**My Reading Experience in February**

I have to admit that reading has been a struggle for me in February. I've given up on my New Year's resolution to read more, and it feels like I'm stuck in a slump. But despite not having the most productive reading experience, I want to share with you the books I did manage to finish during this month.

**The Brown Sisters Series by Taylor Jenkins Reid**

I fell in love with the Brown sisters series by Taylor Jenkins Reid. The first book in the series is about Eve, and she was a great protagonist. She could sing, she was caring, and there were just so many things I loved about her. The way the author wove her character into the story, making her relatable and endearing to the reader, was impressive. The series follows each sister on their journey, and I found myself identifying with each one at different times. It's not always easy to pinpoint which sister I'm more like, but that's what makes this series so great - it acknowledges our individuality while still allowing us to connect with one another.

I gave the first book in the series four out of five stars. As a fan of romance novels, I appreciated the way the author balanced the love story with the sisters' individual struggles and growth. The series has won my heart, and I'm sad that it's coming to an end. However, I have high hopes for what Taylor Jenkins Reid will do next.

**Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert**

My favorite book in February was Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert. It's a romance novel that tells the story of Chloe, who is struggling to come to terms with her grief after losing her boyfriend. The author did an incredible job of capturing the complexity of grief and its impact on our lives. Chloe's journey on this sailing trip was both heart-wrenching and uplifting.

I gave Chloe Brown five out of five stars. I wasn't expecting to love it as much as I did, but the way Talia Hibbert wove together Chloe's story with the themes of grief, loss, and self-discovery was truly beautiful. The author didn't shy away from tackling tough subjects like death, grief, and trauma, but instead used them as a catalyst for growth and healing.

One thing that struck me about this book was its lack of a traditional love story. Instead, Chloe's journey was at the forefront, and her relationships with others were secondary to her own growth and development. I appreciated this approach, as it added depth and nuance to the novel.

**Float Plan by Trish Dollar**

My next read was Float Plan by Trish Dollar, which tells the story of Anna, a young woman who has lost her boyfriend in a tragic accident. He had always dreamed of sailing with her, and on his death, she decides to take him up on that promise. Anna hires a professional sailor named Keane to help her navigate the journey, and as they spend more time together, their relationship evolves.

I gave Float Plan five out of five stars. I was blown away by the author's ability to capture Anna's grief and struggle with such precision. The way she wove together Anna's physical and emotional journeys on the boat was truly remarkable.

One thing that stood out to me about this book was its exploration of grief, loss, and trauma. It tackled these subjects with sensitivity and honesty, but never shied away from confronting them head-on. I also appreciated the character development, particularly Keane's backstory and his struggles with his prosthetic leg.

Overall, Float Plan is a beautifully written novel that explores some of life's toughest themes in a way that feels both authentic and uplifting. If you're looking for a book that will move you to tears and inspire you to reflect on your own experiences, I highly recommend adding this one to your reading list.

**Why I Struggled with Reading in February**

As much as I loved the books I read in February, I have to admit that my reading experience was not without its challenges. As the weather has been cold and gloomy, it's been harder for me to find motivation to sit down and read. With a child in tow, every moment feels precious, and finding time to myself is becoming increasingly difficult.

I've noticed that when I'm outside with my child, I tend to read more. There's something about being in nature, surrounded by fresh air and sunshine, that seems to spark my imagination and make reading feel more enjoyable. As the weather warms up, I'm hoping to find more time to sit down and get lost in a good book.

