Sunday, June 2, 2024

May 2024 Wrap-Up

During the month of May I finished up one book that I had started in April (Empire of Dirt). Another one that I had started in April was a DNF (The Engines of God). From my May reading list, I ended up finishing 10 books, and starting 2 of them that I'll finish in June. I also read two unplanned books in May.

 

 

 

Memories of the Beach (Blue Heron Cottages #1) by Kay Correll

4 of 5 stars

Review to come.



 

Dragons of Winter Night (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #2) by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Still 5 of 5 stars on reread.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #33) by Agatha Christie 

3 of 5 stars

This one was ok, but I didn't think it was as good as most of the others in the series. Just like with Cat Among the Pigeons, Poirot isn't present for a long time, even less here, and this time it didn't work well for me. I did enjoy some of the side characters in this though, particularly the woman with all the cats. This book also switches to first person which is not something Christie did a lot in this series, and I don't think I like it all that much.

 


  

The Missing Sister by Elle Marr

1 of 5 stars

Review to come.

 

 

 

No rating

DNF at 27%. I'm so incredibly bored with this. I was hoping I would like it as much as I liked McDevitt's Alex Benedict series, but unfortunately that's not the case. I think the thing that made Alex Benedict work so well for me was the mystery in space thing that this doesn't have. This is classic hard sci-fi. I've heard the other books in the series are better, so I may revisit this sometime in the future and give it another chance because of that, but right now I don't have the patience for it.

 

 

 

By a Silver Thread (DFZ Changeling #1) by Rachel Aaron 

4 of 5 stars

Review to come.

 

 

 

Empire of Dirt (The Echoes Saga, #2) by Philip C. Quaintrell

4 of 5 stars

Review to come.

 

 

 

The Icarus Job (The Icarus Saga #3) by Timothy Zahn
 
 4 of 5 stars
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Burning Witch 2 (The Burning Witch, #2) by Delemhach 
 
4 of 5 stars 





 

The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton

2 of 5 stars

See my review here.
 
 
 
 

 

Walks along the Shore (Blue Heron Cottages Book 2) by Kay Correll

3.5 of 5 stars

I enjoyed Memories of the Beach so much that I was eager to read more of this series. This second book in the series was a nice light read but I didn't like it quite as much as the first book in the series. I enjoyed the backstories of the characters in the first book a lot more, and finding out how they would move forward.

 

 

  

Bookshop near the Coast (Blue Heron Cottages Book 3) by Kay Correll

4 of 5 stars

This third book in the Blue Heron Cottages series was still not quite as good as the first book, but I liked it slightly more than book two. I enjoyed reading about Mark's struggles. The way he was treated by his mother over something that she needlessly made him feel embarrassed about was heartbreaking. 

 

 

Invader (Foreigner #2) by C.J. Cherryh

4 of 5 stars





 

The Last Bloody Straw (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers, #5) by J.D. Kirk

4 of 5 stars

I'm liking this series, although it's not a favorite. One character has a really foul mouth and it got a bit excessive in this book, but I liked everything else about this story. In fact I enjoyed the mystery and the other characters in this book probably more than I have any of the others in the series.





 

Cloaked Deception by Timothy Zahn

Still Reading this one.





 

Relic of the Gods (The Echoes Saga, #3) by Philip C. Quaintrell

Still reading this one.


 

 

 

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