Welcome to Litsy!

These are what I'm aiming to read this month. the tagged because it was already on the go. Hot wax is on position 10 of my list. i will get a list post together ASAP! #castthedie @PuddleJumper

Introducing my new reading buddy, Tiramisu! She‘s three years old, and she was a good mama to her kitten but now wants to live a quiet life as an only cat. We‘re still adjusting to each other, but I‘m so happy to have a cat in the household again.

I‘m not sure yet how I feel about the tagged book. It‘s for a new book club…

#hyggehourreadathon

Unpopular opinion:

I have mixed feelings. The book is very dark academia oriented, but I found the characters unlikeable, and Hell had a lot of boring moments. I wanted a scary, richly detailed, demonic Hell. This is not that, but it did make the professors look like monsters. It struck me as a little pretentious. I will have to sit with it for awhile.

#ChristmasCrimeChallenge #FamousDetective - because, you know, it says so in the cover. Kind of.

Listened to this on audio, which was absolutely the way - and enjoyed it thoroughly. Might even try the next in the series. 12-year-old Stephanie inherits her uncle‘s house. And before you know it, she‘s hanging out with a living skeleton, saving the world. Lots of laughs, some really quite scary bits, and a way-too-long fight scene. Fun, though.

(2011) First in an indie fantasy trilogy featuring a teenage magic user who acquires a powerful book written by the followers of an outlawed god. It's fine, but I'm over the "magic teenager" trope and the characters' banter just feels like bickering to me. Fortunately there's no cliffhanger ending so I don't feel compelled to continue.

This has been in my Kindle backlog for a long time so thanks to @Cbee and #ReadYourEbooks for the nudge

I don't read time travel books, unless authored by Alix Harrow. Somehow she managed to write so beautifully that she didn't make it repetitive. Books about knights don't generally make their way on my tbr, but again, it seems the author defied this as well. The writing, the themes and depth of the story kept me reading a book I shouldn't have even wanted to pick up.

Entertaining enough, but just too flawed to give a pick. The writing is a bit simple, the time idea falls apart in the lightest breeze, and the big plot points are visible miles away. Bindi says a good walkies is way better.

I loved the first half of the book as Rin goes off to battle school. Showing her in her classes and interacting with fellow students was interesting to me. The second half takes place as everyone goes to war. This is brutal and violent and many people die. We see Rin change dramatically over the course if the book. I can‘t imagine where the story will go from here.

Having read some dystopian young adult novels, I must say The Maze Runner is weaker conpared to other ones. The characters don‘t have the chance to be developed and already everything is falling into pieces. I didn‘t get as absorbed as I normally do. It will be the first ans last book of the series for me.