**Conclusion**

February may not have been the best month for me in terms of reading, but it's been a great reminder that every experience is different for everyone. Whether you're stuck in a slump or experiencing a resurgence of reading enthusiasm, I hope these books will inspire you to keep reading and exploring new worlds.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone today i am here to do my february wrap-up i only read five books this month in retrospect that's not bad that's great um for me not so much you know i average sometimes between 10 to 15 books so to read five a month is kind of disheartening but it is what it is i've told you guys i'm in a slump it's due to the weather personal things it's just a lot of accumulation things and i think i'm almost out of it but i'm not quite sure so always i'm going to start my least favorite working up to my favorite first step i have an ebook this week is fixed by tessa bailey this is a new ebook she released um it's a short one it's only 200 pages i gave it a two out of five it was okay there wasn't a lot to it if you just want a quick steamy romance read definitely check it out um until the scared name reese who lives in kind of a small town she wants to be a dancer and so she decides to like try out for this broadway thing at new york and she misses the audition and she's like oh no but then she decides to reach out to like the um dance recital son who owns a bakery in new york and she kind of maybe is like i'll sway him to maybe get him to maybe get him to talk to his dad to give me another audition and of course feelings happen it's set in a bakery it's super cute it just it wasn't one of my favorite tessa bailey books you know i gotta go to her for romance reads and it was just okay i have nothing really bad to say about it but nothing really amazingly like awesome i guess you could say you know it was like i gave it two out of five just because it was short and i just don't remember like anything about it next up i have one i have actually already reviewed and that is accidentally engaged by pharaoh haran this is another romance read it's about a character named rina who loves to bake bread which i love that about her and she's also really good in her job and her family really wants her to find a good muslim husband and she doesn't really want that and so who moves in across the like way from her and her apartment is this guy that her dad wants her to marry his name is nadeem and they get along great but she's like look i'm not trying to marry you and he's like okay but somehow through a course of events she ends up on like this um internet kind of food competition and it's only couples only so she's like hey nadine can you pretend to be my fiance so i can compete in this and hopefully win and so it's got a fake dating trope it was cute i gave it a three out of five it was kind of a solid middle-of-the-road romance book i'd say if you really love the fake dating trope definitely check this one out then i have a mystery thriller every last fear by alex finlay this one oh my gosh it's gonna be so hard to explain it's about the pine family and basically what happens is their oldest son i forget his name i think his name is danny is in jail for murdering his girlfriend in high school but did he really do it there was a documentary like a netflix you know those are very popular now like the crime documentaries and they were like you know did he really do it or not and he's still in jail but his family really believes that he did not do it and they have been working for years to try to prove his innocence he has a younger brother named matt who's in college that's kind of really just kind of set himself away from that because he thinks he's witnessed actually what happened that night and he really does think danny is guilty and he's in college and when he gets home from a dorm party he learns that the rest of his family are dead so his mom his dad his younger sister and his younger brother were all vacationing in mexico and somehow there was a gas leak at the place they were staying and they died sadly that's not spoil anything it's in the you know dust jacket of the book and basically there's another fbi agent that's like i don't know if this is really a gas leak maybe it was a homicide and so they go further into investigating his family's death also how it kind of correlates with danny being in prison and it is very interesting you get snippets of like scenes from the netflix documentary how do i say netflix i'm just imagining its problem but i liked it i gave it a four out of five it was a good mystery thriller is it my first one i've read this year it's only two months then give myself some grace here but it was good i did really enjoy it i do want to own a physical copy of it one day but i liked it and you know if you're a big fan of like the podcast documentaries and things like that i would check this one out i do find i did find the ending predictable but i still enjoyed how it got there next up i have one i wasn't planning to read at all and that is second first impressions by sally thorne this is her third book if you don't know she's written a hating game which is my favorite romance read of all time it's a hate to love trope i just i love it so this one i would say is more of a friends to lovers romance so we follow a character named ruthie who like is the secretary kind of like the person in charge of like this retirement village and she really loves her job and she's also has an old soul you know she dresses kind of i don't want to say elderly like dress how you undress but she has like you know she's only in her 20s but she has like the chain with her glasses she wears cardigans and things like that so one day when she's out getting gas she runs this guy that's on a motorcycle and he's like wow are you going to like a costume party because you're dressed up just like the golden girls ouch somehow it ends up being the owner of the whole retirement village son named teddy and he starts working there and they strike up a friendship and you can guess what happens from there so her second so a lot of