#Bookreport
📚Currently reading:
🎧Lud in the Mist
🎧Rise of the King
Progress:
Glad I got back to the Drizzt novels, maybe I can finally catch up by next year. Been making slow but steady progress with Lud in the Mist. I am really loving it. I might pick another short audiobook between those two, but we shall see.
so-soI was finally in the mood to start these again. I think at this point I've made peace with the fact that I only really read these for the B plot with the dark elves, and to see what my favorite assassin is up to and his character development through the series. if it were not for those things I would not bother with this series at all. When Salvator wants to be good, he is SO good, but most of these books feel like mediocre shlock.
so-soCasia was pretty typical YA main character but I think some might love how her anxiety was represented. I have to confess that I might be a bit tired with romances with brooding males.
For me the beginning felt way too confusing and somehow it got me so irritated & frustrated that couldn't find the flow of the story at any point. This felt like a punch of separated action scenes.
This wasn't dreadful, but nothing special either.
#serieslove2024
pick92/150 This is the first book I've read by David Gemmell, but it definitely won't be the last. If you're in the mood for a epic fantasy, then this is it, but also there's some deeper thought going on also. What makes a hero? Who decides what is legend and what is truth? Can a hero escape his destiny? It's a rollicking adventure for sure, but deeper than the usual sword & sorcery story. 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
It is all in ruins now but back then, under a younger sun, the city walls were strong and high.
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
WOW! WOW! WOW! 💕📚
My giveaway prize arrived from @TheSpineView today and I couldn't be happier or more grateful! 🥰 Thank you SO MUCH, Lisa! I could not believe my eyes when I saw the second book and sweet bookmarks! You really made my day and I'm so happy! Thank you so much! 🩷🩷🩷
#two4tuesday @TheSpineView #tuesdaygiveaway
Wow! Thank you for this lovely giveaway, Lisa! 🥰
The most desired book on my TBR list is:
📚 The Desert Prince by Peter V. Brett!
For Lancashire, it's a sweltering day & I'm feeling a sense of desert heat reading this pulp adventure novella about Francis Xavier Gordon, known as El Borak "The Swift", amongst the cities, villages and encampments of the Near & Middle East.
The milieu is the Great Game played by the Western colonial powers, & while Gordon is a maverick with little time for bureaucracy, his loyalties lie with them.
There's a definite whiff of Yellow Peril ⬇️
#tuesdaytunes I asked AI generator to do me the following. Jimi Hendrix reading Wizard of Oz. Nina Simone reading Dune. Cal Tjader reading Foundation. Roy Ayers reading Marx. Rick Wakeman reading Legend and Donna Summer reading The Hobbit. ☺️ More shenanigans next week!
