- Joined
- Mar 5, 2010
- Messages
- 1,728
- Reaction score
- 275
- Location
- CLE / Wonderland
- Website
- www.lydiasharp.blogspot.com
Have started an ARC of EARTH GIRL by Janet Edwards, which is a YA SF set in the far future where those humans who lack the immune systems to travel to other planets are confined to Earth and regarded as throw-backs and apes. Love the voice so far and she's deftly set up the world in only a couple of pages so I've got high hopes. It isn't released in the UK until August.
MM
Re-reading Veronica Roth's DIVERGENT, in anticipation of going straight to Chapters after work on Friday and reading INSURGENT straight through in one sitting...
Finished BLACK HEART by Holly Black and it left me underwhelmed. There are a lot of great ideas and the world has so much potential but the plot strands didn't gel for me and the unreliable narrator schtick (which basically relied on Cass not telling you what he'd planned) got really old across the three books. The ending has a really rushed feel to it as well. It's actually one of those books I'd point to as needing to be twice the length it is to do the ideas justice.
Now on to DROWNING INSTINCT. I've heard a lot of good things and I'm hoping this will break the streak of underwhelming (The Nightmare Garden) and borderline bad YA (Ultraviolet and Cinder, both of which telegraphed like crazy and Cinder read like an MG book -- I'm genuinely surprised by the love for this book) I've read lately. *fingers crossed*
INSURGENT is a 525 page behemoth, which is loooong even though it reads just as fast (faster in some places, actually) as DIVERGENT. So be prepared to stay up late.
lauralam:
I read that recently and really enjoyed it.
Finished Across the Universe. I got bored, then got excited about it again, then got annoyed by the ending twists. I don't like it when an author has a character hide something from us in first person.
I do like that it was more about power than about romance, and that much thought-provoking stuff was broached. This was one of those YA books where I wished I could be reading the POV of the adult characters, because they seemed more interesting than the protagonists. But maybe that's just me showing my age!
Shiver, by Maggie Stiefvater.
... anyone else in LOVE with her writing?