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52 reviews
Billy Summers by Stephen King
4.0
I knew going into this that this had unusually positive buzz for a modern King novel and I was still surprised by how much I enjoyed it. The crime aspects are fun to read but it's the characters that are the real standouts. Alice suffers a little as a King-written woman, just a little, but I still love her, and Billy is an amazing main. Rarely for a lot of books I've read, despite doing so many things, not one thing in this book did I find myself dragging through or not wanting to read; the assassination, Billy's writings, the suburban or in-hiding parts, all of them page turners, which is a rarity for me.
The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
2.0
I remember this being a bit of a chore to get through back when I was thirteen, and a decade later, that seems to remain the case. The format is the same as every previous Percy Jackson book, and done so with a cast that's frankly nowhere near as good; Leo is my man, but of the seven main demigods of this series, Piper and Jason are easily the least interesting. All of the cool stuff this series brings to freshen things up compared to PJO is only alluded to, with the Roman patheon, Camp Jupiter and it's relationship with Camp Half-Blood not actually showing up until the next book. It's all in service of an amnesiac mystery, which is fine, but when there's little else new to be excited about this really just feels like a retread.
Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin
4.0
I can't truly slap five stars on this bad boy with how lost I got in some of the names and given its meandering final chapters and abrupt ending, but when this book is good, it is good. Never has a history lesson been so juicy.
A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
3.0
One whole ASOIAF book in just four months? I must have been on cocaine.
Definite gap between my interest in a lot of these chapters, and I fear the ones I was indifferent on reading probably outweighed the POVs that really got me going.
Definite gap between my interest in a lot of these chapters, and I fear the ones I was indifferent on reading probably outweighed the POVs that really got me going.
A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
4.0
Despite the fact that this series took me quite literally a decade to read from start to (current, published) end, I read its second longest entry in less than a month. Make it make sense, me.
Kind of one of my favourite entries, only because the further we go along the more it diverges from the show. Hardly a dull POV, and even if its mostly buildup, it's to stuff I'm hype for.
In 2048...
Kind of one of my favourite entries, only because the further we go along the more it diverges from the show. Hardly a dull POV, and even if its mostly buildup, it's to stuff I'm hype for.
In 2048...