Burning Brightly by Alexa Donne Review

Title: Brightly Burning
Author: Alexa Donne
Format: Audiobook

Seventeen-year-old Stella Ainsley wants just one thing: to go somewhere—anywhere—else. Her home is a floundering spaceship that offers few prospects, having been orbiting an ice-encased Earth for two hundred years. When a private ship hires her as a governess, Stella jumps at the chance. The captain of the Rochester, nineteen-year-old Hugo Fairfax, is notorious throughout the fleet for being a moody recluse and a drunk. But with Stella he’s kind.

But the Rochester harbors secrets: Stella is certain someone is trying to kill Hugo, and the more she discovers, the more questions she has about his role in a conspiracy threatening the fleet. 

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2020 Challenges

Before I get into my resolutions for 2020, let's go over how I did with the 2019 goals.

Read 50 books this year - This didn't happen. I have been in a slump from hell these past few years and I only managed to read/listen to 12 books this year.

Read at least one Classic - Again, this didn't happen. I read a retelling of a Christmas Carol and a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, but didn't actually read a classic.

Read 2 non-fiction a month - Nope. Just no.

And I didn't keep up with this blog, so I didn't reach any of the goals I set for it, either.

I wanted to listen to 15-20 books this past year. I ended up listening to 5, which isn't so bad, but far from what I had originally planned.

So onto my 2020 challenges I am going to be competing in. I am not doing my resolutions here this year, because I set myself up for failure most of the time. I do have them written down, I just won't be posting them here just yet.

I actually did better than I was expecting with this challenge last year. This year I would really like to get a bingo, though. You will find my board in the sidebar soon. And you can find the original post HERE.

 

This is the one I get the most done on, because I have a long drive to work and I can listen to audiobooks then. So this year I am going to take it down a notch though and go for  5-10, which is the Weekend Warrior. You can track my progress with me in the side bar and find the original post HERE

 So I didn't do this one last year. I don't know how much of it I will get done this year. 50 books is doubtful, but we will see. You can find the original post for this challenge HERE

So this is always on my resolutions, but I hadn't realized there was an actual challenge for it. Again, you can find my progress is the side bar. I would like to finish 9+ series this year, but I would be happy with 1-4. You can find the original post HERE



I will also be participating in the New Adult Challenge, they just haven't posted it for 2020, yet.


This seems like a lot. But I plan on having several books hit several challenges, so maybe it won't be that tough. We will see. I will also be posting month TBRs and quarterly wrap ups.

The Darkest Corners by Kara Thomas Review

Title: The Darkest Corners
Author:Kara Thomas
Format: Paperback

The Darkest Corners is a psychological thriller about the lies little girls tell, and the deadly truths those lies become.

There are ghosts around every corner in Fayette, Pennsylvania. Tessa left when she was nine and has been trying ever since not to think about it after what happened there that last summer. Memories of things so dark will burn themselves into your mind if you let them.

Callie never left. She moved to another house, so she doesn’t have to walk those same halls, but then Callie always was the stronger one. She can handle staring into the faces of her demons—and if she parties hard enough, maybe one day they’ll disappear for good.

Tessa and Callie have never talked about what they saw that night. After the trial, Callie drifted and Tessa moved, and childhood friends just have a way of losing touch.

But ever since she left, Tessa has had questions. Things have never quite added up. And now she has to go back to Fayette—to Wyatt Stokes, sitting on death row; to Lori Cawley, Callie’s dead cousin; and to the one other person who may be hiding the truth.

Only the closer Tessa gets to the truth, the closer she gets to a killer—and this time, it won’t be so easy to run away.

Skyward by Brandon Sanderson Review

Title: Skyward
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Format: Audiobook

Spensa's world has been under attack for decades. Now pilots are the heroes of what's left of the human race, and becoming one has always been Spensa's dream. Since she was a little girl, she has imagined soaring skyward and proving her bravery. But her fate is intertwined with that of her father's—a pilot himself who was killed years ago when he abruptly deserted his team, leaving Spensa the daughter of a coward, her chances of attending Flight School slim to none.

No one will let Spensa forget what her father did, yet fate works in mysterious ways. Flight school might be a long shot, but she is determined to fly. And an accidental discovery in a long-forgotten cavern might just provide her with a way to claim the stars.