The Fog Diver

My expectations for The Fog Diver were low. Another post-apocalyptic/middlegrade/ya/adventure book. Ho hum? OK not ho hum, because I LIKE this genre but still… turns out, this was one of the better ones.

Really clever cultural references gone wrong, gone very very wrong. Likable characters. A plot that moved fairly quickly. Mostly it was the cultural references that got me.

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Off-topic but not really: I’m considering not doing the Cybils Challenge next year. Or ever again. It’s not that I don’t love these books, I do. But, so many of them are series’ books and I just can’t keep up with the series’ while also reading a bunch of newly introduced series. When I try, I find myself reading nothing but YA and Middle Grade fiction/scifi/fantasy. I need to find some sort of balance. So… stay tuned, this may be the last full shortlist challenge I attempt. Figures, since odds are high that I’m not going to successfully complete it, for the first time – ever.

2 thoughts on “The Fog Diver”

  1. Looking over the list for ONLY Young Adult, I can’t imagine reading all of the Cybils, or as many as you can in a year. I would rather read for fun and choose based on my mood. Kudos to you for doing this challenge as long as you have!

  2. The thing is, it is fun to read them. They almost always, 99.9% of the time, excellent. I mean really excellent. I’ve found some of the best books and authors by doing this. I dunno, I’m not committed to NOT doing it next year because thinking of all the books I’d miss makes me unhappy, lol.

    We shall see. Maybe I’ll do a modified version? lol

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