#read in march

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Day 30: JOMPBPC: Read In March

My incredible March, 2025 reading wrap-up! 💛

[booksandrandomfandoms]

JOMP day 30

Read in march

Here is my March wrap up

[princessofbookaholics]

My March reading was great! Coincidentally read a lot of green books 💚 My favorites of the month were Five Little Pigs and Didn't See That Coming. I'm still looking for a 5 star but no luck this month. Here's the wrap up:

Silent Parade ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Five Little Pigs ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Mistletoe and Mr. Right ⭐⭐⭐

Home Field Advantage ⭐⭐⭐

Ask for Andrea ⭐⭐

The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Once Upon an Eid ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Murder Road ⭐⭐⭐

Every Last Secret ⭐⭐⭐

Didn't See That Coming ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Ward D ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Last Night ⭐⭐⭐

[shisasan]

19 March, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

[thebookwormsnook]

A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen

I'm so excited everyone!!! This is my first review on this blog and I received a few warm welcomes. Thank you very much! I'm finally getting around to writing this review because I've been so busy with work and school. It's very exhausting. But with that being said, here's my review on A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen.

Overview:

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4 out of 5 stars!

A Fate Inked in Blood was a great book and it was an amazing book to start off my hobby again! It has action. It has a strong female protagonist. It has romantic tensions. A few steamy scenes closer to the end (if that's something you like). It has magic. It has Norse mythology. It had every component that captured and held onto my attention. The story was very well written and for most of the time, I couldn't wait to go home from work and pick it up again. I'll try to keep the spoilers to a minimum in case y'all also want to read the book. So...why not 5 stars? I felt like the pacing for ~400 pages was well done but I feel like there were sections that were either really slow or really fast. I love the fact that the book is in first person. It really helps with the immersion but I feel like we weren't really able to learn about Freya's love interest, Bjorn, more than the superficial level. There is no other depth beside the tension that they shared together. BUT before you discredit this book, the writing for Bjorn's character was intentional as we come to find out who he really is at the end of the story. If you find yourself interested in details above, then you might want to read this book.

Book (Physical copy):

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4 out of 5 stars!

The physical 1st edition copy of this book is absolutely beautiful. The cover art on the jacket is so beautiful and it's one of the things that first intrigued me into reading the synopsis. The jacket is 3D in certain sections and patterns on the front.

The pages are foiled in a blue color and it definitely adds so much personality to the book. The book cover itself is a white color with an emblem (Freya's hand tattoo?) embossed into it. Again, it's a beautiful book for your library.

I think my only dislike for this book is the color choice for the book cover. There are a lot of times where I've wanted to take the jacket off of the book because it kept slipping but I really couldn't or I was just scared to. White is pretty...pretty tough to maintain. Especially, when you want to take the book out in public to read. Nonetheless, I don't regret my purchase.

Romance:

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4 out of 5 stars!

"You are mine, Born-in-Fire. Even if only the two of us know it."

I just want to say: if you love romantic tension, this is your book! Anytime Freya and Bjorn were in close proximity, I felt giddy. I was always on the edge of my seat with all the tension stuffed in ~400 pages. Freya is the "wife" (wife is a very loose term as their marriage is of convenience and legality?) of Jarl Snorri, Bjorn's biological father. Their love is taboo since she is a legally married woman and his father's wife. Their love isn't one that's rushed or even forced. There was always an attraction between each other since they first met. I think there are moments in the beginning of the story where Freya was a little too jealous over someone she barely knows. They have a few moments where they finally touch and kiss each other which builds to the tension.

For the spice lovers, you might be a tad bit disappointed. Once Freya and Bjorn...get together. It feels like the ~300 pages of tension were for nothing because it almost seems like the author did not want to write them being together. The writing was rushed during this scenes and this is where I feel like the book should've been ~500 pages because what was the point of all that tension just to lose it in a few pages.

Romantic tension: 5/5

Spice: 3/5

Plot:

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4.5 stars out of 5!

I think the plot is amazing. The romance isn't the biggest part about the book, it's Freya's journey from being a fish wife to a warrior. Freya not only experiences the glory of becoming what she's always wanted to become but she also experiences and pays the price of being a warrior. This is where I love the 1st person perspective. We followed Freya's story in Freya's perspective and we experienced what Freya did "in real time" so when the end of the book comes around, we (the reader) are just as shocked and confused as Freya is in the moment. The book ends in a cliffhanger and I am waiting in anticipation for any news about the next book (even though this book came out in February).

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In conclusion, I think it was a great read and great first book back into reading for fun. If you read it, let me know your thoughts.

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ANYWAYS, I'm so happy I got my first review out on my blog. It took some time but I finished. I'm currently reading Dune and I have a few books in my "To Read" list.

Currently reading: Dune by Frank Herbert

Next in Queue: Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli

Favorite song at the moment: Deceptacon by Le Tigre

THANK YOU FOR READING!!!!

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Read in March

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two pretty best friends ( ´ ▽ ` ).｡ｏ♡

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Day 30: JOMPBPC: Read In March

My beautiful March, 2024 reading wrap-up! 🩵

[booksandrandomfandoms]

JOMP day 30

Read in March

Not too bad, finished up a few series, crushed some challenges, had a lot of laughs 👍

[soracities]

Samuel Beckett, letter to Morris Sinclair (March 4th, 1934), The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Vol. I: 1929-1940 [ID'd]

[rhiangalaxy]

Guys he's totally Not a carp spirit

[ID: A DTBPF Drawing. Depicts a 3/4ths body shot of Li Yu in his human form, he has one arm folded behind his back and the other up pointing towards himself with a flustered/nervous expression. Two speech bubbles show a fish with a question mark and then a fish with an X as if he is denying being one. Fish scales can be seen on his elbow and neck and his hair has some gold, black and white highlights like the scales in his fish form. End ID]

[shisasan]

March 20, 1923 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

[ctrl-alt-cel]

my fav banana fish arc...the geometry quiz arc....

[wigglybunfish]

Been rereading Little Women recently... or technically, properly reading it for the first time. The last time I touched this book was when I was ten, and the book I touched was a shortened chinese edition (or was it just the first half? anyway) Here are the sisters in 21 century post covid and I think Beth would've loved the groundbreaking invention that is the Hoodie

[marcus-junius-brutus15]

Ok but what if we went to the senate and Caesar just died. Like, no stabbing necessary, he just keeled over. What then