Interesting. I’ve given up on four books I’ve started in the last month, so I’m definitely not the sort of person who likes/finishes every book she starts, but I enjoyed Me Before You. If you didn’t, then yeah, I’d recommend staying away from the sequel, since it probably appeals to the same audience as the first book.
I am more than happy to take your advice!
I ummmmm went a little free with the add to cart button this morning and ended up purchasing three books by Vern & Bonnie Bulough, who wrote about sexual attitudes and variance through history. My July should be, shall we say, interesting?
I finishedName from a Hat Trick by L.A. Witt today. More m/m relationships, hockey and well more hockey. 
Finished The Frangipani Tree Mystery , by Ovidia Yu, which was okay.
Now I’m reading Stories of Grit by Archer Wallace.
Finished Fair Warning, by Michael Connelly. Veteran journalist Jack McEvoy learns that a woman he had a one-night stand with a year before was brutally murdered. He soon realizes a particularly vicious serial killer is out there. The book’s title is the name of the consumer-advocacy website he now works for. It turns out the website is real, and the author is on the real-life board of directors. In fact, he has made the real-life editor of the website, Myron Levin, a major character in the story. Pretty neat. And the book is yet another skillful entry by Connelly. He’ll have another Bosch-Haller entry come out later this year too.
While trying to navigate this train wreck of a new message board, I started and am almost finished with my next Elvis Cole-Joe Pike noir by Robert Crais, Sunset Express. The wife of a celebrity owner of a chain of restaurants is kidnapped and murdered. The husband is arrested, and it seems open and shut at first, but then it looks like the cops planted evidence. Or did they? Very good, and again, I’m almost finished with it.
Finished Stories of Grit by Archer Wallace. Meh.
Now I’m reading A Single Bead by Stephanie Engelman.
Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate. I like the voice, and if she manages the plot well enough, I’ll read something else of hers.
I just finished Network Effect, the recent Murderbot novel. It was good. I lost the thread of the plot from time to time, but SecUnit had some emotions and so did I. 
Next up, some pleasant pandemic reading: Wastelands: The New Apocalypse, edited by John Joseph Adams. Short stories about life after the collapse of civilization. Pretty good so far; my biggest peeve is that the book’s two inches thick and only about the size of my phone.
I bought The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson. Then I ordered Thunderstruck from the library, also by Erik Larson. Both arrived the same day. I’m reading the liberry book first. It is about Crippen and Marconi. I love how he weaves together totally unrelated story lines.
I love Chambers! She’s not the most exciting in terms of her plots, but her characters and her cultures are exactly in my wheelhouse. She’s one of the very best SF authors working the field today.
Ja, I’m not sure Wells has the best pacing in this one, and there are a lot of people with similar names to track, but it worked out.
Good recommendation, thanks!
I’m just over halfway through Banks’s The Player of Games and am enjoying it, although I often seem to figure out what the protagonist should do in his dealings with a violent, oppressive alien race about ten pages before he does.
Finished A Single Bead by Stephanie Engelman, which was okay.
Now I’m reading An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000, by Jo Walton.
I love Jo Walton. I just bought Lent. Also working on Bujold’s latest Penric & Desdemona novella.
Finished Sunset Express, by Robert Crais. Very good.
Next up is the next Crais: Indigo Slam.
Decided to reread some of Stephen King’s early books. Finished 'Salem’s Lot and am nearing the end of Firestarter.
I love Firestarter, the only King book that has made me cry until I couldn’t breathe.
I loved 'Salem’s Lot and liked Firestarter. My other favorite SK books are The Stand, The Dead Zone, 11/22/63 and Misery.