Jo's 2021 #RockMyTBR Challenge

[Jo]

I'm putting this up a tad early, but I won't be properly talking about the books until next year, I just wanted to share the books that Twitter has chosen for me here at the same time as on my blog (I'll be doing that list tomorrow). It's exactly the same as last year's challenge, I've had Twitter pick 12 books off my TBR (well 11, I chose one) and I'm going to read them over the course of next year. All the books are backlist books, so basically nothing released in 2021, there are some releases from this year on here, but by next year, they're technically "backlist".

[Jo]

Here's what I will be reading for this challenge in 2021:

January-

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I'll keep this thread updated with my thoughts throughout the year! Some of my favourite books of last year came from this challenge, so I'm hoping next year's challenge brings some new favourites as well!

[Brittany]

Oh! Ill read A Court of Wings and Ruin with you in January!!!

You have some books I am quite interested in on your challenge this year. So you may have more buddy read offers. Hope they are amazing!

[Jo]

Cool, sounds like a plan! I need to catch up with the series before the fourth book comes out, so I'll be reading that and the novella in January. That's cool, I like doing buddy reads! Thanks, I hope so too :)

[Brittany]

I'll probably join you for the novella too. I have both on audio

[Jo]

Cool sounds good, we can have a Sarah J Maas January together :)

[Brittany]

Sounds like fun!

[Jo]

It does!

[Jo]

Have started my first challenge read of the year with .

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

We should all buddy the new one at some point??

[Jo]

Absolutely!

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

I'm planning on ordering the Illumicrate mini-box for it coz they're doing book sleves for the full series that match. I was like... yes please haha

[Jo]

Ha ha they know how to get us! I think I'm going to get the audiobook for it, I've realised that I consume longer books so much better in audio and I don't really love the cover for the new one, so I don't really mind not having it for my collection.

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

I try really hard to listen to audiobooks but my current listen I've been listening to it for 4 months haha. I'm just not an audio person I don't think.

[Jo]

That's fair enough, we all read differently! I like audio when I'm reading anyway, I often listen to music or podcasts as I read, so audiobooks work quite well for me because I already relate audio to reading quite a lot if that makes sense?

[Brittany]

Makes total sense Jo and I'm the same way!

Also absolutely to a buddy read of the new one. As long as you can wait a couple months. I listen to them and with them being such long audios I need breaks between!

[Jo]

Glad I'm not the only one! Yeah that's absolutely fine Brittany, I'm going to listen to it as well and I have other audios planned as my next listens!

[Jo]

Have started , I wanted to finish by the end of January, but it's SO LONG and I started it with only two weeks to go, so I'm putting it aside for now and coming back to it later.

[Jo]

I finally finished , this year has been off to a slow start, I think I'm still feeling kind of slumpy from the end of last year tbh. Anyway, I enjoyed it, not as much as the first book in the series, it's a bit of a slow starter but I love the characters and once it got going it was really exciting.
(view spoiler)[ THE ENDING? SEVERIN? WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME? I'm not sure Enrique, Laila or Zofia will forgive him for what he did at the end or at least not easily: I mean I get why he did it, Ruslan needed to think they were dead but STILL. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

[Jo]

I've been feeling very slumpy since the beginning of this year and my friend suggested trying some shorter books as what I've been reading so far has been quite dense fantasy so I've switched out for now for as I love VE Schwab and it's a shorter book, so I'm hoping that it will help get me out of my slump!

[Laura ☾]

Ooh I liked the Archived series!

[Brittany]

Totally agree with your friend! Read some shorter ones to try and break out of the slump

[Jo]

Laura ☾ wrote: "Ooh I liked the Archived series!"

I enjoyed the first book but have been putting the second one off for ages because I knew it was originally meant to be a trilogy and I didn't want to be frustrated at an unfinished ending. However I know it's going to be a while before VE Schwab gets the third one out there (she has expressed that she'd like to and I'm sure now that's she's so successful her publisher would probably let her do it) so I didn't figure it was worth waiting longer!

[Jo]

Brittany wrote: "Totally agree with your friend! Read some shorter ones to try and break out of the slump"

Hopefully it works! The unfortunate part of fantasy is that 90% of them are super thick reads!

[Brittany]

Isn't that the truth Jo! I'd love to read more true fantasy instead of offshoots of it but they are just so large!

[Jo]

I feel that, have definitely been put off reading a lot of epic fantasy because of size!

[Jo]

I'm so behind on this challenge! took me FOREVER to read, so I'm now two books behind where I was meant to be because I was reading it through all of April and May. I'm going to try and catch up as much as my reading slump allows, but I'm taking a short break to read as I borrowed it from a friend last year and need to get it back to her! Hopefully it won't take me as long as The Unbound did and then I can try to get back on track with my challenge reads.