It's time to look at what's coming in June! Hooray! I have hunted through the internet for you all to gather a few delectable morsels of new releases for us to enjoy and devour. There are plenty of really unique and interesting stories about to hit the shelves, that's for sure!
This was so much fun! I feel like, before reading, I'd heard so many mixed reviews and went into it with reasonably low expectations. But I thoroughly enjoyed this story.
I'm devastated to be DNFing a Leigh Bardugo book. But wowweeeee - this was very boring.
I'm in two minds about how I feel about this book. On the one hand, I'm impressed by the scale of the story and by some of the best character development I've ever read. On the other hand, knowing the history and serious allegations against the author has seriously tainted my reading experience. That, and the fact that by the fourth book (as this is a bind up of books 1-4), I found things edged toward tedious.
Well, hello. It's been a while since I've posted anything other than a review - but here we are! Back in the good old days, I used to post regular upcoming release posts, and you know what? I miss doing that.
This was so much better than book two - what a relief!
I wanted to love this more than I did, but I just felt that this was ultimately a bit 'meh'. It's a very fun (and funny) concept, bringing together some classic fantasy tropes with cowboy vibes, and the queerness is delightfully through the roof.
This book was a slooww read - but by the end, I'm pleased that the hard work paid off. This took me quite some time to get through because, to be frank, the first 50% of the book is boring. It's a very slow pace and favours a Tolkien-style of writing where journeying is 80% of the plot.
This was super fun! Even better than expected, and I'm really blown away by the fact that this is translated, it reads as if it were originally written in English. So hats off to the translation work for a start!
This was a very cheerful read and so much more than I had hoped for. It's the first book by Frances Hodgson Burnett that I've read, but it's got me very much so looking forward to reading her other work.
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