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- the series by a Russian author, which I love so much! The world is amazing and the story so good. The ending of the second book was ..."I am a huuuuuuge Paige Toon fan. She's one of my go to authors. Lucy in the Sky is still my absolute favourite of her books and I read it almost 10 years ago.
@Kay yep! I also enjoy Paige Toon's books and for now Lucy in the Sky is my favourite of her books too.
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Book 3 for Unveiled is out now, unless you too are waiting for the audio. I dont love those as much, not the biggest Saber fan still.
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and now I am caught back up in the Mercy Thompson World.
Brittany wrote: "Book 3 for Unveiled is out now, unless you too are waiting for the audio. I dont love those as much, not the biggest Saber fan still."Thanks for the info and it's sad you don't like her :( Though the book is out, I can't get it now, later maybe. So I'll just wait until it's possible for me.
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It has been an odd week of reading with a little bit of good, a little bad, and a little meh.
-3 StarsI read a book by this author earlier this year and thought it was alright. I was convinced to give their newest book a try and I figured why not. I struggled with this book and at the end of the day I think it comes down to the simple fact that I don't gel with this author. I'm not saying that the author is on my banned list like Maas but I won't be rushing out to get another book from them either. To quickly sum up this book, it's a gay romance set in a fantasy setting. That's it, that's all. World building? Barely any at all. I can't even say that this is set in stereotypical medieval European fantasy setting as even that isn't clear. Characters? You get the most basic of tropes to describe the characters. The stoic and loyal knight, the bubbly and personable bard, the cynical thief, etc. About the only one who got any sort of characterization was the MC. Those problems is not what broke the book for me. It was the reliance on the trope where no one can communicate anything on even the most basic of levels. A problem arises in chapter six and if the characters had simply talked about it right then and there the problem would have been solved. Instead we have to get through thirty chapters of pointless drama to get to the solution that everyone, including most of the characters, saw coming. Maybe it's because I've suffered through so much overuse of this trope in manga but I loathe this trope. I'm not saying that there can't be communication issues in your story but if your entire plot hinges on people not being able to do the most basic of conversations then there is a problem.
-4 StarsAnother author I read earlier this year. Now the previous book I read I wasn't overly impressed with but I'll admit that it might have been my mood at the time. This book on the other hand was a fantastic read. In this book young witchlings are chosen in a selection style ceremony which coven they will be joining. Those covens belong to five houses, think Harry Potter style. Those that are not chosen are known as "spares" and can still form a coven but they are essentially outcast. Any witch that cannot form a coven with their other chosen ones will be banned from learning magic for life. Our MC ends up as a spare with a stranger and her bully. They are unable to create a coven but our MC invokes a rare law where they are given an impossible task to complete. If they can manage to complete the task they will be allowed to form a coven and if they fail they will be turned into toads. What we get from here is the typical middle grade book where the three young characters learn more about the others and become lifelong friends while completing this task. What I really liked was the subplots that were included in the story. For instance the bully is suffering abuse at home from her father and there is a story line dealing with that. There is a subplot involving the spares. In this world spares are outcasts essentially with little to no rights. There is a growing political movement to take away what little rights they have essentially forcing them into becoming slaves. That subplot is linked into the main plot as well. It was a typical middle grade book with a dash of spice on top that I enjoyed.
-2 StarsNow for the bad. I am part of this genre challenge this year where each month we are given four tasks and a particular genre for the month. This month's genre is nonfiction so I went combing through my shelves looking for some things to read. I don't rightfully remember hearing about the story of Olive Oatman but I was intrigued enough to have her biography on my TBR. Long story short, the Oatman family was a Mormon family who migrated out west in 1850 for religious reasons. During that trip they were ambushed by Indians and nearly everyone in the family was killed. Olive's brother was left for dead but survived by luck. Olive, and one of her sisters, were taken captive by the natives and forced into slavery. For one year they were slaves for the tribe through some really hard times. A year later they were traded to the Mojave tribe where they were no longer slaves. During the time with the Mojave Olive's sister passed away. Olive was with the Mojave for four years before ransomed. She became iconic due to the facial tattoo that she received with the Mojave. The biggest thing about her story is that no one really knows what happened to her during that time and the author even admits that in the prologue. This was not a full on text book feeling nonfiction experience but it was pretty close. It was a pretty dry read with a lot of names, dates, and quotes from people. The first part of the book that dealt with her time before the capture and the time that she was captured was alright. While we don't know what truly happened during her time with the Mojave the author uses cultural information, information from the tribe, and notes/letters/diaries from people in the area to dispel some of the common myths about what happened. She also uses this information to explain some likely scenarios that happened during this time. The book a bad turn, in my opinion, after she got ransomed and was returned to civilization". For this section there was a lot more evidence about what happened and they were a lot more excerpts from letters, diaries, etc. There were 2-3 really long chapters in this section that felt like they dragged on forever. It felt like a nonstop drone about the ignorant savage, the superiority of the white man, and the superiority of the Christian faith. This was not the authors opinion and was coming from the letters and what not she was quoting but it was just mind numbing to get through. It turned the later parts of the book into this utter slog to get through. This was just not an enjoyable read.
