I read more than expected this June, mostly because it wouldn’t stop raining, so very little hiking.

Bah humbug.

I seem to have read a lot of meh books this month, and finished off some anthologies I’d been reading (some for years).

The best book of the month was Salsa Nocturna by Daniel José Older, which is a collection of short stories, set in the same world, and slowly intertwined.

This was a very nice book, and I purchased his Resurrection Blues based upon it. You should really check it out.

Supernatural Fantasy

  Salsa Nocturna (2012) Daniel José Older (8.5/10)
  Pocket Apocalypse (2015) Seanan McGuire (7/10)
  Werewolf Smackdown (2010) Mario Acevedo (4/10)

Fantasy

  Magic Lost, Trouble Found (2007) Lisa Shearin (7/10)

Historical Mystery

  The Mayfair Affair (2015) Tracy Grant (8/10)

Historical Romance

  Miss Grimsley’s Oxford Career (2012) Carla Kelly (8.5/10)
  The Soldier’s Dark Secret (2015) Marguerite Kaye (7.5/10)
  Widow’s Gambit (1998) Tracy Grant (7/10)
  Lucien’s Fall (2011) Barbara Samuel (6/10)

Anthology

  Fiction River: Hex in the City (2013) edited by Kerrie L. Hughes (9/10)
  Vampires: The Recent Undead (2011) edited by Paula Guran (7/10)

So here’s how the stats came out for the month.

I read 11 books, all of which were eBooks.

Genre-wise, mostly split between fantasy and historical romance.

Fantasy: 6
Romance: 5
Anthology: 3
Mystery: 2

Gender-wise, women continued to lead the pack, and the year, with 57% of this year’s books written by women.

Female: 7
Male: 2
Anthology: 2

And that’s the month of June in books.