The Book of Magic is my #BookSpin this month.
The Friend is my #DoubleSpin and my book club‘s next pick!
I hope you got some good ones too @TheAromaofBooks !
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The Book of Magic is my #BookSpin this month.
The Friend is my #DoubleSpin and my book club‘s next pick!
I hope you got some good ones too @TheAromaofBooks !
pickI love these characters and wish there were more books in the series. Only negative for this book is that it causes crisis fatigue; you can't go very many pages without an emergency.
so-soQuick and fun! Vivid battle scenes. Still not great writing, but I‘ve stuck around this long!
so-soStill here! I want to know what happens in the end, even if I have to read the phrase “vulgar gesture” 15 more times!
so-soI am squarely in the zeitgeist! Maas is a talented world builder but her writing was hilariously terrible. A fun one!
Rushworth is just another in a long line of tacky blowhards with no taste destroying much-loved places of natural beauty. "Ye fallen avenues, once more I mourn your fate unmerited." #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow
pickI didn‘t love it nearly as much as One Dark Window or The Knight and the Moth. I‘m actually a bit disappointed. The writing is still captivating, the characters just as interesting, but I didn‘t feel the same pull. Maybe it‘s because we go from having just Elspeth‘s POV in book one, to having 3 POVs. I understand the need for the change, but I wanted more of Ravyn and Elspeth as a couple. I‘m not sold on the other couple. Still a pick, though.
Man, this book is full of selfish, thoughtless people: sisters Bertram and Norris set Fanny off on an emotional roller coaster about her living situation without giving two shits; nobody cares that she doesn't have a horse, ie access to fresh air and exercise; Sir Thomas heads off for a year to his slave plantation; and Henry Crawford comes out the gate as a feckless, self-centered ass who won't house his own sister. Shades of behavior to come...
pickI still stand by more 4 star rating from the first time I read this one.
This book is chock-full of history, probably more than what was needed for the story but the author is a history professor so it makes a lot of sense to me that she's going to showcase her skills.
pickLoved this one, read nearly the whole thing while traveling and it was the right read at the right time. A therapist and the editor of her column have a true connection that neither of them are ready to explore. Until they do and I was happy to be along for the ride.