-5 StarNow for the very good. I simply love this series and how far it has come from the very first book I read in the series. The first book was this simple middle grade book about a young 12 year old girl discovering that magic is real and going on an adventure with a skeleton detective. Now we are here in the seventh book and our young girl is now 17, hardened from the adventures she has gone on, and the life she now lives. She investigates murder scenes, fights hardened criminals, and saves the world from apocalyptic level threats. The books are now this complicated tapestry of multiple plot lines with a monster roster of characters all with their own motivations. The actions of our MC's over the last few books have serious and far reaching consequences that we are finally starting to see in this one. The dynamic between the two lead MC's continues to grow and be hilarious. I love this series and I love the characters in it. My next book in this series will be all new territory and I'm excited to see what happens next even if I know that it will probably hurt to read.
-4 StarsThese last couple books have really expanded the world that this story is set in. We get more character back story and it almost feels like we are moving into the end game of this series. There are still a lot of things to be explored, questions to be answered, etc but it feels like it's setting things up for the end game. Especially after the revelations in book 9.
-4 StarsMore Toriko madness with monkey martial arts this time.
Over the next week I am really going to be focusing on nonfiction so I can get my genre challenge finished on time.
On audiobook I'll be starting
For books I'm being ambitious here but I'm planning on reading
and
On the comic/manga front I also need to get
done this week so I can get it back to the library.
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I'm curious about your next audiobook so looking forward to seeing what you think about it
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and absolutely loved it. I adore this series so much.DNF'd the audio of
- it was so confusing, I didn't have a clue what was going on. I'm not sure I'll pick up the physical copy. Currently reading
and currently listening to
These are both authors that are attending the YALC book con I am going to in July. My reads from now until July are gonna be my YALC tbr.
Just finished
, I enjoyed it, but not as much as I was hoping to. I do think part of that was the narrators, I found their delivery kind of flat and the guy narrator spoke so quietly I had to turn the volume on my phone up to almost painful volume to hear him! For a heist novel as well, the heists kind of lacked....excitement? I don't know, it was just a lot slower than I was expecting. I was interested in the whole art repatriation thing as I studied History at Uni and we talked about repatriation a bit, particularly when I did some Native American history, but it all just seemed kind of surface level. I was expecting more fast paced heists and less internal probing is all I'm saying!I did love finally reading something that focused on Uni students though and found all of their worrying about the future very relatable.
Anyway, my next audiobook is going to be
and I'm so excited for this one. Feminist themes with a dragon-y twist? YES PLEASE.
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Just started but I'll definitely let you know how I go!
Jo that When Women Were Dragons sounds so interesting.
This week I finished more cozy mysteries and managed to start a manga series :)
- I enjoy the series so much! A cheerful and really cozy one.
- the series is awesome, the book is even better that the first two. And oh that ending..! I want to scream and dive straight into the next book.
- as usual, her books are charming, this one combines a nice romantic story with a cozy mystery and in turned out to be a great combo!
- I was so sad while reading the book and don't know why exactly. The book itself is not sad and also has a sequel (which I think is going to have a happy ending).
- wow, this manga is amazing!
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- I enjoy the series so much! A cheerful an..."Read
before The War of Two Queens. It will make more sense when you have Nyktos and his Consorts back story. Plus, in my opinion, it's better than the original series.
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- I enjoy the series so much! A cheerful an..."Also, it makes me so happy to see others reading Paige Toon. She's one of my all time favourite authors.
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and my hold for
came in so I started that!
