As I was late in posting most of the individual reviews, it seems about right I’m late in posting the monthly wrap-up. Winter is a lovely time for reading. And even more reading is done when the weather is too crappy to go hiking.<\/p>\n
I stumbled across a new series that I thoroughly enjoyed this month: Fred, the Vampire Accountant by Drew Hayes. The books are as silly as you’d expect from the title, but they’re also charming and sweet and quite a bit of fun. If you like supernatural fantasy, I highly recommend checking this out.<\/p>\n
I also got the follow-up to The Gentleman’s Guide…The Lady\u2019s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy<\/i><\/a>, and it was FANTASTIC. It’s not romance (even though the first book was an LGBT romance), and unlike the first book, there are fantastic elements. It’s a story of friendship and being who you are. It’s marvelous.<\/p>\n
I also enjoyed KJ Charles’ Band Sinister<\/i><\/a>, which is an historical LGBT romance, and is a bit like Georgette Heyer’s Venetia, but also very much not.<\/p>\n
Fantasy, Supernatural<\/b><\/p>\n
Fred the Vampire Accountant Fantasy, YA<\/b><\/p>\n The Lady\u2019s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy<\/i><\/a> (2018) Mackenzi Lee<\/a> (9\/10) Mystery, Historical<\/b><\/p>\n Treacherous Is the Night<\/i><\/a> (2018) Anna Lee Huber<\/a> (8\/10) (Verity Kent) Romance, Historical<\/b><\/p>\n Not Quite a Husband<\/i><\/a> (2009) Sherry Thomas<\/a><\/p>\n Romance, LGBT<\/b><\/p>\n Band Sinister<\/i><\/a> (2018) K.J. Charles<\/a> (8\/10) Audio Books<\/b><\/p>\n Rivers of London As usual, eBooks lead the day, but I finished four audio books.<\/p>\n eBook: 19 Pretty evenly split this month. <\/p>\n Fantasy: 12 Women are still ahead as far as author gender. Including pseudonyms, I’ve read about 70% female authors this year. Not my highest percentage ever, but definitely up there.<\/p>\n Male: 10 And those are the books of November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I was late in posting most of the individual reviews, it seems about right I’m late in posting the monthly wrap-up. Winter is a lovely time for reading. And even more reading is done when the weather is too crappy to go hiking. I stumbled across a new series that I thoroughly enjoyed this […]<\/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-14582","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-3Nc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14582","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=14582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant<\/i><\/a> (2014) Drew Hayes (8\/10)
\nUndeath & Taxes<\/i><\/a> (2015) Drew Hayes (8\/10)
\nBloody Acquisitions<\/i><\/a> (2016) Drew Hayes (8\/10)
\nThe Fangs of Freelance<\/i><\/a> (2017) Drew Hayes
\nDeadly Assessments<\/i><\/a> (2018) Drew Hayes (8\/10)
\nVery Important Corpses<\/i><\/a> (2017) Simon R. Green<\/a> (Ishmael Jones)
\nDiamond Fire<\/i><\/a> (2018) Ilona Andrews<\/a> (Hidden Legacy)<\/p>\n
\nMidnight Hour<\/i><\/a> (2016) C. C. Hunter<\/a> (Shadow Falls)<\/p>\n
\nInspector Hannasyde
\nDeath in the Stocks<\/i><\/a> (1935) Georgette Heyer<\/a>
\nBehold, Here\u2019s Poison<\/i><\/a> (1936) Georgette Heyer<\/a>
\nThey Found Him Dead<\/i><\/a> (1937) Georgette Heyer<\/a>
\nThe Raven in the Foregate<\/i><\/a> (1986) Ellis Peters<\/a> (Brother Cadfael)
\nThe Duke\u2019s Gambit<\/i><\/a> (2018) Tracy Grant<\/a> (Melanie & Charles Rannoch)<\/p>\n
\nWanted, a Gentleman<\/i><\/a> (2018) K.J. Charles<\/a>
\nA Gentleman Never Keeps Score<\/i><\/a> (2018) Cat Sebastian<\/a><\/p>\n
\nMidnight Riot, Audio Edition<\/i><\/a> (2011\/2012) Ben Aaronovitch<\/a> narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (10\/10)
\nMoon Over Soho, Audio Edition<\/i><\/a> (2011\/2012) Ben Aaronovitch<\/a> narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (9\/10)
\nSharper Than A Serpent\u2019s Tooth, Audio Edition<\/i><\/a> (2006\/2008) Simon R. Green<\/a> narrated by Marc Vietor (9\/10) (Nightside)
\nDead Men\u2019s Boots, Audio Edition<\/i><\/a> (2007\/2009) Mike Carey<\/a> narrated by Michael Kramer (8\/10) (Felix Castor)<\/p>\n
\nAudio: 4
\nMultiple Formats: 4
\nRe-read: 6<\/p>\n
\nMystery: 10
\nRomance: 11
\nYA: 2<\/p>\n
\nFemale: 10
\nInitials: 1
\nMale Pseudonym: 1
\nJoint: 1<\/p>\n