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asphaltcowgrrl) wrote2020-07-01 02:15 pm
asphaltcowgrrl) wrote2020-07-01 02:15 pm
June Book Recap
I had a pretty okay month reading-wise this past month. Hit my Goodreads Challenge Goal of 50 books, too.
What I Read:
Ao Haru Ride volumes 8 & 9. I love this series and I’d love it even more if freaking Right Stuff Anime would ship the rest of my books! I think they might be waiting until vol 12 releases in August but I made this damn order in May. LOL
RWBY: The Official Manga: The Beacon Arc Vol 1. I’d heard so much about this anime that when I found the manga on Netgalley, I was excited! Wasn’t too bad either. My one complaint was that they introduced like 14 characters in 250 pages. Yikes.
Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall. A cute, British fake-dating rom-com. Haldoor, I think you’d love this once it releases. Thank god for my Kindle though. All the Britishisms left me confused at times.
Preyed Upon by John Gresyon. I rarely say this because I can usually find something I enjoyed in every book I read, but this was flat out awful. SO MUCH TELLING and someone has no idea what a comma or a period is. The sad thing is, it could have been so much better with a little editing.
You Can Go Home Now by Michael Elias. This was really good, if a bit bloody and brutal at points. Warning: it deals with women and children who have been abused. Great thriller though.
Shock by Anthony R. Wilson. This was the second stinker of the month. I can’t tell you the last time I gave something 2 stars and I had two this month. Thank god they were both short and free. But the writing in this was horrible. And the author came off as if they had something against men and male police officers and it really, really showed in the thoughts of the characters.
Spy x Family Vol 1. A hysterical manga about a spy who needs to find a wife and a child for a mission. The child he ‘adopts’ from a shady orphanage can read minds and his wife? She’s an assassin. I can’t wait to get my hands on more of this series.
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery. I got this from the library after watching the movie Lost Girls on Netflix. While the movie only focused on one girl – Shannan Gilbert – who went missing and led to the discovery of several other bodies, the book focused on all the girls found dead. They were all presumably killed by the same person on Long Island. Weirdly, about two weeks after I finished this, they found another body that they believe was killed by this same person. It’s sad because they have zero leads.
What I’m Reading Now:
The Last Enemy by Pauline Baird Jones. Romantic suspense that’s been really good so far. It did throw me a bit because I didn’t realize the book was written in 1999, so when the heroine is plugging a telephone line into her laptop, I was hella confused for a hot second. LOL
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (audiobook). My god, this has been the funniest damn thing I’ve read in a long time. Lillian’s old friend from high school writes her out of the blue asking her if she wants to be a nanny to her step-children. The catch is that when the kids are agitated? They catch on fire. No joke. And the best part is that Lillian starts referring to them as fire children. Less than 2 hours left on the audio, so I ought to finish it soon.
What I’m Reading Next:
Hell if I know. I have so many I want to read, but no clue where to start. On the bright side, I only have one Netgalley ARC out and it doesn’t publish until October. And I have exactly one review book out and it doesn’t publish until August.
That’s it out of me for now. Off to work on the movie/TV post.
What I Read:
Ao Haru Ride volumes 8 & 9. I love this series and I’d love it even more if freaking Right Stuff Anime would ship the rest of my books! I think they might be waiting until vol 12 releases in August but I made this damn order in May. LOL
RWBY: The Official Manga: The Beacon Arc Vol 1. I’d heard so much about this anime that when I found the manga on Netgalley, I was excited! Wasn’t too bad either. My one complaint was that they introduced like 14 characters in 250 pages. Yikes.
Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall. A cute, British fake-dating rom-com. Haldoor, I think you’d love this once it releases. Thank god for my Kindle though. All the Britishisms left me confused at times.
Preyed Upon by John Gresyon. I rarely say this because I can usually find something I enjoyed in every book I read, but this was flat out awful. SO MUCH TELLING and someone has no idea what a comma or a period is. The sad thing is, it could have been so much better with a little editing.
You Can Go Home Now by Michael Elias. This was really good, if a bit bloody and brutal at points. Warning: it deals with women and children who have been abused. Great thriller though.
Shock by Anthony R. Wilson. This was the second stinker of the month. I can’t tell you the last time I gave something 2 stars and I had two this month. Thank god they were both short and free. But the writing in this was horrible. And the author came off as if they had something against men and male police officers and it really, really showed in the thoughts of the characters.
Spy x Family Vol 1. A hysterical manga about a spy who needs to find a wife and a child for a mission. The child he ‘adopts’ from a shady orphanage can read minds and his wife? She’s an assassin. I can’t wait to get my hands on more of this series.
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery. I got this from the library after watching the movie Lost Girls on Netflix. While the movie only focused on one girl – Shannan Gilbert – who went missing and led to the discovery of several other bodies, the book focused on all the girls found dead. They were all presumably killed by the same person on Long Island. Weirdly, about two weeks after I finished this, they found another body that they believe was killed by this same person. It’s sad because they have zero leads.
What I’m Reading Now:
The Last Enemy by Pauline Baird Jones. Romantic suspense that’s been really good so far. It did throw me a bit because I didn’t realize the book was written in 1999, so when the heroine is plugging a telephone line into her laptop, I was hella confused for a hot second. LOL
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (audiobook). My god, this has been the funniest damn thing I’ve read in a long time. Lillian’s old friend from high school writes her out of the blue asking her if she wants to be a nanny to her step-children. The catch is that when the kids are agitated? They catch on fire. No joke. And the best part is that Lillian starts referring to them as fire children. Less than 2 hours left on the audio, so I ought to finish it soon.
What I’m Reading Next:
Hell if I know. I have so many I want to read, but no clue where to start. On the bright side, I only have one Netgalley ARC out and it doesn’t publish until October. And I have exactly one review book out and it doesn’t publish until August.
That’s it out of me for now. Off to work on the movie/TV post.