Kayleigh {K-Books} wrote: "Read A Shadow in the Ember before The War of Two Queens. It will make more sense when you have Nyktos and his Consorts back story..."Perfect timing! Thanks for the rec :)
Kayleigh {K-Books} wrote: "Also, it makes me so happy to see others reading Paige Toon. She's one of my all time favourite authors."So true! It's always great when other people love your favourite books :)
Brittany wrote: "Finished listening to and my hold for
came in so I started that!"How was Promise of Blood? I also hope you'll enjoy Daughter of the Moon Goddess.
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Only an hour or two into Daughter of the Moon Goddess so no real opinion yet
Time for that weekly wrap up and there has been more nonfiction this week.Before I get in to the particulars of each book I just want to make a general comment or observation. Most of what I have been reading has been historical stuff taking place 100+ years ago. It's rather disheartening to see that some view points and opinions have not changed in all this time. Usually in regards to something racist or just stupid in general. It's sad when I can hear, nearly word for word, the same stupid things that were spouted over 100 years ago. I'm not saying that we as a society haven't changed in that time but there are definitely elements that haven't.
-4 StarsThis is the second book I have read from this author and, in my opinion, she strikes the perfect balance for nonfiction. It has it's technical moments without getting into textbook feeling. She has her personal opinions without it feeling like the entire book is just a personal opinion on something. She had me chuckling in the first chapter alone. So this book is about the balance between man and nature. How we deal with things like bears getting into human food, the interaction between man and elephant, how we handle things like pests and invasive species. It was an interesting read and it taught me a few things I never knew. Things like the fact that there is a forensics unit in North America that specializes in just animal attacks. The author must also have an amazing time traveling the world doing her research for this book.
-3 StarsI listened to this nonfiction book on audio and it was test of my sanity. Before we get to that though lets talk about the content of this book. This is a book about the voodoo queen of New Orleans, Marie Laveau. Now I know this name quite well from just reading books in genreal. If there is a book that has supernatural happenings and it is set around New Orleans there is a very good chance her name will come up. Usually in some sort of villainous light. I've been curious about knowing more about her for some time so when I stumbled across this book while looking for a replacement nonfiction book I was intrigued. The first part of this book was really interesting as it got into just who Marie was and what she was like. It have you history and context to what her life would have been like in 1800's New Orleans. If this was all the book was about it would have been an easy 4 stars for me. Then we start to get into the spiritual aspects of the book. The second part of the book got into how to become a devotee of Marie Laveau and the third part of the book got into how to perform various voodoo workings. This is where I started to have some serious issues with the book. On one hand there was still some historical information sprinkled in and that was interesting. A lot of what these two sections came down to though was a list of ingredients needed to do something and then the prayers/incantations needed to complete that something. For 3-4 hours I was just listening to ingredients and prayers/incantations. Since there is a lot of overlap amongst all this it got really repetitive. It also felt rather weird when the author kept referring you to her other books if you wanted to know more. If you want to know more about this working please check out my other book called xxxxx. All which can be conveniently bought on her website along with all the supplies you might need to do said workings.
-3 StarsThis was a middle grade nonfiction book that I snagged more for the publication date than anything else but man did I end up learning some stuff. As the title implies this is all about the Bubonic plagues third wave that hit the world and it's entrance into America in the early 1900's. First thing I learned was that the Black Death we all know was actually the second wave of Bubonic plague that hit the world. There was another one that hit the world in the 490's. This third wave started in Asia in the late 1800's and spread around the world. Considering what we have gone through for the last few years it was interesting to see the parallels between the events. The same "arguments" against it, the blame game people played, etc. It was also interesting to find out that the Bubonic plague is still around to this day and still kills a few people each year. It's no where nears a big of a threat as it used to be but it's still floating around out there.
-4 StarsMy first normal fiction book in a while and this thing came in like a freight train. Pretty much from page one there was this weird vibe of things just being off. Not full on wrong necessarily but most definitely off. Basically things are happening at home which cause mom to take her oldest daughter out to the desert to moms childhood home to "sort things out". I don't really want to get much deeper than that. This book had me hooked pretty early on and kept me hooked right up until the end. It was told from essentially three POV's. There is moms POV, daughters POV, and moms POV from when she was a kid. It was just this train wreck of a family situation that you couldn't look away from. This book did have some faults though but nothing super serious. Mom wrote these novels in her spare time and you would get sections of these writings sprinkled throughout the book that really added nothing to the story. Much like Dead Silence earlier this year my mind was racing in overtime trying to figure out just what was going on throughout the book. As a result I was cranking out theories in my head like a fanfic author. Some of these theories were right and some were not. At the end the big twist/reveal was good but I found myself wanting just a bit more. Wanting there to one more big twist, one more reveal, etc. Overall it was a super engaging read that took me on a journey and it was a great welcome back to fiction.
