{"id":14919,"date":"2019-06-05T11:01:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T15:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=14919"},"modified":"2020-06-08T14:45:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T18:45:58","slug":"the-books-of-may-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/14919","title":{"rendered":"The Books of May"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between family events and hiking and working on the house, I read a whole lot less this month.<\/p>\n

And I’m good with that.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed the The Geek Girl Mysteries by Julie Anne Lindsey<\/a>. They solutions might have been a bit over-the-top, but I was perfectly OK with that, because they were fun stories, with a female lead who I really liked. Amy Stewart<\/a>‘s Kopp Sisters mysteries are interesting in a different way, as they are based upon a real woman, who was one of the first women in NY to become a law officer. And finally, a M\/M romance Family Man<\/em> by Heidi Cullina<\/a>n and Marie Sexton<\/a> was very sweet. It was also a little over-the-top at times, the characters were wonderful–and also complex, with complicated lives.<\/p>\n

I also read some books that pissed me off, but those will be obvious from their ratings, and you’re welcome to read my reviews to see why I disliked them.<\/p>\n

Fantasy<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Darkling Thrush<\/a><\/em> (2012) Josh Lanyon<\/a> (Rating: 5\/10)
\nRavensong<\/a><\/em> (2018) TJ Klune<\/a> (Rating: 4\/10)<\/p>\n

Romance, LGBT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Family Man<\/a><\/em> (2017) Heidi Cullinan and Marie Sexton (Rating: 8\/10)<\/p>\n

Mystery<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Geek Girl Mysteries
A Geek Girl’s Guide to Murder<\/a><\/em> (2015) Julie Anne Lindsey<\/a> (Rating: 7.5\/10)
A Geek Girl’s Guide to Arsenic<\/a><\/em> (2016) Julie Anne Lindsey (Rating: 8\/10)
A Geek Girl’s Guide to Justice<\/a><\/em> (2016) Julie Anne Lindsey (Rating: 8.5\/10)<\/p>\n

Mystery, Supernatural<\/strong><\/p>\n

Magical Washington
Fright Court<\/a><\/em> (2011) Mindy Klasky<\/a> (Rating: 8\/10)
Law and Murder<\/a><\/em> (2017) Mindy Klasky (Rating: 7.5\/10)
High Stakes Trial<\/a><\/em> (2019) Mindy Klasky (Rating: 7\/10)<\/p>\n

Mystery, Historical <\/strong><\/p>\n

Kopp Sisters
Girl Waits with Gun<\/a><\/em> (2015) Amy Stewart<\/a> (Rating: 8\/10)
\nLady Cop Makes Trouble<\/a><\/em> (2016) Amy Stewart<\/a> (Rating: 8\/10)
\nThe Summer of the Danes<\/em> (1991) Ellis Peters<\/a> (Rating: 8.5\/10) (Brother Cadfael)<\/p>\n

Mystery, LGBT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hell & High Water<\/a><\/em> (2014\/2018) Charlie Cochet (THIRDS) (Rating: 5\/10)<\/p>\n

Now: THE STATS!<\/p>\n

All ebooks. Not a surprise. Only one re-read, which is slightly more surprising.<\/p>\n

eBook: 13
\nRe-read: 1<\/p>\n

Split fairly evenly across the genres this month, with mysteries slightly ahead.<\/p>\n

Fantasy: 6
\nMystery: 10
\nRomance: 9
\nBoinking: 4<\/p>\n

Almost no male authors this month. And sadly for them, it was one of the books I strongly disliked, mostly because the story went off-the rails right at the end, with several things that just PISSED ME OFF.<\/p>\n

Male: 1
\nFemale: 9
\nMale Pseudonym: 3<\/p>\n

Male: 5
\nFemale: 8
\nWhite: 13
\nMinority 2ndary: 2
\nStraight: 9
\nLGBTQ: 4<\/p>\n

Variety of characters this month was a little low, but that happens. After all, I’m reading for fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Between family events and hiking and working on the house, I read a whole lot less this month. And I’m good with that. I enjoyed the The Geek Girl Mysteries by Julie Anne Lindsey. They solutions might have been a bit over-the-top, but I was perfectly OK with that, because they were fun stories, with […]<\/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-14919","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-3SD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14919","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=14919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}