Happy New Year Booklovers! 2022 is finally over which means it’s time to share ALL the year-in-reviews and wrap-ups – my Instagram stories have never featured so many recaps.... But I’ve left the best wrap-up until last – my 2022 reading wrap up! Once again, I’m doing Perpetual Page Turner’s ‘End Of Year Book Survey’, which I love answering ever year and taking a look back at everything I’ve read. If you haven’t checked out Jamie’s blog, make sure you do because she shares so much fabulous bookish content! Although I didn’t smash my reading goal in 2022 (spoiler alert, sorry), I did manage to read some absolutely fantastic books, and I feel like it was one of my favourite reading years yet! So without further ado, let’s take one last look at 2022 before we fully start enjoying 2023! reading statistics Books Read: 28 Rereads: 3 Series Started: 7 Series Finished: 1 Pages Read: 9,124 Average Rating: 4.34 Stars Most-Read Genre: Romance best in books 1. Best book you read in 2022? This is certainly a tough one since I read some fantastic books during the year, and since romance is pretty much the only genre I read, I can’t even do a genre breakdown! But I’d have to go with Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake! 2. Book you were excited about and thought you were going to love more but didn’t? I genuinely don’t have a book that didn’t really live up to my expectations as I rated all but four books over 4 stars. The book that did fall a little flat and that I had hoped to enjoy more was Coming Out On The Field by Sam Kestrel, a Sapphic novella that really should have been a full-length novel to fully explore these characters and their stories. 3. Book you “pushed” the most people to read (and they did)? I think I’ve shared and gushed about In The Event Of Love by Courtney Kae and Delilah Green Doesn’t Care the most since I read both books. 4. Best: 5. Favourite new author you discovered in 2022? A fair chunk of the authors I read in 2022 were new to me, so this is definitely a tough one! It’s a real toss-up between Courtney Kae, Ashley Herring Blake, and Meryl Wilsner! 6. Best book from a genre you don’t typically read/was out of your comfort zone? Literally FOUR books this year were non-romance reads, and even then they were genres I do read, while three had romantic undertones anyway... So let’s just go with the Heartstopper series by Alice Oseman! 7. Most action-packed/thrilling/un-put-downable book of the year? The book I absolutely devoured and didn’t realise just how quickly I powered through most of the book one night was Delilah Green Doesn’t Care, the first book in the Bright Falls series! 8. Book you read in 2022 that you would be most likely to re-read in 2023? I feel like most of the books are ones I really want to reread this year! So to throw in a book that I haven’t used for an answer I’d have to say Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner, another of my absolute faves from the year! 9. Favourite cover of a book you read in 2022? 10. Most beautifully written book of 2022? Probably Delilah Green Doesn’t Care. Ashley’s writing completely sucked me into the world and story, and I felt like a fly-on-the-wall throughout the whole book. And as I said earlier, I didn’t even realise how much I powered through the book when I started reading it one night. Ashley nailed both Delilah and Claire’s voices and perspectives, and I couldn’t get enough of this setting, these characters, and their story. 11. Book you can’t believe you waited until 2022 to finally read? The rest of the Heartstopper series! I read the first book in 2021 and ended up putting off the rest of the books until just before the Netflix serried was released in 2022! 12. Favourite passage/quote from a book you read in 2022? “The world need more queer holiday romances, don’t you think?” In The Event Of Love – Courtney Kae 13. Shortest and longest reads of 2022. 14. OTP of the year – you will go down with this ship! Do you know how difficult this is for someone who pretty much only reads romance?! I’ve loved pretty much all of the relationships I’ve read throughout the year! So let’s make it my top 5:
15. Favourite non-romantic relationship of the year. I really can’t go past the housemate friendship from the Campus Wallflowers series by Rebecca Jenshak! They’re definitely a friend group that I’d totally love to be part of, and I can’t wait to see more of their friendship in the third instalment in the series. 16. Favourite book you read in 2022 from an author you’ve read previously. It’s always got to be an Emma Hart book! If you know me, you’ll know that Emma is hands-down my favourite author – I cannot get enough of her books and more often than not will read her new releases without knowing a single thing about the actual story! My favourite from her this year was Big Duke Energy, which was is a love letter to romance books with a super swoony relationship. 17. Best 2022 debut? Hands-down In The Event Of Love, the first book in the Fern Falls series. Not only was this the best 2022 debut I read, it was also just generally one of my favourite reads of the entire year! I cannot wait for the sequel this year and anything else that Courtney brings out – definitely check this book out if you’re looking for a swoony Sapphic read! 18. Book that put a smile on your face/was the most fun to read? I can’t narrow this one down to just one book, so I’m just going to go with one author – Emma Hart. Her books never fail to make me smile, laugh, and just generally have a fun time while reading them. 2022 saw me reading four her newest releases – Dating The Duke, The Accidental Countess, Right Number, Wrong Girl, and Big Duke Energy. They’re all super fun rom-coms that are perfect for anyone who loves a light-hearted romance read with genuine laugh-out-loud moments! 19. Book that made you cry or nearly cry? If you know me, you’ll know that it’s very easy for me to be brought to tears by a book, whether it be happy or sad tears. In saying that, I literally cannot remember if any of the books I read made me cry – I’m sure at least one of them did though... 20. Hidden gem of the year? Forever going to be shouting In The Event Of Love from the rooftops because more people definitely need to be reading this fabulous book! While I wouldn’t necessarily call it a hidden gem since I have seen people talking about it online, I feel like it deserves a little more hype, especially with the sequel coming out later this year! 21. Most unique book you read in 2022? None of the books I read in 2022 really stand out as being the most unique, but I suppose Neighbours: Indiscretions by Carl Ruhen would have to the most out of left field that I read as it’s a novelisation of the Australian soap opera Neighbours. The book focuses on the first half of the very first year of the show back in 1985, and as someone who’s watched those episodes, it was really interesting to see how Carl recapped that period of the show four years after it aired. blogging/bookish life 1. Best bookish event that you participated in? I only attended two bookish events this year, both of them virtual events. The first was a Zoom hangout with the ‘HoliGays 2022’ authors and fellow readers/reviewers. HoliGays22 is a group of 2022 queer holiday romance authors – Courtney Kae, Alison Cochrun, Timothy Janovsky, Helena Greer, and Jake Maia Arlow – who banded together to celebrate all their queer releases. It was a super fun little hangout with the authors getting to talk about their books, and talk about the fun things that would be happening within the HoliGays22 Crew community. The second was a YA Preview Night for Walker Books. It was really fun getting to hear about some of the most-anticipated books that they’d be publishing this year, a few which were quickly added to be TBR. 2. Did you complete any reading challenges or goals that you had set for yourself at the beginning of the year? I set out to read 40 books in 2022, so I did not complete this goal – I was definitely on track at one point in the year, but fell behind and just didn’t get around to catching up. I’ve learnt not to get upset or be disappointed in not reaching my reading goal – sometimes these things happen, and as long as I’m reading even just a little bit, then that’s all that matters! looking ahead 1. One book that you didn’t get to in 2022 but will be your #1 priority in 2023? There’s a few that I just didn’t read around to, one being A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone, which I did start before Christmas, but then got caught up in all the festivities and didn’t get round to finishing off. Other books I’m keen to get to this year are: 2. Book you are most anticipating for 2023 (non-debut)? Debuts and sequels aside, I think of the books I’m most excited for is A Home Among The Snow Gums by Stella Quinn (3 May) – I adored The Vet From Snowy River in 2021 and have been excited to dive into another one of her books since (hence why her 2022 release is one I need to read as well)! And if their first two books are anything to go by, I’m absolutely going to love Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner (19 September)! 3. 2023 debut you are most anticipating? I’m sure there’s more debuts on my most anticipated list than I realise, but probably the one I am most anticipating is Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko (30 May), which is based on her hit song of the same name! I’m excited to see how she’s turned her song into a novel, and what her writing style is like – it should be a good one if the song itself is anything to go by! 4. Series ender/sequel you are most anticipating in 2023? There’s few sequels that I am SO keen to get my hands on – Heartstopper: Volume Five by Alice Oseman (2 February), Scoring The Player by Rebecca Jenshak (13 June), In The Case Of Heartbreak by Courtney Kae (25 July), and Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date by Ashley Herring Blake (7 November). 5. Reading challenge or goal for 2023? Even though I didn’t complete my 2022 goal, I’ve actually upped my goal for 2023 – from 40 books to 52 books! One book a week sounds easy during the periods when I’m absolutely devouring books, but then it seems ridiculous when I go several weeks without finishing a book... oh well! And that’s a wrap on 2022!
I am SO happy with all of the books I read in 2022, and it gives me high hopes that 2023 is going to just as good, if not better when it comes to the books I read! Let me know some of your favourite books that you read in 2022, and which books you’re most looking forward to reading this year! Time to get started on my 2023 reading goal... Happy Reading! Victoria :) |
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