April 2026 Reading Summary

Overall, I feel that I read less this month, but I also have been very distracted with playing Pokemon Pokopia (LOVE this game!) and I officially returned to work after my medical leave, both of these meant that I had less time for reading. I’m not mad at it. I think that I’ve enjoyed the books that I did read fairly well.

TBR Reads

My official April TBR consisted of 6 books. Of those, I have read all 6:

Tenor Willits Gets the Yips by Olivia Hope McCarthy

I read 1 of the 14 bonus TBR books.

Final Result after TBR pruning was that I read 6/6 (100%) of my planned books and 7% of my bonus books. I’m really excited about that 100%! I even managed to read both of Clint’s book club selections this month!

Random Reads

My non-planned reads include:

Ruin Me is the first book in a series about a set of brothers who run…. an underground betting business? It’s more than just a fighting ring, although that is mostly how Jagger participates in the brothers’ endeavors. They do also run other contest-like events that people can enter to win prizes and others can attend for the spectacle and to place bets on contestant standings. Jagger and his siblings live in a wealthy neighborhood and are children of a difficult, remote, but successful father. Violet is a girl from the wrong side of the tracks whose father has a gambling addiction and a penchant for violence and thievery, especially when it comes to Violet herself. Living conditions at home being unbearable, and losing hope to escape her situation after her father steals her down payment for an apartment, Violet reluctantly enters one of the brothers’ events to try and win some prize money. Butting heads at every turn, will these two ever reconcile enough to build a relationship?

Books Read

While I still feel that I’m in a Romance Era, there were some new twists added to the mix. I think that Star Shipped is my first M-M romance and I really enjoyed the book club discussion that we had at Love & Other Books (even though most people there didn’t feel that the book was a highlight of their monthly reading). A dystopian and a fantasy were completed, and I enjoyed my time there, too. Next month, we will be reading the sequel to Reset and the third book in The Bridge Kingdom series (The Traitor Queen was Book 2).

Links to my reviews (on StoryGraph) of each of the books read this month are below, along with my star rating.