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What is everyone reading right now?
I'm almost done with the first book of Poppy War myself. If you've read this series I'd love to hear your thoughts!
I'm just poking around to look for more series to add to my library 😇
What is everyone reading right now?
I'm almost done with the first book of Poppy War myself. If you've read this series I'd love to hear your thoughts!
I'm just poking around to look for more series to add to my library 😇
I've read that series!! Although to be honest it kinda wasn't one for me. There are a lot of young adult tropes I'm not a huge fan of and that series fell into quite a lot of them.
I'm currently reading one from a local small author. I'm kind of loathe to say the name of it because it's an indie author who I don't want to publically trash but it definitely isn't one for me.
I'm about 100 pages in and I feel like the author needs to work on their world building. And all the characters have taken a drink of the stupid juice. If you're an assassin with a giant bounty on your head, why does seemingly everyone in your life know you're an assassin with a giant bounty on your head.
I'm currently reading one from a local small author. I'm kind of loathe to say the name of it because it's an indie author who I don't want to publically trash but it definitely isn't one for me.
I'm about 100 pages in and I feel like the author needs to work on their world building. And all the characters have taken a drink of the stupid juice. If you're an assassin with a giant bounty on your head, why does seemingly everyone in your life know you're an assassin with a giant bounty on your head.
I'm still working on The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi, as I'm almost halfway through the book. So far, I really enjoyed how the characters are normal people suddenly put into a strange, high stakes situation and that it genuinely feels like it. They're written like real people and I'll always praise that in writing!
The portrayal of the kaiju is also interesting, meeting the halfway mark between sci-fi creatures which seem to have strange motivations and simply animals just trying to survive. It definitely sets that distinction as monsters while also showing that they have their own weird little ecosystem going on, too.
As for another book, I did also like I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver, a non-binary author, for the same realistic portrayals of people. Though, what starts off the book is that the teenage main character comes out as non-binary and gets thrown out of their house, so they have to go live with other relatives. I want to be upfront if that's upsetting, since queerphobia is also a theme throughout it. Despite that, it's not entirely a miserable story, if you do want to look into it. The characters' hope for the future is an important point to it!
My cousin gifted me the book a while after I came out as non-binary to them, which I really appreciated! They're also non-binary, too.
I know these aren't series, but I did want to offer some novels I liked!
The portrayal of the kaiju is also interesting, meeting the halfway mark between sci-fi creatures which seem to have strange motivations and simply animals just trying to survive. It definitely sets that distinction as monsters while also showing that they have their own weird little ecosystem going on, too.
As for another book, I did also like I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver, a non-binary author, for the same realistic portrayals of people. Though, what starts off the book is that the teenage main character comes out as non-binary and gets thrown out of their house, so they have to go live with other relatives. I want to be upfront if that's upsetting, since queerphobia is also a theme throughout it. Despite that, it's not entirely a miserable story, if you do want to look into it. The characters' hope for the future is an important point to it!
My cousin gifted me the book a while after I came out as non-binary to them, which I really appreciated! They're also non-binary, too.
I know these aren't series, but I did want to offer some novels I liked!
RPR's very own literature club? Count me in.
Currently planning on keep reading Under The Dome by Stephen King. It's King, but I confess the writing sometimes makes me kind of sleepy, I like it anyway. There's always some sort of horribly disgusting trouble going on with the threat of the Dome looming over the story. It's very long, though, clocking around a thousand pages.
As someone who wants really really bad to write kaiju stories, this sounds genuinely amazing, holy moly...
Currently planning on keep reading Under The Dome by Stephen King. It's King, but I confess the writing sometimes makes me kind of sleepy, I like it anyway. There's always some sort of horribly disgusting trouble going on with the threat of the Dome looming over the story. It's very long, though, clocking around a thousand pages.
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I'm still working on The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi, as I'm almost halfway through the book. So far, I really enjoyed how the characters are normal people suddenly put into a strange, high stakes situation and that it genuinely feels like it. They're written like real people and I'll always praise that in writing!
The portrayal of the kaiju is also interesting, meeting the halfway mark between sci-fi creatures which seem to have strange motivations and simply animals just trying to survive. It definitely sets that distinction as monsters while also showing that they have their own weird little ecosystem going on, too.
The portrayal of the kaiju is also interesting, meeting the halfway mark between sci-fi creatures which seem to have strange motivations and simply animals just trying to survive. It definitely sets that distinction as monsters while also showing that they have their own weird little ecosystem going on, too.
As someone who wants really really bad to write kaiju stories, this sounds genuinely amazing, holy moly...
I'm currently reading a BL manga called Heartstopper its about two teenage boys who are in a relationship and go through real world struggles, there's also a movie for it as well.
@Samiakki Ooooh, Kaiju Preservation Society looks good. I see I also have a friend on Storygraph, whose recommendations I really trust, who also liked it, to on the TBR it goes! Even though I've tried to be really picky about what goes on that list, it's now at 264 books, some of which I've owned for years without ever getting to. With any luck, maybe I can find KPS at the library.
I'mstill reading Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson, book two of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. I've gushed about it in a different thread here, so I shan't delve into it again unless people are curious (ˉ▽￣～) But I've also started the Eisenhorn Omnibus by Dan Abnett, finally taking the leap into Warhammer 40k after having kinda circled around it like a shark for a couple of years. It's really good! Totally true what people say about it as an introduction to the universe, as it's basically a detective novel, and you learn many of the things at the same pace as the titular Gregor Eisenhorn does.
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