Best of the Bunch: December 2016

As has become my pattern of late, I'm posting my Best of the Bunch for December well into January! (And yes, I still have a Top Ten of 2016 coming ... I'm just woefully behind!)

Though not every book was a 4-1/2 or 5 star read, I did like every single book I reviewed in December ... it was a very good reading month!

Best of the Bunch: November 2016

I don't know how this happened, but I somehow forgot to post my November Best of the Bunch! So here it is, woefully late. I reviewed a lot of books in November, and most of them were excellent!

Best of the Bunch: October 2016

Yes, I'm woefully late with this post! You see, I just spent a week in Washington, D.C. with a group of seniors from my school, so I spent the first few days of November frantically preparing to be gone from work for a week, and then I went off the grid. It was a fabulous trip that I'll probably write about...someday. But for now, here's my Best of the Bunch for October, only two weeks late :-)

Best of the Bunch: September 2016

Time for my second month of participating in Best of the Bunch, hosted by A Cocoon of Books. I read quite a lot in September (a change from my measly reading in August): I reviewed 15 books, and I have several others in progress! It's nice to get back into a reading groove.

best of the bunch: august 2016

Recently, I've been looking for ways to spice up the blog a little. It's easy to only publish book reviews, but is it fun? Not so much. I've been kind of stuck in a rut (which explains my measly six posts in August). I came across "Best of the Bunch," hosted by A Cocoon of Books, which highlights the best book you read in the previous month, and I've decided to join in the fun! Because I sometimes read books well in advance of posting a review, I'm going to include books I reviewed in a given month, regardless of when I read them.

The books I reviewed in August are If Ever I Would Leave You by Susan May Warren (4 stars), Tackling the Fields by Janet W. Ferguson (4 stars), Courageous by Dina L. Sleiman (4 stars), Until Then by Krista Noorman (4 stars), and Without Warning by Lynette Eason (4 stars).

It's pretty rare for me to have a month without a 4-1/2 or 5 star read, but I'm sure part of it is that I just didn't read very much in August! Obviously, I had pretty similar feelings about the quality of all of the books, but if I had to choose one as the best, I'd pick ...

If Ever I Would Leave You is a prequel to Susan May Warren's new Montana Rescue series, and it's free to her newsletter subscribers! I absolutely loved this story, and the only thing that kept it from getting a higher rating is the very abrupt ending. I understand why it ended the way it did, but I did find it to be a bit unsatisfying. Still, it's a great lead-in to Wild Montana Skies, a book I devoured in a day! (That review will be coming soon.)

What was your favorite book of August? Let's discuss in the comments, or write up your own post and join the linkup here.