Goodreads Challenge: Book #3 and #4
So how am I doing with my Goodreads 2016 challenge, which is to read 45 books in a year. Well I’m back at work now, so the amount of free time I have is obviously reduced, but I’m still keen to achieve my target and read whenever possible. It’s just over the half way mark of January, so let’s check in.
Well I’m apparently 9% through completion of my target, and two books ahead of schedule. Boom! So which two books have I managed to read since my last blog:
Book #3 of my challenge was Simon Scarrow’s ‘When the Eagle Hunts’ which is the third in the authors Eagle series. I’ve read the first two books many, many, many moons ago before other commitements came along and stopped my ‘reading for fun’ past time. So how did this reunion with this historical fiction series fare. Well, sadly, I struggled at times to keep my interest in this book going, all seemed a little samey to me, nothing really new going on. Even find my interest in the two main characters waning, which doesn’t bode well for me attempting to read others in the series. The story basically involves the two main characters (Marco and Cato) of the series having to find their generals shipwrecked wife and child, who have been taken by nasty tribal druids. I’ve given this two stars out of five :( Just never got interested in this story.
Book #4: Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin. I have too, surprisingly, give this five stars. Why surprisingly? well, it is a genre I’m not at all into. Horror, but more specifically, vampires! The whole genre for me has been done to death (Pardon the pun) and so, when this book was handed to me by a family member to try, I agreed but with the idea of secretly charity bagging it ASAP.
But, I was actually really surprised how much I got into this, when deciding to give it a try. The author, who is now obviously very famous for other books, is clearly a very talented character builder and story teller. I was so impressed with this book, and enjoyed it a lot more then other books I’ve read recently, I found I really got into it and really cared about what was going on, the characters involved, good versus bad, day versus night, steamboats and the Mississippi. All combine to a fantastic story.
Hats off to the author on a job well done.
