Before the review: Sadly I think my poor Kindle is dying. The battery used to last a whole book, now it's losing 10-20% a day. I guess I'm going to have to replace it soon.

I have 300+ unread books on it. I hope I can somehow move folders between them across my computer, otherwise that's going to be a pain.

Fjorgyn: Shifting Sands (Book 3) by RJ Castiglione
Traditional or self-published: Self-published
Rating: Liked (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



This is the oddest book series. I guess I have to admit that I do like it (I was annoyed when I reached the end of this one and realized book four isn't out yet), but I can't tell you why I do.

The characters are so paper thin. After three books, I cannot tell you one single character trait about the main character other that everyone, including gods, love him.

The main character is gay and has had a boyfriend through these three books, which should be a great thing, but because I don't know anything about the main character (let alone any minor ones), it's just ho-hum.

The setting? The world is interesting enough, a pretty general video game setting.

I wonder if the fact that this is LitRPG is the only reason I like it? Because it's about being trapped in a video game?

Connections to characters are usually what sells a book for me, so that I feel nothing for the main character means I should have dropped the series in the first book. I just can't explain it.

Currently reading: Good Omens. I saw the show, but hadn't read the book, so I'm fixing that.

LitRPG books (ones about people trapped inside a video game) should be a perfect match for me, but unfortunately it's all so badly written, so male-centric and anti-women, it's the opposite of a good match. An author of a series (not Fjorgyn) used this as his about-the-author blurb. It pretty much perfectly sums up why most LitRPG is so bad:

Just an average guy. No seriously that is all I am. Okay fine I love RPG's, video games and similar things. Yes that includes LITRPG's, why wouldn't it. Yes I have joined the Facebook page for LITRPG. No I won't sign you arm? Why? Because I'm not like that go away.

What was that miss? Sign your breast, well yes of course!

Filled with grammar and writing issues, and misogynistic to the max. In most of them, the main character is so overpowered it's no fun to read. In almost all of them, women get naked (literally) and throw themselves at the main character for zero reason. Nothing but male masturbatory fantasy.

While not perfect, the Fjorgyn falls into few of the usual LitRPG traps.

Its main character is a gay man. I've never seen a LitRPG with a single (non-joke) gay character, let alone main character.

While the main character is stronger than everyone else, is better than everyone, at least he's coming into his powers slower (across two books so far), so it feels more reasonable.

Like seemingly every single other LitRPG book, the MC is a unique race that no one else in the game world can be. Again, it took two books to get there, so it feels... mostly reasonable. I don't like it, but I can go along with it.

The series' game world setting is the best part about it. There's way too much 'game info'. Leveling up each spell or power gives at least a paragraph about it (nothing interesting, "does #% more damage! Takes X seconds to cast!" stuff like that). Sometimes there were multiple pages of nothing but leveling up info -- completely unimportant to the story. But I like how the game works and I especially like that areas (like a town) can be leveled up.

The biggest downside of the series is the characters. After two books, I can't name one single trait about the main character. He's a good leader, I guess? I know that only because his leadership skill keeps leveling up. He's in a relationship with another man, which usually would be a big positive, but as I feel nothing for either of them, it's just kind of... meh.

Since I didn't stop and write a review after the first book, they've kind of run together in my head, so the above info can be the review for them both.

There's a third book out. I might get it, but I'm not sure yet. Probably. Maybe.

A Rebel Rises (Fjorgyn #1) by R.J. Castiglione
Traditional or self-published: Self-published
Rating: Okay (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)




The Deep Below (Fjorgyn #2) by R.J. Castiglione
Traditional or self-published: Self-published
Rating: Okay (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



Did not finish books

Bazaar of Dreams (Stephen King) 14% - I read the first four short stories, and none of them worked for me. One was scary, but even for that one, the resolution made no sense. The other three were pointless, more "slice of life" stories than anything else.
Root (John Ancock) 17% - The author had an agenda. He put his politics in the About the Author section, then his main character spouted the same things.

Partial book credits:
Point reached in these books: 14 + 17 = 31%
Previous abandoned book total: 666%
New total: 697% (6 books)

The Scavengers by Michael Perry
Traditional or self-published: Traditional
Rating: Liked (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



The first third of this book was some of the best reading I did all year.

