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July Reads: A Bit of Atmosphere, A Lot of Attitude

07.08.25 | jesslynnwrites | No Comments

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July was another slow reading month. But it was a good reading month. I really enjoyed every book I did read and started a few I couldn’t finish. Here are my July reads.

Finished

E-Books

Book cover for Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid. There is an image of a woman with sunglasses on looking up at the sky. She has curly, medium length hair and wearing a greyish blue top. The sky is the background. The title is written in orange and the author's name is written in pink. There is a Good Morning America book club emblem on the left hand side of the book under the title.

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

This book…This book! Oooh! It was sooo good! I have been wracking my brain for about three weeks (or more) since reading this and still haven’t been able to put into words how much I loved this book. Atmosphere is for the space nerds and the romance lovers.

Book cover for The Girlfriend Agreement. The background is a mint green gradient into light pink with various outlined images related to the story. The two main characters are drawn cartoons under the title. The MMC has his arm behind his neck and his other arm is around the FMC's shoulders. He is wearing a pink shirt. The FMC is giving the MMC a stare down look and she is crossing her arms. She is wearing a green long-sleeve shirt. The writing is in white and pink.

The Girlfriend Agreement by Rowan Croft

 

I received this as an eARC and have reviewed on another post, but I will say I was pleasantly surprised by this one.

Audiobooks

Book Cover for Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. The background is a creamy white color. There is a blue rounded square under the title to represent the ocean. There is a shark fin coming out of it at the top left. The writing is in black.

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

This story made me hate Facebook/Meta even more than I already do. Unfortunately, it’s everywhere and in order to stop using it we would all have to delete pretty much every social media app we use these days. The things that Sarah had to go through while working at Facebook…I tell ya! I found myself equal parts furious, horrified and disgusted. Unfortunately, I’m not surprised though. When you combine money and power, corruption is not far off.

Physical

Book cover of Rebel Witch by Kristen Ciccarelli. There is a yellow moth in the middle on a red background. There is a key that forms the body of the moth. The writing is white and yellow.

Rebel Witch by Kristen Ciccarelli

Most of the time, a second book in a series or a duology (in this case) ends up being disappointing. Not the case with this one. It was just as good, if not better than Heartless Hunter. I don’t want to say much because it is a second in a duet, but I will say that it perfectly wrapped up Rune and Gideon’s story.

Started

E-Books

Darker than the Starless Night by Rebecca Brodkey

This is one of the books I started, but couldn’t finish. It has really long chapters that had me bored in the middle of them. One of my bookish pet peeves is really long chapters. I just think that instead of writing a book with less chapters, you could just write a longer book with more/shorter chapters and still get your point across. For me, that is more enjoyable. I would rather read a longer book with short chapters. Can you tell I’m passionate about it? I do plan on finishing this one, I just could feel myself heading towards a reading slump.

Audiobooks

Glow of the Everflame by Penn Cole

So far, I am enjoying this. This time around, it’s interesting listening to listen to the story. I have since finished this one, so you will see my thoughts on it in my August reads post.

Favorite book of the month: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid hands down!

Let me know what your favorite book of July was. Leave them down in the comments 🙂

Check out my other monthly reading wrap-up posts here.

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