Barnes

Title: Cold Eternity

Author: S.A. Barnes

Genre: Adult, sci-fi, horror

Publication date: April 8th 2025

Published by: Tor Nightfire

Source: eARC from publishers via Netgalley

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Synopsis: Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for what seems like the perfect place to lay low: a gigantic space barge storing the cryogenically frozen bodies of Earth’s most fortunate citizens from more than a century ago...

The cryo program, created by trillionaire tech genius Zale Winfeld, is long defunct, and the AI hologram "hosts," ghoulishly created in the likeness of Winfeld’s three adult children, are glitchy. The ship feels like a crypt, and the isolation gets to Halley almost immediately. She starts to see figures crawling in the hallways, and there’s a constant scraping, slithering, and rattling echoing in the vents.

It’s not long before Halley realizes she may have gotten herself trapped in an even more dangerous situation than the one she was running from...

My rating: ★★★★☆

I have really enjoyed the novels by S.A. Barnes. They aren’t quite 5-star reads for me, but they are definitely enjoyable and deliver on both the sci-fi and horror aspects! Plus, the mystery in this book was intriguing and I enjoyed trying to unravel it! And two pages into this book and I was already loving the premise of it as well! Halley has had it rough and accepts a shady job as a caretaker/security on this sort-of abandoned spaceship. And I say sort of because this ship holds a bunch of cryogenically frozen bodies.

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2025 Quarter Year Crisis Book Tag

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Monthly Wrap-Up: March 2025

I... don't even know where the month went 😅 I had a really rough time this month, but I think I'm finally getting out of my rut. In March, I only read 5 books (again), which was about 1274 pages. That's about 20 pages less than the previous month 😅

• 2 were full-length novels, and 3 manga
• 4 were part of a series and 1 was a standalone
• I finished 1 series this month!
• All 5 were finished copies
• 1 was a physical book and 4 were an ebooks
• 1 was a 5-star read, 3 were 4-star reads, and 1 was 3.5 stars
• All 5 were traditionally published
• 1 was by a new-to-me author and 4 were by authors I've previously read
• 1 was an adult book, and 4 YA
• All 5 were fiction books
• 1 was high fantasy, and 4 were action