-4 StarsThis comic has me all over the place. If I wanted to break out the cynical side I would point out how this comic is nothing new for me at all. The young girl who is an outcast dreams of joining the army to make her way in the world. She has something about her that marks as different and if it gets out it would be bad. She makes a band of friends along the way, etc, etc, etc. I don't care what the cynical side of me says though. This book had heart and I loved it for that. This book feels like an opening chapter to a much larger world of adventure and intrigue that I'm not sure we will ever get. I loved the middle eastern vibe that everything had, I like the characters, I liked the story, and I just want more. I want to learn more about the friends, I want to learn more about the grizzled mentor, I want to see what comes next.
Not 100% sure what I'm reading next as I'm still waiting for this weeks reading tasks to get posted.
For audiobook I'm getting started with
For novels I'm looking at
and
I've also got a few manga I need to get done so I can get them back to the library as well
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Looking forward to what you think of those two novels you are going to start.
Brittany wrote: "Nice wrap up Gord and welcome back to the land of fiction. The Bubonic plague book sounds interesting and it sure does still kill people every year. I'm amazed you still gave the voodoo one 3 stars..."The long ingredient lists was a massive negative but the first part was really interesting and the other historical stuff we had sprinkled though the rest was a positive. It's not the strongest three stars but at the end of the day I didn't hate the book.
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it was alright. Feel like it was missing something though. Anybody know of any good historical fiction of the Napoleon era? There was enough here to make me want to read another one.
For now finished some series and started some new ones :)
- enjoyed the series but the final book wasn't my favourite. Nothing wrong in particular, it felt like too much of everything, overwhelming not in a good way, some things seemed to be not well intertwined into the overall concept.
- started a new cozy mystery series. I enjoyed her other series (St. Marin's) but unfortunately this one is not as good :(
- I don't have other books in the series and I'm not sure I can get them so finished the series at this point. It was so enjoyable and extremely cozy!
- I enjoyed both books and as expected, this one was happy :) and I'm not feeling sad like I felt after reading Johnny Be Good. To say more, I'm happy now!
- started a new manga series, I wasn't sure I like it as it was so random but turned out to be very good!
It's been a while since I last posted what I read so in between work, surgery and college I read
and I'm currently at book five. I also read
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and
Currently I'm reading
but I liked her other book more. I can't seem to care about these characters.Also, for those who remember, my sister finished Lost Boy and asked for another book right after finishing it. Seems like she's getting into reading after all. She's currently reading The Midnight Library.
I just started reading Assassins Apprentice
Carl wrote: "I just started reading Assassins Apprentice"Oh that one is good! Looking forward to read your thoughts about the book.
Gwen wrote: "It's been a while since I last posted what I read so in between work, surgery and college I read and I'm currently at book five. I also read..."Wow! Great selection of books. How was The Midnight Library and The Wheel of Time series?
Two more interesting romances finished.
- one more good romantic story by Paige Toon and I think now I need to take a break of her books and read something else.
- great romantic story, when I need something cheerful and sweet, I always go for her books and every time end up loving the book. So far Penny is my favourite author in the genre.
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and I'm currently at book five. I also read [bookcover:The C..."Gwen good to hear from you and glad your sister enjoyed the book! Hope surgery and everything else went well. How have you been enjoying your books?
@Elena, the first few chapters of The Midnight Library could use some trigger warnings, but apart from that, I loved it. I like The Wheel of Time. I feel like they get better after a while, but the first three were quite predictable. I was bored during the second, but the third book made up for it. I'm starting book number five today so I hope it will be just as good as the previous one.@Brittany, I had a reaction to the sedation so waking up wasn't that fun because it felt like I was freezing, but everything else went well. So far I enjoyed most of the books I read. Just not much time to read anymore since I started working so I hope to find some more time when my exams are over.
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- enjoyed the series but the final book wasn't my favourite. Nothing wrong in particular, it felt..."I don't know if you read YA but Paige Toon wrote a YA series about Johnny's daughter. It's soooo good.
