The first month of 2023 and some good releases! Sadly, also some that turned to be duds, but I am so happy with the 4 books I did read they were just so GOOD! And I am hoping that I am able to get the three books this new year.

📚 Bob vs the Selfie Zombies by Andy Jones 😍
📚 When You Wish Upon a Lantern by Gloria Chao 🙏
📚 This Time It’s Real by Ann Liang 📖 (for now on the maybe later stack)
📚 Take the Lead by Alexis Daria 🫥
📚 Where the Darkness Blooms 😩
📚 Of Love and Forge by Carly Spade 😩
📚 She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran 😍
📚 Fairy Cakes in Winter by Lane Hayes 😍
📚 Escape by K.R. Alexander 😍
📚 Anna Kadabra by Pedro Mañas 😍
📚 Club Donald Duck: Vriend of vijand? by Donald Duck 😍
📚 De Dinosaurus Verkiezing by Barbara Taylor ??? (I am sure I read this one but I need to get it from the library to make sure)
📚 Bunnies in a Boat by Philip Ardagh, Ben Mantle 😍

Pretty happy with that I managed to read quite a few of the new releases of this month! And the books I read were all so fun/great/fab! I hope that I can get Gloria Chao’s book, for now I am waiting for the paperback.

📚 What Stays Buried by Suzanne Young 🙏 (waiting for the paperback)
📚 Chloe and the Kaishao Boys by Mae Coyiuto 😍
📚 Rosewood by Savantani Dasgupta 🫥
📚 Secret Spy Society by Veronica Wang 🙏
📚 The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older 🙏
📚 So You Wanna Be a Pop Star? by Zachary Sergi 😩
📚 Witchlings by Claribel A. Ortega 📖
📚 Dread Wood: Flock Horror by Jennifer Killick 🫥

A shorter month, but also very mixed. I sadly dropped the Dread Wood series, maybe if I find these in English in my library I may continue but I am just not buying them at the moment. And Witchlings, well I need to get reading it. I thought it was GN though and not a normal book so that is why it is still in my TBR pile.

📚 Vamps by Nicole Arend 😩
📚 No Exit by Maren Stoffels 😩
📚 Heks Lexia by Liesbeth Iken 😍
📚 Dino’s en hoe ze te verstoppen by Gheleyne Bastiaen 😩
📚 Ik kleur van jou by Milja Praagman 😍
📚 De laatste kinderkoning by Thijs Noorlandt 😩
📚 First-Year Orientation by various authors 🫥
📚 The Cherished by Patricia Ward 🫥
📚 This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham 🫥
📚 Audrey Covington Breaks the Rules by Karina Evans 😍
📚 Stuff of Nightmares by R.L. Stine 😍
📚 The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown 🙏
📚 The Lake House by Sarah Beth Durst 🫥
📚 Come See the Fair by Gavriel Savit 😩
📚 Social Vampire by James Schannep 🫥
📚 To Catch a Thief by Martha Brockenbrough 🫥

Haha, wow, I lost interest in so many books. I tried previews for those books or my mood just turned. I also had a few sad DNF, especially Vamps, I was looking forward to that so much. Or No Exit, but I just hated everyone in that one.

📚 Lying in the Deep by Diana Urban 😩
📚 The Dark and Dangerous Gifts of Delores McKenzie by Yvonne Banham 😍
📚 Monster Camp by Sarah Henning 🫥
📚 Dad and the Recycling-Bin Rollercoaster by Taylor Calmus 😍
📚 Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby 😩
📚 Saddlehill Academy by Jessica Burkhart 😩
📚 Alleen in films by Henriët Spronk 😍
📚 Welkom in Smartpark by Mirjam Mous 😍
📚 Het verwarrende liefdesleven van Lottie by Katie Kirby 😍
📚 Dier in nood by LEGO 😍
📚 Justice League: Samen Sterk by LEGO 😍

I read a lot of these releases! This was a good month! And I recently was able to read the Taylor Camus book, which was one I really wanted to read but just haven’t had the chance to yet.

📚 They Come From the Water by Wendy Dalrymple 😍
📚 Camp Sylvana by Julie Murphy 🫥
📚 You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron 😍
📚 The Chaperone by M Hendrix 😍
📚 Firebird by Sunmi 🙏
📚 Stars in Their Eyes by Jessica Walton, Aska 😍
📚 Nightmare Island by Shakirah Bourne 🙏
📚 Wordt vervolgd… by Jennefer Mellink 😍

A lot of good this month! And most of them read! Whoo!

