I knew I didn’t have the best time reading in March but I didn’t realise how dire it was until I sat down to write this post. It was genuinely one of the worst reading months since I started writing these posts numbers-wise. I finished a whole four books and that’s it. I can’t remember the last time I read so little in a month. Thankfully I quite enjoyed what I did read, otherwise it would have been absolutely dire.
I did start a fifth book, which I was hoping to finish before the end of the month, but in true me fashion that didn’t happen. I was feeling pretty smug about the fact that I actually got to all of the books I mentioned in my March to be read post, but life got in the way and I’ve now been reading Dating and Dragons by Kirsty Boyce for over a week and I’m not even halfway through yet. Yikes.
Finding Her Edge by Jennifer Iacopelli
Read: 23/2/26 – 4/3/26
I decided to check out this book purely because of the show and also because it was on Kindle Unlimited. I’m the type of person that likes to read the book before watching the adaptation, and honestly, I half wish I didn’t do either. They’re nothing alike, and while I did enjoy the book more, it still wasn’t great. I actually think my three star rating is pretty generous.
Synopsis: Adriana Russo is figure skating royalty, born to gold-medalist parents and an equally talented sister. Adriana’s dream? To conquer the Junior World Championships and uphold the family legacy. But when the family’s legendary skating rink faces financial ruin, everything she’s worked for is at risk.
Training with her new partner, Brayden, sparks an let the world believe their on-ice chemistry isn’t only for show. The fake-dating gains traction, and Adriana realizes maybe she actually is falling for Brayden. But then her past crashes into her present and changes everything, when Freddie, her former partner-and first crush-reenters the scene.
As the biggest competition of her life draws closer and her family’s legacy hangs in the balance, Adriana is torn between the future she’s worked so hard for with Brayden, and the one she gave up long ago with Freddie. Will she find her edge and claim her place at the top, or will her heart lead her in a different direction?
Love, Rebooted by Katy Summers
Read: 25/2/26 – 5/3/26
This is a really fun listen if you have Audible Plus. I’m not sure if I’d recommend spending actual money on it, but I’m still not a die-hard lover of audiobooks, so you can’t fully trust my opinion there.
The characters were great, it’s a really good representation of autism and while the slow burn can get a little frustrating, I’m a sucker for a friends to lovers second chance type romance. Very cute and great narration for both perspectives.
Synopsis: FRIENDS. RIVALS. LOVERS. Liv’s happy with life in her thirties. She has two cats, one BFF, and no boyfriend, which is just how she likes it. Plus, she loves working at a not-for-profit software company where she can be her authentically autistic self. This is her happy ever after.
But when her beloved firm merges with a repulsive rival, Liv finds herself competing with her sort-of-ex for the top job. Sure, Finn had been Liv’s best friend at university, with his nerdy good looks and their shared love of Tolkien, but there was that one night, their song, and … well, she doesn’t like to talk about it. In fact, she hasn’t thought about him since.
Unlike Finn who is delighted to have Liv back in his life. Could this finally be his chance to rescue their friendship after all these years? But he knows it’s only a matter of time until he wins the job and Liv gets laid off. He hates everything about it, but he’s a single dad with a daughter to support, so losing isn’t an option – not even to his soulmate.
But in the close proximity of a cut-throat corporate world, Finn finds himself falling first and soon his priority becomes breaking down Liv’s barriers. As the pair struggle to keep their professional and personal lives separate, Liv starts to think maybe Finn’s suggestion of a friendship reboot isn’t such a bad idea after all… And as for that funny feeling inside… no, that’s nothing. Nothing at all…
Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
Read: 22/3/26 – 23/3/26
I spent most of March taking forever to get through books, but this I picked up Love, Theoretically and it took me less than 24 hours to finish. Ali Hazelwood never lets me down (other than that one festive novella that we won’t talk about). Every full length book I’ve read has been a five star read. I don’t know what she puts in these books but they feel like they were made just for me – the whole ‘he’s massive, the biggest person you’ve ever seen in your life.’ bit does get old after a while but I’m choosing to ignore it because I love her books so much.
I’m yet to write my review of this book but we all know because I loved it the review will either be all over the place or super short as I’m terrible at explaining why I love something. I’m great at writing reviews for books I didn’t like though, I feel like my humour really shines.
Synopsis: The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs.
Honestly, it’s a pretty sweet gig—until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and broody older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor’s career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. And that same Jack who now sits on the hiring committee at MIT, right between Elsie and her dream job.
Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but…those long, penetrating looks? Not having to be anything other than her true self when she’s with him? Will falling into an experimentalist’s orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice?
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Read: 5/3/26 – 24/3/26
I’m having a ‘did I like this? I think I liked this?’ moment with this book. It was on my to be read pretty much from the day it was published, so my expectations for it got pretty huge. There was a lot to love but it did take me a pretty long time to finish.
Synopsis: Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t get rid of him.
In an attempt to prove himself a true brujo and gain his family’s acceptance, Yadriel decides to summon his cousin’s ghost and help him cross to the afterlife.
But things get complicated when he accidentally summons the ghost of his high school’s resident bad boy, Julian Diaz – and Julian won’t go into death quietly.
The two boys must work together if Yadriel is to move forward with his plan.
But the more time Yadriel and Julian spend together, the harder it is to let each other go…
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