Recent Reads

Luminaries, Onyx Storm, House in the Cerulean Sea, Where the Library Hides, To Shatter the Night

Rating: meh. Predictable sometimes, bizarre others. What is up with her teeth clicking. Ughggh.

Rating: Ugh. Book 3 of... 5? I liked the first book mostly, but I have trouble with a series. I was just so irritated a so many things about this novel. 

Rating: Charming. I enjoyed this one a lot. I'm glad it can stand alone; however, I do believe there is another book that's at least in the same world if not with the same characters. It was funny, and sad, and wonderfully written. 

Rating: good! The second in a duology. I really liked it and wanted to keep reading it. A few character choices were unbelievable. A few twists were predictable, but others were not. Worth reading this pair!

Rating: meh. Second in a duology? Or are there going to be more? I just didn't care. And there were things that didn't make sense. And stop saying "my girl." Ugh.

Project Hail Mary

By Andy Weir

476 pages

Sci-Fi

I picked this up when I took my classes up to the school library. I liked The Martian and it caught my eye. Wow, this was a great book. 

It was my book I was reading at school, but I brought it home this weekend because I just didn't want to out it down. 

It was interesting, and it was funny. 

Loved it.

To Kill a Shadow

By Katherine Quinn

YA Fantasy 

book 1 of ?

Fourth Wing & Iron Flame

By Rebecca Yarros

First 2 books in a 5 book series. 

I enjoyed the first book (Fourth Wing) more than the second. 

But by the time I was reading the second? The stakes: so high. The choices: so incomprehensible. The relationships: a little uncomfortable. 

I still finished it. I still wanted to know how the second book ended. (I was irritated with how it ended.)

Will I read the rest of the series? 🤷‍♀️

When the Moon Hatched

By Sarah A. Parker

543 pages

Fantasy 

So. 

Yeah. 

There was a lot I didn't like about this book. The needless word shifts (slumber-terror vs nightmare, for example...) the way that they curse just like we do. The crudity. 

But it had some interesting things about dragons?

And I did want to know how it ended. 

Not interested enough to read the sequel, whenever that happens. 

all the Mercyverse

Patricia Briggs has an ongoing novel series about a coyote shape-shifter names Mercy Thompson. She's a mechanic. She is friends with vampires, werewolves, and fae. She's a force for chaos. 

There are so many. Alpha & Omega books too. 

These are just 3 of the ones I don't own and need to return to the library today. 

In the Time of Butterflies

By Julia Alvarez

Historical Fiction 

Paperback

321 pages

It actually took me so long to read this. We just got a bunch of copies for our school book room, and I had never read it. 

It was good, and moving, and interesting, and important. It was also sometimes slow reading. The voice of each sister is really distinct, which I appreciated.

Just not my typical light and fluffy read. But worth reading.