people love the hating game myself included and then she had her second book 99 mime which i didn't really enjoy i did like this one not nearly as much of the hating game but it was really cute if you just want a cute friends to love her kind of organic story at that i would recommend it i love the setting i love ruthie how she was you know happy with where she was at but she was like am i complacent in my life or do i want more and teddy was just an overall charmer like a motorcycle tattooed guy with a heart of gold that's just so sugary sweet on the inside it was cute i do think people will like this one when it comes out and april i'm just you know i'm all over the place reading these days and i would recommend it you know if you loved the handy game and didn't like her second book i would give this one a try because i did find it really cute i gave it a four out of five like i said and just yeah i liked it but i don't think anything will come close to the hating game for me i i don't know then i have another one i wasn't planning to read and that is actor age eve brown by talia hibbert this is her latest and last book in her brown sister series which i am so sad to say goodbye to so this one follows eve the youngest of the brown sisters and eve she struggles with what she wants to do in life she changes her mind constantly maybe she wants to be a wedding planner maybe a chef maybe something else she doesn't know exactly where she fits in or where she belongs and so her parents are like hey like you need to like get a job and like stay in it you need to move out you need to like get yourself together and so somehow she ends up working as a chef at this bed and breakfast and she has a boss named jacob and they do not get along it's a hate to love story and it was just so cute jacob is autistic and i thought the autistic representation was great and eve was just uh i didn't really read much about eve you never really read much about the sisters until you get to know them in their own book and i loved eve she was she could sing she was caring she was you know she was all over the place but i really loved her and i loved her and jacob's story so i am sad to see the series go i gave this one a four out of five i think i've given them all a four out of five i would have to say i think my favorite might be chloe brown oh it's so it's so hard like you know i identify with all the sisters each in a different way you know on a different day i might be more danny on another day more chloe another memory eve i don't know but either way if you're looking for a great romance series i would highly recommend picking up this series you won't be disappointed and i'm excited to see what she's going to do in the future because no more brown sisters i'm sad last book that i read that was my favorite is float plan by trish dollar so this book oh i forgot the character's name uh i think her name is anna anyway let's i hope i'm right by that we have a character named anna and she has lost her boyfriend and he had always envisioned them to go on this sailing trip for forever like to sail the islands like turks and caicos the caribbean things like that and so on the year of his death she decides hey i'm going to do the sailing trip like i'm gonna do this for us and so she goes out on his boat and tries to do a sailing trip of course she um needs some help because she has you know she knows a little bit about sailing but not a ton so she hires this guy named keane i'm pretty sure that's the right name and he's like a professional sailor and he's got a prosthetic leg and he loves sailing but having his prosthetic leg really holds him back for jobs and things like that so he and anna both kind of have really tumultuous past and so they sail together they become friends they become more and it's just a really beautiful story i gave it a five out of five i wasn't expecting to but the love story was so beautiful but it really isn't about the love story it's more about anna i hope that is her name um coming to terms with her grief you know it has a lot of trigger warnings in this book obviously grief death suicide's a big trigger warning so just know that before going into it but the way anna really went through her journey both physically on the boat and mentally was just beautiful you know you could really see how she evolved and changed and just how much her grief has really affected her and grief affects everyone totally different so it's hard for me to say if it was an accurate depictation of grief because everyone grieves in a completely different way but i really enjoyed this one i haven't heard anybody talk about it don't miss out on it it looks like a cutesy book by the cover of it don't be fooled it's a lot deeper i would say it's predominantly about grief and you know the journey with that and the journey discovering who you are and not how to overcome grief but how to like just live with it all the time because that's what happens a lot of to a lot of people and there is a love story but it's very much in the background and i really appreciate that it wasn't in the forefront but gosh i love this book so don't miss out on it i think it's not gonna get as hyped as i want it to be because i really loved it but yeah just read it i think you really enjoy it and plus the like just the whole sailing vibes like i don't sail at all i'm not interested in sailing but goodness me i wanted to take this sailing trip like on my own personal accord never make it bro but there you have it those are all the books i read in february one day i'll break out of this slump and i can get back into reading and i think that's going to happen for me when it gets warmer i've noticed when it gets warmer and i'm outside more with my child and not like inside all the time with him having to keep him entertained all the time it's i read a lot more when he's outside it's a lot more freedom i guess you could say i don't know i just it's it's different with every person but i know as soon as it gets warmer i think that's going to really benefit my reading and i am really excited for that because i am so over cold weather like gosh