Hello! Today I have my September wrap up to share with you, and spoiler… it did not go well.
I didn’t have a great reading month, about a week in, I got into a little bit of a reading slump that I am still trying to navigate. I only read three books. I did attempt to take part in the Theatreathon hosted by the lovely people over at TeaTimeLit, however I did not do very well in that either! Although, the three books that I did read did meet some of those prompts, so at least that is that!
The books that I did read, were all great reads so let’s get into the books I read this month!
City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare
This was a reread for me! I don’t even know what number reread this was for me, it has been so many times. It was a great comfort for me, yet again, and I am so happy that I have wrapped up my reread of The Mortal Instruments series, and I am looking forward to moving onto The Dark Artifices series, which I personally think is the best shadowhunter series so far!
Roman and Jewel by Dana L. Davis
I was really craving a quick, dramatic contemporary, and Roman and Jewel was the perfect book for that! It was jam-packed with drama and was a really funny novel. Roman and Jewel gives Romeo and Juliet the Hamilton treatment, and centres around the people who play the leads in the show. I can’t recommend it enough if you’re looking for a fun insta-romance. I did review this book too, so you can check it out – here.
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
So I am not actually familiar with the original story of Merlin, but I didn’t felt like that impacted my enjoyment of Legendborn! There was quite a lot going on, so I will definitely need to reread this one before the sequel, and I feel like it is one that I haven’t retained a lot of information after finishing the novel. Although, I am not very good at remembering books after I read them in general, to be honest. Despite this, I really loved it! It felt like such a unique novel incorporating magic and demons and it was so good.
If you saw my post on Thursday, Entering the Last Quarter of the Year, you may have seen that I have decided to reduce my reading goal for the year. It was set at 100, but as of the 1st October, I have read 56. With that, I have decided to reduce my reading goal to 75. I think it is still enough of a challenge, but a much more achievable goal. I am going to be really busy at work the next few months, as well as focusing on rewriting my novel and NaNoWriMo.
That being said, if I pass 75 before December, I will up the goal again. Every year I tend to change my goal depending on how I am doing until December. As soon as I get to the 1st December, I won’t change it anymore. I find it more enjoyable this way – because this challenge should not be stressful and should just be a bit of fun.
How are your reading goals going for the year? What did you read this month?
Kira Jeanette 
It’s okay to take a break from reading. Sometimes we need that. How fun that you’ve been rereading the Shadowhunters books! That’s quite an endeavor. My favorite is still The Infernal Devices. I think Will will forever be my favorite character. ❤ But I did really enjoy The Dark Artifices, as well. I need to reread it someday, too. I hope you read some great books in October!
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I love Will! I don’t get the hype as much with The Infernal Devices – don’t get me wrong, I still love them and they’re all still 5*s but I definitely love hold more affection for the others series!
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Great wrap up! I need to read Legendborn and it looks so good!
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Thank-you! It was really good, I flew through it
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I feel like the shadowhunters books should count as multiple books for how big they are haha
And if it makes you feel better, one of my sisters sets a reading goal of ONE book on GR every year and hasn’t succeeded in about 5 years – you’re doing great no matter what!
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Haha yes! I did only read the last book last month though! My reread started in March! Oh no – is she not much of a reader? I like setting the goal as a bit of fun, but I don’t get too upset if I don’t reach it
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oh my goodness, i adore both the infernal devices (hope you enjoy your reread!!) and legendborn!
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They’re both great!
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Thanks so much for the blog ❤️. 😊
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Thank-you!
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Sorry September didn’t go as well as you’d planned, but I think it’s so important to take some breaks and restrategize, and not pressure yourself to read because that just makes the slump worse. Hopefully October is better for you. 🙂 Also very nice to hear that being unfamiliar with the Merlin legend didn’t dampen your enjoyment of Legendborn – that was one of my main concerns as well.
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Yes this is true! I am hoping I can get back on my feet in October. I hope you enjoy Legendborn once you get to – you’ll have to let me know!
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Last year I failed my reading challenge by one book 😅 this year i lowered it to 30 So hopefully I’ll finish it. Last year had a lot of reading slumps 😒
I find rereads to be great for reading slumps!
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I had a lot of reading slumps last year too! I would have failed my reading challenge if I hadn’t kept altering it, to be honest
Rereads are the best! I am currently rereading The Vampire Academy, and I am hoping that that is what is going to pull me out of this slump before it becomes a proper reign slump
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Yes! If I get into another slump, I’ll probably choose Vampire Academy 😻.
Another thing which helps is to change your format up! I recently found that I was getting annoyed with my e-arcs, but I realised that with my Kindle tablet, there was a text to speech button and on my phone there’s a ‘read screen aloud function’.
So I used that ‘make’ my e-arc into audiobooks. It’s not perfect, but it allowed me to change over to another format until I could go back to e-book format (which I can now).
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That’s such a good idea! I didn’t even know that was a function!
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It’s great! On my phone I turn on the accessibility feature and that’s able to read the screen aloud. Really helpful!
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I would never have thought of that if you hadn’t said anything!
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Happy to help!
It takes a bit getting used to it you don’t use it a lot but if you listen to audiobooks a lot and speed up the audio, definitely speed up the audio on the read-aloud function.
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Legendborn was one of my favourite books this year, really looking forward to the sequel. I hit my target (52) earlier this month but I think enjoyment is way more important than quantity. 😊
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Legendborn is great! I’m also looking forward to the sequel!! Congrats on reaching your goal! Enjoyment is definitely the most important
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