Jo's 2020 #RockMyTBR Challenge

[Jo]

I do this challenge every year on my blog, and thought it would be fun if I kept track of the books I was reading for it on here as well!

[Brittany]

YES! Would love to see you keeping track on here too! Good luck

[Jo]

Brittany wrote: "YES! Would love to see you keeping track on here too! Good luck"

Thanks Brittany!

[Jo]

So this challenge doesn't really need all that much explaining, basically I just read a list of books from my TBR over the course of a year, but they have to be books that I owned before 2020, nothing bought new this year, the idea being that you knock off older books from your TBR. I get people on Twitter to vote for what I read and this is what I'm going to be reading this year, I read one book a month:

-January-
-February-
-March-
-April-
-May-
-June-
-July-
-August-
-September-
-October-
-November-
-December-

I'll keep this thread updated with thoughts on the books throughout the year, should be fun!

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

This is a really cool challenge! Good luck Jo!

[Jo]

Thanks!

[Brittany]

Love it! And can't wait for your June read. Love love love that book and the sequel!

[Kayleigh {K-Books}, YA Fantasy Fan]

City of brass is one of my favourite books 😍

[Jo]

Great to see you guys loved City of Brass! My friend Nicola also loved it, and I'm trying out more adult fantasy, so I'm hoping I will also enjoy it!

[Jo]

I finished my first book for this challenge of 2020, which also happened to be the BOTM for January which was great, two birds one stone! I really enjoyed Circe, it was written well, I loved Circe as a character and I thought it was really cool how Miller weaved lots of different Greek myths into her story. My one niggle would be (view spoiler)[ the ending was unclear but other than that, I really enjoyed it. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

[Jo]

My next read for this challenge will be though I probably won't be starting it for another couple of weeks as I am currently reading .

[Jo]

I finished last weekend and I liked it, but it took a lot longer than I thought it would and I felt the story lagged at times. Currently reading my next book for this challenge .

[Jo]

Finished and I liked it, I thought it was a really fun and creative story, but it was a little slower than I would have liked and felt a lot longer than 387 pages!
Also the ending kind of pissed me off (view spoiler)[ Maia is going to become a demon, as a tradeoff for freeing Edan who she now can't be with anyway. WHAT WAS THE POINT IN THAT? So stupid. (view spoiler)[
Moving on to my April book next, . I've heard mixed things about this one, so it's going to be interesting to read it for myself and see what I think! (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

[Jo]

I'm going to read my April TBR book, next. I'm quite interested to read this one, as I've heard very mixed things, so hopefully I fall into the camp that loves it and not the one that hates it!

[Brittany]

Good luck!

Also too bad about a not so great ending for Spin the Dawn

[Jo]

Brittany wrote: "Good luck!

Also too bad about a not so great ending for Spin the Dawn"

Thanks! It should be a good one for me, it's got heists and it's historical fantasy, both of which usually work out well. Yeah, I was really disappointed because I was enjoying the book up to that point.

[Brittany]

Heists and historical fantasy are loves of mine as well.
That's the worst when the end ruins it.

[Jo]

Brittany wrote: "Heists and historical fantasy are loves of mine as well.
That's the worst when the end ruins it."

It really is! I've actually switched it out for City of Brass, so I'll be reading The Gilded Wolves later on in the year.

[Jo]

I finished and I loved it! Cannot wait to read the sequel when I'm done with my current audiobook. I'll be taking a break from challenge reads and reading next, and then I'll be moving onto my May read .

[Brittany]

Ah!! I need to read Lady's Guide too! Buddy read?! I just put a hold on it should be in by early May.

[Jo]

Brittany wrote: "Ah!! I need to read Lady's Guide too! Buddy read?! I just put a hold on it should be in by early May."

Yeah sounds great! Just let me know when you have it :)

[Kayleigh {K-Books}, YA Fantasy Fan]

So glad to see you enjoyed City of Brass. It's one of my favourite series. I'm trying to see whether I can fit a re-read of the first two books in before the third one releases.

[Jo]

Kayleigh {K-Books} wrote: "So glad to see you enjoyed City of Brass. It's one of my favourite series. I'm trying to see whether I can fit a re-read of the first two books in before the third one releases."

Yes it was awesome. Still got a few months till the third one comes out, though I don't know, those are quite chunky books!

