Melindam’s Comments (group member since May 02, 2017)

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

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I'm sure I can find something to fit at least one of the page counts.

Sammy wrote: "Also, they should totally cast Karl Urban in a tv/movie adaptation. I've been picturing him that way since book 1 😆"

Hmmm, I think I like that picture! 😉

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#42

5 stars

Thrillers are sooo not my genre, but this series was strongly recommended to me by Sammy and I loved both book 1 & this, even if I let a long time elapse between them.

Once again, Karen's audiobook prodding + Monster wheels did the trick. 😊

Cactus Cat

1 100 to 175
2 MC gets drunk/tipsy
3 A cat is important to the plot
4 Setting is somewhere dry (your interpretation)
5 Two words in title start with the same letter

😆 Cheese towers has left its indelible mark in us all.🥰

And I've never shared with you the fact that caused no end of amusement among my English-speaking friends. Namely that the HU word for cheese is "sajt" and its pronounciation is very close to "shite". 🤭 It must have been your mentioning the abomination which has triggered it in me

Given that Book #1 was a recent BOM, I'd like to nominate A Drop of Corruption

The brilliant detective Ana Dolabra may have finally met her match in the gripping sequel to The Tainted Cup—from the bestselling author of The Founders Trilogy.

In the canton of Yarrowdale, at the very edge of the Empire’s reach, an impossible crime has occurred. A Treasury officer has disappeared into thin air—abducted from his quarters while the door and windows remained locked from the inside, in a building whose entrances and exits are all under constant guard.

To solve the case, the Empire calls on its most brilliant and mercurial investigator, the great Ana Dolabra. At her side, as always, is her bemused assistant Dinios Kol.

Before long, Ana’s discovered that they’re not investigating a disappearance, but a murder—and that the killing was just the first chess move by an adversary who seems to be able to pass through warded doors like a ghost, and who can predict every one of Ana’s moves as though they can see the future.

Worse still, the killer seems to be targeting the high-security compound known as the Shroud. Here, the Empire's greatest minds dissect fallen Titans to harness the volatile magic found in their blood. Should it fall, the destruction would be terrible indeed—and the Empire itself will grind to a halt, robbed of the magic that allows its wheels of power to turn.

Din has seen Ana solve impossible cases before. But this time, with the stakes higher than ever and Ana seemingly a step behind their adversary at every turn, he fears that his superior has finally met an enemy she can’t defeat.

China book finished - yay!. I spun

Erymanthian Boar (not so yay!)
1 500 to 650
2 Title starts with a letter from MOUNTAIN
3 snow on cover
4 character gets drunk
5 MPG Animal

#41

the firs KD book I'm giving the full 5 stars since book 3 and the push I needed to pick up the next book pretty soon and not wait for years in-between.

Also special thanks to Karen, as the September audiobook challenge pushed this book up on my TBR! ☺️

Anyways, finishing Kate Daniels 7 shortly and will get rid of the China task next for sure.

Sammy wrote: "To be honest, most of the Korean fiction I've read has been pretty heavy in subject matter.

Yeah, my TT reading on Africa & Middle East had really heavy-weight books and for mental health reasons I really need a break from this kind of reading before taking it up again.

But we'll see if Cat or I get to Korea first.

Cat wrote: "this is fluff!
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Thank you, Cat. In case you're reading plans stall, I may consider this or The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea.☺️

Sorry to admit that Korea does not feature on my book-interest lists, like... at all?
However, if you had something lighter and shortish to recommend, I'd consider it.

Cat wrote: "Sophie wrote: "I liked it, but it got a bit more into his reaction to Terry's later years rather than a biography as such I think so felt more autobiographical. I didn't really get a sense of what ..."

I have it on Kobo, still gathering courage and determination to read it.

Sophie wrote: "I haven't got China or Korea any time soon so I'm happy for you to go for it Mel."

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Will read the Hong Kong book first, so if someone has a Fire in title book, just kick mine out. :)

Cat wrote: "well, was technically only ever on load, so was always China....

I'm not going to get to a China anytime soon, so if you've got one, go for it :)"

OK, will do. :))

For book set in China: are we OK with a book set in Hong Kong, even if it is just before the "handover"?

Cat wrote: "so, I'm reading Katabasis, in which the MCs are grad students who can do magic. They don't describe themselves as sorcerors or anything apart from "people who can do magic"
Thought..."

I'm not particularly picky when it comes to sorcerers, if they can do magic... they can be sorcerers. :)

Phew.... 😊