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@Brittany yeah! I finished chapter 5 yesterday. But I can wait and read another book. I've just started a bunch of books.Read
and it was amazing! So emotional and the friendship theme... I love it! It was a spontaneous read and I decided not to wait and go straight to the next book in the series which is
.Started
I like the series but it was up and down for me. Not all the books were good. Let's see how this one is going to be.
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Sounds good! Once I actually sit down to read it Ill get through Murderbot pretty quickly I'm sure.
Brittany wrote: "Super interested in your thoughts on that one Jo!Ah you are starting Blazing Phoenix already Elena? I might be able to jump in after my next read"
Will let you know once I'm done! I've heard mixed things, but I'm excited anyway because it sounded so up my street.
I'm about half way into
and I'm loving it currently. The MC is a fascinating character to read. I also feel that this is how to properly do a middle book. There is no middlebookitis with this one. No characters sitting idly around waiting for the last book to happen. It feels like its own story while still being part of the overarching story of the trilogy.
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and
. Neither were great 🤦♀️ LOL
Switching out
for
, I'm feeling so slumpy and I'm not really in the mood for another dense, descriptive read after The Silvered Serpents, so I thought I'd change things up a bit and hopefully try to break this stupid slump! I really want to enjoy Where Dreams Descend and I feel like my mood right now would definitely affect my enjoyment so I'd like to come back to it when I'm feeling less slumpy!
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I finished up
today and. just, wow. I love this series so much. In my opinion this is how you properly do a middle book of a trilogy. It's a continuation of the story from the first book with it's own story line all while setting up things for the final book. I love the main character and how absolutely flawed she is. I think the only criticism I'd have of this book, and this is on my own expectations, was just how hard it hit. Before reading this book I was seeing a lot of comments about how much darker and intense this book was compared to the first book and I just don't see it. There are definitely brutal moments in this book but for me it never reached moments like it did in the first. There were moments in the first that left me straight horrified. That made me set the book down for a minute or two and just go "damn".
Today I plan to finish off
and
before moving on to
@Gord I'm glad you've enjoyed the Poppy War series. I've read the first book in January and was in love with it!Just finished
and ok... let me calm down a bit, it was the worst book I've ever read. I was a bit emotional writing the review. But here is the link in case you wonder why.
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Elena, sorry it was so terrible!
Started
, my next e-arc (a couple of weeks late but hey, better late than never!).
Finished
and it was horrible. Though I'm going to finish the series as I want to know how it's going to end (the idea is great, just the later books in the series are meh).Finally got to reading
and
. Both books are great and very captivating. The second one is my first book with the Mexican myth theme and I love it!
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Yay for Percy though!
I just finished
! So good if you like shifter wolves! I am obsessed with this series and cannot wait for the next book!Just started a book in the adult genre today
for some reason, I am needing a romance fix?
@Brittany (I might sound a little bit angry but actually I'm not). It's just because the main idea is very interesting, but the romance thing makes the series a disaster (it's so unreal and full of repetitive descriptions, there is nothing wrong about being beautiful and gorgeous but when the man who thought he never gets to love a girl sees a girl and is startled by her beautiful long legs, but at the same time he out of nowhere discovers that she is so kind, caring, generous, also when he is a meat eater and never understood vegetarians again out of nowhere comes to try all the veg food... sorry, I don't believe it). I loved the first couple of books as there was not so much of it and more to the actual story (all the magic and immortals, the India line with all the plotting against the king and saving the people...). I got carried away here :D So I just decided to skip all the romance and go straight to the story parts.Aaaand Percy somehow balances out this creepy romance thing.
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and it was not great. The romance in this series is just... infuriating. I hate instalove 😒 However, I started
... I'm only about 30 pages in but I already love it! Which is surprising on one hand because it's contemporary-adjacent. On the other hand I loved The Lunar Chronicles so there's a good chance I'm gonna enjoy this one too. Lol.
@Lili Indeed it is :D It wasn't so popular where I lived when I was a child. I also totally get you. I'm currently reading the series with bad romantic line. I don't hate instalove if it's properly done but in most of the stories it's done pretty bad.