[Brittany]

Jo wrote: "Brittany wrote: "Ah!! I need to read Lady's Guide too! Buddy read?! I just put a hold on it should be in by early May."

Yeah sounds great! Just let me know when you have it :)"

Are you listening or reading it? I should have it in a week or so. Just need to finish Naughts and Crosses first!

[Jo]

Brittany wrote: "Jo wrote: "Brittany wrote: "Ah!! I need to read Lady's Guide too! Buddy read?! I just put a hold on it should be in by early May."

Yeah sounds great! Just let me know when you have it :)"

Are you..."

I'm reading it, got the hardback from Foyles last year.

[Brittany]

I just got it early from the library so am good to start whenever. I'll go make a buddy read thread.

[Jo]

I've still got my current read to finish, but I'm hoping I'll be done with that by next Friday, so should be good to start then? Will let you know if I'm finished earlier!

[Brittany]

Sounds good. I'll probably start before then as I don't have an audiobook going right now and don't want to start a new one. But it should take me awhile to read.

[Jo]

No worries, I'll catch up once I'm done with my current read!

[Jo]

I just started my May read, . Brittany and I have a buddy read of this one going on, so if any of you would like to join in, the thread is here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Brittany]

Yes join us! The more the merrier!

[Jo]

Okay, so I'm reading for my May PIFM now, so I'm going to drop it from the challenge and read the sequel in October instead! It still counts as a backlist book from my TBR, even if it is very recent backlist!

[Kayleigh {K-Books}, YA Fantasy Fan]

Oh I loved City of Ghosts and Tunnel of Bones. They're such great reads. Super fun.

[Jo]

That's great to hear! I don't usually read much middle grade but it's VE Schwab, so I had to. Figured this year was a good year to catch up since the third book isn't coming out till next year.

[Jo]

I finished today and I really enjoyed it! Excited to read the final book when it comes out this August. That was my TBR book for May, so moving onto which I've now swapped out of the challenge as Heather chose it for me for May's PIFM.

[Kayleigh {K-Books}, YA Fantasy Fan]

I'm the same. I don't really like MG either but it was VE Schwab so naturally I had to read it haha

[Jo]

The only ones I still tend to read are Rick Riordan bit when I love an author, I read everything they write!

[Jo]

So after some reshuffling is my June read and I didn't really see any point in starting something else for May when I'm unlikely to finish it by Sunday so I've started it early. Hoping I'll enjoy it!

[Brittany]

I'm curious about that one!

[Jo]

I'll let you know what I think when I'm done!

[HeatherH]

I'm curious as well! I have it but haven't gotten to it yet!

[Jo]

I'm not very far through yet, but loving the squad dynamic so far!

[Jo]

Okay so I finished and I really enjoyed it. This group of friends is one of my absolute new favourite squads, it was a lot funnier than I was expecting and I will definitely be reading more of Roshani Chokshi's work, I've already preordered The Silvered Serpents. (view spoiler)[ SEVERIN IS NOT THE HEIR TO HOUSE VANTH? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I MUST KNOW MORE. Also how dare you kill precious cinnamon roll Tristan, how dare. (view spoiler)[ Almost halfway through the year, six books down, six more to go. My next read for this challenge will be but I won't be reading that till July. I finished my challenge book pretty early this month since I started with a few days left of May. (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

[Jo]

My next challenge read will be but I won't be reading that till the beginning of July, I finished my June challenge book earlier than I normally would as I started with a few days left of May. Six books down, six to go and we're almost halfway through the year, so perfectly on track!

[Brittany]

Awesome Jo!! Keep it going

[Jo]

Thanks!

[Jo]

Started my July challenge book, a few days early since there's only a few days of June left.

[Kayleigh {K-Books}, YA Fantasy Fan]

I can't wait to hear your thoughts on King of Scars :)

[Jo]

Kayleigh {K-Books} wrote: "I can't wait to hear your thoughts on King of Scars :)"

I'm so excited to be back with these characters again!

[Jo]

Finished , which I enjoyed though it was kind of slow throughout and the two story threads didn't really seem to fit together. I'm looking forward to reading the sequel though, as I feel like this book was kind of intended to be mainly setup for that.

Next I'm going to be reading before moving on to my August book .