Best of the Year with Carole

 

Welcome to the BC Awards!!! We will be showcasing our favorites from the year!

Best Movie:

Blodeuedd's pick......Dune (2024)

"Epic!"

Carole's pick.......1917 (2019)

"Awe-inspiring!"

Top 3 Binged TV Shows (no order):

Carole's pick............Fallout, Tacoma FD, & The Rookie

"Fallout! So good. You can't stop. Tacoma FD was a hoot. Ooooo The Rookie is so bingeful!"

Blodeuedd's pick............Monk, Our Flag Means Death, & Love is Blind

"I think tv series of the year goes to Monk cos we binged it all. I binged both seasons of Our flag means Death and way too many LiB seasons

Best Book Cover:

Blodeuedd's pick.....
"Best cover because it is really simple and it still makes you look."

Carole's pick......

"There is something mystical and beautiful about this one. You can't look away."

Best Audiobook:

Blodeuedd's pick...........Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis

"Best audio was hard too chose. But it goes to Dreadful."

Carole's pick.......Never Been Witched by Molly Harper

"Best audio? TOUGH competition this year. It all came down to the narrators for me to make this decision. These two worked some serious magic and came out ahead." 

Best Physical Book (ebook, paperback, hardcover): 

Carole's pick.....Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews

"Another tough pick....but this was so epic so it won."

Blodeuedd's pick........The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennet

"It was amazing."

Notable Mentions: 

Carole's pick......

"This nearly won best book. It was captivating and a must-read."

Blodeuedd's pick......

"I got hooked on Kelley Armstrong's books."

And that is the end of the BC Awards. We are pumped to see what 2025 has in store for us!!

2024 Final Check-In Audiobook Challenge

 

I was going for 50 and I made it by 2! Phew. I had not even looked before checking now.

1. Earl Crazy by Anna Bradley

2. Storming the castle by Eloisa James

3. A lady´s guide to scandal by Sophie Irwin

4. Even better than the real thing by Melanie Summers

5. Mr Darcy´s matchmaker by Summer Hanford

6.There is something about Sweetie by Sandhya Menon

7. A lady´s guide to fortune hunting by Sophie Irwin

8. Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis

9. Only and forever by Chloe Liese

10. SOmeone you can build a nest in by John Wishwell

11. Sing a song of sixpence by Agatha Christie

12.The backup bride proposal by Jaci Burton

13. Triangle at Rhodes by Agatha Christie

14.Only this beautiful moment by Abdi Nazemian

15. Christmas and other horrors by Ellen Datlow

16.damned if I Duke by Anna Bradley

17. Happier than we deserve by Melissa Halcomb

18. Tastes like Shakkar by Nisha Sharma

19. The heart principle by Helen Hoang

20.Sunbolt by Intisar Khanani

21.Murder in the mews by Agatha Christie

22. Dating the Duke by Anna Hart

23. Reaping demons by Eve Langlais

24. System Collapse by Martha Wells

25. Fugitive telemetry by Martha Wells

26. The ugly Duchess by Eloisa James

27. Wicked and the wallflower by Sarah Mclean

28. Four day fling by Emma Hart

29. The silence between us by Alison gervais

30. Dead country by Max Gladstone

31. Primal Mirror by Nalini Singh

32. Daughters of Olympus by Hannah Lynn

33. Saving Annie de Burgh by Jann Rowland

34. Roomies by Christina Lauren

35. Loveless by Alice Oseman

36. The warlords lady by Eve Langlais

37. Sanctuary by Ilona Andrews

38. The mountain crown by Karin Lowachee

39. Christmas in chestnut ridge by Nancy Naigle

40. Hell for Hire by Rachel Aaron

41. The Duke´s Christmas Bride by Anna Bradley

42, Mail order minotaur by Lillith Stone

43. The bastard kind by Donna Grant

44. Marriage and Masti by Nisha Sharma

45. The gargoyle grinch by Lillith Stone

46. Murder in highbury Vanessa Kelly

47. The accidental countess by Emma Hart

48. Two can play by Ali Hazelwood

49. Her pretend Christmas Date by Jackie Lau

50. His for the holidays by Samantha Chase

51. Lovelight farms by BK Borison

52. The billionaire scrooge next door by Olivia Hayle

Best of 2024 and Stats

 

Best book of 2024 goes to The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett.

 I was completely mesmerized. 

Best Crime book of the year is Haven´s rock by Kelley Armstrong and that one led me to:

Books I binged: The Rockton/Casey Duncan books

Scariest book of the year: Birdbox by Josh Mallerman

The movie has nothing on this one.

The book I did not think would be for me: White Oleander by Janet Fitch

It was so well written. But pretty disturbing too

Best historical romance of the year: A lady´s guide to fortunehunting by Sophie Irwin

Witchmark by CL. Polk

Interesting fantasyworld that was more early 1900s

A house with good bones by T Kingfisher

A Gothic book about a creepy house

Only this beautiful moment by Abdi Nazemian

Spans 3 generation as a Persian boy finds his roots

Best This book is so weird: Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent

I never saw anything coming. So good

I think these last two must go together. They were both different sort of fantasy books. One with a monster falling in love and the other about a Dark Lord losing his memory and saying f this.

Someone you can build a nest in by John Wishwell

Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis

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STATS

I read 82 books this year

I listened to 52 audiobooks and read 30 books