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The Butcher and the Wren by Alaina Urquhart
Did not finish book. Stopped at 24%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 24%.
No POV that I could get behind. The cop just loves dropping famous serial killer names and the killer was so cliché. The book is no show, all tell.
Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
Did not finish book.
Did not finish book.
This feels like if Wax and Wayne (Mistborn Era 2) were really boring.
The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson
4.0
The ending of book 1 left me wondering whether I felt compelled to continue on to book 2, but I am so glad I did!
Seeing the women go through normal dramas alongside the witchy dramas was so enjoyable and there were some funny moments. It's a credit to Dawson's writing (and the audio narration) that when reading Niamh's POV, it felt like I was following Niamh until I was jolted back to reality and reminded that it was actually Ciara. While I was really hesitant about the body swap plot, it was a really good way to give Ciara the limelight without a bunch of exposition via Niamh and co.
I was irked by the fact that at about 3/4 of the way through, almost nobody had noticed that Niamh wasn't Niamh and even when this was exposed, the group just seemed ok with Ciara riding shotgun in Niamh's body. But, Dawson keeps winning me over with the shoutouts to shows/artists that I love and this time it was (the real) Linkin Park.
Overall, there were some twists that I did not see coming and I'm looking forward to book 3 and will give the prequel novella a go too.
Seeing the women go through normal dramas alongside the witchy dramas was so enjoyable and there were some funny moments. It's a credit to Dawson's writing (and the audio narration) that when reading Niamh's POV, it felt like I was following Niamh until I was jolted back to reality and reminded that it was actually Ciara. While I was really hesitant about the body swap plot, it was a really good way to give Ciara the limelight without a bunch of exposition via Niamh and co.
I was irked by the fact that at about 3/4 of the way through, almost nobody had noticed that Niamh wasn't Niamh and even when this was exposed, the group just seemed ok with Ciara riding shotgun in Niamh's body. But, Dawson keeps winning me over with the shoutouts to shows/artists that I love and this time it was (the real) Linkin Park.
Overall, there were some twists that I did not see coming and I'm looking forward to book 3 and will give the prequel novella a go too.
The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan
I don't feel like I can produce coherent reviews of this series, so I'm just going to provide lists of what I've enjoyed (or not enjoyed) which have nothing to do with my rating, it's just plot threads that are irritating me 😂
Things I did enjoy:
Things I didn't enjoy:
This book felt a little anticlimactic but after nearly 1000 pages, I was sort of expecting that but ultimately I did enjoy this book. Overall, the biggest flaw for me is the length of time between seeing the groups of characters makes it difficult to invest in a character (or a baddie). You can go dozens, if not hundreds of pages before revisiting a character, making it hard to follow some things.
4.0
"Where men have built ten houses together, there is the potential for violence"
I don't feel like I can produce coherent reviews of this series, so I'm just going to provide lists of what I've enjoyed (or not enjoyed) which have nothing to do with my rating, it's just plot threads that are irritating me 😂
Things I did enjoy:
- Lanfear
- watching Rand getting darker is fun
- going back to The Two Rivers
- Mat and his hat 😂
- this is a very questy book.
- I had to chuckle at one point because it felt like Perrin has become that employee who accidentally became important and just needs a break 😂
Things I didn't enjoy:
- Faile is such a brat
- I could not be convinced that her and Perrin were a romantic couple
- Lan is lovesick for Nynaeve and it seems hard to believe
- Nynaeve is unbearable and and can't stand someone else being good at something - a terrible character trait
- this book really demonstrates Robert Jordan's inability to write women, referring to women as 'plump' and referring to their 'chins'
- Aviendha's was unbearable! Why could she not shut up about Rand and Elayne?!
This book felt a little anticlimactic but after nearly 1000 pages, I was sort of expecting that but ultimately I did enjoy this book. Overall, the biggest flaw for me is the length of time between seeing the groups of characters makes it difficult to invest in a character (or a baddie). You can go dozens, if not hundreds of pages before revisiting a character, making it hard to follow some things.