December Book Review Summary

The Weather Outside is Frightful

• Average Snowfall: Depending on which website you belive, the average is anywhere from 210 to 240 inches of snow per year. Yes, that is seventeen & a half to twenty feet of snow. The good news is it doesn’t come all at once, and it tends to settle down into a snowpack quite a bit lower than 17 feet.

• Average First & Last Frost: September 25th & May 28th. It’s not uncommon for folks around here to recall trick or treating in a blizzard. And forget about planting your tomatoes unprotected until after Memorial Day.

• Average December Daily High Temperature: 28° F / 15° C 

Favorite book this month

Book Formats

Fewer audiobooks than the last few months:

• Two audiobooks (All You Can Ever Know, and The Writing of the Gods) 

• Five ebooks (The Scourge of the Five Kingdoms, Logistics: A Christms Story, The Loop, Elder Race and The Address Book) 

• Two physical books (Longitude, and 1912.

ARCs

Three ARCs this month – the debut indie fantasy The Scourge of the Five Kingdoms, which was gifted to me by the author Charles K. Jordan; Logistics: A Christmas Story provided by author Chris Coppel and Henry Roi PR; and The Loop by  provided through NetGalley and Hachette Books.

Book Tours

Affiliate Links

Starting with my review of The Loop this month I’ve begun including affiliate links in the bookseller links at the end of my reviews. Affiliate links are identified by an asterisk (*) following the link wording. In addition, I’ve selectively gone back and revised some of my prior reviews to include affiliate links. 

This is new for me and we’ll see if it amounts to anything. It seems that affiliate links on book blog posts don’t typically generate much in the way of revenue for the book bloggers using them, and so my expectations are low. But it would be nice to generate enough to buy a book or two every so often. 

This is how these affiliate links work. You – the review reader – click on an affiliate link, and then buy something from the bookseller (whether the reviewed book or not). The bookseller knows you came to their site from my blog, and so will provide me a small commission at no cost to you. 

Enjoy my reviews? Feel like buying a book after reading one? Well, click on an affiliate link for your favorite bookseller, and  I thank you in advance!

Summary Reviews

Summary reviews of each of my December reads are below. The link in each summary review lead to my full review post for that book. At the top of each full review post are links to the publisher’s page for the book, and the author’s web page or internet presence. At the bottom of each review post are the bookseller links.