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Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Dec 11th, '18, 20:34
by MissNikki
wulfilalice wrote:that sounds refreshing. more often it's like Spoiler
"oh I can be a spy! cool!"
and oh how I love books that are worth re-reading for details! 
I'm writing a review of "Starglass" and the more I think of it the more disappointed I am
Starglass is a pretty title name though 
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Dec 11th, '18, 21:02
by AliceON
@Julez: reviewing a book usually takes me about a day *sigh* doesn't matter if it's 300 words or 1000, if I liked the book or not.
mainly because of the ending but since it concerns every plotline in the story, I guess I'm disappointed with every plotline in the story. we have a protagonist who really wants to be loved and find her destiny (in a form of a relationship) and is seeing weird dreams which I thought were just part of the sexuality topic. she gets caught up in a rebellion and they keep using the memory of her dead mother to manipulate her. Spoiler
the ending just switches some of the bad guys and some of the good guys (which wasn't that surprising but wasn't convincing either) and turns all of her romantic longings and searchings into what threatens to become an insta-romance in the next book because her dreams turn out prophetic.
@Sanssouci: haha and she's like whooops my bad!
@MissNikki: yea, can't complain about the title XD
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Dec 12th, '18, 03:48
by Sanssouci
94 pages into Wideacre, and
Spoiler
the girl is mad at the boy for killing her father, so she decides to kill the boy. She injures him badly, enough so that she thinks he will definitely die. But he didn't. Now she knows that he's out there somewhere, healing, and she is afraid he will come to kill her.
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Dec 12th, '18, 08:32
by LittleJulez
Alice, that doesn't sound too nice, I agree!
Aw I wish I could read more... :(
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Dec 12th, '18, 08:51
by Akili Li
Aaah, I hate cliffhangers like that! It's one thing if the cover/back/somewhere obvious clearly states that this was one novel split into X many parts and the book you hold is part Y of X, but when it is marketed as a complete separate book, then I want it to properly conclude.
Thanks for the warning about that one. >.<
Are you even going to read the second? Since you have it already?
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Dec 12th, '18, 13:21
by AliceON
about the cliffhanger, the book does answer major questions but the final scenes introduce one that's even bigger. I do consider it a cliffhanger because so much changes that the resolution is rushed and is even weaker than this new question. but I know that not everyone would have a problem with this.
if I do, it won't be this year. the first book is fast-paced, something is always happening, it's very distracting for someone who needs to finish a thesis by mid january. but once I'm done with studies, we'll see. maybe I won't have any interest in what's next, or maybe I will be less unhappy with the first book.
because right now I'm not even sure what to rate it. there are good things in it. I probably need more time to think. what if my frustration with the ending made me prejudiced against things that weren't so bad?
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Dec 12th, '18, 14:37
by jacobgrey
@Sanssouci I'm on tenterhooks. What happens next? XD
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Dec 13th, '18, 11:15
by LittleJulez
Caravan is over... Phew. Didn't manage to get many donuts though...
If anyone knows good books in French - I am open to suggestions!
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Dec 13th, '18, 16:54
by Sanssouci
Yeah, I think I got about 5 donuts.
I'm on tenterhooks too! I'm really liking this book a lot so far! 104 pages and
Spoiler
winter passed pretty uneventfully. The boy was wounded so badly that he probably spent all winter healing, but no one has seen him or heard from him. So the girl is starting to relax a little. She's starting to become attracted to her brother now that he's the only boy around her age that she's ever around.
Re: The 2018 Reading Challenge
Posted: Dec 13th, '18, 17:58
by Akili Li
Well that's disturbing.
I still haven't picked up "Invisible Library" because I got distracted when someone handed me "Trailer Park Fae" instead. I enjoyed that one, though. The descriptive prose is really well done. The imagery was so vivid I kept rereading passages like it was poetry.