Rain rain rain rain rain means lots of reading for me. Which is fine, but I’d rather have been hiking.<\/p>\n
So I read some good books last month, and also a couple not so good, including a did not finish and a book I finished mostly out of spite. But the lets talk about the good!<\/p>\n
I reread a couple historical mystery series that I loved, and I can highly recommend: The Thief-Takers Series by Alissa Johnson <\/a> has private inquiry agents and a family of thieves and ends with a heroine with a neurological disorder. The Regency London Series by Michelle Diener<\/a> is another series I love, and the middle book has a young woman hiding as a French chef. <\/p>\n I read a new K.J. Charles<\/a> book, Any Old Diamonds<\/em><\/a> which of course I enjoyed. Note: MM boinking here, but it’s also a heist book.<\/p>\n And I found a MM mystery author, Josh Lanyon, who I am enjoying. The first book in the series I wasn’t quite sure about, but by the second book I was all on board. (I just started a new series by her.)<\/p>\n As far as audio books, I’m having a hard time finding a cleaning\/exercise book, so went back to The Rook, Audio Edition<\/em><\/a> by Daniel O\u2019Malley<\/a> narrated by Susan Duerden, which I utterly adore, and which is so unlike anything else it doesn’t get mixed into whatever else I’m reading.<\/p>\n Historical Mystery<\/strong><\/p>\n The Heretic\u2019s Apprentice<\/em> <\/a> (1989) Ellis Peters <\/a> (Rating: 8.5\/10) (Brother Cadfael) Mystery<\/strong><\/p>\n The Overnight Kidnapper<\/em> <\/a> (2015\/2019) Andrea Camilleri <\/a> translated by Stephen Sartarelli (Rating: 7\/10) (Inspector Montalbano)<\/p>\n Audio Books<\/strong><\/p>\n The Rook, Audio Edition<\/em> <\/a> (2012) Daniel O\u2019Malley <\/a> narrated by Susan Duerden (Rating: 9.5\/10) (The Rook)<\/p>\n Historical Romance<\/strong><\/p>\n The Duke I Tempted<\/em> <\/a> (2018) Scarlett Peckham Supernatural Mystery (LGBT)<\/strong><\/p>\n Offbeat Crimes Romantic (LGBT) Mystery<\/strong><\/p>\n Murder Takes the High Road<\/em> <\/a> (2018) Josh Lanyon (Rating: 7\/10) Romance, LGBT<\/strong><\/p>\n Any Old Diamonds<\/em> <\/a> (2019) K.J. Charles<\/a> (Rating: 8\/10) OK, the breakdown. Multiple re-reads (but some new releases as well) and almost everything was an ebook.<\/p>\n eBook: 24 Lots of romance and mystery and boinking this month.<\/p>\n Fantasy: 5 Not many male authors this month, although there were several male pseudonyms.<\/p>\n Male: 2 Now for the new categories I made last month. Lots of male leads (due to the MM romances) and lots of LGBTQ, but not many minority characters. Some of that has to do with reading historicals, but I’ll note that KJ Charles often has minority characters in her historicals, so it can be done, it’s just not necessarily easy.<\/p>\n Male: 13 And that’s February in books.<\/p>\n Did you read anything last month you’d really recommend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rain rain rain rain rain means lots of reading for me. Which is fine, but I’d rather have been hiking. So I read some good books last month, and also a couple not so good, including a did not finish and a book I finished mostly out of spite. But the lets talk about the […]<\/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-14823","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-3R5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14823","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=14823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDark Angel<\/em> <\/a> (1994) Tracy Grant<\/a> (Rating: 8.5\/10) (Lescaut Quartet)
\nThe Thief-Takers Series
\nA Talent for Trickery<\/em> <\/a> (2015) Alissa Johnson <\/a> (Rating: 8.5\/10)
\nA Gift for Guile<\/em> <\/a> (2016) Alissa Johnson <\/a> (Rating: 8.5\/10)
\nA Dangerous Deceit<\/em> <\/a> (2017) Alissa Johnson <\/a> (Rating: 8.5\/10)
\nRegency London Series
\nThe Emperor\u2019s Conspiracy<\/em> <\/a> (2012) Michelle Diener <\/a> (Rating: 8\/10)
\nBanquet of Lies<\/em> <\/a> (2013) Michelle Diener <\/a> (Rating: 9.5\/10)
\nA Dangerous Madness<\/em> <\/a> (2014) Michelle Diener <\/a> (Rating: 8.5\/10)
\nLady Arianna Hadley Mystery
\nSweet Revenge<\/em> <\/a> (2011) Andrea Penrose (Rating: 6.5\/10)
\nThe Cocoa Conspiracy<\/em> <\/a> (2014) Andrea Penrose (Rating: 5.5\/10)
\nRecipe For Treason<\/em> <\/a> (2014) Andrea Penrose (Rating: 4\/10)<\/p>\n
\nDNF: The Curse of Lord Stanstead<\/em> <\/a> (2015) Mia Marlowe (DNF)<\/p>\n
\nLime Gelatin and Other Monsters<\/em> <\/a> (2016) Angel Martinez (Rating: 7\/10)
\nThe Pill Bugs of Time<\/em> <\/a> (2016) Angel Martinez<\/p>\n
\nHolmes & Moriarity
\nSomebody Killed His Editor<\/em> <\/a> (2009\/2016) Josh Lanyon (Rating: 7.5\/10)
\nAll She Wrote<\/em> <\/a> (2010\/2017) Josh Lanyon (Rating: 8\/10)
\nThe Boy with the Painful Tattoo<\/em> <\/a> (2014\/2018) Josh Lanyon (Rating: 7\/10)
\nIn Other Words\u2026 Murder<\/em> <\/a> (2018) Josh Lanyon (Rating: 8\/10)<\/p>\n
\nAnother Place in Time<\/em> <\/a> (2014) by Tamara Allen, Joanna Chambers, K.J. Charles<\/a>, Kaje Harper, Jordan L. Hawk <\/a> , Aleksandr Voinov (Rating: 7\/10)
\nHexbreaker<\/em> <\/a> (2016) Jordan L. Hawk <\/a> (Rating: 5\/10)
\nMr. Winterbourne\u2019s Christmas<\/em> <\/a> (2018) Joanna Chambers (Rating: 6\/10)<\/p>\n
\nAudio: 1
\nMultiple Formats: 1
\nRe-read: 7<\/p>\n
\nMystery: 17
\nRomance: 22
\nBoinking: 15
\nAnthology: 1<\/p>\n
\nFemale: 15
\nInitials: 1
\nMale Pseudonym: 6
\nAnthology: 1<\/p>\n
\nFemale: 1
\nEnsemble: 10
\nWhite: 24
\nMinority: 1
\nMinority 2ndary: 2
\nStraight: 14
\nLGBTQ: 11
\nLGBTQ 2ndary: <\/p>\n