Reading round up (52)

Reading round up is a weekly journal where I record my daily reading progress, my thoughts on each book as I read it, and any books I've acquired during the week. I'm having an awful week so hopefully the books will be nice to me.

10th November

Read nothing because I felt shitty.

11th November

I started Blue Lily, Lily Blue (77 pages) and so far it's awful and awesome and confusing.

12th November

Currently Reading: Blue Lily, Lily Blue | Maggie Stiefvater
Current page/percent: page 196
Read today: 119 pages
Thoughts: Please let Pynch be canon.

13th November

Currently Reading: Blue Lily, Lily Blue | Maggie Stiefvater
Current page/percent: 389 pages
Read today: 193 pages
Thoughts: What?

14th November

Started A Wicked Thing by Rhiannon Thomas (16%) and I'm not sure about it right now. It's missing a lot of stuff I like. Namely: a threat, danger, a character with actual drive and a backbone. (Why is she going along with everything with barely a question???)

15th November

Currently Reading: A Wicked Thing | Rhiannon Thomas
Current page/percent: 71%
Read today: 55%
Thoughts: This book is so flat. Like the general mood of it is fine, and the characters are fine, and the plot is fine, but where's the excitement, the danger, the motivation to keep reading? Why introduce a romance at all if you're going to get rid of it? What is the point of Isabelle/a?

16th November

Skim read the end of A Wicked Thing. Meh. I also started Cress by Marissa Meyer (50 pages). I need all my OTPs to be canon in this book. Pls.

Books finished this week: 2

Blue Lily, Lily Blue

A Wicked Thing (scheduled for 18/02/15)

Blue Lily, Lily Blue (Review)

The Raven Cycle: Blue Lily, Lily Blue | Maggie Stiefvater

Published by: Scholastic, October 21st 2014

Genre: YA, Fantasy

Pages: 389

Format: Paperback

Source: Purchased

There is danger in dreaming. But there is even more danger in waking up.

Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs.

The trick with found things though, is how easily they can be lost.

Friends can betray.
Mothers can disappear.
Visions can mislead.
Certainties can unravel.

The thing I love about these books is how different they are to anything else out there. The story is truly original, captivating, and packed full of real magic. The characters are genuine people, intricate and flawed, and the relationships are gritty and painful and wonderful. The plot of Blue Lily, Lily Blue was twisty and complex, subtle in parts and severe in others. I loved it, though I don't understand parts of it even now, having finished it. I need to read it at least a hundred more times.

Characters ★★★★★

Setting/world building ★★★★☆

Writing ★★★★☆

The Dream Thieves (One line review)

The Raven Cycle: The Dream Thieves | Maggie Stiefvater
YA, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal

Characters ★★★★★

Setting ★★★★★

Writing Style ★★★★★

Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam will be the same. Ronan, for one, is falling more and more deeply into his dreams, and his dreams are intruding more and more into waking life. Meanwhile, some very sinister people are looking for some of the same pieces of the Cabeswater puzzle that Gansey is after...

REVIEW

Delightful and magical as ever, Maggie Stiefvater weaves a story more colourful and complex than even The Raven Boys.

★★★★★