Monday, 22 December 2025

2026 Romance Reading Bingo Challenge

 



Hosted by: Blodeuedd @ Book Girl of Mur-y-Castell Jen @ That's What I'm Talking About Carole @ Carole Rae's Random Ramblings

We are doing it again in 2026! It's the Romance Reading Bingo Challenge (#RRBC2026), hosted by Carole, Linda, and Jen! The challenge is to read a book and check the boxes.

List of Challenges (Romance books):

  • Re-read
  • Wedding trope
  • Wallflower/Ugly Duckling
  • Office romance
  • Blind Date/Arranged Marriage
  • Number in the title
  • Cat/Dog on the cover
  • TBR over 2+ years
  • Part of a series you meant to go back to
  • Published in 2026
  • Duke in the title
  • Alien/Cyborg romance
  • Secret Royal/Billionaire
  • Pink Dress on the cover
  • Audiobook with 2+ narrators
  • MC Works in the Food Industry
  • Non-Regency Historical romance
  • Small Town romance
  • Second Chance
  • Sunset/Sunrise on the cover
  • Book starts with same letter as your name
  • LGBTQ+
  • Necktie on the cover
  • Travel / Vacation
  • Non-Christmas Holiday

Rules:

  • It MUST BE a genre romance book (HFN/HEA).
  • One box per book. If your book meets more than one box, you have to pick just one.
  • No changing the box. Once you put a book in a box, you can't move it.
  • Books can be used in other challenges. (examples: Goodreads, Library Love, TBR, Audiobook, etc.)
  • The goal is to get at least one BINGO! (see levels below)
  • The challenge runs from January 1 to December 31, 2026.
  • You may join whenever.
Bingo Levels: 1 or 2 Bingos: Beginner 3 Bingos: You're getting the hang of this! 4 Bings: Expert Level Entire Sheet: Supreme Ruler of Bingo! If you want to add your blog or Goodreads to the list, click on the linky below. NOTE: You do not have to have a blog or URL to sign up!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter
So what level will you try in 2026?


I must admit that I did badly this year, I finally got 1 bingo in November. But I got one!! So better luck in 2026


Sunday, 21 December 2025

The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig


Series: The Stonewater Kingdom (#1)


Format: 389 pages, Paperback


Published: May 20, 2025 by Orbit Books


Fantasy/own






I am disappointed. I really enjoyed her dualogy and this one just fell flat for me.




Is this one of those romantasy books that makes no sense. Cos there is no romance here. There are a woman and a man who despise each other, and suddenly at the end they like each other and do it once. No chemistry what so ever. She had more chemistry with the other diviners.




Number 6 lacked personality, they all lacked personality. The only one that had any was the gargoyle.




Knight guy was angry for some reason...that is all I know.




The fantasy was lacking, I did not feel or understand this kingdom. It has to be really tiny...but what is next to it? I felt the world made no sense.




It was rather boring too.





Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum's windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams.




Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude, heretical, and devilishly handsome, the knight Rodrick has no respect for Sybil's visions. But when Sybil's fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one, she has no choice but to seek his help in finding them. For the world outside the cathedral's cloister is wrought with peril. Only the gods have the answers she is seeking, and as much as she'd rather avoid Rodrick's dark eyes and sharp tongue, only a heretic can defeat a god


Friday, 19 December 2025

Audio: His captive lady by Anne Gracie


By: Anne Gracie


Narrated by: Nell Stevenson


Series: Devil Riders, Book 2


Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins


Release date: 12-09-25 by Tantor Media


Historical romance/to review






This one had some darker themes. More reality.




Harry has bought an estate. He is bastard born, but has contact with his father´s family (long story there too.) He sees a woman in the rain and just can´t forget her.




Helen has had it tough. She is an Earl´s daughter, but her dad has gambled away all the money and sold their house. She was also raped and gave birth to a daughter that was taken from her. She has a lot of trauma to deal with and a daughter to find.




She comes to her old house and he is there.  He is fascinated by her and thinks she is too good for him. She obviously has her trauma and can not see that a good man like him wants her.




I wanted the best for these two. He has his own share of trauma growing up a bastard, and she has her own. But they work through it and get to know each other.




There is also a sidestory that seemed to come out of nowhere where a friend of his has his own lovestory in this book. That is a calmer one that gets a happy ending too.




A good love story with more depth.




I felt this narrator fit the story well. She had her voices and I was always there with them in the story





Harry Morant's tough exterior hides a badly scarred heart. The natural son of an earl, high-born ladies have only one use for him—in the bedchamber. Now, after eight years at war, Harry is breeding racehorses and planning a practical, unemotional marriage. But when he buys a new estate, his careful plans are threatened by an unexpected passion for—of all things—an earl's daughter.


Thursday, 18 December 2025

Audiobook Challenge 2026

 

2026 Audiobook Challenge


I am going for 50+ :D


Challenge Details

  • Runs January 1, 2026–December 31, 2026. You can join at any time.
  • The goal is to find a new love for audios or to outdo yourself by listening to more audios in 2026 than you did in 2025.
  • Books must be in audio format (CD, MP3, etc.)
  • All genres count.
  • Re-reads and crossovers from other reading challenges are allowed.
  • You do not have to be a book blogger to take part; you can track your progress on Goodreads, Facebook, etc. I recommend creating a shelf on Goodreads titled 2026 Audiobook Challenge. You can keep track of and link to the shelf.
  • Grab the button and do a quick post about the challenge to help spread the word. You can post on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, BlueSky, Threads, Mastodon, your blog, etc. about the challenge.
  • Updates plus a giveaway will be posted twice during the year. The first update will be July 4, 2026, and the last update will take place on December 26, 2026. You’ll have one week to link up and share your progress and enter giveaway.

Achievement Levels

What level will you choose?

  • Newbie (I’ll give it a try) 1-5
  • Weekend Warrior (I’m getting the hang of this) 5-10
  • Stenographer (can listen while multitasking) 10-15
  • Socially Awkward (Don’t talk to me) 15-20
  • Binge Listener (Why read when someone can do it for you) 20-30
  • My Precious (I had my earbuds surgically implanted) 30+
  • Marathoner (Look Ma No Hands) 50+
  • Over-Achiever (Power Listener) 75+
  • The 100 Club (Audiobook Addict) 100+
  • I Can’t Hear You (earbuds always in) 125-150
  • Audibly Addicted (listening to all the books 24/7) 150+

JIAM is back!

June is Audiobook Month, and we’ll have a special mini-challenge just for the month. Anyone can sign up. You’ll have chances to win audiobooks for finishing an audio series (3 audiobooks), tackling audiobooks from your TBR pile or listening to 3 audiobooks from your library. Sign-ups will post on April 25, 2026!


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