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June Reading Stats

It was a huge reading month for me, so I thought I’d do one of these fun, reading stat style posts!

Overall Stats

6 books (Rookie numbers, I know, but I tried!)
2050 pages
About 68 pages per day (So high because it’s summer!)
2 beta-reading projects (that don’t count because they’re not finished yet! Lol)

Genres

1 Science Fiction Romance4 Romantic Comedies1 Tech Thriller1 YA Fantasy (beta-read)1 Fantasy Romance (beta-read)

Usually, I don’t read so many rom-coms, but my BFF and I d...

Book Review #55: XOR AX, AX by Andrei Saygo

Axel Anderson is part genius, part Coca-Cola addict. But he’s also part criminal. Axel hacks for a living, finding bugs in systems and rooting his way through technical security systems. More often than not, he gets away with it!

Until he doesn’t.

When Axel is blackmailed by a mining company called DVC, his life changes—and not for the better. He becomes one-forth of a team of elite professionals on a mission to “steal” a set of jewels that DVC says are important. The rest of the team cons...

When I Had Two

I was lucky enough in my life to have two dads.

Some have none.

And God blessed me with two.

One is summers and weekends, playing in the yard after dark, chasing lightning bugs. He is motorcycle grease and the smell of chewing tobacco and empty Pepsi bottles thrown in the back of his red Thunderbird. My first dad is a Weird Al song screamed out a window as we speed down the backroads, down Highway 30 towards the falls.

He taught me how to have a sense of humor. How to take a ...

Book Review #54: Hammer my Heart by Michelle Angelle

Reality TV was NOT made for the weak of heart.

So when Sam signs up for the famous carpentry-based TV show Go Hard or Go Home, she steels her heart and mind for the competition. What she doesn’t expect is a gorgeous Clark Kent doppelganger who is good at marketing and charming a crowd, two things Sam has never been good at. She’s here to prove women (and individuals with dyslexia) can do anything they set their mind to, not fall in love!

But Max has an agenda of his own. He needs to win th...

Book Review #53: The Ashes of Hope and Hunger by Dawn Jonckowski

Arba never wanted to be a Wife. A wife, maybe, with a lowercase ‘w’ but never a Wife. She’s dreamed of bodice-ripping romance all her life, devouring Earthen books through back alley networks across the universe, but this marriage, all that it entails, it’s nothing like what she wanted.

But her planet is dying and the king won’t let the Global Alliance help. So, it’s up to her and the little baby in her stomach to pave the future.

Except the First Wife, Megai, has different plans. Plans to...

Book Review #52: The Weight of Stars and Suns by Dawn C. Jonckowski

On the planet of Tav, there are two factions–The Tavarians and the humans. Marooned on the planet a hundred years ago, the humans are now slaves to the local Tavarians. Their latest rebellion, though, lands one particularly snarky rebel in prison, and that’s where he’ll meet a certain Tavarian princess, one trying her best to prove her worth to the male chauvinistic elite of Tav.

When two of the thirty-six suns surrounding Tav suddenly go out, Princess Dameia is caught between trying to save ...

Book Review #51: Every Breath by Sally O’Keef

Over the past few months, Dylan’s life has gotten harder.

She lost her father when a tragic accident caused him to lose an arm, and then his life, to infection, and the death sent her family into a downward spiral of debt and grief. In an effort to get them out of the hole they’re in, Dylan’s mother sells her husband’s truck–the one thing Dylan was clinging to.

So, determined to get the truck back and help her family avoid foreclosure, Dylan takes a leap and signs a contract for a famous d...

Book Review #50: Supra/normal by A.S. McDermott

Julie Jackson is the strongest member of her family.

With her mom doing everything and anything she can to support them financially and her brother’s sticky hands, Julie has to be the rock. She has to be the mother and the sister and the teacher and the best friend. She has to be the strongest.

But Julie has a secret. One that could land her in prison or, worse, executed.

She’s a Supra–a “superhero,” and Supras have been illegal since the devastating Supranormal War.

When her imp...

Book Review #49: The Reset by Joshua Griffith

When the balance between nature and technology is skewed more towards technology, The Reset occurs.

Put into motion accidentally by a secret government conspiracy to decimate the world’s population, The Reset is an event where a majority of people fall into two categories–those looking for a swift “exit” from life or those who have gone Feral and will help others exit. Then there’s the supernatural community, the only one’s exempt from The Reset.

Meg is a witch who, when grocery shopping, ...

Review #48: Bad Sweet Things by Maria Hoey

It all starts with a photograph. Six best friends received the exact same thing, except in each one, a different face is scratched out.

Their own face.

Detective Tina Bassett in unstoppable. Her colleagues call her The Hound because of how dedicated she is to sniffing out the killer. So, when the six friends start dying, one by one, she’s determined to prove that her instincts are correct and the women are all being murdered by the same person.

But what’s the link? And who has the motiv...