What did you read in February?

[ufcasey]

What books did you read in February? Any ratings/reviews? Any books you would specifically recommend or NOT recommend?

[tacokick]

A little slow for me!

Exiles by Jane Harper (excellent)


Maame by Jessica George (good but not as good I was expecting)


The Wife Before by Shanora Williams (bad, bad retelling of Rebecca)




The Survivalists by Kashana Cauley (a little odd)


The Truth About Melody Browne by Lisa Jewell (her transition from general fiction to thriller/mystery/suspense)


Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear by Jinger Duggar Vuolo with Corey Williams (I do not know much about the Duggars but this book was basically her condemning the church she grew up in bit by bit)

Stone Cold Fox by Rachel Koller Croft (oddly sordid but okay?)


A Good House for Children by Kate Collins (very good!)


I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems by Kate Baer (okay)

I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai (excellent!)

[mie]

One Summer in Paris by Sarah Morgan 4*

Swear on My Life by SL Scott 3*
Beach House Summer by Sarah Morgan 3*
You Had Your Chance, Lee Burrows 3*

One Day With You by Shari Low 2*
The Consequence of Falling by Claire Contreras 2*
The Wrong Game by Kandi Steiner 2*
The Friendship Pact by Jill Shalvis 2*

The Accidental Honeymoon by Portia MacIntosh 1*

[rootbeerfloat]

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid - 4*
The Viper by JR Ward - 3*
Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater - 3.5*

[ufcasey]

5 stars:
Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier

4 stars:
The Matchmaker's Gift by Lynda Cohen Loigman
Broken Bonds (#1 in series) by J. Bree

3.5 stars:
Sin & Chocolate by K.F. Breene
Savage Bonds (#2 in series) by J. Bree
A Light in the Flame (#2 in series) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

3 stars:
The Winter Companion (#4 in series) by Mimi Matthews
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

2.5 stars:
Blood Bonds (#3 in series) by J. Bree

2 stars:
Always You (#3 in series) by Samantha Young

1 star:
A Dawn of Onyx by Kate Golden

[charlatti]

4 stars
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson (I have a spoilery question if anyone else has read this)
Perfect Little World by Kevin Wilson (I liked one review that said it was weird but not quite weird enough)

3 stars
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice (dystopian, felt a little flat to me)
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kufafka (thoughts in book club thread)

[estrellita]

The Cloisters - 4*
The Happy Ever After Playlist - 4*
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow - 5*

[travella]

5*
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
All the Broken Places by John Boyne

4*
Daughter of the Reich by Louise Fein
Last Christmas in Paris by Hazel Gaynor

3*
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

2*
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

DNF
Code Name Blue Wren by Jim Popkin
The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson

[dearprudence]

Strongly recommend
*Lady Jane
*Ten Thousand Stitches

Would recommend
*Half a Soul
*Mary Bennet and the Bingley Codex

Fine, but nothing special
* Being Mary Bennet
* Mary B
* Notes on an Execution 
* Great Circle 

Would not recommend
* Pride and Protest

[Vespasia]

Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1) by Mur Lafferty - 3*

The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17) by Louise Penny - 4*

The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz - DNF but rated it 3*

The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher - 4*

The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton - 4.5*

Iron Widow (Iron Widow #1) by Xiran Jay Zhao - 3.5*



Light Pirate was definitely my favorite and one I would recommend. The Seventh Bride was also great. 

[CrazyLucky]

I read
Personal - a Jack Reacher book. A very typical Jack Reacher book.
We are the Light by Matt Quick. I wanted to like this one so bad because I know the author and I liked Silver Linings Playbook, but I did not like it at all.
On The Way by Pam Northrup. This is a religious book about helping someone through hospice. My mom died recently, so it was comforting.

[mrspez07]

Audio:
3* Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner


Visual:
4* We Are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBride
4* Flight of the Puffin by Ann Braden (middle grade level), with my DS
3* The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
3* One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle