I needed something easy to read in the days right before everyone came to visit, so I picked up The Mermaid’s Mirror. It was easy to read but it was also a little slow. And, I felt like I might have already read it.
It was pretty good, not great. I wonder if there’s a sequel involving Lena and Nix… it would seem like there should be.
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I love The Custard Protocol books almost as much as the Soulless books. Really. Imprudence was awesome. I’d been wondering about Pru’s father and how the transfer of his pack to a new alpha might go. Now I know. Also, FLOOTE is awesome. So is Miss Sekhmet, heh.
I also want to point out that pages 92/93 were the saddest thing ever. (The pack! Biffy! Pru! Really??? REALLY?)
I have no idea how Bewitching: The Kendra Chronicles landed in our library stacks but it did. When I realized it was a sequel to a book I hadn’t read, I almost didn’t read it. But, TW said I didn’t need the first one and I believed her. She was right. It was a perfectly fine book to read without having read the first one.
It started a little slowly but I ended up enjoying it. I didn’t absolutely love the insertion of “fairy tales” from Kendra’s life but I didn’t hate it either. I may even some day read another book from this series.
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The Six was a good Cybils choice. Computers scary. Computers taking over the world. Computers saving the world. People becoming computers.
Should it ever be an option, I do not want my brain transferred to a really big (though really kind of cool) computerized/brain-driven robot, kthnxbai.
Also, I need to read the sequel. Sooner rather than later.
Serafina and the Black Cloak is another book I have a love/hate thing with.
It was on my TBR list FOREVER and TW ended up getting it during one of our recent library visits, which is good since my list is long and I may never have managed to check it out. I liked it a lot but I didn’t want Serafina to be a magical creature. I wanted her to just be a little girl. (which is probably a spoiler? maybe? oops!)
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Castle Hangnail was adorable. Molly is the BEST (wicked) heroine I’ve read in a long, long time. Her minions aren’t bad, either.
If you have middle grade readers, (or elementary readers who read above grade level), this is a really fun book.
Remember when I said we didn’t have any books because they’re all in boxes and because we didn’t have library cards? And also that TW bought some books at Wild Iris on Independent Bookstore Day? Well one of the books she bought was The Forever War which is amusing because I’m pretty sure we already own it. I also highly supported the purchase since Unca Joe was at Wild Iris to sign books and now we have a signed copy. Woot!
So TW immediately started reading it because she was desperate for books and because Unca Joe, obviously.
When I finished with a couple of books, it was my turn to reach for The Forever War at which point TW said, “Why are you reading that, you won’t like it.”
Yes, she actually said that.
My response was to remind her that I’ve already read it before and her response was that I still wouldn’t like it.
It’s at moments like this that I have to question why it is that we live together. I mean really? I’ve read it before. It’s Unca Joe. It’s THE gd FOREVER WAR. You’re really going to tell me I won’t like it? Whatever. (And I’m still rolling my eyes almost a week after she said this. I’m rolling my eyes so hard that I now I have a headache.)
So anyway. I re-read The Forever War and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Except, I don’t really like Science Fiction hahahaha, and this means that when there’s a lot of stuff about physics and math and shit that makes absolutely NO sense to me and can cause me to question why in the hell I’m reading this damn book… I skim ahead. Because while I can suspend disbelief and enjoy the make-believedness of Fantasy, I can’t quite do that with SciFi because of the damn math/science. Because math/science is real and yet the kind of advanced math/science/lord-help-me-physics that’s in SciFi just freaks me the hell out.
Which is probably why TW tried to tell me I wouldn’t like The Forever War.
She was wrong, obviously, because I totes did. I was really glad to have re-read it since it’s probably been 25 or 30 years since I first read it. But, she’s right — I don’t like SciFi. (lol)
PS. Joe Haldeman can really write. Seriously. If you don’t like SciFi either, you should still read this because really – the writing is stellar.
Y’all know I love Margaret Dilloway so you’re not surprised that I was super excited to hear she was writing a book for kids. I was also thrilled that it was the last book I actually finished before leaving Chicagoland.
Xander and the Lost Island of Monsters was excellent. I really loved Xander and Peyton. I loved the strengths that each of them brought to the challenges they faced.
I’m not sure how I felt about the very end of the book, to set up the next book. We shall see what happens next.
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I was looking for audiobooks to take with us to Florida and noticed a new Rainbow Rowell book, so I reserved it. We started listening to Carry On and we were immediately confused. It sounded like a sequel and I hate reading books out of order.
Turns out it’s not a sequel, it’s just a book about fictional characters from her previous book (which I didn’t actually realize existed.) So, we went ahead and listened to it. Harry Potter fan fic type of thing. It was amusing, as Rowell’s books are, and a good choice for the car ride.
I didn’t know there were new books in this series so it was awesome that TW noticed Night Study just sitting on the library shelf.
This was another good one, though it got a little confusing in a few places, particularly in the beginning and at the end. I’m also really looking forward to the next book. The magic is all a muddle and I think we’re going to see more from some of the younger characters that I really like (not to mention a couple of new, young characters.)