I'm finally done
and wow do I have some conflicted feelings about it. On one hand it's not a bad book, it's got some interesting character moments, but overall it was a very frustrating book. A whole lot of talking and not a lot of doing is the shortest and easiest way to explain it. Now it's time to start my 100th book of the year.
Time for my weekly update. Let me know if anyone has any issues with this longer format I normally use and I'll trim it down.
-3 StarsBoy oh boy do I have things to say about this book. So this book was the big finale of the Mage Storms trilogy, the story arc that started with the Arrows trilogy, and just the main Valdemar story line. I was already a bit conflicted heading into this book. Part of me was expecting this massive finale that would wrap up all these story lines with big reveals and what not. Another part of me was dreading that it would be another slow paced, meandering book, like the last few books I've read. I haven't been a big fan of the Mage Storms trilogy or the Mage Winds trilogy because of that. After finishing the book I can say that my dread was pretty much on the nose. I love the Valdemar series and I think Lackey is a good author but some of her books just feel like they lack direction. Like she's not sure how to get the story from point A to Point B so she just fills the page space with words. For something like the first 10-15 percent of the book nothing happened at all. We basically established that one party would stay in place because the winter would be rough and then Elspeth recapped the trilogy for us. After that things would happen but it was surrounded by so much talking that didn't feel like it did anything. A prime example of this is the story line that takes place in the Empire with the new heir. This story line took up a good third of the book and contributed nothing to the finale of anything. Sure it was an interesting glimpse into a new country and culture in this world but it contributed nothing to the story. None of the actions in the story line affected the other two story lines that we were following. It was like a .5 book dropped into the middle of the story that we were following. Then there is the threat in the story. The story device that creates the tension within the story. In the first book we established the Empire was going to invade Valdemar and everyone needed to band together to try and stop this. Then the mage storms hit and started messing things up. By the second book the Empire was no longer a threat due to the mage storms and Valdemar had shielded/delayed the storms. Most of this book felt like the threat was this vague presence lurking somewhere off page and that people were doing things to prevent things from happening...maybe. This leads us to the finale itself and for me it just felt underwhelming. The storm comes, things happen, insert expected emotional moments, characters ride into the sunset probably never to be seen again. Whoooooooo. I just wanted so much more than what I got. Now there are revelations in this book that were pretty cool and I would love to know more about such us what was going on with Iftel. I would also love to know what happens with the world after the end. It made it sound like a lot things had changed and left it at that. What changed? How did it change? How are people dealing with things? I don't regret reading the book but I am glad to be done with it.
-3 StarsAfter a year of waiting I finally get to return to my favorite pulp series. This was exactly what I expected. Annja is off to India to investigate some suspicious bodies for the TV show Chasing Histories Monsters. Insert a Kali death cult, a corrupt business man, intelligence agents, terrorists and we have another entertaining action book. It was exactly what I needed after finishing Storm Breaking.
On to the comics/manga of the week.
-3 StarsI'm just a wee bit of a fan of Scooby Doo and this series caught my eye. To start with this series is not the usual Scooby Gang that we know. This is alternate time line/universe Scooby Gang. The characters had the same names, shared some of the looks, had all the catch phrases, and shared some of the personality traits that we would expect. Outside of that this is an all new story with these characters basically meeting for the first time before the world goes belly up. There is enough here to hook me in and I'll keep reading. I have some gripes about the story telling and some of the art work but it's kind of minor stuff.
-3 StarsFor me this was like Lumberjanes lite. It had a band of female campers at this strange summer camp where strange things happen in the woods. It didn't have quite the charm or depth that Lumberjanes has but there is enough here that I enjoyed myself and I'll probably read more when it comes out.
Outside of that I also read more Shaman King and Fairy Tail and it was more of the same.
Next week I plan on tackling
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Also as much as I love Lackey, I can only do her books in small doses for that exact reason. Its why I wasn't able to keep going with you guys.
Some of her stuff I can sit there and read it back to back no problems. Then there is some of her stuff like these last two trilogies that just dragged for me. Thanks for the thumbs up on the long format.
I finished reading this book yesterday and it was extremely good! What? Only 3.91 rating here? I was surprised to see such a low rating for such a great book. Perfect story, good writing style, a great adventure and such a good love story! But the ending is the best part here! Yeah! I'm so into this book and plan to read more books by the author.
