Best of February

 

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Here are the bests of Feb!

Best Book of the Month:

Blodeuedd - Cocktails & Chloroform by Kelley Armstrong

"Best book was this novella. I really need to start book 3 soon."

Carole -  The Tempest by William Shakespeare

"Def best book. An oldie but a goodie!!"

Best Movie of the Month:

Carole -  Wuthering Heights (2026)

"I actually went to the theater twice to watch this. So yes. Best of Feb for sure."

Blodeuedd - Sisu (2022)

"I watched a Finnish movie(they speak English) where the Finn did not say a word . He just killed nazis. Good, but gore and blood."

Best TV show of the Month:

Blodeuedd - Stargate (s1)

"Stargate is on netflix! So I binged season 1!"

Carole - Bridgerton (s4)

"Season 4 of Bridgerton!! I laughed. I cried. I need more."

Best Cover of the Month:

B's pick: Best cover because it is just so 90s

C's pick: Look at that dress!

Audio: Love at First Psych by Cara Bastone

Narrated by: Santino Fontana, Stephanie Einstein, Mary Ann Jacobs, William Merryn Hill, Emily Bauer, Matt Boren, Piper Goodeve, Gabra Zackman, Mia Jenness, Elliott Fullam, Petrea Burchard, Ralph Lister, Jack de Golia

Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins

Release date: 03-02-23

Publisher: Audible Originals

Contemporary romance/from amazon

This one I chose because it was short and I have enjoyed her books before.

Marigold and Robbie are taking a class together and is paired for a group project. To talk to five couple and see if what they have is love at first sight. Not to ask about it, but to listen to their stories and to then figure out if it is real or not.

They interview couples. Robbie believes, Marigold does not. They get closer and obviously they are meant for each other.

It was cute, and I liked the full audio list. This was every new person had their own voice.

This Psych 312 assignment just might send me off the deep end. Determining whether love at first sight really exists with Robbie Moravian as my project partner of all people?

He’s the sappiest man alive, so upbeat I could scream, and clearly rooting for happy endings at every turn. How does he not learn from experience considering our own meet-cute last semester almost got us expelled?

But we both need to pass this course to graduate. So we’re interviewing five random couples about their meet-cutes and relationships and spending all this time together. Which is certainly...educational.

Because it turns out Robbie isn’t just the charming golden boy I thought I knew. There’s some actual depth beneath all those lame dad jokes and the ‘70s-inspired thrift wardrobe (even if he does look ridiculously great in a flared collar). Next thing I know he’s walking me back to my office on the regular and finishing all my sentences and protecting me from freak storms, and...

Wait. Could Robbie be right? Can happy endings really come from unhappy beginnings? Is he about to change my entire world view?

Group projects are the worst.

When the wolf comes home by Nat Cassidy

Format: 425 pages, Paperback

Published: April 22, 2025 by Titan Books

Horror/Borrowed

This one is hard to review as not to say too much.

Jess is an actress, and not doing so well. One day she finds a little boy and fears for his life and then all hell breaks loose. His dad wants him back and then go on the run.

But before that, blood, gore, wtf is happening? This is not done by a human. The things she sees? All while knowing she should go to the ER from a previous injury.

Sometimes being good is not the best way to deal with things.

Another one that felt a bit surreal as the horror not creeps up on them but smashes through them. But the horror never feels scary or like that. But it is more, will she make it out alive?

One night, Jess, a struggling actress, finds a five-year-old runaway hiding in the bushes outside her apartment. After a violent, bloody encounter with the boy's father, she and the boy find themselves running for their lives.

As they attempt to evade the boy's increasingly desperate father, horrifying incidents of butchery follow them. At first, Jess thinks she understands what they're up against, but she's about to learn there's more to these surreal and grisly events than she could've ever imagined.

And that when the wolf finally comes home, none will be spared.

Audio: The nameless land by Kate Elliott

Book 2 in the Witch Roads series

Author Kate Elliott

Narrated by Ella Lynch

Publication date Feb 24, 2026

Running time 18 hrs

Fantasy/to review

This is book 2 and you definitely need to have read book 1. That one ended with quite some drama.

Erin is travelling with a prince and his people as she knows the way. There are people hunting them. He wants to take over the throne. And she fell in love with a man who died long ago but possessed the prince. Told you it was a lot. Then that man had to leave and the prince was left with wtf? and he remembered and now Erin has to do what he says. And will she ever meet that man again? Remember he is dead...

Their journey will take them to the land that she fled long ago, where people might remember her. Also there are these spores that can kill you . She is also doing her best to protect her nephew who really looks like his mum. And his dad is after him.

They are running from a lot, their are fighting many. There is death and danger.

But you know the best part was the end, because after all this danger the end was like a warm blanket.

Great narration. Exciting story. And I would like more.

When the royal party finds themselves in a land they never believed they could access, it will take all of Prince Gevulin's (admittedly impressive) diplomatic skills to forge a coalition with an unlikely group of would-be allies.

Meanwhile, as Erin mourns her lost love, an unwelcome visit to the land of her birth brings back the traumatic memories of the childhood she shared with her sister.

And a surprise visit from an unwelcome family member threatens to derail the plans of multiple opposing factions.

Loyalty cannot be demanded, only won