thistlechaser | 2021 books: Jackal and Wolf, Storms, Winter Moon (Reply)

Jackal and Wolf by Shen Shixi. A talking animal story, but sadly the worst kind. The animals might as well just have been human. (For example, they had no interaction with humans, yet the jackal main character not just knew what a cake was, but how they're made.) The plot would have been great, if the animals were animals. A mother wolf killed a jackal's pups, then got caught in a trap. The jackal was getting revenge on her by killing the wolf's pups in front of her, but the wolf died before the jackal could finish, and she ended up raising the last one herself.

Also, it had the most horrific scene in it. The MC jackal's mate died because leeches crawled in through his nostrils and into his brain. Because he wasn't just an animal, he knew what was happening and suffered for hours while they crawled to and into his brain. This is a book for 9-12 year old readers! GAH! DNF 10%

Storms by Kevin L. Nielsen. Second book in a series, but I never read the first one. Why did I pick this up? I have no idea. DNF 3%

Winter Moon by Mercedes Lackey, Tanith Lee, C.E. Murphy. Why in the world did I love Lackey when I was a teenager? Okay, talking psychic white horses are a really cool idea, but I hate her writing style. As with the last book I tried to read by her, this was just page after page after page of characters thinking. Ugh. I was so annoyed by her story, I couldn't even make myself read the next two by the two other authors. I couldn't wait to delete this book. DNF 34%

Partial book credits:
Point reached in DNF books: 10% + 3% + 34% = 47%
Previous abandoned book total: 450%
New total: 497% (four books)