mina’s Comments (group member since Nov 01, 2018)

mina’s comments from the The Procrastinators Book Club group.

Welcome to the Well Matched Buddy Read Discussion thread! This thread officially opens on December 13th and anyone can join at any time. Please keep in mind that spoilers are allowed in this thread but only up to the group's current reading place. Do not spoil the book if you've read further than the group. Any extra days can be used to catch up!

Each day we will be reading by chapters or page numbers. Page numbers are an approximation based on the hardcover or paperback that is the default on Goodreads. The suggested Buddy Read discussion schedule is as follows:

Week of 12/13
December 13: Chapters 1-4
December 14: Chapters 5-8
December 15: Chapters 9-12
December 16: Chapters 13-16
December 17: Chapters 17-end

PARTICIPANTS
~ Katie
~ Mina

Crystal story

Okay so the Spanish is throwing me a bit off. Some words I know, some I do not, which also makes me think that books that use a second language like this... simpler/mostly used words should be better as there's a higher chance of the audience knowing them.

Also another thing.. if you use a word in Spanish don't switch it to English three words later. Only if the author wanted to make the difference between men en pecado and women in sin, which I don't see the reason for.. if you see same sex relationships as sin, then does it matter if it's mxm or fxf?

I don't have any special thoughts on this story. I'm glad there's trans representation..but also it was short? I mean, I know it's a short story, but I guess I expected there to be more.

The Silk blade

I feel underwhelmed by this one. I didn't mind the writing, and the world could be interesting in a long run, however it's too short for me to have a longer opinion on it. The fighting scenes were interesting, and I would've liked to see more of the trials. The insta love is an automatic no for me, I'm with Raquel on this one - Can't buy it.

The Scarlet Woman

I haven't read the Gemma Doyle books, but I've read the Diviners series by Libba Bray and I liked them, although the writing was a bit heavy on descriptions 😅 I like historical settings in general, plus we have some mystery mixed with the occult here.. which is *chef's kiss*

“We’re very close. Like sisters. But more like the Borgias than the March girls.”
😂 I love Gemma and Fee's friendship. Depending how this story goes I may be interested in reading the Gemma Doyle books.

Whaaaat? It just ends like that? No, I want more. This is definitely the one I like the most, and then comes the Universe of wishes.

Oooh, that sounds interesting :D
I'll be looking forward to your comments as you read more.

I'm a bit late to the party but I still want to join.
The sentence in the beginning about wishes being granted by the dead was what hooked me a few days ago when I opened the book. However, now that I started it I skipped that little part (because I should be going to bed instead of starting a new book, so every little bit helps) and I was shocked that he firstly gets dirty in the cemetery and has dirt under his nails.. and now he's breaking into a coffin shop and I was... dude does weird things... and then I remembered 😅

I liked it, it's a great start to the book. Liked how crystals are powerful and how they became that way, by soaking up magic from the earth. I want a book set in this world.

What the hell??? Do you know that I'm just seeing your comments.. or at least the long one. I think I kinda answered to your msg8.. but still not fully sure.. damn, I really can't remember stuff 🙈

The friend or foe comment... I have no idea.. I have to check it. Ooh, it ends with the Wellmother calling Nina by her name.. for a second I was scared someone has discovered her.

Ch 13. Nina being scared Hanne hasn't had waffles 😂

Ch 15 (view spoiler)[😂😂 I love Nikolai's brain. He played Makhai good with the "royal" wedding. But to be honest I was a bit shock-scared when the chapter started. (hide spoiler)]

Ch 16 (view spoiler)[Well damn.. Brum has a lot of things against Nikolai.. I wonder if Nina made a mistake by not letting Magnus speak.. cuz Brum is planning something. (hide spoiler)]

Finished the first part of the book.

laurel [the suspected bibliophile] wrote: "UPDATED

Points Check-In:"

It wasn't it.. but Melanie didn't put her last book in our sheet so after inputting that... all is good.

