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2024
My Year in Books
82,845
pages read
Coco Spence
201
books read
Coco Spence
The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch
Shortest Book
118
pages
Briarwood Witches by Steffanie Holmes
Longest Book
1,219
pages
Average book length in 2024
412
pages
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Most Shelved
5,747,968
people also shelved
Briarwood Witches by Steffanie Holmes
Least Shelved
681
people also shelved
Coco’s average rating for 2024
3.9
3.9
This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.65 average
How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler

Coco’s first review of the year

it was amazing
I enjoyed this light-hearted, good fun read. The pace was good and I found myself invested in the storyline. It was a nice change from the standard fantasy 'save the world' story.

I get why some people might not enjoy the sex side but, for me, I completely buy that someone who had been in a repeating time loop for thousands of years would start to see the people around them as objects. It was mostly relevant to the storyline too, it didn't feel li ...more
COCO’S 2024 BOOKS
The Stranger Times by C.K. McDonnell
it was amazing
You're So Dead to Me by Steffanie Holmes
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
The Poseidon Trials by Eliza Raine
The Hades Trials by Eliza Raine
Not a Mourning Person by Steffanie Holmes
The Immortality Trials by Eliza Raine
The Ares Trials by Eliza Raine
The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman
Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman
it was amazing
The Butcher's Masquerade by Matt Dinniman
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
Love Will Tear Us Apart by C.K. McDonnell
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
it was amazing
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
This Charming Man by C.K. McDonnell
A ​Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
John Dies at the End by David Wong
How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler
Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
Cursed Cocktails by S.L. Rowland
The Bookshop and the Barbarian by Morgan Stang
A Coup of Tea by Casey Blair
Sword & Thistle by S.L. Rowland
it was amazing
Tea Set and Match by Casey Blair
A Pub in the Underworld by Harmon Cooper
Reckless by Lauren Roberts
If You've Got It, Haunt It by Steffanie Holmes
Ghoul as a Cucumber by Steffanie Holmes
A Dead and Stormy Night by Steffanie Holmes
Memoirs of a Garroter by Steffanie Holmes
really liked it
Of Mice and Murder by Steffanie Holmes
Pride and Premeditation by Steffanie Holmes
Prose and Cons by Steffanie Holmes
The Castle of Earth and Embers by Steffanie Holmes
Much Ado About Murder by Steffanie Holmes
Plot and Bothered by Steffanie Holmes
A Novel Way to Die by Steffanie Holmes
Crime and Publishing by Steffanie Holmes
The Castle of Fire and Fable by Steffanie Holmes
Briarwood Witches by Steffanie Holmes
Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard
it was amazing
Sisters of Sword and Shadow by Laura Bates
The House of Sorrowing Stars by Beth Cartwright
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Pérez
Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence by R.F. Kuang
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Black Sun Rising by C.S. Friedman
Shadow of a Dark Queen by Raymond E. Feist
Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
it was amazing
The Hexologists by Josiah Bancroft
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams
The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch
Dallergut Dream Department Store by Lee Mi-ye
Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch
False Value by Ben Aaronovitch
The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman
Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovitch
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
it was amazing
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Beach Read by Emily Henry
Funny Story by Emily Henry
it was amazing
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Jedi Search by Kevin J. Anderson
Dark Apprentice by Kevin J. Anderson
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
The Bitter Twins by Jen Williams
Champions of the Force by Kevin J. Anderson
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
really liked it
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Songlight by Moira Buffini
What Abigail Did That Summer by Ben Aaronovitch
The Girl of Ink & Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent
The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King by Carissa Broadbent
The Phoenix Keeper by S.A. MacLean
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
it was amazing
The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
Gallowglass by S.J. Morden
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Her Radiant Curse by Elizabeth Lim
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

Coco’s last review of the year

it was ok
Julie was the only character I had any interest in, and then she turned out to not actually be a character at all.

I found this book bloated, boring and very male gaze heavy.

I won't be reading the rest of the series. ...more
2024 Reading Challenge Img rccompleted
2024 READING
CHALLENGE
Coco Spence read 201 out of 100 books.
 
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