February Books

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Murder is Bad Manners by Robin Stevens (I won an ARC of this from the author on Twitter; it won't be out until late April.)

The perfect mix of boarding school story and murder mystery, very British and very fun. The story is told in the form of a case book written by Hazel Wong, whose best friend Daisy Wells has decided that this term they should form a detective team and investigate cases. Neither of them expects to come across a real mystery, though, in the form of a teacher's dead body.

First Impressions by Charlie Lovett (didn't finish, lost interest)
This book had me at Oxford and Jane Austen...or it should have. The modern chapters are bad enough, but every other chapter is told from Jane Austen's perspective, as she's just started writing Pride and Prejudice - and in Charlie Lovett's version, she plagiarized it (the heck??!?).

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February total books read: 28
2015 total books read: 52