Showing posts with label adult. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adult. Show all posts

Monday, January 29, 2024

A Court of Thorns and Roses

By Sarah J Maas 
Adult Fantasy
416 pages

My husband fished this out of the free bin at McKay's. 


It's a re-read for me, although it's been a long time since I read them.

The Beauty and theBeast aspects are still apparent, but less distracting the second time around. This face on the back cover though, super distracting! 

A nice mental vacation room the very sad book I'm reading for book club. 

Now I'm handing it off to a coworker who has never read it before. 


Saturday, April 29, 2023

Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood

Book #1 in Crescent City series
By Sarah J Maas
799 pages
Adult Fantasy 
Hardback
Library 

This is the last of the books I checked out right before Spring Break.

I was expecting full fantasy like no technology setting. But there are cars, and cell phones, and coffee machines, and art galleries. There are police who are wolves and wraith and fae. There are dancers who are fauns. All of the fantasy creatures are in here. You want mermaids? Got them. Shape-shifting people? Done. Assassins? Yes. (Okay, not a fantasy creature, but still...)

There is a LOT happening in this book - drugs, murder, politics, family drama, ancient mystical heirlooms, sex, magic, bureaucracy, failed rebellion, slavery, those things at the park you shout in and have someone listen at the other end...

I love this picture, but I'm also like What does this have to do with the book? She's neat though. 

This is the city! I love a map.

All of the houses came up in the course of this book. The protagonist is half human, so maybe that's why the book is called House of Earth and Blood? The other main characters are primarily from Sky & Breath. Which us the name of the next book. Which I have put on hold at the library. 

First page.

Author info.

It was super readable. Plot was convoluted in a good way. Characters interesting ans complex.

Thursday, August 11, 2022

All the Light We Cannot See

By Anthony Doerr
530 pages
Historical Fiction (adult)
Paperback

We got this book last summer for the English 10 book room at my school, but I had never read it before. 

Set (mostly) during WWII, the story juxtaposes the narratives of a blind French civilian girl with a German soldier boy. 

(the first page of the story)

Once I got a feeling for telhe protagonists, I was worried that this was going to turn into an opposites attract romance type story, but it did not - for which I was grateful. 

The book is beautifully written, and sad, and hopeful, and all sorts of complicated things. 

Monday, July 4, 2022

Truth, Lies, and Second Dates

By MaryJanice Davidson 
Fiction
301 pages
Paperback
Borrowed from Library 

So the library barcode obscures a good chunk of the synopsis, so I'm prevented from doing it the lazy way and have to type up something myself. Ah well. 

 Captain Ava Capp, commercial airline pilot, doesn't like going back to her hometown where her parents died and her best friend was murdered. However, twin brothet of aforementioned victim happens to be on Captain Capp's plane one day, as they are heading into aforementioned hometown, convinces Capp to attend 10 year anniversary memorial for victim. 

Doctor Tom Baker (medical examiner, not two hearted alien) is fascinated by the cold case and, when he runs into Capp and really drunk twin brother after the memorial, the physical attractiveness of Capp. 

Capp might still be in danger. Crimes are unsolved. You see where this is heading...

Davidson writes books that are very easy to read (I got to chapter 5 while my child was reading MAD Magazine. They don't let you check those out, but you can sit in the library and read them.) and have a lot of humor. 

This is the third book in a series, but they seem to be related, not sequential. So, even though I haven't read the other two, it didn't seem to matter.  

A funny book was desperately needed, as it’s seem to have taken about 2.5 weeks after the end of the school year to stop constantly clenching my jaw. I probably need a new job. 

One thing that Davidson did was compile a list of 60 tropes that she engaged with during the construction of this novel. 

Page 1 of the list:

For the most part, this novelists works are an anomaly in the range of books I typically enjoy; however, I continue to enjoy each one I've read. 

And I only got home with this book less than 17 hours ago, so it was a fast read two. 

Off to find books 1 & 2. 

(But not really, right now, because my tbr pile is tall.)

Monday, August 20, 2018

Night Broken

By Patricia Briggs
Hardback
Library
341 pages

Amazing ending.
Book #8 in the Mercy Thompson book series.

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Summer read #16 The Night Bus

By Janice Law
Hardback
349 pages

Library book

Adult realistic fiction.

A little mystery, a little psychological thriller, a little gaslighting.

Cath runs away from home, gets sick, is mugged, and loses her memory. Her sister-in-law retrieves her, but her family is super weird and crazy.

It didn't end up exactly the way to thought it would, although this ending is close to one of the resolutions I considered.

A compelling read.