Pick of the Month [June 2018]

I read 14 books in June (for the third straight month), and whilst I only rated 3 of those books 5 stars, plenty scored 4 to round out a pretty decent month.

Some of the highlights included the newly published book by Meg Gardner, The Escape Room which I thought was a great follow-up to the authors first book, The Girl in Kellers Way, a couple of Disney cannon Star Wars books by Chuck Wendig and Christie Golden in Aftermath: Empires End (re-read) and Battlefront II: Inferno Squad, and the surprise of the month, Broken Angels by Richard K Morgan - I wasn't sure what to expect from this but really enjoyed the sequel to Altered Carbon. 

However, this month, there can only be one, and my pick of the month goes to Lightning Men by Thomas Mullen, the second book in the Darktown series. I listened to the audio version and was blown away once again by the story and engaging characters. The narrator also did a great job at bringing this book to life. 

I also read 3 of the books listed in my Mount TBR challenge including Quarry's Cut by Max Allan Collins, Souls Reckoning by Sam Bowring (the last book in the Broken Well fantasy trilogy) and the tech-fi follow-up to New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey, Empire of Time.