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Well, I didn’t get around to doing a post this weekend (pregnancy fatigue, aches, and pains meant that I mostly used the weekend to rest), which means this series of posts will probably leak into February — but honestly, I think that’s okay. It is a LOT of books to review in one month!

So meanwhile, here are five more! Overall some pretty good ones.

As usual, this installment in A Series of Unfortunate Events was strange and funny. I enjoyed it, though I did personally feel it was a little more disturbing than some of the others — some of the threats faced in a hospital by evil minions just got a bit — creepy!

The third and final (as far as I know) installment in this series. It was more related to the first book than the second was, but still would have worked pretty well as a standalone. It, like the first book, deals a lot with what reality and identity really are and how we can know them.

I enjoyed this one a lot and felt that it was better written than some of Dekker’s other works, though it didn’t stick with me quite as powerfully as Water Walker. It was also a pretty quick read, which is always nice!

This is another one I read because I was narrating and producing the audiobook. It’s the third book in this series, and like Blessed Arrangements it’s not my normal reading fare but I thoroughly enjoyed it! Angela is not only great to work with, she is very talented at writing charming and engaging stories.

I came upon this one after hearing the author interviewed on a podcast. I actually went searching for a different book of hers at the library, and found this one instead.

It was solid, with lots of good information and practical advice regarding men and women and husbands and wives and what we as women can do to love and serve our husbands. It wasn’t anything truly life-changing, mostly because it wasn’t really any new information for me, but it was full of good and helpful reminders and encouragement!

I really wanted to like this one. I saw the movie and enjoyed it, and I really love a good, clever YA romance, but this one left me disappointed overall. It had some of the charm of the movie, but was much more vulgar and sexually graphic (something the movie really wasn’t at all).

In addition, the characters actually felt less likable to me, and the book was more dismissive/disrespectful towards the church and Christians than the movie was (the movie, while flawed, treated the church overall respectfully). So while it had good aspects, I wouldn’t recommend it. This is a rare case where the movie was a lot better.

Thank you for sticking with me thus far! Just 21 books left, which should mean four more posts. I’ll see you later next week with five more books!