Untold by Sarah Rees Brennan
(The Lynburn Legacy, book 2)
Rating: ★★★★☆
Review: Yes
Reading Dates: September 15 – 17
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: Rusty. Perfect Rusty.
Least Favorite Thing: Rob Lynburn is so skeezy I need 10 showers every time he talks…
Welp, I’m not mad about the thing I was mad about at the end of the first book anymore because it was explained and resolved in a very satisfying manner. However! I am frustrated because I have made several connections based on information Kami has already that she has not made and I have no way of climbing into the book to tell her!
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Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor
(Daughter of Smoke & Bone, book 2)
Rating: ★★★★☆
Review: No
Reading Dates: September 17 – 20
Read Count: 2
Favorite Thing: That fucking fruit basket/note thing!
Least Favorite Thing: Thiago. Obviously.
The close second for favorite thing was the trio of Akiva, Liraz, and Hazael. Sweet murder siblings.
But it was deeply infuriating waiting for Karou to figure out that Thiago and Ten were playing her! It seemed so damn obvious!
One thing that bugged me about the book though, there was a mention when explaining the whole “Angel-lover” insult where it says “in all Karou’s human languages, there was no insult so loaded with disgust and contempt, no single word that cast such a pall of filth” and I actually had to stop for a minute because I was annoyed. I mean… It’s really obvious what real life insult it resembles and yet it’s supposedly worse than anything in any human language. Ok Laini. Sure. (To clarify, I by no means think this was some intentional slight intended by the author, it’s just something that really bothered me personally.)
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The Runner by Cynthia Voigt
(The Tillerman Cycle, book 4)
Rating: ★★★★☆
Review: No
Reading Dates: September 20 – 21
Read Count: 3 (Pretty sure I’ve read it more than that, but only 3 that I can be sure of.)
Favorite Thing: Reading him running, of course.
Least Favorite Thing: The Phone Call. I’m still crying even though I always know it’s coming.
I want to warn potential readers, for a good half of this book Bullet is a racist. Not a “death to all black people” kind of racist, you won’t have to read depictions of him committing violence against black people, but an “I don’t mix with them” sort of racist, and you will see his thoughts about it several times. Part of his journey in this book is him learning that he’s wrong to just arbitrarily dislike people who are black. I didn’t want anyone getting blindsided by that in the beginning of the book.
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Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor
(Daughter of Smoke & Bone, book 3)
Rating: ★★★★★
Review: No
Reading Dates: September 23 – 27
Read Count: 2
Favorite Thing: We Haven’t Been Introduced
Seriously this is easily my favorite part of the whole book. I grin like an idiot and squeal internally just thinking about it. Like just now, I briefly recalled parts of the book I enjoyed to evaluate them for a favorite and when I came to this one I actually hid my face and giggled so I feel like it’s really no contest.
Least Favorite Thing: Morgan Toth’s pillowy lips…
I actually raised my rating of this book from 4 stars (from back in 2014) to 5 because it’s definitely the best of the trilogy for me.
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Come A Stranger by Cynthia Voigt
(The Tillerman Cycle, book 5)
Rating: ★★★★☆
Review: No
Reading Dates: September 28 – 29
Read Count: 3 (Pretty sure I’ve read it more than that, but only 3 that I can be sure of.)
Favorite Thing: Mina’s laughter.
Least Favorite Thing: Racist teachers, blech.
I learned so much from Mina back in middle school when I first read this book. So much was changing for me and reading a book where that was happening to a character who was dynamic and strong was so helpful at that time.
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