bailedSad to #dnf this, but I just don‘t like it. The characters are not very engaging and just horrible things are happening to the women/female characters which I just don‘t wish to read about anymore. I think I will just jump to the Fitz & the Fool series and pass on the Rainwilds - which is generally disliked. #hailthebail
#roll100 off the tbr and 1st #bookspinbingo
bailedI got suckered in by the “echoes of Hades & Persephone” and “Practical Magic”. I‘ve been on the fence with bailing for hours. At 63% I am done. For the love of the goddesses, in Tarot, Death means Change. It is the shedding of habits and thought patterns that no longer serve your greatest good, not literal death. Stop using the Death card as a jump scare! Just, stop.
bailedI had to bail at 50%. I couldn‘t take it. The writing was so pretentious, and it felt like the author was trying so hard. Twice using the word demure to describe the same character‘s face? No thanks. Also, a viola is not a fiddle. A violin is a fiddle, but not a viola. Two different instruments. That was so frustrating, like a quick goog could have taught him they‘re not the same.
bailedI loved Look closer but couldn‘t get into this one at all. Bailed.
bailedDNF
I loved the show and tried this on audiobook but I think my issue is that audiobooks are not for me. I will consider reading it in the future but damn it‘s hard to follow when someone is reading to me.
I kept falling asleep or losing my place and had to rewind but didn‘t know where I‘d lost track. It‘s been months and I‘m admiting defeat.
This is the third audiobook I‘ve tried and all of them haven‘t really been for me. 🤷🏻♀️
bailedI can‘t force myself through 20 pages; not going to try any more. Other books await!
bailedBailing on this, not because the writing is bad, but it is just not for me. Moving on!
#hailthebail
A #roll100 book off my physical tbr
bailedI'm having trouble getting into this book. I expected it to be about a mother trying to get to her baby after the Berlin Wall went up overnight and separated them. But the narrative not only jumps between the mother and her teenaged older child, it also keeps jumping back in time to the war as we get the mother's (increasingly traumatic) backstory. It might be a case of "not the right book for now", but I'm just not keen on the writing style.
bailedI am removing this from my tbr due to a review I watched and this has something I really dislike in books. #hailthebail
bailedI tried, yes, I tried to hang in there but if I hear the name Jennifer & the words pineapple& ylang-ylang one more time I‘ll scream. Saul is a young historian with an artist girlfriend-Jennifer-living in 1980s London. He gets hit by a car,Jennifer breaks up with him, Saul goes to East Berlin to do some research, Saul talks about Stalin, falls in love with Walter, sleeps with his sister Luna which is short for lunatic, leaves east Berlin because
