I read several new and new-to-me books this month–all the historical romances and supernatural fantasies were new-to-me and I even read the Jane Yellowrock new release almost immediately! Lots of hiking on the weekends, and being outside in the evenings, which cuts back on the reading, but I shan’t complain at all.<\/p>\n
All of the historical romances had M\/M elements, and all were boinking, but most of them were very good. I’d especially recommend the trio Hamilton\u2019s Battalion<\/em><\/a> which has three separate romances: a woman pretending to be a man to fight in the continental army, a M\/M romance between an English Lord who deserted the British Army and an ex-slave fighting for the freedom of his brother-in-law, and a maid who works for Mrs Hamilton and the granddaughter of a revolutionary soldier.<\/p>\n If you’ve been reading the Jane Yellowrock books, you don’t need me to tell you to read the newest, but if you haven’t, this is a series that has managed to be very good over the course of a dozen books, and I could be content if the series ended here (it won’t). And the short story pair by Lish McBride made me want to re-read Hold Me Closer Necromancer<\/em>, which is a YA I very much enjoyed at the time.<\/p>\n Historical Romance<\/strong><\/p>\n Hamilton\u2019s Battalion: A Trio of Romances<\/em><\/a> (2017) Rose Lerner, Courtney Milan<\/a>, Alyssa Cole (8\/10) Fantasy, Supernatural <\/strong><\/p>\n Dark Queen<\/em><\/a> (2018) Faith Hunter<\/a> (Jane Yellowrock) Fantasy<\/strong><\/p>\n Discworld Mystery<\/strong><\/p>\n The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories<\/em><\/a> (2015) Ian Rankin<\/a> (8.5\/10) (Rebus)<\/p>\n Audio Books<\/strong><\/p>\n Mercy Thompson Now: The stats!<\/p>\n Thirteen books this one and a DNF. The DNF was one I quit with prejudice–it wasn’t even good enough to hate read, I had so many issues with it.<\/p>\n All my reading was ebooks, and I also managed four audio books this month (one was the travel book I listened to with Michael). Five of the books I own in multiple formats (ie paper and eBook or eBook and audio book) and seven were re-reads (I can only listen to audio books I’ve read before, so all audio books are re-reads.)<\/p>\n eBook : 9 Primarily fantasy and historical romance this month, with overlap between the two.<\/p>\n Fantasy : 9 And male authors are falling behind this month, despite the effort of Terry Pratchett. I actually started a 3rd Terry Pratchett, but I might go onto the next, because the witches aren’t my favorite story arc.<\/p>\n Male : 5 And that’s the past month in books! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I read several new and new-to-me books this month–all the historical romances and supernatural fantasies were new-to-me and I even read the Jane Yellowrock new release almost immediately! Lots of hiking on the weekends, and being outside in the evenings, which cuts back on the reading, but I shan’t complain at all. All of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-3Ki","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFlight of Magpies<\/em><\/a> (2014) K.J. Charles<\/a> (8\/10) (A Charm of Magpies)
\nRag and Bone<\/em><\/a> (2016) K.J. Charles<\/a> (8\/10)
\nIt Takes Two to Tumble<\/em><\/a> (2017) Cat Sebastian (7\/10)<\/p>\n
\nFreaks & Other Family<\/em><\/a> (2016) Lish McBride<\/a> (8\/10) (Necromancer)<\/p>\n
\nMort<\/em><\/a> (1987) Terry Pratchett<\/a> (8\/10)
\nGuards! Guards!<\/em><\/a> (1989) Terry Pratchett<\/a> (9.5\/10)<\/p>\n
\nMoon Called, Audible Version<\/em><\/a> (2006) Patricia Briggs<\/a> narrated by Lorelei King (7.5\/10)
\nShifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson, Audio Version<\/em><\/a> (2014) Patricia Briggs<\/a> narrated by Alexander Cendese and Lorelei King (9\/10)
\nStiletto, Audible Edition<\/em><\/a> (2016) Daniel O\u2019Malley<\/a> narrated by Moira Quirk (9\/10) (The Rook)
\nVoice of the Violin, Audible Version<\/em><\/a> (1997\/2003\/2008) Andrea Camilleri<\/a> translated by Stephen Sartarelli narrated by Grover Gardner (8\/10) (Inspector Montalbano)<\/p>\n
\nAudio : 4
\nMultiple Formats : 5
\nRe-read : 7<\/p>\n
\nMystery : 2
\nRomance : 5
\nYA : 1<\/p>\n
\nFemale : 8<\/p>\n