This is my Monthly Reading Log, posted for a swap at Swap-Bot. My month of reading this time was QUITE long. I've been REALLY REALLY stingy with my 5s lately, so you're going to see a lot more 3s. That doesn't mean I didn't like it, most of my 3 ratings are books I really enjoyed and liked a lot, I just didn't LOVE them. So, I recommend most books 3 stars and up. I hope you enjoy reading about what I've been reading! From ~ ImzadiRose. Below the log is a re-cap of what I've posted this month.
July ~ New Color Coding ~ 5★, 4★, 3★, 2★, 1★
01 ~ Nil by Lynne Matson
Completed 7/1
4 of 5 stars
Really good book. Called Lost meets Survivor but I didn’t think it was like either, besides the fact of being on an island and weird things were happening. It was unlike anything else, and really good.
02 ~ Innocent Prey (Brown & De Luca 03) by Maggie Shayne
Completed 7/1
5 of 5 stars
An ARC I received from NetGalley. Rachel De Luca was blind for years before getting her sight back. Her new sight comes with a “gift”. Mason Brown is a cop, who asks for Rachel’s help from time to time. In this one, a blind girl is missing. Really great series!
03 ~ Obsessions (Faces of Evil 01) by Debra Webb
Completed 7/4
4 of 5 stars
I’ve had this one for a while and just hadn’t tried it. It was good and I look forward to more. Jess comes back to her hometown when her former lover calls and asks for help to find 4 missing girls.
04 ~ The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman
Completed 7/5
3 of 5 stars
This was a fun middle school book. It’s about a library of sorts, but the library doesn’t have books, they have items from fairy tales. The most famous is the Grimm Collection and someone is stealing the items.
05 ~ One Perfect Night (The Sullivans 08.5) by Bella Andre
Completed 7/6
1 of 5 stars
Sucky erotica. Sucky sucky
06 ~ The Library of Shadows by Mikkel Birkeggard
Completed 7/9
3 of 5
Another book about books. In this one, a bookseller dies and his son finds out that the bookshop is so much more than it seems. He’s soon fighting to stay alive. Different and interesting!
07 ~ Invisible by James Patterson
Completed 7/10
4 of 5 stars
Emmy believes there is a serial killer loose. Everyone thinks she’s nuts and that what she says is the work of a serial killer are just random accidental fires. They were wrong. Creepy great book!
08 ~ Not your Damn Submissive by Amy Valenti
Completed 7/10
2 of 5 stars
Another dumb erotica. Liked him, hated her. She was an idiot.
09 ~ A Tangle of Knots by Lisa Graff
Completed 7/12
2 of 5 stars
A cute middle grade book, definitely for kids. A weird book, too hard to explain. It was cute and ok. Nothing I’d suggest to anyone above the age of 10.
10 ~ Power Play (FBI 18) by Catherine Coulter
Completed 7/12
4 of 5 stars
Another great FBI book. Love this series. Always two storylines, I liked one better than the other. Davis is protecting Natalie and her daughter Perry as Natalie has had attempts on her life. In the other (more boring) storyline, a killer from the past comes back and tries to kill Sherlock.
11 ~ Deadly Sins (Callahans 02) by Lora Leigh
Completed 7/13
2 of 5 stars
Meh. I just couldn’t get into this one at all. 2nd in a series, of which I loved the first one this one just wasn’t as good, or I just wasn’t in the mood.
12 ~ Nothing to Lose (Grey Justice 01) by Christy Reece
Completed 7/14
4 of 5 stars
Great start to a new series by one of my favorite authors. Kennedy lost everything and vows revenge. Nick & Grey step in to help out. Great story, great characters. Really good!
13 ~ Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta
Completed 7/15
4 of 5 stars
Another really good story. Jace is being hidden away in the mountains with a wilderness guide after he witnesses a murder.
14 ~ Impulse (Faces of Evil 02) by Debra Webb
Completed 7/15
3 of 5 stars
The next in this series, not as enjoyable as the first. In this one Jess is racing to safe a detective who got abducted by a killer who is taunting Jess.
15 ~ Close Your Eyes (Kendra Michaels 01) by Iris Johansen
Completed 7/17
5 of 5 stars
I’d been hoping that there’d be a new series for this character. She’s awesome. Kendra Michaels was once blind. Now that she is able to see, she still uses her other senses and helps out law enforcement from time to time. Her regular job is music therapy. She’s great.
16 ~ Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts
Completed 7/18
3.5 of 5 stars
A book about smoke jumpers. Really enjoyable book, as Nora’s books usually are. The killer was too predictable, I knew it early on, but other than that, it was a good book.
17 ~ Do or Die (Reluctant Heroes 01) by Suzanne Brockmann
Completed 7/18
3 of 5 stars
I received this book for my review from NetGalley. It was OK. At GoodReads it says that it’s a book about Ian who is tasked by the government to go into an embassy to rescue some kids who were kidnapped. Great. Except THAT doesn’t actually start to happen until 75% through this long book. So it was weird that way. So many other things going on before the thing it was supposed to all be about.
18 ~ The Immortal Circus: Act One by A.R. Kahler
Completed 7/19
3 of 5 stars
A very different read for me. Found it on my free month of Kindle Unlimited. Vivienne wanted to escape her life and joins a circus, but it’s not a normal circus and people are starting to die. Good book for paranormal fans.
