2023 Netgalley and Edelweiss Reading Challenge

I recently found this challenge and it is perfect for me.  It is being hosted by Socrates Book Reviews.  I do most of my reviewing on Netgalley and occasionally get a few books on Edelweiss.  I have a decent backlog of books I'd like to get off my shelf in 2023.

I have about 50 books on my TBR right now, 20 or so of those are 2023 releases and another 10 of those are things I meant to get to in 2022.  I really need to chip away at the older books on my list that have been sitting there unread.

I'm going to shoot for the Gold Level and try to hit 50 books read and reviewed.  I did 65 in 2022 so I don't think that is out of reach.   

I'll link my reviews below as I post.  To keep myself accountable, I've posted my tentative TBR based on ARCs I've been approved for based on current release date.

January - Link up to see what everyone else read and reviewed

1. Unseelie by Ivelisse Houseman (1/3/23)
2. The Stranded by Sarah Daniels (1/3/23)
3. The Nightmare Man by J.H. Markert (1/10/23)
4. Phaedra by Laura Shepperson (1/10/23)
5. Swift the Storm, Fierce the Flame by Meg Long (1/17/23)
6. Begin Again by Emma Lord (1/24/23)
7. Hex You by PC and Kristin Cast (1/31/23)
8. The Angel Maker by Alex North (2/28/23)
9. Immortality: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz (2/28/23)

Completed this Month: 9    Completed this Year: 9        

February Link up to see what everyone else read and reviewed

1. Wildblood by Lauren Blackwood (2/7/23)
2. The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar by Robin R. Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris  (2/7/23)
3. The Cradle of Ice by James Rollins (2/7/23)
4. Where Darkness Blooms by Andrea Hannah (2/21/23)
5. The Writing Retreat (2/21/23)
6. Weyward by Emelia Hart (3/7/23)
7. The Black Queen  by Jumata Emill (1/31/23)
8. Pandora by Susan Stokes-Chapman (1/17/23)
9. Missing Clarissa by Ripley Jones (3/7/23)

Completed this Month:  9    Completed this Year: 18    

March Link up to see what everyone else read and reviewed

1. Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young (9/27/22)
2. The Revenge by Tijan (9/13/22)
3. Clytemnestra by Constanza Casati (5/2/23)
4. Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco (9/13/22)
5. The Genius of Women by Janice Kaplan (2/18/20)
6. The Familiar Dark by Amy Engel (3/31/20)
7. Last Night by Karen Ellis (2/26/19)
8. Please Join Us by Catherine McKenzie (8/23/22)
9. Intruders by Ashley & Leslie Saunders (3/21/23)
10. The Witch and the Vampire by Francesca Flores (3/21/23)
11. God Themselves by Jae Nichelle
12. You Wouldn't Dare by Samantha Markum (3/28/23)
13. All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes (3/22/22)
14. Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross (4/4/23)
15. Blood Debts by Terry J. Benton-Walker (4/4/23)

Completed this Month: 15    Completed this Year: 33

April Link up to see what everyone else read and reviewed

1. Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury (2/28/23)
2. Wings Once Cursed and Bound by Piper J. Drake (4/11/23)
3. Pieces of Me by Kate McLaughlin (4/18/23)
4. Silver in the Bone by Alexandra Bracken (4/4/23)

Completed this Month:  4   Completed this Year:  37

May Link up to see what everyone else read and reviewed

1. A Crown of Ivy and Glass by Claire Legrand (5/9/23n delayed to 6/13/23)
2. Fractal Noise by Christopher Paolini (5/16/23)
3. Witch King by Martha Wells (5/30/23)
4. Dragon Springs and Other Things by Raven Oak (6/1/23)

Completed this Month: 4    Completed this Year:     41

June Link up to see what everyone else read and reviewed

1. Joy by Mike Bond (11/3/22)
2. The Sweetheart List by Jill Shavis (6/13/23)
3. The Helm of Midnight by Marina Lostetter (4/13/21)
4. Identity by Nora Roberts (5/23/23)
5. The Quiet Tennant by Clemence Michallon (6/20/23)
6. What the Neighbors Saw by Melissa Adelman (6/20/23)

Completed this Month:  6   Completed this Year:     47

July Link up to see what everyone else read and reviewed

1. Space Ships & Other Trips by Raven Oak  (7/1/23)
2. The Prince and the Apocalypse by Kara McDowell (7/11/23)
3. The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon  (6/27/23)
4. I Will Make You Pay by Teresa Driscoll (10/10/19)
5. Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi (7/11/23)
6. Ghosted by Amanda Quian (7/25/23)
7. Abeni's Song by P. Djeli Clark (7/25/23)

Completed this Month: 7     Completed this Year:     54

August Link up to see what everyone else read and reviewed

1. Bring Me Your Midnight by Rachel Griffin (8/1/23)
2. Gone Tonight by Sara Pekkanen (8/1/23)
3. Dark Corners by Megan Goldin (8/8/23)
4. Whalefall by Daniel Kraus (8/8/23)
5. The Education of Kendrick Perkins by Kendrick Perkins and Seth Rogoff (2/21/23)
6. Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward
7. The Love Plot by Samantha Young (8/29/23)
8. On The Plus Side by Jenny L. Howe (12/26/23)
9. Guardians of Dawn: Zhara by S. Jae-Jones (8/1/23)

Completed this Month: 9     Completed this Year:     63

September Link up to see what everyone else read and reviewed

1. Fly with Me by Andie Burke (9/5/23)
2. Someone Somewhere Maybe: Poems by Sophie Diener (9/26/23)
3. Gender is Really Strange by Teddy G. Goetz (10/19/23)
4. Perilous Times by Thomas D. Lee (5/23/23)
5. The Forest Grimm by Kathryn Purdie (9/19/23)
6. The Cage of Dark Hours by Marina Lostetter (2/14/23)
7. Thank You for Sharing by Rachel Runya Katz (9/12/23)
8. A Traitor in Whitehall by Julie Kelly (10/3/23)

Completed this Month:  8   Completed this Year:     71

October Link up to see what everyone else read and reviewed

1. Best Laid Plans by Karla Sorensen (10/3/23)
2. Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree (11/7/23)
3. The Takedown by Carlie Walker (10/3/23)
4. Night of the Witch by Sara Raasch and Beth Revis (10/3/23)

Completed this Month:    4    Completed this Year:    75

November Link up to see what everyone else read and reviewed

1. Flower and Thorn by Rati Mehrotra (10/17/23)
2. The Hunting Moon by Susan Dennard (11/7/23)
   
3. Next-Door Nemesis by Alexa Martin (11/14/23)
4. An Ordinary Violence by Adriana Chartrand (10/31/23)
5. The Scarlet Alchemist by Kylie Lee Baker (10/3/23)
6. Blood Sisters by Vanessa Lillie (10/31/23)
7. Mister Lullaby by J.H. Markert (11/21/23)
8. We are the Crisis by Cadwell Turnbull (11/7/23)
9. Gwen & Art are Not in Love by Lex Croucher (11/28/23)

Completed this Month:    9     Completed this Year:     84

December  Link up to see what everyone else read and reviewed

1. Yours for the Taking by Gabrielle Korn (12/5/23)
2. Guy's Girl by Emma Noyes (10/24/23)
3. My Darling Bride by Ilsa Madden-Mills (12/5/23)
4. Starling House by Alix E. Harrow (10/3/23)
5. Raiders of the Lost Heart by Jo Segura (12/5/23)
6. Housebroke by Jaci Burton (12/12/23)
7. All Hallows by Christopher Golden (1/24/23)

Completed this Month:    7     Completed this Year:   91