Reaper Man
By: Terry Pratchett
I finally got to Reaper Man in Discworld a story in which Death is forcibly retired and goes to work on a farm- one I knew I would like because I like Death…
And the damned trolleys had me so confused!
Agnes at the End of the World
By: Kelly McWilliams
I’m a little torn on Agnes because for most of this book I was honestly LOVING it. Yes capitalized I was that into it.
The Rise of Kylo Ren
If there is one thing I hated most about the new trilogy it would be that scene with Luke and Ben in Last Jedi where Luke draws the lightsaber because he saw great darkness in Ben and then everything went to hell including characterization.
I only picked up this graphic novel because I had hope it would add something to that story.
I should have known better.
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
By: Deepa Anappara
Djinn Patrol is one of those books I picked up not at all knowing what I was going to get and absolutely loved despite the dark and tragic subject manner.
And I think it’s because Anappara brings the characters and the setting (but especially the characters) to life so well that I felt that I was there running the streets with the kids and I wanted to keep them all safe and fix everything that was wrong. Unfortunately there is a lot wrong for them.
Is it wrong to read an entire okay book just hoping to see a character get what’s coming to them?
I mean probably not right (that’s probably half the success of ASOIAF) but I still couldn’t help feel a little weird…
Random Mini-Reviews Below:
So apparently Keanu Reeves co-wrote a comic.
Whose main character bears a resemblance to him and you don’t really need to tell me more I’m in for the book and the sure to come film adaptation!
I was going to bemoan the recent movie release date changes and the lack of any good comic-con news but than Taylor Swift surprised everyone delivered a jolt to my disastrous summer and dropped an album last night.
And I assure you folklore is deservedly on the Best of 2020 list already and will no doubt stay there. There will be rambles on this to come 🙂
So here’s a wrap up on the other great things I’ve loved this year! These aren’t in any kind of order but I highly recommend all of them!
Today’s Top 10 Tuesday is the Bookish Events you long to go to…
And yeah mine are mostly impossible but let’s loosely define things here. Besides what’s reading about these things without dreaming right?
Axiom’s End
By: Lindsay Ellis
Once after a particularly bad Youtuber Sci-Fi debut I told myself never again. Never again will I read a book by a Youtuber without at least hearing the reviews first.
Yet when Lindsay Ellis announced her book was getting published it immediately went on my TBR list. I jumped at the chance to read an ARC and was excited it came through. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher but it did not in anyway change my opinion of the book.
Crescent City House of Earth and Blood
By: Sarah J. Maas
Good Lord the villain wound up expositing so much that I honestly expected them to get into a power point presentation. It went on for something like forty minutes on the audio of them just straight up explaining everything.
And that was just one of the reasons why Crescent City feel apart at the end.
