February may be the shortest month in the calendar but I still manage to read eight books, which is good for me. I also wrote a blog on audiobooks and their pros and cons and from that reviewed my first audiobook The Girl in the Ice by Robert Bryndza. I didn’t think audiobooks would be for me, I thought I would be easily distracted, but due to my health I have days where I can’t read so I thought I’d give it a go and now I love them, and I am addicted to Robert Bryndza’s Detective Erika Foster series. I now have a Bluetooth speaker so I can listen to my books downstairs.
I have bought far too many books this month, as every month, but I am burying my head in the sand over that. My shelves are collapsing with the weight of books and that is without taking into account some of my review books.
So out of my eight books my top three for the month are:
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah, was a wonderful novel. Set in the vastness of 1970’s Alaska, this book followed Ernt, Cora and Leni Allbright as they move there hoping for a new beginning, and to build a new life. Kristin Hannah brings the harshness of Alaska to life and the hard life of the Allbright family, with Ernt’s emotional struggles after coming home from the Vietnam War. This is a powerful an emotional read, that deals with many difficult issues, but brilliant.
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen. This is a book you shouldn’t make assumptions about until you read it. It takes a different approach to the psychological thriller of ex and new wives. This is Pan Macmillan’s lead commercial fiction for spring 2018, and I understand why after reading this book. It is a clever thriller, full of suspense, tension and troubled characters.
Tapestry by Kylie Fitzpatrick s a topical read as it’s plot centres around the origins of The Bayeaux Tapestry, which will come to the UK in 2020, if it can be moved safely. In the present Madeleine is dealing with the death of her mother and is unhappy at work and in her love life, but she is able to loose herself translating a family heirloom from 1064. In the past Leofygth is writing a chronicle of the year 1064, leading up to the Battle of Hastings and her part in the beginnings of The Bayeaux Tapestry. The is a fascinating read that seamlessly weaves together to lives of the two female protagonists, and opens up the secrets stitched within the tapestry.
These are my top three, so if you have missed them please have a look. My other reads are featured below. In March I am looking forward to C L Taylor’s new thriller The Fear, Last Letter Home by Rachel Hore and The Stranger by Kate Riordan.