Gwen wrote: "@Elena, the first few chapters of The Midnight Library could use some trigger warnings, but apart from that, I loved it. I like The Wheel of Time. I feel like they get better after a while, but the..."I'm glad you like both and it's always like the with the long epic fantasy series (except Sanderson).
Kayleigh {K-Books} wrote: "I don't know if you read YA but Paige Toon wrote a YA series about Johnny's daughter. It's soooo good."Really? I'm going to check this one too, thanks for the rec!
With an extra day off this week I got a lot of extra reading done and it was nice.
-4 StarsThis was a random snag from the library and man did I like this book. This book loosely follows the same trope as one of favorite romcom anime, Toradora. Two young women head off to college for the first time. These two women are about as different as you can get. On one hand you have Alex, a shameless flirt and a ball of chaos. On the other hand you have Molly, a shy studious young women with low self confidence. Through events Alex is trying to help Molly hook up with her crush so that she can prove to her girlfriend who she is fighting with that she is a good person. Over the course of the book Alex and Molly become friends and then more as they realize how much they have in common. I love this silly little trope and I can't explain why. I love that it's not instant romance but something that takes time. They become friends, the develop bonds, and then realize to take it further. It's also weird how I keep reading these contemporary romances and really enjoying them. This was a genre that I had essentially sworn off years ago. My experiences with it was not great. It was this boring, bland genre that did little for me. This dip I've taken into the YA end of the pool has changed my opinion of things though.
-4 StarsAnother random pick from the library that I found while browsing through the new stuff. This is a mystery set around a Scrabble tournament. How could I say no to that? It sounds like such a unique idea that I just had to check it out just out of curiosity. After reading it I can say that it was a good book. The book takes place in Malaysia and our MC is a young Muslim women returning to the world of competitive Scrabble after taking a year off due to the death of her best friend. Her friend died at a tournament in the middle of a game and a reason why was never found. This book had a lot of promise and I felt like it did a good job delivering on it. I think I might have liked it a bit more if I could have sat down and binged it instead of getting little drip feeds throughout the week when I had a chance to get some reading in. If the premise of this book sounds even the slightest bit interesting then I would encourage you to check it out.
-3 StarsMy life for the last while has been nothing but chasing the library due date as I have been swamped with new releases coming in. As a result I haven't had a lot of chances to doing some "me" reads. Where I just read a trashy novel for the fun of it. This series is a stupid pulpy male adventure novel set in the post apocalyptic wasteland of America. There is nothing great about this book, there is nothing I would recommend about this book or this series, but for me it's a little break from everything else I have been reading. Just a few hours of cheesy fluff before flinging myself at the latest book I need to get done before I have to get it back to the library. So this book starts off right where the last one ended. Ryan falls off a cliff top into a raging river. His friends follow the river downstream trying to find his body to give it a proper burial. Ryan actually survives and manages to hook up with his friends. They decide to travel down the Mississippi on a steam boat. Along the way old enemies enact a plan of revenge that fails horribly. Many people or shot/chopped up/blown up/burnt/etc, many swear words, many fights, many gun facts, whooooo.
-4 StarsFor now I am caught up on this series and I can't wait until August when we get the next volume. I mentioned the last time that this really feels like it is moving into the end game and this volume really solidifies that fact. We get even more lore, more setup, and the book ends on a cliffhanger that sets up a fight we have been anticipating now for several volumes. The other big stand out moment in this volume was murder rabbits. I'm giving you no context, no spoilers, just murder rabbits and if you know me well enough you know how much that makes me grin. I will say this, it's rather sad they had no holy hand grenades.
-3 StarsI think the novelty of this series has kind of worn off for me. In the beginning it really leaned into the One Punch Man meets Harry Potter gag and I loved it. I thought it was pretty funny and there were several laugh out loud moments. Lately though, and this volume is a prime example of it, the humor seems to take a side seat for the bog standard Shonen battles that are typical. A large cast of character where everyone gets their own unique fight and rah rah rah rah. The humor is still kind of there but just not as much or as hard hitting as before. I'll keep reading for a bit but my interest is waning.
-4 StarsWhen I caught up on this series last year I thought I was never going to see another one. The publishing company releasing them was not one of the big ones and seemed more interested in releasing physical merchandise than manga. I saw no release schedule for any more books in the series, nothing. I was browsing through the latest books coming in at the library and I saw these two volumes and was a bit shocked to say the least. It's more cozy food vibes in another world and I enjoyed it. There are more volumes but who knows when we will see those.
