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#SpringSkies Day 14 #InvolvesHeist

A trilogy that is waiting for me to be read😳😬Story of my life🙄

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Started this YA series, set in 1890s Paris, where a group of misfits work as treasure hunters. And also there is magic! I like the “found family” trope and I like heists, so this worked for me. I will definitely keep reading the series.

This is pretty good. There's an awful lot going on and I probably should have read it more quickly but I was busy. It may have been a bit tricky to follow. Finished on the airplane home on Saturday.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

Well I inhaled this one! Love all the characters and the storyline was fun and quick paced. I look forward to reading the next in the series.

This book was so awesome! There weren't boring moments and I loved every single page.

Characters were relatable, they were nicely fleshed out and it was so easy to feel for them. I loved their chemistry and friendship.

I am a big fan of heists and this was even flavored with magic. I loved scenes: they felt so beautiful and alive.

This was so adventurous and thrilling, I would have loved to just read this and do nothing more.

Overall, I liked this book, but it wasn't as good as I was hoping it would be. I think it was the ending where I started to lose interest. I still think I'll give the next book a try, but we'll see.

It took me a minute to read this due to a reading slump. But I think this book single handedly cured me. 100/10 recommendations.

“I hired a Forging artist with mind affinity to make a people repellent. Sadly, it doesn‘t last longer than a minute, but it makes for a delightfully useful walking stick.”
Enrique looked envious. “Well, my walking stick emits a bright light.”
Zofia felt a flare of pride. She had designed that stick.
Hypnos lifted his chin. “Mine can…”
Zofia ignored them. She had no interest in listening to two boys compare their sticks.

😂Need ppl repellent asap

So the last five books of this years reading goal are hiding from me, I‘ll read like 3 pages and be like “Nope!” And move on. However, here‘s one of the best dedications in a book ever.

Thank you for tagging me again, @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💙

No need to overthink this letter. I love the whole trilogy dearly 💛

I'm tagging whoever wants to play as well.

#AlphabetGame
#LetterG

Have any of you girls read either of these books
#LMPBC @KateReadsYA @Readergrrl @persephone1408

#2022Book55
I loved the plot and setting of this story, and I‘m a sucker for a heist gone wrong. The characters, however, were all kind of interchangeable. I had to keep flipping back to remind myself of the differences between some of them, because they all pretty much had the same personalities. While I loved the story itself, the static characters made it hard to have any sort of emotional response to what happened to them.

This book tries awfully hard to be Six of Crows, and fails miserably.

I‘m definitely not reading the rest of the series, but if you have and want to give me a brief synopsis, I‘d love that… can‘t find one online and I‘m just curious enough to care, but not nearly curious enough to read them. 😂

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I made it through, #LMPBC Group L, but it was rough and I‘m afraid I didn‘t mark much.😬

💠 Physical book for one of my 3 (THREE) #LMPBC groups this month…

💠 Maybe ⭐️⭐️… struggling to get in to it! 😬

💠 Only #LMPBC books

Thanks for the tag, @Ddzmini @Chili & @Bklover ❤️

Tagging anyone who wants to play, but especially @HOTPock3tt and @Chrissyreadit 😘

#ThoughtfulThursday

I have been slowly listening to this via audio book and I have to say I‘m just not getting into it.

It took me a month to reach the halfway point. After several attempts I couldn't make myself finish. I didn't connect with the characters or the story. A lot of people liked this book so maybe it was the mood I was in.

Did anyone else struggle with this one?

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

"Fléctere si néqueo supers Acheronta movebo."
If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell." ~Virgil

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

"Once there were four houses of France."

To start listening to tomorrow night

Enjoyable... and a bit heartbreaking there at the end. I'll continue the series if the library has the ebooks, but I'm not 100% hooked if not.

I've accidentally peeked ahead at the ending, and wowza, how are we going to get there from here?

So far I'm sticking with my Aliette de Bodard comparison for setting and mood, but with a good helping of Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows.

I understand why so many people have rated this middling, but I found it a good heist/found family narrative, and while it had some awkward characterisation and character interaction elements, for the most part it was enjoyable. Conclusion was abrupt but I think it was always intended to be a trilogy(?) series.

Need to read this fast for a book club, oops. I mean, I've got till the end of the month, but still...

So far has a bit of the same feel as Aliette de Bodard's House of Shattered Wings, only with heists and banter.

Listened on audio- w o w. Best fantasy series I‘ve read in a while! It‘s a glamorous setting, quirky cast of characters, found family AND heists. I loved it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I wanted to like this one, but to be honest, the plot felt unnecessarily convoluted and I was bored through a lot of it. A big part of the problem may have been that I listened to the audiobook… the female reader had a truly atrocious “French” accent that made me cringe, and the male reader had an incredibly monotone, robotic voice during any narration (though his French accent during dialogue was much better).

This book was stunningly written and I can‘t put into words how much I loved it! The small drawings were also very nice as it added a bit of visual affect. What else can I say, I loved this book. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Kisses were not supposed to be like this. Kisses were to be witnessed by stars, not held in the presence of stale death. But as the bones rose around them, she saw fractals of white. They looked like pale constellations, and she thought that, perhaps, for a kiss like this, even hell would put forth stars.

“Power and greed always have appetites.”

“Never underestimate the human capacity for betrayal.”

“Because, my dear, we are without armour. And beauty is it‘s own armour.”

“Half of winning, my dear wallet, is simply looking victorious.”

“If you get in the way of a woman‘s battle, you‘ll get in the way of her sword.”

“I don‘t want to be their equal. I don‘t want then to look us in the eye. I want them to look away, to blink harshly, as if they‘ve stared at the sun itself. I don‘t want them standing across from us. I want them kneeling.”

“Are you dying?”
“No more than usual or expected.”

She should have been more careful, but that was the problem with happiness. It blinds.

I. Have. No. Words.
This book is absolutely amazing! I love it so much. I love the setting. I love the characters. I love the adventure. I just love it. It‘s a found family fantasy book with fantastic heists. Need I say more? Honestly though, I highly recommend this book and am both happy and sad to have finished it already.
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An author‘s note at the end of the book! I‘m stunned.

I think the greatest power is belief, for what is a god without it?

“Never underestimate the human capacity for betrayal.”

Enrique, who had always dreamed about what magic might feel like, thought he had found it then: myths and palimpsests, starlight sugaring the air, and the way hope feels painful when shared equally among friends.