I started to draft this post AGES ago and decided I’d finally finish it up… now that we’re more than halfway through 2024 lol. There are always a few “most anticipated” posts on the blog each year to pull from so let’s see how I did. Did I actually read all the books I thought I would?
Overall Stats
39 books on my most anticipated lists for 2023
Read 17 books (44%) | Didn’t read 22 books (56%)
Ratings of books read:
5 stars = 3 books = 18%
4.5 stars = 4 books = 24%
4 stars = 9 books = 53%
2.5 stars = 1 book = 5%
Books I Managed to Read
Overall, a pretty good job here! I feel like the books I did read are not surprising: they’re by favorite authors that I never miss, or the premise was THAT exciting to me that I knew I’d certainly read it. 13 out of the 17 completed books were authors I’d read and loved books from before.
5 Stars
4.5 Stars
4 Stars
Under 4 Stars
Books I Didn’t Get to
There are a lot of books on here lol I think again the main issue with MOST of these were that they were new-to-me authors, or authors I haven’t had success with in a while but used to love. For example, I DNFed my last Kasie West book so I was nervous to read this one.
A good majority were good books, happy to hear! It’s truly the worst when a highly anticipated doesn’t do it justice and becomes a flop in the end.
I also loved vers wong’s!
Agreed!!!