This weekly meme is hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words and all you need to do to participate is answer the following three questions.
What are you currently reading?
I’m struggling my way through A Court of Silver Flames. I read the other books in the series in like a day or two and this one is taking me days longer. It is like groundhog’s day with this story with the same thing happening over and over. There is absolutely no reason that this book should be over 700 pages. And the romance in this book could be so much better than what it is. I do love the random moments of foundation that is being laid for future things which makes this book worth the read.
I needed a break from A Court of Silver Flames so I picked up the other two reads I was reading before my ACOTAR obsession started. I’m getting kind of bored with The Trials of Apollo series and I don’t think it needed to be a five book series. A trilogy would have made the story have better pacing and the action would have been more consistent.
The Mysteries of Udolpho is another 700 page book that is much longer than it needs to be. However, this book was published in 1794 so it has a reason to be as long as it is. First, it was serialized and two, the way of life back then encouraged having long, overly descriptive reads. So I don’t want to judge it for being a book of its time but I think reading it a little bit everyday is the best choice for me to read it. I finally finished Volume 1 of this story and I’m looking forward to where the story is going to go in Volume 2.
What have you recently finished?
This was a four star read. I liked it because I’m invested in the characters but it was more cozy fantasy than fantasy romance. It was very slice of life and helped to bridge the gap between Rhysand and Feyre’s story to Cassian and Nesta’s story.
What do you think you’ll read next?
Tomorrow is the start of the Halloweekend readathon so I spun for my first prompt. This book is also on some of my other TBR’s for October but I do readathons for fun and I want to do so many next month that I’m ok with breaking the “rules” and starting early.
It’s the last summer for Kit Lamb: The last summer before college. The last summer with her high school basketball team, and with Dana, her best friend. The last summer before her life begins.
But the night before the big game, one of the players tells a ghost story about Daphne, a girl who went to their school many years ago and died under mysterious circumstances. Some say she was murdered, others that she died by her own hand. And some say that Daphne is a murderer herself. They also say that Daphne is still out there, obsessed with revenge, and will appear to kill again anytime someone thinks about her.
After Kit hears the story, her teammates vanish, one by one, and Kit begins to suspect that the stories about Daphne are real . . . and to fear that her own mind is conjuring the killer. Now it’s a race against time as Kit searches for the truth behind the legend and learns to face her own fears—before the summer of her life becomes the last summer of her life.
Mixing a nostalgic coming-of-age story and an instantly iconic female villain with an innovative new vision of classic horror, Daphne is an unforgettable thriller as only Josh Malerman could imagine it.
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