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#Bookreport

📚Currently reading:

🎧Lud in the Mist
🎧Rise of the King

Progress:
Last week was a very productive reading week. Tried to get a lot of shorter work done to make it to my Goodreads reading goal of 70 books. My favorite read has been Diavola. Still slowly making my way through Lud and I might put the Drizzt book on hold again until after I'm done with the challenge. Will try to pick another audiobook as well this upcoming week.

I just love Rachel Harrison‘s bitingly comic blend of social commentary and feminist horror. This one‘s special though, because it‘s for the religious trauma girlies like me—and a potent reminder that, as dark and isolating as it can be, it‘s better to be a black sheep than a sacrificial lamb. 🤘

Just a bit bonkers. I don‘t think it could decide whether it was a supernatural horror or an everyday thriller 🤷‍♀️
As an aside- people who buy those big posh houses in the south in the US, do they really just casually say ‘the slave quarters‘ when they remodel them into something else? (E.g a home office). Because this MC did, a lot. I found it very creepy.

I‘m so enjoying this book! Gifted by @LibrarianRyan during our swap last month. It‘s so cute!! I‘m glad there are more volumes!

Audio. Wow. This book went hard. I enjoyed this more than the second one. Felt a bit repetitive; hoping Amari would learn to work as a team. It‘s slow going growth, but still growth. This book really showed the war between magicians and magical world took on a new level. Many times I felt my jaw drop from being surprised at what I just heard. Mainly for how insanely dark it got during the second half.

I‘ve never read the books but I know they‘re popular. I wasn‘t necessarily blown away by the art here but it suffices. If you‘re a fan of the books you‘ll likely enjoy this one.

I *did* learn something: Quarin, more traditionally QUAREEN. Pre-Islam & Islamic mythology. A djinn that can either be good or evil but the Quareen is someone‘s companion, guardian, driving you to good or evil behavior.

Day 8 #36by36 #Readathon

I didn‘t have a lot of reading time this week so I didn‘t get to reach my thirty-six hour goal. Made it to almost nineteen hours.

I got a couple more hours of reading done last night to finish Odd Thomas.

Went deep into my TBR stacks trying to make progress before the end of the year & came across this book—I think I got it for my husband?!? 🤷‍♀️ Anyway, it‘s about a school of sorcerers who protect the world from demons and three students who are just getting started. I enjoyed it, may even read more, but I‘m not sure why I thought my husband would…I must have seen a recommendation somewhere. Anyway, a quick fun read.

Picked this up on a whim yesterday, and it had me hooked.

To be fair it dragged in the third half of the book, and a lot of the events could have been summarized in a chapter or two. But, towards the end the book picked up the pace again and the very ending was extremely satisfying.

The gothic horror delivered well enough, although Italy isn't really ideal for a “scary book“ Maybe that's just me.

If the writing wasn‘t so good, this would be a Pan. Descriptions and sentiments are wonderful, but the story is a mess of extraneous details irrelevant to the plot, too many meaningless background characters, and a useless protagonist. Confusing without being mysterious, ending did not feel earned.