i'm ready for it to leave i would love to know what you read this month is it also a colossal failure for you as it was for me let me know thank you guys so much for watching bye youhello everyone today i am here to do my february wrap-up i only read five books this month in retrospect that's not bad that's great um for me not so much you know i average sometimes between 10 to 15 books so to read five a month is kind of disheartening but it is what it is i've told you guys i'm in a slump it's due to the weather personal things it's just a lot of accumulation things and i think i'm almost out of it but i'm not quite sure so always i'm going to start my least favorite working up to my favorite first step i have an ebook this week is fixed by tessa bailey this is a new ebook she released um it's a short one it's only 200 pages i gave it a two out of five it was okay there wasn't a lot to it if you just want a quick steamy romance read definitely check it out um until the scared name reese who lives in kind of a small town she wants to be a dancer and so she decides to like try out for this broadway thing at new york and she misses the audition and she's like oh no but then she decides to reach out to like the um dance recital son who owns a bakery in new york and she kind of maybe is like i'll sway him to maybe get him to maybe get him to talk to his dad to give me another audition and of course feelings happen it's set in a bakery it's super cute it just it wasn't one of my favorite tessa bailey books you know i gotta go to her for romance reads and it was just okay i have nothing really bad to say about it but nothing really amazingly like awesome i guess you could say you know it was like i gave it two out of five just because it was short and i just don't remember like anything about it next up i have one i have actually already reviewed and that is accidentally engaged by pharaoh haran this is another romance read it's about a character named rina who loves to bake bread which i love that about her and she's also really good in her job and her family really wants her to find a good muslim husband and she doesn't really want that and so who moves in across the like way from her and her apartment is this guy that her dad wants her to marry his name is nadeem and they get along great but she's like look i'm not trying to marry you and he's like okay but somehow through a course of events she ends up on like this um internet kind of food competition and it's only couples only so she's like hey nadine can you pretend to be my fiance so i can compete in this and hopefully win and so it's got a fake dating trope it was cute i gave it a three out of five it was kind of a solid middle-of-the-road romance book i'd say if you really love the fake dating trope definitely check this one out then i have a mystery thriller every last fear by alex finlay this one oh my gosh it's gonna be so hard to explain it's about the pine family and basically what happens is their oldest son i forget his name i think his name is danny is in jail for murdering his girlfriend in high school but did he really do it there was a documentary like a netflix you know those are very popular now like the crime documentaries and they were like you know did he really do it or not and he's still in jail but his family really believes that he did not do it and they have been working for years to try to prove his innocence he has a younger brother named matt who's in college that's kind of really just kind of set himself away from that because he thinks he's witnessed actually what happened that night and he really does think danny is guilty and he's in college and when he gets home from a dorm party he learns that the rest of his family are dead so his mom his dad his younger sister and his younger brother were all vacationing in mexico and somehow there was a gas leak at the place they were staying and they died sadly that's not spoil anything it's in the you know dust jacket of the book and basically there's another fbi agent that's like i don't know if this is really a gas leak maybe it was a homicide and so they go further into investigating his family's death also how it kind of correlates with danny being in prison and it is very interesting you get snippets of like scenes from the netflix documentary how do i say netflix i'm just imagining its problem but i liked it i gave it a four out of five it was a good mystery thriller is it my first one i've read this year it's only two months then give myself some grace here but it was good i did really enjoy it i do want to own a physical copy of it one day but i liked it and you know if you're a big fan of like the podcast documentaries and things like that i would check this one out i do find i did find the ending predictable but i still enjoyed how it got there next up i have one i wasn't planning to read at all and that is second first impressions by sally thorne this is her third book if you don't know she's written a hating game which is my favorite romance read of all time it's a hate to love trope i just i love it so this one i would say is more of a friends to lovers romance so we follow a character named ruthie who like is the secretary kind of like the person in charge of like this retirement village and she really loves her job and she's also has an old soul you know she dresses kind of i don't want to say elderly like dress how you undress but she has like you know she's only in her 20s but she has like the chain with her glasses she wears cardigans and things like that so one day when she's out getting gas she runs this guy that's on a motorcycle and he's like wow are you going to like a costume party because you're dressed up just like the golden girls ouch somehow it ends up being the owner of the whole retirement village son named teddy and he starts working there and they strike up a friendship and you can guess what happens from there so her second so a lot of people love the hating game myself included and then she had her second book 99 mime which i didn't really enjoy i did like this one not nearly as much of the hating game but it was really