Whatta Fiasco

I really wanted to like this book. It had some characters I liked and characters I loathed and some cool word building… and then the ending just mucked it all up. Either this book is broken or it’s just not the book I wanted it to be. Eh, you can’t like them all.

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There’s something about the way that Jeff Vandermeer writes that just clicks with me. Even when nothing much seems to be happening, I’m sucked in. Yes, I have a copy of Finch wending its way toward me already.

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The first of these is still my favorite, but this one wasn’t bad at all. Still one more to read. (And this is the last of my catch up posts. Whew.)

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Ok, I give up. Tosca is no longer my lest favorite opera. I still think the plot resolution is silly, even in opera terms, and the story telling is choppy. It also doesn’t help that I don’t much care for either Tosca or her boyfriend. But Scarpia is the most delightful of villains. Apparently that was what I needed in order to actually listen to the music. Not bad at all.

I saved this one to read on vacation when I’d have a decent amount of uninterrupted time for reading. It was a good instinct. Gorgeous story telling, just as I had expected. Dreamy and twisted and strange. Much love.

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This is two novels published together. Lots of strong female characters. The second novel wasn’t as strong as the first, or maybe it was just a case of unusual pacing of the plot that made it harder to get through the first third of the second novel.

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Yep, another good Dragons versus the French type book.

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You’ve read the previous books in the series, right? This one fits right in. Slightly better than the previous one.

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