LaurLa’s Comments (group member since Nov 30, 2016)

LaurLa’s comments from the Pick-a-Shelf group.

TBR Bender ❱❱ September ❱❱ COMPLETE
September - December 2025

My September TBR Bender (msg 11)

July Books
🔺Wounded ❱❱ romance; military fiction; contemporary; new adult; war
🔺Good Tidings ❱❱ mystery; paranormal; ghosts; romance; cozy mystery
🔺The Sapphire Affair ❱❱ romance; romantic suspense; contemporary

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☑️military fiction ❱❱ Wounded
🔺Frank's Independence Day ❱❱ 08.03 ★★★★
☑️ghosts ❱❱ Good Tidings
🔺The Hexed ❱❱ 11.26 ★★★★
☑️romantic suspense ❱❱ The Sapphire Affair
🔺Return to Me ❱❱ 08.17 ★★★★

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☑️Date ❱❱ The Hexed ❱❱ added May 2014
🔺Love, Tussles, and Takedowns ❱❱ 08.23 ★★★★
☑️Title ❱❱ Return to Me ❱❱ me
🔺Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake ❱❱ 09.17 ★★★
☑️Pages ❱❱ Frank's Independence Day ❱❱ 146 pp ❱❱ 346 pp
🔺California Dreaming ❱❱ 08.22 ★★★

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☑️Date ❱❱ Return to Me ❱❱ published 2009
🔺The Huntress ❱❱ 10.18 ★★★
☑️Series ❱❱ Frank's Independence Day ❱❱ new series/author ❱❱ Dark River Days
🔺Newly Undead In Dark River ❱❱ 09.13 ★★★★
☑️Author ❱❱ The Hexed ❱❱ initials HG ❱❱ GH
🔺Unbreakable Bond ❱❱ 08.31 ★★★

Bea wrote: "I know that there is a week left in November, but I am really excited that I have stuck with this challenge all year. It is a first for me. I doubt that I will complete all necessary books by the e..."

You can do it!!!

Jayme(theghostreader) wrote: "I only had 3 to rollover for December."

Awesome!!

I only have 2 rollover for December!!! woot woot!!

TBR Bender ❱❱ December
December 2025

My December TBR Bender (msg 10)

November Books
🔺Framed in Death ❱❱ mystery; romance; thriller; futuristic; crime
🔺The Vampire Book Club ❱❱ mystery; cozy mystery; paranormal; vampires; witches
🔺Forward Passes ❱❱ sports; romance; contemporary; football; erotica

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☑️mystery ❱❱ Framed in Death
🔺State of Shock ❱❱ 11.16 ★★★★
☑️vampires ❱❱ The Vampire Book Club
🔺Undead and Unworthy ❱❱ 11.07 ★★★
☑️erotica ❱❱ Forward Passes
🔺Beyond Ruin ❱❱ 11.09 ★★★★

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☑️Date ❱❱ Undead and Unworthy ❱❱ added July 2024
🔺Beware the Darkness ❱❱ 11.01 ★★★★
☑️Author ❱❱ State of Shock ❱❱ initials MF
🔺Delirious ❱❱ 11.13 ★★★★
☑️Pages ❱❱ Beyond Ruin ❱❱ 323 pp ❱❱ 460 pp
🔺Forsaken Duty ❱❱ 11.24 ★★★★

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Date ❱❱ Undead and Unworthy ❱❱ published 2008
🔺Just A Taste
Series ❱❱ State of Shock ❱❱ new series/author ❱❱ Love at First Bite
🔺Drop Dead Gorgeous
☑️Pages ❱❱ Beyond Ruin ❱❱ 323 pp ❱❱ 316 pp
🔺Finding Southern Comfort ❱❱ 11.29 ★★★

Bea wrote: "LaurLa wrote: "Woo!! October was a great month for me. After a couple of barely there months, my rollover from Oct was 15 and I was able to read 10! That really eats into that rollover!!!

October ..."

13 is doable!!! I found the last couple of years that I end up reading a lot of books for December based on the adding to TBR in December - seems I tend to add a lot of books in December as I prepare for the new year challenges!