Set in the near future, everything happening right now (global warming, scary political stuff) has gotten worse. Fear mongering has driven most of the American population to live in "bubble cities". Kept safe. Jobs for everyone. Food for everyone. Healthcare for everyone. But all that comes with a price.

CornVivia, a massive agriculture company, has geneteched its corn to be the perfect food for everyone, and to cure basically any illness. But to get those benefits, you need an injection. That injection makes you unable to eat anything other than their corn, and if you can't get any of it, you turn into sort of a zombie (not dead or undead, but otherwise people act just like zombies).

A few people saw through all that, and chose not to go live in the bubble cities. Maggie (or Ford Falcon as she renames herself) is one of those people. She and her family live out in the non-bubble world, fighting the corn-zombies, wild animals, and trying to keep themselves fed.

The first third of the book was all wonderful, wonderful worldbuilding. Then the author gave a massive info dump, which lead to the plot of the book. While I loved the first third, the info dump was a bit much, and the plot wasn't bad at all, but... I liked the worldbuilding part best.

I really can't say enough about how well all the worldbuilding was handled. Emily Dickinson/poetry, a whole new language, "Patriotic Partnership", word-play, a whole new way to handle money/banking when the US dollar has no value. Jobs that could be held after the world changed so much. It was all so good.

This is a middle grade book, but other than Maggie's age (preteen), there's no way I'd have guessed it was meant for younger readers. The best MG and YA books are like that: Perfect for adult readers, too.

Random thing I didn't like: The bad guys were so cartoony. One was very overweight, the other was ugly. In a story where every other character was realistic, they were flat and straight out of some cartoon.

Random thing I liked: This is a stand-alone book! Not the start of a trilogy or series! How rare is that nowadays? I really, really liked all the unanswered questions.

How to Defeat a Hero: A Novel (The Henchman's Survival Guide Book 2) by J Bennett
Traditional or self-published: Self-published
Rating: Loved (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



Set in the future, the world is a mess. Most people need an escape of some kind. The same ones we have now: drugs, gaming, reality TV, etc, but all of them amped up to the max.

Big Little City is one of many reality TV-based zones. It's a whole city that lives in a reality TV superheroes setting. Everyone is a hero or a villain or trying to become one. The most successful people in the city have a TV show made about them, but every show is constantly in danger of being canceled if the hero or villain doesn't keep their ratings high enough.

As in the first book of this series, the author does a GREAT job of world building. Everything, including language, is used to show that the story takes place in a different time. The language evolved in such a natural, believable way.

The one small element I didn't like was the use of special pronouns (zir/zer). Having a third, fully accepted gender (nonbinary) felt kind of like shoehorning RL inclusive stuff into a fantasy story. I'm sure some people loved that it was included, but it repeatedly knocked me out of the story.

All of the characters, from main to minor, were great. Even in a story about heroes and villain, no one was black/white, they were all just people who were doing what they needed to to survive.

The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency Book 1) by John Scalzi
Traditional or self-published: Traditional
Rating: Okay (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



As much as I like Scalzi's writing, his books are very hit-and-miss for me.

Set in the far distant future, all of humanity lives in space. Spread across various worlds, they're all connected by the "Flow". Picture a river through space with a limited amount of locations you can enter/leave it, a river that flows to each of those worlds.

All that is well and good, I'd enjoy that much of the story, but the book was about political conflict between the Houses that control all the trade and stuff. Political intrigue, fighting, etc. Completely not my cup of tea. It was sort of like Game of Thrones set in space, but with 1000% more political correctness.

I finished this book, but I won't be continuing with the two others in the series. It wasn't at all a bad story, it just wasn't a good match for my tastes.

Magyk (Septimus Heap, Book 1) by Angie Sage
Traditional or self-published: Traditional
Rating: Disliked (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



This book did the most annoying thing ever. It bolded the important words. I guess so that there would be no chance you miss what was important. But it was so distracting to read.

The story, about a magical baby, seemed like it was okay, but the bolding made it impossible to read. I stopped reading at the 9% point. I only got that far because of how short the book was.

