I'm reading this thriller by Alyssa Cole, and it's good, but the back says "Rear Window meets Get Out" and I just feel like that is too much information! Like, I don't think the plot is exactly Get Out, but I'm pretty sure now I know what it is, which is the part that's supposed to be suspenseful, you know?
No. And yes. It's always sudden.
Tara ,'Storyteller'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Jesse - May 10, 2021 7:47:57 am PDT #26675 of 27917
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
-t - May 10, 2021 9:30:52 am PDT #26676 of 27917
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, I hate when blurbs do that!
shrift - May 12, 2021 1:45:04 pm PDT #26677 of 27917
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I signed up for a "one book a week" club at work to see if external pressure would help me start reading actual books again, and it seems to be working. I made it through Fugitive Telemetry and Boyfriend Material and enjoyed them both. Then I read Bonds of Brass because the author supposedly was inspired by Finn/Poe. Perhaps I would have enjoyed the book more if I had gone into it without expectations, but I didn't get any Finn/Poe feels from it and felt misled. I probably should have read Renay's review first.
Dana - May 12, 2021 1:54:08 pm PDT #26678 of 27917
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Perhaps I would have enjoyed the book more if I had gone into it without expectations, but I didn't get any Finn/Poe feels from it and felt misled.
BOOOOO. That's disappointing.
I have Boyfriend Material on my Kindle. I'll get to it...at some point.
Toddson - May 12, 2021 2:18:44 pm PDT #26679 of 27917
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I have a bunch of books on my reader waiting for me to get to them. Since I no longer spend significant time on my commute (yay new neighborhood), I don't get to them as quickly as I once did. I buy a number from the Smart Bitches daily sale listing, and sometimes they're disappointing, but a lot of them I enjoy enough to finish and some ... sigh ... get me hooked on another writer.
meara - May 12, 2021 7:32:47 pm PDT #26680 of 27917
I’ve had a hard time finishing books. But I also have book club Sunday and have only read like 10% of it so far.
meara - May 12, 2021 7:36:21 pm PDT #26681 of 27917
And also one of the books I DNF’d was Bomds of Brass.
Jessica - May 13, 2021 8:02:04 am PDT #26682 of 27917
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I have Boyfriend Material on my Kindle. I'll get to it...at some point.
If you are into audiobooks, I cannot recommend the audio version highly enough. It is narrated PERFECTLY.
-t - May 13, 2021 9:06:25 am PDT #26683 of 27917
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ooh, good to know! Also have that in my TBR but only as a sample so switching to audiobook might work out well for me
I just finished A Desolation Called Peace and dear lord I remember NOTHING from A Memory Called Empire but the good news is that Desolation seems to work fine as a standalone novel. One of these days I will have to go back and read them both one after the other and no doubt experience that universe very differently.
DebetEsse - May 13, 2021 1:41:52 pm PDT #26684 of 27917
Woe to the fucking wicked.
That's good to know, -t. I am on the waitlist at the library. I think I remember things moderately well, but I've read a lot of books recently that seem to have similar elements.