Quick Reviews of My 2024 Reads

I was inspired by another user’s post to do this!!

1. The Hunger Games trilogy (Collins) (reread) – Still as good, if not better, than when I first read it.

   1. The Empire of Gold (Chakraborty) – Well-done and intense finale to an amazing political fantasy series.

2. The Blue Bar (Biswas) – Interesting mystery, and one of the only books I’ve read set in India so that was cool too.

3. Crush (Wolff) – More interesting than the first book Crave, and I’ll definitely continue the series sometime, but I hate the main character.

4. Dracula (Stoker) – I understand why it’s a classic and what it’s done for vampire (and horror) literature, but it was a slog to get through for me.

5. Binding 13 (Walsh) – A romance has no business being this long, but also it flew by and I loved it so much.

6. You, Again (Goldbeck) – The main characters are flawed, but I love them & love them together, and the enemies to lovers was actually convincing.

7. The New Neighbor (Wilson) – Really enjoyed most of it, but the ending felt so unfinished I checked to see if there was a sequel (there is not).

8. The Housemaid (McFadden) – Lives up to the hype, a thriller that actually surprised me!

9. Twisted Hate (Huang) – My favorite in the series thus far, but still suffers from over-possessive “touch her & I’ll kill you” male lead syndrome.

10. Local Woman Missing (Kubica) – Solid thriller with some good twists, but I pretty much knew who the kidnapper was from the start.

11. Bunny (Awad) – This was weeeeird & I still really don’t know what to think, but I liked it.

12. The True Love Experiment (Lauren) – I was disappointed by this because of my own expectations of the concept.

13. Keeping 13 (Walsh) – Loved it even more than Binding 13. These books are not for you if you don’t like to just read about the day-to-day of Irish teens but they are apparently for me.

14. People We Meet On Vacation (Henry) – My least fav of her romances I’ve read, but still good, and still made me sob.

15. Assassin’s Apprentice (Hobb) – Wanted to try another political fantasy since I loved Daevabad, and this fit the bill & scratched that itch perfectly.

16. Royal Assassin (Hobb) – And it’s second book was very exciting too.

17. The Charm Offensive (Cochrun) – This is what I wanted The True Love Experiment to be, but make it gay, and it was perfect.

18. Before We Were Strangers (Carlino) – Did not like. Vibes are good for a while, but everything about the end was laughably bad to me.

19. The Secret History (Tartt) – Showstopping, amazing, strange, wouldn’t change a thing.

20. Tampa (Nutting) – Hated. The premise doesn’t bother me, I liked My Dark Vanessa, but it is uncomfortably graphic with the explicit scenes for a book handling this topic.

21. If We Were Villains (Rio) – My favorite book I read this year, blew me away, changed my life.

22. Monsters of Verity duology (Schwab) – Have a few unanswered questions about the logistics of the world, but it’s a cool world nevertheless & these are fun to read.