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The current TBR pile

I’m reading The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin at the moment and really enjoying it.

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Currently Reading: I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver

Just started this this morning before work. I love the cover art by Sarah Maxwell.

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Currently Reading: Silence Fallen by Patricia Briggs

This one is a re-read. It’s the tenth book in the Mercy Thompson series, which is a fantasy series set in a world where werewolves, fae and a whole host of other ‘fantasy’ creatures have long walked the earth in secret. In the Tri-Cities area of Washington, Mercy Thompson is a were-coyote mechanic just trying to live her life but constantly finds herself in the middle of various conflicts. 

There’s two more books in the series so I’ve borrowed this one to refresh before I find copies of those books.

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Saturday afternoon reading

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14. Obernewtyn (Obernewtyn Chronicles #1) by Isobelle Carmody

Hello! I know it’s been a while. I am quite behind on my reading goals for the last couple months, what with the whole global pandemic situation. My comfort reading tends to be fanfiction so I haven’t been reading books as much. This is the first book I’ve finished since it started.

Anyway enough about that. This is a re-read actually. The Obernewtyn Chronicles is a series I started in my teens but kept getting stuck on book four and then leaving it long enough that I had to re-read from the beginning and then the cycle continued etc. The last book came out a few years ago so I’m hoping I can get through the series this time round.

The Obernewtyn Chronicles is a post-apocalypse sci-fi/fantasy series set a few generations after an event called The Great White seems to have wiped out much of the population and made large swathes of land uninhabitable. Our protagonist is an orphan girl called Elspeth Gordie who is a Misfit. These are people with special abilities thought to be an effect of the Great White. Although I haven’t finished it I love this series and the spirals it sends me down trying to match up things the characters find from ‘the Beforetime’ (ie. our time pre-apocalypse) that they don’t understand and have no reference for with what they actually are.

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5. Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris

Okay after this one we’re onto books I actually own. A friend leant me the series a while ago and it has taken me far too long to get to Hannibal Rising for which I’m sorry @mouldy-n-sulky.

I was sceptical about reading this one. Honestly, I prefer Hannibal as this highly intelligent sociopathic cannibal who hates rude people just because. I don’t need some kind of sympathetic back story to make me understand why he is the way he is or to give an excuse for it. It was interesting to read and see where things could have gone differently but ultimately this is probably the book I like least in the series.

It did give me these gems though that I will leave here without context.

“Flog no one else with meat.”

“I’m glad to have this chance to talk seriously with you about eating my sister.”

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8. Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler

Okay so I finished Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler! I’m realising as I upload this photo that the focus is on the background not the cover but I’m lazy so, sorry.

The age relationship issue that I mentioned in the last post on this book definitely became less of an issue for me as I went. It’s really not the focus of the story and it becomes increasingly clear that Shori is the one with pretty much all the control in that relationship regardless of what she looks like.

I enjoyed it! It went from sort of mystery thriller to court room drama towards the end and Butler created a unique and very intriguing vampire lore and culture that I wish she’d been able to write more about.