cute if you just want a cute friends to love her kind of organic story at that i would recommend it i love the setting i love ruthie how she was you know happy with where she was at but she was like am i complacent in my life or do i want more and teddy was just an overall charmer like a motorcycle tattooed guy with a heart of gold that's just so sugary sweet on the inside it was cute i do think people will like this one when it comes out and april i'm just you know i'm all over the place reading these days and i would recommend it you know if you loved the handy game and didn't like her second book i would give this one a try because i did find it really cute i gave it a four out of five like i said and just yeah i liked it but i don't think anything will come close to the hating game for me i i don't know then i have another one i wasn't planning to read and that is actor age eve brown by talia hibbert this is her latest and last book in her brown sister series which i am so sad to say goodbye to so this one follows eve the youngest of the brown sisters and eve she struggles with what she wants to do in life she changes her mind constantly maybe she wants to be a wedding planner maybe a chef maybe something else she doesn't know exactly where she fits in or where she belongs and so her parents are like hey like you need to like get a job and like stay in it you need to move out you need to like get yourself together and so somehow she ends up working as a chef at this bed and breakfast and she has a boss named jacob and they do not get along it's a hate to love story and it was just so cute jacob is autistic and i thought the autistic representation was great and eve was just uh i didn't really read much about eve you never really read much about the sisters until you get to know them in their own book and i loved eve she was she could sing she was caring she was you know she was all over the place but i really loved her and i loved her and jacob's story so i am sad to see the series go i gave this one a four out of five i think i've given them all a four out of five i would have to say i think my favorite might be chloe brown oh it's so it's so hard like you know i identify with all the sisters each in a different way you know on a different day i might be more danny on another day more chloe another memory eve i don't know but either way if you're looking for a great romance series i would highly recommend picking up this series you won't be disappointed and i'm excited to see what she's going to do in the future because no more brown sisters i'm sad last book that i read that was my favorite is float plan by trish dollar so this book oh i forgot the character's name uh i think her name is anna anyway let's i hope i'm right by that we have a character named anna and she has lost her boyfriend and he had always envisioned them to go on this sailing trip for forever like to sail the islands like turks and caicos the caribbean things like that and so on the year of his death she decides hey i'm going to do the sailing trip like i'm gonna do this for us and so she goes out on his boat and tries to do a sailing trip of course she um needs some help because she has you know she knows a little bit about sailing but not a ton so she hires this guy named keane i'm pretty sure that's the right name and he's like a professional sailor and he's got a prosthetic leg and he loves sailing but having his prosthetic leg really holds him back for jobs and things like that so he and anna both kind of have really tumultuous past and so they sail together they become friends they become more and it's just a really beautiful story i gave it a five out of five i wasn't expecting to but the love story was so beautiful but it really isn't about the love story it's more about anna i hope that is her name um coming to terms with her grief you know it has a lot of trigger warnings in this book obviously grief death suicide's a big trigger warning so just know that before going into it but the way anna really went through her journey both physically on the boat and mentally was just beautiful you know you could really see how she evolved and changed and just how much her grief has really affected her and grief affects everyone totally different so it's hard for me to say if it was an accurate depictation of grief because everyone grieves in a completely different way but i really enjoyed this one i haven't heard anybody talk about it don't miss out on it it looks like a cutesy book by the cover of it don't be fooled it's a lot deeper i would say it's predominantly about grief and you know the journey with that and the journey discovering who you are and not how to overcome grief but how to like just live with it all the time because that's what happens a lot of to a lot of people and there is a love story but it's very much in the background and i really appreciate that it wasn't in the forefront but gosh i love this book so don't miss out on it i think it's not gonna get as hyped as i want it to be because i really loved it but yeah just read it i think you really enjoy it and plus the like just the whole sailing vibes like i don't sail at all i'm not interested in sailing but goodness me i wanted to take this sailing trip like on my own personal accord never make it bro but there you have it those are all the books i read in february one day i'll break out of this slump and i can get back into reading and i think that's going to happen for me when it gets warmer i've noticed when it gets warmer and i'm outside more with my child and not like inside all the time with him having to keep him entertained all the time it's i read a lot more when he's outside it's a lot more freedom i guess you could say i don't know i just it's it's different with every person but i know as soon as it gets warmer i think that's going to really benefit my reading and i am really excited for that because i am so over cold weather like gosh i'm ready for it to leave i would love to know what you read this month is it also a colossal failure for you as it was for me let me know thank you guys so much for watching bye you\n"