2025 Year End Recap

(If you have a short reading attention span, feel free to just skip to the actual ranking, which you'd have to click into the blog post to view >:3)

This particular blog post is to first document what was actually published in 2025.

Note: Notice two font sizes below? The regular size matching this sentence and paragraphs above, are my makeup work for before. The smaller size (like this) are the ones that are posted extremely closed to, if not in fact on the exact published date. Those, should there actually be casual viewers of my blog, are hard to miss, since the Blog Archive function reflects them quite well, and the backdated ones are what easily gone unnoticed, hence the emphasis.

1. [Series Overview] Emily Wilde - Heather Fawcett
2. [Series Overview] The Crimson Moth duology - Kristen Ciccarelli
3. [Series Overview] Secrets of the Nile - Isabel Ibañez
4. [Series Overview] The Scarlet Veil duology - Shelby Mahurin
5. [Series Overview] The Burning Kingdoms - Tasha Suri
6. [Series Overview] The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club - Theodora Goss
7. [Series Overview] The Warring Gods - Gabriela Romero Lacruz
8. [Discussions] Social Networking Platforms for Books
9. [Series Overview] Sands of Arawiya - Hafsah Faizal
10. [Series Overview] Blood and Tea - Hafsah Faizal
11. [Series Overview] Saga of the Unfated - Danielle L. Jensen
12. [Series Overview] Leviathan trilogy - Scott Westerfeld
13. [Series Overview] Scarlett and Browne - Jonathan Stroud
14. [Series Overview] Sample Blogpost
15. 2025 Year End Recap ☜ THIS POST!!!

Like last year, technically this post wasn't exactly posted within the timeframe, but close enough to be counted as published on time, so I'm counting it, lmao. That said, as this is, as of now, the one post per year you'd get more of my personal life, I'll still share the gist of my year:

• Things are basically exactly the same as 2024, I'm simply more active IRL, as continually documented in gist HERE.
• Directly related to the above; what sucks is that the mobile Facebook app is now just, frankly, bad. The filter function on profile is no longer working properly, so it adds shitload of pressure to people like me, who don't always have time to add all the content right after I created those post. I still have a lot posts I haven't finished, so that's gonna take up time in the following year as well. Urgh.

I am however somewhat disappointed in myself for not at least getting 1 post (out of the many posts of the same kind) out before the year ends. For people who couldn't read Chinese, I went to Kyoto twice this year and there's just so many book (and manga) related stuff I'd like to share!

Anyways, as of 2025/12/31, according to the Blog Archive function, I have 11 posts published in 2025 (not counting this one), 1 of which was first published in 2024 but adjusted to this year accordingly. I do hope I'd find time to finish a couple of non-Series-Overview posts the next year. Wish me luck! lol

2025 Reading Challenge

Sammm has read 53 books toward her goal of 65 books.

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53 of 65 (81%)

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I hope people are patient enough to reach this part, lmao. On Goodreads, there's the My Year in Books function they provided that give some statistics, [check out mine for 2025!] (My GR profile is set for GR Users only, so this one, you'd have to login in order to view.) There's also the Goodreads Year in Review, [read mine!] (no GR account required.)

Like last year (its post updated), GR continues to take their new mini challenges seriously, and I personally find them super hard to access, so decided to share what I achieved here as well (there's more at the very end of the post):

Community Favorites Challenge	Summer Challenge	Fall Challenge

I have to say though, I think the intention itself is nice, but I realized I'm not really invested in collecting the achievements, so I don't go out of my way reading books they listed, some I just didn't read at the time the challenge was released, which is a pity. Back to reading statistics, so what's different here is that I'm going to rank what I've read, but limited to series that concluded or standalones, extras, and compilations published in this year. 2025 does not make a great example but it's better than having nothing lol. And, ladies and gents, drum roll....!