TBR Bender ❱❱ November ❱❱ COMPLETE... Only two left!!
November - December 2025

My November TBR Bender (msg 10)

September Books
🔺Born to Be Badger ❱❱ romance; paranormal; fantasy; urban fantasy; humor
🔺The Woman Left Behind ❱❱ romantic suspense; mystery; small town romance
🔺Happy After All ❱❱ romance; contemporary; enemies to lovers; christmas; chick lit

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☑️paranormal ❱❱ Born to Be Badger
🔺Sanctuary ❱❱ 10.04 ★★★★
☑️romantic suspense ❱❱ The Woman Left Behind
🔺The Guarded Widow ❱❱ 10.26 ★★★
☑️christmas ❱❱ Happy After All
🔺Christmas with a SEAL ❱❱ 10.23 ★★★

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☑️Date ❱❱ Sanctuary ❱❱ added Jan 2025
🔺Shaken ❱❱ 10.08 ★★★★
☑️Series ❱❱ Christmas with a SEAL ❱❱ series ❱❱ Uniformly Hot SEALs
🔺A SEAL's Proposal ❱❱ 10.24 ★★★
☑️Pages ❱❱ The Guarded Widow ❱❱ 207 pp ❱❱ 368 pp
🔺Framed in Death ❱❱ 10.13 ★★★★

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☑️Series ❱❱ The Guarded Widow ❱❱ new author ❱❱ Toshikazu Kawaguchi
🔺Before the Coffee Gets Cold ❱❱ 10.09 ★★★
☑️Title ❱❱ Christmas with a SEAL ❱❱ shelf ❱❱ christmas
🔺Wreck the Halls ❱❱ 10.16 ★★★★
☑️Pages ❱❱ Sanctuary ❱❱ 152 pp ❱❱ 246 pp
🔺The Vampire Book Club ❱❱ 10.18 ★★★★

TBR Bender ❱❱ October ❱❱ COMPLETE
October - December 2025

My October TBR Bender (msg 10)

August Books
🔺Yellowstone Vows ❱❱ romance; time travel; historical fiction
🔺Consort of Fire ❱❱ fantasy; romance; dragons; lgbt
🔺Danger Close ❱❱ romantic suspense; military fiction; romance; suspense; contemporary fiction

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☑️historical fiction ❱❱ Yellowstone Vows
🔺Lady Susan ❱❱ 09.11 ★★★★
☑️fantasy ❱❱ Consort of Fire
🔺The Zillionaire Vampire Cowboy's Secret Werewolf Babies ❱❱ 09.05 ★★
☑️romantic suspense ❱❱ Danger Close
🔺The Woman Left Behind ❱❱ 09.14 ★★★★

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☑️Date ❱❱ The Woman Left Behind ❱❱ added Dec 2024
🔺Happy After All ❱❱ 09.28 ★★★★
☑️Author ❱❱ Lady Susan ❱❱ initials JA
🔺Death at the Crystal Palace ❱❱ 09.08 ★★★★
☑️Title ❱❱ The Zillionaire Vampire Cowboy's... ❱❱ Cowboy
🔺A Cowboy in Paradise ❱❱ 09.09 ★★★

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☑️Date ❱❱ The Woman Left Behind ❱❱ published 2025
🔺On Loverose Lane ❱❱ 10.03 ★★★★
☑️Series ❱❱ The Zillionaire Vampire Cowboy's... ❱❱ new author ❱❱ Blair Bancroft
🔺Belle ❱❱ 10.08★★★
☑️Author ❱❱ Lady Susan ❱❱ initials JA
🔺Hal ❱❱ 09.23 ★★★★

TBR Bender ❱❱ August ❱❱ COMPLETE
August - December 2025

My August TBR Bender (msg 11)

June Books
🔺Shadow Magic ❱❱ urban fantasy; fantasy; womens; paranormal
🔺Unlikely Story ❱❱ romance; contemporary; chick lit; enemies to lovers; new york
🔺The Hippopotamus Pool ❱❱ mystery; historical fiction; egypt; adventure; mystery thriller

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☑️paranormal ❱❱ Shadow Magic
🔺Here Kitty, Kitty ❱❱ 07.02 ★★★★
☑️romance ❱❱ Unlikely Story
🔺Flirting with Disaster ❱❱ 07.05 ★★★★
☑️historical fiction ❱❱ The Hippopotamus Pool
🔺My Runaway Heart ❱❱ 07.11 ★★★

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☑️Date ❱❱ My Runaway Heart ❱❱ added April 2013
🔺Seeing Red ❱❱ 07.09 ★★
☑️Author ❱❱ Here Kitty, Kitty ❱❱ initials SL
🔺Whiskey Chaser ❱❱ 08.30 ★★★★
☑️Pages ❱❱ Flirting with Disaster ❱❱ 381 pp ❱❱ 432 pp
🔺Shadowboxer ❱❱ 10.11 ★★★★

