Mandaris
Finished reading: Blood rising by Markus Redmond 📚
This book follows up on the Markus Redmond’s Blood Slaves. It’s not as brutal as the first book, but can still be pretty hard to read during some of the violent parts. Still has some scenes that made me wonder what exactly the author wants to do.
Finished reading: All Accounts Settled: Fred the Vampire Accountant #9 by Drew Hayes 📚
A very satisfying ending to the series. Everything pretty much gets wrapped up which is good because I don’t know how you could have upped the stakes anymore with these characters.
Finished reading: Blood Slaves by Markus Redmond 📚
This was a hard one for me to read because of the violence that happens throughout the book. I’m happy that I stuck with it. Not a great book but still entertaining.
Finished reading: All Hail Chaos by Sarah Rees Brennan 📚
In stories there are two ways to end a character. There is the death of the character; for example Mercutio from Romeo and Juliet. And then there’s when you kill any reasonable reason to like a character; for example Jacob from the Twilight Saga. In the first book, you can think of our “villains” as people making the most of a situation that they have no control over and working with characters that they didn’t feel were real. In this one, it feels as if bad people are doing the worst thing they can think of simply because they are bad people.
In this second book, the author turns up the “chaos” and the spice but inevitably makes it all one flavor. And that flavor is bad.
This book is a set up for the next one that I have no desire to read.
Finished reading: As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes 📚
This was a real treat. I loved all the joy that the people making the film seemed to have. I was listening to the audiobook and it was narrated by the wonderful Cary Elwes and friends. I miss Rob Reiner.
Did not finish: The Way of Kings Book One of the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson 📚
I checked it out from the library, but things got really busy at home and there’s a pretty long waitlist. So, I gave it up just when it really started to get good.
Finished reading: The Assassins of Thasalon: A Penric & Desdemona Novella in the World of the Five Gods by Lois McMaster Bujold 📚
I enjoyed this book in that it had various twists and turns and yet still felt cut and dry.
Finished reading: The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose 📚
I don’t like most of the characters in the book. I’m reading in order to see if and when they get what’s coming to them. Sometimes, I yell at them to think. For some reason, they can’t hear me.
Finished reading: The Prisoner of Limnos: A Fantasy Novella in the World of the Five Gods (Penric & Desdemona Series, Book 6) by Lois McMaster Bujold 📚
I really enjoy these books. There isn’t a lot of lore that you have to remember between installments.
Finished reading: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow 📚
It’s one thing to know that things are messed up and another to see it all laid out in print.