[Series Overview] Scarlett and Browne - Jonathan Stroud

I started this series on: December 15, 2025
I finished this series on: December 22, 2025
Cover editions here updated on: December 17, 2025
Written content here updated on: December 17, 2025

Disclaimer, one you'd see on multiple posts As I struggled to decide which book series to cover overviews for, it dawned to me that I'd never get started at this rate. It became clear to me that, it's rather unlikely for me to use this blog as my "main" reviewing spot since I have Goodreads for that, and chances of someone miraculously stumbling across this blog out of the countless ones out there, is just rather slim, therefore, I'd put up links to my GR reviews (in English,) and this post would be in Chinese for people who are curious about the series but either aren't comfortable with or just don't prefer reading in English. Please also note that, sometimes I don't have time to write actual reviews, HOWEVER, I do always put down thoughts when I document my reading status updates, so for GR desktop users, remember to scroll down if it appears to contain little, it'd be under the quotes I liked from that book (when applicable lol;) for mobile app users, remember to switch to "Reading Activity," which would not be the default as "Review" is.

第一集的film rights在2022年2月宣布由Temple Hill Entertainment和Amazon Studios取得^[Variety]，並同時公布主演、導演、編劇，但之後就完全沒有消息。

The actual review is, as usual, WIP, but like I said above, getting the post out there first.

GR stats (linking default edition)	Editions I'm privy to
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[Read My Review!]

Author:

Disclaimer, one you'd see on multiple posts The following section, basically a gallery of editions around the world with different book cover art, is largely inspired by treatments of fellow blogger Amethyst, who unfortunately hasn't done those types of blog posts for a while. Please DO NOT mistaken the following to be all existing editions; I'm only including completed sets with matching designs. All clickable images are linked to respective editions on GR; people, shelving correct editions ain't that hard. Highly recommend accurate shelving. =D

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[Series Overview] Leviathan trilogy - Scott Westerfeld

I started this series on: December 9, 2025
I finished this series on: December 14, 2025 (main series)
Cover editions here updated on: December 14, 2025
Written content here updated on: December 14, 2025

Disclaimer, one you'd see on multiple posts As I struggled to decide which book series to cover overviews for, it dawned to me that I'd never get started at this rate. It became clear to me that, it's rather unlikely for me to use this blog as my "main" reviewing spot since I have Goodreads for that, and chances of someone miraculously stumbling across this blog out of the countless ones out there, is just rather slim, therefore, I'd put up links to my GR reviews (in English,) and this post would be in Chinese for people who are curious about the series but either aren't comfortable with or just don't prefer reading in English. Please also note that, sometimes I don't have time to write actual reviews, HOWEVER, I do always put down thoughts when I document my reading status updates, so for GR desktop users, remember to scroll down if it appears to contain little, it'd be under the quotes I liked from that book (when applicable lol;) for mobile app users, remember to switch to "Reading Activity," which would not be the default as "Review" is.

Goodreads Choice Award：第三集入圍Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

作者2024年6月宣布三集將改編為動畫於隔年上架Netflix^{[作者官網]}；2025年如期公開。



The actual review is, as usual, WIP, but like I said above, getting the post out there first.

GR stats (linking default edition)	Editions I'm privy to
[Read My Review!]
[Read My Review!]
[Read My Review!]

Author:
Series: Unofficial:

Disclaimer, one you'd see on multiple posts The following section, basically a gallery of editions around the world with different book cover art, is largely inspired by treatments of fellow blogger Amethyst, who unfortunately hasn't done those types of blog posts for a while. Please DO NOT mistaken the following to be all existing editions; I'm only including completed sets with matching designs. All clickable images are linked to respective editions on GR; people, shelving correct editions ain't that hard. Highly recommend accurate shelving. =D

以下涵蓋9款，記得看全文以觀賞喔 >:3（敘述有陸續在補）


American English | 美式英文 （平裝）

美版第一集封面本來長不一樣，是第二集快要上市的時候，先宣布第一集的平裝會改風格（換成上方這樣）^{[作者官網一]}，然後第二集從精裝版就直接配合出一致的^[二]，作者後有分享新封面幕後花絮^[三]和公佈第三集^[四]。

British English | 英式英文 （平裝）

英版第一集原本也長不一樣，不過不像美版有被其他國家繼續拿來出一樣的，沒有其他國家有用那個原來的第一集xD

اللغة العربية | Saudi Arabian Arabic | 沙烏地阿拉伯文

恭喜這版本讓我網誌第一次出現沙烏地阿拉伯的阿拉伯文～（之前好像只有埃及阿拉伯文） 很不好意思，我畢竟不懂這語言，基本上，如果通用，那特別區分就也只是像我英美澳加如果辨識的出來，也會區分那樣。

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