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The Dagger and the Flame by Catherine Doyle
adventurous
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
So its been a while i read a book were people frequently die. Wich is kinda expected with a book about thieves and assasins though.
I liked the experimental part and i enjoy all the side caracters. I love how kickass Sera is an hate how dumbass Ramdsom is.
Sera tells him i dont need you to safe me i can do that myself and yet he does try too very respect less.
It is interesting houw doing something good would be seen as something bad from the blades perspectieven.
The ending was unsatisfiying, jet made me curious about the next installment. Enjoyable read, be awere whrn you do audio i feel the narrater makes sera sound yonger than she schould sound in my opinion.
I liked the experimental part and i enjoy all the side caracters. I love how kickass Sera is an hate how dumbass Ramdsom is.
Sera tells him i dont need you to safe me i can do that myself and yet he does try too very respect less.
It is interesting houw doing something good would be seen as something bad from the blades perspectieven.
The ending was unsatisfiying, jet made me curious about the next installment. Enjoyable read, be awere whrn you do audio i feel the narrater makes sera sound yonger than she schould sound in my opinion.
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Francesc Miralles, Héctor García
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
4.0
So i enjoy reading about different cultures and habits. The food chapter was interresting and the movement too. Also we know we schould sit still as much as we do in the west yet itbis hard to get away from sometimes.
I do think its worth to think about the small simple movements of time chi and stuff. Its just getting up from your computer desk on a regular basis doing some slow but precies movement and then continuing.
That compleatly different then setting behind the desk for 8 hours and then doing high impact running. Mabe not the best thing...all or nothing. Mabe better to go slow and stedy so the thred wo'nt break 😉
I do think its worth to think about the small simple movements of time chi and stuff. Its just getting up from your computer desk on a regular basis doing some slow but precies movement and then continuing.
That compleatly different then setting behind the desk for 8 hours and then doing high impact running. Mabe not the best thing...all or nothing. Mabe better to go slow and stedy so the thred wo'nt break 😉
Vilest Things by Chloe Gong
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Welkome to the most interesting shell game ever!
This is not just a who's, who? But also a who is aligned with who? Who knew what whn and who will grab the big win in the end.
So this book will be a hit or miss for people. You eighter love the politica intrige, backstabing and ploting. Or you wil be bothered by the bodyjumping and the phisical shell game. I'm telling you, let it go. Just follow the story and the people not the body's they posses at any given time. I personally thought listening to it by audio helpen move this along.
It is odly liberating to just go by the personality and quircks they have instead of phisical apperance.
This plot is complicated and there are still questions that need to be answerd in the end. However if you love to guess who will come out on top, just keep reading.
This is not just a who's, who? But also a who is aligned with who? Who knew what whn and who will grab the big win in the end.
So this book will be a hit or miss for people. You eighter love the politica intrige, backstabing and ploting. Or you wil be bothered by the bodyjumping and the phisical shell game. I'm telling you, let it go. Just follow the story and the people not the body's they posses at any given time. I personally thought listening to it by audio helpen move this along.
It is odly liberating to just go by the personality and quircks they have instead of phisical apperance.
This plot is complicated and there are still questions that need to be answerd in the end. However if you love to guess who will come out on top, just keep reading.
Court of Wanderers by Rin Chupeco
adventurous
dark
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
I liked the second installment of this duologie. Although i missed the exploration of the relationship between the main caracters. Thre is still a lot of banter and exploration of there limits and what he is comfortable with. Mosty the relationship is pretty much settled and not as much the focus of the story. This leaves a lot of room for stuf to happen and it sure does. Also a number of side caracters get a bigger role to play wich is nice.
However also does his father, who i didnt like in the first book and am still not found of. I guess he had some issues to resolve with his father so i can understand the effort of the writer to make him understand him better and go back to were it all began.
We get a lot more of the worldbuilding and the lore, the live and choices of lilith. Its interestingly woven into a story that spans decades and nds up at there doorstep.
I liked this and would discribe it a romantacy why choose MMF vampire fantacy novel.
However also does his father, who i didnt like in the first book and am still not found of. I guess he had some issues to resolve with his father so i can understand the effort of the writer to make him understand him better and go back to were it all began.
We get a lot more of the worldbuilding and the lore, the live and choices of lilith. Its interestingly woven into a story that spans decades and nds up at there doorstep.
I liked this and would discribe it a romantacy why choose MMF vampire fantacy novel.
Toward Eternity by Anton Hur
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Wow, interresting. I thought this would be a straight up Sify fantasy story and it is that, but it is also so much more. It's a philosophical discussion on what it means to be human.
This is done in an interresting way that poses the question can AI be human and how much of a role does language, poetry and music appreciation play in our humanity Can AI understand poetry or just understand meaning but does it take more to uderstand poetry and music because you can feel a certain way about it.
The story goes through the timespan of a complete evolutionairy cycle within 300 pages while basicaly grappeling with the mening of live.
Well done Anton Hur, well done. I enjoyed this debut novel a lot and will be watching out for more of his work.
This is done in an interresting way that poses the question can AI be human and how much of a role does language, poetry and music appreciation play in our humanity Can AI understand poetry or just understand meaning but does it take more to uderstand poetry and music because you can feel a certain way about it.
The story goes through the timespan of a complete evolutionairy cycle within 300 pages while basicaly grappeling with the mening of live.
Well done Anton Hur, well done. I enjoyed this debut novel a lot and will be watching out for more of his work.
Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
I am a fan of Rin Chupeco's writing sinds i read the bonewitch trilogie. I find her storytelling fasinating she can lace humor through dark subject that lighten the mood without maken it redicoulous.
She gives her insecure caracters room to grow. They are given space to become who they are wich is mostly not like everyone else. She doesnt forget to write great supporting caractars that acompony her mostly longer main caracters upon there journey of selfdiscovery.
This can create some unconfentional relationships that flurish and grow together with our main caracters.
I enjoyed the plot and the relationship deveopment a lot in this book. I liked the fact this want a shocking cliffhanger like a lot of duologies. We see the road ahead but the caracters are given a little time to repossition themselfs before heading into the continuering of there journey.
This book has awsome fights, training montages, smut, romance, politics and vampiers. What more could you wish for?
She gives her insecure caracters room to grow. They are given space to become who they are wich is mostly not like everyone else. She doesnt forget to write great supporting caractars that acompony her mostly longer main caracters upon there journey of selfdiscovery.
This can create some unconfentional relationships that flurish and grow together with our main caracters.
I enjoyed the plot and the relationship deveopment a lot in this book. I liked the fact this want a shocking cliffhanger like a lot of duologies. We see the road ahead but the caracters are given a little time to repossition themselfs before heading into the continuering of there journey.
This book has awsome fights, training montages, smut, romance, politics and vampiers. What more could you wish for?
The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
adventurous
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
This is an epic fantasy that emagines great wars of kings and robbers. It has amasing caracters and the story is toled from a distantie by a narater.
This is also wy the wars are kinda dry. They are told as strategic warfare instead of a blow by blow experiance of the caracter on the battlefield himself.
This was for me the one thing that i would have liked a little more 1st person recall. Otherwise i realy enjoyed the tale wich manages to cycle a liftime of an empire in the span of 600 pages. It cyclus through an age of experimentation and progress, changing female status from the household to a resorce. We see invetion by the warmachine to an extend of a single minded force that takes more time to explore and evelope when in peace.
I enjoyed this first installment and am very interested in seeing where the series goes.
This is also wy the wars are kinda dry. They are told as strategic warfare instead of a blow by blow experiance of the caracter on the battlefield himself.
This was for me the one thing that i would have liked a little more 1st person recall. Otherwise i realy enjoyed the tale wich manages to cycle a liftime of an empire in the span of 600 pages. It cyclus through an age of experimentation and progress, changing female status from the household to a resorce. We see invetion by the warmachine to an extend of a single minded force that takes more time to explore and evelope when in peace.
I enjoyed this first installment and am very interested in seeing where the series goes.
Faebound by Saara El-Arifi
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
The world created is beatiful but it feels like this hole first book is a setup for a story instead of a story. A lot happens but for some reason im not that invested. All the caracters stay kinda superficial. Which is 2 bad because i liked the start and the relationship between the sisters. I liked the setup of the passionate relationship that she left behind and is trying to return 2 for the first part of the book. However it is all lacking depth for me. Which is probably why this clifhanger to hold me over and make me exited for the next book does nothing for me either. I think the book did just not have enough time to build this complicated world and fill it with this manny caracters and give them depth as well. The author gave it a good effort but in my view just treed to do to much at ones.
The Dollmakers by Lynn Buchanan
adventurous
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Its interresting i thought i would be reading about dolls that are used in a war against monsters. Which is wat the book is about. However it is first about discovering who you are and accepting that that is enough.
The main caracter is somewat unlikable but she does grow troughout the book. There is no love story to speak of unless you think of the love they have for themself and there dolly.
This makes the focus more on the plot even though they go through so much self development. It was an interresting read and i would reccommend it for it does make you think.
The main caracter is somewat unlikable but she does grow troughout the book. There is no love story to speak of unless you think of the love they have for themself and there dolly.
This makes the focus more on the plot even though they go through so much self development. It was an interresting read and i would reccommend it for it does make you think.
A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland
funny
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
I liked this book but t had some flaws for me.
Good things:
- Lovable neurotic main caracter and stoic love interrest.
- Nice diverse group of caracters but not 2 many to keep track of.
- insecuritys about the love intrests do not last to long and are resolved.
- caracters grow and mature.
Did not work for me:
- i did not get the family relationship about body father stuff. This should have been explained beter because it motivates the main caracters abd vilan yet it stayed realy unclear to me.
-I enjoyed the relationship but for me there is no real final sollution to there problem yet. Maybee in the future but it is a little unsatisfiying we do not get to see it.
- the third hanger on shuld know when it is time to move on. He is annoying in the end and i hate the way he is used to help this elationship along its childish.
Overall i enjoyed the adventure of uncoveringvthe fraud plot but found the lets go to my moms house sollution a little weak.
Good things:
- Lovable neurotic main caracter and stoic love interrest.
- Nice diverse group of caracters but not 2 many to keep track of.
- insecuritys about the love intrests do not last to long and are resolved.
- caracters grow and mature.
Did not work for me:
- i did not get the family relationship about body father stuff. This should have been explained beter because it motivates the main caracters abd vilan yet it stayed realy unclear to me.
-I enjoyed the relationship but for me there is no real final sollution to there problem yet. Maybee in the future but it is a little unsatisfiying we do not get to see it.
- the third hanger on shuld know when it is time to move on. He is annoying in the end and i hate the way he is used to help this elationship along its childish.
Overall i enjoyed the adventure of uncoveringvthe fraud plot but found the lets go to my moms house sollution a little weak.