It may have been two years of no updates on this blog...but I was definitely still reading. Here is a sampling of the books I read in 2016. Reviews for those are coming - probably one or two a week until I catch up. As you can probably tell...I read a lot of YA and Fantasy in 2016.
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...because that's been the only sound on this blog for two years (almost to the day). Time to fix that.
Don't worry...I haven't stopped reading in that year and a half. In fact, I read 87 books in 2016 and I'm holding at 78 books so far this year. So, what's the plan now? Here are some things (but not all) you can look forward to as I start the wheels moving on this blog again:
If you've stuck around for this long, thank you for your patience. With illness in my family as well as a household move, I have still enjoyed reading...but just haven't had the wherewithal to keep up the blog. I think *knocks on all the wood ever* I am finally ready to dive back into my little corner of the internet. Keep an eye on this space...more to come very, very soon! I was waiting for a book to lift me out of my book slump. A book that grabbed my attention from the first chapter and blasted off from there.
HERE IT IS! Here's the back of the cover blurb: Devi Morris isn't your average mercenary. She has plans. Big ones. And a ton of ambition. It's a combination that's going to get her killed one day - but not just yet. That is, until she just gets a job on a tiny trade ship with a nasty reputation for surprises. The Glorious Fool isn't misnamed: it likes to get into trouble, so much so that one year of security work under its captain is equal to five years everywhere else. With odds like that, Devi knows she's found the perfect way to get the jump on the next part of her Plan. But the Fool doesn't give up its secrets without a fight, and one year on this ship might be more than even Devi can handle. If Sigouney Weaver in Alien met Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica, you'd get Deviana Morris -- a hot new mercenary earning her stripes to join an elite fighting force. Until one alien bite throws her whole future into jeopardy I loved this book. It's light, fluffy science fiction at it's very best. We have Devi Morris who is a tough-as-nails mercenary who takes a job on the most dangerous ship known in order to turbo-boost her career. What she doesn't know is she will meet a mysterious cast of characters - a cook with secrets, a captain who is more than he seems, a captain's daughter who is silent, yet deadly, and many more. The book takes off quickly and doesn't slow down. I will say that I was not surprised by the "big reveal" at the end of the story. That said, the slight predictability did not deter me from continuing to enjoy this book - I raced to the end, yelled and complained about the cliff-hanger, and almost immediately snagged book #2 for my Kindle. Great, great read Cue the ACDC music and pyro -- I'm back!
Almost a year since my last post to this site too. It's been an...interesting...year. Shortly after my last review (October of '14) while celebrating an anniversary we received a cancer diagnosis in my immediate family. It's amazing the effects a diagnosis like this can have on a family who has to watch their loved one suffer through the situation. You grieve even though no one has died. You are angry that everybody else seems fine but your family is suffering. You are angry that your family was singled out to tackle this challenge. You are resolved to help in any way you can...yet you feel so helpless. You are depressed in the face of the huge task before you. You steel up to try to be the pillar your loved one can lean on...yet you cocoon up to try to protect yourself and your loved one. As I hear stories about cancer survivors (and those who did not survive) I'm even more amazed now at the exhibitions of bravery and strength evidenced by those who have suffered through the various forms of the disease and their families who journeyed with them. Cancer can really kill any semblance of joy in your life if you let it...even if you aren't the one struggling with the disease. My focus was entirely on the disease and the next steps we had to take to move toward conquering it. I'd like to think I was strong...but I lost it on many an occasion. I'm only just starting to get my "mojo" back to be honest. And by "just" I mean...maybe a month ago I started to feel the layers coming off? I'm starting to read again...starting to vary my hobbies again...starting to begin looking at life as a whole and not just the "next steps" in front of me. It may take me a while to get in the groove of things again. I'm slowly going to start updating this page...I've also started a blog page called Ishari's Collection that I will link to on this page. Bear with me as I start working on this and check back often if you like. I hope to create an update schedule and be more reliable with my updates as I move forward. I am so thankful that the cancer in my loved one now appears to be fully gone thanks to surgery and the miracle of modern medicine. We are hopeful now life will continue to go back to "normal"....whatever "normal" truly means.
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Rating:I'm really getting tired of vampires. That said, this book was still ok. I enjoyed the spin Black took on the worldbuilding. It seemed more realistic than some of the other vampire books that have sat on my to-read pile. But beyond the worldbuilding, there wasn't a whole lot of plot to me. Maybe I just missed the plot somewhere? There was Tana and Gavriel's romance...but it wasn't the focus of the book. The big "reveal" of the Thorn of Isra (or whatever the name was) happened to be heavily foreshadowed, so that wasn't a big shock. I kept waiting for something big to happen and nothing really did. That said, I managed to finish it and I guess I'm glad I did. But, yeah...rather ambivalent about the whole thing to be honest. Rating:Silver borne by patricia briggs
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