Partial book credits:
Point reached in this book: 9%
Previous abandoned book total: 565%
New total: 574% (5 books)

Guild of Tokens: Novice by Jon Auerbach (Removed from Amazon, so Goodreads link.)
Traditional or self-published: Self-published
Rating: Disliked(Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



I dropped this one pretty fast. The story opened with some guy in love with a beautiful girl, so he did "romantic" things like sitting in a car outside her house and work so he could learn her patterns, then "just happening" to run into her places, of course not telling her the truth about what he was doing. It was the most disturbing, stalker-ish behavior, and the book played it off as him being "romantic" and putting all this effort into her. It was not at all pleasant to read, so I abandoned the book at 5%.

Partial book credits:
Point reached in this books: 5%
Previous abandoned book total: 547%
New total: 552% (5 books)


Misfit Pack by Stephanie Foxe
Traditional or self-published: Self-published
Rating: Okay (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



I rarely say this but: My review of this book shouldn't be given much weight.

I really, really hate urban fantasy. This was urban fantasy, thus it was a poor match for me.

I have no idea why I dislike UF so much. I'm fine with dragons, dinosaurs, kids who can turn into animals to fight an alien invasion, but elves, trolls, werewolves, etc living in neighborhoods is my believability line in the sand? Makes no sense, but that's just how I feel.

The story was fine. The characters were fine. If the setting had been something other than urban fantasy, I probably would have enjoyed it. But as it stands, I read the whole book with a frowny "I don't like this" feeling.

If you're okay with urban fantasy, you'd probably enjoy this book.

The Absolute (Animorphs #51) by "K.A. Applegate" (Lisa Harkrader)
Traditional or self-published: Traditional
Rating: Hated(Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



This series is 54 books long. This is book #51. So why was it so so so bad? Okay, in this case I can answer that: Because I'm not the target audience. Young readers probably liked this one a lot, for reasons adult readers likely did not.

This book was like the worst, most nonsense action movie ever made. The Animorphs decide to go to the government to tell them what's happening, so Jake sends Marco, Tobias, and Ax to visit the local governor.

This mission somehow ends up involving a train heist.
Marco (in gorella morph), Tobias (Hork-Bajir), and Ax in his real body end up kidnapping the governor and racing away in a limo with her.
Somehow they blow up a yacht.
There are multiple battles with the US military.

I'm so annoyed, there are so few books left, and this one seemed a complete and utter waste (other than one paragraph at the very end).

The Sacrifice (Animorphs, #52) by "K. A. Applegate" (Kim Morris)
Traditional or self-published: Traditional
Rating: Loved (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



This review is different than all the other Animorphs ones. I wrote it as I was reading it, instead of once I was finished. This was such a book, it's jarring how much things changed between the beginning and the end of it.

On to the review!

A grizzly, a tiger, a wolf, and an Andalite appeared as if from nowhere and quietly knocked the ten men unconscious.

For a series about war, about an alien invasion of the entire planet, there is oddly little death. I can think of only two deaths in the 52 books so far, and both were implied and off camera. I guess that's part of this being a YA series. [Now, near the end of the book, I have to laugh at that observation. Boy how things changed...]

While the writing and story in this book were good, I still had lots of issues with the characters' actions. Remember, there are five (now maybe twenty) kids trying to defend the whole Earth from an alien invasion.

Immediately, the human-Controllers began to morph.
"Jake!" Rachel's voice was shrill. "Let's get them before they're in battle morphs!"
"No! We give them a fair fight. We fight the Yeerks. We don't become them."

When you're a few people fighting a whole army, to try to fight "fair" is insane.

Okay, but I'm getting ahead of myself. This is an Ax POV-story, and such a good one. Ax finally completely grows up, he sees humans how we really are, and he hates us for it. How very cool is that? That after 50-something books, Ax changes enough to hate us (and it's completely believable, doesn't feel like the character did a 180 just for Plot Drama).

But for all Ax matured, the rest of the Animorphs seemed to go in the opposite direction. The group comes up with a plan to win the war, to drive the Yeeks off the planet, but they don't want to do it because some innocent people might get hurt. What in the world do they think will happen to ALL people people if this battle is lost? It was so frustrating. Understandable, but frustrating as hell.

