January wrap-up post

I know it's technically February now, but I decided to do these posts on the nearest weekend to the end of the month...and here it is. * books were review books, and any reviews are linked to in the titles.

I'm participating in 2 challenges this year, the Contemporary challenge hosted by Katie and Angela and the TBR challenge hosted by Evie and tonnes of other cool people.

For this challenge, this month I read: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

I haven't reviewed it, because I haven't decided how I feel about it. I know I only read one, but I only picked five contemporary books (as it's a genre I don't read much) so it's not that bad.

For this challenge I read: Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready

Again, not great. Worse because I picked a higher amount of books for this challenge.

Overall, this month I read: 9 books, which were:

You Can't Hide by Karen Rose

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson 

Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready

Fracture by Megan Miranda*

Stolen Away by Alyxandra Harvey*

Hollow Pike by James Dawson*

Everneath by Brodi Ashton*

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles

Whilst I'm disappointed with the number of books I read in January, I'm not disappointed with the variety. I read 2 adult crime novels which is a genre I used to LOVE and have been desperate to get back into and TGWTDT is a book I've wanted to read for a long time. I also read 2 contemporaries, which is really unusual for me, and nearly half of the books I read were review books. 

 I'm definitely aiming to read a lot more books in February, but I absolutely want to keep up the level of variety if possible. I definitely need to stop watching so much TV (which now I've watched all of Merlin shouldn't be too hard) as that severely restricts my reading time! I also stuck faiirrrlly strictly to my book-acquiring ban, which I'm happy with. 

How did you all do? Let me know in the comments or link me to your own wrap-up post!