June highs and lows

[charlatti]

What were the best and worst books you read in June?

[charlatti]

Best:
Heart of Palm by Laura Lee Smith -- I love big family sags and for some reason I tend to enjoy books set in Florida.
Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo -- I just adore this trilogy (YA fantasy) andi thought book two was as good as the first, which can be unusual for trilogies.

Worst:
Lost by S.J. Bolton -- normally I really like her books but this one was just dull for me.

[aurora]

Best was 11/22/1963 by Stephen King. I liked it even more than I thought I would.

Worst was a Kindle cheapie called The River by Cheryl Kate Tardif. Poorly developed characters, middle-school level drama, unbelievable resolution, you get the idea. I have to just give up on Kindle Daily Deals.

[ufcasey]

Best:
Written in Red by Anne Bishop. I have no clue why I loved this book, but I completely did.

Worst:
Dark Light by S.L. Jennings - the main character was completely obnoxious

[christy082]

My best book of June was Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalen.

I'm a nurse and I found it fascinating. It's her account of her descent into madness (seizures, hallucinations, paranoia) that turned out to be a rare, treatable (for most people) autoimmune disorder.

It really made me think about how many people could be misdiagnosed and institutionalized that have a treatable medical disorder and not a mental health disorder.

No "worst" for June.

[msmerymac]

Worst - probably Dead Ever After, but I didn't hate it and I was glad to read the conclusion to the series.

Best - Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley, without a doubt. I freaking loved it! It's what I wanted Outlander to be. I'm now reading another book by her (Rose Garden). Pretty much all of her books are very similar in a somewhat unique way (involving both a modern story line and a historic one), but I really like them. Not too cerebral, but not TOO fluffy, either.

[christy082]

Jul 1, 2013 19:47:47 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

Best - Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley, without a doubt. I freaking loved it! It's what I wanted Outlander to be. I'm now reading another book by her (Rose Garden). Pretty much all of her books are very similar in a somewhat unique way (involving both a modern story line and a historic one), but I really like them. Not too cerebral, but not TOO fluffy, either.

I read that this month too and really enjoyed it!  I really want to read more from here, but my library doesn't seem to have any of her stuff for Kindle and I really don't want to buy any right now.

[rootbeerfloat]

Best - Tell the Wolves I'm Home

Worst - The Prince was just a short novella, and it was fine, but it's not even essential to understanding the trilogy, so I guess that.

[elletr13]

Best---The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. It was amazing and I've requested his other translations from the library.

Worst/low--Either Inferno or Dead Ever After. Didn't hate them, but they weren't my favorites for the month.

[duckduck]

Best... The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls. Very good. It's a great summer read, too. I don't normally go for "coming of age" novels, but this one was good.

Worst... The Grapes of Wrath. I mean, objectively, as literature, it was wonderful, but it was just not an enjoyable read for me at all.

[downbythebay]

Best-Before I go to Sleep by S.J. Watson-I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed it!

Worst-Beastly. A YA modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast that was really poorly written.

[Dusky]

Best: Remembering Raquel by Vivian Vande Velde - I probably wouldn't have picked this as my best had it not been for the fact I had previously read it as a child. It brought back some memories.

Worst: The Business of Baby by Jennifer Margulis - It was full of sensationalist fear-mongering.

[ChillyMcFreeze]

I haven't had as much time to read for fun this summer, but I liked both of what I read in June--"Spring Fever" by Mary Kay Andrews and I'm finishing up "Gone With the Wind," which is so fun to read after seeing the movie a million times.