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☑️Series ❱❱ Here Kitty, Kitty ❱❱ new series/author ❱❱ Wounded
🔺Wounded ❱❱ 07.04 ★★★★
☑️Title ❱❱ My Runaway Heart ❱❱ shelf ❱❱ heart
🔺How to End a Love Story ❱❱ 08.06 ★★★★
☑️Pages ❱❱ Flirting with Disaster ❱❱ 381 pp ❱❱ 102 pp
🔺Hunter's Season ❱❱ 07.10 ★★★★

TBR Bender ❱❱ June ❱❱ COMPLETE
June - December 2025

My June TBR Bender (msg 12)

April Books
🔺Word Night on Union Station ❱❱ science fiction; humor; future fantasy; science fiction fantasy
🔺The Friends We Keep ❱❱ romance; chick lit; contemporary; women's fiction; adult fiction
🔺Tangled Up in You ❱❱ romance; contemporary; retellings; comtemporary romance; chick lit

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☑️science fiction fantasy ❱❱ Word Night on Union Station
🔺Mercenary Abduction ❱❱ 05.20 ★★★
☑️contemporary ❱❱ The Friends We Keep
🔺Fourth and Goal ❱❱ 10.06 ★★★
☑️romance ❱❱ Tangled Up in You
🔺Breathless In Love ❱❱ 05.08 ★★★★

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☑️Date ❱❱ Fourth and Goal ❱❱ added April 2013
🔺Appaloosa Blues ❱❱ 07.22 ★★★
☑️Series ❱❱ Breathless in Love ❱❱ series ❱❱ Maverick Billionaires
🔺Reckless In Love ❱❱ 06.29 ★★★★
☑️Pages ❱❱ Mercenary Abduction ❱❱ 219 pp ❱❱ 302 pp
🔺The Royal Mess ❱❱ 05.04 ★★★

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☑️Date ❱❱ Fourth and Goal ❱❱ pub May 2011
🔺Double the Trouble ❱❱ 07.31 ★★★
☑️Series ❱❱ Mercenary Abduction ❱❱ new series/author ❱❱ Hope Springs
🔺The Second Chance Cafe ❱❱ 05.24 ★★★★
☑️Pages ❱❱ Breathless in Love ❱❱ 406 pp ❱❱ 628 pp
🔺Bounty ❱❱ 06.08 ★★★★

Woo!! October was a great month for me. After a couple of barely there months, my rollover from Oct was 15 and I was able to read 10! That really eats into that rollover!!!

October goal: 3 + 15 rollover = 18 total
October actual: 10 book = new rollover: 8

TBR Bender ❱❱ November ❱❱ COMPLETE
November - December 2025

My November TBR Bender (msg 10)

September Books
🔺Born to Be Badger ❱❱ romance; paranormal; fantasy; urban fantasy; humor
🔺The Woman Left Behind ❱❱ romantic suspense; mystery; small town romance
🔺Happy After All ❱❱ romance; contemporary; enemies to lovers; christmas; chick lit

Like for Like



☑️paranormal ❱❱ Born to Be Badger
🔺Sanctuary ❱❱ 10.04 ★★★★
☑️romantic suspense ❱❱ The Woman Left Behind
🔺The Guarded Widow ❱❱ 10.26 ★★★
☑️christmas ❱❱ Happy After All
🔺Christmas with a SEAL ❱❱ 10.23 ★★★

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☑️Date ❱❱ Sanctuary ❱❱ added Jan 2025
🔺Shaken ❱❱ 10.08 ★★★★
☑️Series ❱❱ Christmas with a SEAL ❱❱ series ❱❱ Uniformly Hot SEALs
🔺A SEAL's Proposal ❱❱ 10.24 ★★★
☑️Pages ❱❱ The Guarded Widow ❱❱ 207 pp ❱❱ 368 pp
🔺Framed in Death ❱❱ 10.13 ★★★★

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☑️Series ❱❱ The Guarded Widow ❱❱ new author ❱❱ Toshikazu Kawaguchi
🔺Before the Coffee Gets Cold ❱❱ 10.09 ★★★
☑️Title ❱❱ Christmas with a SEAL ❱❱ shelf ❱❱ christmas
🔺Wreck the Halls ❱❱ 10.16 ★★★★
☑️Pages ❱❱ Sanctuary ❱❱ 152 pp ❱❱ 246 pp
🔺The Vampire Book Club ❱❱ 10.18 ★★★★

LOST and FOUND (LOST 2025, #3)
September 12 - December 2025

My LOST and FOUND 2025 Challenge (msg 8)

Lost completion date ❱❱ 09.11.25

LOST Books

🔺condition 3 ❱❱ added April 2013 ❱❱ Scandalous Virtue
🔺condition 1 ❱❱ Kim Hunt Harris ❱❱ published Apr 2013 ❱❱ Cowboy, Sing Me Home
🔺condition 1 ❱❱ CJ Lyons ❱❱ published Sep 2012 ❱❱ Lost in Shadows