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. It sounds very interesting!
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and it was really cute and fun and I really enjoyed it!So for the board game I am currently doing I rolled my die a couple times after landing on Roll Again and Go Back and so on... but long story short, I landed on the Contemporary square AGAIN! I don't know whether to laugh or cry because just... HOW? 😭 Contemporary is one of my least favorite genres, yet here I am landing on that square TWO times in a row! 😂 Granted, I really enjoyed Instant Karma, but still. This is crazy! I think the universe hates me... which is particularly hilarious after having read a book called Instant Karma 🤣
Anyway, the next contemporary I settled on is
. It sounds like another really fun read. I really loved
, and especially the romance, so I think I will enjoy this one too. Let's just hope I don't land on Contemporary again after this cause I swear... I'm gonna lose it! 😆
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Currently reading Carry On by Rainbow Rowell and I love it so far!
Christine wrote: "I finished my 24th book"That's awesome Christine!
I am currently reading
. Has anyone else read this? It reminds me a little of Twilight but I am a sucker for anything supernatural! I have been sucked into this book though and do not want to put it down! I have the second one on my kindle ready to go:)
@Lili great you've enjoyed Instant Karma (I decided to add the book to my TBR after reading your thoughts :D).@Heather never read this book. I love the concept of Twilight but didn't like the book or movie (though the dark atmosphere was perfect). Is the book you've read better than Twilight?
I'm currently reading:
- for now I can only tell that the first book was better.
- still love this one but I'm a little bit slow reading it.
- not the worst book I've read so far this year and I'm happy it's not :D somewhat about 80% into I started to enjoy reading it
Elena wrote: "@Lili great you've enjoyed Instant Karma (I decided to add the book to my TBR after reading your thoughts :D).@Heather never read this book. I love the concept of Twilight but did..."
I cannot say that it was better than Twilight or worse.. If you really like paranormal teen reads, then you may enjoy it. It's your typical girl goes to an academy and learns about all things supernatural, meets a swoony boy and trouble ensues.
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Heather, is Crave more paranormal romance than urban fantasy? The synopsis definitely gives me Twilight vibes and just vibes of those types of books that were big back in those days. I'm not super into PNR these days, but I did love those types of books back during my Twilight phase. Lol.
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and I enjoyed it! It was very cute and awkward, as first loves usually are. Lol. It was fun!I also read
because I landed on Read a Short Story for the board game I'm doing (I'm out of the contemporary loop! YES! 😂) and I really enjoyed it it! It was so nice to revisit these characters. I missed them!Up next, for the board game, I landed on Read a sci-fi/fantasy. It doesn't really specify what type of fantasy, so since I already read my one epic fantasy for the year, I'm gonna go with either urban fantasy or sci-fi. I just don't know what yet. Lol.
@Heather Thank you :) I'm a little bit tired of this trope as I almost finished the horrible series with exactly that trope and written not in a good way.@Liliana thanks :) after some solid high fantasy books which I crave now I'm definitely going to jump into more cute books.
Just finished
and it was not very good. Nothing special happened and the line I've been into was written pretty poor.
- I'm actually in love with this book for now! And still can't read too much as I had to finish some other books.
- as the story twists it becomes more interesting, I like where it goes.
- I decided to read something which should be nice as all of Penny's romances I've read were good. But honestly this one is not as good as the others.
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. It was fine. I figured out everything that was happening as soon as I started the book, pretty much. Lol. But I liked the very last page... some very interesting character development was implied.Up next I'm thinking maybe
and
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Liliana wrote: "Elena I hope you enjoy Instant Karma whenever you get to it! It was just so cute and enjoyable! 🥰Heather, is Crave more paranormal romance than urban fantasy? The synopsis definitely gives me Twi..."
To me, it is more paranormal romance. I love it!! But, I also enjoy those types of books where the MC is clueless to the paranormal world and has to learn all about it!
Elena wrote: "@Heather Thank you :) I'm a little bit tired of this trope as I almost finished the horrible series with exactly that trope and written not in a good way.@Liliana thanks :) after some solid high ..."
Sorry uou didn't like Fangirl...I, however was not a fan of Eleanor & Park. (sorry! for those that adore this book!)
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