RTW #119: Best Book of February

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This Week's Topic:What was the best book you read in February?Road Trip Song of the Week:


I'm glad YA Highway and Suze Reese are doing these blog carnivals, since I rarely seem to post unless someone gives me a prompt to write on. This one turned out to be easy, since as it happens I finished seven books in February. Not that I read them all in the course of the month, of course: I usually have about four books going, and finish them whenever I finish them. The ones I finished this month, in chronological order, were:

1. The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2010 (ed. Rich Horton).
2. Death Comes to Pemberley, by P.D. James
3. The Stranger Beside Me, by Ann Rule
4. Sinful in Satin, by Madeline Hunter
5. Pirate King, by Laurie R. King
6. Anna Dressed in Blood, by Kendare Blake
7. The Hinge Factor, by Eric Durschmied

Most of these were really good, so the decision is a bit harder than it was last month. In the end, I'd call it a toss-up between Anna Dressed in Blood and The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy.