A book a day...

Current TBR List: 18
Currently Reading: 8
Books Finished in December: 6

December is shaping into my best reading month yet! I am basically at a book a day so far! Woot woot! Yes, audio and graphic novels are helping me out a lot in this accomplishment but its an accomplishment none the less! So happy to finally get out of the slump I was in.

Bakuman continued! I was able to complete volume 5 and 6. I want to say outside of the introduction to the story in volume 1, number 6 is my favorite. It ends in a cliffhanger though and I don’t have number 7 on hand! UGGHHHHH This is why I tend to buy the series in its entirety, or buy series that are 20+ books already so that I am never left with a cliffhanger!!! I will hopefully be able to stop by a store that has number 7 this week….really hope I can find it or ill have to order it and it will take that much longer to solve the ending!

I was never big into graphic novels when I was younger. I was a snob and cheap so I never wanted to buy “small” books and opted for huge tomes to spend my meager dollars on. I also tend to never re-read books, they are a select few I have re-read, so I don’t like to buy expensive small books.

In between the two graphic novels I was able to listen to Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry on my commute. This book…

Nora goes to visit her sister only to find her brutally murdered. Lots of triggers in this tiny book, rape, abuse, harm against a poor innocent pup. This book throws a huge sucker punch from page one. Nora is trying to solve her sisters murder since she doesn’t have a lot of faith in the police department per prior experience with another attach they could not solve.

There are so many secrets, emotions and memories peppered throughout this story. I constantly was confused and lost, in a good way. I have to agree with other reviewers though when they say that the book starts at level 100 and then kind of lags over the next several chapters. It does pick up momentum again but that initial dip did cause me to get bored for a bit and if I had been reading a physical copy I might have set it aside for a couple weeks while I perused other books. The narration on this audio book was great though so highly recommend the listen!

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