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Grinchathon Wrap Up

The Readathon: Grinchathon

Books Read: 4 books read

Pages Read: 1144 pages

Success?: Yes!
So this wrap up is a few days late, but oh well. This readathon was interesting in that I did not do a whole lot of reading what it was that I had actually put on my tbr. I read some awesome books this round and really loved all of it.
I ended up reading four books in total, and while I would have loved to read more, I still had some things in my life that were going on and way too much procrastination, so I will definitely still take this all as a win.
The first book I read was Ex-Mas by Kate Brian, to fulfill the "black and green challenge". This book was really cute with a road trip, and you can check out my review of it here. It was an awesome read and I really enjoyed it, and also one of the few actually Christmas things I did this year, what with being away at college.
The second book I read was an ebook- United We Stand by Ally Carter. I have been reading the Gallagher Girls series over the past few weeks, and this book was a solid ending to the series and also made more sense than some of the others. I never actually read this one before despite reading the rest of the series, so I was glad to read this. I read it for the "cheap" challenge, to replace the other book that I was going to read by Ally Carter- All Fall Down, though I definitely still want to read that at some point. 
The other two books that I read for the Grinchathon this year were both ARCs granted by Netgalley and I absolutely adored both of them and seriously recommend reading them when they are released in January.
The first of these advance copies that I read was Just for Clicks by Kara McDowell and it was so amazing. This book is about social media and twins and figuring out how to be who you want to be. It was nice to be surprised by a plot twist and the plot twist still make sense in context. It was really good and I am likely to reread it in a few years.
The second of these books, and the fourth and final book that I read for this readathon was The Truth About Leaving by Natalie Blitt. While this was a contemporary romance, it was so deep and good. It also has Hebrew representation, and while I don't know how good it is, it definitely does not seem really offensive. I loved this book as well.
While I did not read as many books as I initially wanted to, I did rate three as five stars and the other one as four stars so at least I read some awesome books. All of the other books that were on my initial tbr I still hope to read, hopefully before I go back to school, but that is seeming less and less likely based on family commitments and having to move back three days early for job training. Still, I enjoyed this readathon, even though I would have liked to participate in more sprints. But there's always next year!

Thanks for reading! If you participated in Grinchathon or another recent readathon, how did yours work out? Did you have a good time?

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