Rose’s Comments (group member since Oct 23, 2013)

Rose’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Anyone still here? I finally finished a book that was a bit of a spot, so I'm in the mood to come back to this one.

That's odd. I think my audiobooks was 25 hours.

I found a book I can read for Get a large pot: Read a brown cover book with 500+ pages



TinEye says very very brown. lol

Mary: Harry Dresden's Love Slave wrote: "Rose, I find with this kinds of epic fantasies, there is no real main character. The title makes you think it would be Gavin since he's the Prism. But then the star of these types of series is usua..."

I don't know. I feel like this book is written more towards heroic than epic fantasy.

I'm sticking around too. I'm not sure if I'll continue on with the series. I know there are five books, which I'm not sure I'm up for based on this one. I liked the writing style for the most part, but I feel like the pacing was off, and not very strategic if that makes sense? It felt like it would have been better off being 200 pages shorter.

As for the characters, Kip was my favorite. I think if he were the major focus I'd continue on. Gavin was good in the beginning, but I feel like he had the potential to be a bad ass and it's just kinda gets away from that. I have a feeling a lot of the next books are going to be him getting bested by his father/various schemers.

I finished! I'm still not sure who the main character was.....

Completion post

Book:
Date Read: 5.22.2018.
Author: Peter FitzSimons
Pages: 297
Non-fiction biography of Nancy Wake (Spy during WWII), so I'm not sure who qualifies as a character.


Book:
Date Read: 5.22.2018
Author: Tom Sweterlitsch
Pages: 400 (audio)
Characters
Shannon Moss
Burke
Nester


Classes- It has a frozen river on the cover, so maybe something with water?

I'm reading which has a ton of magic races; so far Dwarves, orcs, and elves.

It also has some cover elements which we could use for other classes.

As I'm reading it I am wondering if I care enough about a second book. I really like Kip's scenes, but I don't know if I'm committed to the plot. I feel like 40% of the way through the first book, it should make me care more.

Christina wrote: "Noooooo, you're already all finished? 😭😭"

I haven't gotten very far, either. I've been reading other books.

Major Spoiler (Chapter 35)

(view spoiler)[Called it! (hide spoiler)]

I'm about 30 percent in. at around chapter 20 there is an info dump that actually makes the colors make more sense.

As far as the story goes I have the strangest feeling though that


spoiler: (view spoiler)[the brothers switched places? (hide spoiler)]

Apoorv wrote: "Team Gilderoy Lockhart
Part 1 - Chapters 4 -8

Hold on! What the hell happened? I went into the book without reading the blurb or absolutely anything and was I completely taken aback with what happ..."


LOL. SURPRISE GENRE!

I have Jack in a full on Zuit suit in my head and that keeps flashing in every-time she's mentioned (especially fixing her bow-tie). It's adorable head canon, and probably why I liked the character so much.

Is anyone doing the Scythe BR?

If you we could use it against ghosts and basically anything that needs beheading/stabby stabby

sigh wrong thread! phone issues....

Emily wrote: "Rose wrote: "Emily wrote: "Rose wrote: "Emily wrote: "We thought it would be a good idea to maybe focus and get some sign ups for individual classes so we can start completing them. The first one t..."

The Star Trek nerd in me heavily resents this. lol. Not a hardcover, sadly. It's a snowy river on the cover, so it might work for banishing or water spell though.

Melissa wrote: "Rosina - in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter are vampires in the actual book? I'm thinking we can use this for one of the Dark Arts and someone can read a book with Stake, Sunlight, o..."

Lol. I wonder if we could use Down Among the Sticks and Bones any say it was a sharp stick and a weak vampire.

Emily wrote: "Rose wrote: "Emily wrote: "We thought it would be a good idea to maybe focus and get some sign ups for individual classes so we can start completing them. The first one to tackle is Astronomy. If y..."

A world isn't a celestial body?

I've just started this. I was going to hold out, but I couldn't resist finding out what the heck happened with Jack and Jill. It's amazing how horrifying I find the parents. I think I'd pick a vampire over them any day.

I failed at reading yesterday. I'm hoping to read a large chunk tonight, though.