Goodreads Reading Challenge – June 2016
So it’s the beginning of June. Beginning of Summer and the beginning of a new stage in my career in the health service as I change hospital from the QMC to the Nottingham City Campus hospital.
So, with all that put to one side, how has my reading and my reading challenge being getting on. Well, I’ve now completed 58% of my target! And what have I consumed, reading wise, since my last blog?
Book #25 – Nightblade by Ryan Kirk
I’ve wavered about whether to give this book 2 or 3 stars, and I’ve been kind and given it three.
Why three. Well, I did on the whole enjoy this book. It is well written and flows well, although at times I found it slow with battle scenes being more about the characters thoughts and understandings then the actual physical side of combat. Which at times was a nice change from the norm, after a while grew tiresome. I also liked the three main characters and did buy into them (care about them!) which I feel is a sign of a job welldone by the author.
The downside to me, and the dropped stars, is that this is not an original storyline at all! A orphaned boy, with special powers he doesn’t know he has, is discovered by a reclusive warrior who takes him under his wing and trains him up. Yawn! Who then goes on to battle bad guys.
I also wonder if the pace was a little slowish, in that, at times I felt it a slog to keep going and also found that I was never in a rush to get back to reading to find out what happened next. So overall, a nice fantasy story with an eastern flavour to it, but nothing original or gripping really going on.
Book #26 – Who Really Wrote Shakespeare by D-Lawrence-Young
If your into Mr William Shakespeare stories and sonnets etc. and your also into the detective mystery solving genre then you will enjoy this read. This book looks into an argument and theory around whether William Shakespeare really did write all of his works, or was it in fact…someone else?
The story follows a professor (Daniel) who teaches Shakespeare, two of his work colleagues, Daniels Wife and his students/class all get involved in researching possible theories about who wrote Shakespeare’s work if in fact it wasn’t him.
Overall, although an enjoyable and surprisingly easy read, it did not really hold my interest at all, a lot of the story or chapters etc. all felt a little samey to me and think I struggled to connect with the main characters (well to do teachers). But a nice, little educational and kind of interesting read. Two stars out of five.
