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#AllergictoChunksters inspired me to tackle The Last Magician again - I started it 2 years ago, and didn‘t make it very far. I was determined to get through it because, as you can see, I had slowly collected the rest of the series.

Ugh, I just can‘t do it y‘all. I reached page 100 this morning and called it quits. Turned it into a #ReadORDonate situation. My local library will be getting these to sell or loan out to other readers. #hailthebail

This was unfortunately disappointing. Advertised as a handbook of international winter folklore, it was neither entertaining nor informative. A lot of the entries were very similar, which is a result of cultures borrowing from each other, but the blurbs were too short to provide much information about the differences. The same can be said for the illustrations, which felt too similar to be interesting. DNF at 75%

Here‘s my review.

#hailthebail

Made quick work of my December #bookspin pick by…not finishing it. I knew this was headed for the DNF pile when I had to look up 10 words in the first few pages, and the unstable mother displayed a penchant for speaking in Shakespeare quotes. I have nothing against learning new words, but it felt very much like a book that was going to prioritize style over story, and I just don‘t have the energy for that kind of thing right now. Next!

I‘m so glad this was a kindle freebie because this is one of the worst books Iv read this year , it starts well but then disappears down the boring hole I found the world building tedious and at 259 odd pages still nothing has happened , I started to skim read it. I think romantasy books are either jam or marmite some are great some are truly awful and publishers are just desperate to publish more due to the current trend.not for me sorry

And that's a bail! Some interesting stuff, but a lot of stuff so over my head that I was just reading words with no meaning.

But, yay, got a bingo! 😁

#HailTheBail 🙌🏼

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#MountTBR #ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader

Sad to #dnf this, but I just don‘t like it. The characters are not very engaging and just horrible things are happening to the women/female characters which I just don‘t wish to read about anymore. I think I will just jump to the Fitz & the Fool series and pass on the Rainwilds - which is generally disliked. #hailthebail
#roll100 off the tbr and 1st #bookspinbingo

Debut local author novel. I really tried. DNF around 40%. The story plot line itself is amazing - what if bugs, specifically the honey bees - were the guardians of the earth and they were just done with humans destroying the earth? The writing style is all over the place, seemingly written without edits.

I got suckered in by the “echoes of Hades & Persephone” and “Practical Magic”. I‘ve been on the fence with bailing for hours. At 63% I am done. For the love of the goddesses, in Tarot, Death means Change. It is the shedding of habits and thought patterns that no longer serve your greatest good, not literal death. Stop using the Death card as a jump scare! Just, stop.