-3 StarsThis is one of those books that is so stupid that I shouldn't like it but for some weird reason I just can't help but love it. This is a bog standard medieval fantasy world. The story is a tried and true trope where the paragon of goodness in the kingdom is suddenly found guilty of some heinous crime. No one questions him be found guilty or anything either. One day they love him and in less than 24 hours everyone hates him. Everyone but the paragon's sister and her friend. The sister sets out to clear his name. By itself this is as bog standard as you can get and if this was all it was I wouldn't be impressed. This is where I'll introduce the hook. Everything is kingdom is dictated by wrestling, sorry, let me get this right, wrassling. The paragon is the peak wrestler in the kingdom and he has been framed by an evil wrestler. Our MC, the paragon's sister, wants to wrassle but her parents want her to be a diplomat and forbids her from wrestling. As a result she trains in secret in the woods by wrestling squirrels, deer, bears, and a gorilla that escaped from the zoo once. To save her dear brother she must enter the professional world of wrestling and fight her way to the top. It's so stupid but I love it.
For audiobooks I'm still listening to
and loving itFor books I have to get
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done this week.For comics I have to get
done before it expires
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I didn't get much reading done this week due to work and I don't see it getting better next week either.
-4 StarsI'm not normally interested in reading about the lives of celebrities but when I saw this pop up in the library earlier this year I was intrigued. Rick Mercer is kind staple of Canadian comedy that most people know. I know him from things like his rants, Talking to Americans, etc. This was an interesting read for sure and it gave me some insight into the man. Since he is a comedian and a writer the book was also an easy read in my opinion.
-5 StarsThis was the wrap up to the big story arc that has spanned the first few books and what an epic tale. I've really been enjoying my reread of this series on audio even if the quality hasn't been the greatest.
-4 StarsThis opened like a usual Lackey novel which I know is a phrase I use a lot when talking about the Valdemar series but it's the best description I have got. It opens kind of slow and feeling like a slice of life novel. Not a lot is happening plot wise and it's more about the daily lives of the characters in the novel. Suddenly the plot gets introduced and you are sometimes off for a ride. With this one the plot got tossed at you pretty hard and out of left field. It was all casual slice of life stuff taking place in the summer and then the MC is kidnapped, drugged, and being removed from the country. You are introduced to this through the MC's hallucinations as well. I was rather confused for a bit as to what was going on but Lackey gives you little clues as the story progresses until the MC awakens and you figure out what is going on. The other thing I want to comment on is the chapter length. Valdemar always has these super long chapters and this one is no different. There was one chapter that was roughly double the length of any other chapter in the book and covered 10% of the book. It makes reading a single chapter feel like reading a novella.
-3 StarsThis was a middle grade sci-fi/fantasy story with prophecies, chosen ones, ancient evils, etc. It was alright and I'll get the next one to see where things go next.
-3 StarsThis silly wrassling fantasy story is really growing on me and I can't wait until the fall to read the final one.
Here is where I normally talk about what I'm reading next and I'll be honest I don't really know right now. I know on audiobook I'm listening to Erak's Ransom as I already started it. Work is going to be crazy again this week and I feel the onset of a gnarly book funk coming on. I had two new releases I had to read this week so I could get them back to the library on time and I've purged them. I might pick them up later, I might not. I've been chasing library due dates and new releases for a while now and I just want a break. The book I really wanted has a 35 day wait from the library so I won't be reading that. At this point I'm just waiting for the tasks for my weekly challenge and I'll go from there.
@Gord thank you for the reviews, I really like your weekly updates and sometimes add great books to my TBR, this time it was the series you've rated 5-stars.
This time I was mostly reading some YA Fantasy and Cozy Mystery... again 🤣
- the first two books were kinda meh but 3, 4 were much better and I think I'm going to continue with the series someday.
- the series is so good! The coffee theme is fantastic and tasty, MC and her mother-in-law are adorable. And oh this Joy's strange taste in boyfriends, I'm curious who's going to be her next.
- I missed the school setting and the chosen one. Though it's not perfect and my greatest issue here is that the main female character is a little bit too perfect with all the powers and picking every skill with ease, I don't believe in her struggles at all.
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