It’s another month of our challenge: Tackle Your TBR Pile. So go dig through that stack taller than you of books you’ve been meaning to read and start reading away. Since this year is based on your TBR pile, I will not have a recommendations page, but I’m leaving the link here so it’s easier for me to set up NEXT year’s blog posts.
Find recommendations at Reading Challenge Recommendations, Crystal Caudill’s Reading Friends Facebook group, Avid Readers of Christian Fiction, or Inspirational Historical Fiction Index.
Don’t forget to comment at the bottom of the post for your chance to win a book off my prize shelf. *The list of prizes from my shelf can be found here.*
Reading Challenge 2025: Tackle the TBR Pile
If you’re anything like me, you have a TBR pile that is bigger than you can hope to read in a lifetime. This is the year we’re going to try an tackle at least twelve of those books. Head to your shelves and find books that fit each month’s challenge.
This Month: January – Newest book on your TBR pile
Next Month: February – Author of a different generation
The Misadventures of Miss Adelaide
by Maggie Dallen
Review by: Crystal Caudill
As my brain recovered from a massive writing deadline, my attention was caught by a Facebook ad for a set of clean Regency reads from Maggie Dallen. Since they were clean, the price was right, and my brain was not ready for anything more advanced than a simple, light-hearted plot; this fit the bill. I read a set of Christmas novellas from her before this one, but I think those technically still fell in 2024. So far, of what I’ve read of Maggie Dallen, this story has been my favorite. I love the mix of mystery, adventure, romance, and danger. The characters were fun, Addie’s loyalty to saving her brother admirable, and the earl a silent brooding type of hero, but definitely a hero. I find that all of her characters seem to fall in love too quickly or simply, but that is honestly the nature of these types of reads, so I can’t fault the story for that. It was a quick read at 176 pages, and I might read it again one day, but probably not.
Genre: Regency Romance
Plot Overview:
Three unlucky women find love in the unlikeliest places in this sweet regency romance series…
Miss Adelaide is down on her luck and on the run when she finally collapses at Evercliff Manor. Perhaps it’s exhaustion that has her spilling her secrets to the kind doctor tending to her–or maybe it’s his warm, compelling eyes. Then again, maybe it’s just another case of sheer bad luck.
It turns out the kindly doctor who now knows her deepest, darkest secrets is not really a doctor at all. He’s an earl. Worse, he’s her employer. And he’s decided that Adelaide will be his next project. With his assistance, and the help of her newfound friends at the Lovelace School of Charm, Miss Adelaide might just land on her feet. If only she doesn’t lose her heart…
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I read A Lady Never Surrenders by Sabrina Jeffries. It was a really interesting book. I found it on the shelf at Walmart in January. By the way, the rafflecopter is missing in this post.
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I read several new releases for January:
When Stars Light the Sky by Elizabeth Camden
Indigo Heiress by Laura Frantz
Serial Burn by Lynette Eason
The Hunted Heir by Jayna Breigh- this was a fabulous debut legal suspense.
I read Cloaked in Beauty by Karen Witemeyer. I’ve really enjoyed her “Texas Ever After” series and this one was a mix between Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood. Definitely recommend!
I was also able to read We Three Kings in January, and absolutely loved your book in it! Sooo good!
I read “Christmas at Sugar Plum Manor” by Roseanna M. White. It was a fun Christmas story with nods to the nutcracker. 🙂
I read Heart of the Glen by Jennifer Deibel. I love all of her books set in Ireland and couldn’t wait for this one. Highly recommend all of her books.
I got tons of books for Christmas so all my January books were at the top of my TBR pile! I also read Indigo Heiress by Laura Frantz & Heart of the Glen by Jennifer Deibel which both just came out this month!!
I read the Cairo Curse by Pepper Basham…and loved it!
I read ‘Across the Ages’ by Gabrielle Meyer, the 4th installment in the series. It was very good and left me excited for book #5
I read Winning the Mountain Man’s Love by Misty M Beller. Western romance isn’t usually my cup of tea, but I enjoyed it. I haven’t read any of the other books yet, but I definitely plan to.
I read Waiting for Gilbert by Tasha Hackett. It was soooo good! I highly recommend it.