June 2016 Wrap-Up!

Happy end of June! Even though there are still some hours until June is done, I will not have as much time to read today as previously thought (since I'm going to an event! Driving!) therefore I am doing my wrap-up post now for the #SummerSeriesChallenge. However, I thought it was silly to just tell you what books I read for that challenge when I read a whole slew of others! So you're getting a REAL monthly wrap-up which I haven't done since July 2015. ALMOST A YEAR. Enjoy!

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Reviews:

• ARC Review: The Gallery of Lost Species by Nina Berkout (4*)
• Review: Echoes of the Forgotten by Kevin Looney (4*)
• ARC Review: I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid (4*)
• ARC Review: You Know Me Well by David Levithan & Nina LaCour (4*)
• Review: Saving Montgomery Sole by Mariko Tamaki (3.5*)
• ARC Review: Songbyrd by Anna Silver (3.5*)
• Review: My Mad Fat Diary by Rae Earl (4*)
• Review: The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrustkie (4*)

Discussions:

• Top Books I've Read in 2016 (So Far)
• How to Survive Book Events
• My Typical Blogging Days

Blog Tours:

• Guest Post: Peter Brown Hoffmeister
• Guest Post: Danika Stone
• Blitz: Chains of Command
• Guest Post: Julia Ember

Books Read In June 2016

Total Books Read: 44 
Average Rating: 3*

Highest Rated June 2016 Read

WHEN THE MOON WAS OURS

Author: Anna-Marie McLemore
Source: eARC via Publisher
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Publication Date: October 4, 2016
Rating: 4.5/5 stars

Summary:
When the Moon Was Ours follows two characters through a story that has multicultural elements and magical realism, but also has central LGBT themes—a transgender boy, the best friend he’s falling in love with, and both of them deciding how they want to define themselves.

To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. Roses grow out of Miel’s wrist, and rumors say that she spilled out of a water tower when she was five. Sam is known for the moons he paints and hangs in the trees, and for how little anyone knows about his life before he and his mother moved to town.

But as odd as everyone considers Miel and Sam, even they stay away from the Bonner girls, four beautiful sisters rumored to be witches. Now they want the roses that grow from Miel’s skin, convinced that their scent can make anyone fall in love. And they’re willing to use every secret Miel has fought to protect to make sure she gives them up.  

Pre-Order:

Amazon | Chapters | TBD

#ReadProud

• Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin: 4*
• No Holding Back by Kate Evangelista: 3.5*
• Daybreak Rising by Kiran Oliver: 3*
• We Awaken by Calista Lynne: 2*
• When The Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore: 4.5*
• Saving Montgomery Sole by Mariko Tamaki: 3.5*
• Out On Good Behaviour by Dahlia Adler: 4*
• Jerkbait by Mia Siegert: 4.5*
• Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld: 4*
• Freakboy by Kristin Elizabeth Clark: 4.5*
• You Know Me Well by David Levithan & Nina LaCour: 4*
• (you) set me on fire by Mariko Tamaki: 3*

#SummerSeriesChallenge

• Eve by Anna Carey: 3.5*; will continue with this series!
• Fate of Flames by Sarah Raughley: DNF @ 35%; will not continue
• The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson: 3*; might continue with this series
• Eve & Adam by Michael Grant & Katherine Applegate: 2.5*; might continue with this series
• The Island by S. Usher Evans: 2*; will not continue this series
• Daybreak Rising by Kiran Oliver: 3*; will continue with this series
• Blood Magic by Tessa Gratton: 3*; will continue this series
• Last Will and Testament by Dahlia Adler: 4*; have continued this series
• These Broken Stars by Meagan Spooner & Amie Kauffman: 2.5*; will not continue this series
• A Book of Spirits and Thieves by Morgan Rhodes: 4*; have continued this series
• TomodachixMonster, Volume 1: 3*; will continue this series
• One Piece, Volume 1: 4*; will continue this series
• Southern Cross, Volume 1: 3*; will not continue this series
• Sex Criminals, Volume 1: 4*; will continue this series
• The Wicked + The Divine, Volume 1: 4.5*; will continue this series
• In The After by Demetria Lunetta: 4*; will continue this series

Outside These Challenges 

• The Gilded Cage by Lucinda Gray: 2*
• This Adventure Ends by Emma Mills: 4.5*
• Unscripted Joss Byrd by Lygia Day Peñaflor: 4*
• Right of First Refusal by Dahlia Adler: 3*
• The Girls by Emma Cline: DNF @ 21%
• Songbyrd by Anna Silver: 3.5*
• The Silver Child by Nancy Norbeck: DNF @ 27%
• Arctic Dawn by Karissa Laurel: 3*
• Eerie by C.M. McCoy: DNF @ 33%
• Smut by Karina Halle: 3.5*
• The Darkest Magic by Morgan Rhodes: 4*
• Blue Exorcist, Volume 6: 3.75*
• Attack on Titan, Volume 20: 4.5*