But they end up doing the plan anyway, and some innocent people do get killed. The reactions and conversations about it seemed so realistic.

"Well, [the surprisingly successful win] is something," Marco pointed out. "But you know what the saddest thing about this whole situation is?"
"l wouldn't even know where to begin," Cassie answered.
"The saddest thing is that this is our greatest victory. And I've never felt more depressed in my entire life."

The end of the book was so sudden, I actually blinked in surprise and tried to scroll more. "Wait, that's it?". A really, really good note to end on. This was one of the best books in the series.

Just two more to go. *sob!*

Animorphs #53: The Answer by K.A. Applegate and Michael Grant*
Traditional or self-published: Traditional
Rating: Liked**(Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



I've fought them for more than three years. I was just thirteen when I started.

Can you imagine a group of five children spending three years not just taking part in guerrilla warfare, but commanding it all, no support from any adults at all? And having to keep their efforts secret from everyone, their parents included?

Two or three books ago, there was a great line. I wish I had saved it. Jake, the leader of the Animorphs, was ordered by his mother to clean the basement. The battles were getting worse, the Animorphs were losing. He hadn't slept in days. He was in pain from wounds. And his mother still had the power to make him do chores.

What strikes me most about this book is how old their voices have become. This is a Jake POV book, and he sounds like a man. An old, old soldier with scores of battles under his belt.

We were just kids. But in some ways we were the ideal guerrilla fighters. The morphing power let us fly and dig and crawl, sense, hide, and fight with far more than human power. Our youth made us the least likely of suspects.

So different than the last couple books, in this one they start finally, finally making the hard calls. How hard? How about using a bunch of disabled children as cannon fodder? Knowingly let them die? Watching them get killed?

And not just disabled children:

Seventeen thousand. Living creatures. Thinking creatures. How could I give this order? Even
for victory. Even to save Rachel. How could I give this kind of order?

Aliens. Parasites. Subhuman.

"Kill them," I said.

That's what war is about, isn't it? Making the other side subhuman?

This book, the second to last one, ended on a cliffhanger, but a completely unexpected one.


* Michael Grant himself said "I’m Michael Grant author or co-author of Animorphs", he stated he wrote more than half (up to 90%) of the books credited to K.A. Applegate. I know his writing, and this book feels like his work, not hers at all.

** If comparing to only Animorphs books, I'd rate this one a loved. It was one of the top 10 in the series. Compared to other books though, it doesn't quite reach a loved rating.

The Resistance (Animorphs #47) by "K.A. Applegate" (Ellen Geroux)
Traditional or self-published: Traditional
Rating: Hated (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



When there are 30 or 40 books left in a series, a bad book is less annoying. But when there are seven more left to go, a bad one seems criminal.

Oh this book was so bad, in so many ways. First off, for completely no reason, fully 50% of the book was about a different story. Half of it was about the Animorphs, fully half of it was about Jake's great great grandfather in the Civil War. For no reason, just because Jake glanced at the man's journal, we the reader saw what was happening in the grandfather's time. Why? It was completely pointless.

And the half of the story about Jake and the Animorphs? It was worse than the Civil War half of the book.

I really don't like the Hork-Bajir aliens, but their leader is even worse. (The race as a whole is so stupid they can barely talk, but their leader is smarter than humans. And probably psychic.) The whole of the Yeerks' army was coming to attack the valley the free Hork-Bajir aliens live in, but instead of doing the reasonable thing and moving elsewhere, they wanted to stay and fight. So of course the Animorphs had to stay and help them.

There just happened to be some campers in the woods nearby, so Jake told them what was happening to get their help. But the campers were all Star Trek fans, so they endlessly asked if the Animorphs were aliens, were in the Federation, could beam them up... they were just so amazingly stupid and unbelievable. You see some kids transform into animals, I think most fans would know that is different than a TV show they like.

Ugh. This whole book was just so bad.

