Books I Read Last Month and My Thoughts | Book of the Month | July 2025

So, I devoured this you know, I made I I think I maybe didn't read it in one sitting, but certainly within a 24-hour period, I finished it pretty much immediately on the first day of the month. And I had a great time.

So I enjoyed it. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. Interesting book.

The book that I enjoyed the most in July and is therefore my book of the month is Beggars in Spain by Nancy Crest, which is a book I've been meaning to read for ages.

There's an awful lot going on. There's a lot to like. the characters were good.

I've read a few of Mloud's books now and I've enjoyed these more than I've enjoyed anything else that I've read by him.

And this is a book that I quite enjoyed when I read it. But I'm finding now as I'm trying to remember um what it was that I liked about it, I don't remember a great deal about it.

This works much better. I like the setting. I like the characters.

it's pretty silly, but it is quite well done for that type of thing. And it's lots of fun. It's a it's a popcorn read.

So I enjoyed it. It was fun. Like I said I didn't dislike it at all.

And but I think it's probably true to say that Red Scholar's Wake is at its heart a romance novel. and it was a little bit too much of a romance novel for me.

Um and like I said it was still good. I still enjoyed it. but I think there are others that hit the heights more than this one did.

I devoured it so I did enjoy it when I was there and I gave it a pretty high score. I think it was a nine out of 10 for me this month.

I enjoyed it a lot better than I thought I might because of the way that it was teed up. But I liked it. It was good. Definitely worth reading.

I think it's well worth a read if you haven't read it already. I really enjoyed it. I have read it before, so this was a reread for me.

Simax pros is very good you know as he's renowned for he does conjure quite a lovely image of the place where Enoch lives. the interactions with Lucy are pretty good and with the other aliens