October wrap up!

Happy Wednesday book nerds!

I meant to post this little diddy over the weekend, but instead opted to cook fun foods with the boy and veg out on Vampire Diaries. Not even mad.

Until I discovered BookTube at the end of September, I hadn't really read anything in months. But after hours of watching people talk about books with pretty covers, I felt the familiar itch to crack open my long lost best friends. After buying too many books at the beginning of October, I'm pleased to say I managed to read a total of 8 books last month.

Instead of bogging you down with pictures of them all, I'm going to just tell you about them, so here we go...

1. The Daughter of Smoke & Bone: The more you read about the main character, Karou, the more you begin to realize that she's not just your average, not so average, artsy fartsy character. I mean homegirl's hair grows out of her head BLUE. B-L-U-E. It took me a while to psych myself up to read this book, but I'm glad I finally did. My eyes glazed over a bit towards the end when things are revealed, but overall I really enjoyed the book and can't wait to get the last 2 books in the series. 3.5 out of 5 stars

2. Throne of Glass:  Celaena Sardothien is an assassin. Not just any assassin, but the best assassin in all of the kingdom. Like, strikes fear into people's hearts when they hear her name, level of assassin. Except for the past year she's been prisoner in the salt mines of Endovier, a place where people don't generally last very long. So, when she's taken out by the Prince, who proposes she compete to be King's Champion, and promises that after 4 years of service she can have absolute freedom, she is game.I really really liked Celaena, so I really really liked this book. As you saw in my October haul, I already bought the 2nd and 3rd book in the series. Boom. 4 out of 5 stars

3. Legend: I already gave a full review and overview of this book in my first book talk tuesday post, so clicky click if you want to know about that. 3.5 out of 5 stars

4. The Mark of Athena: I linked this one to the first book in the Heroes of Olympus series, because spoilers. If you haven't read any of the Percy Jackson books, GET ON WITH IT. Seriously, both series with Percy Jackson are so good. So So So good. 5 out of 5 stars

5.  Not that Kind of Girl: I LOVE the show Girls on HBO. So I felt that I had to get this book. Parts of it were funny. Most of it was weird. And about 3/4 through I just stopped caring. Do with that what you will. 3 out of 5 stars

6. Anna and the French Kiss: There was so much hype around this book on BookTube. I'm just glad I got the book after they switched the covers over, because the original cover...no thank you. This book was all parts adorable. Some parts annoyed me, but this book was definitely worth the read. And I'm definitely going to pick up the last two books in this series. 4 out of 5 stars

7. LUX Beginnings: This is a bind up of the first two books in the LUX series. It reminds me of Twilight except not as awful. Definitely a guilty pleasure read for me, but I don't even care because it's seriously so fun. I already bought the second bind up of books three and four AND the final book. NO REGRETS. 4 out of 5 stars

Stay tuned for my November TBR! Hopefully it'll be going up tomorrow.

Happy reading!