Allison's Reading Plan - August 2017

[Allison]

Planned so far...

Started in July
✔ The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes #5) ★★★
✔ The White Gryphon (Mage Wars #2) ★★★

Series Books
✔ Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike #3, Up-to-Date goal) ★★★★
➜ A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic #3, Completion Goal)
✔ The Firebird (Slains #2, Completion Goal) ★★★★★
Mistress of Rome (Empress of Rome #1, Owned)
Between Two Thorns (Split Worlds #1, Owned)
✔ Cetaganda (Vorkosigan Saga #6) ★★★
✔ Her Royal Spyness (Royal Spyness #1) ★★★
The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince (Farseer #0.5)

Impulse Reads
✔ Deadline ★★★★
✔ The Midnight Rose ★★★
✔ Magic in the Wind (Drake Sisters #1) ★★
✔ This Gun for Hire (McKenna Brothers #1) ★★★
✔ Kiss of Steel (London Steampunk #1) ★★★★
➜ A Hundred Summers

[Veronica]

I've read the first two books in the Shades of Magic trilogy. Hope you enjoy the last book. You'll be able to mark a series as finished!

[Angela]

Have a great month Allison.

[Meera]

Good luck with your reading! I've read The Hound of Baskervilles and Career of Evil, both good books.

[Jonetta]

Awesome list, Allison! Hope you're loving the Cormoran Strike series. This is a good one. Are you reading or listening?

I'm a big fan of the BBC Sherlock series. Are you enjoying the book series?

[Allison]

I'm loving the Cormoran Strike series! I'm reading - haven't caught onto audio books yet. :)

The Sherlock Holmes series is just ok. If I read them as classics and remember that they're some of the earliest detective stories, they're good. But they lack... something. I definitely enjoy the BBC series much more, and find that other modern retellings have more depth.

I skipped ahead to Hound of the Baskervilles and will probably stop there. Maybe now I can get back to the Mary Russell series without feeling like I'm missing something.

[Allison]

I finished The White Gryphon. I'm kind of disappointed - first it skipped ahead 10 years and missed a whole lot of potentially interesting story, and then it wasn't nearly at the same level as the first book.

[Allison]

Finished Career of Evil, and loved it. That ending! I can't wait to see what will happen in the next one.

I also finished The Midnight Rose. I've read this author once before so was somewhat prepared for a heavy, tragic ending in at least one of the timelines. It's one of those dual-time Gothic stories that doesn't end well for all involved. I don't read this type often because they tend to weigh me down. So now I'm in search of something really light to cheer me back up!

[Jonetta]

Loved Career of Evil, too! And that ending:)