The Return (Animorphs #48) by "K. A. Applegate" (Kimberly Morris)
Traditional or self-published: Traditional
Rating: Disliked (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



I'm so torn about this one. It was a roller coaster, but not in a good way. My emotions while reading it went: "What the hell, this makes no sense." "Oh I guess that explains why." "Wait, this makes NO sense..." "Oh that explains it, I guess." "What the hell, this makes no sense..." over and over. The book was supposed to be a mindfuck, making you confused over reality, but it didn't really work.

So much of the book didn't work for me. I never liked the gods' meta fights in this series, so Crayak being a main player in this story wasn't a good fit for me. (Plus he was kind of dull, stupid, and unimpressive for such a powerful being.)

The 'return' in the title is David coming back. David, the short term sixth Animorph that the original five basically killed (trapped as a rat). His trilogy was one of the most powerful arcs in the series, and bringing him back did the character no justice at all.

All that being said, I liked the ending a lot. It was one of the most mature moments in the series so far.

Since I like the dark elements of these books, this one should have worked for me, but it didn't. The whole thing just seemed so childish and I guess I didn't buy most of it.

Only six more books to go. It's going to be sad when I'm done with this series.

Zoo: Alien Lockdown by Phil Price
Traditional or self-published: Self-published
Rating: Hated (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



So many authors of self-published books try to trick you into buying their books. They make up a fake publisher, they do everything they can to try to hide that they're self-publishing. The latest new trick they seem to be doing is listing an editor next to the author's name. They probably think that it will fool some people into buying the book, thinking it will be edited better.

This one listed an editor. This one was, like so many self-published books are, full of typos, grammar issues, spelling mistakes, etc.

I have no idea what the story was like. Stopped reading at the 5% point. If the author can't be bothered to edit the book, why should I bother to read it?

Partial book credits:
Point reached in this books: 5%
Previous abandoned book total: 542%
New total: 547% (5 books)

Over the Moon by Natalie Lloyd
Traditional or self-published: Traditional
Rating: Loved (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



This was such a good book, in so many ways.

The world the author crafted was amazing. This wasn't even a YA book, it was younger, but the quality was as high as you could want. Set in some fantasy world, the magic has vanished. A substance called Dust has replaced it, and Dust is just about the opposite of magic in every way. Touch it and all your worst emotions will come to the surface. Be around it longer, and you won't have any emotions at all. It makes the whole world dull and drab.

The people of the local town are in a bad situation. Their economy had been based on weaving starlight (magic), but without that, all the men have to go work (and die) in the mines, and the women/girls have to work for rich families. There is no protection for anyone, poor people (which is most people) are used and abused.

Enter Mallie, our main character. Born with one arm, she sneaks into a job meant just for boys (orphaned boys). Though she's neither, her personality is strong enough that she earns the right to stay.

The rest of the plot focuses on what happened to the magic and how Mallie can help the people of her town.

If I had to name a negative, it would only be that the book's bad guy was kind of flat. Since this is a book for children though, I can overlook that. It's not that he was unbelievable, but I guess just because it was told in first person, and Mallie was the main character, we didn't get to see his motives or evolution.

Still, this was a completely wonderful book. It taught lessons about society and gender without once feeling preachy. Mallie was such a great main character.

Okay, I guess I can name a second "negative": The author wrapped the story up in one book, so I suppose there won't be a series. That's too bad, I'd really love to read more about all the characters.

The Unexpected (Animorphs #44) by "K.A. Applegate" (Lisa Harkrader)
Traditional or self-published: Traditional
Rating: Hated (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



This late in the series, filler books are especially annoying. This book was completely pointless, meaningless. Plus it was 98% action, which is never a good match for me. It had no impact at all on the series's story.

Through stupid, unbelievable plot reasons, Cassie ends up in Australia all by herself. As in one of the earlier books, a native teenage boy saw her morphing and was perfectly fine with it, not even surprised. She ends up going home with the boy, and for more stupid plot reasons, the two of them have to amputate the grandfather's leg.

Sigh.

The book's setup was stupid, the middle was pointless, and the ending was an almost literal deus ex machina.

Hopefully #45 will be better...

The Revelation (Animorphs #45) by "K. A. Applegate" (Ellen Geroux)
Traditional or self-published: Traditional
Rating: Liked (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



Reading this book after #44 was kind of jarring. 44 was nothing but filler, fluff. Nothing happened in it, nothing lasting, no changes. This book changed everything.

