Aug. 2nd, 2020

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Feral by Nicole Luiken
Traditional or self-published: Traditional
Rating: Liked (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



Good YA books are enjoyable to adult readers too, but I guess you can't ding a YA book for being enjoyable only to young readers?

Set in the modern world with the addition of a few supernatural elements, the plot is about the daughter of two werewolves couldn't shift, so she was considered a "dud". The story follows her progress towards learning to shift, and then her meeting (and falling in love with) a werewolf stuck in wolf form.

I love werewolf stories. Werewolves are really the only supernatural thing I like, and I like them a whole lot. That is the one and only thing that saved this book for me: I really liked how the author's werewolves interacted.

Not just once, but twice major plot points could have been easily solved if the main character had just talked to her parents. She had a good relationship with them, she loved and respected them (and they her), there was no reason why she couldn't just talk to them.

As much as I liked the werewolves, I hated the other supernatural elements of the book. If you're going to have a witch, fine, but why did it have to be a known one from folklore? I would rather the author had used an original one instead of Baba Yaga.

The setting was nothing original, the characters were dull and flat, the plot was seriously meh. Even the title didn't even fit (there was a feral werewolf in the story, but he was not the main character). Unless you like werewolves as much as I do, you'll want to skip this one.

One Man by Harry Connolly
Traditional or self-published: Traditional
Rating: Okay (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



Connolly is the author of that trilogy I liked so much, so I tried the other series he wrote, but that hadn't worked for me, so I was hoping this stand-alone book would be better. Sadly nope. I didn't like the world it was set in much, the characters didn't interest me, and the plot didn't hook me. I gave it a couple nights of reading, more than I would have a book written by someone else, then gave up at the 5% point.

Partial book credits:
Point reached in this book: 5%
Previous abandoned book total: 310%
New total: 315% (three books)

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