Overview: February Reading

This month was a bit of a slower reading month than January, mostly because of a big personal change that happened in my life: I moved to Germany to study!

Reading Overview & Genre Breakdown

Books read in February: 15
Books read YTD: 35

Fiction Titles: 12

• 11 Romance (2 historicals, 8 contemporaries, 1 historical fantasy)
• 1 General Fiction

Non-Fiction Titles: 3

• 2 History
• 1 Sociology/Social History

I am currently reading Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho, but I don't anticipate will be finished by the end of the day, so this will appear in March's stats. 

Setting Statistics

USA: 5

• Stealing Mr Right by Tamara Morgan - read my review here.
• Driven to Distraction by Olivia Dade
• Along Came Love by Tracey Livesay
• The Melody of You and Me by M. Hollis
• Hard Knocks by Ruby Lang - review possibly to follow (partially set in Canada, but primarily set in Portland)

UK: 4

• Wanted, A Gentleman by K J Charles - I really enjoyed this and highly recommend it, but I don't think I'll get around to reviewing it. 
• Sweetest Regret by Meredith Duran
• Pretty Face by Lucy Parker - This was - predictably - brilliant. Again, I don't plan to review it, but it has snarky humour and all the feels, and you should definitely read it. 
• Graveyard Sparrow by Kayla Bashe

Australia: 1

• Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms by Anita Heiss - this was my General Fiction read. Engaging and eye-opening story about a Japanese escapee from a POW camp in Cowra and the Wiradjuri family who shelter him. Romantic elements, but non-HEA warning!

Nigeria: 1

• A Tailor-Made Romance by Oyindamola Affinnih - Cute romance where the conflict comes from the heroine's perception of a class difference between her and the hero. Had some trouble with her self-absorption, even though it makes sense in the context of the story.

Philippines: 1

• Tempting Hymn by Jennifer Hallock - see my review here. 

Non-Fiction with a Setting: 3

• The Divorce Colony by April White (US)
• New Myths and Old Politics: The Waitangi Tribunal and the Challenge of Tradition by Tipene O'Regan (NZ)
• The Cathars by Sean Martin (Europe, primarily France)

Non-Fiction without a Setting: 0

As you can see, I'm still mucking around with the format for these monthly overviews. I liked the idea of highlighting books I read that took place outside the dominant settings of the US and UK, but I also don't want to focus on that at the exclusion of marginalised and/or ownvoices authors, and characters that are something other than the white, cishet able-bodied default. So we'll see what I end up feeling comfortable with; it may be that it continues to differ from month to month.