These books take about two hours to read, so it's a shame it took me maybe a week to finish this one. Lots of things happened, impactful things, but when I read a page here and a page there, it was hard to keep in the mood.

Very early in the series, in the first or second book, Marco's mother was taken by the brain slug aliens (Yeerks). So she was alive, but lost to him. Worse than that, the Yeerk in her head is one of the Yeerk leaders.

Marco's father is a scientist, and he and his team made a big technological leap. One the Yeerks notice. They attack, intending to put a Yeerk into the father's head.

By the end of the encounter, for the first time since the ill-fated new kid they made into an Animorph, one of them told an outsider the truth about the war. Marco told his father everything.

The end of the book was surprisingly deep, and left me wondering about Marco's motives. His father, thinking that his first wife/Marco's mother was dead, remarried. Marco didn't like the new wife much. So when he got the Yeerk out of his mother's head and brought her home... Did he lie to his father (saying the second wife had been working with the enemy all the time) so the father could be happy with his first wife again? Or did he lie because Marco wanted his family back together?

I suspect that issue will be dealt with more in the coming books.

Only nine books left to go...

Epoch Shift by Jake Lingwall
Traditional or self-published: Self-published
Rating: Okay (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



This sort of book is exciting neither to read nor to review. It wasn't awful, it wasn't good. Some of the characters were fine and believable, some of them completely not. The world setting was interesting enough that I kept reading the story. The story itself was fine. The editing was mostly okay. All in all it was far from good, but it was nearly as far from awful.

Set on another world, generations ago humanity escaped a dying Earth to live there. Probably the most interesting aspect of the book was that something in the world made humans share dreams -- one person in each cluster of humans would unconsciously share his or her dreams with the other each night. The rest of the plot was just conflict within a group of humans and between them and another group. I'm not sure if this was a YA book or not, but it sure felt like one. (Edit: Ah, Amazon says it is YA.)

The rest of the book was just... okay. The first half of the story was better than the second; believably was not just stretched, but by the end was pretty soundly stomped on. The romance in the book, while dull, was at least slow enough to be realistic.

The Journey (Animorphs #42) by "K. A. Applegate" (Emily Costello)
Traditional or self-published: Traditional
Rating: Hated (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



This may have been the worst "filler ep" book in the entire series.

Anytime the Helmacron aliens (tiny aliens, under an inch tall but ultra violent and ever-insulting) show up, you know the story is going to be bad. This one was even worse than usual.

For no real reason at all, the Animorphs had to shrink down to the size of the Helmacron to fight them. But something went wrong and they all became even smaller.

Then they had a battle inside Marco.

During this time, Marco was bitten by a dog.

A pitbull.

A rabid pitbull.

Sigh.

The writing was even worse than usual. For example:

Tseeew!
"l have been hit!" Ax.
KER-SPLASH!
Tseeew!
"Cassie, watch out!" Tobias called.
KER-SPLASH!
Tseeew!
KER-SPLASH!
"Aaaaahhhhh!" Cassie yelled.
"Aaaaahhhhh!" Jake yelled.
"Aaaaahhhhh!" Tobias yelled.

The sound effects and yells weren't even rewritten, just copy/pasted. The story was AWFUL. The writing was no better. This late in the series, it feels like such a waste to have a filler book. Nothing happened in this one, nothing lasting or important. It wasn't even entertaining to read.

Sky Child by T. M. Brenner (Author), Nicole Vesper (Editor)
Traditional or self-published: Self-published
Rating: Disliked (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



It's pretty funny that this book listed an editor, because man did it really, really need editing. Endless commas misused. Such poor writing.

The story seemed to be set on another world(?). People were basically caveman-level evolved, though they had the worst names. (Named for common nouns, but somehow all the mean/bad people had been given evil, violent noun names at birth. Such a coincidence!) Dragons existed in the world. The writing was so bad, I gave up on it pretty quickly (5%).

Partial book credits:
Point reached in this books: 5%
Previous abandoned book total: 517%
New total: 522% (5 books)