Can you believe it? March has arrived and we have already gotten through 2 months this year! Well I am excited to take some time and talk the reads I had in the 28 days that make up February and get into my reading statistics (because yes, I am a nerd).

The Month in Books

Okay so February was a fun month for reading as I caught up with the most recent publication of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, meaning that I had to fill my time with other series and other books and I got to rate my ability to pick out a book that I hopefully like.

Dungeon Crawler Carl – Matt Dinniman

• The Eye of the Bedlam Bride – Jan 28th – Feb 2nd – 4 stars
• This Inevitable Ruin – Feb 3rd – Feb 9th – 4 stars
  
  I love this series and I cannot wait for the next book to come out whenever it does. This series consists of every emotion that I could want in a book, I have laughed and I have cried. I have gotten mad at the actions of characters and scared that someone might die. I was happy when they won victories. I have fallen in love with the characters in such a way that even an almost month later I still think about them regularly. (Which is saying a lot because I tend to forget book within a week of reading them, and I stop thinking about characters within a day of closing it)
  
  I recommend these books to anyone who loves video games like Fallout and want a mix of The Hunger Games and Sword Art Online. Matt Dinniman has a talent where he captures the essence of being human and throws it into a blender and see what happens when the whole world has shifted upside down.

Remarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt

I loved this book with my whole heart and found myself crying so much. I will not go much into detail because I have a 5 blog post dedicated to this novel. But know that if you are in need of something fulfilling and heart warming, this is the book for you.

Book Reviews

• The Build-a-Boyfriend Project – Mason Deaver – Feb 17th – Feb 24th – 4 Stars
  
  I really enjoyed this read more so than I thought I was going to. It was real but still had that bubble of rom-com that one comers to desire in their romance reads. It was gay and fun but also makes you think: “are you living to achieve your dreams?”.

For Fun Reads – FFRs

How to Solve Your Own Murder – Kristin Perrin – Feb 9th – Feb 11th – 3 Stars
This was a solid read, a dead woman is found inside her own office and there seems to be no murder weapon. In her Will she pits her nephew and niece against each other where the estate and all that comes with it is at stake. The goal: solve who murdered her. But wait, how did she know she was going to be murdered? Well, 60 years ago a fortune teller told her that her fate ended in death at the hand of another. This caused her to spiral and maybe left a trail for our main character to follow.

That is my summary of the book’s plot without giving anything away. I liked it, the book has the narrative of the Main Character but also diary entries from the recently deceased woman from the summer she received her fortune. It was an easy ready that did not really give me the grip that I am looking for.

The Tainted Cup – Robert Jackson Bennet – Feb 11th – Feb 17th 3.5 Stars
Here is a secret, I got the ARC to the sequel and I am reading it now. There will not be a first sip or taste test, only an ending review as it is the second book in a series and it will be hard to not give spoilers from the first.

But this book is set in a fantasy realm where giant leviathans, come from the depths of the ocean to set havoc on those that call their homeland home. However the people have learned to kill these beast and even learned how to use the blood to alter themselves, giving them heightened abilities like perfect memory or improved strength. But that’s all background, the real plot is a Sherlock and Holmes where a young man is sent to a murder scene for his first case as a detective. The quirk? The Sherlock of the series never leaves her house and requires the Watson to remember everything and tell it all to her.

This was a more fun murder mystery, this is also the starting point for a series and I think the author took more care in building the world and building up the characters that it felt more full. The Fantasy is rather light and the mystery is fun, so give this chance.

Hopelessly Hooked – Rose Sinclair – Feb 17th – Feb 17th 1 Star
Some take on Captain Hook and a spell that was cast making it so he could only spend time on land for a half a month. But it was a spicy romance I got from a Stuff Your Kindle Day. Not a fan.

Unsouled – Will Wight – Feb 18th – Feb 20th 2.5 Stars
This one was interesting and I do not know yet if I am going to be continuing the series. The story follows a boy who did not have enough soul power to pass an exam, leaving him as an outcast in his society. That is until one day where he died, and a force beyond his mind is able to understand quite yet, decided to set him free of this path and set him on the path of power and saving the world.

The writing was okay, and the content was interesting. It was like Dragon Ball Z but written by a white man? It felt like an homage to this type of content but it just did not sit right for me.

Nerd Stuff

Okay so I finished 8 books in the month of February, totaling 3313 pages read! That is 118.3 pages a day. Feel free to take a look at my tracker.

So the second half of the month I was in a musical and had to spend a lot of time in a theater and though I had a decent spike on the 20th, it seems being in a show does hinder my reading a little bit.

I have some data that I am working on about reading speed and time spent reading but I am going to wait until I have March’s data to discuss that!