Of Butterflies and Books

 Books Read- 18 DNFs-6 TRL (To Read Later)- 10 Physical books- 5 Ebooks-7 Audiobooks-6 Rereads-2 First in a Series-7 Continuing series/sequels-2 Finished Series-0 ARCS-3 Standalones-4 KU Books- 0 Manga/Comics/Graphic Novels- 1 Pages read- 4,117 pages Avg Page Count- 257 pages Hours Listened- 96 hrs Avg Hours- 19.2 hrs Ratings: 5 star ratings- 0 4.5 star ratings- 3 4-star ratings- 4 3.75 star ratings- 1 3-star ratings- 4 2-star ratings- 2 1-star ratings- 2 Avg rating- 2.84 Longest book/audiobook: The Court of the Underworld Vol 1 by Alessa Thorn- 814 pages/My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand- 48 hours Shortest book/audiobook: His Majesty The Demon King's Housekeeper Vol 5 by Saiko Wadori and Mika Kajiyama- 170 pages/Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross-11 hours Highlights of the month: 

 Hello my fellow readers, I'm here to bring you my first installment of Trope Tuesday  where each month I will be attempting to read books with specific tropes from romance to fantasy to mysteries, and exploring where I feel these books either succeeded or missed the mark, for me, with these tropes.  So two out of three books I ended up reading were Wildcat  by Rebecca Jenshak, The Lie by Karla Sorensen, and I DNFed Meet Your Match  by Kandi Steiner.  I ended up rating Wildcat  3 stars and rated The Lie  2 stars. These books both approached the forbidden romance trope within the college sports romance trope. I thought Wildcat 's approach made the main love interests somewhat more likable than the couple in The Lie . I feel like the books were both able to integrate the sports and the romance together well together. I think the issue was I just wasn't in either of the romantic relationships that were going on in each of the books. Meet Your Ma...