📚 Murder on a School Night by Kate Weston 🫥
📚 The Legacies by Jesscia Goodman 😩
📚 How to Date a Pop Star by Jada Trainor 😩
📚 Role Playing by Cathy Yardley 🫥
📚 Sunshine Nails by Mai Nguyen 🙏
📚 The Guide to the Dark by Meriam Metoui 🙏
📚 The Skull by Jon Klassen 😍
📚 Super Ghost by Greg James and Chris Smith 🫥
📚 Recept voor een regelrechte ramp by Linda van de Pol 😍
📚 Maki’s zijn nooit moe! by Nico Vriesema 🫥

I had some plans, but sadly I just lost interest in most of these books, either due to reviews, or because in the end my mood changed and I never found the right mood again.

📚 The Narrow by Kate Alice Marshall 🙏
📚 Young Alfred by Michael Northrop, Sam Lotfi 😍
📚 Things in the Basement by Ben Hatke 😍
📚 A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll 😍
📚 12 to 22 by Jen Calonita 🫥
📚 Stinetinglers 2 by R.L. Stine 😍
📚 The Pirate and the Porcelain Girl by Emily Riesbeck 🙏
📚 My Roommate is a Vampire by Jenna Levine 😍
📚 The Infinity Particle by Wendy Xu 🫥
📚 The Reunion by Kit Frick 🫥
📚 Extra Normal by Kate Alice Marshall 🫥

This month brought some great books (not that I read them in that month, haha). Plus, I still have a few that I hope to get, I should really see what the prices are for the books I still want.

📚 Project Evil by Anne Eekhout 😍
📚 Spiderman’s Bad Connection by Preeti Chhibber 🙏
📚 The Girl in White by Lindsay Currie 😍
📚 Hemlock Island by Kelley Armstrong 🫥
📚 The Stranger Upstairs by Lisa M. Matlin 🙏
📚 The Name Drop by Susan Lee 🫥
📚 Your Lonely Nights are Over by Adam Sass 🫥
📚 A Taste of Darkness by Various Authors 😩
📚 Mall Goth by Kate Leth 😍
📚 Mermaids Never Drown by various authors 📖
📚 How to Find a Missing Girl by Victoria Wlosok 📖
📚 Het leukste kattenbakboek by Kim-Joy 😩

Another mixed month. And I should really get to Mermaids Never Drown, LORD, I keep just not being in the mood for that.

📚 Oh. It’s You. by Francesco Marciuliano 😍
📚 The Night House by Jo Nesbo 🙏
📚 The Voice Upstairs by Laura E. Weymouth 😩
📚 The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok 🙏
📚 Huda F Cares by Huda Fahmy 🙏
📚 A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand 🫥
📚 All These Sunken Souls by various authors 🫥
📚 Tiffany Achings Guide to Being a Witch by Rhianna Pratchett 🫥
📚 Monster High: A Fright to Remember by Adrianna Cuevas 🫥
📚 Anna Kadabra by Pedro Mañas 😍
📚 Doolhof Game by Maren Stoffels 😩
📚 De dag dat mijn moeder verdween by Sarah Armstrong 🫥
📚 Meisje. Vermist. Gevonden. by Stefanie Sybens 🙏
📚 De school van wonderdingen: De ti-ta-tovertassen by Kira Gembri, Marta Kissi 😍
📚 When in Doubt Play Dead by Ally Burguieres 🙏

A very mixed month. Some releases I just don’t care about. Some I still need to read.

📚 Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree 🙏 (Pre-order fell through and I still haven’t been able to get it with the crazy prices)
📚 Where He Can’t Find You by Darcy Coates 😍
📚 Gorgeous Gruesome Faces by Linda Cheng 😍
📚 Loveboat Forever by Abigail Hing Wen 😍
📚 Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros 😍
📚 Kinderen krijgen is optioneel by Marloes de Vries 😩
📚 Toxic by Mel Wallis de Vries 😍
📚 Kapot by Louise Reid 🙏
📚 Kinderbakboek by Rutger van den Broek, Mark Haayema 😍
📚 De TikTok Party by Annet Jacobs 😩
📚 Het Dramatische schoolkamp van Lottie by Katie Kirby 😍

Quite a nice month with some fabulous reads. And so far just one book I wasn’t into. I had expected more graphic novel/comic given her earlier works.

📚 On the Plus Side by Jenny L. Howe 🙏
📚 WOW in the World: Wow in Space by Mindy Thomas and Guy Raz 🙏
📚 Dromen in Rood by Jen Minkman 😩
📚 Same Time Next Year by Tessa Bailey 😩
📚 Catch your Death by Ravena Guron 🫥

So this was not a good month, haha. It was short so you would think I had the most luck with it, but nope.

A total of 131 books! I am quite happy with these stats! I had expected worse, haha. With how the prices are these days + my mood being all over the place. 4 books to read (well, 3 as one is on a Maybe Later Stack, haha) and still 25 books that I hope to read one day, let’s see if I can get to them this year. Please, let the library gods and Amazon gods be on my side! I hope everyone enjoyed this fun post, I had fun making it! Look forward to next year’s~ Thanks for reading!