Book In : February 2018

Good morning! It is pretty cold out there. This is a new segment by me (And hopefully I will stick to it. I have not been good with that lately).

*Looks to all my other abandoned projects and sits in the corner*

I have been really struggling lately.

I am feeling a little better today after a couple of blips last night. Anxiety and Depression is a constant battle and I have great respect for all those who struggle with it like I do.  It hasn’t hit me as hard this month as it usually does, but exhaustion does bring it up more. Fatigue with The Aegis Mora contributed and while the rewrite of it has been doing okay lately, I hit a bit of a block, but hopefully, I am back into it. I admit I have also been struggling with my passion for writing. Counterbalance’s launch did not exactly go to plan, and lately I cannot even look at The Thousand Scars without hating it. However, I am back to The Aegis Mora, with a pledge to complete the first draft by April. With a new book structure in place, it is something I can at last look forward to again.

Speaking of The Aegis Mora. It is amazing how one change switches the focus of half the book! As a result, I need to fix that, as it involves a lot of shifts in POV, when certain characters arrive, and so on. I still have plenty of time for book two, however, and I am confident that the final product will be much better for it.

This is more of a bullet point chat when I talk about what I plan to read.

Books. They are such wonderful creations aren’t they? A thing that contains an entire world in your hand, and a world created with an authors love and care. It’s something I get behind every single day!

Ruin by John Gwynne

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It took me an incredibly long time to get back into this. I finished Ruin late in 2017, and its ending is gut wrenching. You made me care about the characters, John. *sniffles.* It took me a while to finally pick it up, but I now have it on my Kindle. Why is this important? Well, one, because I want to start A Time of Dread, and I refuse to start sequels until I have finished the prior series. Two, I’m enjoying this series a lot even though it carries a lot of tropes that irritate me on principle. Three, Veradis and Corban I’m starting to really like, and I really feel for Nathair now.

I’m just about to begin the final leg of the Fallen, and I’m excited. Genuinely.

 

The Well of Ascension, by Brandon Sanderson

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I have been rereading Mistborn a lot, lately. Something about it keeps drawing me back to the first Era of the series by Brandon, even though I am finding Era 2 a better conducted experience. As it is later in time, I understand why, as writers improve dramatically over time. I feel this will be the case with me too with The Thousand Scars, and already I am taking advice on board into The Aegis Mora.

Onto book two, The Well of Ascension is a bit polarising, and I understand why. It’s slow, drags on through a heavy siege scenario, continues to explain Allomancy like its a damn science lecture, and brings in terrible attempts at a love triangle. I say this even when I like Elend and Vin, although I do feel their relationship at this point is oddly stunted for the time scale, with conversations that should have taken place much earlier, a “As you Know, Bob” syndrome I feel. This book is a bit of a slog, but the final quarter is excellent and when you realise just how dangerous Ruin is, its a blow to the gut.

Red Sister by Mark Lawrence

I have been looking forward to this book for so long, and Mark very kindly sent me a signed paperback copy for this blog. I cannot wait to get into this one.

I don’t have much to say on it, because I haven’t started it. But I plan to very soon, and i’m sure I’m going to enjoy it.

Oh, enjoy a terrible selfie of me while you’re at it. I’m still testing the selfie camera of my new phone.

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That’s all for now. I just wanted to put something up again, for I have neglected my blog a bit much lately.