FOUND Books

🔺condition 4 ❱❱ added May 2025 ❱❱ published May 2025 ❱❱ Betting on Good
🔺condition 2 ❱❱ author Ali Hazelwood ❱❱ added Mar 2025 ❱❱ Mate
🔺condition 2 ❱❱ author Mary Frame ❱❱ published June 2021 ❱❱ Time of My Life

LOST or FOUND Books

🔺condition 3 ❱❱ added April 2013 ❱❱ A Taste of Sin
🔺condition 3 ❱❱ added Feb 2013 ❱❱ Between a Jock and a Hard Place
🔺condition 1 ❱❱ CJ Lyons ❱❱ published June 2013 ❱❱ Edge of Shadows
🔺condition 4 ❱❱ added Aug 2025 ❱❱ published Jan 2016 ❱❱ The Witch's Halloween Hero

FOUND (LOST 2025, #2)
September 12 - December 2025

My FOUND 2024 Challenge (msg 11)

Lost completion date ❱❱ 09.11.25



🔺added March 2025 ❱❱ published Nov 2015 ❱❱ Barbarian Mine
🔺added April 2025 ❱❱ published Sep 2022 ❱❱ When in Rome
🔺added May 2025 ❱❱ published Feb 2025 ❱❱ Deep End
🔺added May 2025 ❱❱ published May 2025 ❱❱ The Love Haters
🔺added May 2025 ❱❱ published June 2025 ❱❱ Family & Other Calamities
🔺added June 2025❱❱ published Aug 2021 ❱❱ A Deal with the Devil
🔺added July 2025 ❱❱ published Aug 2025 ❱❱ The Chemistry Test
🔺added Aug 2025 ❱❱ published Oct 2021 ❱❱ If I Could Turn Back Time
🔺added Aug 2025 ❱❱ published Aug 2025 ❱❱ Accomplice to the Villain
🔺added Sep 2025 ❱❱ published Dec 2015 ❱❱ Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Woohoo! Finally finished Lost!!
Updated post: My LOST 2025 Challenge (msg 17)

Lost completion date ❱❱ 09.11.25

TBR Bender ❱❱ April ❱❱ COMPLETE
April - December 2025

My April TBR Bender (msg 12)

February Books
🔺A SEAL's Salvation ❱❱ romance; contemporary; military fiction; military romance
🔺Nobody's Darling ❱❱ contemporary romance; romance; strong-female-character; social-justice-issues
🔺Undercover Love ❱❱ romance; contemporary; romantic suspense; chick lit; new adult

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☑️military fiction ❱❱ A SEAL’s Salvation
🔺Gideon ❱❱ 06.14 ★★★★
☑️strong-female-character ❱❱ Nobody's Darling
🔺Breaking Badger ❱❱ 03.22 ★★★★
☑️romantic suspense ❱❱ Undercover Love
🔺Strangers on This Road ❱❱ 05.14 ★★★

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☑️Series ❱❱ Strangers on This Road ❱❱ series Strangers on This Road
🔺Danger in Academia ❱❱ 08.27 ★★★★
☑️Author ❱❱ Gideon ❱❱ initials CA ❱❱ AC
🔺The Unexpected Wedding Guest ❱❱ 03.24 ★★★
☑️Title ❱❱ Breaking Badger ❱❱ badger
🔺Born to Be Badger ❱❱ 09.04 ★★★★

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☑️Date ❱❱ Gideon ❱❱ published 2015
🔺What Lies Behind ❱❱ 03.27 ★★★★
☑️Series ❱❱ Strangers on This Road ❱❱ new series/author ❱❱ Pucking Wrong
🔺The Pucking Wrong Number ❱❱ 03.30 ★★★★
☑️Author ❱❱ Breaking Badger ❱❱ initials SL ❱❱ LS
🔺The Reluctant Vampire ❱❱ 03.05 ★★★★

TBR Bender ❱❱ July ❱❱ COMPLETE
July - December 2025

My July TBR Bender (msg 14)

May Books
🔺A Very Friendly Valentine's Day ❱❱ friends-lovers; romance; holiday; forced prox
🔺Gage ❱❱ romance; contemporary romance; new adult; erotica; western
🔺Edge of the Enforcer ❱❱ bdsm; erotica; romance; contemporary romance; suspense

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☑️romance ❱❱ A Very Friendly Valentine's Day
🔺Heir Untamed ❱❱ 06.05 ★★★★
☑️western ❱❱ Gage
🔺Native Silver ❱❱ 06.19 ★★★
☑️suspense ❱❱ Edge of the Enforcer
🔺Slow Burn ❱❱ 08.16 ★★★★

