First off in June I finished up one book that I had started in May, Filthy Rich by B. E. Baker (see my review here). I didn't get around to finishing A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett like I had planned but I'm still working on it. I ended up reading eight other full length books, plus two novellas. I had one DNF this month, and I'm still reading one book that I started this month.
The seven full length books I read-
Dragons of the Highlord Skies (Dragonlance: The Lost Chronicles #2) by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Category: Adult
Genre: Fantasy
Content: Clean
Still 3 stars on reread.
Death at a Highland Wedding (A Rip Through Time #4) by Kelley Armstrong
See my review here.
Her Deadly Game (Keera Duggan #1) by Robert Dugoni
See my review here.
Hitchhikers by Ben H. Winters
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Category: Adult
Genre: Thriller, Fantasy
Content: Strong Language, Domestic Abuse
Annie has always had high hopes for her future.
But the reality of her life just isn’t measuring up. She loves her
fiancé, Greg–doesn’t she? She’s going to get her degree and open her own
business–won’t she?
Then, a strange old woman shows up outside her house, and she seems to know a lot about Annie. An awful lot.
Annie
could tell the old woman to get lost. Yet there’s something about her
Annie just can’t shake. And what she learns could change her life
forever–but is it the life she envisioned?
This was an interesting time travel thriller. Most of the story was pretty straightforward and easy to figure out, so I knew there had to be some sort of a twist coming. Of course there was, and I'm not sure how I feel about that twist.
Dead Man's Hand (The Unorthodox Chronicles #1) by James J. Butcher
Review to come.
A Clash of Fates (The Echoes Saga #9) by Philip C. Quaintrell
My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
Category: Adult
Genre: Fantasy
Content: Mild Language
Series review to come.
When Stars Dance at Midnight (The Midnight Stars #4) by Tess Thompson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Category: Adult
Genre: Romance, Historical Romance
Content: Clean
I thought the third book was the last in this series but was pleasantly surprised that the author gave us a fourth book. I was actually really happy about that because I liked Betsy so much in the last book. I do think she deserved to have her own story. This was, for me the best book in the series. I might do a series review in the near future.
The Stormborne Vine (Leaf and Scale #1) by Tilly Wallace
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Category: Adult
Genre: Fantasy
Content: Clean
This was an ok cozy fantasy. To an extent, I feel like this author keeps writing the same thing over and over. All the books have the same tone and the characters feel very interchangeable. They all have the same narrator as well and that makes them feel even more alike. I liked this author's Manners and Monsters Series a lot better than any of her other books. I think if you haven't read anything else by this author then you would probably like this just fine. I'm not sure if I want to continue with this series.
The two novellas I read-
Schemes and Scandals (A Rip Through Time #3.5) by Kelley Arnstrong
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Category: Adult
Genre: Mystery
Content: Clean
It’s Mallory Atkinson’s first Christmas in
Scotland. Victorian Scotland, that is. Also, as the twenty-first-century
detective learns, Christmas really isn’t a thing in Victorian Scotland.
It’s all about Hogmanay. But her boss, Dr. Duncan Gray, treats her to
an early gift of tickets to the event of the a Charles Dickens reading.
There, they bump into Lady Inglis—the lovely widow who has sent Gray
sexy letters trying to entice him back to her bed.
Lady Inglis
introduces Mallory to Dickens—the meeting of a lifetime—but in return
she wants their help. She’s being blackmailed. Someone stole letters she
wrote to another lover and is threatening to publish them.
Mallory
isn’t sure what to make of Lady Inglis, but no woman deserves that, so
she insists on taking the case with or without Gray’s help. Growing
tension between them soon tells Mallory that Gray is hiding a secret of
his own. She has until Hogmanay to uncover the blackmailer…and,
hopefully, to put things right with Gray so they can enjoy the holiday
together.
Leviathan: An Asher & Avandriell Story by Philip C. Quaintrell
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Category: Adult
Genre: Fantasy
Content: Clean
For those who have read The Echoes Saga and need more, the more is here!
Set three years after A Clash of Fates, the first novella in the Verda universe begins here, with Asher and his intrepid dragon, Avandriell.
A
new world is beginning to take shape in the aftermath of The Fated War,
a world that must be brought together if it is to survive. As the king
and queen of Illian, it falls on Vighon and Inara Draqaro to forge this
future. As they did during the war, they have allies—old friends—to call
upon, heroes all who fought and bled for Verda’s fragile era of peace.
Among those allies are the likes of a ranger and a dragon.
The
world’s greatest monster requires the world’s greatest hunters. Between
them, Asher and Avandriell possess the skills required to face an
ancient beast that has long prevented mutual prosperity between Illian
and Erador. If the two realms of man are to secure an everlasting peace,
this creature of antiquity, this Leviathan, must finally be vanquished.
This is a bonus novella that can be read after The Echoes Saga. I think by the time I got to this I was a bit burned out on the series. It wasn't bad but it was mostly battles, and I kind of zoned out of it in the middle.
The book that was a DNF-
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
So I'm really not surprised that this ended up as a DNF for me. I greatly disliked the otehr book I read by this author and I don't think this author's books are for me.
See my review here.
Started but not finished-
Be Buried in the Rain by Barbara Michaels
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