19 ~ Be My Everything by Ella Jade
Completed 7/19
2 of 5 stars
Meh. Erotica.
20 ~ Behind the Lies (Montgomery Justice 02) by Robin Perini
Completed 7/20
4 of 5 stars
Another great Montgomery brother book. This one is about Zach, who is the black sheep of the family. Jenna is running from her abusive husband. Jenna and Zach help each other out through everything happening. Really great book.
21 ~ Sight Unseen (Kendra Michaels 02) by Iris Johansen
Completed 7/20
5 of 5 stars
Another great Kendra book. In this one, a killer is revisiting the cases that Kendra helped solve and is recreating them. Really great!
22 ~ Against the Wild (Brodies of Alaska 01) by Kat Martin
Completed 7/21
4 of 5 stars
Dylan brings Lane up to his new lodge in Alaska to do the interior decorating. Strange things are happening around the lodge, and soon there’s a murder in town. Great book!
23 ~ The Immortal Circus: Act Two by A.R. Kahler
Completed 7/21
2.5 of 5 stars
Next book in the Immortal Circus. It wasn’t bad. It’s not normally my thing, but it was a good quick audio read.
24 ~ The Immortal Circus: Final Act by A.R. Kahler
Completed 7/22
2.5 of 5 stars
Final installment, good conclusion for the most part. An ok series. Good for fans of fae and demons and such like that.
25 ~ Vanished (Mason Callahan 01) by Kendra Elliot
Completed 7/23
4 of 5 stars
Mason is a detective, though in this book his wife’s stepdaughter is missing and Mason takes some time off to help try to find her. Good start of the series. Looking forward to more.
26 ~ My Liege of Dark Haven (Dark Haven 03) by Cherise Sinclair
Completed 7/23
3 of 5 stars
Erotica. Not bad, not my favorite of hers.
27 ~ Hunting Eve (Eve Duncan 17) by Iris Johansen
Completed 7/24
3 of 5 stars
I got bored with the Eve Duncan series a while ago, but wanted to finish them out since I had read the first one of this 3 book little part of it. It was ok. Not bad and enjoyable as an audiobook.
28 ~ Unfair Advantage (Diablo Blanco Club 01) by Qwillia Rain
Completed 7/24
1 of 5 stars
Crap crap crap erotica. Yuk.
29 ~ Silencing Eve (Eve Duncan 18) by Iris Johansen
Completed 7/25
3.5 of 5 stars
The final book of this little trilogy which is part of the bigger series. It was a good ending, and pretty enjoyable.
30 ~ Timebound (Chronos Files 01) by Rysa Walker
Completed 7/26
4 of 5 stars
Really great, and really different. Kate finds out that her grandmother, as well as herself, have the ability to time travel. Some changes have happened to life as they know it, and it’s up to Kate to go back and save the timeline. REALLY great book, so enjoyable!!
31 ~ 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
Completed 7/27
3.5 of 5 stars
A cute story about a girl following a scavenger hunt of her aunts. Interesting as she did all the things and all the places she went. Wish I could have done that when I was 17, or any age really. Enjoyable.
32 ~ The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson
Completed 7/28
2 of 5 stars
Not nearly as good as the first. Everything was different and I felt it was pretty pointless for it all to be so different, then for it to end up the way it did. The end was ok, but the rest was unnecessary.
33 ~ Born of Illusion (Born of Illusion 01) by Teri Brown
Completed 7/28
2 of 5 stars
This wasn’t at all what I thought it would be. It seemed to be a history lesson and advertisement for old things that masqueraded as a novel about an illusionist. I didn’t hate it, but it wasn’t great.
34 ~ The Naturals (Naturals 01) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Completed 7/29
4.5 of 5 stars
I loved this book. It’s about a group of teens who are chosen by the FBI to help out to solve old cold cases. These teens have the natural ability to perceive people, such as telling if someone is lying or profiling.
35 ~ The Testing (The Testing 01) by Joelle Charbonneau
Completed 7/30
5 of 5 stars
I LOVED this book! Reviewers complain it’s similar to Hunger Games, and it is in some ways, but it’s also different. No idea is going to be a new idea, so I hate it when people complain about that. Anyways, this book was great. Those chosen, go through a Testing, to see if they can precede on to college. Great characters and enjoyable story.
36 ~ Independent Study (The Testing 02) by Joelle Charbonneau
Completed 7/31
4 of 5 stars
A good second book in the series. Not as much action as the first book but it was still really enjoyable. I liked it a lot, and I’m looking forward to the next one.
What I posted in July
Books I Reviewed in July ~
- Innocent Prey by Maggie Shayne
- Not Your Damn Submissive by Amy Valenti
- Do or Die by Suzanne Brockmann
- Nothing To Lose by Christy Reece
- Close Your Eyes & Sight Unseen by Iris Johansen
My "It's Monday! What are you Reading?" posts ~
Other bits of Randomness ~
- Bookish Bingo, Summer Edition
- My Challenges Update
- Life of a Blogger ~ Tattoos
- Sex Me Up Read-a-Thon
- Sex Me Up Read-a-Thon ~ Erotica I Read
- Sex Me Up Read-a-Thon ~ Let's talk about Sex
- Sex Me Up Read-a-Thon ~ Let's talk about BDSM
- Bout of Books ~ I'm Participating post
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