This month The Name of the Wind absolutely rocked my world. Reviews for this and my other june reads on my blog.

https://www.thisspacecadet.com/post/june-reading-wrap-up

This book was actually quite a disappointment to me. The world was beautiful and magical and had a wonderful element of magical realism, which I loved. There was a wonderfully accurate element of racism and police brutality. The plot just struggled to get where it was going.

I read the 5 books of The Witcher series in 21 days. That's 2,123 pages of high fantasy in 21 days, and I discourage this type of behavior. Too many words to post here, read my review on my blog!

https://www.thisspacecadet.com/post/a-review-of-the-witcher

This book is taking me a bit out of my comfort zone genre wise. It is a true dystopian, and not so far fetched at that. About a catastrophic drought brought about by climate change. It feels all the more real and not-dystopian-like by the fact that the challenges they face (riots, police violence, hoarding of supplies, and the general public turning against each other) feel eerily familiar to the real world. I'm enjoying this one so far.

“He was very slim, and it was also apparent that he was very tall. His hair was as ashen as hers, shot with snow-white streaks, long, and falling down onto his shoulders and back. He was dressed in a black velvet jerkin. He was wearing typical elven boots with numerous buckles running all the way up the leg. His hands were slender and white, with long fingers.

He was busy blowing bubbles“