What Deanna Read #54: July 2020

Wow! Another month has gone by already. It's weird because with the pandemic we have not been going out much at all and have been home most of the time. This weird being home and not doing much, well, aside from work, it's strange that the days still zoomed by.

I had a strange month of being productive (I"ve read a lot) but also not being productive with work stuff because I didn't feel like I had the creative energy to do a lot of the work stuff I normally do. Sigh. I'll be honest, the whole pandemic thing is very concerning and we've had an outbreak in the state south of us and there were people being irresponsible who were infected that went out and infected people in my state before the borders were closed. Sigh.

I've been reading a bit more or attempting to read a bit more this last month. Not exactly sure why but for some reason in July I felt like I was in a race to read as much as I could. Could be I just wanted to be in my happy place for the month. I haven't counted but I read a decent number of books in the month. There were are few duds too though.

Good news too. Helen is back. She's recovering nicely from her stay in hospital and she's finally home. Not a lot of reading, but she did manage some.

That's it from me. I hope everyone is well. My thoughts are with you all. Stay safe.

Here's what I read for the month.

Wild

The Lasaran

Taming Her Mountain Man

Bad Teacher

Mountain Man

Wolf Fur Hire

She's All Mine

If You Could Only See

His Christmas Angel

Molly's Man

Mastered By Malone

How West Was Won

All He Wants For Christmas

Her Only Choice

Secret Santa

Inking Up Love

Keeping Her Warm

Ruthless

Kept By The Mafia Enforcer

Loved By The Madia Underboss

Made For The Mafia Boss

Hot Pants

Owned

Royal Ruin

Professor Daddy

Son Of A Beard

The Royal Treatment

Sweet Temptation

Alexandr Obsessed

Catching Him

His Bride

Shared

Love And Other Responsibilities

The Accidental Harem

Brielle's Beastly Boss

Okay, I've just counted the number of books I've read for the month and wow! I wasn't expecting this many. I'm only two books shy of my all-time record of most books read for the month. I'm rather impressed.

The big thing this month was me discovering a new author I'm madly in love with. This is Cameron Hart with her Moscatelli Crime Family series. I glommed the first three books in the series in succession and I'm now impatiently waiting for the next book. It's her brand of sweet and sexy, with possessive alpha heroes and sweet heroines that works for me. And it's mafia-lite too if you are generally not a fan of those hardcore mafia stories where the heroes are assholes and tend to lean more to the dark side.

I've not read much Alexa Riley before but someone in a book group recommended Keeping Her Warm and it turned out to be exactly the kind of romance I love to read. In fact, I loved it so much that I went back and reread the book twice more in succession after finsihing it. I was hooked.

Another new to me author is Laylah Roberts. I read How West Was Won because I got hooked in by a Facebook ad. Loved it so much. Again, it was very much the kind of hero / heroine dynamic I loved and I do love a damsel in distress and Ms Roberts did it particularly well with Flick.

Finally, I'm madly in love with Mason from If You Could Only See by M E Clayton, another new to me author. This time, Mason is such an over the top jealous possessive hero that it blew my mind. His brand of possessiveness is wonderful to read about but it borders on psychotic and sociopathic so it might not work as well in real life.

That's it from me. What did you read for this last month? Do leave a comment and let me know.

Stay tuned for Helen's books next.


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