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☑️Date ❱❱ Native Silver ❱❱ added June 2014
🔺Invisible Fears ❱❱ 06.16 ★★★★
☑️Title ❱❱ Slow Burn ❱❱ slow
🔺Slow Tango with a Prince ❱❱ 08.12 ★★★★
☑️Pages ❱❱ Heir Untamed ❱❱ 312 pp ❱❱ 368 pp
🔺Wicked Lust ❱❱ 10.01 ★★★★

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☑️Date ❱❱ Native Silver ❱❱ published 2013
🔺Evie ❱❱ 06.30 ★★★
☑️Series ❱❱ Slow Burn ❱❱ new series/author ❱❱ Magic Happens
🔺Shadow Magic ❱❱ 06.24 ★★★
☑️Pages ❱❱ Heir Untamed ❱❱ 312 pp ❱❱ 292 pp
🔺Playing With Her Heart ❱❱ 06.04 ★★★

TBR Bender ❱❱ October ❱❱ COMPLETE
October - December 2025

My October TBR Bender (msg 10)

August Books
🔺Yellowstone Vows ❱❱ romance; time travel; historical fiction
🔺Consort of Fire ❱❱ fantasy; romance; dragons; lgbt
🔺Danger Close ❱❱ romantic suspense; military fiction; romance; suspense; contemporary fiction

Like for Like



☑️historical fiction ❱❱ Yellowstone Vows
🔺Lady Susan ❱❱ 09.11 ★★★★
☑️fantasy ❱❱ Consort of Fire
🔺The Zillionaire Vampire Cowboy's Secret Werewolf Babies ❱❱ 09.05 ★★
☑️romantic suspense ❱❱ Danger Close
🔺The Woman Left Behind ❱❱ 09.14 ★★★★

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☑️Date ❱❱ The Woman Left Behind ❱❱ added Dec 2024
🔺Happy After All ❱❱ 09.28 ★★★★
☑️Author ❱❱ Lady Susan ❱❱ initials JA
🔺Death at the Crystal Palace ❱❱ 09.08 ★★★★
☑️Title ❱❱ The Zillionaire Vampire Cowboy's... ❱❱ Cowboy
🔺A Cowboy in Paradise ❱❱ 09.09 ★★★

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☑️Date ❱❱ The Woman Left Behind ❱❱ published 2025
🔺On Loverose Lane ❱❱ 10.03 ★★★★
☑️Series ❱❱ The Zillionaire Vampire Cowboy's... ❱❱ new author ❱❱ Blair Bancroft
🔺Belle ❱❱ 10.08★★★
☑️Author ❱❱ Lady Susan ❱❱ initials JA
🔺Hal ❱❱ 09.23 ★★★★

TBR Bender ❱❱ September ❱❱ COMPLETE
September - December 2025

My September TBR Bender (msg 11)

July Books
🔺Wounded ❱❱ romance; military fiction; contemporary; new adult; war
🔺Good Tidings ❱❱ mystery; paranormal; ghosts; romance; cozy mystery
🔺The Sapphire Affair ❱❱ romance; romantic suspense; contemporary

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☑️military fiction ❱❱ Wounded
🔺Frank's Independence Day ❱❱ 08.03 ★★★★
☑️ghosts ❱❱ Good Tidings
🔺The Hexed ❱❱ 11.26 ★★★★
☑️romantic suspense ❱❱ The Sapphire Affair
🔺Return to Me ❱❱ 08.17 ★★★★

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☑️Date ❱❱ The Hexed ❱❱ added May 2014
🔺Love, Tussles, and Takedowns ❱❱ 08.23 ★★★★
☑️Title ❱❱ Return to Me ❱❱ me
🔺Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake ❱❱ 09.17 ★★★
☑️Pages ❱❱ Frank's Independence Day ❱❱ 146 pp ❱❱ 346 pp
🔺California Dreaming ❱❱ 08.22 ★★★

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☑️Date ❱❱ Return to Me ❱❱ published 2009
🔺The Huntress ❱❱ 10.18 ★★★
☑️Series ❱❱ Frank's Independence Day ❱❱ new series/author ❱❱ Dark River Days
🔺Newly Undead In Dark River ❱❱ 09.13 ★★★★
☑️Author ❱❱ The Hexed ❱❱ initials HG ❱❱ GH
🔺Unbreakable Bond ❱❱ 08.31 ★★★

Definitely made progress this month - woohoo!
July goal: 6 books + 21 turnover = 27 total
July actual: 11 books = new turnover: 16