Two weeks of #bookreport but not much to show. I'm making steady progress on audio, but reading with my eyes has been slow going. That's ok.
My #weeklyforecast is more just a bunch of possibilities. Who knows what I'll actually get to.
Was lucky enough to hit TWO bookstores with the best of friends, and came away with a lil haul. A couple I‘ve been wanting to read, and a couple impulse buys that looked really good. A good bookish Sunday!
Not a spoiler but maybe a meta spoiler if you dig too deeply, so don‘t? 🤣
I honestly don‘t remember if I caught this on a previous listen, and casually book clubbing it with friends means I‘m actually putting things together and not just listening in the abstract. This series gets better and better with each new layer of meaning!
My sister finally finished Harrow, so once again I am (mildly) penitent about not warning her how Harrow ended by buying her coffee, a thematically appropriate sticker, and Nona.
And no. I have not and will not warn her how Nona ends. 😅
pick4/5⭐ A satisfying, if open-ended, finale to the entertaining Johannes Cabal series. Some of the exposition seemed superfluous, but the action and intensely dry humor made up for it. Zarenyia is a gift. #bookspin
pickHonestly, I‘m not sure that I have any idea whatsoever what is going on in these books anymore 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️ book 1 I sort of did, book 2 I absolutely didn‘t, and this one was kind of in between? But they get away with it because the voice is just so brilliantly done. It also highly fascinated and amused me seeing my home country New Zealand the scene of a dystopian future. Will the final book clear anything up? Who knows! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pick3.5/5⭐ My favorite stories were the first and last ones. They hit all the right notes. Cabal making a friend who happens to be a devil was adorable. Their banter was delightful. #booked2023
pick4/5⭐ Probably my favorite of the series so far. The humor is top notch. Having the brothers play on each other makes for constant entertainment and occasional heartfelt moments. Elements from most of the previous stories come together in this one; I'm excited to see them play out into the final book. It's good to see the difference the events of the series have made on Johannes without losing what makes him such a delightfully infamous character.
pickMaybe it‘s me, I don‘t know, but this is the second fantasy I‘ve read recently which took entirely too long to get going but…BUT…which was really interesting just as soon as the author moved on from establishing the world & magic system. First in a trilogy, this has a lot of familiar elements—young girl sent to be town‘s magician runs into suspicious villagers, unexplained magic & attempted murder—ultimately pulled together well enough. Soft pick.