Finished book 4 and Dior 🤯🤯🤯🤯

Every character has had so much development since the we first met them, and that's amazing. I admit the first books in the universe weren't that great not that I minded that, but I'm so glad I started this journey with the characters from the start.

Read chapter 12

Ch 13 (view spoiler)[ The book is pretty much tame, so I was surprised with the vampire attack. and we moved from it so fast.. although it's not the only thing that would happen and we just moved on to something else. (hide spoiler)]

all in all.. i'm just waiting for it to be over, since it's not interesting to me.. the way it's written kinda reminds me of Woven in moonlight.. except the MC here isn't an idiot.

Melanie wrote: "I’m planning to read The Last Thing He Told Me which could work for pronouns. And I’ll be reading a book set in Australia."

Great :D

Also, as I read more of Elatsoe I see that I misinterpreted the cover... there definitely is no snow even though it looked like that to me 😅 so it's probably going to go to the indigenous MC task

There's no "late" to comment the book.. just record here your thoughts as you read when you read it 😃 (as long as it's this year)

What is the book about?

Sooo.. I guess I read the synopsis at one time because I remember the cover, but boy, I was surprised that there's an actual ghost dog.

Finished the first 5 chapters and I'm gonna continue with it because it's short and easy to read, but I'm not really into it. I didn't expect the writing to be so... for a younger audience? and the dialogues are a bit, well not cringy, but weird for sure.

Great job team! 😄


* MC is South Asian
* Pronouns in the title
* A [Noun] of [Noun] and [Noun}
* takes place during holiday
* time travel book
* takes place in Asia (Planning on reading something for this, maybe even 2 somethings)
* takes place in South America or Australia/Oceania
* snow or mountains on the cover (Gonna start Elatsoe)
* bird or feline on the cover (Reading Rule of Wolves for it)

Ch1:
I know they were looking for a match.. but didn't the princess die with Isaak?
Guess what? Still haven't watched the series..

Ch3:
Ahhh, how I missed Nikolai and Zoya.. I find it now funny how Zoya became one of my favorite characters when she was just meh in the first book of this universe.

Ch4: Oh-oh. Is it a friend or a foe 😳

Ch8: I remember the Ravkan king not being Nikolai's father.. but oooh, he's a full blood Fjerdan?

Ch9: Well damn, the Darkling is a real psychopath. I don't remember that from the Shadow and Bone books.. but also that was a long time ago.

B4-7 😂 The sword telling Gabriel the recipe in the battle.. also... is he not shinning because he lost his faith? The priest's wheel is shining and he is a believer... then that would put the question why isn't he a believer anymore? Although, all of his order is wiped out that can be one, but also.. what about Astrid and Patience.. we don't know what happens with them.. I'm guessing they are dead.

B4-8 I like that we kinda get to follow to special persons in Gabriel telling the story to Francois. In his past he's the special one, and in the newer timeline it's Dior.

B4-9 😲🤯 The floating lady/vampire must me Astrid.. so I was right.. dead..

Done with B4-10

B3-6
I may be only suspicious because things aren't always simple.. but is the tea spiked or something? (I'm at the part when Gabe is left with the Blanchet lady and the priest) Also, I would think that the order's business is only the order's business, and that the priest is only trying to get info out of Gabriel. 😂😂 Okay, nothing like that happened, but 😮 there might actually be something extra special with Gabriel.
😮 Nice, a new "extinguished" vampire line.. also he was drugged.

B3-9
Gosh.. Gabriel barging how he's soooo good after killing the Claude boy vampire is going on my nerves so much. I get that he's the best now, although also the last, but this is the period where he just started the Order life.

Maybe a week would've been too little but 10 yeah... I'm enjoying it, I mean I was enjoying it from the start.. just other books took priority because they had a time frame of few days to BR. And the audio narration is great, I like this voice author.

I'll comment as I read.

Reading it over a month was suuuuch a mistake. I saw that you finished it, congrats! :D I think I'm going to push myself to finish it, otherwise I think I'm going to procrastinate...again