February Reads. Yeah I said Feb-Rue-Airy in my head writing that.

 It was nowhere as productive a reading month as January, but it sure was a varied one!

That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You by Elyse Myers: 

If you're familiar with Elyse from her reels/shorts/tiktoks/whatever, you know what you're getting here. It's her fantastic and earnest storytelling combining with a sweet origin love story between Elyse and her husband. There are illustrations, changes in fonts and positions, and it all combines to make fore an enjoyable memoir style read. Honestly I got this from the library and I will probably pick it up at some point.

8/10

Close Your Eyes and Count to Ten by Lisa Unger:

One of two that the wife and I listened to this month. The first 2/3rds were engrossing and compelling to only be finished off with a convoluted and unsatisfying ending. After reading Darcy Coates How Bad Can Things Get and Ruth Ware's One Perfect Couple, I'm thinking I need to give this reality show on an island goes wrong genre will never meet up to my expectations. None of them are bad, but each has it's own flaws. 

5/10

Chlorine by Jade Song:

I am not the target audience for this one, I don't like body horror, there are specific triggers for me that I would avoid as it's a little too close to one of my kiddos (not in the story but in the overall similarities of the main character). I would not have picked to read this book it was part of a book club and I would have DNF'ed it if it wasn't. It wasn't a bad book by any means, it just his too many of my no thank you's for a book in general. 

5.5/10

Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards:

A "you can solve the puzzles too" British Christmas mystery book that seems to be a thing lately. I listened to this one so solving the puzzles was neigh improbable. Would have been much easier if I had the physical copy with me. Not an awful story here but a few too many leaps in logic for me. It's the old style British mystery with a focus on the what more than the characters, so it might be difficult for people to connect with characters and thereby be taken in by the book.

6/10

Witness 8 by Steve Cavanagh:

The other book the wife and I listened to together. A decent enough Eddie Flynn story. It's interesting and we enjoy the legal thrillers that aren't so law enforcement focused. The worst part about these Eddie Flynn Books is that there are 2 that you can't get audiobooks for in English (publishing rights dumbness) and that now we've finished them all until the end of March and who knows how long after that one before the next comes out. Fun Lincoln Lawyeresque stories.

7/10

I'm in the middle of Dungeon Crawler Carl and need to finish it before Wednesday but that will be March so you'll have to return next month to see how I feel on that!