October 2022 Reads

Seven books down this month, but with two months to go in the year, I've read 57 out of the 80 books in my 2022 goal. That leaves 23 books to read between today, November 5th and December 31st.

Yikes.

This month was a mix of great and awful, including one DNF (did not finish) because I hated it *so very much*. Let's go from great to awful...

Great Circle. Just FANTASTIC. This books runs through two different time frames and two different lives - one is Marian Graves and the other is Hadley Baxter.

Marian was shipped off to her Uncle to be raised with her twin brother and the book is all about her love of flying and where that takes her. She grew up in a time where women just didn't *do* these things. She's a fantastic, powerful character and her story will enthrall you.

Hadley is a current times starlet who, after a scandal, ends up being cast in the role of Marian. Hadley becomes fascinated with Marian's life and digs deeper than anyone else has in the past to uncover some *very* interesting things...

Great Circle is one of the best books I've read in 2022 and I'm looking forward to seeing it on the small screen in a to-be-made series. Make this book next on your TBR list!

Really enjoyed That Summer. It's a twisty book based on the relationship of two women who are brought together by chance...or were they?

That Summer follows these two women as they build a friendship, as secrets are discovered, and as a painful past is brought to life.

TW: rape, assault

Book Lovers can be summed up in a few words:

Hallmark movie, but make it SPICY.

It's a fun and fast read, I liked the characters, if you're into the traditional 'Chick Lit,' this book is for you.

One Italian Summer is a bit fantastical (well, totally unrealistic), but I *really* enjoyed it and the concept.

Kathy has just lost her best friend - her mom - and is devastated. Kathy decides to leave and go on a trip to the little Italian town that her mother spent time in long long ago that she had fallen in love with. While there, Kathy runs into a woman that, shockingly, looks just like her mother.

Somehow the time continuum has gone sideways and Kathy is visiting the time where her mother was in Italy all those years ago.

Yes, it's not realistic, I know. But, get over that and read it, it's worth it.

Meet Cute, another Hallmark movie but SPICY. Extra SPICY.

Though it's predictable and follows the prescription for all books 'like this' it's good (in the terms of Chick Lit).

Fast, easy, good beach read.

(Can you tell that I'm trying to read fast books to meet my goal? Goals > substance. Ha!)

I DNF'd this book (did not finish). That almost *never* happens.

It felt so forced. The characters are unlikable.

I so wanted to like this book and support a story that wasn't a cis gender story but I just thought it was so...BAD.

I *wish* I DNF'd Ninth House.

This was a *painful* read but I finished it because it was a book club read and that's the only reason. BTBC ladies, I did it for you.

It is straight up fantasy, but is centered around the Bone and Skull universe/secret societies.

TBH,to me, it was just stupid. Hated it. Just don't.

xoxo

iamfunchris