How is it November already?<\/p>\n
I read some good books, and I also–for me–read a number of really awful books, including one DNF (did not finish). But let’s talk about the good ones!<\/p>\n
Pyromantic<\/em> by Lish McBride is a book I’d been holding off reading, because I tend to love her books, and so was saving it for unknown reasons. It’s a good book, and a good series, and now I want to go back and read the Necromancer series.<\/p>\n The Gentleman\u2019s Guide to Vice and Virtue<\/i><\/a> by Mackenzi Lee surprised me. I initially had a very difficult time starting it, because the main character was kind of an annoying git. But then you discover more about him, and learn why he drinks so much, and suddenly I was halfway through the story and completely pulled in. <\/p>\n I’m also quite enjoying listening to Simon Green’s Nightside series. Marc Vietor is not an amazing narrator, but he’s solid and he does a good job with it. Plus, I’d forgotten how much I love this series.<\/p>\n So here’s what I read. You can see there were several books I REALLY did NOT like.<\/p>\n Mystery, Historical<\/b><\/p>\n An Excellent Mystery<\/i><\/a> (1985) Ellis Peters<\/a> (Rating: 7.5\/10) (Brother Cadfael) Romance, Historical<\/b><\/p>\n His at Night<\/i><\/a> (2010) Sherry Thomas<\/a> (Rating: 7\/10) Romance, LGBT<\/b> Fantasy, Supernatural<\/b><\/p>\n Pyromantic<\/i><\/a> (2017) Lish McBride (Rating: 9\/10) (Firebug) Audio Books<\/b> And the stats!<\/p>\n eBook: 15 Lots of ebooks, fewer audio books, mostly because of the stupid rain.<\/p>\n Fantasy: 6 Majority mystery this month, but quite a few romances in there (that category had the books I REALLY disliked).<\/p>\n Male: 5 Males continue to fall behind in my reading material, and sadly, the romance that I finshed off by hate-reading, was written by a guy. The romance was terrible, but the mystery was ALSO terrible, so theoretically it doesn’t mean that guys can’t write romance. But it really was awful.<\/p>\n And those were the books of October!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How is it November already? I read some good books, and I also–for me–read a number of really awful books, including one DNF (did not finish). But let’s talk about the good ones! Pyromantic by Lish McBride is a book I’d been holding off reading, because I tend to love her books, and so was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14565","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-3MV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14565","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=14565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMalcolm and Melanie Rannoch
\nMission for a Queen<\/i><\/a> (2016) Tracy Grant<\/a> (Rating: 7.5\/10)
\nGilded Deceit<\/i><\/a> (2017) Tracy Grant<\/a> (Rating: 8\/10)
\nMidwinter Intrigue<\/i><\/a> (2017) Tracy Grant<\/a> (Rating: 6\/10)
\n<\/b><\/p>\n
\nThe Luckiest Lady in London<\/i><\/a> (2013) Sherry Thomas<\/a> (Rating: 7.5\/10)
\nLord of Scoundrels\u00a0<\/i><\/a>(1994) Loretta Chase<\/a> (Rating: 8\/10)
\nCaptives of the Night<\/i><\/a> (1994) Loretta Chase<\/a> (Rating: 7.5\/10)
\nLet Me Be The One<\/i><\/a> (2002,2015) Jo Goodman (Rating: 7.5\/10)
\nA Dangerous Liaison with Detective Lewis<\/i><\/a> (2012) Jillian Stone (Rating: 4\/10)
\nA Code of Love\u00a0<\/i><\/a> (2014) Jacki Delecki (Rating: 1.25\/10)
\nDNF: An Indecent Invitation<\/i><\/a> by Laura Trentham<\/p>\n
\nThe Gentleman\u2019s Guide to Vice and Virtue<\/i><\/a> (2017) Mackenzi Lee (Rating: 8\/10)
\nUnmasked by the Marquess<\/i><\/a> (2018) Cat Sebastian<\/a> (Rating: 5.5\/10)<\/p>\n
\nClean<\/i><\/a> (2012) Alex Hughes (Rating: 5.5\/10)<\/p>\n
\nNightside
\nNightingale\u2019s Lament, Audio Edition<\/i><\/a> (2004\/2008) Simon R Green<\/a> narrated by Marc Vietor (Rating: 8\/10)
\nHex and the City, Audio Edition<\/i><\/a> (2005\/2008) Simon R Green<\/a> narrated by Marc Vietor (Rating: 8\/10)
\n<\/i>Paths Not Taken, Audio Edition<\/i><\/a> (2005\/2008) Simon R Green<\/a> narrated by Marc Vietor (Rating: 7\/10)
\nVicious Circle, Audio Edition<\/i><\/a> (2006\/2008) Mike Carey<\/a> narrated by Michael Kramer (Rating: 8\/10) (Felix Castor)<\/p>\n
\nAudio: 4
\nMultiple Formats: 4
\nRe-read: 6<\/p>\n
\nMystery: 13
\nRomance: 9<\/p>\n
\nFemale: 12
\nMale Pseudonym: 2<\/p>\n