
If you want to know my thoughts and feels on the book, I have my review on the blog. While The Nightmare was more intense, complex, and slightly disappointing. In my opinion, the book doesn’t have much of a plot but was very entertaining and exactly what I wanted to read. And when I got my hands on the books, I flew through them. I have started both books before the readathon, and I waited until it was over to finish them. While I was reading my TBR for BTAT, the only thing I could think about was reading The 100 by Kass Morgan and The Nightmare by Lars Kepler. One thing I’m sure of is thanks to Sweet Bean Paste, I’m even more obsessed with Japan. I just wish I had more, a sequel or just another 100 pages. I enjoyed every single page, the atmosphere, the characters, the setting, everything.

The story is deeper than I could ever think it was going to be, it really appeals to the feelings on the bottom of your heart that makes you completely fall in love and at the same time cry like mad. Then, I did a trip to Japan with Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa another marvellous book I won’t forget so soon. I really love it, and it’s probably going to be one of my favourite books I read this year. The book is so heartbreaking, comforting, moving, and a big page-turner. After a long break, I read another Rainbow Rowell book, and I couldn’t be happier. I didn’t read all seven books I was planning to for BTAT, but I enjoyed a lot of what I read especially, Eleanor & Park.


Although, I still finished two books I’m very happy about and a couple more in the remaining days of the month.

So in reality, the reading sprints did nothing for me. When I wanted to read there weren’t any reading sprints happening, and when I did catch them I wasn’t in the mood to read for 20 minutes and stop, I wanted to keep on going. Even though I was excited about the readathon and all the reading sprints and stuff, I didn’t participate in anything. Thanks to the BookTube-A-Thon in the first week of August, I managed to read more than on an average month. It’s that time again to open my Goodreads page and see what books have I shelved and how many have I read this month.
