Reading Wednesday
May. 4th, 2022 06:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyHoo-boy it's been an emotional rollercoaster of a day, but I'm still squeaking in with my weekly book post.
Just finished: Shadows Cast By Stars by Catherine Knuttson. This was, I am afraid, not very good. I wanted to like it! Cool concept, cool imagery, Indigenous author, spooky post-apocalyptic setting. But alas, it was a mess structurally. Sometimes I enjoy it when books are a mess structurally (see, for example, my own), but it is not literary enough to be as messy as it is, and ends up being confusing. It basically had all the YA problems—bland and passive heroine, love triangle, flat prose—with a few extra issues, like sloppy worldbuilding. The concept of settlers harvesting blood from Indigenous people because the latter are immune to Plague did not really affect the plot in any way, not did it matter as it turns out that Indigenous people are not immune to the Plague after all?? but that doesn't really weigh into the plot besides killing two characters that we never meet. It's also overlong for YA. Good thing the Marrow Thieves came along a few years later and did the cool concept justice.
Currently reading: The Devil You Know (Hotel Heat #1) by Nicole Northwood. This continues to be a lot of fun. Kind of more intense and high-stakes than I'm used to for paranormal romance. The smut is very smutty. Hot as hell, you might say.
Just finished: Shadows Cast By Stars by Catherine Knuttson. This was, I am afraid, not very good. I wanted to like it! Cool concept, cool imagery, Indigenous author, spooky post-apocalyptic setting. But alas, it was a mess structurally. Sometimes I enjoy it when books are a mess structurally (see, for example, my own), but it is not literary enough to be as messy as it is, and ends up being confusing. It basically had all the YA problems—bland and passive heroine, love triangle, flat prose—with a few extra issues, like sloppy worldbuilding. The concept of settlers harvesting blood from Indigenous people because the latter are immune to Plague did not really affect the plot in any way, not did it matter as it turns out that Indigenous people are not immune to the Plague after all?? but that doesn't really weigh into the plot besides killing two characters that we never meet. It's also overlong for YA. Good thing the Marrow Thieves came along a few years later and did the cool concept justice.
Currently reading: The Devil You Know (Hotel Heat #1) by Nicole Northwood. This continues to be a lot of fun. Kind of more intense and high-stakes than I'm used to for paranormal romance. The smut is very smutty. Hot as hell, you might say.
