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Michael Smith
Michael Smith is 37% done with The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
I am loving my current reread of Memory, Sorrow And Thorn and the mighty promising Of Empires And Dust by Ryan Cahill, but those are HUGE epic tomes. I needed a little breather, and a revisit to Camp Half Blood was just what the doctor ordered! A classic of my childhood, and twenty years later I think I only love it more.
Apr 09, 2025 11:34AM Add a comment
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)

Michael Smith
Michael Smith is 10% done with Of Empires and Dust (The Bound and The Broken, #4)
This book just keeps on getting better! I am over 160 pages in, and still only a short way into the overall book. I am so glad about that! Big books are my favourite when written well, and this is a fine example of just that.
Apr 05, 2025 07:58AM Add a comment
Of Empires and Dust (The Bound and The Broken, #4)

Michael Smith
Michael Smith is 5% done with Of Empires and Dust (The Bound and The Broken, #4)
I am 5% into this, and already I feel Cahill is writing at an even higher level. The emotional tone of the scenes so far feels tangible, like I can smell and hear and see everything. Just SUPERB writing.

How am I only 5% in and already gutted I won't have a new book for a while?
Apr 02, 2025 12:34PM Add a comment
Of Empires and Dust (The Bound and The Broken, #4)

Michael Smith
Michael Smith is 35% done with The Ice (The Bound and the Broken, #3.5)
If there is one thing to really take me out of a fantasy book not set in our world, it is a description like the one I found here, "eldritch gods". Errr, Cahill? You realise it is very odd to liken any part of your lore directly to that of another authors, in this case H.P. Lovecraft? I am shocked the editor, Sarah Chorn, let that pass!
Mar 29, 2025 12:18PM Add a comment
The Ice (The Bound and the Broken, #3.5)

Michael Smith
Michael Smith is 26% done with The Ice (The Bound and the Broken, #3.5)
I CANNOT WAIT FOR OF EMPIRES AND DUST AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
Mar 29, 2025 10:36AM Add a comment
The Ice (The Bound and the Broken, #3.5)

Michael Smith
Michael Smith is 95% done with War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2)
Reading about a character I have come to love and admire and feel I know as a friend die unceremoniously in a gas chamber...has numbed me.
Mar 22, 2025 02:08PM Add a comment
War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2)

Michael Smith
Michael Smith is 91% done with War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2)
I will miss these characters. I love this work but its heartbreaking too.

Just phenomenal.
Mar 19, 2025 05:18AM Add a comment
War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2)

Michael Smith
Michael Smith is 25% done with Danse Macabre
A fascinating examination of horror, I really enjoy Kings perspective on the genre
Mar 18, 2025 03:53PM Add a comment
Danse Macabre

Michael Smith
Michael Smith is 83% done with War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2)
Something happened in this book that was so harsh and so viscerally painful to imagine that my heart raced and I felt nauseous.
Mar 15, 2025 10:51AM Add a comment
War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2)

Michael Smith
Michael Smith is 78% done with War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2)
I love this book so much. I really must devote more time to reading Herman Wouk.
Mar 14, 2025 02:47PM Add a comment
War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2)

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