Evolving Perceptions

Happy New Year everybody and you know what that means. It is now time for my top 18 book of 2018. 2018 was a great reading for me. I read a total of 138 books, which is about 43,912 pages. I read a lot of good ones this year and I also fell back in love with mystery/thriller books, which is great since there are a lot of recently published good mystery books right now. Without further ado let get on with my top 18 books! 1. The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee Henry “Monty” Montague was born and bred to be a gentleman, but he was never one to be tamed. The finest boarding schools in England and the constant disapproval of his father haven’t been able to curb any of his roguish passions—not for gambling halls, late nights spent with a bottle of spirits, or waking up in the arms of women or men. But as Monty embarks on his Grand Tour of Europe, his quest for a life filled with pleasure and vice is in danger of coming to an end. Not only does his fathe...

This is the last wrap up for 2018. Despite not being able to read Kingdom of Ash this month, I still managed to read 6 books this month despite my busy schedule and going to Japan for 16 days, which I feel really good about. So here are the six books that I read last month. 1. The Hookup by Kristen Ashley  When the new girl in town, Eliza “Izzy” Forrester decides to hit the local drinking hole, she’s not ready to meet the town’s good, solid guy. She’s definitely not prepared to engage in her very first hookup with him. Then Izzy wakes up the next morning in Johnny Gamble’s bed and good girl Izzy finds she likes being bad for Johnny. Even so, Izzy feels Johnny holding her at arm’s length. But Johnny makes it clear he wants more and Izzy already knows she wants as much of hot-in-bed, sweet-out-of-it Johnny Gamble. Floating on air thinking this is going somewhere, Izzy quickly learns why Johnny holds distant. He’s in love with someone else. Someone who left him and did it leaving...